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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 2001)
anks Bar- -Q ready for its 56th community event The 56th Annual Banks Bar-B-Q will get underway Sat urday, August 18, at 11:00 a.m. with Hook & Practice Pull for Tractor & Pickups. At 12:00 noon, registration and weigh-in will begin for Stock Tractors and the hamburger stand will open to handle your appetite. The Tractor Pull starts at 2:00 p.m. Pickup registration will begin at 3:00 p.m. with the Pickup Pull taking place from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. From 6:00 p.m. to Midnight, the Beer Garden will be open and from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m., there will be dancing, DJ Music and requests will be played. On Sunday, August 19, the fun will continue with the Lions Club Breakfast at 8:00 a.m. at the hamburger stand. From 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., pa rade registration will be at the Brown Derby restaurant. As a special incentive, the ugliest vehicle will earn a cash prize. At 9:30 a.m., a Community Church Service will be held at Kelly Field. The Banks Grand Parade will begin at 11:00 .a.m., fol lowed by Flag Raising at the Park. If you’ve used up your breakfast by the end of the pa rade, the World Famous Bar-B- Q Sandwiches go on sale at noon! From 12:00 to 4:00 p.m., the Kids Zone will be open, along with the Beer Garden, from noon to 10:00 p.m. At 1:00 p.m., the Truck & Tractor Pull will start. Bingo, sponsored by the Banks Lions Club, will take place from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Kids’ Games - Greased Pole and Frog Jump - will start at 1:30 p.m. The Kids Pedal Pull, sponsored by Fisher Im plement, will also begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Track area. The final event, the third an nual Combine Demolition Der by, will get started at 5:00 p.m. There will be lots of family fun for everyone. “ Voice of the Upper Nehalem River Valley” Spontaneous combustion is suspected as the cause of the Aug. 9 fire at the home of Kelly and Laura Hillyer south of Vernonia. Preliminary estimates place the monetary loss to the home and furnishings at approximately $500,000. Crews and equipment from Mist-Birkenfeld, Tri-City and Scappoose Fire Districts were called in to help. Crashes kill one, seriously injure two the McKee Mainline when they drove into a locked logging company gate. Two other boys, Waylon Buchan and Jay Corey, on an other dirt bike had seen the gate and were waiting for their companions, who apparently were blinded by a combination of dust and the angle of the set ting sun. All of the boys were Council will host Public Potluck for Spencer Park workshop The community is invited to a Spencer Park Workshop & Com munity Potluck, hosted by the Vernonia City Council on Tuesday, August 21 at 6:00 p.m. at Spencer Park, at the end of Missouri Avenue. The Council will provide fixings for hamburgers and hotdogs, including Kosher dogs and veggie burgers. Bring a favorite potluck dish to share along with your ideas for the Spencer Park playing fields. Those planning to attend are asked to contact Janelle at City Hall, 503-429-5291, so adequate amounts of burgers and dogs will be available. Jamboree photos......... .... pgs. 8 -1 1 Columbia County 4-H Fair Results .... pgs. 12-20 FREE August 15, 2001 Hansen appointed to 47J board vacancy Fire destroys new home Thirteen-year-old Zachary M. Rumbolz, of Vernonia, was fatally injured August 9 in the most serious of several recent vehicle accidents in the Ver nonia area. Zachary and a passenger, Carnin K. Hall, 15, also of Ver nonia, were riding an off-road motorcycle near the intersec tion of Coon Creek Road and Business Notes....... pg. 4 PRESORTED STANDARD U S. P o s ta g e P a id V e rn o n ia , O R 9 7 0 6 4 P e rm it N o. 37 Attn: Leslie Larson UO Library-OMP Voi. 16, No 16 INSIDE: wearing helmets. Zach was declared dead at the scene. Carnin was taken to Emanuel Hospital with serious injuries. He has been released from the hospital. Another serious injury oc- cured Aug. 11 at the intersec tion of Pebble Creek Road and Keasey Road when a vehicle driven by Vivian Cosnett, 81, of Vernonia, was hit broadside as she turned on to Keasey Road Please see page3 Fire danger closes Scaponia Park Due to current fire hazard conditions and a “No Fire" re striction imposed by the Ore gon Department of Forestry, Scaponia Park has been closed to public use, effective August 8, 2001, and shall re main in effect until further no tice. The Vernonia School District Board of Directors appointed a new director, passed a resolu tion approving the ballot title for the November bond election and approved extra duty salaries at their Aug. 9 meet ing. The board also put into ef fect changes in the structure of their meetings, as discussed at a workshop last month. The changes include presentations by students, a reformatted agenda, board meeting “greet ers" and a more formal use of parliamentary procedure for board meetings. The new agenda includes clearly labeled old and new business categories, and adds a statement explaining the “consent agenda” category, which allows several non-con- troversial action items to be grouped into a single motion in order to conserve time. It also retains a time for audience comments at the beginning of each meeting and creates an additional opportunity for pub lic comment after the business section of the meeting. In ad dition, a board member will greet each person as they en ter the boardroom, introduce themselves, and provide an agenda, a pamphlet explaining the procedures to address the board, and a “Comment Card” on which audience members may write comments directly to the board. Because the maze of detail required in board meetings can obscure the day-to-day activi ties and successes of stu dents, the board has ex pressed a desire to hear pre sentations on a variety of stu dent programs. These presen tations will be in addition to the reports from student leader ship that the board currently re ceives. Louise Green and Susan Miller addressed comments to the board requesting that the board appoint Randy Hansen to the open director’s position. Their reasons included the unique, very rural nature of the Mist area, the contributions of NW Natural Gas and Olympic Forest Products and that Mist should be represented as a ge ographic area. Hansen was appointed to the board, receiving votes from Jeff Blum, Carla Strand, Jim Krahn and Leslie O’Leary. Cari Levenseller dissented. O’Leary expressed thanks to the other candidate for the position, Schann Nelson, for her pas sionate dedication to excel lence in education. Mist School operation will be analyzed The board requested an analysis of the economic im pact of operating Mist School. Superintendent Larry McClel lan said that the analysis would be completed in order for the board to have a discussion about keeping Mist school in operation. In other action the board ap proved the 2001-2002 Extra Duty Salary Schedule. Negoti ated with the teacher and clas sified staff unions, the agree ment consolidates all head and assistant coaching positions into categories. The agreement also includes extra-duty-as signment pay-rates for class advisors, music directors, dra ma and outdoor school advisor at an hourly rate. An estimated number of hours has been as signed to each category. Hours will be tracked, but coaches will be paid only up to the max imum hours negotiated. This is a solution for classified staff who also coach, necessitated by legislative action in the last session.
