Thursday October 22,1981
Page 2— Vernonia Freedom
Deer populations of
concern to local hunters
To the Editor:
We are concerned about the deer
population (or lack of it) in this
particular territory, and we hope that
before the new hunting program for
1982 is formulated there will be an
investigation into the decline and
reason for these animals becoming
almost extinct.
We believe we can be helpful in this
by suggesting a closer check on spot
lighting and other illegal hunting
which goes on almost the year
around, and we ask that those that
are apprehended in this practice be
prosecuted and not let off with just a
warning. Also that no hunting of any
kind be allowed for a period of two
years, and after that a program of
either sex and bow hunting be
carefully evaluated. It is our belief
these last two practices are about as
responsible for the decline in numbers
as the illegal hunter and the bow
hunting is tied in closely with this
practice.
Some of us have lived here for more
than thirty-five years and have never
seen conditions as they are now. We
have seen fawns killed in their beds
almost at our doorstep by some one
with a doe permit. Out of a small herd
of seven last spring there is one lone
fawn left.
This is the territory west of
Vernonia which we are positive of and
the surrounding area is suspect.
This is a copy of a letter sent to the
Game Commission in January 1981
by eight concerned citizens. So far
there has not been an answer, and the
new regulations and conditions are
the same as then. Why?
W.N. Noakes
Vernonia
More co-op member involvement positive obituary.,.
Although last Saturday’s vote changing the West Oregon Co-op’s operating
procedures are, as manager George Smith says, not likely to have any real
effect on the way the co-op does business on a day-to-day basis, we are pleased
to see that the membership cares enough about what is going on to want to
have more input.
It is important for ordinary citizens to have something to say about the way
decisions affecting their lives are made. Any time people care enough to get
involved a positive step has been taken, for there are far too many times in our
lives when those people most affected by events have absolutely no say
whatsoever in the circumstances that touch their lives.
It still remains to be seen whether Saturday’s vote will actually create
increased awareness and input from the co-op’s members. In the meantime
though, we feel this vote reflects a very positive attitude on both the part of
the membership and the co-op. We also feel that over the long run it will help
create a feeling of increased responsibility on the part of the membership
towards the co-op and, conversely, on the part of the co-op towards its
members. It is all too often true that those we elect to represent us, whether
politicians or co-op board members, lose sight of what may be best for those
they are supposed to represent. With luck these changes in the bylaws will act
as a large step towards guaranteeing this does not happen within our Co-op.
Fund raiser set
A special fund raising basketball
game is scheduled for 7 pm on
November 4 at the Banks High
School gym. The event, an inter
squad game between the Oregon
State University Beavers varsity
squads, will raise funds for the Banks
basketball program. Adult tickets
will cost. $4 each while student tickets
will be available for $3 each.
Grange celebrates birthday
Natal Grange 302, Columbia
County celebrated 80 years on
October 14 with the help of over 100
members and friends representing 12
granges including Multnomah,
Benton and Washington counties and
28 Past Masters. Tribute was paid to
Natal’s Nellie Dunlap, a 72 year
member who recently moved to Salt
Lake City to be near her son and his
family.
Chester A. Anderson, Tillamook,
formerly of Vernonia; husband of
Dorris; father of Ronald, Phyllis
Crouch; brother of William Anderson,
Samuel
Anderscm,
Helen
Christensen, Dorena Ridling; nine
grandchildren. Funeral services 1:30
pm Friday, October 9, Waiid’s
Funeral Home. Vault interment
Sunset Heights Memorial Gardens.
Those who wish may contribute to
American Heart Association.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Would anyone who has borrowed or
been loaned crutches or canes please
return them to the Vernonia Health
Center. They are needed for other
patients.
Vernonia Ambulance crews
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Medics faulted for holiday run
To the Editor:
In as much as we are members of
the community, and the City Council
does represent the City of Vemdnia as
a whole, we feel certain-questions
pertaining to the community and it’s
safety need to be asked.
What do the citizens of Vernonia
pay to have our ambulance service
operational at all times? Who does
the maintenance on said vehicle, and
why during a life and death situation
is said vehicle exposed to a busted
radiator hose, heart monitor devices
which are not anchored down to the
point of almost falling on helpless
infants and when was the last time
the driver of said vehicle was asked to
take a course in defensive driving. We
ask this last question emphatically
and undeniably under the act of self
preservation.
Secondly, when did Vernonia put on
Haunted House needs your help
A group of people volunteering
their time to put together this year’s
Haunted House need your help.
Working every night from 7-10 pm
building sets and designing props at
the American Legion Hall, they say
they could sure use any help anyone
Chester A. Anderson
might offer.
According to Dolly Keenon, one of
the event’s organizers, anyone who
can pound a nail or paint a set is
welcome to come down and join them.
Whether for just one evening or to
help out each night, each person’s
contribution will be appreciated, she
says.
Scheduled to be open from
Thursday, October 29 through
Saturday, October 31, organizers also
say they need people to man various
displays, “For an hour or for an
evening, it all helps,’’ Keenon says.
The Haunted House, à favorite with
local children of all ages, will be open
from 7-10 pm on October 29 and froqi
7:30 -11:30 pm on Friday and
Saturday.
To
date,
donations to the
community effort have included
rough-cut cedar from EUson Cedar
Products, use of the hall to hold the
event in from the local American
Legion and the valuable time and
effort of 30 volunteers.
Seniors need papers
The Senior Center needs your old
newspapers.
You can drop them off, preferably
bundled, on the Center’s front porch
anytime.
our ambulance service, it’s own
diagnostition? Case in point; I took a
ride with the ambulance on Labor
Day, September 7, 1981, (after the
tedious task of explaining to certain
EMT, I was definitely going with
child) and was in that ambulance
when a certain EMT diagnosed
bronchitis on a bacterial menengitis
case. Not only was this indignity
suffered, but upon returning to
Vernonia approximately five hours
later, the better part of the city had
already been told of what was
assumed at one particular hospital.
Since when did someone’s medical
history become public knowledge,
and as the only ambulance service in
town, when is the confidentiality of a
patient determined by an EMT’s
mood of the day?
Another EMT on the ambulance
service went so far as to call the
mother of the critically ill child
(verification of this is readily
available) at the hospital during this
time to ask that she put in the paper,
the Vernonia Freedom, a statement
thanking the EMT’s and the
ambulance service.
And for what I might ask you?
Perhaps
the
inconsiderate,
insufferable mass of total destructive
hysteria such idiotic incompetence
has caused?
Even we, a small portion of the
community could not condone such a
generous act in the face of sheer
ignorance.
Holly Johnson
Newton Gray
Janice Gray
Vernonia
The Columbia County Historical
Society will meet Wednesday,
October 28, at the museum in the old
Pioneer Courthouse at 1 pm. Lunch
will be served at the new St. Helens
Senior Center on 12th St. at noon.
Manager Gwen wants us to be
prompt and get there on time by
12:00 pm sharp.
The senior van will leave the
Vernonia Center at 11 am.
Happy Birthday, Cori
To our dearest, darling Cori;
Last Sunday you celebrated your
first birthday, and already after just
one year, we cannot remember what
our lives were like before you came
along. The change you’ve effected in
our lives has been complete, with each
day bringing a new joy, some new
reason for us to love you. To
paraphrase a currently popular song:
“You light up our lives. ”
It is hard to tell you, especially
since as yet the English language is
not
your
favored
means
of
communication, just how much we
love you. The joy and excitement you
bring to every little thing we do is
complete. Each day, as we watch in
wonder as you grow and change,
becoming more and more your own
person, we marvel at your exquisite
perfection.
We know that all parents must feel
as we do, yet that does not detract in
any way from what we feel for you.
Nor will the passage of time dim our
love for you. If anything, it will only
make the bond stronger as each year
we love you more and more.
To us, regardless of what the years
may have in store, you shall always
remain our dearest, darling Cori.
Vernonia Freedom
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