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The INDEPENDENT, November 21, 2002 Garland making class Monday A free garland making class will be held December 2, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. in the Washington Grade School cafeteria. The garlands will be used to decorate for the annual Christ mas in Vernonia bazaar and can be picked up after the bazaar. Bring your choice of greens, clippers to cut the greens, heavy fish line and gloves. For more information, call Rietta Behnke at 503-429- 6975. On Sunday a special collec tion will be taken to defray the expenses of the new carpet. All those wishing to do something on the carpet will please come forward to get a piece of paper. Page 7 Can Ton Dig It? By Schann Nelson The rain arrived! It’s great to see the lawns and fields green up again. The cows and sheep are much happier and the ducks are ecstatic. Of course, any leaves you did n’t get raked up are now a soggy mess to try and get off your lawn so you can see the green, but that’s OK. Now is a good time to review the suc cesses...and failures...of last year’s gar den. The category of soil improvement and feeding the compost pile (garden goof-ups) this year included all of my corn and peas. The clematis ‘Montana,’ that has been struggling to survive in a new location for the last two years was looking great until the dog de cided that she had to come off the porch through the arbor sup port and broke it off at the base. Hopefully, new growth will show up in the spring. The best successes were a small, but very artistic, area and Dennis’s potatoes. I planted at the end of a bed several basil plants edged with white alyssum and backed with Italian parsley. Not only was it beautiful, it smelled great and provided wonderful additions to salads, sauces and soups all summer. After several years of banishing potatoes from the main area of the garden, because I was tired of having to peel the entire pota to away because it was so scabby, I let Dennis plant two beds of potatoes in the garden this year. Boy did they love it. He planted in two beds that had late fall crops last year, so they had not been heavily manured. We had nice plants in the garden all summer and harvested a bunch of potatoes. The only disappointment was that he thought he had gotten ‘Yukon Gold’ seed potatoes, but what he harvested were clearly baking potatoes. I have nothing against bakers except that they aren’t as versatile as the gold po tatoes, which can be baked or fried or boiled with equal success. Next year I want to: • Plant fewer tomatoes (This is a perennial goal that always seems to fail when the seed catalogues arrive.). • Try the winner of the Master Gardener tomato taste-off, “Ear ly Cascade” (See how it goes with the above resolution.). • Mulch with cocoa hulls, especially in the flowerbeds. • Plant more salad stuff, both early (lettuce and spinach) and late (endive and kale). Take the time on a sunny day to get out and look at your yard and garden. The little winter birds have returned and are busy in every hedge and bush. It’s a good time to start looking at what will need to be pruned in a couple on months. There is plenty to do too, trying to get things cleaned up and mulched. Even a quick walk through the yard can provide welcome relief from being con fined indoors. Enjoy our mild climate that lets us get outside all year. Now it's time for me to go and water my houseplants so I can take that walk after it stops raining. Christmas in Vernonia Bazaar wilt feature handcrafted merchandise 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 Men’s Ministry 7:45 a.m. 3rd Saturday each month John Cahill, Pastor 359 “A" Street Vernonia, 503 429-1161 Kevin Reiner, Pastor, 543-2254 2nd Ave. and Nehalem St. Vernonia, 503 429-8301 V ernonia C ommunity C hurch Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Wednesdays 7:00 p.m. Evening Service Youth Ministry Children’s Ministry Nursery Available Grant Williams, Pastor 957 State Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-6790 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Children's Church w/Nursery Sunday 6:00-7:30 p.m. Jr. & Sr. High, AWANA, Adult Study Nursery provided Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:00 p.m. Women’s Bible Study, Thurs. 7:00 p.m. G race R eformed B aptist C hurch 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. Evening Worship Saturday, 6:00 p.m. N ehalem V alley B ible C hurch 500 California Ave Vernonia, 503 429-5378 Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Nursery available Wednesday Service 7:00 p.m. S t . M ary ' s C atholic C hurch Pastoral Associate Juanita Dennis 960 Missouri Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-8841 Mass Schedule Sunday 12:00 Noon Religious Education Sunday 10:30 a.m. Lee Knowlton, Branch President 1350 E. Knott Street Vernonia, 503 429-7151 Sabbath School 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:00 p.m. S t . A ugustine (C anterbury ) E piscopal C hurch The 24th Annual Christmas in Vernonia Booster Bazaar will be held December 7, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and December 8, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Wash ington Grade School gym. Santa Claus will be available for pictures, and approximately 50 tables will be filled to over flowing with handcrafted good ies such as wreathes, toys, or naments, food, books and cards, ceramics and much more. Profits from the Bazaar will help fund activities of the Ver nonia Booster Club. The cost for a table for two days is $20. Advance registration is re quired and space is on a first- come, first-served basis. All items must be hand made. Food and beverages will be sold by the Booster Club. Because the sponsoring organ ization receives part of its profit from food sold in the cafeteria, if a vendor plans to sell food other than cookies, candy, jams or jellies, approval is required from the Bazaar Committee. Raffles must also be ap proved by the Bazaar Commit tee and will be limited to non profit or Youth organizations. All raffle drawings will be held at closing on Sunday. For more information, call Rietta Behnke, 503-429-6975, or Nona Skinner, 503-429-8401. The Rev. Robert Grafe, Pastor 375 North St. (Vernonia Grange Hall) Vernonia, 503 429-3700 Vernonia Senior Center Sunday Services 10:00 a.m. Christmas Bazaar C hristian C hurch Joel Stith, Pastor 410 North Street Vernonia, 503 429-6522 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. December 7 -8 , 2 0 0 2 9-5 Saturday • 9 -4 Sunday 4 4 6 Bridge Street Quilt Drawing 4 pm Sunday Tables Available 503-429-0399
