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From band to
By DEAN SIEMON
Alyssa Beck, Shelton tligh
School senior, grew up play-
ing soccer but eventually had
to quit sports after wearing out
all the cartiledge in her knees.
I was a little too aggres-
sive," she said. "So I don't do
sports. I do marching band."
Beck is in the marching band
and concert band at Shelton
High School, playing the flute.
She brings her love of mu-
sic to Southside Elementary
School in Shelton and teaches
a band class.
After teaching in her junior
year, Beck decided to return in
her senior year fbr her senior
project.
I just enjoy the kids," Beck
said.
Beck teaches" the "big band"
class, where the students al-
ready know the basics of their
instruments. She shows them
new notes to play on Tuesdays
and Thursdays.
"Last year i did four days a
week," Beck said.
While she enjoyed teach-
ing foul' days a week last year,
Beck said she prefers the two-
day week.
"It's a lot easier with the two
because I call spend more time
with my homework," she said.
Beck said she was goint to
pursue teaching but now is in-
terested in earning a degree as
a Registered Nurse, moving on
to work in oncology - a medi-
cal field that focuses on tumors
(cancer).
After watching the movie
"Letters to God," based on a
young boy fighting cancer and
writes letters to God, which in-
spires hope in a community
"1 want to help people like
him," Beck said. "l get more
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nursing
Alyssa Beck
out of it than helping people
who are just hurt. I'm not so
much blood and guts."
Beck is deciding between
Boise State University in Idaho
or Pacific Lutheran University
in Tacoma.
Beck grew up in Twin Falls,
Idaho until midway through
the fifth grade and still have
family in Idaho, which play
into her consideration of at-
tending BSU.
Beck said she is also a fan
of the four seasons that Idaho
gets, which is more than she
gets in Shelton.
"I like the tbur feet of snow,
the 100 degree weather, the
flowers and the leaves I can
jump in," she said.
But she said she has kept
PLU in mind due to it's close
vicinity to home.
"It is closer to home and I'm
not sure if" I'm quite ready to
leave the nest," she said.
Beck said one other thing
she would like to do is travel to
different parts of the world, in-
eluding Africa.
"I think it would be cool to go
with the Red Cross once 1 get
my RN," Beck said.
Joul hal photo by Natalie Johnson
The SHS SADD club displayed this car, which was in an accident because of text messaging.
SHS SADD club hands out tickets
[
By NATALIE JOHNSON
I Last week at Shelton High School some student
[ drivers got traffic tickets, but not from the police.
I SADD club (students against destructive decisions)
]
members handed out $124 dollar tickets to students
i wearing their seatbelts while driving.
The tickets could later be entered nito a raffle to win
, $124 worth of prizes, said club advisor Gerald Apple.
"What it's doing is rewarding people fbr good deci-
i sions," he said.
I Apple said that only a tw students were caught not
i wearnig their seatbelts while driving in the parking
i lot.
"It's not thinking before they make a decision," he
said.
The ticketing program is part of SADD week at the
school +vtuch a]s, ,iudci< ,u, ;,iM)!t J! a car that
crashed Mter it's l.-year old driver received a text
SADD club member Isaac Wilson said that students
at SHS really respond to the program.
"They do," he said. "We also do a program called
Little Stars... and present it to kindergarten and first
graders."
Wilson said that he joined SADD club because he
saw that destructive decisions were a problem at SHS.
"I wanted to make a difference for students in the
high school," he said.
Students in SHS's nationally acclaimed SADD club
are also planning to produce a video about distracted
driving this year, Wilson said.
Also, the club will soon be presented with a $2,000
check from State Farm insurance for being one of the
top schools in the country for satbty.
Apple, who has been the club's advisor since 1985,
stud that the SADD club at SHS plans to go to nation-
al conferences this year, and hopes to achieve a first
place national ranking, as they did last year.
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open at 1:30 p.m., admission is fl"ee and ev-
e*Tone is welcome.
Michael Herschensohn is an expert in
preservation, planning, and the history of
American architecture. For the past twenty-
one years, he has been on the board of His-
toric Seattle, the city's only historic preser-
vation organization. His presentation exam-
ines historic buildings across the state--from
the Donald House to the Stimson Green
Mansion to the Red Barn to Maryhill. He
talks about the buildings themselves as
well as about the context of the people who
have occupied hem, helping us understand
the similarities and differences'between the
past and our contemporary lives.
Pioneer School District honor roll
These are the Trimester 1 honor roll stu-
dents fbr Pioneer Intermediate/Middle School.
Sixth Grade Highest Honors: Kobe
Bogh, Morgan Leach, Tessa Wood, Jake
Kramer, Victoria Ferebee, Kayla Mallette,
Taylor Toney, Skyler Lenhoff, Crystal Car-
roll and Chloe Colello.
Sixth Grade High Honors: Alexan-
dria Petrowski, Rym Youngquist, Brittney
Calhoun, Carly Nelson, Carol Renner, Da-
kota Burke, Jewelianna Graden, Aleksandr
Lindeen-McDermott, Arionna Smith, Karen
Garcia Juarez, April Hanson, Jessica Klauk
and Sireena Graden.
Sixth Grade Honors: Kaylee Jackson,
Conrada McGrath, Samantha Sinks, Skyla
Knudsen, Gina Simon, Austin Wood, Jenelle
Beem, Gabriel Wood, Kenneth Easton, Alexis
Browning and Kory Collins.
Seventh Grade Highest Honors: Me-
gun Jacobsen, Kyra Raezer, Brooke Tins-
ley, Daynah Anderson, Julia Morris, Lillian
Tratmck, Connor Wilcox, Cheyanna Chesser,
Trevor Handyside, Grace Phelan, Nicholas
Riccobene, Dylan Rogers, Taishia Stephens,
Guy Beaudom and Caroline Ray.
Seventh Grade High Honors: Madrona
Greenwell, Nicholas Howard, Jay Morse,
Natalie Zieber, Amanda Rhoads, Matthew
Vercoe, Austin Lee, Allison Morey, Kianna
Johnson, Analise Scott, Anna Preston, Jar-
ed Beem, Skylynn McEachern and Ashley
Drake.
Seventh Grade Honors: Brittany John-
son, Timothy Metcalf, Brianna Bell, Bani-
halim Mohammed, Dylan Welch, Matte
Whitley, Cydney Truax, Ty Fisher, Alexis
Jacobs, Triston Ward, Jymie Garrison, Isaac
O'Connor, Lorelei Oster, Monic Equihua and
Tamara Harrah.
Eighth Grade Highest Honors: Jared
Coulter, Kyle Mitchell, Hannah McLeod, Me-
gan Van Marter, Brennan Berry, Richard Fe-
rebec, Bryce Taunt, Jessica Johnson, Kaylee
Wright, Megan Elliott, Andrew Kilmer and
Sarai Sandoval.
Eighth Grade High Honors: Dan-
iel Overson, Krystie Kohler, Brian Reeves,
Trenton Hughes, Alexis Leonard, Austin Re-
necker, Jacob Gallaher, Emily Valley, Ezra
Spaet, Haley Borys, Scimidar Johnston and
Zane Taylor.
Eighth Grade Honors: Shawn Dry
(Johnson, Wesley Rusher, Destany Williams,
Dakota Rapp, Serena Hernandez, Colby
Crumley, Nathan Lemieux, Kailey Gould,
Lamar Swagerty, Brittany McKern, Aaron
Roberts and Michael Hensley.
Unless otherwise noted, all events take
place at the Mason County Senior Activities
Center at 826 W. Raih'oad Ave. The senior
center hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon-
day through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m. on Friday. The center's telephone desk
(426-7374) is closed for lunch from noon till
12:30 p.m.
Thursday
8:05 a.m., gentle, restorative yoga.
9-11 a.m., intermediate/advanced line
dancing.
9-11 a.m., EZ Crafters.
10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. blood pressure
11 a.m., bridge - signup the day betbre.
Noon, lunch: pot roast
1 p.m., bingo.
Friday
8 and 8:30 a.m., tai chi.
9-11 a.m., open line dance.
9 a.m.-1 p.m., sewing circle.
11 Member Social
12 p.m. lunch sponsored by MCSAA
1 p.m., open painting.
Monday - Closed for Presidents' Day
Tuesday
Foot care by appointment
8:05 a.m., gentle, restorative yoga.
9-11 a.m., intermediate/advanced line
dancing.
9 a.m.- 2 p.m. sewing circle.
Noon, lunch: chili with ground turkey
12:30 p.m., bridge signup day before.
lp.m. bingo with Adele
Wednesday
8 and 8:30 a.m., tat chi.
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. AARP tax aide
9 a.m. Lucky Eagle Casino bus trip
9 a.m., beginning line dancing.
10 a.m., intermediate/advanced line danc-
ing.
Noon, lunch: chicken pot pie
12:30 p.m.,game day.
1 p.m., pinochle