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may8 2012 VERNONIA’S reflecting the spirit of our community volume6 issue9 Last Chance Dance – Saturday, June 23 Saying Goodbye to Washington Grade School and Vernonia Union High School With the creation of the new campus, the Vernonia School District is required to remove the school buildings from their current locations. Certain elements have been integrated into the new school, but the actual buildings must go. No matter how good it will be for the community to have new schools, it is still a big deal to see your school disappear. The Vernonia Education Foundation (VEF) therefore welcomes the entire community to the campus on June 23rd for a last chance to see your old schools. At 4:00 PM the entire campus will be opened to guests, and there will be several exciting opportunities to mingle, exchange memories, and perhaps express the collective hope that our future will be as bright as our history. Beginning at 5:00 PM in the Green Building there will be a dinner for guests. During the dinner, guests will have the opportunity to bid, via silent auction, on many items which have been donated by businesses and individuals all around the Pacific Northwest. In addition, at 6:00 PM, following a few words from Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Cox and other community leaders, there will be a live auction during which our guests will have the opportunity to bid on several choice items. The dinner will have limited seating, and tickets are currently available at Vernonia Florist and Vernonia Auto Parts, or online at www.vernoniaschools.org Following the dinner and auction, the VEF will host the “Last Chance Dance” in the Washington Grade School gymnasium, an all- ages celebration of all the dances that have come before through the decades. There is no charge for attending the dance, or for touring the schools. The VEF would like to thank the community and the district for being given this opportunity to express their deep appreciation for the continuing financial support of the capital campaign to rebuild Vernonia’s Schools. Camp 18 Logging Exhibition is May 12 th The 2012 Camp 18 Loggers Memorial Dedication and Logging Ex- hibition will be held Saturday, May 12 at the Camp 18 Logging Museum in Elsie, Oregon. All are welcome to attend this free event! inside 10 hands-on art 11 vhs sports 11 school flowers Founded by Maurie Clark and Gordon Smith back in the 1970’s, the Camp 18 Logging Museum is a popular spot to stop on the way to the coast and see the spar tree and big logging equip- ment from years gone by. The museum has grown over the years and through generous donations of time and money, the Camp 18 Logging Museum Loggers Me- morial was completed in 2009. The beautiful building houses a bronze statue of a timber faller and contains logging memora- bilia from many local families as well as over 300 plaques commemorating loggers who’ve passed on. The 2012 Loggers Memorial dedication begins at 10:00 AM. There will be about 20 new plaques dedicated this year. To order a plaque for the memorial, con- tact Danielle Cook at 503-308- 3250, danicook09@yahoo. com. Many local loggers will compete in the third annual Logging Exhibition as well as High School teams from Knap- pa, Scio, Sweet Home, Verno- nia and Philomath. The High School teams work hard to help keep the logging industry alive. The forestry teams compete in logging events and study all as- free Vernonia Community Garden Ready to Grow! A new banner sign adorns the chain link fence between the high school and district office, heralding the arrival of spring and a new community garden. The garden has been in the works for a while, and the good news is that it is finally here. Thanks to the cooperation of the city and the school district, the community garden has a temporary home near the old tennis courts. Penny Costley and Allison McLeod are leading the organization this summer, and are ready to accept reservations for space in the garden. According to Costley, the maximum size plot available is 3’ by 21’, and smaller sizes are available. Please call her (429-0196) to set up a spot. Costley is currently organizing monthly classes and workshops, featuring a different aspect of gardening every month. The OSU Extension Service held classes for Master Gardener in Vernonia several years ago, and some of those graduates will be on hand regularly to aide people that are unfamiliar with plants. The garden is projected to hold 400 lineal feet of growing space, which will all be planted. Any food produced in excess of that claimed by participants will be distributed to the Vernonia Cares Food Bank and other organizations that provide nutritious food to those in need. The community garden will eventually move to the new school campus on Missouri Avenue, and will be another tool in the school district curriculum. The garden is a collaboration between The Ford Family Foundation, City of Vernonia, Vernonia School District, Vernonia Health Board, Vernonia Cares, and Kiwanis International. pects of forestry including biomass, tim- ber harvesting, silviculture and forestry engineering. These programs help pre- pare students for careers in the industry and serve as college prep for those go- ing on to study forestry at the university level. A highlight of last year’s event came during the competition between the top local rigging crew and the best of the high school teams. The students did a great job and would have won if their teacher hadn’t dropped the pin out of the block during the climbing portion of the Admission is FREE! Bring the whole family. Take a tour relay. The crowd of all the great old- loved it and had a time logging museum great time watch- equipment. There will ing all the com- be food booths, hats, petitions. Team license plate frames, registration starts t-shirts and sweatshirts at 9:00 and the for sale. Volunteers Exhibition begins are needed! at 11:00. Events For more infor- include tree climb- mation or to volunteer, ing, choker setting, contact Mark Standley splicing, double at 503-434-0148, log- bucking and the safeinc@yahoo.com hook tender re- or Darlene Wilcoxen lay race. There at 503-728-2050, dar- will a tree falling lene.wilcoxen@ya- competition and a hoo.com. Save the log loading com- date! May 12, 2012; petition too if you Camp 18 is located at want to come test milepost 18 on Hwy your skills or just 26, 42362 Hwy 26, watch the loggers Seaside, Oregon. in action.
