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The INDEPENDENT, June 20, 2001
Community
Senior News
By Karen Miller
The seniors who received
the free tickets to “Follow that
Rabbit" wish to thank whoever
purchased the tickets and
made them accessible. Thank
you, again. The play was a joy
and very well done!
Don’t forget BINGO every
third Thursday of each month.
The time is 1:00 to 3:00. We
have lots of fun and free prizes.
From the cook: We had a
nice size crowd for our Father’s
Day lunch on June 13. Along
with a hot meal, we had hot
music! Linda, our head cook
will be going on a much need
ed vacation and her position
will be filled in by another good
NV Pioneers re-elect ‘01 officers
cook, Bobbie Jo.
Call in or sign up for our five
area lunch on Monday, June
25. We will be taking a van to
Clatskanie.
Bill Yeo, our COLCO and
S enior C enter D ispatcher,
wishes to thank the com munity
for all the visits, cards and flow
ers during his four day stay in
the hospital. We are glad to
have Bill back!!
From our COLCO office:
Regretfully, we bid a fond
farewell to our Colco driver of
over four years, Debbie Bene
dict. We will miss her, but are
More than 100 people gath
ered at the Natal Grange, June
10, for the annual meeting of
the N ehalem Valley Pioneer
Association.
In addition to renewing ac
quaintances, the pioneer’ de
scendents enjoyed a picnic
lunch, heard the history of the
Birkenfeld family, and were en
tertained by a band from the
Cowlitz Valley Old Time Music
Association.
O na Libel and Raymond
Johnson, both 93, were the
happy she will be relocating
back to her home state of Vir
ginia. Believe is or not, not only
tne same form er home state as
mine, but the same home town!
I’m just hoping she doesn’t run
into any of my old friends. She
would undoubtedly have some
REAL Karen Miller stories to
tell!! Good-bye, Deb. Sign up
for E-mail!!!!
INFORMATION NUMBERS
COLCO Transportation
.......................... 429-4304
Senior Advocate.. 429-9112
Senior Center...... 429-3912
WRC schedules volunteer training
Come and share your skills advocacy program s, support
and talents. Many volunteer groups, com m unity education
opportunities take only a few programs, outreach services,
hours of your time. Some spe fundraising, court watch and
cial events require many, many special projects.
volunteers to be successful
The
C olum bia
C ounty
(such as dessert dances and
annual golf tournaments, for W om en’s Resource C enter of
fers volunteer training twice a
example). You are needed!!
year. The training is designed
Volunteers are being recruit to prepare you for working at
ed now as an integral part of the office and/or The Starting
the Columbia County W om en’s Place shelter and to raise com
Resource Center. Male and fe munity awareness. This train
male volunteers of all ages are ing is an eye opening and en
needed. Many volunteers have lightening experience.
made both long and short term
For more information, call
com mitments over the years to
W om en’s Resource C enters’ 503-397-7110.
Traveling the farthest was Mil
dred Rimstead of Alaska.
During the business meet
ing, members re-elected the
present officers - president
Verne Ferguson of Mist, vice-
president Randy H ansen of
Mist, and secretary/treasurer
Myrtle Slanger of Jewell - for
the coming year. They also se
lected June 9 for the 2002
gathering, which will be held in
Jewell.
County Fair seeking talent entries
C olum bia C ounty residents
only, in two age brackets: Ages
15 and under and Ages 16 and
above.
Prizes in both age groups
are: First place is $200 and
qualifies to com pete at the Ore
gon State Fair; Second place is
$150, Third place is $75.00.
O fficial rules, regulations
For more information, call
and entry forms may be picked Sheryl Mathews at 503-397-
up at the fair office.
4417 or Evelyn Hudson at 503-
The talent show is open to 397-4231.
The 1st Annual Talent Show
at the Colum bia County Fair
will be Friday, July 20 at 7:00
p.m. at Stage 1. Tryouts are
Wednesday, July 11 at 6:00
p.m. and sem i-finals will be
Wednesday, July 18 at 7:00
p.m.
Evening Vacation Bible School
The Vernonia C om m unity
Church will hold Vacation Bible
School evenings from June 25
through 28, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
There will be Bible stories,
music, puppets, food, games
and fun for ages four through
the fifth Grade.
All chidren are welcome. For
more inform ation, call Pam
W eller at 503-429-3400 or Ver
nonia Com m unity Church at
503-429-6790.
Join the Fun a t
V erno nia’s
T1 fT.V A t
Stars and stripes run throughout Vernonia’s business dis
trict to remind everyone of the parade and fireworks coming
up on Independence Day, thanks to the creative volunteer ef
forts of Bonnie, Doreen and Adam Buchan.
'Panade, 7:30 fun*
*?tnewan6& ^tefdaty at
‘ Parade will assemble at 7:00 p.m. adjacent to Vernonia City Hall. It will go along Bridge Street
and disband at Washington Grade School. All are welcome and there is no registration fee.
Please help fund this
annual community event
with a generous donation to:
Vernonia Pride
c/o Enid Parrow
842 2nd Avenue
Vernonia, OR 97064
This space donated by
Isabelle McDaniel and Glenn Purvee combine efforts to con-
tinue landscaping around the new sign welcoming people to £7
the City of Vernonia.
The INDEPENDENT