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community bulletin board/letters to the editor
february8
2011
VHS CRLE Presentations
Senior Career Related Learning Experience
(CRLE) presentations are on Wednesday, March 30,
2011. Times to be announced but working schedule is:
Senior arena style presentations in the ‘Logger
Dome’ are from 9:00-11:00. Public invited.
Speeches are at 7:00 PM with students arriving at 6:30
and judges at 6:00 (Student displays will be available
for judges to view starting at 5:30).
Anyone interested in being a judge contact
Rachel Wilcoxen or Dana Hyde at 503.429.3521 or
email dhyde@vernonia.k12.or.us, or rwilcoxen@
vernonia.k12.or.us
Catherine Mater to Speak in Vernonia
Catherine Mater will be a Guest Speakers
at the Vernonia Economic Development Meeting on
February 15th at City Hall at 6:30 PM. Also, two
guest speakers from OSU, Lena Etuk and Mallory
Rahe speaking about the Vernonia Indicator Project,
along with Dan Brown from the Vernonia Planning
Commission. There will be a question and answer time
after each speaker, so bring your questions!
Craft Class Scheduled at Vernonia Florist
Crochet 101
Susan Mullikin will teach beginners the basics of
crochet. You will leave the first class with enough
knowledge to crochet a simple project. The three
remaining sessions will be adding to your skill with a
completed project in the end.
Thurs 7-8:30 PM
$10 For Intro Session
$5 for each additional Session
Knitting 101
Kaitlyn Taylor is teaching the basic knitting with the
end result being the knowledge you always wanted to
knit many different items.
Tuesday Nights 7-9 PM
$10 For Intro Session
$5 for each additional session
Sip-N-Knit
With Katie Organ, learn to knit while enjoying your
favorite beverage and treat, from Katie’s own kitchen.
Great selection of yarn and needles available at
Vernonia Florist.
1 st & 3rd Thurs 10-Noon.
$10 For Intro Session
$5 for each additional Session
Quilting 101
Mary Pense will be teaching the basics of quilting, a kit
will be available, some sewing machines, bring yours
if you have one.
Monday Nights 7-8:30
$10 For Intro Class
$5 For each additional session
Please feel free to request any type or color of yarn.
Kits for each class and patterns will also be available.
At the Vernonia Grange
The Grange has a change of date on the April
one day rummage sale - it will now be held on Saturday,
April 16 from 10:00-4:00
There will also be Bingo at the Grange on
Saturday, Feb 12 and Saturday, Feb 26, at 6:30 PM.
Baseball, T-Ball & Softball Sign Ups
There will be sign ups for Vernonia kids on
Wednesday, February 16th from 6:00-8:00 PM. The
sign ups will take place at WGS in room 6. If you have
any questions Please call: Baseball questions--Brooke
Morrison at 429-0560, T-Ball questions --Melissa
Zavales at 429-2710, Softball questions--Katie Poetter
429-0700
Community Collaborations Phase 3
The Ford Institute Leadership Program,
Community Collaborations Phase 3 will meet on
February 19 from 2:00-6:00 PM at the VCLC. This is for
any Board Members, Council or Committee members
and volunteers serving the Vernonia community.
Readers Lend Their Voices...
To the Vernonia community at large:
I am thankful and grateful
to live in such a supportive, caring
community. Thank You all so much for
your help and support over the last year!
I am overjoyed to have finally
made it back home last mid-December
after many, many months of recovery!
My daughter Allee and I have
been the recipients of countless kind
and supportive acts from the Vernonia
community at large.
Last summer’s benefit concert
was an amazing and overwhelming
show of kindness and support from
the community-Thank You all for your
participation- musicians, organizers,
the Vernonia Community Church,
and audience / benefactors alike! The
proceeds from the benefit concert
facilitated the acquisition of an important
piece of therapeutic equipment that is
still in use to this day...Gradually, I keep
discovering additional more subtle but
no less important acts of kindness and
support from the community that have
occurred; the Vernonia community has
not ceased to amaze me.
Thank You Vernonia!
Upcoming Events
Vernonia School District Town Hall Meet-
ing, February 10, 6:30-8:00 PM --Educational
Programs will be the focus. This is a great opportunity
for parents and the community to find out more infor-
mation about the programs that are in place to help our
youth grow and succeed.
Spring Event--Buckleberry Cottage and
Out On A Limb, Beginning with Opening
Night on Thursday March 3rd, 6:00 to 9:00
PM then Friday, Saturday and Sunday the
4, 5, and 6th 10:00 to 4:00
Community Collaborations Phase 3,
February 19, 2:00-6:00 PM at the VCLC, 939
Bridge St. This is for any volunteers serving the
Vernonia community. Contact: Heather Lewis, 503-
429-4677 to RSVP
Discuss leveraging partnerships, Collaborations, MOU
concepts and learn about some of the collaborative
highlights that have been accomplished in 2010. RSVP
with Volunteer Coordinator Heather Lewis, 503-429-
4677, aletheia@gmail.com.
Calling All Vernonia Logger Alumni
The second annual Alumni Basketball game is
scheduled for Saturday, March 12th at 6:00 PM We are
looking for men and women to come and show their
school spirit. If you are interested in playing please
contact Julie at 503-869-0211.
This is an OSEA Classified Employee of
the Vernonia School District fundraiser. Monies
go to support conferences and training workshops,
Scholarship funds, Boys and Girls Athletic funds and
Teacher Appreciation Day.
Admission: $5.00 ~ Adults, $4.00 ~ 12 years
old through HS, $3.00 ~ K through 5th Grade.
is to Give a Hand Up to the People in
our Community in times of crisis and
assist them in returning to or becoming
healthy and productive.
Dennis Chadek
What can you do to help?
Vernonia
Make a donation/pledge to the United
Way of Columbia County today. Any
amount is appreciated and will help
It’s not too late to make a
support the many health and human
difference! You can still make a
service programs that your local United
donation/pledge that will help change a
Way funds. Become a United Way
life. Every donation helps.
Volunteer.
The United Way of Columbia
To make a donation:
County is nearing the end of its
Mail to: United Way of Columbia
campaign (March 31, 2011) and we
County, PO Box 538, Rainier, OR
find ourselves a little short of our goal.
97048
We are currently at 75% of our goal
Call: 503-556-3614 and we can send
of$302,011.00
you information.
What does not reaching our goal
Visit:
mean?
http://unitedwayofcolumbiacounty.
It means many people in Columbia
com/ for a donor form or make a
County will not receive the help they
donation online using the DONATE
need when a crisis arrives. Seniors
NOW button.
may go without home delivered
meals. Children and families may not
All contributions stay in Columbia
receive needed food, utility or housing
County to help Columbia County
assistance. There will be less training
residents.
and housing options available for the
disabled.
Thank you for helping change lives in
This year our community
partners are experiencing as high as
36% increase in requests for food,
shelter and utility assistance. Our goal
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our community.
Kathye Beck
Executive Director
We would like to thank
everyone involved in helping make the
Youth Basketball Tournament a great
success. Thank you to all volunteers
including referees, score keepers, and
snack shack workers. A special thanks
to the school for letting us use the
facility and the custodian for all your
help we appreciate it. Thank you to the
Vernonia Community Church for the
use of the gym. Thanks to all of you
this tournament gave our players home
games.
Vernonia 5th and 6th grade
girls took first and second and
Vernonia 5th and 6th boys placed First!
Congratulations to all the teams and
thank you to the community for your
support.
Jerry Butcher
Vernonia Youth Basketball
