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.
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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