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Page 2 The INDEPENDENT, August 1, 2002 Jamboree events bring the generations together The horse gaming show is always a great deal of fun for both participants and spectators. Definitely a family affair, sometimes with three generations of a family competing, the Sunday event is run by the Vernonia Ridge Riders at the Anderson Park horse are na. While the dust may fly in the arena, most spectators relax and enjoy the show from the shade of large trees. There will be a lot more music to brighten your day, too. Satur day afternoon and evening a Christian concert may be enjoyed on the lawn between the Community Church and the First Baptist Church and, a couple of miles north of town, Cedar Ridge is pre senting a Country Jubilee on Saturday night. Before the country concert, you can also catch a demonstration of synchronized swimming at the Cedar Ridge pool. Also Saturday night, there’s a teen dance at the high school, an adult concert and dance, with a local band, on the lawn between the schools, more music at the Alternative Stage and bands at two of the local businesses (Yes, there is child care for Friday and Sat urday nights. Check the Jamboree publication for details.) Before you even get to Saturday night, you will want to stop in at the Arts and Crafts show, with all original works, and at the book sale organized by the Friends of the Vernonia Library. There will also be food galore! Vernonia Lions will again prepare their great barbecued beef sandwiches and commercial vendors will be of fering all sorts of goodies. Sunday morning, you’ll need to get out early to enjoy the rest of the weekend! In addition to the horse show starting at 9:30, a community worship service will be at 10:30 in the covered play area adjacent to Washington Grade School. A taekwon-do exhibi tion, at 11:30 in front of the high school, will carry you through un til the logging show starts at noon. If the kids get hot and tired, sit ting at the logging show, there will be water games for them at the Hawkins Park wading pool from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The logging show will end between 4 and 5:00 p.m. and the concessions, softball games and other activities will wind down about the same time. The town is sparkling clean when Jamboree starts out and gen erally pretty messy when it’s over. But people have fun, old friends get together, and the trash is eay to pick up. Welcome to the 46th annual Vernonia Friendship Jamboree. Have fun, everybody, but Please don't drink and drive. We want to see you again, next year. U ut * « • the people standing by the road what they were seeing, she replied, “I think it is a moose.” As we drove past and were able to get a better look into Last week I was travel the swamp. Donna blurted out, “Moose!” I pulled ing home down I-84 and over and hopped out...NOT MOOSE, ELK! As got to see a pretty good we made our way out of the park toward the west lightning show. As I write entrance, we encountered another pile up of this article, a lot of Oregon cars in the road. This time, we kept driving and is burning up. While this is observed people standing next to a nice bull elk always bad news for in the velvet, next to a river. homeowners and people We decided to spend the night in a motel in that may lose timber, it is stead of camping. There were a bunch of other not so bad for wildlife. guests in the lobby while we were checking in, I was traveling home last week from a vaca- and Donna and I heard one woman talking about tion/family reunion trip to Montana. Donna’s fam the moose they had seen next to the road, on the ily has big family reunions, this one was at Boze way out of the park. Donna and I looked at each man. We stayed at a KOA campground in a neat other in disappointment, thinking we had missed log cabin. Right next door was the Bozeman Hot this moose. Upon further conversation, we real Springs, a very nice facility. Since we were in ized she was referring to the last bunch of cars Montana, we decided to tour Yellowstone Park. we had just come through. That’s when another Donna had never been there before so we hit the man and I said, in unison, “That wasn’t a moose, usual highlights, mud pots, Yellowstone Lake, it was an elk!" and Old Faithful. (I did notice some good kayak The fires that ripped through Yellowstone are ing water, I wonder if you can tour Yellowstone very evident, in fact there are very few places Park by boat?) you can go without seeing fire damage. To my Donna was keeping an eagle eye out for eye, though, the fires have revitalized the park. moose. Donna is a moose freak, but has never Lush undergrowth is everywhere and this must seen one alive. We entered at the north entrance be a bounty for the parks wildlife. I mentioned to to the park and soon were seeing buffalo. Then Donna, many times, that the fire actually im we came to a bunch of cars all pulled over to the proved the ability to see grand views, which side of the road and Donna yelled out “Moose!” would have been screened by trees before. I had to turn the car around to go back and get a While traveling through Montana, there were better look. Not moose, elk! Hey, it was a long two things that grabbed my eye. The first was all way off; anybody could have made that mistake. the river access points. It seemed that every Later we came to another group of cars, with available access point to a river had a sign point people sneaking out through the underbrush to ing the way and terminated in an undeveloped ward a swampy meadow. When we asked one of Please see page 3 By Date Webb, member Nehalem Valley Chapter Izaak Walton League
