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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 2003)
T h e IN D E P E N D E N T , S e p te m b e r 18, 2 0 0 3 Museum projects are well underway Work is going well on repro duction of old photos in the Vernonia Pioneer Museum and there will soon be some avail able for purchase. The book, Oregon Am erican Lum ber Company A in ’t No More, is available now, along with some collector calendars of past years from Mist-Birkenfeld. The stability of the trees around the museum grounds is causing concern. One has been removed and there are several others in question. The Friends of the Museum are in the process of adding a printer, copier and scanner to the computer system as part the program being developed to catalogue all items in the museum. The museum is open be tween 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. Sat urdays and Sundays. The next business meeting will be Octo ber 8 at 7:00 p.m., at the mu seum. V ernonia C ommunity C hurch Grant Williams, Pastor 957 State Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-6790 Sunday Breakfast 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Junior Church w/Nursery 11:00 a.m. Youth Group 6 -8:00 p.m. (Jr. & Sr. High) Wednesday Prayer Meeting 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. Evening Service will change to 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 7,2003 Wednesday Service: All Family Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. A ssembly of G od Darwin Harvey, Pastor 662 Jefferson Vernonia, 503 429-4615 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Bible Study, Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Youth & Kids , Thursday 7:00 p.m. .... .............. ........... ........ ............■ Page 7 ...... C qb Too Big ...... ......................................................................................... ................................ — By Schann Nelson coli. I’m glad I can’t find where I committed that to paper because Now that everything and everybody has that thought was premature. Not only does this broc send up a had a nice long drink of cool water, don’t we big initial head, it then follows this performance with very nice all look splendid? I finally got a bowl of ripe side-shoots, sometimes even a fairly large head. I probably have tomatoes the week after Labor Day, cer ten pounds or more of blanched and frozen broccoli in the freez tainly the latest date I remember getting er, all from one small (roughly 4 ’ x 8’) bed. In addition, this bed has tomatoes. Of course, due to a pervasive a few beets that are underneath the broccoli now and I thought and debilitating laziness, I still have not cov might have disappeared, but they seem to be surviving nicely and ered them up. I did cut all the excess flow will make a nice fall crop. In this instance, filling in the holes that ering growth off in mid-August, I just never seem so large when setting out plants, worked. finished the job and covered. Winners in the It didn’t work as well with the zucchini I stuck in with the toma “actually-yielding-a-ripe-tomato” contest, so toes or the other zucchini on the end of the cucumber bed. Both far this year, are the ever-dependable and yummy Sun Gold, take up too much space. My tomatoes don’t need any additional Tiger-Like, Taxi (tried for the first time this year - tasty And ripe) shade. The one at the end of the cucumbers is just taking over the and Matina. Close behind and nearly ripe are Jolly Elf (ripe, but path, hard to walk around but tolerable. On the other hand, the not as tasty as I’d like a cherry tomato to be) and Italian Gold, a winter squash planted in a corner between the bean te roma type. The remainder (First Lady, Willamette, Purple Cal pee and the cukes has spread along the path as abash, and Bell Star) are covered with lots of very green planned and produced several nice yellow squash. tomatoes. , Cucumbers are simple amazing. I It’s worthy of note that I was able to try Purple swear mine grow overnight from Calabash at a tomato tasting and it was, by far, the much too tiny to use at all, to giants. best tasting tomato that was there, which in Fortunately, I have recovered my grand cluded several other varieties I grow or have mother’s sweet pickle recipe, which uses grown. The dark, heavily lobed fruits are kind these giants, from Trudy Magoff. I keep hoping of weird looking, but if you have a very warm to catch enough medium-sized cucumbers to place to grow them they are worth the taste make dills though. treat. Two events worth a possible trip over the hill I thought that I had written that I was somewhat are offered by the county OSU Extension Ser disappointed in the side-shoot capacity of my broc- vice. Take your noxious weeds to Fern Hill Grange (on Fern Hill Road outside of Rainier) for identification September 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and bring along a soil sample for free testing. Columbia County Master Gardeners are sponsoring a Tomato Taste-off, September 25, at the Extension office in St. F irst B aptist C hurch S eventh D ay A dventist Helens, at 6:30 p.m. John Cahill, Pastor 359 “A" Street Vernonia, 503 429-1161 Kevin Reiner, Pastor, 543-2254 2nd Ave. and Nehalem St. Vernonia, 503 429-8301 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. 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. C hurch of J esus C hrist of L atter D ay S aints Jeff Cheney, Branch President 1350 E. Knott Street Vernonia, 503 429-7151 Sacrament Meeting, Sunday 10 a.m. Sunday School & Primary 11:20 a.m. Relief Society, Priesthood and Young Women, Sunday 12:10 p.m. 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 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. V ernonia F oursquare C hurch Stuff to do: • Continue to water recently planted trees and shrubs. They haven’t yet had a chance to establish a good root system. Blue berries also need adequate water to develop. • Harvest winter squash when ground spot turns from white to cream or gold. Store in a warm place for one or two weeks to de velop a hard shell, then move to cooler storage. • Plant spring bulbs when soil can be worked. • Check houseplants for bugs, re-pot if needed and bring back inside before frost. Vacations over! • BAIT FOR SLUGS !!! After a season of eating, giant mollusks are producing huge numbers of eggs in your garden. • Plant cover crops, or sheet-compost bare soil as it becomes available. • Lawn can be planted until mid-October. Vacation may be over, but a gardener’s work is never done. Neither is the joy we find in our yards or the pleasure of fresh veg etables in winter, finite. 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