8 - SANDY (Ore.) POST Thur»., Dec. 27, 1973 (Sec. 1>
N ursing hom e residents
'a d o p te d ' by school kids
Adoption can work on both
ends of the age span
Students at Hood View Junior
Academy, the Seventh-day
Adventist school near Boring,
have proved it by “adopting”
residents at several area
nursing homes.
The year-long project came
to a climax during the holiday
season when many of the
classes visited their friends at
the homes.
Fourth and fifth graders in
Mr and Mrs R. Utt’s class took
candy to residents of McGuires
and Orchard Crest homes in
Sandy Santa Claus was there
as well as Christmas trees.
Fran Stephens' fifth and sixth
graders took sachets, little
Santa Clauses and fruit baskets
to Baunach home in Sandy.
Two
nursing
homes,
Ingleside, Troutdale, and
Colberts,
Gresham ,
got'
Christmas cards and mounted
pictures from first and second
graders in Beverly Hatley’s
and Brenda Foss's classes. The
children
also
took
Thanksgiving turkeys to the
home.
Wes Negrych’s sixth graders
decorated the windows of Rest
Harbor and Thelma Smelser’s
third graders took tray favors
to Hoodview Nursing Home.
Seventh and eighth grade
classes of Bob Smick and Linda
Wardlaw took a large cen-
Ninth graders in Don Lutts’
class tookdecoupagedpictures
to each resident at Tree Haven,
Gresham
terpiece of carnations and ferns
to Green Acres, Troutdale.
Although the nursery trade
has never taken our western
dogwood too seriously, many
homeowners have. Since it is
usually not available in
salesyards, the average
homeowner who would like one
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of these larger dogwoods for a
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shade tree goes to the forest
Mt. Hood Community College
and digs one up to plant in his
by J m Hulden
yard
Coordinator of College
The flowers are not really
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flowers in a sense. The six or
more large petal-like bracts
Last Wednesday evening Dr.
that surround the bloom are
William Stewart, college
modified leaves. The actual
associate dean for student
affairs, was chosen chairman W este rn D ogw ood flowers are very small and not
showy They cover the button in
of the Community Coordinated
in Late Sum m er
the center of the showy bracts.
Child Care (4C) executive
Dogwood
Each of them has four tiny
board and board of directors.
petals scarsely noticeable. The
The 4C runs some 66 per cent
Even now, in winter, the yellow stamens show more
of the federally funded day care
operations in the state. Thirty round button like buds of the giving a yellow cast to the
eight active child care centers, western dogwood give promise entire center cluster. Some
years the flowers develop
including Mt. Hood’s, come of the spring to come.
Of the three dogwoods that prematurely in the fall and the
under the 4C program,
are truly trees in the United tree gives us two floral shows in
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Registration for winter term States, only one is native to the one year. The buds that flower
classes is under way this week west. This is Cornus NuttaUi, in the tall, however, do not
as the new quarter will begin named after a famous botanist flower again in the following
Jan. 2. Wednesday and Nuttall. This dogwood is the spring.
We do have another dogwood
Thursday of this week are set largest of the three. As it has
aside lor the registration of new very little commercial use, it that is definately not a tree.
MHCC students. The evenings, has not suffered the fate of the This is the little ground
6-9 p m , both days will be used eastern dogwood, Cornus covering vine of the mountains
called Cornel. It too has four
to register students for evening Florida.
The C. Florida is a smaller, large white bracts surrounding
classes
Friday,
late
registration will be conducted. slower growing tree with dense, a cluster of miniscule flowers in
Persons interested in attending hard,white wood which does not the center.
If you note the plant
the new term should contact the check. It will also take a very
counseling center or a d ­ smooth polished finish which carefully, you can see the
missions and records office has no brashness and so will not characteristic dogwood leaf
right away, if they have not pick up the tiniest thread. For with the long curved parallel
years, these qualities led to its veins in this groundcover
done so.
use as shuttle material for the parallelling in structure the
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leaf of the large dogwood tree.
More than 125 senior citizens weaving industries.
Any dogwood in the eastern
The relationship is un­
of this area attended a
mistakable.
Christmas party held in the forest large enough to turn
college's Vista Dining Center these shuttles fell victim to the
Thursday afternoon. Goodies axe Synthetic materials have
and dancing to live music made shuttles easier to make
highlighted the several hour and cheaper, so today the small
trees are left in the forest, and
gathering
once more, the eastern woods
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The veterans at MHCC now have the beautiful dogwood to
have a voice, and that’s exactly grace them in the spring.
what they call it, the “Veterans
Our westerner has larger
Voice” . It is a newspaper flowers and is quite a good
published several times during sized tree often attaining a
theyeartokeep vets current on diameter of two feet or more
programs involving them The and growing to 80 feet tall
Office of Veterans Affairs puts
It usually has a rounded head
the paper together for the more and is a good shade tree. The
than l,ioo vets now attending large oval leaves are quite
the college
heavy and stay on the tree until
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late fall They usually turn a
This year has just about purplish red before dropping.
drawn to a close and in­ Even in fruit before the leaves W e s te rn D ogw ood
dications have already spelled turn, the dogwood has color.
in Spring
out that 1974 will be an “in­ The seed pods open revealing
teresting” year We at the the brilliant red large seeds
haDDv one. within
LESTER J. HANNA, resident of Tree
Haven Nursing Home, accepts a gift from
Betty Parks. 14, president of the ninth
grade class at Hood View Junior Academy,
Watt Watcher
in 1974.
And make it a better
year for everyone.
Saving electricity is still mighty
important. Right now, you can
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better year for everyone.
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the spring of 1974.
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