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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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