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Eric Morgan installs the lights Saturday morning on the Othello branch of Santa’s Post O� ce, located in Pioneer Park, in preparation for next Saturday’s parade and lighting festival.

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The plan has already gone through a 43 percent budget cut back in July to reduce its costs.

The hospital would be affect-ed because nine percent of the people who are on the plan live in Adams County, which is high-er than the state average of 1.6 percent. The program brings in $1.6 million in revenue.

“We just can’t see how the state can support it,” Bunch said.

In somewhat brighter news, Bunch also reported on the

joint proposal to privatize am-bulance service, which in turn would increase emergency services in the area. The hos-pital is a proponent of the plan, along with the Adams County No. 5 Fire Department. Several departments and companies have shown interest, as well.

Several departments met to talk about the issue. A survey will be taken to gather a more accurate count and more in-formation. A memorandum of

understanding will be needed to be passed by the board be-fore Christmas.

Also approved by the board were two tax resolutions. One was to set the property tax lim-it factor to 101 percent because the population of the hospital district exceeds 10,000, while the other collects $621,654 from the regular tax levy for the fi scal year 2010.

canned goods to be able to feed a family for a week.

Johnson said they handed out 276 baskets last year and are hoping to have enough on hand to do 300.

“It takes a good-sized pick-

up to deliver a couple of bas-kets,” he said.

But Johnson doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.

“I’ve been doing it so long it comes natural to me,” he said.

For more information, call

Merritt Johnson at 488-2471 or Richard Johnson at 488-5088.

Donations can also be made at the Eagles Lodge, the fi re sta-tion or Johnson Glass Company.

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Cattle producers are com-mitted to producing high quality and safe beef products for today’s consumers, while managing natural resources for the next. Therefore, the fo-cus for the 2009 Grant County Beef Information Day, on Dec. 10, will be to provide area cat-tle producers with the knowl-edge and tools necessary to enhance animal performance and health and care, while promoting stewardship of nat-ural resources.

Grant County Beef informa-tion day will be held at the Fuller Building at the Grant County Fairgrounds from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. Individuals in-volved in any segment of beef cattle production are invited to attend and participants need not be a member of the Grant County Cattlemen or resident of Grant County to attend.

The program is organized by Washington State Univer-sity Extension and the Grant County Cattlemen’s and Cattle-women’s associations.

Local and regional speakers with expertise in cattle health,

management and natural re-source stewardship will be featured.

The morning session will fea-ture presentations about basic beef vaccines and vaccination programs; herbicide steward-ship to promote more grass, less weeds and prevention of residue; and the importance of various minerals to overall cattle health and performance.

The afternoon session will feature presentations on real life mineral defi ciencies and toxicities observed in the Co-lumbia Basin and mineral sup-plementation recommendations for the area and will conclude with a presentation about precondi-tion programs for feeder calves and the value of these programs to local cattle feeders and cow-calf produc-ers.

With the sup-port of the Grant County Cattlemen, the Grant County

Cattlewomen will provide a free beef lunch to participants.

There is no registration fee to participate in the day’s activi-ties, however, participants must RSVP to the WSU Grant-Adams Extension offi ce, (509) 754-2011, extension 413, by Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. to guarantee a lunch will be provided for them.

For a complete agenda on the 2009 Grant County Beef In-formation Day, please contact Sarah M. Smith, WSU Grant-Adams extension, at (509)754-2011, extension 413, or look under “Upcoming Events” at www.grant-adams.wsu.edu.

Grant County Beef Information Day

Army National Guard Pvt. Louis J. Massa, the son of Tony Massa of Spruce St., Warden, and Anna L. Tritchler, of S. Navy Blvd., Pensacola, Fla., has graduated from the Basic Field Artillery Cannon Crewmember Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

The course is designed to train servicemembers to main-tain, prepare and load am-

munition for fi ring; operate and perform operator main-tenance on prime movers, self-propelled Howitzers and ammunition vehicles; store, maintain and distribute am-munition to using units as a member of battery or battalion ammunition section; perform crew maintenance and partici-pate in organizational mainte-nance of weapons and related equipment; and establish and

maintain radio and wire com-munications.

Massa is a 2008 graduate of Warden High School.

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