The INDEPENDENT, May 19, 2005
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“Without support V.H.S. may
for coming out on May 7 and event. Lastly, thanks to all of
lose cheerleaders” in your last
making Vernonia Shine. We you who care about your town
Shall we think more
had 100 plus volunteers that enough to come out and make publication.
The view expressed in this about tree cutting
day. The high school leadership it beautiful. Everyone did a
letter were the views of-one in
class got kids involved by help- great job and I really hope you
dividual and do not represent To the Editor:
<n9 paint the grandstands on had a lot of fun while doing it.
The recent letters to the Edi
the views of the coach or the
Friday, May 6. This will be an Thanks to Penny with Jazzer-
tor against the recent residen
squad as a whole.
ongoing project and if anyone cise and Heather with New Day
In contrast to the last letter, I tial logging in our small town
would like to help them please Massage. That massage felt
makes me wonder...
wonderful. Remember, your personally would like to ex
let me know (503-429-5201).
Why don’t we rhapsodize about
Thanks to Terry, Gretchen, house, your job, your life and press my thanks to the many
a stalk of wheat?
Brittney, and Sam Lindauer for your town is what you make of members of the V.H.S. staff The trees give us shelter, the
and administration for their
organizing the food. Thanks to it...make it a great one.
poor wheat we eat!
Donna Webb support of cheerleading as they
Audeen Wagner and Carolyn
Trees
and wheat grow from a
Vernonia Pride are not paid to do so and have
Keasey for helping with food as
seed,
given extra time and effort to
well.
Thanks
to
Katie
Poetter
A great cleanup job
A crop to harvest; they do not
for getting the food...that is not Another point of view help us out.
bleed.
by local volunteers
I also would like to thank the
an easy task.
on VHS cheerleading community and local business I don’t cry out in anguish when I
To the Editor:
Thanks to the city crew for
see a cake,
es for their financial support so
Vernonia Pride would like to getting out there and working To the Editor:
Regarding the letter entitled that we could purchase uni I don’t shed tears when I smell
thank all of you hard workers and helping to organize the
bread baked.
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forms last season.
I feel the lack of interest in That farmer he chopped them
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down, those amber waves of
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cheer for the 2005-2006 sports
light
in
toasted,
buttered
bologna
sandwiches
at
grain!
By Nancy Burch, Librarian
seasons is not due to lack of
the
end
of
the
day,
the
recollection
of
being
the
No
longer will they feel the sun,
Vernonia Public Library
support from V.H.S. staff or the
only girl to race and win riding bare-back in a jun
the wind, the rain
Thank you to everyone ior rodeo in Colville, Washington, pictures of a community but rather a lack of The animals that lived there too
who purchased books dur Cottage Grove “future cowgirl” and a Eugene interest from the V.H.S. stu Where will they go? What will
ing the recent “adopt a Oregon National guardsman stationed in Bagh dents themselves.
they do?
I personally love cheerlead
book for the library” en dad. Quite a variety, isn’t it? My favorite is an ar
But I’m not sorry those stalks are
deavor to add books to the ticle entitled, You’ll Sit Up and Beg for More of ing and feel that you should
ghosts
library’s collection. All of These Memories, about of course, dogs. It cheer because you want to and I enjoy them now as my morning
the books were “adopted” brought to mind our dachshund that dug under a because you love your school
toast.
with most being chosen logging road and was buried there for a week be and community, not because I sit in my nice, warm, wood house
from the bibliography list fore we finally heard his faint bark and dug him you were begged or forced to. If Read my paper and complain and
to supplement the upcom- out (with no ill effects except dirt embedded in the students don’t want a
grouse
ng Summer Reading theme of Dragons, his eyes) and our Labrador mix who must not squad next year that’s their About those whose opinions are
Dreams and Daring Deeds. Plans are being fi have liked my pancakes very much because he right. If sometime in the future
different from mine
nalized for this summer’s programs, which will always buried them...in different places. He there are enough eligible stu And pen these words in a silly
ne under the direction of three enthusiastic, cre would take each one off by itself, bury it and dents interested, I will be here,
rhyme.
ative ladies—Camrin Eyrrick, Linda Johnston come for another to take to a different spot. more than happy to help out.
Christi Doyle I’m a logger’s wife and proud to
and Orissa Burghard. Activities will take place on Wouldn’t memories like these be great to write
be
VHS Cheer Coach
Wednesdays, beginning June 22 and will include and put together with our new binding machine?
And,
yes, we get our money from
Vernonia
going on guests, building and firing catapults, Come on in with your own written memories,
those trees.
making theme-related costumes, creating and short stories, poems, etc. to be bound and in
You
can disagree with our choice
Vernonia residents
riding on a float for the Jamboree parade and be cluded in the library’s collection.
of revenue
show
that
they
care
ing entertained with magic and “magical” experi
New acquisitions include several by the writ
But that farmer's crop makes
ments by Mad Science. Sign-up sheets and ers who recently visited the library, Birdie Etchi
money too!
To the Community:
schedules will be available shortly in the library. son and Patricia Rushford. Both of these ladies
Thank you, Vernonians, for The trees come down to make
Don’t miss out on these educational, fun-filled live in Washington State, but set most of their participating in the Letter Carri
room for a home,
activities for youngsters ages 3 and older.
novels (romance and mystery) in Oregon. Ms. ers Food Drive May 14, 2005. And I bet before you settled here,
The library now has a book binding machine, Rushford also has an entire series of mysteries The total pounds of food col
no more to roam
the kind that uses plastic spirals to bind pages. for young adults, most of which were obtained lected was 780 pounds. (That There once were trees where your
Plans are to encourage youngsters participating for the library.
house now sits,
beat the 2004 amount by 86
in the various library programs to write and draw
Other new acquisitions include The Innocent pounds.) Thanks so much!
So think of that before throwing
pictures for inclusion in these bound books by Harlan Coben, Lie Still by David Farris, In the
your fit.
A special thanks to our letter
which will remain in the library, and also for tran Company of Liars by David Ellis, A Lotus Grows carriers and to the project coor The crops we harvest will grow
scriptions of oral interviews conducted through in the Mud by Goldie Hawn, A Land of Sheltered dinators, Peter O'Leary and
back just fine
the museum to have this information maintained Promise by Jane Kirkpatrick, Oh My Stars by Kate Laird. A second special It’s the way God planned it since
i book form in the library. This machine was pur- i_orna
iy u by
y u
a m c o r Patterson,
Lorna Lanavix,
Landvik, 4in
4th or
of ju
July
James
the beginning of time.
thanks to Dave and Rose Mc
nased with money donated at the 2004 Silver ¡jeiectabie Mountains by Earlene Fowler, Super
Coy and John Frey, food bank I like trees, I really do!
sa presented by Vernonia Study Club.
stition by Karen Robards, and Cut and Pun by volunteers, who unloaded and Without them I couldn’t write to
Many times I like to choose a magazine from Ri<j|ey Pearson.
you.
sorted the donation.
le library’s collection and find an inspiration for ---------------------
I
don’t mean to offend with pen
This food, gathered in our
V ernonia P u b lic L ib ra ry : 701 Weed Ave.
omething about which to write for this column
and ink
town, will be disbursed to peo
H ours: Mon., Wed., Fri. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.;
md also to keep patrons aware of the periodi-
Just
offer up another way to think.
ple in the Vernonia area.
Tues.,
Thur.
2
p.m.
-
7
p.m.
:als to which the library subscribes. Included in
Sincerely,
Thanks for showing that Ver
Sat.
10
a.m.
-
2
p.m.
he June/July issue of Country magazine is an
Kaia F. Cota
nonia Cares!
Preschool
Story
Time:
Mondays,
10:30
irticle with great pictures on the Big Horn Moun-
Vernonia
Sandy Welch,
a.m.,
when
school
is
in
session.
ains of Wyoming, a contribution by an Indiana
Executive Director
Please see page 24
Phone: (503)429-1818
nan as he recalls hay-making time and the de-
From page 2
must not give up and say there
is nothing we can do. We must
join as one voice and find solu-
tions to a problem that will not
just disappear.
In conclusion, I commend all
educators and especially Mrs.
Hansen and Mrs. Shaw for do-
ing a tremendous job with all
the students in their classes
this year.
Liz White
Vernonia
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