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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!
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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
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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
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