Mail Tribune (Medford, OR) articles from March 2001

Mail Tribune (Medford, OR) archives from March 2001

Trail, Ore., Restaurant Restores Lava Rock Wall.
March 3, 2001... Byline: Melissa Martin Mar. 3--TRAIL, Ore.--One of the first things customers see when they walk in the door of the region's oldest restaurant is a lava rock wall made from pieces of the ancient volcano Mount Mazama. Old-timers might...

Medford, Ore., Fisherman Hooks Kids, Adults with Casting Clinics.
March 4, 2001... Byline: Mark Freeman Mar. 4--MEDFORD, Ore.--Ray Postlethwait stands erect like a lawn jockey, his right arm and index finger stretched straight out, exactly as the white-bearded man with the fancy fishing rod has just told him. Stan...

Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore., Business People Column.
March 5, 2001... Feb. 26--Helen J. Wallace has joined Southern Oregon Women's Access to Credit (SOWAC) as the organization's executive director. Wallace brings with her a background in education and management. Her last assignment was assistant...

Oregon Farmers Protest about Agricultural Issues to State Legislators.
March 9, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 8--MEDFORD, Ore.--Oregon farmers are taking their tractors to the state Capitol today to protest cheap imported agricultural products and the concentration of distributors. The Tractor Coalition and the...

Oregon Business Magazine Asks Workers to Rank Companies as Employers.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 6--Southern Oregon companies vying for a position as one of the most desirable workplaces in the state this year had a higher hurdle to clear than in years past. Using the logic that workers have plenty to...

Medford, Ore.-Based Construction Company Awarded Recruitment, Training Grant.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 8--Batzer Construction of Medford was awarded a grant by the Oregon Workforce Investment Board to bolster an employee cross-training program and to recruit and educate a new generation of construction workers....

Retired Medford, Ore.-Area Executives Help New Entrepreneurs.
March 14, 2001... Byline: John Darling Mar. 14--MEDFORD, Ore.--With a lifetime of accumulated savvy, it's a shame for business executives to spend their retirement hunting, fishing or watching television. They could be volunteers for SCORE, mentoring...

Paper Company to Consolidate Medford, Ore., Operation into New Plant.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 21--Trucks from the LTM batch plant started rolling at 1 a.m. Tuesday, transporting a steady stream of concrete to West Coast Paper Company's construction site on Avion Drive in Medford's airport industrial...

Jackson County, Ore., Unemployment Rate Rises Slowly.
March 24, 2001... Mar. 24--Jackson County's unemployment grew less than 1 percent in February compared to January, but the number came in healthier than the same time last year. Out of 90,100 people counted in Jackson County's civilian, nonfarm labor force,...

Chinese Delegation Visits Medford, Ore., to Connect with Investment Firm.
March 26, 2001... Byline: John Darling Mar. 17--MEDFORD, Ore.--The U.S. economy may be flatlining right now, but China is on the rise, searching out American technology, good projects and partners with capital. That's the message of Wang Bugong, a...

Economist Compares Oregon Counties to Flagging Flint, Mich.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 24--Comparing the economy of Jackson and Josephine counties to that of flailing, single industry dependent Flint, Mich., economic consultant William Firth led Rogue Valley business and government leaders through...

Bermuda-Based Electronics Firm Lays Off White City, Ore., Workers.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 19--WHITE CITY, Ore.--Tyco's White City printed circuit board plant laid off about 60 of its 450 workers Friday, citing recent acquisitions and the conglomerate's need to consolidate its work force. Jobs were...

Southern Oregon Employers Suffer from Skyrocketing Health Insurance Costs.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Bill Kettler Mar. 14--Thousands of Southern Oregon residents are paying more for health insurance these days -- and getting less. Insurance companies have dropped HMO plans that offered generous benefits. Employers are asking...

Medford, Ore., Shopping Mall Considers Creating Larger Leasable Spaces.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 18--The Rogue Valley Mall is considering restructuring its leasable retail space, consolidating smaller spaces into slots to make way for larger stores. "The mall was just built too big for this market,"...

Medford, Ore., Couple Introduces a Marriage Scrapbook.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Melissa Martin Mar. 16--Most married couples have an album with wedding photos, a scrapbook of vacations or photo books of their children. But how many have chronicled the first 25 years of their marriage? Medford resident...

Taco Bell Employees in Oregon Awarded Reimbursement for Back Pay.
March 26, 2001... Byline: John Darling Mar. 14--Several thousand employees of Taco Bell in Medford, Grants Pass and Ashland may be reimbursed for years of back wages following a class action victory Friday. A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury in a...

Medford, Ore.-Area Owners Say Pennsylvania Company Misled Them.
March 27, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 27--Medford-area store owners who agreed to have ATM cash machines installed on site are levying charges of fraud against Pennsylvania-based Credit Card Center for failing to pay up. What business owners had...

Home Sales Rise in Jackson County, Ore.
March 28, 2001... Mar. 28--MEDFORD, Ore.--Homes sales in Jackson County are up 14 percent over last year with a slight increase in overall home sales price, according to market analyst and appraiser Roy Wright Appraisal Service of Medford. A downward trend in...

Hertz Brings Its Cars to Medford, Ore.
March 30, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 30--Hertz Car Sales is moving to Medford and will open its fourth Northwest used-car sales center by June. Currently under construction on the corner of Crater Lake Avenue and Coker Butte Road, the new Hertz...

Youth Job Fair Takes Place in Medford, Ore., Area.
March 30, 2001... Byline: Shari Downhill Mar. 30--Carefully coiffed or profusely pierced, about 200 teenagers showed up during the first hour of the Youth Job Fair held in the Education and Resource Center at Rogue Valley Mall Wednesday. A brainchild of...