The INDEPENDENT, August 7, 2008
Century Farm recipes wanted for book
The Oregon Agricultural Ed-
ucation Foundation is collecting
recipes for a heritage cookbook
to honor the 50th anniversary
of the Oregon Century Farm &
Ranch Program and Oregon’s
sesquicentennial celebration.
According to OAEF Devel-
opment Director Janice Reed,
“The cookbook will be an offer-
ing to Oregon’s farm and ranch
families, and to all Oregonians.
Agriculture has never been
more important to the state’s
future. Our agricultural heritage
and the families that represent
that heritage are also our part
of that future.”
Since 1958, more than a
thousand families have been
honored for operating family-
owned ranches and farms for a
century or more. Members of
these families are invited to
contribute
favorite
family
recipes to the project. The her-
itage cookbook will also feature
historic photographs, personal
stories, and a roster of the cen-
tury farms and ranches.
“We’re looking for favorites,
whether they are family tradi-
tions today, or what everybody
liked best at a picnic decades
ago,” says Richard Engeman, a
member of the management
committee for the Century
Farm & Ranch Program and
Volunteer sought for committee
The Columbia County Board
of Commissioners is soliciting
Law Day coming to Senior Center
Law Day at the Vernonia Se-
nior Center will be Wednesday,
August 20. Scappoose attor-
ney Maddy Sheehan will offer
brief consultations to senior cit-
izens on civil law issues, in-
cluding wills, power of attorney,
advanced medical directives,
editor of the book. Contributors
will receive a free copy of the
cookbook.
Publication
is
scheduled for the spring of
2009 by White House Grocery
Press, and the book will be sold
at local bookstores, museum
stores, online, and by mail or-
der.
“We’re especially looking to
contact families from the early
years of the program, for whom
we may no longer have contact
information, or who may no
longer be directly involved in
agriculture,” says Engeman.
Please see page 22
trusts, easement, neighbor dis-
putes, and other issues. Di-
vorce, custody or support is-
sues will not be included.
To schedule your 15 minute
consultation, call Karen Miller,
Community Action Team Senior
Advocate at 503-429-9112.
applications from county citi-
zens who are willing to serve
on the Columbia County Solid
Waste Advisory Committee.
The Board is seeking appli-
cations to fill “at large” or “in-
dustry” positions. All applicants
will be considered. If you are in-
terested in serving on this com-
mittee, please call the Board
office at 503-397-4322 for more
details.
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Bits & Bites
I know
a lot of
y o u
h a v e
b e e n
holding
y o u r
breath –
just wait-
ing for
this article. But, did you attend
the Planning Commission
meeting July 24? Did you find
out what you were really con-
cerned about? If you live in the
Mobile Park, I really doubt it. I
did learn they would pay me a
sum for my home. Some com-
fort for relocating your life at
this stage (my senior years). I
came away from the meeting
determined to find our “one”
thing. Where do we folks really
stand. The owners of the park
still own the park and at pres-
ent are not selling. Their opin-
ion is that opening up Riverside
will create too much traffic for
safety of the people in the park.
This is the one topic the devel-
opers have never said “Boo”
about (that I know of). Anyhow,
I feel if you want to do your fall
house cleaning and spruce up
the yard I’d say you have time
to enjoy it. In fact, there are
spaces in the park that the
owners would like to see peo-
ple living in. Ok – enough said.
If interested, for information
you can call 503-631-3093.
I was rummaging in a closet
the other day and found a box
I’d forgotten about. It was full of
‘once layed blouses’, there my
brain got stuck. Sounds like;
once, ounce, one, won, oh,
owe. Play the game with your
young children. Then explain
how “once” sounds like “wuns”,
or how about by, buy and bi (a
combined form meaning two).
Don’t take life too seriously,
have a little fun on the way.
Oh – back to the blouses.
They were all cotton that needs
to be ironed. Yes, I dug out my
iron from the cobwebs and got
busy.
Oh yes – If you’ve lost a
Bridgestone tire and wheel for
a large rig it’s at the turn in of
the Skills Park (anyhow, it was
there on the a.m. of July 23).
A seven-member citizen
committee also accepted the
study, Paiva noted.
The study will be forwarded
to the Transportation Commis-
sion and the Oregon Legisla-
ture for further consideration,
Paiva said.
By Jacqueline Ramsay
20 Years Ago This Month
The August 25, 1988, issue
of The Independent included
the following news story on
page 8:
The State Parks and Recre-
ation Advisory Committee has
recommended development of
a linear park on an abandoned
Montana Picnic
open to all
Are you from Montana? Do
you just love Montana? If you
fit in either of these categories,
come to the 18th annual Mon-
tana Picnic on Saturday, Au-
gust 23, starting at 11:00 a.m.,
at Horseshoe Lake Park in
Woodland, Washington.
This is a great time to make
new Montana friends and visit
with old ones. Any musicians
are welcome. There will be free
chicken this year, so bring a
potluck dish and your own
utensils. There will also be free
coffee and pop, plus prizes.
For more information, call
503-543-3800 or 503-288-
2885.
Big Sky Country
Picnic ~ Aug. 23
railroad bed between Banks
and Vernonia.
At a meeting last week, the
group accepted a consultant’s
study which recommends a lin-
ear park be developed in both
Columbia and Washington
counties.
The proposed park would
provide trail facilities for hikers,
bikers, equestrians and the
physically limited, according to
Joe Paiva, Parks assistant ad-
ministrator.
Klein Consulting Engineers,
Inc., Forest Grove, recently
completed a study of the pro-
posed park and recommended
development of 15 miles of the
railroad right-of-way.
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