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The INDEPENDENT, June 19, 2008 Next Museum Talk announced Summer hours are now in place at the Vernonia Pioneer Museum. Hours are from 1:00- 4:00 p.m. on Fridays, Satur- days and Sundays from June through mid-September (Quilt Fair Weekend). Visitors are welcome during those hours; special tours can also be arranged by calling the Muse- um at 503-429-3713. The museum could use more volunteers to help as hosts during open hours. If you can spare just three hours per month, you can be on the ros- ter of museum hosts. Hosts don’t need to be experts in lo- cal history; the main duty of a museum host is to open the building and greet guests. And if it’s a quiet day, you can just relax and enjoy the artifacts at leisure, read a book or catch up on your correspondence! The next Museum Talk, “Pio- neer Women of the Nehalem Valley,” will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 29. Stella Bellingham Satern and Nancy Stauffer Rattey (Jewell pioneer descendants) are the featured speakers. The Vernonia Pioneer Muse- um Association Board thanks WOEC and Bill Sword for re- moving the tree facing the Mu- seum parking lot. It had been dropping good sized branches, had a fungus growing out of places on the trunk and had grown above the power lines. With limited funds available from the city and county, these volunteers helped remove it safely. The Vernonia Garden Club has kindly offered to help replace this tree with some new ornamentals. TVQG has more quilts – call now The Tualatin Valley Quilt Guild (TVQG) has generously donated an additional thirty- two quilts of many sizes to Ver- nonia flood survivors. They do- nated over sixty in December. With TVQG’s encouragement, two of the quilts will be raffled at First Friday events in July and August; half of the pro- ceeds will go to Vernonia Cares Food Bank and the oth- er half to the Vernonia Hands on Art Summer Youth Music & Arts Camp. If you were affected by the flood and did not get one of these or other donated quilts, call Tobie Finzel at 503-705- 2173. The supply is limited. Watch out for kids when driving - now that school is out, kids are out and about more! 50 Years Ago This Month The June 26, 1958, issue of the Vernonia Eagle included the following news story on the front page: The job of moving the shay en- gine to the permanent display lo- cation at First and Bridge streets was completed Sunday evening by the crew of men who had worked for two days to complete the job. The men who volunteered their help, along with equipment pro- vided by West Oregon Electric and the International Paper company made the move possible. The engine, given to the city of Vernonia by the Long-Bell Divi- sion of International Paper, is the start of a logging museum planned for the two lots at First and Bridge. The lots were cleared, filled and graveled earlier this month in preparation for placing the engine. Of interest to those who wish to know the history and specifica- tions of the shay will be the fol- lowing data about the locomotive: Type – two-truck, Shay patent, geared steam locomotive; Builder – Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Ohio. Builder’s No. VERNONIA INN Enjoy a quiet weekend with us. FULL SIZE, IN ROOM HOT TUBS Queen Beds • Private Bath • Separate Entrance Cable TV • Phones • Handicapped Access • Commercial Rates FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 1-800-354-9494 / 503-429-4006 Gift Certificates Available 900 MADISON AVE., VERNONIA, OR 97064 Just one block off scenic Nehalem River Hwy. (Oregon 47) 2490. Built about 1912; History – Built for Western Co- oparage company, Portland, Ore- gon. Sold by them to Oregon- American Lumber Co. about 1927 and acquired by Long-Bell in 1953; Specifications – Three cylin- der (10”x12”); two-truck; gauge 4 Page 9 Bits & Bites I’m so glad I w a s m a d e aware of the Ver- nonia Orches- tra and T h e Hardy Family Singers program on the Green on May 31. It should have been more adver- tised though. Hands on Art is giving local talent a place in the sun. Did you miss the Foothill Baptist Church High School Team of 45-plus when they were here (from Phoenix, Ari- zona)? They travel each year to help communities in stress and to send the message that there is a better way of life through giving and helping. The Bar-B-Q was good. The program of music, song and skits was very uplifting. Are you as irked as I am lately? The Powers That Be say – Save, pay your bills on time, don’t charge just to keep up with the Jones, cut your in- terest rates and on and on. Then there’s – borrow, borrow, get caught up, get out of debt. Then you get your bills and what’s all that stuffing – join this, buy that new item on time, win big, when you sign up for another money saving card. How much money could com- panies save if they let you just pay for services rendered? My garbage can wouldn’t be so full of trash paper if the “mailers” were never mailed out as “Snag someone into buying anything, even if they can’t pay for it now or ever.” Sorry, I’m in such a rut but somehow I caught someone’s “bug” Sunday and I’ve been house-bound for four days. Can I mail it to you? You’ll save on food and sleep a lot. Your lights won’t burn and your bed will keep you warm if you’re not chilling out. Maybe this is the end of the Winter Blaaahs? Maybe! Any- how, you sure won’t feel like spending money you don’t have. feet 8-1/2 inches; height, approxi- mately 12 feet 10 inches; width about 9 feet; wheelbase 27 feet 2 inches; weight in working order, 87,000 pounds; tractive power 16,900 pounds; wheel diameter 29-1/2 inches. A resolution expressing the ap- preciation of the city of Vernonia to those who worked on the proj- ect appears elsewhere in this issue of The Eagle. 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