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The INDEPENDENT, June 19, 2003 Community events create full schedule To the Editor: It seems we were just plan ning these coming events and now they are about to happen. First: the Spaghetti Dinner at Lew’s on Sunday, June 22, from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. All you can eat - Adults $8.00 and chil dren 12 and under $5.00. Sal ad, bread and dessert included. This dinner is a benefit for the fireworks. Show your support by attending this fundraiser. Second: The Open House at the Museum on Sunday, June 29, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. We will have our plaque in place for everyone to see. Our museum, “The Oregon American Mill Of fice” has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Golden Oldies will be providing music for our en joyment. We are asking for good weather so we can sit outside and visit (bring a chair) or you can take the time to walk through the museum. Third: The 4th of July will be here soon. We will be having Between the Bookends By Nancy Burch, Librarian Vernonia Public Library Two exciting events will be taking place in the li brary in the month of June. W hitney Otto, author of How to Make an American Quilt, will be here Saturday, June 21st at 2:00 p.m. She will be reading from her books and signing any that are purchased that day. She will also bring the beautiful quilt from the movie of the same name. Saturday, June 28th will be the very first Chautauqua program at the library. Pat Gold will present a program on the history and culture of the Chinookan people. Ms. Gold is an artist whose work (basketry) has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has won numerous awards and honors and is a high ly respected lecturer and artist-in-residence. Ms. Gold resides in Scappoose in our very own Co lumbia County, and it would be especially grati fying to have a large number in attendance at her presentation. These programs are free to the public and refreshments will be served. The annual library Summer Reading Program will be starting Tuesday, June 24, at 11 a.m. Sci ence will be the first topic for youngsters who will be Reading, Discovering and Exploring. The only evening presentation this year will be on July 2nd at 7:00 p.m. This will feature Steve Tay lor, the magical ventriloquist, with his program on Lewis and Clark. Registration is still open, with forms and schedules available at the library. Youngsters, six and under, will be meeting at the library and those seven and older will meet at Anderson Park. This summer’s sponsors include United Grocers (of which Sentry Market is a member) and The Friends of the Vernonia Li brary. Both Fred Meyer and Wal-Mart have do nated gift certificates with which prizes for youngsters meeting reading goals will be pur chased. The Friends of the Library have received noti fication that the organization can reasonably ex pect to be a publicly supported organization (ex empt from federal income tax). This stage of the process is called “an advanced ruling period.” Now, individuals filing income tax forms may of ficially consider donations given to the group to be tax-exempt. The Friends have worked very hard to complete paperwork associated with this process and would like to publicly thank the law our usual parade which will start at 7:30 p.m. from City Hall and Weed Ave. We will march down Bridge Street, exiting at California Ave. by WGS onto the school grounds. The Boosters and Scouts will be selling their usual goodies. Sit and visit with friends and neigh bors until it is time for the fire works. Vernonia Pride will be collecting donations for the fire works at the close of the dis play. Fourth: Please leave all of your own fireworks at home. Someone could get hurt and bringing them to a public dis play could result in closing down our show in com ing years. Please respect this re quest. Sit back and have a good time and enjoy the fire works. Have a happy and safe 4th. Enid Parrow President of the Vernonia Pioneer Museum and a Member of Vernonia Pride Another successful Senior Spelling Bee To the Editor: The Senior Spelling Bee was held recently, and everyone at the Senior Center seemed to have a great time. It went smoothly due to the help of some senior citizens and some not-yet-seniors. Thank you to our judges, Carol Sawyer and Noni Andersen - both of these ladies have won the local con test in past years; their knowl edge of words made it easy. Thanks also to Ralph and Car olyn Keasey and Bob Wagner for their help and support. We appreciate, as usual, the sup port of the Senior Center, help ing us in many ways, as they al ways do. And a special thanks to Sentry Market for the won derful fruits, veggies, and drinks. The Vernonia Spelling Bee is an annual event, open to any one over 50. It is always a “user-friendly,” informal party, and quite competitive. The win ners this year: Tobie Finzel, first; Bob Eastman, second; and Ruth Bell, third. Congratu lations! Watch for notice of the fourth annual Spelling Bee next spring. I like to say that it is proof that seniors can, and do, stay active. And that “learning never stops!” office of Tim Marble for the beneficial and free advice that helped them finally achieve this sta tus. The group is hoping that their big fund-rais er (book sale) during Jamboree weekend will be a huge success. Donated books may be dropped off at Glen Purvee’s building on June 28 and on July 26, from 10 a.m. to noon, both days. Books for discussion this month are A Collec tion of Beauties at the Height of their Popularity by Whitney Otto, and Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr. Next meeting of this group will be Monday, June 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the library. It’s very infor mal and all are invited. New acquisitions include Good Morning, Killer by April Smith, Naked Prey by John Sandford, Dead Binger by Lisa Scottoline, Say When by Elizabeth Berg and A Body to Die For by Kate White. Also added to the collection in appreciation to Judy Thiringer, who has diligently served eight years on the library board, are 1001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun, and Fabulous tips That Will Change the Way You Garden-Forever! and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Judy’s invaluable advice, wit, and tact as a board member will be greatly missed. She will continue to be an advocate for the library and to regularly catalog library materials. She is one of the three dedicated individuals who started elec tronically entering items three years ago and has continued on an almost weekly basis since. This has not always been an easy task, as some of Vernonia’s holdings are so obscure that they could not be found in any other library’s collec tion for downloading. Finding current call num Audeen Wagner bers has been such a challenge that Judy re Vernonia cently purchased the latest edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index for the Spaying/neutering library. This contains call numbers for such strange subjects as yo-yos, wrenches, wheel costs are too high barrows, toothpicks, sawmill operations, saxo phonists and cucumbers, as well as nearly any To the Editor: new subject one might wish to categorize. This In response to Kim Sebring’s reference book will be an indispensable asset to letter in the June 5 issue of The the library and will be one more way in which Independent Judy will be remembered and appreciated. You are fortunate that you could handle this kitten, most Vernonia Public Library: 701 Weed Ave. feral cats will not let you handle Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m,; them. The problem really lies Tues., Thur. 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. with the people who have the Sat 10 a.m. -2 p.m. ability to perform spaying and Preschool Story Time; Mondays, 10.00 neutering, but refuse to do so a.m., when school is in session. without charging a fee that Phone: (503)429-1818 many people cannot afford. We heard about the spay and neuter clinic and thought, now that is something that should benefit everyone who cannot afford to have their feral cats spayed or neutered. Think again!!! They charge a fee, too and you are lucky if they even bother to call you when your name is on the list. They did not call us and our name was on the list. The veterinary clinics should have one day a month where they do nothing but spaying and neutering, why haven’t they done that? Is it be cause they can make more money doing what they do now? Some say let the cats starve to death, well that’s o.k. if you are that type of person who can just let an animal starve to death. The Oregon Humane Soci ety will take cats and not put them to sleep. You have to make an appointment and then they ask for a donation of $39.00 for each cat. You do have to get lucky and catch the cat in a trap the day, or as close to the day, you are taking it in. This is sometimes a chal lenge. We decided this was a more caring way to handle the cats that we can catch. Those that we can’t catch, well, we just can't let them starve. Diana Russell Vernonia Emergency response is remarkably good To The Editor: On June 2, 2003 I was in volved in a log truck accident that put me on the other side of the fence. For the past two plus years, I have been a member of the Vernonia Volunteer Fire De partment. I joined so that I could help others in our com m unity during their tim e of need. On this Monday morning I became the one in need of help. As my truck came to a sudden stop and the dust set tled, I climbed out of my truck with my scalp laying in my face and bleeding badly, but I had a sense of calm come over me as I realized that my extended family would soon be on scene. What I didn’t realize at first was that there was so much blood covering my face that these people that I work with all the time had no idea who I was. It wasn’t until I started talking to them that the medics and fire- Please see page 20
