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PRESORTED STANDARD U .S . P o s ta g e P aid V e rn o n ia , O R 9 7 0 6 4 P e rm it N o. 37 c ^9eiï Voice of the Upper Nehalem River Valley Cooperative efforts... Loggers will host Grant Union Saturday in quest for state title The Vernonia High School football team will take their record-breaking efforts onto the field Saturday in the second round of state 2A playoffs, as they host Grant Union at 2:00 p.m. Grant Union, which aver aged 30.1 points per game while giving up an average of VHS coach resigns Volunteers of all ages and abilities turned out to plant a bioswale at Banks Elementary School. See article blow for more information. Agencies, volunteers combine for clean water, healthy habitat Believe it or not, Banks Ele school’s Help Our Habitat mentary School has a naturally (HOH) club, a 4-H Wildlife occurring bioswale along its Stewards club, had studied the Main Street side. And, before bioswale and how to improve it. you ask, a bioswale is a long, Under the leadership of Bonnie gently sloping, landscaped de Shumaker and Pam Brown, the pression that collects and school was awarded a grant cleans surface water. from Oregon Watershed En The soil and native plants in hancement Board to restore a bioswale filter and clean the the bioswale. water before it is released into Pacific University’s Environ a waterway. It is also a wel mental Education class and come habitat for small animals their professor, Deke Gunder and birds. Native plants suited son, volunteered to help with to a bioswale must be able to removal of invasive species adapt to both wet and dry con and plant about 400 native plants. Clean Water Services ditions. The bioswale at Banks Ele donated all the plants and mentary School was in need of loaned the tools needed for the more native plants, as well as job. removal of invasive species Members of the HOH club, such as reed canary grass and from kindergarten through fifth Himalayan blackberry. The Please see page 20 November 18, 2004 The Vernonia School District Board of Directors accepted the resignation of Tony Pupo, effective immediately, during an emergency meeting yester day, November 17. Pupo’s letter did not specify why he resigned, other than “Due to personal reasons...” Pupo taught health and con ditioning classes at Vernonia High School, and was also ath letic director and head football coach. The VHS football team was informed of Pupo’s resignation yesterday afternoon. Vernonia Cares in need of donations Vernonia Cares is back in operation two days per week (Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.) and do nations are still needed for the Christmas food boxes. Turkeys and hams are the most expen sive item in the boxes and are on sale at area stores. Vernonia Sentry has offered Please see page 4 Red Cross Blood Drive, November 20 Give the gift of life on Sat urday, November 20, at a Red Cross Blood Drive to be held from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Vernonia Community Church, 957 State Avenue. 7.1 points, will bring in a big, physical team and should be a good match for Vernonia. The Loggers have averaged 32.6 points per game while sur rendering a stingy 4.4 points to their opponents. Led by senior running back Travis Gwin, whose 1,820 rushing yards set a new school record, the Loggers were un beaten in league play as they captured their first Northwest League title in 22 years. Additional standouts for the Loggers are junior running back Russell Lende, with 752 all purpose yards, and senior quarterback Eric Schmidtin, with 443 passing yards. This season is fun for every one, but especially exciting for the seniors on the team - An drew Grittman, Eric Hansen, Kevin Swayze, Rocky Jones, Patrick Schilling, Luke En- neberg, Caleb Isaacson, Gwin and Schmidlin. Vernonia vs. Grant Union November 20 2:00 p.m. Condition of U.S. flag brought to attention of Vernonia City Council During the section for public comments at the November 15 meeting of the Vernonia City Council, local resident and business owner Willow Burch brought to the council’s atten tion that the American flag out side City Hall is dirty, tattered, and is left out 24 hours with only a temporary light that shines about half way up the flag pole. She asked the city to either display the flag appropri ately respect or remove it. Acting City Administrator Robyn Bassett took Burch to task for bringing the matter to a public meeting. Bassett told Burch the matter should have been brought to her or other city employees before it came to the council meeting. Burch replied that she had talked to city employees twice, with the only result being the light bulb was changed after burning out. Because the other concerns had not been handled, she brought it to council to try and get it resolved. Burch also of- fered to buy a new flag, if that was the only way to get a new one up. Another member of the audi ence said that Burch should be thanked for bringing the situa tion to the council’s attention. City Councilor Shirlee Daugh try responded that the city needs to fix the issue. Resident Jacqueline Ram say asked the city to do some thing about the lighting at Rose Avenue and Bridge Street, and behind City Hall, where the parking is very dark at night. In other business, council approved a 60 day temporary occupancy for a motorhome at 507 Rose, while the owners await closing on a new home. Bassett requested and re ceived a moment of silence in honor of Enid Parrow. She also told council that two flowering cherry trees would be planted in honor of Enid and her late husband, Art Parrow. The next council meeting will be December 6.
