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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 2000)
The INDEPENDENT, December 20, 2000 ----------- S e n io r N e w s By Karen Miller Nancy Sinatra’s boots may have been made for walking all right, but she wouldn’t have gotten far with problem feet! Pamper your feet once a month here at the center. A po diatrist will be available every second Tuesday. Cost is $15. Call Willie Brewer for appoint ments. Come in and browse around at our craft and Christmas de partment for some great buys; our Christmas holiday mer chandise is put out for the sea son. Congratulations to our 2 raf fle winners from the Christmas Bazaar. Teresa Bernardi won the antique teacart. Elsie Frey won Nellie Tipton’s quilt. And the rest of you who bought tick- ets? Thank you for donating to the senior center! The Doll Club spent a de lightful day at the historic Pit- tock Mansion Dec. 4th. If you have never been there, you must! This season it is decorat ed with teddy bears, past and present. We are happy to report our senior advocate Candy Olson’s son, Nick, is home recovering from major cyst surgery per formed inside of his chest. He is doing well but has recovery time ahead. Don’t you just love the holi day lights around Vernonia? Even my husband is really get ting into the Christmas spirit this season! When I started to lose my voice last week, he lit up like a Christmas tree. No one was injured when the home of Ron and Trish Mal donado went up in flames earlier this month. The Maldona dos and their three children lost everything in the home, which is owned by the Vernonia Christian Church. Christmas Eve worship service The community is invited to share the Candlelight Christ mas Eve Service at Vernonia Community Church, on De cember 24, at 6:00 p.m. There will be many traditional and new Christmas songs, a read ing of the Bible story of Jesus’ birth, a short sermon, the light ing of candles and a celebra tion of communion. Vernonia Cares will elect officers for 2001 New board members will be elected for Vernonia Cares at its meeting on Tuesday, Janu ary 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the Amer ican Legion building at 627 Adams Avenue, Vernonia. Nominations can be made at the meeting and voting will take place that evening. Offices of President, Vice President, Sec retary and Treasurer are avail able. For more information, con tact Lisa Edgar at Vernonia Cares on Tuesdays and Thurs days from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., 503-429-1414, or at home, 503-429-4013. Chnroh BnUetinBloopers 8 new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. Vernonia Community Church is located at 957 State Avenue. For more information, call 503- 429-6790. Vernonia Community Church also hosts Awana Club for chil dren in kindergarten through sixth grade. The club meets Wednesdays after school, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Till next year, the COLCO staff: Teresa Baska, Debbie Benedict, Karen Miller, and dis patcher Bill Yeo, wishes you a Happy New Year, and thanks for your patronage from all of us at the Senior Center. INFORMATION NUMBERS COLCO Transportation ........................ 429-4304 Senior Advocate.. 429-9112 Senior Center..... 429-3912 M a s te r G a rd e n e r classes scheduled Home gardeners in Colum bia County with a thirst for more gardening knowledge and a willingness to pass that knowledge on to others can still join the Oregon State Universi ty Extension Service Master Gardener program. The Master Gardener pro gram is designed to teach vol unteers how to make better use of their gardening re sources and abilities. They, in turn, teach others. Volunteers are given training in soil man agement, vegetable gardening techniques, landscape mainte nance, pest control and many other aspects of gardening. Then, during the gardening season, these new Master Gardeners help to teach others to do a better job of growing and caring for plants, fighting off pests and making our com munities a better place to live. Classes are held once a week for eleven consecutive weeks in St. Helens and other metro area locations. Classes will be held on Mondays from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm beginning in January. The first class will be on Wednesday, January 3. The following classes are on Mondays. There is a fee of $35 for reference materials. For more information about the program and about how to enroll, contact the Columbia County Extension office locat ed in the Courthouse in St. He lens or call 503-397-3462. money hurts shelter efforts Oregon Housing and Com munity Services has released their report on Homelessness in Oregon and its linkages to hunger. Data collected from Community Action Agencies was utilized to prepare this re port. The report summarized state funded homeless pro grams, how funds are used, the population served, unmet needs and current trends in homelessness. Over the past ten years, state funded homeless pro grams administered by OHCS have decreased by four-per cent, while those seeking homeless assistance in Ore gon increased by 105 percent. In the same time period, turn- away numbers have increased by 163 percent. The report shows that on any given night, 8,840 Oregonians are seeking shelter assistance, 37 percent of which are children under age 17 and 2,168 are children un der age 11. Last year, 24 per cent were turned away from assistance due to lack of space or funding. These turnaways included 794 children on any given night. “The face of homelessness has changed from single, un employed males to working families with extensive needs,” says Bob Repine, Director of Oregon Housing and Commu nity Services (OHCS). ‘These needs may include chronic homelessness, substance abuse, patterns of domestic vi olence, extended legal issued, poor credit credit ratings, poor rental histories, lack of job skills and other problems all wrapped up in one household.” For more information, or a copy of the report, contact Jodie Jones, Homeless Pro grams Coordinator at 503-986- 2096 or e-mail <jodie.jones@ hcs.state.or.us>. 1 st month rent H O O K -U P BLAZERVISION with 3 months rent at time of hook-up. 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