The INDEPENDENT, September 5, 2012
Cannon Beach to hold new event
The Cannon Beach Photo
Review, a new weekend-long
event that will debut October
12-14, is attracting well known
experts in the field who will of-
fer an opportunity for profes-
sional and serious amateur
photographers to have their
work critiqued. The event is
currently enrolling participants
at cannonbeachphotoreview.
com. The registration deadline
is September 17.
Highlighting the event will be
the “Portfolio Reviews”, where
each participant will sit down
with editors, museum curators,
advertising photography direc-
tors and magazine publishers
in 20-minute sessions. This is a
wonderful opportunity for par-
ticipating photographers to es-
tablish professional contacts in
the field that could possibly
lead to job assignments in ad-
vertising, or directly from well-
known magazines as well as
potential gallery or museum ex-
hibits.
Among the reviewers are
Brooks Jensen, publisher of
LensWork Magazine; Katie
Taft, a curator from Denver,
Colorado; Barry Fitzsimmons,
most recently photo editor of
the Seattle Times; Nickie Bour-
nias, creative director for
tourism publications at MEDI-
America; Laura Moya, director
of Photolucida; Hamidah Glas-
gow, executive director of The
Center for Fine Art Photogra-
phy; Blue Mitchell, founding di-
rector of Diffusion: Unconven-
tional Photography; Jim Leisy,
board president of thePortland
Art Museum’s Photography
Council, and Marni Beardsley,
director of production for
Wieden+Kennedy.
Most photo reviews include
hundreds of participants. In
contrast, the Cannon Beach
Photo Review will offer an inti-
mate venue providing more op-
portunities for networking be-
cause it is limited to 48 partici-
pants.
Event organizer, Don Frank,
is a professional photographer
who thought that Cannon
Beach would be the perfect
venue for a photo review, “I
can’t imagine a more perfect
setting…from the remarkable
scenery to the welcoming at-
mosphere of the town…no oth-
er place can offer these partici-
pants a greater experience.
The reviewers that we’ve invit-
ed all totally agree.”
In addition to the Portfolio
Reviews, photographers and
reviewers will be part of a
group exhibition at the Cannon
Beach Gallery during the
month of October. The week-
end will kick off with a Friday
night Artists’ Reception in
which photographers can view
each other’s work and meet the
reviewers.
For more information about
the event go to the website at
cannonbeachphotoreview.com
or follow the CBPR on Face-
book.
Power of the People
By W. Marc Farmer, General Manager,
West Oregon Electric Cooperative
An Historic Event
In the 67 year history of
West Oregon Electric Co-
operative, the month of
August 2012 saw an his-
toric event take place. The
city of Vernonia was
switched over to the new Vernonia Substation
built on Co-op owned property called the pole
yard property. The site is well above the flood
plain and will ensure the safe, long term solution
to an ongoing problem and increase the longevi-
ty and reliability of our system.
The new substation was energized earlier in
the month, tested, and inspected. The new
transmission and feeder lines were also tested
and inspected. Once everything was given the
green light in the early morning hours on the
30th day of August, the WOEC Line Crews suc-
cessfully switched load on the East Feeder serv-
ing part of Vernonia. Everything went like clock-
work – thanks to many hours of planning and
works by the Operations Department, Line
Crews, Contract Engineers and Crews, and
Staff.
We would also like to again express our grat-
itude to Senator Ron Wyden, former Senator
Gordon Smith, and former Representative David
Wu for their support in obtaining a $475,000
Federal Earmark used to pay for the substation
transformers.
In other news, the Co-op held two member
meetings to discuss a proposed rate increase
made necessary by the costs of the January
ODFW seeks Salmon/Trout volunteer
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife
(ODFW) is seeking qualified
candidates to represent the
North Coast district on the
Salmon and Trout Enhance-
ment Program (STEP) Adviso-
ry Committee.
Oregonians that are in-
volved with local fishing or
STEP groups, have previous
experience working with volun-
teers and/or in community
service, or are involved in natu-
ral resource or angling educa-
tion are encouraged to apply.
Candidates must be able to
travel at least four times per
year. The ideal candidate will
be a resident of the area ex-
tending from Cannon Beach
north to Warrenton, and up the
Columbia River to Westport in-
cluding the communities of
Cannon Beach, Seaside, War-
renton, Astoria and Vernonia.
The major stream basins in
this area include the Klaska-
nine, Youngs, Lewis and Clark,
Necanicum, and Nehalem
rivers.
The successful candidate
will serve a four-year term, with
the possibility of re-appoint-
ment for a total term of eight
years.
STEP was created by the
Oregon Legislature in 1981 to
provide a way for volunteers to
participate in the restoration of
native stocks of salmon, steel-
head and trout.
The committee is comprised
of 13 members representing all
regions of Oregon.
Members are appointed by
the Governor and meet quar-
terly in various communities
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throughout the state to conduct
STEP business and advise
ODFW and the Fish and
Wildlife Commission on issues
regarding STEP. Committee
members are volunteers; how-
ever, business-related expens-
es are reimbursed.
This recruitment will remain
open until filled, though candi-
dates are encouraged to apply
by September 7.
For more information about
STEP and directions to appli-
cation materials, go to http://
www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/STEP
or contact Kevin Herkamp,
ODFW Salmon and Trout En-
hancement Program Coordina-
tor, at 503-947-6232, or
kevin.herkamp@state.or.us.
Application materials also can
be found at http://governor.ore
gon.gov/Gov/boards.shtml.
snowstorm event and the need to replace funds
to maintain year-around tree trimming. The
meetings also provided a forum for members to
interact and ask questions of the board and
staff. The board will take all of the comments
and suggestions into consideration as they
make their decision at the September 18th
board meeting.
In my Annual Meeting Report in the August
Ruralite there were some highlights that bear re-
peating here. The highlights include the comple-
tion of our new headquarters facility, beginning
construction of the new Vernonia substation,
and refinancing most of our RUS loans that will
save the Co-op over $650,000 in interest for the
remaining terms of the loans. We continue to
see reductions in line losses and outages, due
in large part to our tree trimming efforts, pole in-
spection, restoration and replacement program,
and undergrounding projects. This last year we
replaced the underground line to Pumpkin
Ridge, which has greatly reduced outages in
that area.
We are also preparing internally in our soft-
ware and systems to have the capability in sec-
ond quarter of next year to allow members to
pay their electric bills electronically. We have in-
cluded a Twitter account in our website and an-
ticipate more features to better serve our mem-
bers going forward. Each of you were also sent
in the mail a Touchstone Connections Card that
when used by our members can save hundreds,
even thousands of dollars with discounts on pre-
scriptions, tires, food, chiropractic, vision, and
many other products and services. Contact
Sarah Rossi at our office for more information
on this exciting, cost saving program provided
by the Co-op.
Clean Teeth are
Happy Teeth!
We now offer Complete
Dental Services for Dogs & Cats
Vernonia Veterinary Clinic
Call for appointments
503-429-1612
Monday, Wednesday
Wednesday & & Saturday
Saturday
Monday,
a.m to
to 4 4 p.m.
p.m.
9 9 a.m
700 Weed Avenue,Vernonia