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The INDEPENDENT, January 3, 2001
Birds have special needs in winter
Senior News
By Karen Miller
resolving to be a better neigh
bor would make this world a
brighter place. I would like to
share this. I found it on a
plaque at a (where else) senior
thrift store out of town:
Good neighbors are a
blessing
They bring you peace of
mind
You never have to ask them
They always have the time
One such as you, dear
friend
Is very hard to find
Thank you, Zada Snook, a
Vernonia resident for the past
65+ years, and who has been
the best neighbor to my family
anyone could ever have. We
love you. Happy New Year,
Grandma Snook!
I guess I won’t be bringing
Vernonia Vern home with me
after all, but he couldn’t have
found a better home in a better
place! Congratulations to Don
Foster, winner of the logger doll
raffled away at our Christmas
INFORMATION NUMBERS
dinner. Don is owner/operator
COLCO Transportation
of Rising River Ranch Adult
........................ 429-4304
Foster Care, so we know Vern
Senior Advocate.. 429-9112
will get good care! Way to go,
Senior Center..... 429-3912
Don!
I am enjoying my Kentucky
Dogwood poster of a photo
graph by Christopher Burkett,
raffled off at Dan and Heidi
Brown’s opening weekend at
Grey Dawn Gallery here in Ver
Cold can damage outdoor leaves, compost or bark chips,
nonia. My husband thanks
coarse enough to drain well.
Dave VanMeter for drawing my woody plants. Plant cell fluids
Also, mulch outdoor potted
winning ticket. He loves trees freeze and rupture cell walls,
plants to prevent their roots
and the poster is going in his resulting in ruptured bark or
scorched leaves, explains from freezing.
new rec room.
A group of us enjoyed an Ross Penhallegon, horticultur
2. Prevent ruptured bark by
ist
with
the
Oregon
State
Uni
evening trip on the COLCO van
draping the plant with burlap or
December 16 to watch the versity Extension Service.
shading the plant in some way
The amount of temperature during the day to prevent the
Christmas ships and have din
ner at the St. Helens Cafe. fluctuation from daily high to alternate freezing and thawing.
Thank you to the little birdie low usually affects how well Or paint the tree or shrub bark
who graciously donated some plants will fare in subfreezing with white exterior latex paint
extra money to all of us for the weather.
to help avoid splitting. Mix the
“A night of extreme cold fol paint one to one with water.
occasion. Everyone got home
safely that rainy night in spite of lowed by warming during the Check the plants in a few
an extra stop or two; well, day on the south and west weeks to see if there is bark
houses are hard to see in the sides of the plan can cause damage.
bark to split and foliage to
dark.
3. Once plants get cold,
A note from Willie Brewer at become scorched or frost-
the senior flea market: The flea burned,” said Penhallegon. If keep them cold rather than
market portion of the center will the plant is actively growing, allow them to thaw during the
be closed for business from sub-freezing weather will dam day and freeze at night. It is the
freeze-thaw action that does
12:00 to 12:30 during the lunch age the non-dormant growth.
On the other hand, if the the damage.
hour beginning January 3.
Scorched leaf tips and mar
The Senior Companion Pro plants are dormant and the
gram has begun in Vernonia. temperature remains cold, gins (desiccation) are a com
We still need help, though, and there is rarely much damage mon problem after a cold spell,
particularly in broad-leaf ever
are looking for a senior man from cold.
The key is to protect the greens including rhododen
who would like to receive a
small income for visiting isolat plants as best as possible from drons and azaleas. They take
ed seniors in Vernonia. We are the cold. Penhallegon recom on a droopy look. Dry cold
aiming towards 20 hrs. per mends the following tasks to winds are often the cause.
week. Our current companion help minimize cold injury to
“The injured leaves will
is looking for more female your fruit trees, berry bushes eventually drop,” said Penhal
clients. Your referrals greatly and landscape plants:
legon. “In most cases, the plant
appreciated.
will recover in the spring, so
1. Mulch all perennials with
The St. Helens Senior Cen three to six inches of organic don’t prune the plants until
ter will be hosting their deli material such as shredded then.”
cious annual crab dinner Satur
day, January 20. Cost: $15 for
3/4 pound of crab meat, cole
Serving the Community
slaw, potato salad, baked
beans, garlic bread, crab dip
since 1993
and drinks. Sponsored by St.
R e tire m e n t Residence
Helens Senior Center, SNAPP
and COLCO. Call our office for
further information.
Licensed • Class-II
Our new year is upon us and
I am sure you would agree that
D O N & D O N N A FOSTER - PROVIDERS
Help your landscape plants
survive freezing tem peratures
- River n
An Alzheimer's Specialty Home
Welcome Additions
COLTON J. KINNERSLEY
Colton James Kinnersley
was born December 23, 2000,
to Dan Kinnersley and Jaime
Ceballos of Portland. He
weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. and was
21 inches long.
Grandparents are Mary Ann
□dam of Indiana, Tom and
Cindy Murray of Texas, Bill
Kinnersley of Yakima, Wash.,
and Gordon and Marsha
McLaughlin of Vernonia.
Great-grandparents
are
Lorraine and Larry Borst of
Vernonia, Jack Odam of Ver
nonia and Bonnie Kissire of
Portland.
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As winter comes on, ponds, stand and rest nearby. Even if
puddles and shorelines may you only have a small win
freeze. Resident birds will have dowsill, porch or patio, a shal
a harder time finding drinking low tray of water with some
water. Backyard bird watchers rocks or plants place nearby is
can help birds out by keeping much better than doing nothing
fresh water available through for the birds. Make sure cats
cannot reach the watering
out the winter.
Water will attract birds more area.
Many birds are attracted to
readily to an area than any oth
er thing you can provide, dripping water. Hang a bucket
explains Dan Edge, wildlife full of water with a small hold in
specialist with the Oregon the bottom over a birdbath or
State University Extension shallow pan and watch the
birds come by. Use a mister or
Service.
Lure wild birds into view by dripper especially designed for
providing water in birdbaths or this purpose.
Keep water unfrozen during
other artificial puddles. The
containers should be shallow- cold spells by adding fresh
from one-and-a-half to three lukewarm water or by placing
inches deep, preferably with an electric oil dipstick heater
gently sloping sides. The sur inside a piece of conduit in the
face of the bath or puddle water. There are also small
should be rough so the birds birdbath heaters available at
can get sure footing. Cement is garden, farm or bird feeding
stores. Birds need water, not
ideal.
Place a few water-smoothed only for drinking and bathing,
stones or flat rocks at the but also as a source of water
water’s edge for a place for borne foods such as insects
birds to get out of the water, and algae.
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