A1	Vineyard Mountain Gazette

INDEX: A Main Story…A1 Classified Ads…A2 Weather…B2 B Cooking…B1 Gardening Tips…B2 June 4, 2001 Issue #8

McDonald Forest McDonald Forest is a really great place to hike, horseback ride, bike, run or walk. McDonald forest is the OSU school forest, as you most likely know, it is 7,000 acres right in our neighborhood. Some of the Trails you could go on: The Alpha Trail is steep 0.5-mile trail connecting to a 650 (upper) and 810 (lower) roads. The Extendo is considered a technically difficult downhill trail by mountain bikers. This 1.4-mile trail is a downhill run from 680 road or an uphill route from 6020 road. The Uproute trail is a 0.3-mile trail connecting the 680 road to the end of the 6020 road. This trail connects with Extendo near the 680 road. The Homestead Trail begins at the Oak Creek Access parking lot. This easy, 0.4-mile trail joins the 6021 and 600 roads in making a 1.9-mile loop back to the parking lot. The Horse tails: Lower Horse travel 0.9 miles through a meadow featuring panoramic views, and connects the 610 and 612.4 roads. Upper Horse is 0.6 miles and connects the 610 and the 600 roads. The Dan’s Trail climes 3.0 miles from 700’ at Chip Ross park to 1478’ at Dimple hill. Lower Dan’s crosses through an old historic orchard. Upper Dan’s climbs for impressive views of Corvallis and the Coast and Cascade Ranges. There are a group of runners who run the trails at McDonald forest. They meet Sunday morning at the Lewisburg Saddle. Five to ten people come and they run 5 to 7 miles. Karen Fallon from the group has one thing to say, “It is Beautiful”. They see and hear lots of wildlife on their runs, including deer, rabbit, and raccoons and once they saw a coyote. If you are interested in joining there are spots available just call Linda Reid at 745-5042. For more information about the forest call 737-4452 or web page www.cof.orst.edu/resfor

A2	Classified Ads

Help Needed	Guinea Pig	NEWorld Foods Inc	VMSC Has Openings
Any Responsible young person who would be willing to feed and pet a cat while we are gone. Call the Hoffman’s at 745-5956	FREE guinea pig. Silky male, named silver. He has been to the Benton County Fair and won a blue ribbon. You can buy a cage for 10$ if you don’t all ready have one. Call Debbie at 745-7544 please leave a message.	Italian Calzone (Frozen) Four Zesty Flavors For More information Call New World Foods Inc. (A USDA Mfg. Facility) 541-758-8331	The Vineyard Mountain Swim Club has openings. For families to join the pool. They also need helpers with the pool maintenance! Call Anne Delander at 745-7314
Musical Instruments
Piano $1,300 Violin $300 Clarinet $100 and Misc. Furniture too. Call the Stokes @ 745-5661
Yard Work		Weeks till school is out!
I need help with yard work- Please call Paula at 745-5304.		2 weeks till school is OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weather

Mon Jun 4				Partly Cloudy	68 °F		47 °F
Partly sunny after morning low clouds. High clouds increasing late. Highs near 70. Northwest wind 10 mph.		UV Index: 8 High

Tue Jun 5		Scattered Showers	72 °F		48 °F
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows near 50. Highs 65 to 70.	UV Index: 7 High

Wed Jun 6				Partly Cloudy	72 °F		46 °F
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows near 50. Highs 65 to 70.		UV Index: 8 High

Thu Jun 7				Partly Cloudy	77 °F		48 °F
Morning clouds...become partly sunny. Lows 45 to 50. Highs near 70.		UV Index: 8 High

B1

Cooking

No Drip Popsicles

Ingredients
	1 cup boiling water 1 (3 ounce) package fruit flavored gelatin mix 1 banana 1 cup plain yogurt

 Directions

1

Combine boiling water and gelatin in a blender and pulse until gelatin is dissolved. Blend in banana until smooth, and then blend in yogurt. Pour mixture into Popsicle molds or small, plastic drinking cups and freeze until hard. (If using drinking cups, freezes until firm, insert Popsicle sticks, then freeze completely.)

Chocolate Fudgesicles

Ingredients
	1 (3 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding 1/2 cup white sugar 3 cups milk

 Directions

1	Prepare chocolate pudding as directed on package.
2	In a mixing bowl, combine pudding, sugar, and milk. Pour mixture into small plastic cups (if you do not have Popsicle molds) and freeze. When the Popsicles have set, place a Popsicle stick into them if you are using plastic cups. Serve when frozen.

Weather (Continued)

Fri Jun 8				Isolated T-Storms		73 °F		48 °F
		UV Index: 7 High

Chance of showers. Lows 45 to 50. Highs near 70.

B2	Gardening Tips

Edible Landscaping

Have your plants and eat them too

Fine Gardening says, For ground covers, they suggest alpine strawberries, wintergreen, and lingonberries. Alpine strawberries (Fragaria vesca 'Semperflorens') produce sweet and delicious small fruits from early summer through fall. They grow well in full to partial sun, and most strains are completely runnerless. This makes them a perfect choice to define flower beds or borders where regular runner-producing strawberries would be rather untidy. Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) is a pretty evergreen ground cover for shady areas that produces attractive, red, blueberry-sized fruits that taste just like wintergreen mints. Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) are widely considered the very best of the cranberry-type fruits. They are produced on a spreading, evergreen plant that grows about 1 foot tall. They grow well in full sun, but in hotter climates they prefer midday shade and are happiest in well-drained, acidic soil.

For shrubs, how about blueberries? They are multistemmed shrubs that grow about 2 to 6 feet tall, depending on the variety. Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) have attractive little bell-like, white flowers in spring, delicious fruit in summer, and red or yellow foliage in autumn. Another really nice shrub is the 'Crandall' currant (Ribes odoratum). This variety was developed from the wild currants native to the Midwest and grows to about 3 to 4 feet tall. In the summer, it produces delicious, sweet, tiny black fruits. In the fall, the leaves turn a fiery orange-red. Best of all, the abundantly produced yellow flowers have a delicious clovelike fragrance in spring.

Crabapple trees (Malus spp.) have pretty white or pink flowers, and many varieties also produce tasty fruits that are wonderful for jellies or for cooking. Some varieties, for instance, 'Centennial' and 'Kerr,' are also sweet and delicious picked right off the tree.

Serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.) produce fruits that look and taste like blueberries. They are excellent fresh and superb in pies or preserves. Either shrubs or trees, serviceberries have pretty white flower clusters in the spring and beautiful leaf color in the fall.

The hardy kiwi (Actinidia kolomikta 'Arctic Beauty') is an attractive woody vine that tolerates shade. The male has lovely red, white, and green variegated leaves and fragrant, small, cream-colored flowers. This species needs both a male and female plant to produce the sweet-tasting, grape-sized fruit. They have no fuzz, and the skin is soft and tender. Don't bother peeling them, just eat them--skin and all.

All these plants are hardy through Zone 5B (-15ºF), and some are hardier than that. For more information on edible landscaping, They suggest Robert Kourik's excellent book, Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally.

Coming Soon tips for growing Bonsai!

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Cory La Mont

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