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The INDEPENDENT, August 18, 2005 Page 9 Bits & Bites By Jacqueline Ramsay Maxine and Vic Jones, blanket vendors at the Vernonia Friendship Jamboree, are shown with the four blankets they donated to Vernonia Cares Food Bank. Sandy Welch, of Ver- nonia Cares, is shown on the right accepting the blankets. Museum will lose trees and hedge Volunteers are making things happen at the Vernonia Pioneer Museum. New paint and yard work are a couple of the changes. The trees and the hedge are being removed be- cause of disease. A split rail fence will replace the hedge and new trees will replace the old. Stella Bellingham-Satern, Gordon and Mary Ann Cline, and Jim Johns have given Mu- seum Talks. The museum will be open for Cycle Oregon on September 16 from noon to 6:00 p.m. Don Webb will be there to answer questions about logging. Bill Sword will be giving a Museum Talk on September 18 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Logging in the Ne- halem Valley. Carol Davis was elected President at the August meet- ing. Other officers are Vice- President Donna Webb, Secre- tary Barb Larsen, and Treasur- er Ilene Grady. Caroline Keasey is arranging for volun- teers to keep the museum open. Please call her at 503- 429-2021 if you would like to be involved. The museum is open Fri- days, Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. or bring a picnic lunch. Coffee and cups will be provided. All former Vernonia resi- dents and their families are in- vited to visit with old friends or meet some new ones. Wright/Hendrix wed on August 17 Crystal Wright and Kelly Hendrix were married August 17 at Vernonia City Hall. They are making their home in the Portland area. The bride is the daughter of Jim and Donna Wright of Pa- coima, California. Bob and Fran Hendrix of Vernonia are the parents of the groom. Columbia 9-1-1 meeting cancelled There will be no August Board meeting for the Colum- R l a ff e r of m r e S t a h le h t t i l B e Q u f o hopefully no more folks march- ing off to war to never return again. I hope they return next year. A mouse told me some of the folks from Jamboree Cruisin’ said they may not be back next year because of where they were stuck, off the main road – no one could find them – another overheard re- mark up and down the street, “why so many little booths – this isn’t a Saturday Market, is it?” Personally I could not navi- gate the crowds so I took off for the shade of my yard. Sunday, I went to the Church services. The message was delivered in a play, “Beyond the Passion.” It had humor, as well as a message for today. Some of the humor and laughter was edited into the performance by a dog roaming in the crowd and doing only what dogs do when they see a pole. I did get an elephant ear. Yum. In answer to the question in the August 4 paper. Yes – there should be a King and Queen honored at the 50th Jamboree, even if the honorees are no longer living. Look back, think hard. Looking forward now; Senior Picnic August 19, Vernonia Cares 5K Run August 20, Old Timers picnic August 21, then Salmon Festival and school starts. St. Mary’s Catholic Church 35th Annual QUILT FAIR Sept. 15-18 • 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open Friday until 9 p.m. “Old Grad” picnic on August 21 The annual picnic of the Ver- nonia Society and “Old Grads” will be held August 21 at Ander- son Park in Vernonia. Registra- tion starts at 10:00 a.m. Hot dogs and soft drinks will be on sale by Vernonia Pride, Haaa – #49 is gone, n e x t comes #50. I had a yummy pancake and ba- con breakfast at the Senior Center cooked by the Sweet Adelines, but they didn’t sing again this year because they didn’t have all four parts of the harmony present – I’ve never heard them sing here. The Jamboree Committee (the next one) will have to go some to beat this year’s pa- rade. Beautiful log trucks full of logs, 4-wheelers, motorcycles, horses, a four span of donkeys with stagecoach, Jazzie Girls, clowns. Several very special people honored. The crown of the parade, in my opinion, how- ever, was “The Last Regiment” from Portland. I stood for them as they passed by. I under- stood the honor they were pay- ing to the past, present and bia 9-1-1 Communications Board of Directors. Special Feature “The Men’s Room” QUILTS QUILTS QUILTS Fo r S ALE & D ISPLAY Lunch Served Daily 11-1 C RAFT B AZAAR D OOR P RIZES Handicapped Accessible 960 M ISSOURI A VE ., V ERNONIA W ATCH FOR S IGNS