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4 community bulletin board/letters to the editor april26 2011 Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Columbia River Hwy., St. Helens, asking for community input, electing Oregon. The next meeting is April new Board Members and amending their Bylaws Columbia County 21, 2011. grandparents are invited to join Free Job Search Workshops grandparents from Washington 2011 Spring Garden Fair Don’t miss the Columbia Forest Grove City Library, County to share a day of fun and learning. This is a free event, lunch is County Master Gardener™ 2114 Pacific Ave. included. Friday May 20, 2011, 9:00 Association’s 16th annual fair on (503) 992-3247 AM to 2:00 PM at the former Hillsboro April 30th at St. Helens High School, PCC Center, 102 SW Washington inside the Commons and outside in Job Search Workshop - In English St., Hillsboro. Pre-registration the courtyard. The sale starts at 9 am Thursday, May 5 1-3 pm required—503-846-3089. and ends at 3 pm. Admission and parking are free. Job Search Workshop – In Spanish New Full Sunday School Master Gardeners will offer and for limited English speakers Program! over 6,000 plants from 34 varieties of Thursday, April 28 1-3pm Vernonia Community standard and heirloom tomatoes, still Thursday, May 26 1-3pm Church announces a long awaited only $1.25 per plant. Come early for answered prayer! Starting April 3rd the best selection. There will also be Topics include: the application at 9AM Family Bible Class, nursery certified members on hand to provide process, building a resume, and the thru adult. Learning God’s Word! general gardening information at the interview process. Family Bible Class from 9-10AM~ Education table and tomato-specific Register at the Forest Grove City Family Fellowship 10-10:20~Family information at the tomato sale. Of Library (503) 992-3337 or Praise & Worship 10:30-11:45~ course, there will also be the raffle, fgl-reference@wccls.org. Youth Group 4-5:45 PM~Biblical with tickets on sale for $1 each and This program is financed in whole or Eldership 6-8PM. 957 State Ave. hourly prizes. You don’t need to be in part with funds provided through 503-429-6790. e-mail: saltn_light@ present to win. Worksystems, Inc. from the U.S. hotmail.com Department of Labor. UNWC Annual Meeting Columbia County The Upper Nehalem Commission on Children and Watershed Council’s (UNWC) Families Annual Meeting has been changed The Columbia County Commission on Children and Families holds public meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 5:30 PM. The meetings are held at the OSU Extension Office, 505 N. from March 12th to Saturday May 21, 10 AM- 2 PM The meeting is open to the public. UNWC will show the community what they have accomplished and what is planned for the future, explaining their goals, Vernonia’s Voice is published twice each month on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday. Look for our next issue on May 10th. Upcoming Events Quilt Sale and Show, May 7, 10 AM- 4:00 PM— at the Scappoose Senior Center, 33342 SW Meadow Drive, Scappoose. Homemade soups, baked goods and desserts also for sale. St Mary’s Rummage Sale, April 29, 10- 4, April 30, 10-3— Stop by and shop—they have a little bit of everything! 960 Missouri Ave. Vernonia First Friday, May 6, 5:00- 8:00 PM —Maypole Dance, Arts and Crafts, make a Mother’s Day Card and more! Come celebrate our community at the Vernonia Scout Cabin. Free Community Health Fair, May 7, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM —Free Dental Exams, Red Cross Blood Mobile, Health screenings, BP Checks, Prescription Drug Take Back, Kids ID Kits and more! At Vernonia School Cafeteria. “Alice In Wonderland,” May 21, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM— Presented by the Vernonia Ballet. At Washington Grade School. Banks Brave Run, June 4, 9:00 AM — Starts at Banks High School track and continues out and back on the Linear Trail. 5K/10K Walk/ Run. Fundraiser for Banks Elementary School technology program. For more info contact Jodi Privatsky 503-747-0188. Register on- line at: www.signmeup.com/site/online-event- registration/74523. Readers Lend Their Voices... To the Editor I live in the City, and I support the Sheriffs Levy. Crime costs everyone, even people like me. Our county now has a reputation for being a great place for rural crime. We don’t have enough deputies to patrol our Counties 542 miles of road. We don’t have enough deputies to handle late night calls or provide follow-up on criminal activities. Measure 5-210 will allow the Sheriff’s office to hire 5 more deputies and three investigators. If this measure passes, we will have deputies on call in places where we presently don’t have any law enforcement. Sheriff Dickerson says that these new Deputies will be used to respond to criminal activities, and (unless they see an egregious offense) will not be used to write traffic tickets. Our county citizens and our children need police protection. These are public safety issues and we cannot afford for Columbia to continue to be considered a “Lawless” County. Please vote yes for Measure 5-210. every citizen to vote in the affirmative to help guarantee stable funding for Board of County Commissioners the Columbia County Sheriffs Office. established a 21 member Law Help to ensure that the hard work of 21 Enforcement Advisory Committee to local citizens becomes reality. take a hard look at law enforcement services in Columbia County. The Thank you, charge from the BOCC was very broad Paul Koch and encouraged the citizen group to Gresham. OR look at all the options and to come up with recommendations that would be considered by the BOCC. This citizen effort identified and researched over a dozen options and came up with two recommendations that were presented to the BOCC in April of 2010. Those recommendations are now the basic elements of an issue placed on the ballot for all the citizens of the county to consider. The results of that work now are on the ballot as Measure 5-210, for a decision by the citizens of the county. An affirmative vote will greatly enhance the safety of citizens within the county, and provide for the proper operation of the county jail. Taken together, the long term economic viability of the county will be enhanced. A safe community with the ability to lock up criminals is very important to proper livability and Bill Eagle economic development. St. Helens, OR Passage of Measure 5-210 will provide a stable funding source for county law enforcement and ensure to To the Editor: all, that Columbia County is a safe place In December of 2009, your to live and work. I would encourage The one day Grange fundraising rummage sale was a success. Thanks to everyone who donated so many nice things, shopped, rounded up their purchase prices to make a donation, set up, ran the sale, cleaned up, and hauled the remaining items to St. Mary’s for their sale. Special thanks to Julie Prohaska, Ella Tessitor, Maggie Peyton, Penny Costley, and Diana Peach for the hours they put in on the prep, sale day and clean up. It was a great team effort! Tobie Finzel Vernonia, OR To the Editor: On behalf of the members of Verrnonia Pride who helped organize this year’s Make Vernoina Shine Day event; Dede Webb, Sally Harrison, Janelle Cedergreen, Sharron Rockwood, Marge Lowrence, Rebecca McGaugh, Pat Phillips and last but certainly not least, my wonderful mentor Donna Webb. I’d like to thank the 68 people who came out to Make Vernonia HOW TO SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Shine last Saturday, April 16. I’d also like to thank Vernonia’s Voice welcomes and requests your thoughts, opinions and ideas. the Vernonia Health Board Please include your name, address and phone number, limit your letters to 300 for allowing us to set-up our words or less. Vernonia’s Voice reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for registration at Providence, a response to letters submitted. We will print letters, space permitting. Deadline Sentry for the donation of is the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Email: scott@vernoniasvoice.com or bottled water and SOLV for mail to: Letters, PO Box 55, Vernonia, OR 97064. the grant to purchase native shrubs. If I’ve missed anyone to thank, I’ll send in another letter :) Mother Nature cooperated to give us pretty wonderful working conditions. So many projects were completed in just 4 short hours. The rear of the VCLC was totally cleaned up of 3-years of built up pine needles and you can see the asphalt! We also planted the rear area with Oregon Grape shrubs. The base of the trees that line downtown were raked out, debris removed and fresh bark dust was spread. Litter was removed from the downtown sidewalks, Shay Park, Hawkins Park and the Lake. The planter box behind the restrooms at Hawkins Park was cleaned out and new shrubs were planted and bark dust was spread. A lot of time was spent on the Lake and debris removal, it looks gorgeous. The Museum had a great crew that did a bunch of yard work and a lot of work was done at the Community Garden. A couple of business owners spent more than the 4-hours working on their store fronts, making them shine. Bark dust was spread down at Hawkins at the swimming “pool” area. Bark dust was also dumped at the Library and will be spread in the next few days. It was so great to see so many people; young and old; residents and non-residents; come out to make our town look beautiful. For those of you on Facebook, check out the Make Vernonia Shine Day page.... photos from the day will be posted there and on SOLV’s Facebook page in the next couple of days. Thank you again for helping to Make Vernonia Shine!!! Catherine Helmer Vernonia Pride Member and co-coordinator of the 2011 Make Vernonia Shine Day
