The INDEPENDENT, February 1, 2007
Grange schedules winter dance
Warm up the cold months of
winter by celebrating Ground-
hog Day, Valentine’s Day and
Sadie Hawkins Day at a winter
dance to be held at the Vernon-
ia Community Grange on Feb-
ruary 10.
Starting at 7:00 p.m., the
evening of seasonal music and
dance is open for everyone in
the community and beyond.
Couples, singles and groups
are all welcome for just $3 per
person or $5 per couple.
The evening of music and
dance will feature entertain-
ment by the “The Pebble Creek
Gang,” an old-time country and
western band that has been
making music and playing the
local circuit for over 30 years!
Refreshments will be avail-
able and if you want to bring a
treat, you are invited to do so.
Everyone is Welcome! The
grange is located at 457 North
St., Vernonia.
Old world music comes to Library
“Old World Folklore Music
with Narration” will be present-
ed at the Vernonia Public Li-
brary on Friday, February 2, at
6:30 p.m.
Helena and Mark Great-
house will present an educa-
tional program of old folklore
melodies from Eastern Europe,
sung by Helena and accompa-
nied by Mark on accordion. In
authentic costume, Helena in-
troduces each song highlight-
ing life, customs and living con-
ditions in the country where it
originated. Ethnic dance move-
ments enhance her singing.
Helena sang folksongs in
the 1950s and 1960s on
Czechoslovak radio and televi-
sion, and later studied the his-
tory of the folksongs.
Mark has been playing the
accordion since age five. He
won many awards for his ac-
cordion music before going to
Europe to study German.
Refreshments will follow this
presentation, which is made
possible by The Friends of the
Vernonia Library and The Ver-
nonia Historical Museum.
Cantata seeks
Easter singers
Anyone who would like to
sing in the annual Vernonia
Easter Cantata is welcome to
attend practices now being
held on Sundays, at 3:00 p.m.,
at the First Baptist Church at A
Street and Washington Ave.
Bits & Bites
By Jacqueline Ramsay
A note
w a s
passed
to me so
I
a m
passing
it on to
all of you
that have
b e e n
taking your can pull tabs to the
Senior Center. Ronald McDon-
ald House West in Portland
says, “Thank You,” and keep
up the good job. The collection
cans are in the Senior Center
dining room by the cookie
plates.
Spring, where are you? The
sun is pretty but the air is bone
chilling. Every other person you
meet seems to have a stuffed
up heard or an aching knee.
When walking the lake last
week I noticed foot prints in the
slush on the ice. Cute, but
dumb. Your dog couldn’t know
better but you should. Our lake
isn’t Lake Erie.
Good Golly, Miss Molly –
where has common sense
gone; also the right to have a
dish of ice cream for a small
treat while out shopping. It
should be a rite of passage for
old folks and youngsters to be
able to afford this lifelong treat.
Time was when a “big scoop”
Vernonia’s first Mayor’s Ball a delight
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Disco added music to the
evening.
A “Murder Most Foul”
brought great laughs and two
guilty verdicts. The play, written
by Mayor Sally Harrison, fea-
tured guests as the suspects.
The guests determined that
Sylvia Starstruck (played by
Harrison) and Mabel Money-
maker (played by Councilor
Shirlee Daughtry) were guilty of
fore
ver
With a roaring 20’s theme
and the Calamity Jazz ragtime
band, the Mayor’s Charity New
Year’s Ball was a delight for the
75 revelers who attended.
The guests captured the
spirit of the roaring twenties.
Ladies wore feather plumes,
hats and beads, while gentle-
men sported suspenders and
fedoras. Calamity Jazz Rag-
time Band and DeeJay Tommy
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murdering Helen Haywoods.
Aldie Howard, the city’s
planning director, and the may-
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cost 10¢ with a cone or in a
dish. It was even served as a
dessert with a meal once upon
a time. Anyone could afford and
enjoy it. The top off to a satisfy-
ing day. This past weekend
while traveling to the coast a
friend and I stopped to rest and
view the ocean and have a
scoop (about half a cup) of the
cool stuff. Cost $1.95, plopped
in a small pewter stemmed
dish. How many scoops can
you get from a two gallon con-
tainer? I don’t know but I do
know it costs under $5.00 (It
wasn’t even TIllamook or
Schwans). Low hightoned
places don’t even have to pay
Pearl Divers to swash all those
little items anymore. I’m sure
no one broke a fingernail or got
frost bite dishing it up.
I politely told the waitress
what I thought of the cost but
we wanted ice cream so I
guess we’d stand the cost. It
was good, we enjoyed the view
and savored the flavor of the
vanilla (only one they had).
Time to pay, the waitress came
to the table, instead of the bill
she said the gentleman at the
next table had paid for our
treat. We both nearly fainted.
He was gone, we couldn’t
thank him. This is the first time
I’ve ever come in contact with
someone “paying forward.” It
was and is quite an experience.
Food for thought and we will
never be able the thank the an-
gel unaware but we can pass it
forward sometime in the future.