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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 2004)
The INDEPENDENT, March 18, 2004 D onkey b a sk et ball returns Apr. 2 Donkey Basketball is back as Vernonia Pride provides an other night of fun and enter tainment on April 2. The fun will start at 6:00 p.m. with a taco feed to support the Zachary Rumbolz Scholar ship fund. The game will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be available at Vernonia Pride’s bake sale at Sentry Market on March 27, or by calling 503-429-5201. Tick ets purchased in advance will be $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for youth in grades 7-12, and $3.00 for children from kinder garten through sixth grade. Tickets purchased at the door will be $1.00 more than the prices above. PCC project provides kids dental care in Vernonia A dental hygiene project by students at Portland Communi ty College (PCC) will be provid ing preventive and restorative dentistry to some Vernonia school children during April. Parents of second and third graders will soon receive screening questionnaires. Based on the information re turned, children will be physi cally screened on April 8 at Lin coln Grade School. Those se lected for participation will re ceive preventive work on April 21 when the NW Medical Group Dental Van will be in Vernonia. Dr. Christopher Scheuerman of Vernonia Den tal will help with the preventive Easter egg hunt donations sought The fourth annual Columbia County mEGGa Easter Egg Hunt for children 0 to 12 will be at the Columbia County Fair grounds on Saturday, April 10. Donations of individually wrapped candy to fill 2 inch eggs, or cash donation for pur chases are needed. All dona tions, goods or services are tax deductible. Candy is being ac cepted at the St. Helens Burg- erville or at the Fairgrounds. Please donate by March 25, if possible. Make checks payable to LETTERM AN JACKETS Friends of the Columbia Coun ty Fair and mail to PO Box 74, St. Helens, OR 97051. Organizations or individual volunteers are needed to help fill eggs, hide eggs, and help on the day of the Hunt. If you can help, call Leah at 503-397-5885, Evelyn at 503- 397-4231, Amy at 503-366- 1704, Marianne at 503-728- 3345, or DeAnn at 503-397- 0535. work. On April 26, those children who need actual dental proce dures will be treated at the of fices of Vernonia Dental by vol unteer dentists. The PCC students, (Michelle King, Julie Brown, Lara James, and Mary Beth Layman) are providing this care as part of a project for a Public Health course. Additional information will be available on the screening questionnaires. Anyone want ing to make a donation to help this project may call Julie Brown at 503-977-4909. M u rra y m a k e s Fox D e a n ’s list Ashley Lauren Murray of Vernonia, has been named to the George For University Dean’s List for the fall 2003 - 04 semester. To be included on the list, a student must earn a 3.5 grade point average or higher while taking at least 12 credit hours. A sophomore majoring in psychology, Murray is the daughter of John and Kelly Murray of Vernonia. Page 9 Chalk Talk Chalk Talk is a monthly column of information about Vernonia schools. It is written by various staff mem; bers. By Curtiss J. Scholl Principal, Vernonia High School So far, this year has gone by very quickly. I would like to take this opportunity to remind seniors and parents of seniors that graduation will be here before we know it. Seniors need to be sure there are no surprises this spring and check with their teachers or our counselor to make sure that they are on track to graduate. It is important that both students and parents stay informed and avoid any last minute problems. On March 9th, we celebrated our winter athletes and their com pletion of the 2003-2003 winter sport seasons. David Weller, Waylon Buchan, Malorie Baker, and Joreigh Landers all received league honors in basketball. Andrew Brookins, Travis Gwin, and Andrew Grittman qualified for the state wrestling tournament. An drew Brookins and Travis Gwin both were state champions at their respective weight classes. Our spring sport programs have started and they will be competing soon. The end of the third nine weeks is on April 1, 2004. During the following week, Thursday April 8th and Friday April 9th, we will have parent/ teacher conference. On Thursday conferences will run from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm and 5:30 pm-8:30 pm. On Friday the conferences will run from 8:00 am-11:30 am. If there are any oth er questions, please contact the high school at 429-3521. We are currently working through the first round of state testing. Parts of these tests are UNLIM ITED now available on-line, so stu dents are able to get immedi 5 6 K INTERNET ate feedback on how well they For in fo rm a tio n call performed on the test. 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