The INDEPENDENT, December 20, 2000
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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>.
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