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Page 6 The INDEPENDENT, March 18, 2004 Can Taa Big It:? the hall to visit the ladies’ room before I can do anything else. I’m finally DONE! Master Gardeners is a Then I find the place where you can have a graft done and they great class, don’t get me wrong, but at the tell me I have to have rootstock. To get rootstock I wander back to end of eleven weeks my brain feels like the other end of the place. Then I wait to talk to somebody about mush, my desk is completely overloaded which rootstock to get. Then I put in my order for rootstock and from having lost my organization day, and wait for them to get to it. Lo and behold, a nurseryman had set up nothing has happened in my yard or gar right there, vending heirloom trees. So, of course, I have to inves den. Now that I’ve finished the class, I have tigate while I’m waiting. I had a great time talking to people and managed to only buy just enough information to be dangerous. two apple trees, three grapes, and a fig. The apples are for my Just don’t ask me questions when I don’t have access to a full bank of reference yard, to replace one that died with a disease resistant variety, and , I just couldn’t resist the other, also dwarf and disease resistant, books. because the variety is named SHAY. Don’t you think we should Last week I went to the Scion Exchange offered by the Home have some of those by the Shay in town? Another project for Orchard Society (HOS) - a nice drive to the > Vernonia’s gardeners? The grapes I’m using as Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby a bribe to get Dennis to move the fence around that I haven’t taken in many years. Surprising my garden into the pasture so I can get more sun ly, the house where I lived in Canby many exposure. The fig is going out to Keasey farm and I years ago, is still there! The exchange was plan an espalier against a sunny wall. funky and homey, lots of folks wandering I got to watch an expert graft two of my scion, bought around a space about the size of the VHS some rootstock to try some on my own, gave the remain gym (though with a low ceiling and kind of der of my cuttings to the nursery guys (who promised a dark) filled with tables holding quart-sized con growing tree in return for the heirloom stock), picked up a tainers of scion. As prepared by HOS (and they slew of literature, and just generally had a great time. know what they’re doing), scion looks like a six-inch piece of last There are lots of gardening events coming up. I’ve got to get year’s growth from a fruit tree. But THESE small sticks hold the this in (I’m WAY past deadline) so I can’t do the calendar but Co secret to having a big orchard in a small space. Every kind of apple imaginable was available. By grafting these lumbia, Washington and Multnomah counties are offering sales onto existing trees or rootstock, which was available for a very and or classes in the next month. Get out and get some new stuff, nominal fee, you can have exactly the tree you want. You can de learn some new things and meet some people. termine the size, flavor, disease resistance, keeping quality, use (for eating or cider or sauce). If, like me, you don’t know how to get what you want, there are experts there to help. I went with a specific mission. Over the winter, a 100-year old V ernonia C ommunity C hurch F irst B aptist C hurch King Apple at the Keasey farm fell over and shattered into pieces. Grant Williams, Pastor John Cahill, Pastor For many years, this tree has provided us with shade and cider 957 State Avenue 359 “A” Street and has been a great climbing tree for the kids. My mission was Vernonia, 503 429-6790 Vernonia, 503 429-1161 to get at least one good graft from that tree to grow a new King to replace it. So that morning I went out and cut about a dozen Sunday Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Breakfast 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. lengths of last year’s growth from the tree as it lay on the ground. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. (We haven’t cut it up yet so I could get the scion wood and my Evening Worship ‘ B.L.A.S.T. w/Nursery 11:00 a.m. brother can get the wood, but no bark, for barbecue.) Saturday, 6:00 p.m. ‘ Bible Learning and Scripture Training Picture me walking into this dark, open room, full of people who Youth Group 6 -8:00 p.m. mostly know each other, with my jar of cuttings. First off, every (Jr. & Sr. High) N ehalem V alley B ible C hurch body knows I’m a new-by because MY scion is full-length, about Wednesday Gary Taylor, Pastor 12-18 inches long, not the neat little, carefully cut, six-inch pieces Prayer Meeting 7:00 p.m. 500 California Ave on the tables. And, of course, I have to walk clear to the back of B y S chann N elson z Vernonia, 503 429-5378 TH E AMBER N ew Assisted Living 32 Quality Apartments 24 H our Care Nurse & Trained S ta ff MedicAid & Private Rates Many Amenities Offered • Come Visit Us No H idden Costs, No Pressure 355 Bel Air Drive • Clatskanie, Oregon X 1-503-728-2744 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. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Nursery available Wednesday Service 7:00 p.m. Senior Spelling Bee spells fun The Vernonia Senior Center will be the setting for the annu al Senior Spelling Bee on Fri day, April 2 at 1:00 p.m. The one-and-only requirement for participation is to have lived at least fifty years. The format for this event is: A one hundred word written test, given in 25-word seg ments, with a short break be tween each set for refresh ments. This is for fun and there will be trophies for the winners, but there is absolutely, posi tively no entry fee. Some contestants study the dictionary to prepare, while others depend on their in stincts to figure out the correct spelling of the words, which will be of medium difficulty. It isn’t necessary to know how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism! There is a sign-up sheet at the Senior Center. Or, call 503- 429-3912 or 503-429-9700 to enter the contest. Drop-ins are also welcome. 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. V ernonia C hristian C hurch Jim Kirby, Evangelist 410 North Street Vernonia, 503 429-6522 Sunday School 9:30 a m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Every Wednesday: Ladies' Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Ladies’ Worship 10:00 a.m. Children’s Choir 3:00 p.m. Family Bible Study 6:30 p.m. S t . M ary ' s C atholic C hurch Pastoral Associate Juanita Dennis 960 Missouri Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-8841 V ernonia F oursquare C hurch Mass Schedule Sunday 12:00 Noon Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 a.m. Children’s Sunday School Religious Education Sunday 10:30 a.m. S eventh D ay A dventist Kevin Reiner, Pastor, 543-2254 2nd Ave. and Nehalem St. Vernonia, 503 429-8301 Sabbath School 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 7:00 p.m. 850 Madison Avenue Vernonia, 503 429-1103 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.
