The INDEPENDENT, March 3, 2011
Don’t miss the CCSWA Tree Sale, March 12
With spring on the way, it is
time for property owners and
others to consider purchasing
and planting some trees,
plants, or shrubs. Columbia
County Small Woodlands As-
sociation (CCSWA) will be
holding its 13th Annual Tree
Sale on Saturday, March 12, at
the Lawrence Oil parking lot in
St. Helens, from 8:30 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. The site is easily ac-
cessed from Hwy 30 and is
north of the major traffic lights
in St. Helens.
There are 19 species of
seedlings available at a cost
ranging from $1.00 to $3.50.
The mostly bareroot deciduous
and evergreen seedlings can
be bought individually, while
some can be purchased in bag
quantities. For the first time,
Pacific yew will be available,
and the Association has dou-
bled its supply of red flowering
currant for this season. Other
species included are Improved
“Elite” Douglas fir, Colorado
spruce, Sugar maple, Dawn
redwood, Oregon ash, Coastal
redwood, Sourwood, Port Or-
ford cedar, Grand fir, Incense
cedar, Red Japanese maple,
Noble fir, Purple smoke tree,
Ponderosa pine, Western red
cedar, Serbian spruce, and
Chinese dogwood.
A portion of the income from
this sale provides funding for
two major CCSWA educational
programs. The first is to provide
admission fees for all Columbia
County fifth graders to attend
the World Forestry Center in
Portland. If all fifth grade stu-
dents were to attend, the num-
ber would exceed 700. Trans-
portation costs are provided by
Oregon Forest Resources Insti-
tute.
The second program pro-
vides grants to Columbia Coun-
ty public schools and teachers.
For this school year, three
grants were approved. One of
the grants provides a Global
Positioning System (GPS)
workshop for students enrolled
in the Outdoor School. In Ver-
nonia, students will purchase
and utilize a green house to
propagate indigenous seed-
lings and grow some foods for
the cafeteria. The third grant
will fund a nature trail at the
school with a groomed path
through this natural setting.
Tree and shrub identification
signs will be installed along the
walkway, with other information
describing special attributes of
that specific natural site.
CCSWA, a chapter of Ore-
gon Small Woodlands, has ap-
proximately 160 family forest-
land owners who are members.
The Association has been in
existence since 1967. Tours,
speakers, seedlings, a newslet-
ter, and a variety of other serv-
ices are available to each
member through the efforts of
many volunteers.
For information regarding
membership or regarding the
Annual Tree Sale, call Presi-
dent Scott Russell at 503- 543-
2434; or Director Paul Nye at
503-556-8800.
Annual Alumni
Basketball game
Calling all Vernonia Logger
Alumni: The second annual
Alumni Basketball Game will
take place Saturday, March 12,
at 6:00 p.m.
If you are interested in play-
ing, call Julie at 503-869-0211.
This is a fundraiser for
OSEA Classified Employees of
the Vernonia School District.
Monies go to support confer-
ences, training workshops,
scholarship funds, Boys and
Girls Athletic funds, and
Teacher Appreciation Day.
Admission is $5.00 for
adults, $4.00 for those 12
years old through high school,
and $3.00 for kindergarten
through fifth grade.
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Bits & Bites
By Jacqueline Ramsay
Hello. I’ve been asleep at the switch. I
just woke up to the fact that February has
only 28 days – not 31 – so I’m late.
I’ve been cleaning out stuff, ran into
some interesting things. Call them memory
joggers. From an article of 10-11-01,
“Board for a new Senior Center met, re-
viewed six architects resumes, chose
three.” Article 11-3-01, “Firm chosen, plans
move forward.” Article 12-5-01, “It’s exciting
to know that we will have a new center in two or three years.”
What a dream state the Center has been in. 2-27-2011, still no
ground broken. Dream on, Folks.
Another article reminded me that today Shadow isn’t 77 years
old, but 163 (they recomputed a dog age. First 2 years at 50 each
= 100, then add 4 years for all others so 4x9 = 36, so 136 years
old). No wonder she sleeps all the time she isn’t out hunting squir-
rels.
It seems that everyone is running around “barking and blow-
ing”. Since the weather isn’t sure what it’s doing – stay home, stay
warm, and eat your vegetables. Also, drink water, not pop. I’m
missing your music, your friendly chats, the good food at the Sr.
Center, but not your snow and ice. I’ll be back to visit when the
sun comes out for more than 10 minutes a day.
It does not seem possible that Easter is only 51 days away.
Maybe we will have our spring rains by then and speaking of
Spring – I saw my first camellia last week, bright red. The whole
bush was ablaze in the sun. I pray the snow is protecting it from
our 28° weather. Also the forsythia is showing yellow all over –
there is a ray of spring – even the lawn weeds are blooming.
I’m feeling good but chilly. I don’t promise I won’t ramble on in
the next article.
Have a spot of tea for me.
Remember when the Golden Oldies were Ron Durham,
Eleanor Thompson, Duke Gorther, Darrel Steinae, Necia DeWitt,
Al Shaffer, Bob Smith, Bob Wiley, Everett Lee, Pat Wheeler, Mike
Yaanan and Delores Varner (article from 2003)?
50 Years Ago This Month
The March 9, 1961, issue of
the Vernonia Eagle included
the following Topics of the Town
article:
Letters from Mrs. Ole Brown
of San Jose, California to friends
here bring news that she now has a
granddaughter, Lynda Marie who
arrived recently at the home of her
daughter Judy and husband. Mrs.
Brown plans a trip to Oregon in
April to visit her son and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Larry Brown, and their
small son at Hillsboro.
Miss Jan Garner was here on
Thursday to visit her sister and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Seibel
and two sons and her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Trenton Garner of
Birkenfeld while enroute back to
Seattle from a ten day vacation on
the islands of Curasao and Aruba
off the coast of Venzuela. She
stopped over in Chicago to see
Miss Vicki Crossan and was in
New York briefly between planes.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hudson,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Castle and
Mrs. Laura Carmichael went to
Seaside Saturday to attend a Latter
Day Saints church workshop and
conference held Saturday evening
and Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Richards was absent
from her duties at the Washington
school cafeteria Friday due to ill-
ness and her place was taken by
Mrs. Ione Justice.
Mrs. Evelyn Heath went to
Beaverton Friday to spend the
week end with her daughter and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Light and the new grandson,
Lawrence Eugene Light. Also vis-
iting there during the week end
were Miss Carolyn Heath and her
fiance, Irvin Ladd, from Corvallis.
Mrs. L. H. Thomas, Miss
Joyce Sullivan and Miss Geneva
Sullivan were in Portland Satur-
day.
Mrs. Nola Brady is in Port-
land Sanitarium again, this time in
traction for a back ailment. A se-
ries of injuries and other troubles
had kept her from working and to
be hospitalized at different times
during the past year. Her son, Wes-
ley Brady is also incapacitated at
presented (sic) with a broken foot
which occurred three or four
weeks ago.
Mrs. Evelyn Heath, Robert
Sargent and Robert Thornton were
the committee in charge of the fac-
ulty coffee hour at the Washington
school last Tuesday evening.
Last Thursday afternoon
Mrs. Larry Garner, Mrs. Carl
Davis, Mrs. Grayce Bundy and
Mrs. Irma Chance accompanied
Mrs. E. E. Garner to Hillsboro for
her official visit to Phoenicia Tem-
ple, Pythian Sisters. Mrs. Larry
Garner visited with Mrs. Melvin
Roland and family until meeting
time and the others attended the
banquet which preceded the meet-
ing.
Mrs. Dave Marshall arrived
here Friday evning (sic) for a two
weeks visit and is the houseguest
of Mrs. W. T. Graves. She had
been at Seattle with her son Jack
and family since before the holi-
days and is now enroute home.
While in Washington she also vis-
ited with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Richardson at Edmonds. She came
to Portland February 26 and was
the house guest of Miss Vera
Finnell last week. Tuesday they
were luncheon guests at the home
of Mrs. E. S. Thompson where
other guests were Mrs. L. H.
Dewey, Mrs. F. D. Macpherson
and Miss Zoe Miller. Wednesday
they visited at the home of Mrs.
Wesley Pace where Mrs. Walter
Olinger of Hillsboro was also a
guest.
Mrs. Frank McCabe has re-
ceived word that Mrs. Minnie
Vane is hospitalized in Wasco
Medical hospital at Reno, Nevada
with pneumonia and is taking oxy-
gen. Her address is General Deliv-
ery, Reno, Nevada.
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