October 20, 2024 • 30 mins
Coast Products has a line of equipment to help you when the power goes out. OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital marks its 20th Freestyle Shoe Design Auction. Energy drinks and children can be a bad combination.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome Local Voices. I'm brad Ford. It's fall and time
to prepare for power outages this winter. We'll tell you
what Coast Products offers to keep you out of the dark.
The Ohsu dorn Becker Freestyle Shoe Design Fundraiser is celebrating
its twentieth year and the dangers of energy drinks for children.
This is the time of year to start preparing for
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fall and winter weather and the possibility of power outages.
We also had the Great Oregon Shakeout earthquake drill last
week that also includes preparations for extended power outages. Tyler Peterson,
fourth generation president at Coast Products in Portland, joins us
on Local Voices. Tyler tell us about Coast's history in Oregon.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, Coast is a family owned business founded one hundred
and five years ago, nineteen nineteen here on the Oregon Coast.
That's where the name is derived. Coast Cutlery was the
name of the company. We invented our first products a
salmon full for fishermen on the canneries on the Columbia.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
River, and then you've innovated from there and talk to
us about kind of the range of products that you build.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, so from there we spent probably the better half
of our organization developing cutting tools and products for fishermen, loggers,
big industries in the Pacific Northwest. In the early nineteen
hundreds and over the years of all the company into
a professional LED lighting solutions company flashlights, headlamps, lanterns. We
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introduced the first LED flashlight to the market in the
US in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Wow, how many employees do you have?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Coast has about seventy eight employees, most of them located
here in Portland. Our office our warehousing, product development, marketing
operations is out located near the Portland Airport.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Interesting tell us about your general goals when you go
to design a product. What's the foundation of that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, I like to use that foundation and illustrate our
first product, which is that salmon fil a knife for fishermen.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It was designed to make.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Their job safer and easier. And that mission around product
design and development around customer oriented solutions started with that knife.
It had a thicker blade to make cleaning the salmon
easier and then a tool on the back to clean
and gut the salmon. So from that first knife nineteen
nineteen innovation, we take that same approach to all of
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our products that we develop, so bringing best in class quality.
All of our products are backed by a lifetime warranty.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's very very.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Rare these days that products have that type of lawny
with a great customer service team. And we bring innovation
into the marketplace in our led lighting solutions. So we
got a lot of patents protecting our products focused on
the light and the optics. You turn a flashlight on,
there's no other beam that you can get that's like
a coast light because of the optics and the design
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around are lighting technology. And then we're bringing in a
lot of new technologies into our products over the last
several years. In the last five years, most of our
products were alkaline power devices to single, double A, triple
A batteries. Now most of our products, if not all
of them, are rechargeable and their dual power so they
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also work with alkaline batteries, but.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They're also built to work with rechargeable batteries.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So bringing that technology to the market enables you really bright, powerful,
high performing lights. We've got great new technologies and it's
all about developing solutions for customers, not gimmicks around products
to really enhance their jobs. Most of our customers are
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professionals that use the products for their job, servicemen and
then outdoor enthusiasts that they're taken out on their adventures.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
They need to right right right. Yeah, Well, this is
the time of year when we're preparing for winter storms.
What should we think about getting ready for when the
power goes out?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, power outages are a big deal. I think, you know,
being ready is really important in the lighting category. I've
got a family, I have two daughters at home. Might
be something about being the fourth generation of the family,
so it's sort of in our DNA. They they're I
think they're already our top sales people and selling flashlights,
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top users for sure. But we like to keep our
house ready with flashlights in the drawer. We have a
charging drawer at home, so we've always got our products
charging and ready if the power goes out.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A lot of our flashlights have.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Really long run time, some cases they last over fifty hours.
Some of our lanterns we make are great for power outages.
Got great real lighting, different tones of light, so it's
not just the really white bright light. You have warm tones.
We have a lantern that provides over thirty nights of
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light wow yal fifty r so.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
In a power outage that I would hope you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Have thirty nights of power outages, but it's definitely gives
you that confidence that you're going to have light when
you need it most So flashlights, lanterns, and some of
our products even feature power bank technology. So a flashlight
can actually charge your cell phone, so if your cell
phone isn't fully charged, you can have a little bit
of juice and make a call to those that you
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know you might need to reach out to those types
of situations.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
What advice do you have as far as keeping those
items charged? Is it okay to charge them to one
hundred percent? And we're talking I would assume like a
lithium battery, right, can you charge it to one hundred
percent and then just leave it until you have the
emergency or the power goes out or are you better
off cycling it from time? Does it matter?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know, it's kind of a personal preference for me.
I like to keep them plugged in in the drawer
at home. They're designed to when it's fully charged, it
stops charging, so it's not going to impact the life
of the battery if it's continued to be plugged in.
So that just gives me the peace of mind it's
ready to go if you unplug it. Just any product
you have that has batteries, it's going to drain over
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a period of time. Alkaline batteries, if you leave them
int a product, they might even corrode. So lithium batteries
are a great technology that you know, I recommend keeping
them charge if you leave it unplugged. It's hard to
set reminders, but just check to make sure that they
get fully charged. A lot of our products allow you
to swap out batteries, so if you can have extra
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batteries available for those products, that also makes a difference.
But and then I've always got some spare batteries lying around.
Sure everything's moved towards free chargeable.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
For us, absolutely. And you know, this is the time
of year when we when we think about getting ready
for those winter storms, and so if you have a
rechargeable power bank, this is a good time to plug
it in and then you're probably okay for you know,
if you don't leave it plugged in all the time,
you'd be okay for a couple of months and then
charge it again. This is also the time of year
where I get up in the morning and it's dark,
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and I leave work and it's dark, and so most
of the exercising now happens in the dark, right, even
if it's in the evening when you get home or
early in the morning you're trying to walk through the neighborhood.
Do you offer any products that people can can use
to increase the visibility so drivers can see them one
hundred percent?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, again, going back to our mission of keeping people's
lives safer. Some new products that we've introduced over the
last couple of years, one of them being a lighted hardness.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's a really lightweight you hardly even know it's on.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's a really cool product that illuminates you to be
seen at night.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You wear it like a vest.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You can change it to any color you want, very
personalized device, and it lasts up to about ten to
fifteen hours on a single charge, so you're not having
to always plug it in and plug it out. Just
earlier this week, we partnered with dead Stock. They are
a really cool community coffee sneaker shop in Portland. They
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have a running club and once a year, they do
a big running event at night, so we were at
Montgomery Park. We did a run up to Piddock Mansion
from the Lower Maclay Trail and we handed out hundreds
of these lighted harnesses.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Of course I recommend a good headlamp.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We have really lightweight headlamps to give you for runners
and people that are active. You don't want a lot
of things bouncing around, so these are designed to be lightweight,
very wearable and it was great of as a really
cool community built around.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Tell us about that headlamp. It has a very special
feature to it, right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, So again Coast being an innovative organ you know
a company, we're really proud of the products we release.
In with a headlamp, you know, over the years, you
know you really needed head hands free lighting. People are
working on their cars, their trucks, they're doing something that
their hands are occupied, but they need the light on
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their heads, so you get a headlamp. We had the
idea to have a voice controlled headlamp. So this is
one of the first voice controlled headlamps on the most
advanced pieces of technology we've released. So you can simply
say Coast on Coast off Coast high coast low coast
read and you got hands free lighting, hands free control.
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There's nothing else like it out in the market.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, it was. I was working in the garage rewiring
a outlet the other weekend, and you know, it's dark
because you have the power turned off and I had
a headlamp on. You got to turn it on, but
your hands are tied up right doing the work. And
to be able to just say it and have it
come on. That's brilliant. You make a really cool flashlight.
Tell us about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So another new flashlight that we've released this year is
called the xp ad R. It's our brightest flashlight we've
ever made. Most people don't know what a llumin is,
but I'm going to stay. It's fifteen thousand lumens. Is
unbelievably bright. It's going to light up an entire field
job site. That's a really great It's a powerful warklight
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just in the palm of your hands, and it features
a new technology called power IQ. So instead of you know,
one of the biggest things you want to know with
your flashlights how much run time you have left in
a light. So it's like your cell phone, you know,
eighty p seventy percent. With flashlights, sometimes you don't even know.
Sometimes you get a color. You might have two dots.
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What are two dots? So this we've developed a way
to have to calculate the runtime remaining. So you turn
the light on, it tells you've got six hours, eight hours,
thirty hours remaining. So if you're in one of those
emergency situations, you can flip to a mode that gives
you a preference around, Hey, I know I'm going to
need the light longer, so let's make sure i'm optimizing
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my use based on that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You make a bunch of different flashlights. You also make lanterns.
Tell us about those because in an emergency kit, when
the power goes out, having a lantern available is huge.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Lanterns are staple in our household. I definitely recommend having them.
We've got some brand new lanterns this year. They're called
the EA L Lanterns Emergency Area Lights. They feature very
bright lights so you can illuminate a space. They're very durable,
you can drop them, stand on them even so they're
going to withstand you know, anything that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You could throw at it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And then it features this color shift technology so when
you turn it on you get the you can go
for a warm to a white.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
To the very bright. Yeah, wow, that's great.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
On the back, all of our rechargeable products are powered
with the USB C in and this particular product has
USB C out, so.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh you could charge your phone, then charge your phone
with the lantern.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Wow, and your set keeping the you know, family safe,
reaching out to people, or just catching those extra scrolls.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Sure, you know, this is the type of year when
people start thinking about doing their their holiday shopping. And
so what's your what's your website and what do you
recommend people? Just go in there and browse or you
break it down for different products that you make. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Uh, so Coast is you know, the nation's leading you
know flashlight headlamp lighting company. Were very well distributed. I
like to say, where the you know, the biggest you
know name you've never heard of in lighting and uh,
you can find us at any major retailer. So you
go to Home Depot, Walmart, Costco, Lows r e I,
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you walk in. We've got a great assortment of products
at a lot of our retailers.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then Coast Portland dot com is our website, so
you got our whole collection of products of aailable for purchase.
We've got great you know, deals on new new products,
and whether you know you're looking for a flashlight or
headlamp or lantern, there's definitely some very giftable items that
you could you could look for that coast.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You know, one thing that we've done with our family members,
the kids is help them because they don't kids, they
don't think about having an emergency kit together, and so
we've bought items with that being the intention. And so
as you're doing your shopping, think about that emergency kit,
think about the flashlights and the lanterns and the batteries,
and it really is a great opportunity to be able
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to make sure that your family's prepared for power outages
or whatever might hit us. Here in the Northwest.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You might you might see an emergency kit on our
website available for nice.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You got to make that easier, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That ultimate stocking stuff for this sure is going to
be those rechargeable double A triple A batteries. Christ Is
you know, really proud to release we believe this revolutionary
new rechargeable battery. Yeah, that is a USBC powered So
you don't have to have some sort of charging cradle.
They're fast charging, you can charge them in under two hours,
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and it's designed and engineered to mimic an alkaline battery,
so it has a lot of the same features and benefits.
If you're used to just using a double A or
triple A battery and you're remote, your kid's toy, a
device at home, once those run out, you can just
swap in a rechargeable solution and you're never buying batteries again.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
This is truly like a moment where once you've done it,
there's no going back, and it's backed by coasts you know,
legendary lifetime warranty, and we're really excited and proud to
sort of release that new technology to a space where
you know, we feel like we can make an impact.
You know, there's billions of batteries that end up in
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landfills every single year, so this is a sustainable solution
for your household. If you're tired of single use thing.
Thank yes, this rechargeable battery is a great solution for
your home. Tell us the website one more time, Coast
Portland dot com.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Tyler, thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate it.
Thank you. That's Tyler Peterson, fourth generation president of Coast
Products again. Their website is Coast Portland dot com. The
Great Oregon Shakeout was held Thursday to help you prepare
for the Big One, a cascading a subduction zone earthquake
that could bring magnitude nine destruction. They want you to
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be two weeks ready in the event of a major earthquake.
Part of that preparation might also be having earthquake insurance.
Kenton Bryan, with a Northwest Insurance Council joins us on
local voices. What do we need to know about earthquake insurance?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
The first and most important thing to know about earthquake
insurance is that it is not included in your homeowners,
renters or business insurance policy. You have to add it
as an endorsement or a separate policy.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What type of coverage does an earthquake insurance policy provide?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Generally speaking, an earthquake insurance policy is sold to provide
coverage for damages due to an earthquake, and that can
include that you know, the complete destruction of your home
or the loss of retaining walls or garages or sheds.
And it's important when you're shopping for earthquake coverage to
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ask about the policy limits that are on that policy
as well as the things that it covers.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Is an earthquake insurance expensive?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It can be expensive if you particularly if you have
like a brick home, you know, in an area that's
higher susceptibility to earthquake, which, of course the Northwest region
is pretty high susceptibility to earthquake. We're all expecting one
day to have quote unquote the big one hit. If
you have a wood frame home, it's probably not as expensive.
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The key thing about expense is, you know, not just
how much it costs, because it can cost a few
hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars annually depending on
the structure of you know, what your home is made
out of. But the other part of it, I think
that people need to look into is what the deductibles are,
because those can be you know, between ten and twenty
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five percent of the structure's policy limit, which means that
upfront you're going to have some you know, significant financial
cost to rebuild your home after an earthquake. Before the
earthquake coverage kicks in.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Are the things homeowners can do to reduce the cost
of earthquake insurance premiums absolutely.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Homeowners can look into things like bolting their home to
their foundation, look at locking down you know, water heaters,
furnaces and that sort of thing inside the home or
wherever they're located, and that can help improve the ability
to ensure your home against earthquake and also help reduce
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the cost of your premium every month.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Do all insurance providers offer earthquake insurance?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Not every insurance company that writes home owners coverage also
writes earthquake insurance coverage. Some of the larger insurers do
include it or offer it, I should say, as an
add on to your homeowner's policy, but there are also
companies that specifically write just earthquake or other forms of
natural disaster insurance.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What's the key thing to know about earthquake insurance?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think it's just really important for consumers to know
that earthquake and tsunami damage are not included in your
homeowner's policy. So if you're concerned about the potential for
an earthquake to destroy your home, you should look into
earthquake coverage. And if you're concerned about flooding from either
tsunamis or other weather damage, remember that flood is not
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part of your policy either. Those policies are all available
on the market in most cases for most homeowners, So
do a little bit of research and see if you
need to add that coverage to your existing homeowners or
renter's policy.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
If you live in a tsunami zone, would flood insurance
be necessary?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Earthquake coverage will provide coverage for damage your home from
an earthquake, but if an earthquake causes a tsunami that
results in a flood, then you do need flood insurance
to cover that loss. In almost all circumstances, there may
be policies offered by some carriers that provide earthquake coverage
that includes damage from tsunamis, but in most cases you're
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going to want to look into flood insurance from the
National Flood Insurance Program that's.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Katon Bryan or the Northwest Insurance Council and information on
earthquake insurance. As part of the Great Shakeout events this
past week. This is the twentieth year for the Oitsu
Dornbecker Freestyle Shoe Design fundraiser. Young patients at Dornbecker Children's
Hospital design shoes with Nike that go into production. To
tell us more about it, Doctor Dana Brainer, physician in
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chief of OHSU Dornbecker Children's Hospital, joins us on local voices.
Doctor Brainer, what is Dornbecker Freestyle?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
So in concept, it's crazy simple, and that is that
we nominate kids who have been to Dornbecker in the
previous year. So that's literally out of one hundred thousand
unique visits to Dornbecker, and these kids exemplify really courage
and brilliance and creativity and all the things that we
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think every child exemplifies. Nike then meets with the children
and they assign them designers and everything they need, and
the kids design their shoes really to reflect their journey,
whether it be medical or whether it be other parts
of their journey. It's all up to the kids, and
Nike does everything they can do to make sure that
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what you see as the end product is literally the
kid's vision. So Nike's there to help. But everything you
see at the auction and at the Nike store are
these kids ideas of what their journey has been and
what they want to put on them and frankly, they
are amazingly. I own eighty seven pairs of these, and
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I love every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Obviously, any of the particular designs from past years stand.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Out, Oh, so many designs stand out. There's a pair
that I wear, I've almost worn them out now, and
they are a tribute to Batman, and they look like
normal Nike skateboard shoes, but then when I get hit
by ultraviolet or infrared light, a huge bat comes out
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and it's just unbelievable. And I get more compliments on
those shoes than literally anything I own.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So you say, these shoes are available for sale, so
you've got the auction, but are they available right now
or is there a period of time after the auction
is held when the shoes become available.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah. So we sell the first pair at the auction
and that's all we sell at the and then several
weeks to months later, usually before Christmas season, the shoes
become available at Nike outlets throughout the country and at
some shoe retailers. They're also available online through Nike. And
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having gone through this process now twenty times, I can
tell you they go really fast. And so if you
have your heart set in a particular shoe, when they
come on sale the morning that the sale opens, You've
got to be quick and get on them, and you
will have something that you will treasure for a lifetime.
These shoes are unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well I would imagine too. When you wear them, other
people will ask you what is that shoe? Where did
you get it? And gives you an opportunity to talk
with them and they can put, potentially in the future
buy them as well.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
So I am lucky enough to be asked to speak
at many, many different events and I always wear a
different pair of Freestyles and everybody stops me and ask
me where I got those shoes and where they can
get them as well.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So what does this mean to the young shoe designers,
the patients, but the young shoe designers, it's got to
really have a special meaning for them to be able
to take part in this.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
At Dornbecker, we feel strongly that every child is a
superstar and Nike when they do this program, they show
us these kids as superstars. When these kids debut their
designs at the event, they are mobbed, they get their
autograph asked for, they get the shoes, autographs, all of it,
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and it basically shows these kids that they are amazing
and they can do anything. I just want to say
Brad that being a child and being sick is difficult.
Being a child and being sick and being in the
hospital is very difficult. This allows these kids to see
this as part of a process that's really a growth
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opportunity for them and a way they can show how
amazing they truly are. And we cannot thank Nike enough
for giving these kids the opportunity. Freestyle is one hundred
percent about the kids and it is just a pleasure
every year to be there for this. If you leave
this event without a smile on your face, you may
well be mechanical.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So over the twenty years of this event, thirty seven
million dollars have been raised. How is that money used?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
So? At Dornbecker Children's Hospital, we struggle. We struggle to
give the best care to every child who comes to us,
and we never turn away a family or a child
because they cannot pay. But the economics of children's health
care are difficult and we have to absolutely have to
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give the best care to every child in every case.
That means the range of healthcare we have to offer
is all the way from primary care to cutting edge
brain surgeon Raid surgery using an intraoperative MRI. Every single
one of these things costs money and is expensive. That
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thirty seven million dollars goes directly into children's healthcare and
allows us to take care of the one hundred thousand
unique visits we will get every year. We cannot open
up our doors without philanthropy, and Nike through Freestyle, is
one of our biggest and best supporters, and we just
can't think them enough.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So when you go into a Nike store and you
want to buy a pair of these shoes, do they
do have a display that says Dornbecker Freestyle, Or if
you go on the Nike website, do you search Dornbecker Freestyle.
What's the best way to find these shoes?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
So exactly as you say, the best way to find
these shoes is to search on the Nike web Dornbecker Freestyle.
In my opinion, the best way to find these shoes
is the morning that the shoes drop, Nike Town opens
up and the kids are there, the families are there,
the shoes are there in abundance, and you get to
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meet these kids, they get to sign your shoe, and
it turns into one giant party and I cannot recommend
it enough.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Wow, doctor, thank you very much for taking time to
talk with us. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Hey, Brad, thanks so much for this interview. It is
an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's doctor Dana Brainer, physician in chief of OHSU Dornbecker
Children's Hospital. We details on the Dornbecker Freestyle Shoe Design fundraiser.
They have their auction on Friday, so watch for when
the shoes go on sale. Energy drinks are popular among
young people, but they can be dangerous. Doctor Courtney Temple
from OHSU joins us on local voices. Doctor Temple, what
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problems can energy drinks cause for children?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Pascinated drinks like energy drinks can be very dangerous for children.
In particular, they are more sensitive to caffeine than adults are,
and consuming too much caffeine can lead to serious cardiovascular
and neurologic health problems too. So commonly people may experience
stomach upsets like nause or vomiting. But as the dose
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of caffeine increases, you can have increases in your blood pressure,
your heart rate, palpitations, irregular heart beats, and it also
overstimulates the nervous system, pausing things like tremulousness, agitation, and
then in very severe cases we can see seizures and
even cardiac arrest.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I think it would also cause problems with kids trying
to sleep at night, is ed correct?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, certainly, so those are some of the other effects
that we really have to consider when trying to determine
what is an acceptable exposure to caffeine for children in
different age ranges, because it certainly affects mental health. It
can produce anxiety, it can produce difficulty sleeping, which are
all very impactful on our mental health. So that is
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certainly another concern.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
What advice would you give to parents about their kids
consuming energy drinks?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
For parents right now, the recommendation is to avoid all
caffeine and children under twelve years old number one, and
then furthermore limiting caffine consumption in teams. We really are
recommending a limit of about one hundred milligrams daily for teenagers,
which is about one coffee per day. Also for parents,
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read the labels of the beverages that are marketed, especially
those with the appealing flavors and packaging, as those products
may not clearly indicate what the caffine content is or
include warnings. For children.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Very good, doctor, Anything else you'd like to add that
I didn't ask you about, I will.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Say there is one point in the data from the
poison control centers that have identified the concerning national trend
in energy drink consumption among children and adolescents. But there
are a couple of key trends, which is rising popularity
among younger teams and then accidental ingestions. So the number
of calls to poison centers regarding children and energy drink
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ingestion increased about twenty percent last year. It's really notable
to remember that half of them were unintentional. So I
think that that really speaks to needing to be aware
of what is in the beverage that you are consuming
and the overall dose so that you can make informed choices.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Doctor Temple, thanks for joining us the Local Voices. That's
doctor Courtney Temple from OHSU with details on the dangers
of kids drinking energy drinks and one final note. A
twelve year old girl from Eugene had her dream come
true Saturday night thanks to a local auto deater. Lucy
Love has bravely faced thirty five surgeries as she battles
a brainstem tumor. She's a big fan of Tato Swift
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to Tato swifts Eras tour in Miami last night. They
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row of the concert. Thanks for listening to Local Voices,
I'm Brad Bord. You can hear past episodes on the
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public affairs presentation from iHeartRadio.
Welcome Local Voices. I'm brad Ford. It's fall and time
to prepare for power outages this winter. We'll tell you
what Coast Products offers to keep you out of the dark.
The Ohsu dorn Becker Freestyle Shoe Design Fundraiser is celebrating
its twentieth year and the dangers of energy drinks for children.
This is the time of year to start preparing for
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fall and winter weather and the possibility of power outages.
We also had the Great Oregon Shakeout earthquake drill last
week that also includes preparations for extended power outages. Tyler Peterson,
fourth generation president at Coast Products in Portland, joins us
on Local Voices. Tyler tell us about Coast's history in Oregon.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, Coast is a family owned business founded one hundred
and five years ago, nineteen nineteen here on the Oregon Coast.
That's where the name is derived. Coast Cutlery was the
name of the company. We invented our first products a
salmon full for fishermen on the canneries on the Columbia.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
River, and then you've innovated from there and talk to
us about kind of the range of products that you build.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, so from there we spent probably the better half
of our organization developing cutting tools and products for fishermen, loggers,
big industries in the Pacific Northwest. In the early nineteen
hundreds and over the years of all the company into
a professional LED lighting solutions company flashlights, headlamps, lanterns. We
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introduced the first LED flashlight to the market in the
US in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Wow, how many employees do you have?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Coast has about seventy eight employees, most of them located
here in Portland. Our office our warehousing, product development, marketing
operations is out located near the Portland Airport.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Interesting tell us about your general goals when you go
to design a product. What's the foundation of that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, I like to use that foundation and illustrate our
first product, which is that salmon fil a knife for fishermen.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It was designed to make.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Their job safer and easier. And that mission around product
design and development around customer oriented solutions started with that knife.
It had a thicker blade to make cleaning the salmon
easier and then a tool on the back to clean
and gut the salmon. So from that first knife nineteen
nineteen innovation, we take that same approach to all of
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our products that we develop, so bringing best in class quality.
All of our products are backed by a lifetime warranty.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's very very.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Rare these days that products have that type of lawny
with a great customer service team. And we bring innovation
into the marketplace in our led lighting solutions. So we
got a lot of patents protecting our products focused on
the light and the optics. You turn a flashlight on,
there's no other beam that you can get that's like
a coast light because of the optics and the design
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around are lighting technology. And then we're bringing in a
lot of new technologies into our products over the last
several years. In the last five years, most of our
products were alkaline power devices to single, double A, triple
A batteries. Now most of our products, if not all
of them, are rechargeable and their dual power so they
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also work with alkaline batteries, but.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They're also built to work with rechargeable batteries.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So bringing that technology to the market enables you really bright, powerful,
high performing lights. We've got great new technologies and it's
all about developing solutions for customers, not gimmicks around products
to really enhance their jobs. Most of our customers are
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professionals that use the products for their job, servicemen and
then outdoor enthusiasts that they're taken out on their adventures.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
They need to right right right. Yeah, Well, this is
the time of year when we're preparing for winter storms.
What should we think about getting ready for when the
power goes out?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, power outages are a big deal. I think, you know,
being ready is really important in the lighting category. I've
got a family, I have two daughters at home. Might
be something about being the fourth generation of the family,
so it's sort of in our DNA. They they're I
think they're already our top sales people and selling flashlights,
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top users for sure. But we like to keep our
house ready with flashlights in the drawer. We have a
charging drawer at home, so we've always got our products
charging and ready if the power goes out.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A lot of our flashlights have.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Really long run time, some cases they last over fifty hours.
Some of our lanterns we make are great for power outages.
Got great real lighting, different tones of light, so it's
not just the really white bright light. You have warm tones.
We have a lantern that provides over thirty nights of
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light wow yal fifty r so.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
In a power outage that I would hope you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Have thirty nights of power outages, but it's definitely gives
you that confidence that you're going to have light when
you need it most So flashlights, lanterns, and some of
our products even feature power bank technology. So a flashlight
can actually charge your cell phone, so if your cell
phone isn't fully charged, you can have a little bit
of juice and make a call to those that you
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know you might need to reach out to those types
of situations.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
What advice do you have as far as keeping those
items charged? Is it okay to charge them to one
hundred percent? And we're talking I would assume like a
lithium battery, right, can you charge it to one hundred
percent and then just leave it until you have the
emergency or the power goes out or are you better
off cycling it from time? Does it matter?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know, it's kind of a personal preference for me.
I like to keep them plugged in in the drawer
at home. They're designed to when it's fully charged, it
stops charging, so it's not going to impact the life
of the battery if it's continued to be plugged in.
So that just gives me the peace of mind it's
ready to go if you unplug it. Just any product
you have that has batteries, it's going to drain over
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a period of time. Alkaline batteries, if you leave them
int a product, they might even corrode. So lithium batteries
are a great technology that you know, I recommend keeping
them charge if you leave it unplugged. It's hard to
set reminders, but just check to make sure that they
get fully charged. A lot of our products allow you
to swap out batteries, so if you can have extra
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batteries available for those products, that also makes a difference.
But and then I've always got some spare batteries lying around.
Sure everything's moved towards free chargeable.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
For us, absolutely. And you know, this is the time
of year when we when we think about getting ready
for those winter storms, and so if you have a
rechargeable power bank, this is a good time to plug
it in and then you're probably okay for you know,
if you don't leave it plugged in all the time,
you'd be okay for a couple of months and then
charge it again. This is also the time of year
where I get up in the morning and it's dark,
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and I leave work and it's dark, and so most
of the exercising now happens in the dark, right, even
if it's in the evening when you get home or
early in the morning you're trying to walk through the neighborhood.
Do you offer any products that people can can use
to increase the visibility so drivers can see them one
hundred percent?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, again, going back to our mission of keeping people's
lives safer. Some new products that we've introduced over the
last couple of years, one of them being a lighted hardness.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's a really lightweight you hardly even know it's on.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's a really cool product that illuminates you to be
seen at night.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You wear it like a vest.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You can change it to any color you want, very
personalized device, and it lasts up to about ten to
fifteen hours on a single charge, so you're not having
to always plug it in and plug it out. Just
earlier this week, we partnered with dead Stock. They are
a really cool community coffee sneaker shop in Portland. They
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have a running club and once a year, they do
a big running event at night, so we were at
Montgomery Park. We did a run up to Piddock Mansion
from the Lower Maclay Trail and we handed out hundreds
of these lighted harnesses.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Of course I recommend a good headlamp.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We have really lightweight headlamps to give you for runners
and people that are active. You don't want a lot
of things bouncing around, so these are designed to be lightweight,
very wearable and it was great of as a really
cool community built around.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Tell us about that headlamp. It has a very special
feature to it, right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, So again Coast being an innovative organ you know
a company, we're really proud of the products we release.
In with a headlamp, you know, over the years, you
know you really needed head hands free lighting. People are
working on their cars, their trucks, they're doing something that
their hands are occupied, but they need the light on
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their heads, so you get a headlamp. We had the
idea to have a voice controlled headlamp. So this is
one of the first voice controlled headlamps on the most
advanced pieces of technology we've released. So you can simply
say Coast on Coast off Coast high coast low coast
read and you got hands free lighting, hands free control.
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There's nothing else like it out in the market.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, it was. I was working in the garage rewiring
a outlet the other weekend, and you know, it's dark
because you have the power turned off and I had
a headlamp on. You got to turn it on, but
your hands are tied up right doing the work. And
to be able to just say it and have it
come on. That's brilliant. You make a really cool flashlight.
Tell us about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So another new flashlight that we've released this year is
called the xp ad R. It's our brightest flashlight we've
ever made. Most people don't know what a llumin is,
but I'm going to stay. It's fifteen thousand lumens. Is
unbelievably bright. It's going to light up an entire field
job site. That's a really great It's a powerful warklight
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just in the palm of your hands, and it features
a new technology called power IQ. So instead of you know,
one of the biggest things you want to know with
your flashlights how much run time you have left in
a light. So it's like your cell phone, you know,
eighty p seventy percent. With flashlights, sometimes you don't even know.
Sometimes you get a color. You might have two dots.
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What are two dots? So this we've developed a way
to have to calculate the runtime remaining. So you turn
the light on, it tells you've got six hours, eight hours,
thirty hours remaining. So if you're in one of those
emergency situations, you can flip to a mode that gives
you a preference around, Hey, I know I'm going to
need the light longer, so let's make sure i'm optimizing
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my use based on that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You make a bunch of different flashlights. You also make lanterns.
Tell us about those because in an emergency kit, when
the power goes out, having a lantern available is huge.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Lanterns are staple in our household. I definitely recommend having them.
We've got some brand new lanterns this year. They're called
the EA L Lanterns Emergency Area Lights. They feature very
bright lights so you can illuminate a space. They're very durable,
you can drop them, stand on them even so they're
going to withstand you know, anything that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You could throw at it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And then it features this color shift technology so when
you turn it on you get the you can go
for a warm to a white.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
To the very bright. Yeah, wow, that's great.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
On the back, all of our rechargeable products are powered
with the USB C in and this particular product has
USB C out, so.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh you could charge your phone, then charge your phone
with the lantern.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Wow, and your set keeping the you know, family safe,
reaching out to people, or just catching those extra scrolls.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Sure, you know, this is the type of year when
people start thinking about doing their their holiday shopping. And
so what's your what's your website and what do you
recommend people? Just go in there and browse or you
break it down for different products that you make. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Uh, so Coast is you know, the nation's leading you
know flashlight headlamp lighting company. Were very well distributed. I
like to say, where the you know, the biggest you
know name you've never heard of in lighting and uh,
you can find us at any major retailer. So you
go to Home Depot, Walmart, Costco, Lows r e I,
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you walk in. We've got a great assortment of products
at a lot of our retailers.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then Coast Portland dot com is our website, so
you got our whole collection of products of aailable for purchase.
We've got great you know, deals on new new products,
and whether you know you're looking for a flashlight or
headlamp or lantern, there's definitely some very giftable items that
you could you could look for that coast.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You know, one thing that we've done with our family members,
the kids is help them because they don't kids, they
don't think about having an emergency kit together, and so
we've bought items with that being the intention. And so
as you're doing your shopping, think about that emergency kit,
think about the flashlights and the lanterns and the batteries,
and it really is a great opportunity to be able
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to make sure that your family's prepared for power outages
or whatever might hit us. Here in the Northwest.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You might you might see an emergency kit on our
website available for nice.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You got to make that easier, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That ultimate stocking stuff for this sure is going to
be those rechargeable double A triple A batteries. Christ Is
you know, really proud to release we believe this revolutionary
new rechargeable battery. Yeah, that is a USBC powered So
you don't have to have some sort of charging cradle.
They're fast charging, you can charge them in under two hours,
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and it's designed and engineered to mimic an alkaline battery,
so it has a lot of the same features and benefits.
If you're used to just using a double A or
triple A battery and you're remote, your kid's toy, a
device at home, once those run out, you can just
swap in a rechargeable solution and you're never buying batteries again.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
This is truly like a moment where once you've done it,
there's no going back, and it's backed by coasts you know,
legendary lifetime warranty, and we're really excited and proud to
sort of release that new technology to a space where
you know, we feel like we can make an impact.
You know, there's billions of batteries that end up in
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landfills every single year, so this is a sustainable solution
for your household. If you're tired of single use thing.
Thank yes, this rechargeable battery is a great solution for
your home. Tell us the website one more time, Coast
Portland dot com.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Tyler, thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate it.
Thank you. That's Tyler Peterson, fourth generation president of Coast
Products again. Their website is Coast Portland dot com. The
Great Oregon Shakeout was held Thursday to help you prepare
for the Big One, a cascading a subduction zone earthquake
that could bring magnitude nine destruction. They want you to
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be two weeks ready in the event of a major earthquake.
Part of that preparation might also be having earthquake insurance.
Kenton Bryan, with a Northwest Insurance Council joins us on
local voices. What do we need to know about earthquake insurance?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
The first and most important thing to know about earthquake
insurance is that it is not included in your homeowners,
renters or business insurance policy. You have to add it
as an endorsement or a separate policy.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What type of coverage does an earthquake insurance policy provide?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Generally speaking, an earthquake insurance policy is sold to provide
coverage for damages due to an earthquake, and that can
include that you know, the complete destruction of your home
or the loss of retaining walls or garages or sheds.
And it's important when you're shopping for earthquake coverage to
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ask about the policy limits that are on that policy
as well as the things that it covers.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Is an earthquake insurance expensive?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It can be expensive if you particularly if you have
like a brick home, you know, in an area that's
higher susceptibility to earthquake, which, of course the Northwest region
is pretty high susceptibility to earthquake. We're all expecting one
day to have quote unquote the big one hit. If
you have a wood frame home, it's probably not as expensive.
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The key thing about expense is, you know, not just
how much it costs, because it can cost a few
hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars annually depending on
the structure of you know, what your home is made
out of. But the other part of it, I think
that people need to look into is what the deductibles are,
because those can be you know, between ten and twenty
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five percent of the structure's policy limit, which means that
upfront you're going to have some you know, significant financial
cost to rebuild your home after an earthquake. Before the
earthquake coverage kicks in.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Are the things homeowners can do to reduce the cost
of earthquake insurance premiums absolutely.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Homeowners can look into things like bolting their home to
their foundation, look at locking down you know, water heaters,
furnaces and that sort of thing inside the home or
wherever they're located, and that can help improve the ability
to ensure your home against earthquake and also help reduce
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the cost of your premium every month.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Do all insurance providers offer earthquake insurance?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Not every insurance company that writes home owners coverage also
writes earthquake insurance coverage. Some of the larger insurers do
include it or offer it, I should say, as an
add on to your homeowner's policy, but there are also
companies that specifically write just earthquake or other forms of
natural disaster insurance.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
What's the key thing to know about earthquake insurance?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think it's just really important for consumers to know
that earthquake and tsunami damage are not included in your
homeowner's policy. So if you're concerned about the potential for
an earthquake to destroy your home, you should look into
earthquake coverage. And if you're concerned about flooding from either
tsunamis or other weather damage, remember that flood is not
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part of your policy either. Those policies are all available
on the market in most cases for most homeowners, So
do a little bit of research and see if you
need to add that coverage to your existing homeowners or
renter's policy.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
If you live in a tsunami zone, would flood insurance
be necessary?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Earthquake coverage will provide coverage for damage your home from
an earthquake, but if an earthquake causes a tsunami that
results in a flood, then you do need flood insurance
to cover that loss. In almost all circumstances, there may
be policies offered by some carriers that provide earthquake coverage
that includes damage from tsunamis, but in most cases you're
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going to want to look into flood insurance from the
National Flood Insurance Program that's.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Katon Bryan or the Northwest Insurance Council and information on
earthquake insurance. As part of the Great Shakeout events this
past week. This is the twentieth year for the Oitsu
Dornbecker Freestyle Shoe Design fundraiser. Young patients at Dornbecker Children's
Hospital design shoes with Nike that go into production. To
tell us more about it, Doctor Dana Brainer, physician in
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chief of OHSU Dornbecker Children's Hospital, joins us on local voices.
Doctor Brainer, what is Dornbecker Freestyle?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
So in concept, it's crazy simple, and that is that
we nominate kids who have been to Dornbecker in the
previous year. So that's literally out of one hundred thousand
unique visits to Dornbecker, and these kids exemplify really courage
and brilliance and creativity and all the things that we
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think every child exemplifies. Nike then meets with the children
and they assign them designers and everything they need, and
the kids design their shoes really to reflect their journey,
whether it be medical or whether it be other parts
of their journey. It's all up to the kids, and
Nike does everything they can do to make sure that
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what you see as the end product is literally the
kid's vision. So Nike's there to help. But everything you
see at the auction and at the Nike store are
these kids ideas of what their journey has been and
what they want to put on them and frankly, they
are amazingly. I own eighty seven pairs of these, and
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I love every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Obviously, any of the particular designs from past years stand.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Out, Oh, so many designs stand out. There's a pair
that I wear, I've almost worn them out now, and
they are a tribute to Batman, and they look like
normal Nike skateboard shoes, but then when I get hit
by ultraviolet or infrared light, a huge bat comes out
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and it's just unbelievable. And I get more compliments on
those shoes than literally anything I own.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
So you say, these shoes are available for sale, so
you've got the auction, but are they available right now
or is there a period of time after the auction
is held when the shoes become available.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah. So we sell the first pair at the auction
and that's all we sell at the and then several
weeks to months later, usually before Christmas season, the shoes
become available at Nike outlets throughout the country and at
some shoe retailers. They're also available online through Nike. And
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having gone through this process now twenty times, I can
tell you they go really fast. And so if you
have your heart set in a particular shoe, when they
come on sale the morning that the sale opens, You've
got to be quick and get on them, and you
will have something that you will treasure for a lifetime.
These shoes are unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well I would imagine too. When you wear them, other
people will ask you what is that shoe? Where did
you get it? And gives you an opportunity to talk
with them and they can put, potentially in the future
buy them as well.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
So I am lucky enough to be asked to speak
at many, many different events and I always wear a
different pair of Freestyles and everybody stops me and ask
me where I got those shoes and where they can
get them as well.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So what does this mean to the young shoe designers,
the patients, but the young shoe designers, it's got to
really have a special meaning for them to be able
to take part in this.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
At Dornbecker, we feel strongly that every child is a
superstar and Nike when they do this program, they show
us these kids as superstars. When these kids debut their
designs at the event, they are mobbed, they get their
autograph asked for, they get the shoes, autographs, all of it,
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and it basically shows these kids that they are amazing
and they can do anything. I just want to say
Brad that being a child and being sick is difficult.
Being a child and being sick and being in the
hospital is very difficult. This allows these kids to see
this as part of a process that's really a growth
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opportunity for them and a way they can show how
amazing they truly are. And we cannot thank Nike enough
for giving these kids the opportunity. Freestyle is one hundred
percent about the kids and it is just a pleasure
every year to be there for this. If you leave
this event without a smile on your face, you may
well be mechanical.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So over the twenty years of this event, thirty seven
million dollars have been raised. How is that money used?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
So? At Dornbecker Children's Hospital, we struggle. We struggle to
give the best care to every child who comes to us,
and we never turn away a family or a child
because they cannot pay. But the economics of children's health
care are difficult and we have to absolutely have to
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give the best care to every child in every case.
That means the range of healthcare we have to offer
is all the way from primary care to cutting edge
brain surgeon Raid surgery using an intraoperative MRI. Every single
one of these things costs money and is expensive. That
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thirty seven million dollars goes directly into children's healthcare and
allows us to take care of the one hundred thousand
unique visits we will get every year. We cannot open
up our doors without philanthropy, and Nike through Freestyle, is
one of our biggest and best supporters, and we just
can't think them enough.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So when you go into a Nike store and you
want to buy a pair of these shoes, do they
do have a display that says Dornbecker Freestyle, Or if
you go on the Nike website, do you search Dornbecker Freestyle.
What's the best way to find these shoes?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
So exactly as you say, the best way to find
these shoes is to search on the Nike web Dornbecker Freestyle.
In my opinion, the best way to find these shoes
is the morning that the shoes drop, Nike Town opens
up and the kids are there, the families are there,
the shoes are there in abundance, and you get to
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meet these kids, they get to sign your shoe, and
it turns into one giant party and I cannot recommend
it enough.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Wow, doctor, thank you very much for taking time to
talk with us. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Hey, Brad, thanks so much for this interview. It is
an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's doctor Dana Brainer, physician in chief of OHSU Dornbecker
Children's Hospital. We details on the Dornbecker Freestyle Shoe Design fundraiser.
They have their auction on Friday, so watch for when
the shoes go on sale. Energy drinks are popular among
young people, but they can be dangerous. Doctor Courtney Temple
from OHSU joins us on local voices. Doctor Temple, what
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problems can energy drinks cause for children?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Pascinated drinks like energy drinks can be very dangerous for children.
In particular, they are more sensitive to caffeine than adults are,
and consuming too much caffeine can lead to serious cardiovascular
and neurologic health problems too. So commonly people may experience
stomach upsets like nause or vomiting. But as the dose
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of caffeine increases, you can have increases in your blood pressure,
your heart rate, palpitations, irregular heart beats, and it also
overstimulates the nervous system, pausing things like tremulousness, agitation, and
then in very severe cases we can see seizures and
even cardiac arrest.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I think it would also cause problems with kids trying
to sleep at night, is ed correct?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, certainly, so those are some of the other effects
that we really have to consider when trying to determine
what is an acceptable exposure to caffeine for children in
different age ranges, because it certainly affects mental health. It
can produce anxiety, it can produce difficulty sleeping, which are
all very impactful on our mental health. So that is
(27:47):
certainly another concern.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
What advice would you give to parents about their kids
consuming energy drinks?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
For parents right now, the recommendation is to avoid all
caffeine and children under twelve years old number one, and
then furthermore limiting caffine consumption in teams. We really are
recommending a limit of about one hundred milligrams daily for teenagers,
which is about one coffee per day. Also for parents,
(28:15):
read the labels of the beverages that are marketed, especially
those with the appealing flavors and packaging, as those products
may not clearly indicate what the caffine content is or
include warnings. For children.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Very good, doctor, Anything else you'd like to add that
I didn't ask you about, I will.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Say there is one point in the data from the
poison control centers that have identified the concerning national trend
in energy drink consumption among children and adolescents. But there
are a couple of key trends, which is rising popularity
among younger teams and then accidental ingestions. So the number
of calls to poison centers regarding children and energy drink
(28:55):
ingestion increased about twenty percent last year. It's really notable
to remember that half of them were unintentional. So I
think that that really speaks to needing to be aware
of what is in the beverage that you are consuming
and the overall dose so that you can make informed choices.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Doctor Temple, thanks for joining us the Local Voices. That's
doctor Courtney Temple from OHSU with details on the dangers
of kids drinking energy drinks and one final note. A
twelve year old girl from Eugene had her dream come
true Saturday night thanks to a local auto deater. Lucy
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(29:35):
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row of the concert. Thanks for listening to Local Voices,
I'm Brad Bord. You can hear past episodes on the
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