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The INDEPENDENT, June 18, 2009
Can You Dig It?
WEATHER REPORT
MAY 2009
From page 6
I’ve almost decided to attempt to make real rose beads this
year. The beads are supposed to last and retain their fragrance for
many years. When I searched for a recipe I discovered that these
beads “strung into rosaries (from the Latin rosarium, meaning gar-
land of roses or rose garden), the beads assisted the devout in
saying their prayers. Indeed, many believed that the lovely per-
fume, released into the air as the beads were handled and worn,
wafted to heaven and disposed God to listen kindly to all their en-
treaties.” [Mother Earth News] Of course it must also have made
congregations of unwashed bodies easier to endure.
The recipe is basically to collect petals and cook them gently in
a little water, in cast iron, stirring with a wooden spoon until they
turn into a thick paste. It’s a bit more complicated than that and the
cast iron may not necessary. All colors of petals get very dark, but
only one source indicated that is was possible to achieve any rec-
ognizable color. The cast iron guarantees a very dark reddish
black, cooking in stainless, glass or enamel may yield a lighter col-
or, closer to the color of the petals you use. Modern roses, devel-
oped largely for disease resistance, may not have much fragrance
and you may have to add scent. Be sure that any roses that you
do use have not been treated with chemicals – especially if you in-
tend to wear or handle the beads.
There is a very old rose at the corner of our house that has
huge double fragrant flowers in early summer. After that first
bloom it just sits there reaching for the sun and getting black spot.
I’d love to be able to preserve that fragrance. I may eventually
take cuttings to grow somewhere else, and begin trying to elimi-
nate it from the now shady corner. It would take years of cutting it
to the ground several times a season (or chemical warfare) to kill
it. It has been growing in that corner since before we moved here.
May you have joy of the ever changing earth.
Listen! Smell! See! Touch! Hear! Pay attention!
Relax into being here now and let the cares of the world float
away for at least a little while.
VHS scholarships announced
From page 11
Gavin Roberts.
Karen Pitt-Kilgore Memorial
($500); Alexandria Chadek,
Justin Caputo.
Kris
Duane
Crowston
Memorial
($500);
Gavin
Roberts.
($1000);
Byron
Schorzman, Nicholas Young.
Mike
Busch
Memorial
($500); Taylor Smith.
Mist/Birkenfeld Helping Cir-
cle ($750); Megan Hieronimus.
PEO
($500);
Rebekah
Young, Tara Ostrander.
Vernonia Boosters ($500);
Samantha Lee, Rebekah
Young, Nicholas Young, Gavin
Roberts.
Vernonia Education Associ-
ation ($400); Tara Ostrander.
($800); Byron Schorzman.
Vernonia Lions’ Club ($500);
Blake Moeller, Gavin Roberts,
Samantha Lee, Rebekah
Young, Nicholas Young.
VOLTA - WOEC Vocational
Training ($2500); Eric Budge.
VHS Alumni ($1000); Gavin
Roberts.
Wauna Federal Credit Union
($1000); Gavin Roberts.
Windermere ($500); Gavin
Roberts.
WOEC,
Sam
Hearing
($500); Taylor Smith, Gavin
Roberts, Nicholas Young.
Zack Rumbolz Memorial
($750); Ashley Paleck, Justin
Caputo, Blake Moeller, Gavin
Roberts. ($1000); Eric Budge,
David Allen, Taylor Smith, Tara
Ostrander.
Chance to Become ($5000);
Ashley Paleck, Justin Caputo.
TRIVIA ANSWERS
(from page 17)
1. Three: off Cannon Beach,
off Cape Kiwanda, and in
Wallowa County.
2. Northwest Champion
Sheepdog Trials and the
Lamb & Wool Festival.
3. Spain.
4. Law.
5. Pitcher.
6. Klamath Basin Wildlife
Refuge.
Celebrate the first day of Summer
Sunday, June 21
DATE
TEMPERATURE
HI
LO
PRECIP.
AMT.
1
69
30
.27
2
62
39
.17
3
61
37
.06
4
54
38
.89
5
59
44
.42
6
59
40
.43
7
56
33
.07
8
58
33
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9
67
36
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10
68
34
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11
60
39
.16
12
55
34
.18
13
49
32
.43
14
59
35
T
15
69
34
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16
83
35
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17
80
37
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18
75
42
.02
19
57
41
.02
20
61
36
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21
70
32
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22
70
36
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23
70
34
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24
69
32
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25
69
30
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26
69
40
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27
73
35
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28
82
37
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29
83
42
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30
85
38
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31
81
42
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Temperature and precipitation
amounts are from the official U.S.
weather station at the Vernonia wa-
ter plant. Measurable precipitation in
May totalled 3.12 inches.
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