The INDEPENDENT, November 20, 2008
Hands-on Art Variety show a success
The fourth annual Hands-on
Art variety show provided a
highly enjoyable evening that
showcased local talent. This
year’s show began with a
scene from “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” performed by
four budding thespians, Hailey
Jole, Maria Pelster, Caleb
Hardy, and Abraham Hardy;
Sierra Jole provided the narra-
tion. Petra Johnson and Mag-
gie Hatt performed Highland
and Irish dances, and Grace
Semerjian presented Flamenco
and Gypsy dances with great
style. The Scott Family enter-
tained with tin whistle and gui-
tar. The Vernonia Community
Orchestra, Strings on Fire, led
Church group will collect food
The Vernonia Christian
Church home group will be go-
ing door to door, in December
and January, collecting non-
perishable food, paper products
and dog and cat food for Ver-
nonia Cares. Their focus will be
to call on homes that were not
flooded last December.
If you would like to be sure
they come to your home, call
Marcia at 503-324-6753 or Sue
at 503-429-4901.
Holiday Parade route has changed
The route for Vernonia’s De-
cember 6 Lighted Holiday Pa-
rade has been changed to bet-
ter accommodate log trucks
and other long vehicles.
The parade will form on
Washington Ave. facing Bridge
Street, via State Ave. to C
Street, to Washington. When
the parade starts, at 6:00 p.m.,
the vehicles will turn onto
Bridge Street toward down-
town.
by Caleb Hardy, and the
Hands-on Art Recorder play-
ers, led by Rachel Hardy, pro-
vided a delightful range of mu-
sical styles. Jake Brock, Kim
Scott, Danyell Freeman, and
Tom Hardy sang solos, and the
Vernonia Community Singers
closed the show with three live-
ly numbers. Vernonia Mayor
Sally Harrison was again the
Mistress of Ceremonies.
At the suggestion of one of
the performers, this year the
audience members were given
ballots and asked to vote for
their favorite act. The “People’s
Choice Award for 2008” goes to
ten year-old Grace Semerjian
for her engaging Gypsy dance.
This year’s show raised
cash and canned goods for the
Vernonia Cares Holiday Food
Drive and the Vernonia
Grange.
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Bits & Bites
By Jacqueline Ramsay
Ahhh…
the rains
a r e
come.
Time to
stock up
on mun-
chies,
books,
CDs, DVDs, and/or dig out your
rain gear, for humans and pets.
It’s time to brave the “out of
doors.” It was fun to trudge in
wind and leaves but now you
must be able to muster control
of umbrella, dog lead and still
miss all the puddles without
looking like you wished you
were somewhere else. Since
Shadow does not like the bath-
tub I figured she’d not be long
walking in the downpour we
were caught in – Wrong. She
ran ahead, through the bush
and the roadblock puddles for
half an hour. Me, I had an um-
brella but was soaked to the
knees. The sun returned and
we have much to be thankful
for.
But – on page 14 of the No-
vember 6 issue of this paper I
was struck, aghast, at the pic-
ture and article. If the people in
1926 were sharp enough to
build a raised-board sidewalk
along a given stretch of ground
where was the brain power in
1952 when folks filled in the
duck pond to build the “High”
School??? And now you cry –
what can we do? I’m sorry, I’ve
no more to say, except – you all
have known this was coming
years ago, not just back in
1996 or 2007. Talk of some-
thing making a person sick of
heart. This Takes the Cake.
Author to sign books on Nov. 22
There will be a book-signing
and talk by Don Alanen, author
of The Logger’s Encyclopedia ,
at the Vernonia Library on Sat-
urday, November 22, at 2:00
p.m.
The book focuses on termi-
nology and stories of logging in
Oregon and Washington. Auto-
graphed copies of the book will
be available for $24.95.
This event is presented by
the Vernonia Pioneer Museum
Association and the Friends of
the Library.
50 Years Ago This Month
The
sue of
cluded
ries on
November 6, 1958, is-
the Vernonia Eagle in-
the following news sto-
the front page:
The city of Vernonia has been
given 66 company-owned houses
by the Long-Bell Division of In-
ternational Paper company.
In addition to the homes, Ver-
nonia was given a building lot in
Mariolino’s
the city’s business district, a parcel
of 7-1/2 acres outside the city lim-
its (which may be used for a park),
and the 37 acres on which the 66
homes are located.
The deed to the houses and oth-
er property was presented to May-
or Charley Hickman by C. L. An-
derson, general manager of the
company’s operation at Vernonia.
Please see page 22
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Columbia County Emergency Management, Columbia 9-1-1, National Weather Service and
the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers presented a free Winter
Weather Preparedness Work-
Senior
shop in Vernonia on Tuesday,
Discounts
November 18, at the Scout
Cabin.
Midway
Veterinary
Clinic
Open in Vernonia
Wednesdays and Saturdays
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Call for appointments
503-429-1612
10 am - 7 pm Mon. - Fri.
10 am - 6 pm Saturday
Closed Sundays
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