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4 community bulletin board january21 2016 Program on Plants and Plantings for Pollinators Attention Youth with Small Animals! Saturday, January 23, 2016, there will be a Small Animal Learning Day at the Columbia County Fairgrounds for youth ages 5 to 19. The event starts at 9 am and wraps up around 4 pm. This entry level workshop is designed to inform and explain lots of the ins and outs of the 4-H Small Animal projects. 4-H membership is not required. There will be educational clinics and showmanship with rabbits, cavies (guinea pigs), and poultry. This is a perfect chance to get involved with your small animals. Youth will also have the opportunity to consider project animals that will be for sale; all animals will have been judged for show quality and potential. Registration forms are located at the OSU Extension Service at 505 N. Columbia River Hwy, St. Helens, 503-397-3462 and on their website. The cost is $5 day of show. Come ready for an exciting day! If you have any questions, please call Marianne 503-308-3853. Oregon State University Extension Service offers educational programs, activities, and materials without discrimination based on age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran’s status. Oregon State University Extension Service is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As 2016 begins, the staff and Board of Di- rectors of the Columbia Humane Society would like to once again thank Columbia County for their con- tinued support and understanding through our recent organizational changes. We are looking forward to great things for the shelter and animals of the Co- lumbia Humane Society in this coming year. Please stop in during our new business hours, which are Tuesday through Thursday from noon to 7 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 7 pm. The ani- mals love to have the public come in and pay them a visit. Perhaps you will find that new forever friend today! At this time we would like to take the oppor- tunity to welcome our new Program Manager, Lisa The Vernonia Freewheelers are pleased to announce the winners of their annual wood raffle: #248924 Colin and #248692 Larry, who donated his prize to Tim. The Freewheelers would like to thank the community for helping them help so many others! DATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Ave/Tot HIGH 45 39 50 48 48 53 57 58 52 47 43 47 41 42 39 44 52 46 44 45 47 42 41 35 35 37 36 40 38 39 37 44.1 LOW 36 39 39 42 46 46 49 47 45 41 37 40 32 31 38 39 43 35 34 37 33 32 32 30 31 31 34 34 28 21 20 36.2 PRECIP .70 .75 .35 .19 .95 1.65 1.10 2.30 1.13 .80 .38 .83 .90 .10 .09 .52 1.40 .20 .22 .61 .65 .60 1.05 .70 T .20 .35 .02 T 0 0 18.74 Weather data is collected at the U.S. Weather station at the Vernonia Water Plant Vernonia Ballet presents Frozen - Friday, January 22, 7:00 pm at Grace Family Fellowship, 957 State Ave. This performance is open to the public, no admission. Vernonia RidgeRider Annual Banquet - Saturday, January 23rd, 6:00 pm in the building next to Grace Family Fellowship Church. Potluck, auction, meeting and elections Beggio Named Program Manager at Columbia Humane Society Freewheelers Wood Raffle Winners Vernonia Weather December 2015 The Columbia County Extension Service is hosting the speaker for the county’s Master Gardener’s January meeting. The speaker will be Horticulturalist Neil Bell from Oregon State University Extension Service in Marion County, with his topic of choosing the right plants and designing the right plantings for pollinators. With bees and other pollinators at some risk, this program will show how gardeners can support these species by the landscape plant materials they choose. It is free and open to the public and will be held at St. Helens High School’s Loo-Wit Room on Thursday, January 28th at 6:30 pm. Upcoming Events Columbia Humane Society Featured Pet Beggio. Lisa has worked at the shelter for 15 years, has a great working knowledge of shelter operations, animal behavior, and a sense of what this commu- nity needs in order to help improve the animal wel- fare of Columbia County. Lisa looks forward to her continued work with the Columbia Humane Society, and hopes to make your visit to the shelter a positive one. Feel free to stop in and meet her, and to share any ideas you might have for helping her and us up- hold and further the mission of the shelter. As always, without the continued support of our community our little shelter would not be able to move forward each year. We are proud to say that we helped house and rehome 1,200 animals in 2015, and look forward to the impact we can make in the animal world in 2016. Please continue to donate at www.columbiahumane. org, or in person at the shelter, located at 2084 Oregon Street, St. Helens, Oregon, 97051. Meet Bo. He is a gentle and fun loving guy that is looking for a new forever home. He is about 11 years old, gets along great with other dogs and would just prefer a place to retire. He is in great health, other than the cataracts in his eyes. He is friendly and very mellow. Stop in and meet this love bug today. His adoption fee has been reduced to $75.00 to help this senior find his way into a new forever home. Web: www.columbiahumane.org 2084 Oregon Street St. Helens, OR 97051 Phone: 503-397-4353 Email: animalwelfare@columbiahumane.org Friends of the Vernonia Public Library Family: Minimum: Membership Dues: $10.00 Individual: $5.00 $1.00 plus 2 hours minimum of work in the library Make checks payable to: Friends of the Vernonia Public Library Mailing Address: 701 Weed Avenue, Vernonia, OR 97064 Name Address City Phone Date State Zip Amount Enclosed $ I am interested in helping with the following committees (optional): Please Circle •Membership •Endowments •Book Sales •Publicity & Public Relations •Fund Raising •Library Services •Finance-Budget-Legal Matters Upper Nehalem Watershed Council Meeting 6:30 pm on Thursday January 28, 2016 at the UNWC office 1201 Texas Ave. Suite A, Entrance is around the back of the School District building For more info call (503) 429-0869 or email maggie@nehalem.org HOW TO SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Vernonia’s Voice welcomes and requests your thoughts, opinions and ideas. Please include your name, address and phone number, limit your letters to 300 words or less. Vernonia’s Voice reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted. We will print letters space permitting. Deadline is the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Email: scott@ vernoniasvoice.com or mail to: Letters, PO Box 55, Vernonia, OR 97064.
