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Public Works Receives 50 Year
Award for Weather Station
The Vernonia Public Works
Department has received recognition
from the National Weather Service for
maintaining their weather station for
fifty years.
Public Works foreman Jeff
Burch accepted the award for the
department on March 11 from Tyree
Wilde and Gerald Macke, both from
Data collected through the
program is archived on the National
Weather Service website, which allows
any user access to historical information
about local weather. To see interesting
and useful information about Vernonia
weather go to: www.weather.gov. On
the map on the home page, click on
Northwest Oregon, which should take
you to the Portland office
page. In the side bar on
the left, under Climate,
click “local,” then click
the “NOWData” tab on
the far right. In the drop
down menu, scroll all the
way to the bottom and
click Vernonia, which
will provide a choice of
information you can view -
and have fun!
Here is just one bit
of useful information we
Tyree Wilde (l) and Gerald Macke (r) of the National found on the site: This year
everyone has been worried
Weather Service presented Jeff Burch and the
Vernonia Public Works Dept. with an award for fifty
that we are having a dry
years of collecting weather data.
winter. According to data
the National Weather Service office collected since 1965, Vernonia receives
in Portland. Wilde is a Warning an average of 48.29 inches of rainfall
Coordination Meteorologist and Macke each year. Monthly averages and
is the Observation Program Leader for 2014/15 actual rainfall amounts are as
the Portland Region.
follows:
The weather station in Vernonia Nov: 7.47 5.20
records temperature and precipitation Dec: 8.11 7.62
every fifteen minutes and is part of the Jan: 7.18 3.75
Cooperative Observer Program that Feb: 5.46 5.36
collects data that is used to observe and
Thanks and congratulations
predict weather patterns and changes. to all the Vernonia Publics Works and
Collected data is used regionally in city staff who have diligently gathered
agriculture, recreation and other fields and reported this data over the last fifty
and is being used in research about years, making it available for all of us!
global climate change.
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Local Owns Two World
Champion Show Horses
2015
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Berg shows her horses in Halter
Competitions where the horses are led,
not ridden, and are judged on their con-
formation and suitability as breeding
stock. Berg says it’s sort of like body
building for horses. “They’re really big
and muscular, but they also have to be
really pretty,” says Berg. “And confor-
mationally they have
to be correct - they
have to have nice
straight legs, they
have to have a slen-
der neck. They are
judged on how they
are put together.”
Berg
pur-
chased “No Chance
of Reign,” who she
calls “Clark,” shortly
after he was named
World Champion in
his class as a young
pony. In 2013 Berg,
working with a new
horse trainer, and
Clark took 4 th place
at the American Paint
Owner Marianne Berg of Birkenfeld (r) with her Reserve Horse Association
World
Grand National Champion Clark and trainer Matt Henderson. (APHA)
Show in Fort Worth,
holder. It’s obvious that people in this Texas. “Our new trainer didn’t have
region love their horses.
enough time to get him as prepared as
Marianne Berg also loves her he needed to be,” explained Berg.
horses and owns a couple of World
This year Clark and trainer
Champions.
Matt Henderson of Turner-Henderson
Berg, who lives in Birkenfeld, Show Horses based in Albany, Oregon
owns show horses and has been suc- traveled once again in November to Fort
cessful in breeding, raising, training Worth, where Clark won the Reserve
and showing two real winners.
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For an area mostly known for
logging, the Vernonia area has devel-
oped quite a reputation for its horse cul-
ture. The area features a long time trail
riding group, regular seasonal arena
play days, a competitive school-based
equestrian team and an active 4-H pro-
gram – even a national Miss Rodeo title
