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.
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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!
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