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Borgford BioEnergy LLC Recharging a Community 2
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Borgford BioEnergy LLC Recharging a Community Story • Jana Farmer Photos • Dana Michie At the end of June 2009, Borgford BioEnergy was the recipient of a grant sponsored by Senator Patty Murray to fund the first phase of the project that turn slash piles and other wood products into fuel. This is made possible by using the “Octaflame” gasifier. The heat produced from this gasifier will be used for self-use at the Springdale Lumber mill and for sale on the grid. It will also be used for biochar and bio-oil manufacture, heat for the drying of lumber, sawmill operation for specialty cut lumber and beams, greenhouses and water distillation. Property at the old Kulzer township near Valley, WA as purchased for creating the bioenergy park. The lumber mill in the town of Springdale, approximately 7 miles to the south of the old Kulzer township site came up for sale in October of 2009. At the time it had been shut down for over four years. The mill contained all of the machinery that was needed to meet the needs of the specialty lumber and beam sawmill that was to be part of the later phases of the total business plan. Borford BioEnergy then purchased this property. The purchase of the mill in Springdale saved the project a considerable amount of money over constructing a new facility and cut out over 18 months of construction time. This, in addition to adding over 22 more employees and providing more operating space at the plant in Valley, provided a win-win situation. Both locations now make up what is known as the Borgford BioEnergy energy park project. During the winter of 2009-2010 employees were hired to bring the sawmill back to operating conditions and once it was operational, additional employees were hired. Jobs in the logging and trucking industries have also been added.
The permitting process has now been completed and the project is moving ahead with the current construction and installation. Equipment upgrades, and when necessary, replacements to the mill itself will increase its efficiency and the first full-sized Octafalame gasifier will be installed at the Springdale mill to replace the propane burner that was previously used to heat the lumber kilns. This will eliminate the $15,000.00 per month the mill spends in electricity as well as the $68,000.00 per month in propane to operate the kilns. This project has brought jobs back to an area where the lumber industry was one of the largest employers in town.
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FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animalbased and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of p i o n e e r i n g researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
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Back Country Horsemen meets the 3rd Thursday of the month Potluck 6:00 pm; Meeting 7:00 pm @ Williams Valley Grange Call Bob @ 276-6226 for info Clayton/Deer Park Historical Society meets the 2nd Saturday of the month - 9:00 am @ the Clayton Drive-in Clayton Grange #456 Pancake Breakfast meets the 3rd Sunday of the month – 8:00 am $5.00 per person Clayton Grange #456 Spaghetti Feed meets the 2nd Friday of the month - 5:00 pm $7.00 per person Deer Park Chamber of Commerce meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month - 12:00 pm. Locations TBA. Call 276-5900 for info Depot Community Center Board Meeting meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month – 7:00pm Fat Quarter Quilters meets Tuesdays at Faith Lutheran Church - 10:00 am Ford Senior Center Game Night meets the 4th Saturday of the month - 6:00 pm Ford Senior Center Potluck every Wednesday 12:00 pm
Lake Spokane Chamber of Commerce meets the 4th Thursday of every month - See ad below for correct time. Lake Spokane Garden Club meets the last Thursday of the month - 6:30 pm in September at Suncrest Family Worship Center Upper Bldg. Loon Lake Chamber of Commerce meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month 6:00 pm Parks & Rec. Commission meets the 3rd Thursday of the month 7:00 pm @ Pizza Factory Springdale Senior Lunch Bunch every Wednesday 12:00 pm @ Depot Community Center Spin Etc. every Monday 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm @ Williams Valley Grange Storytime every Thursday - 10:30 am @ Lakeside Library Tum Tum Community Center meets the 1st Thursday of the month - 7:00 pm Tum Tum Community Center Potluck Lunch every Tuesday 12:30 pm Williams Valley Grange Meeting the 2nd Saturday of the month - 10:00 am - coffee 2:00 pm - potluck & meeting
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Clayton Grange #456 P.O. Box 294, Clayton WA 99110 Grange Master & Hall Rental contact - Howard Richards - 951-6609 Depot Community Center 107 Shaffer Ave. Springdale, WA 99173 Information: 258-6956 or 991-0114 Ford Senior Center Main Street Ford, WA 99013 Tum Tum Community Center 6424 Hwy. 291 Nine Mile Falls, WA 99034 Information & Rental contact - Sandy Stenson - 276-2398 Tum Tum Food Bank 276-2653 Williams Valley Grange Swenson & Casberg-Burroghs Rd Deer Park, WA 99006 Information & Rental: 466-3564
Library Board Meets to Discuss Name Change for Lakeside Library Libraries of Stevens County Board will hold its regular monthly board meeting in Nine Mile Falls on Thursday, September 15th. The Library Board meets twice a year in the Lakeside area, to allow community members to more easily attend a board meeting. The meeting on September 15 will be held at 4:00 in the meeting room at Pizza Factory. The meeting is open to the public. One of the agenda
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Lake Spokane Chamber of Commerce During the July Lake Spokane Chamber of Commerce meeting, a decision was made to accommodate those members who have been unable to make the 12:00 pm meetings. As of Sep 2011, every other meeting will be in the evening. So that… Sep 22 @ 7:00 pm at the Pizza Factory back room. Oct 27 @ 12:00 pm @ the Pizza Factory Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm @ the Pizza Factory (moved up a week because of Thanksgiving) Dec 15 @ 12:00 pm @ the Pizza Factory (moved up a week because of Christmas) At that time we will evaluate how this is working. If there are other evenings that would work out better please let us know during sign-in at the meetings. Our new Business Ambassador, Rodney Wells, will be visiting area businesses to get input from you on what your chamber can do for you. Please help him out.
The Fourth of July celebration was a success again. We had 23 vendors and 103 cars at the car show. The firework costs were covered. We’re doing better than Spokane in that our mayor was re-elected for a second term, thanks to all your votes. Mayor Reuben Rules Again! Speaking of which…as much as we enjoy spending time with our pets (I have 3 dogs myself), the 4th of July Celebration and Car Show takes place on school grounds which does not allow dogs. Sorry. Parks and Recreation announced that we have our first 40 acres of park (50 yr lease). They will be holding a celebration in the near future. At the moment it is an empty field, so guess what? Volunteers will be needed to clear it out and get the park under way. WITHOUT YOU WE’RE NOTHING, WITH YOU WE’RE A SUCCESS!
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Suncrest Fitness Center, Inc. is pleased to announce that they are conducting an Open House at the fitness center on October 1, 2011 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. According to Karman Shaw, Manager of Suncrest Fitness Center, “We are excited to open our doors to the community and showcase the many unique products and services we offer.” In addition to free tours and food and beverages, the fitness center will have special prize drawings and demonstrations. Karman added, “We are also using this opportunity to spotlight the new Suncrest Ballet Studio-exclusively at Suncrest Fitness Center with Creative Director and Tum Tum’s own, Sarah Glesk.” “The ballet studio is the biggest project we’ve rolledout since opening the center almost four years ago,” she said. Lisa Tuttle, BS, Exercise Science, Health and Wellness Coordinator for the fitness center, will be conducting free balance and vital sign tests and Marisa Gadda will be providing a free, introduction to Zumba class. Karman also extends her gratefulness to the community for supporting the fitness center. “The fitness center was started to help people in the Nine Mile Falls area achieve their fitness objectives. We are so thankful that people are availing themselves of the opportunities we offer and look forward to many fun and exciting years to come.” Suncrest Fitness Center, Inc. is the only locally owned and operated health club in South Stevens County. Established in 2008, the 9700 sqft state-of-the-art facility has over 1000 members in the Nine Mile Falls area. The center has an array of functional training, circuit training and cardio equipment, group exercise classesincluding yoga and strength and endurance classes, ballet and contemporary dance, martial arts and self-defense, Zumba and Kid’s Club. For information about Suncrest Fitness Center, Inc. call 509-465-0131 or go to www.suncrestfitness.com.
26, 27 & 28. This the judges job a year the weather little harder. There was hot, the food were more aniwas good, the ice mals shown and cream cold and judged. Awards the fairgrounds were handed out were full of smilthroughout the ing faces. The day. The kids fair started Friday were able to enjoy morning with the games in many VFW presentareas, as well at ing the flag, then the big haystack music through maze where they out the day with were able to find Bobby J. The 2011 coins and candy Royalty along with throughout the the 2012 Royalty weekend. There Princess Naomi, Princess Amanda, was a dog agility contestants could Queen Kelly, Queen Diedra, Princess course open to all be found at many locations from the who wanted to Recbecca smash car, selling participate, as T-shirts or helping at some of the vendor’s well as other demonstrations. There was booths. The 2012 Royalty contestants had also an auction of the participating youth’s their interviews with the judges on Friday animals. Many local business and commumorning, and then they were back to work- nity members showed up to bid on these. ing or helping out in some way. The 2011 Sunday was the final day which brought Royalty were judging the Heifers (cows). the crowning the 2012 Clayton Community Walking the fairgrounds you could see vend- Fair Royalty. The 2012 Queen is Kelli, and ers selling their goods, and FAA and 4H kids the Princesses are Naomi and Rebecca. showing their different animals from cows, Their first official event will be the Odessa sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, ferrets, dogs Parade on September 17th where they will and cats. Of course you still could also find be joined by outgoing royalty Queen Diedra, the regular fair exhibits of sewing, cakes, Princess Amanda and Ambassador Kell. As pies, photography, and of course flowers. the fair came to an end the Stevens County Saturday brought more of the won- Fire Department District #1 did an extricaderful fair and some different events. The tion demonstration at the smash car. To sum 2012 Royalty contestants performed their it up, both fair participants and visitors had speeches and talents for the public. This a good time at the fair. We hope to see you year there were many poems and songs sung next year.
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As many of you are aware, the fire district is investigating methods to replace two fire stations and the headquarters office facility. We desperately need to add on, rebuild or remodel the fire stations in Loon Lake and Suncrest in order to adequately support the public safety needs of our community. The triplewide modular in Clayton that we now use as headquarters is not only inadequate but is costly to maintain because of its age. The methodology to attack this challenge is the topic of this column. The commissioners are currently reviewing proposals from nine professional architectural service providers to examine the scope of this facilities enhancement and replacement program and to assess what our exact needs are. We want to establish our exact long term needs and establish goals to accomplish them. We have asked those bidding on our request for this assessment to help us formulate a plan. We need these experienced professionals to assist us with a needs assessment. They will provide us with preliminary building and site diagrams and a preliminary civil engineering review. We will review space/facility needs, site possibilities, environmental concerns, planning and zoning concerns and look at future growth potentials. Additionally, we need to look at cost reviews and cost estimates based upon our findings. You might wonder why, in the current economic climate,
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If you’ve not been able to refinance The Making Homes Affordable refinance payments for home owners in those states your loan to a better interest rate, or you’ve program (HARP) already allows eligible could have a decent impact. We’re helping been waiting for the right time, you need to home owners to refinance their existing one CA home owner right now that will be pay attention in the coming days. mortgage balance up to 125% of the saving $340 per month. There’s a growing buzz that President home’s value. “While the administration is under Obama is going to announce a new mortI’m not sure what can be done to pressure to firm up the details, it is not yet gage relief refinance program during his expand the current plan enough that it will clear whether borrowers seeking to take speech scheduled for Thursday evening, make a significant difference. A quick out a loan that is more than 80 percent of September 8. Google search turned up numerous articles the value of the home would qualify for reWhy the focus on helping home on Obama’s pending refinance program financing.” I wish reporters would consult owners refinance into lower interest rate and I’ve lifted some choice sections from a industry professionals before they rushed mortgages? It’s about the only immediate Reuters.com article. to print! You already CAN refinance a way to put cash in your hands that you will “The refinancing initiative would loan that is more than 80% of the home’s hopefully spend, thus stimulating value. Without the special the economy. If you can save Home Affordable Refinance Trend for 30-Year Fixed Rates $200 a month on your mortgage Week of Current Last Program you could refinance up Last 30 payment that’s the equivalent to to 95% of the home’s value, and Year Week Days a 6% pay raise if you’re earning 09/01/11 Week up to 125% of the home’s value $40,000 a year. We’ve had clients Avg Rate 4.15% if you qualify for HARP. 4.16% 4.37% 4.26% save over $300 a month recently. My industry keeps getting Avg Fees Unlike a lot of the other more bizarre. A few months 0.70% 0.80% 0.80 % ago I would stimulus plans, I’m in favor of & Points 0.80% have never agreed this one because there’s no tax Data providing via Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market if you suggested we’d see interpayer money involved (well, no Survey® est rates this low again. Now more than there already is) and I’m wondering what the next act no additional risk to the lenders. allow certain borrowers to refinance loans is. Appraisals waived and no limit on how The loans being refinanced are that are backed by government-owned much can be financed? Tune in Thursday already owned by Fannie Mae, Freddie Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the Fed- night or just check our blog and we’ll have Mac, and FHA, so there is no additional eral Housing Administration.” Uh…we an update. risk being assumed by those agencies. In already have that. The Home Affordable Michael has 20 years’ experience fact, because you are lowing your payment Refinance Program covers conventional in the lending industry. In that time he’s there is less risk you will default on your loans and FHA has its own Streamline directly helped over 1,400 families finance loan. Refinance program. the purchase of a new home or refinance The loans being refinanced today are “…allowing borrowers to refinance an existing loan to a lower interest rate. all at market interest rates. There is no even if they owe a significant amount above Rebecca has a CPA background in auditdirect tax payer money involved. I say their property’s current value.” Um… ing financial institutions which brings “direct” because the Federal Reserve has we have that too. Although if the current an incredible resource to First Priority been using its powers to drive down inter- 125% limit were lifted and made unlimited Financial. Together they are licensed to est rates across the board for all types of you’d probably get a rush of refinance ap- help families in the states of WA and CA. If borrowing since 2008. plications from CA, NV, AZ, and FL home you, or anyone you know, needs help with From my perspective we already owners. Considering the importance of a home loan call 509-252-9151 or send an have a pretty good program in place and states like CA and FL (in particular) to the email to MMullin@TheLoanConsultant. it’s almost two years old at this point. nation’s economy, lowering the mortgage com. 7/7/10
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Dana R. Michie
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Where did the summer go? I don’t know about you, but this summer flew by. I have two theory’s as why I and many others have had a fast summer. Theory # 1: Because of the extended length of rain and cool temperatures we experienced in the early summer, it feels like summer has just started. Theory # 2: Funerals, Weddings, and Events oh my! I don’t know about you, but before summer even began, nearly every weekend has been booked. Many times double booked. As Fall approaches, I feel the need to get the projects
around the house done. So every sliver of time has been allotted to home projects. As you read this, Nine Mile School District as well as most other school districts, are back in session. My children have been very excited to return to school. You may have seen my youngest daughter and her blue hair. She has died her hair cotton candy blue and her friend cotton candy pink. As to why they have died their hair, I am not sure. This is one of those choose your battle situations.
Keep It Coming I have received and read The Outpost since its beginning, and I look forward to its arrival in my mailbox each week, every week! The articles are fun and interesting to read, but I have really appreciated finding local help with a number of “fixing up” things around the house and property. I do tell these businesses that I found their ads in The Outpost, but I should let you know how important it is to find reliable businesses in this area. Thanks and keep it coming! J. L. Strobeck Deer Park, WA
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire
Nine Mile School District Excels Though I agree with Ms. Pope’s desire to put the sign discussion in the past and her concern about our children’s education, I feel compelled to respond concerning the (unintended, I hope) slight of the Nine Mile School District. My children have attended every school in the district except Nine Mile Elementary (We live in Suncrest) and our experience with each school has been quite positive. Our two oldest children graduated from the district well-prepared for success in college, as did most of their peers. Our few disagreements with teachers or administrators have never been about staff concern for students or quality teaching and they typically have been handled in not only a professional fashion, but a manner that demonstrates a true concern for individual students. My youngest child still attends Lakeside High School and he has enjoyed the same commitment from his teachers. So, though there may well be a problem concerning education in this country, locally we have qualified teachers and administrators pushing students to as high a level as any in the state and, moreover, a faculty that demonstrates a remarkable concern for its students’ well being, and I, despite the occasional disagreement, am grateful. Sincerely Bruce Holbert
Chloe Alayne-Marie Barboza Chloe was born Aug. 26, 2011 at 12:17 am. She weighed in at 8 lbs 9 oz. and was 21 inches long to proud parents Dustin & Corrie Barboza.
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