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Monty Norris

August 4, 2022 / Heather Davis /

Monty has been a resident of lebanon his entire life.  He spent his early years playing baseball, golf and racquetball as well as fishing and hunting. His hobbies now are mainly fishing and hunting occasionally as well as weekly cornhole tournaments.

He began working at the age of 14 at the local grocery store until he was 19. He worked for 12 years at Entek as an operator and 9 years at the Halsey paper mill as an operator. He got his first taste of treatment working in secondary fiber department and it was something that if he had the chance to do professionally, he would pursue.

In 2015, the paper mill had a layoff and moved him to another department or allowed him to take advantage of the layoff and pursue the WET program at LBCC under the Trade Act.  With the support of his wife and daughter, he graduated in 2017 and had his first job working a small conventional plant in Sweet Home for the next 1 ½ years. He moved on to working an SBR plant in Stayton for another 1 ½ years then to The City of Lebanon as an operator and later, the Lead operator and AIC(acting in charge) for last 3 months.

He is looking forward to having a long career with Team OAWU.

Next Training/Events

  1. Apr
    4
    Tue
    2023

    1. 8:00 am Water Treatment/Distribution Certification Review and/or Water T/D Level 3,4 & Filtration Endorsement @ City of Keizer - Civic Center, Rooms: Claggett/Chemawa
    2. 9:00 am Lock Out Tag Out Operations and/or Job Site Safety @ Turner Fire District - Training Room
  2. Apr
    11
    Tue
    2023

    1. 8:00 am Math for Operators and/or Preparing for a Water System Survey & Wastewater System Inspection @ Newport Recreation Center, Room: 124 A
  3. May
    3
    Wed
    2023

    1. 8:00 am Developing Your O&M Manual and/or W&WW Emergency Response Planning @ Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue, Training Room
  4. May
    10
    Wed
    2023

    1. 9:00 am Understanding the Requirements of the WMCP and/or Leak Detection @ Turner Fire District - Training Room

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