You know, this gets tricky if you want to not have sidebars on static pages. Is that your desire then the solution you have would be the best and possibly the only one?
If you keep the sidebars, then the following will move the text widget up and into the header area.
Remove these from your CSS:
#footer #site-info {
color: #382014;
font-size: 0.85em;
position: absolute;
right: 299px;
top: 140px;
width: 52%;
}
#footer #site-info a {
display: none;
}
Add these to your CSS (I centered the text):
#page {
position: relative;
}
#text-4 {
position: absolute;
top: 160px;
left: 0;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}