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Page 4 Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023 Correction An article on Mason County Community Concerts in the Jan. 12 stated the incorrect time for next concert. Nashville-based Vinyl Radio plays music popular in the 1970s at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 in the Shelton High School Performing Arts Center. The regrets the error. ' Johny Baltimore, the Hawks and Nirvana Seahawks’ playoff game with a friend, Johny. Bal- timore. “Baltimore” isn’t his birth surname, but it’s what people call him, mostly be- cause he rarely appears with- out a Baltimore Orioles base- ball cap. He beca'me a fan of the Orioles in 1988 when the team started the season with 21 straight losses. “I was in- trigued by the idea that a team could go an entire year without winning a game,” he told me. ' Thus, a fan, and a name, were born. I’ve known Johny for 20 years, but I didn’t know his legal last name, so I asked him, for purposes of this col- umn. He hesitated. I asked whether he knew my last name -— sometimes when you ask a question that some- one hesitates to answer, you volunteer the same informa- tion about yourself. It’s a reporter’s tactic. He smiled. “I don’t, but I don’t deal with last names.” So we left it at that. Johny’s the kind of friend you only run into. Maybe you have friends like that too: We’ve never set up a time Iwatched Saturday’s KIRK ERICSON THESE TIMES , and place and agreed to meet at that time and place. Johny allows serendipity to be his guide. I thought it would be fun to engineer an extended visit with Johny. He’s a Seahawks fan — he had recently attend- . ed his first Seahawks game — so last Saturday I scouted around for him. If you’re looking for ‘ Johny, you find him by ask- ing other people, “Have you seen Johny?” And that’s how I found him: He was sitting alone at a table in an estab- lishment reading Rickie Lee ' Jones’ autobiography, “Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour.” The TV screen, tuned to the pregame show, was 20 "LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Support Pioneer School Editor, the Journal, I am in support of the levy for Pioneer School. This is a replacement levy, not a new one. The levy is about cf the dis— trict’s budget. It supports transportation costs notzcovered by the state, after-school academic tutoring for students, athletic programs, reading and math specialists, support stafic not covered by the state and other programs. ‘ I am retired and do not have children in school, but education is important for the children’s and our future. Pamela Harrell Vote for schoOls Editor, the Journal, feet away and he had a front- row seat. I joined him. “Do you have any hope the Seahawks will win?” I asked. “I’m not expecting them to, win,” he said. “I’m just happy because they weren’t sup- posed to be here. You have to ‘ be gratef .” He remained upbeat when San Francisco went up 10-0 in the first quarter. “Maybe if we’re down 10-0, we’ll have them right where we want them,” he said. “It will give them a false sense of security.” After Seahawks running ' back DeeJay Dallas ran for 7 yards, he said, “DeeJay prob- ably has the best smile on the team.” His mood remained rough- ly the same when the game fell. apart for Seattle. I asked whether he was discouraged. “Being down three touch- ’ dow'ns is discouraging, but that’s called life.” As the game spun out of control toward the end of the third quarter, we started pay- ing more attention to the ads shown during game breaks, including ads for trucks, beer, .fast food, new cars, invest- ment advisers, cellphones, legal drugs, insurance ._.. it Shelton School District to vote “yes” on the upcoming levy ballot measure on Feb. 14. This is a replacement levy, which means no new taxes —— just a renewal of the cur- rent tax, which will expire on Dec. 31, Shelton Co—chairs, Citizens for‘ Shelton Schools The Citizen’s For Shelton Schools Com- s These fimds shore up the gap between the fimding that the district receives from the state and the cost of offering things such as the school nurse, library services, counseling services, afterschool sports and activities, campus security, etc. This replacement levy provides about of the Shelton SchOol District’s budget. In ad- dition,'Shelton School District will receive about million additional dollars from the state, but only if the levy’passes. Please vote “yes”! For additional levy fact information, see sheltonschoolsorg. ll , Kristy Buck Brad Miller mittee would like to urge all voters in the uses 492,300 POST MASTER: Send address changes to Shelton-Mason County Journal, PO. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584. Published weekly by the Shelton-Mason County Journal at 227 w. Cots St. Shelton, Washington. Mailing address: PO. Box 430. Shelton, WA'98584 , Telephone: 360-426-4412 1 Website: ‘WWw.masonccunty.com Periodicals postage paid In Shelton, Washington. ‘ see LETTERSTpageb tyiloumnl. Owned and published by . Shelton—Mason County Journal. Inc. TheJourheI Is a member of the . Washington Newspaper Publish- $79 per year ($55 for six months) for Mason County addresses and $99 per year ($70 for six months) outside of Mason County. Slngle issue price $2.00 became a joke because none of those ads were close to ad- vertising anything we’d be interested in, and here we were spending a Saturday .afiernoon watching the game. People like us were not being represented in the ads. Then an ad appeared on the screen that showed still shots of fleeing families, maybe from Latin America heading north. The last words superimposed on the screen: “Jesus was a refugee.” “There we are,” Johny said. In 2008, Johny gave me a 20-by-24—inch double—expo- sure print of Kurt Cobain. He took one of the exposures at a Nirvana concert at The Evergreen State College in 1991 and the other exposure around the same time in an alleyway in Pike Place Mar— ket. He wouldn’t let me pay him for it. ' V I asked him Saturday how that Kurt Cobain print came to be, and he told me a story. After seeing Nirvana per- form in Olympia and Seattle in early 1991, he saw them play later that year in New Haven, Connecticut, where he lived at the time. He and some friends gathered out- side the venue, The Moon, to greet Nirvana when they ar- rived. It was Sept. 26, 1991, two days after “Nevermind” -—- the most influential rock album of the 1990s — was released. “Before the concert, they drove up in a van,” Johny said. “Kurt came up to me and some friends and asked whether we could get him anything We got him some cough medicine. He got us all on the guest list.” You can see the Sept. New Haven concert on You- Tube. Nirvana starts with four cover songs. The crowd seems sedate for a Nirvana show, but then the songs on “Nevermind” start. First, “An- eurysm.” Heads start bobbing and jerking. You’re watching people hear the songs, many for the first time, that became the soundtrack of their youth. “A'little homeboy from Aberdeen ended up touch— ing people’s lives” around the world: “Pretty amazing,” Johny said. , “You’re an optimistic fel— low, aren’t you?” I asked. Johny took a moment. “Hopefully,” he said. I Contact Kirk Ericson at kirk@masoncounty.com I AM GETTING THE FEELING THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WITH ME. Publisher: John Lester Advertising: ere Association. Newsroom: Justin Johnson, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Gordon Weeks, Reporter Matt Baide, Reporter Kirk Boxleitner, Reporter Kirk'Ericson. Columnist/ Proofreader Shawna Whelan, Photographer ‘ Front office:- Creative Director: Lloyd Mullen Dave Plerlk, Office Administrator Karen Hranac, Customer Service Theresa Murray, Ad Representative Delivery: Jon Garza David Olson Niel Challstiom , Composing room: ” Kim Fowler, Advegtlslng Design All regular editorial, advertising and legal deadlines are 5 p.m. the Monday prior to publication. To submit a letter to the editor, email editor@masoncounty.com. Linda Frizzell, Advertising Design