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Chambers set schedules

■ The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce meets today at noon at Froso’s Restaurant in Soldotna. A presentation from Dave Casweel, state director for Honor and Remember, is scheduled. For more information call 262-9814.

■ The Kenai Chamber of Commerce meets at noon on Wednesday at the Kenai Visitors Center. Lynda Giguere, Director of Public Outreach for the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council, will give a presentation on the Cook Inlet RCAC: 25 years in Cook Inlet. RSVP to 283-1991.

PCHS awarded CARF Accreditation

CARF International announced that Peninsula Community Health Services has been accredited for a period of three years for its outpatient Mental Health Services. The latest accreditation is the first three-year accreditation that the international accrediting body, CARF, has awarded to PCHS.

This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a three-year accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process. It has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit its commitment to offering programs and services that are measurable, accountable, and of the highest quality.

PCHS is a nonprofit organization with offices at 230 E. Marydale, Soldotna. It has been providing Comprehensive, Integrated Medical, Dental and Behavioral Health in the Kenai/Soldotna area since 2008.

CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. For more information about the accreditation process, please visit the CARF website at www.carf.org.

Farm equipment for rent

The Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District has a wide variety of garden and farm equipment for rent, including tractor-drawn implements for initial field preparation (the fabled “Meri Crusher”), tillage, no-till seeding, bed shaping, mulch laying, and planting. Non-mechanized tools for rent include backpack sprayers, broadcast seed spreader and broadfork. A DEC-approved mobile kitchen trailer is also available. For information, see the “Equipment Rental” page at www.kenaisoilandwater.org or visit Kenai Feed & Supply.

What’s new in your business?

Have you opened a new business, moved to a new location, hired a new person or promoted an employee? Send us your information at news@peninsulaclarion.com, fax it to 907-283-3299, or drop it by the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay in Kenai. Questions? Call 907-335-1251.

 

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