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The INDEPENDENT, July 18,2002 Welcome Additions Can you dig it? Tanner Lee Kepple By Schann Nelson Tanner Lee Kepple was born June 4, 2002, to Amy Bar ton and Cory Kepple of Ver nonia. He weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and was 22 inches long. Grandparents are Ahron and Toni Barton of Vernonia, Tam my Kusch of Hillsboro and Ter ry Kepple of Vernonia. I hope that by the time this appears in print, summer will actually have arrived. In spite of the weather, however, the flowers are blooming and a few vegetables have been harvested. We take for granted the bounty of fruit available locally. Strawber ries, cherries, blueberries, and raspberries are all available at roadside stands now, along with plums and some really great apricots. Soon, they will be followed by blackberries, more cherries and plums and straw berries, and peaches. My personal raspberries have obviously benefited from some additional sun (from climbing up a nearby large cherry tree, not the weather) and will be loaded with berries in another week or so. The strawberries make a nice ground cover but the slugs get all the berries. At this time of year it’s possible almost every day to walk outside in the evening and pick at least part of dinner. Color comes back to the yard and garden this month with roses, delphiniums, foxglove, poppies, etc. One of my favorite combinations this year is a bright orange calendula beautifully set off by the dark blue-green of Brussels' Sprouts. Last year it was a great bouquet of dark purple-blue delphiniums and bright orange lilies, colors I have been trying to get together for a long time. This year the lilies are way behind the delphiniums. One of the best things about writing this column is that people On child rearing... A teacher, noticing how courteous and polite one of her pupils was, wished to praise her and teach the class a les son. She asked, “Who taught you to be so polite?” The girl laughed, “No one, it just runs in our family.” Church Bulletin Bloopers During the absence of our pas tor, we enjoyed the rare privi lege of hearing a good sermon when J.F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit. V ernonia F oursquare C hurch A ssembly of G od C hurch of J esus C hrist of L atter D ay S aints Pastor Paul Pastor 850 Madison Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-1103 Darwin Harvey, Pastor 662 Jefferson Vernonia, 503 429-4615 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 a.m. Children’s Sunday School Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Sacrament Meeting, Sunday 10 a.m. Sunday School & Primary 11:20 a m. Bible Study, Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Youth & Kids , Thursday 7:00 p.m. Relief Society, Priesthood and Young Women, Sunday 12:10 p.m. F irst B aptist C hurch S eventh D ay A dventist John Cahill, Pastor 359 “A” Street Vernonia, 503 429-1161 Kevin Reiner, Pastor, 543-2254 2nd Ave. and Nehalem St. Vernonia, 503 429-8301 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Sabbath School 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:00 p.m. Wednesdays 7:00 p.m. Evening Service Youth Ministry Children’s Ministry Nursery Available Men’s Ministry 7:45 a.m. 3rd Saturday each month V ernonia C ommunity C hurch Grant Williams, Pastor 957 State Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-6790 Evening Worship Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Lee Knowlton, Branch President 1350 E. Knott Street Vernonia, 503 429-7151 S t . A ugustine (C anterbury ) E piscopal C hurch Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Children's Church w/Nursery Sunday Youth Group Junior High 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Senior High 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:00 p.m. Women’s Bible Study, Thurs. 7:00 p.m. N ehalem V alley B ible C hurch Wednesday Service 7:00 p.m. C hristian C hurch G race R eformed B aptist C hurch S t . M ary ' s C atholic C hurch Joel Stith, Pastor 410 North Street Vernonia, 503 429-6522 D.J. Dickey, Pastor Grant & North Streets Vernonia, 503 429-1919 Sunday Services: Adult Prayer & Children’s Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:15 a.m. Evening Worship 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Service: All Family Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. Page 7 500 California Ave Vernonia, 503 429-5378 Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Nursery available Pastoral Associate Juanita Dennis 960 Missouri Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-8841 Mass Schedule Sunday 12:00 Noon Religious Education Sunday 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Robert Grafe, Pastor 375 North St. (Vernonia Grange Hall) Vernonia, 503 429-3700 Sunday Services 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Every Wednesday: Ladies' Bible Study 9:15 a.m. Children’s Choir 3:00 p.m. Family Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Women's Fellowship, 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. talk to me about their own gardens. This month I had the oppor tunity to see a small, but very clean-lined, desert garden of cactus and palms set between a house and pool, creating a little piece of Arizona right here in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve also been invited to see the Brookins’ kiwi plantation. James is justifiably proud of his finger-size kiwis but I think his house may be completely over whelmed by kiwi vines if he has as many as he says. I’ve chosen a slower growing, and more decorative, Arctic variety. In response to a comment from a reader, I have tried putting beer out and it does get quite a few slugs. It is also attrac tive to the dog and the cats and that is not a good thing. Throwing the mollusks over the fence for the chickens and , ducks and applying bait when necessary to protect young plants is more effective. I also just accept that I create great slug habitat and plant enough to share. I’m also probably the ^ 7 only person in town that has managed to kill a red- hot poker plant. I moved one last year, because it was too close to the blueberries, divided it into three plants and replanted it thinking it would provide a nice bright flower along the edge of the front hedge. I guess that location is just too cold, too damp and doesn’t have enough sun because, even though I baited for slugs several times last year and over the winter, the plants are completely gone, without a trace. It always interests me to see what continues to come up as vol unteers. I planted borage many years ago and one or two come up every year somewhere that I can live with, so I let them grow. The tiny blue flowers make a nice garnish for salads. This year I have sunflowers in the first bed of cabbage and garlic I planted that I just can’t bear to pull up. Since I don’t really care if the gar lic in that bed is full size I'm just going to let them grow. There is a fantastic, bright red, fringy-double poppy that looks great right now, but I will want to get it out of the garden before it goes to seed. Other volunteers are foxglove (that I move around to where I want them in late fall or early spring), nasturtiums, Love-in-a- Mist, calendulas, Johnny-Jump-Ups. There are a few things I rip- out on sight: bindweed (the white morning glory so prevalent in town), lemon balm (the only self-seeding mint), curly dock and burdock I have lemon balm in a confined area because it smells great but it SPREADS, so anywhere else in the yard it is a weed. I think I will give up on growing corn. I just don’t have either the sun or the space for this warm weather crop. Even my usually dependable “Seneca Horizon” is completely wimpy this year. There is only one small part of my garden that gets any sun before I I a.m. and I cannot keep planting corn in the same bed year after year. Besides, it is so cheap when it's in season it hardly seems worth it. Maybe in a couple of years I’ll try again when those beds are ready. This year the sunny beds are planted with beans. I put up strings for the pole beans on Saturday evening and by Sunday afternoon they had climbed up the strings 6 inches or more. It may not be good weather for tomatoes, eggplant or corn, but the beans and peas love it. I like to save the garden space for crops that taste better when home grown. This includes spinach, string beans, tomatoes, gar lic, cucumbers and any member of the brassica family. There is simply no comparison to store-bought broccoli and cauliflower. My kids never touched a Brussels Sprout until I grew them and now they are a favorite vegetable. There is absolutely nothing like a frost-kissed sweet, bite-sized cabbage that you’ve been nurturing for months. The county Extension bulletin advises starting winter vegetables such as kale, broccoli, carrots, various mustards and Chinese greens. These crops grow really well in our maritime cli mate and can be harvested nine months of the year. Congratulations to anyone who got tomatoes by the 4th and whose corn is above knee-high! LOW CO$T CAR LOANS Vernonia Federal Credit Union • 5 0 3 4 2 9 -8 0 3 1
