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The INDEPENDENT, December 19, 2002 Jam boree group to elect officers The next Vernonia Friend ship Jam boree C om m ittee meeting will be January 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the W ashington Grade School Library. The agenda will include election of officers for 2003, the 2003 Jamboree theme contest and the addition of a Spring and Fall Celebration. Anyone inter ested is urged to attend the meeting and bring new ideas. There are approximately 25 of last year’s t-shirts remaining. They are available at Vernonia Sentry at a reduced price of $8.00 each. For more information, call Randy Parrow, 503-429-3811. ■ 1... SllluBD! DlQ0J)8f|| Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large. Can you dig it? By Schann Nelson In the cold and dark of the season, it seems time to bring the outside INSIDE where we can enjoy it. Even though it’s warmer here than in many parts of the country, it feels colder because of the damp misty soup that the air becomes in western Oregon. And that’s when the wind isn’t blowing. Somehow, now that the rain has started (and hopefully will keep up) it just feels right to me. I guess I just need to have the moss on my back watered. The stuffy house smells so won derful with baking and candles and the tree. The catalogues are starting to come in the mail. Some I just drool over, some I read because they have tons of valuable infor mation in them and a few I actually order from, over and over. Smith & Hawken (S&M) and The White Flower Farm (WFF) fall primarily into the drooling category. WFF (and I certainly don’t mean fake-o wrestling) has oodles of great information, though, since they are in the East, you have to be careful about applying it to our climate. The S&M (not a deviant’s choice) catalogue is, as always, full of incredibly beautiful things for huge amounts of mon ey. However, this year there are surprising numbers of items for very reasonable prices (in the $10 to $20 range). Since they ac tually have a store (at N.W. 23rd & Burnside), I usually find it worth my time to go in and look at cool stuff. Sometimes I manage to not even buy anything and I love looking at their great collection of Christmas ornaments. Church Directory •Wi-W-i 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. Ycuth & 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. 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 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. Page 7 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 S t . A ugustine (C anterbury ) E piscopal C hurch The Rev. Robert Grafe, Pastor 375 North St. (Vernonia Grange Hall) Vernonia, 503 429-3700 Sunday Services 10:00 a.m. 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. The Raintree Nursery and Territorial Seed Co. catalogues I or der from whenever I can afford it (Raintree) or every year (Territo rial). Both have lots of cultural information that I refer to through out the season. If you have never made the trip up to the Raintree site in Morton, Wash., it is well worth the trip. It’s a beautiful drive up into the mountains and you can get plants at the nursery that are not available in the catalogue, like seconds for huge reduc tions in price. Raintree’s main season begins January 9 and ends in June. Other catalogues I enjoy and look forward to receiving, in clude Shepards, Seeds o f Change, Nichols, and (new to me this year) Vermont Bean Seed Catalogue with twelve pages of differ ent kinds of beans. WOW! All of the catalogues have sections - usually in the back - with books, garden supplies, and tools. Many of them also have a wide variety of other stuff that makes great gifts for a gardener in your life. In this case, a gift certificate is a great idea, the gardener can then order what ever pleases his or her fancy. High quality, er gonomically designed hand tools are always welcome. (It may not be true for those who are better organized, but I’m always losing my favorites, because I put them down somewhere and lose them.) Garden art could be a nice gift if you know what somebody will like. It’s not really the sort of thing you (or at least I) can justi fy spending money on for yourself but, on the other hand, it could be a huge mistake to get a crocodile setting stone for somebody with an irrational fear of reptiles. A short to-do list (stolen unrepentantly from the Extension Ser vice): — Spread wood ashes over the vegetable garden. — Use dormant spray of lime sulfur or copper fungicide on fruit trees and roses. — Make sure landscape plants in protected sites (like under the eaves) receive water regularly. — Plant spring flowering bulbs if you haven’t already. — Check for bark damage from rodents at the base of trees and shrubs. Don't mulch close to trunks to prevent damage. Alert! No matter how experienced a gardener you are (or are not), you have an opportunity to learn more by becoming a Master Gardener. This is a program sponsored by the OSU Extension Ser vice to learn lots and lots and lots of stuff about gardening. Courses on basic gardening topics will begin in January and run through March from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, for 12 Mondays. The cost is 40 dol lars for materials and you are asked to donate 70 hours of time back to the community, helping people solve their (gardening) problems. Applications are available now by calling the extension office at 503- 397-3462. I wish I could take this class! Someday, I will and then, maybe, I’ll actually know what I’m talking about. f W l
