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.
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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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