The INDEPENDENT, June 6, 2001
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S c h o la r s h ip s /tr a n s p o r ta tio n
available so kids can learn to swim
Attention Parents - Does gram and will fund it for the
your child know how to swim? summers of 2001 and 2002.
If not, this is the year for them Mike Sykes and the City of Ver
nonia, Colco Transportation
to learn!
and Vernonia Headstart are ex
Swimming lessons usually
pected to help with transporta
cost $40 per child and trans
tion again this year.
portation is sometimes a prob
As a result, the Vernonia
lem. As a result, many Vernon Learn to Swim program will
ia children have poor or no again be able to provide swim
swimming skills. In many com lessons for 40 Vernonia youth.
munities, teaching children Priority for these “Swimmer-
how to swim is seen as such a ships” will be given to begin
priority that swimming lessons ning and non-swimmers who
for beginners are offered for are five to 18 years old.
free. With all the water around
Lessons will be offered
Vernonia, our kids need to through Cedar Ridge, one mile
know how to swim.
out of town on Keasey Road.
The Columbia County Com Three sessions are scheduled,
mission on Children and Fami allowing lots of opportunity to fit
lies (CCCCF), which funded •these important lessons into
swim lessons for 40 children the family’s summer calendar,
last year, plus necessary trans two weeks.
portation, has renewed the pro-
Kim Tierney and Dana Hyde
are coordinating the program,
Walcoma Additions
but the Learn to Swim Program
has become a community effort
Aubrey Luv Crawford
Aubrey Luv Crawford was and many people are pitching
born June 1, 2001, to Kathy in to make sure that it is a suc
Crawford and Josh Leach of cessful program again this
Natal. She weighed 5 pounds, year.
Applications may be ob
14 ounces and was 19-1/2
tained from Washington Grade
inches long.
Grandparents are Chuck & School or Vernonia Headstart.
Jeina Crawford of Natal and For more information, call Kim
Doug & Kim Leach of Vernonia. Tierney at 503-429-0720.
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VHS cheerleaders schedule clinics for children
Vernonia
High
School
Cheerleaders will hold their an
nual summer clinic for children
ages 5 through 12. Clinics will
be on Tuesdays from June 19
until Jamboree, at Hawkins
Park from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00
clinic per student, with family
discount available.
Spring into Summer
at Grange dance
Sunnyside Cafe
G ifts fo r
D ad a n d G rad
In December, when this North Street home burned, it was a tragedy that left a family home
less. In May, with the family’s needs taken care of, the partially burned home became a train
ing ground for Vernonia Rural Fire District volunteer firefighters as the home was alternate
ly burned and extinguished.
“Spring into Summer” is the
theme for the Vernonia Grange
community dance.
The dance will be held June
15 at 7:30 p.m. to help com
memorate and celebrate the
100 year “Golden Anniversary”
of the Grange. The local band,
Golden Oldies, will be playing,
featuring all of your favorite
dance tunes for an evening of
pure enjoyment and relaxation
at the Grange Hall on the cor
ner of Washington and North
Streets in Vernonia.
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A conservative estimate of
college costs for a full-time stu
dent runs from $10,000 to
$30,000; high cost colleges
can run from $40,000 to
$100,000! Most parents and
students think that scholar
ships are only for students with
excellent grades, low-income
families or the athletically in
clined. A small example of the
numerous scholarships avail
able to students include Handi
capped Student Scholarships,
Members of a Church Scholar
ships, Scholarships for “C” Stu
dents,
Veteran
Children’s
Scholarships, Scholarships for
Minorities and much, much
more.
Though the majority of
scholarships are from the Fed
eral Government and are merit
and/or need based, billions of
dollars are available to stu-
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The cheerleaders will also
have a bottle/can drive, going
door to door, on July 5.
For more information, call
Nancy Dailey at 503-429-3703.
Scholarship information by mail
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JUNE 18-22
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p.m. The children will be taught
cheers and chants and will join
the cheerleaders in the Ver
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dents from private sector
scholarships. Much of private
sector financial aid goes un
used because the parents and
students do not know how or
where to apply.
There are organizations that
have spent hundreds of hours
in research locating scholar
ship sources. The U.S. Com
mission for Scholastic Assis
tance - College Bound is such
an organization and supplies
the public with over 700 differ
ent private scholarship sources.
The scholarship list includes
the scholarship names, ad
dresses, application deadlines,
summaries about the scholar
ships and the amount the
scholarship will pay your child
Many scholarships pay the
entire tuition; others can be ap
plied toward tuition, living ex
penses and/or other fees. Most
scholarships can be used at
junior colleges, career and vo
cational schools, four-year col
leges, graduate schools, med
ical and law schools.
For information on obtaining
these scholarship lists, send a
self-addressed, stamped, busi
ness size #10 envelope to: The
U.S. Commission for Scholas
tic Assistance, P. O. Box 668,
O’Fallon, IL 62269.
Student art will be
on exhibit at gallery
The art works of Vernonia
High School students will be on
exhibit Friday, June 8, through
Sunday, June 10, at Grey
Dawn Gallery in Vernonia. The
mixed media show will include
photography, acrylics, perspec
tive, line drawings, watercolors
and more.
Student artists will be at the
exhibit Friday from 6:30 to 9:00
p.m. Saturday hours will be 10
a.m. until 4:00 p.m., then on
Sunday from after graduation
ceremonies until 6:00 p.m.
Grey Dawn Gallery is locat
ed at 879 Bridge Street.