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WWII vets talk at Pioneer
(Continued from page 1.)
1993, Hoffman said doctors gave
him six months to live. But he
told himself the disease wasn't
going to beat him. That six
months has now stretched into
six years and Hoffman takes each
day as it comes along.
"We went to war. We all had a
job to do. We did our job and we
came home," he said. He retired
from the Washington State De-
partment of Natural Resources in
1982 following a 25-year career.
The veterans who saw combat
during World War II learned to
work together, he said.
"Afterwards, we did a lot of volun-
teering. You do it because you feel
you're contributing to your own
way of life and your community,"
he said.
FOR HOFFMAN, that has
meant serving with the Lacey
Fire District 3 since 1966. He was
a fire district commissioner for 16
years and volunteers a couple of
days a week with the district.
He hopes the students study-
ing World War II realize that war
isn't all fun and medals. It gets
down and dirty, but day-to-day
combat is a humdrum experience,
he said.
"There's going to be a time," he
added, "when you're going to have
to stand up and fight for what you
believe in."
I IIlllllllllllllll I IIIIIIlUlIIIIIII III IIIII I II III III I III IIII I Mill mUll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1',
Fredson recalls silent pain,
memori(00s kept locked away
For more than 30 years, Ken
Fredson kept his wartime experi-
ences securely locked away in a
far corner of his mind.
He couldn't - wouldn't - talk
about them; not to strangers,
friends or even to members of his
own family. And even today,
those memories haunt the long-
time Shelton resident. But now,
at least, he's able to speak about
them, although he admits he still
gets choked up.
Fredson is one of several World
War II veterans to be interviewed
by students at Pioneer Middle
School tbr a class project.
"Those young kids were really
astute and polite," Fredson said.
"I was really impressed."
FREDSON WAS A PILOT
in the 15th Air Force and flew 35
missions out of Italy in a B-17.
Those missions took him over
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Yu-
goslavia and other areas.
"I hope they get a chance to
know about World War II, what
the purpose was," he said of the
Pioneer students. "I don't think
they know what 18- and 19-year-
olds went through."
Fredson entered the service as
a fresh-scrubbed 18-year-old
three months after graduating
from Shelton's Irene S. Reed High
School. His older brother, Mark,
was a pilot and steered him into
that direction.
"I've never flown an airplane
since my last mission," he said,
admitting a thct that tells his lis-
tener something about his experi-
ences, which to this day still both-
er him.
HE WAS ONLY one of five in
his original 10-man crew to make
it home alive. Fredson said those
wartime experiences made him
ihtalistic about life. "Anybody
who said they weren't afraid was
a liar," he said.
Fredson had several operations
on his back afer his sabotaged B-
17 crashed on takeoff, killing six
crewmen. After he returned home
from the service, he kept mum
about his experiences, even with
family members.
"I wouldn't even talk about it
until 1979," he said. He had back
surgery then, and counseling,
which allowed him to open up
about those wartime memories.
"The good Lord saved me for
some purpose," he said. The lega-
cy of the Depression and World
War II also left their indelible
marks on him. He said both ex-
periences have made him try to
understand other people. "There's
got to be two sides to everything,"
he added.
As another outgrowth of those
early experiences, he enjoys try-
ing to help others. He served as a
Mason County Hospital District
Commissioner for 10 years and
even today spends time helping
out elderly relatives.
"They had some good
questions," he said of the Pioneer
students. "I really have faith in
kids. It gave me more."
Children's theatre enriches community
THE CHILDREN IN TOWN are delight-
ed when Hans Christian Andersen's
mother announces that the boy will
tell them a story in last Saturday's
production of Tales of Hans Christian
Andersen at Shelton High School. Two
professional actors from the Missoula
Children's Theatre and more than 50
local children put on two shows for
audiences totaling 700. The kids prac.
ticed for a week to stage the show. In
addition the actors, Bruce Merrill and
Amy Pettigrew, reached 2,800 children
in five assemblies and four workshops
held at the three Shelton elementary
schools, Southside and Pioneer.
Jury still out at press time: °
Ford goes to trial in assauli: case
Jury deliberations continued
Wednesday evening in a Mason
County Superior Court trial of
Darren Wayne Ford, charged
with three criminal counts result-
ing from his arrest after a high-
speed chase last fall down High-
way 101.
Ford, 36, of SE 151 Skalapin
Lane, Shelton, faced charges of
unlawful imprisonment and as-
sault in the second degree, both
involving his girlfriend, Roberts
Longnecker. He was also charged
with driving with license sus-
pended in the first degree.
The charges were filed after an
incident last October 20, when
Ford was arrested near the Little
Crbek Casino on State Route 108
and Longnecker was taken to Ma-
son General Hospital with a bro-
ken nose.
DEPUTY PROSECUTOR
Reinhold Schuetz called Craig
Lundeen of Olympia as the state's
first witness in the case, Lun-
deen, who cleans fire safety sys-
tems for restaurants and other
small businesses, told the court
he was on the job at Burgermas-
ter in Shelton when he noticed a
man dragging a woman out of the
back of the nearby White Spot Ta-
vern.
"She was kicking and scream-
ing," he said.
Lundeen testified that he saw
the man carry the woman around
a Toyota pickup truck and force
her inside. When she tried to
open the door, he slammed it on
her, Lundeen said.
"She was flailing, kicking,
screaming for help. She was resis-
ting even coming out of the bar,"
he said.
Under cross-examination by
defense attorney John Sinclair,
Lundeen said the truck was about
20 yards away and he couldn't see
a lot of what was happening on
the passenger's side of the vehi-
cle. He said he didn't see the
woman being struck.
SCHUETZ NEXT called to
the stand Dr. Joseph Hoffman,
who was working as a physician
at Mason General Hospital when
Longnecker was brought into the
emergency room.
"She presented with trauma to
her head and face," he said, but
added that she was alert.
He asked her what happened,
he told the jury. Longnecker told
him she had been assaulted by
her boyfriend. "My examination
showed a deformed nose with
lacerations starting at the bridge
of the nose," he said.
Hoffman told the court he con-
ducted tests to make sure Long-
necker hadn't suffered any brain
damage. Under cross examina-
tion, he testified that the injuries
to her face could have been
caused by any object striking her
face.
SCHUETZ THEN called Offi-
cer Barry Hagmann of the Squax-
in Island Tribal Police to the
stand. He said he was at the Lit-
tle Creek Casino when he heard a
call on the radio that someone
had been abducted from the
White Spot Tavern in a tan Toyo-
ta pickup that was southbound on
Highway 101.
He said he was waiting on
State Route 108 when the vehicle
arrived with a Shelton police
cruiser in pursuit. He said Long-
necker got out of the car about 30
seconds after it stopped at the
side of the road.
"She was basically hysterical
at this point and she stated to me
that she had trouble breathing.
She asked me to look at her nose,"
he said.
Under cross examination, he
testified that he could not see in-
side the truck, which had tinted
windows. "The spotlight that was
on the vehicle was actually re-
flecting off the tinted windows,"
The vehicle stopped after it
turned on to State Route 108, he
said. "I could not tell exactly what
was going on inside the vehicle
due to the tinting of the windows
but there was movement on the
inside of the truck," he said.
Hudnell said Longnecker's face
was bloodied when she got out of
the vehicle. He then talked at
some length about blood that was
splattered on the inside of the
truck, noting that he was trained
in the interpretation of blood
splatter evidence during a tour of
duty in the U.S. Army.
Hudnell said he found blood
spots in a circular pattern that in-
dicated the blood had fallen
straight down from her nose.
"There was no indication that the
injury was caused by contact with
the interior of the vehicle," he
said.
TOM LEAVITT of Olympia
was the last witness called by the
state. He was in charge of the
crew that was doing maintenance
at Burgermaster when the couple
came out the back door of the
nearby tavern.
"There was a man and a wom-
an behind the tavern and he ap-
peared to be brutalizing her," he
said.
Leavitt said he called the po-
Ford testified that Longnecker
left the White Spot first and that
when he caught up with her she
was on the ground by the pickup
truck. "I went up to her and tried
to pick her up off the ground and
she swung her arms and tried to
get away. I noticed that there was
blood coming from her face," he
said.
HE SAID HE offered to take
her to the hospital but that she
refused. "She wanted to go to my
mother's," he said. "She was in
pain and she was trying to push
me off and there was blood com-
ing from her face."
He said she was at the wheel of
the truck as it sped south on
Highway 101. "She was driving
down the freeway and she was go-
ing pretty fast and I told her to
slow down. She'd slow down and
then she'd speed back up," he
said.
He said that he never struck
Longnecker and didn't cause the
injury to her face.
"I love Roberta," he said.
The jurors were Catherine
Eichinger, Betty D'Alessio, Gary
Selig, Bonnie Garrison, Mary La-
fady, Robert Lloyd, Maxine Rabu-
sitz, Lyndol Whitten, Charles
Hickenbottom, Julie Hofferbert,
Donald Hanson and Carolyn Ha-
daller. Suzanne Berrian was the
he said. lice on his cell phone. "From alternate juror.
Last ballot tally: where IwasatIsawthisguy
COURT GIBEAU, the owner either hit this gal or smash her
of the tavern, testified next for head into the side of the truck. rll
the state. He said that Ford She went limp after that, he miners
no change at all seemed drunkwhenhecameinto said. P
J-J-
the White Spot. He said the de-
00en00a.t 00eer .o te00ti.e00 t00at t00en S led here
made a hostile remark when he put the woman in the truck and
Absentee ballots in the Pioneer The canvass board met Friday was refused service. He said drove away. Schuetz played a The Journal bird-spotters' hot-
School District failed to narrow
the slim margin by which voters
rejected a 20-year, $16.1 million
bond issue.
The bond issue sought money
for a new high school, six class-
rooms at the primary school and
modernizing and adding class-
rooms at the intermediate and
middle school.
Outstanding ballots were
counted Friday when the Mason
County Canvass Board certified
the results of the February 2 elec-
tion in which four school districts
sought voter approval of spending
measures.
The final count was 1,274 "yes"
to 864 "no." That's nine votes shy
of the 60 percent supermajority
required for the passage of school
spending measures. According to
the final tally, 59.6 percent of the
voters supported the bond issue
to go over the ballots one more
time.
Results in the other districts
are as follows:
• North Mason School District:
Voters approved a four-year, $9.2-
million operations and main-
tenance levy by a vote of 1,642 to
1.024. The measure was approved
by 61.6 percent of the voters.
• Hood Canal School District:
Voters approved a two-year,
$760,000 maintenance-and-opera-
tions levy by a vote of 1,067 to
476. The measure was approved
by 69.2 percent of those casting
ballots.
• Mary M. Knight School Dis-
trict: Voters rejected an $8.4- mil-
lion bond issue by a vote of 230 no
to 125 yes. The measure was op-
posed by 64.8 percent of the vot-
ers.
Longnecker wasn't drunk.
"She was fine. She didn't have
any marks or anything. She was
in good condition," he said.
He testified that the two start-
ed arguing and that Longnecker
told Ford to stop touching her.
Officer Michael Hudnell of the
Shelton Police Department was
the next witness to testify. He
said that when the call came in,
he was investigating a hit-and-
run accident involving a Toyota
pickup truck in the parking lot of
Gateway Center, a nearby shop-
ping center.
HUDNELL SAID HE headed
toward the White Spot with his
lights and siren on. He said he
used his police radio to keep tabs
on the truck as it headed south on
Highway 101. He said that at one
point he reached a speed of 125
miles per hour.
tape of his call to the police. "She
was screaming and honking the
horn and he threw her in the
truck," jurors heard Leavitt tell-
ing the 911 dispatcher.
SINCLAIR BEGAN HIS de-
fense of Ford with some opening
remarks about the couple's condi-
tion that night. "They were both
fairly intoxicated at that time and
they did have some arguments at
that tavern," he said.
He called Ford to testify on his
own behalf. Ford said he and
Longnecker were together all day
and that they each consumed six
to eight glasses of Smith & Wes-
son, a mixed alcoholic drink. They
started arguing during dinner at
the Orient Express.
"We had an argument," he
said. "She thought I was coming
on to the waitress, which I
wasn't."
line opened early this year with
the announcement by Reid Myers
that he encountered two hum-
mingbirds as he worked outdoors
in the trees at his home on the
north bank of Goldsborough
Creek on Monday.
The first rufous hummingbirds
in the local area are usually the
males, which display fiery red
throats. The green-backed fe-
males come a bit later in the sea-
son.
Myers is hoping the early-ar-
riving hummers didn't drown in
Tuesday's downpour.
If the hummingbirds appear,
can swallows be far behind?
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WWII vets talk at Pioneer
(Continued from page 1.)
1993, Hoffman said doctors gave
him six months to live. But he
told himself the disease wasn't
going to beat him. That six
months has now stretched into
six years and Hoffman takes each
day as it comes along.
"We went to war. We all had a
job to do. We did our job and we
came home," he said. He retired
from the Washington State De-
partment of Natural Resources in
1982 following a 25-year career.
The veterans who saw combat
during World War II learned to
work together, he said.
"Afterwards, we did a lot of volun-
teering. You do it because you feel
you're contributing to your own
way of life and your community,"
he said.
FOR HOFFMAN, that has
meant serving with the Lacey
Fire District 3 since 1966. He was
a fire district commissioner for 16
years and volunteers a couple of
days a week with the district.
He hopes the students study-
ing World War II realize that war
isn't all fun and medals. It gets
down and dirty, but day-to-day
combat is a humdrum experience,
he said.
"There's going to be a time," he
added, "when you're going to have
to stand up and fight for what you
believe in."
I IIlllllllllllllll I IIIIIIlUlIIIIIII III IIIII I II III III I III IIII I Mill mUll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1',
Fredson recalls silent pain,
memori(00s kept locked away
For more than 30 years, Ken
Fredson kept his wartime experi-
ences securely locked away in a
far corner of his mind.
He couldn't - wouldn't - talk
about them; not to strangers,
friends or even to members of his
own family. And even today,
those memories haunt the long-
time Shelton resident. But now,
at least, he's able to speak about
them, although he admits he still
gets choked up.
Fredson is one of several World
War II veterans to be interviewed
by students at Pioneer Middle
School tbr a class project.
"Those young kids were really
astute and polite," Fredson said.
"I was really impressed."
FREDSON WAS A PILOT
in the 15th Air Force and flew 35
missions out of Italy in a B-17.
Those missions took him over
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Yu-
goslavia and other areas.
"I hope they get a chance to
know about World War II, what
the purpose was," he said of the
Pioneer students. "I don't think
they know what 18- and 19-year-
olds went through."
Fredson entered the service as
a fresh-scrubbed 18-year-old
three months after graduating
from Shelton's Irene S. Reed High
School. His older brother, Mark,
was a pilot and steered him into
that direction.
"I've never flown an airplane
since my last mission," he said,
admitting a thct that tells his lis-
tener something about his experi-
ences, which to this day still both-
er him.
HE WAS ONLY one of five in
his original 10-man crew to make
it home alive. Fredson said those
wartime experiences made him
ihtalistic about life. "Anybody
who said they weren't afraid was
a liar," he said.
Fredson had several operations
on his back afer his sabotaged B-
17 crashed on takeoff, killing six
crewmen. After he returned home
from the service, he kept mum
about his experiences, even with
family members.
"I wouldn't even talk about it
until 1979," he said. He had back
surgery then, and counseling,
which allowed him to open up
about those wartime memories.
"The good Lord saved me for
some purpose," he said. The lega-
cy of the Depression and World
War II also left their indelible
marks on him. He said both ex-
periences have made him try to
understand other people. "There's
got to be two sides to everything,"
he added.
As another outgrowth of those
early experiences, he enjoys try-
ing to help others. He served as a
Mason County Hospital District
Commissioner for 10 years and
even today spends time helping
out elderly relatives.
"They had some good
questions," he said of the Pioneer
students. "I really have faith in
kids. It gave me more."
Children's theatre enriches community
THE CHILDREN IN TOWN are delight-
ed when Hans Christian Andersen's
mother announces that the boy will
tell them a story in last Saturday's
production of Tales of Hans Christian
Andersen at Shelton High School. Two
professional actors from the Missoula
Children's Theatre and more than 50
local children put on two shows for
audiences totaling 700. The kids prac.
ticed for a week to stage the show. In
addition the actors, Bruce Merrill and
Amy Pettigrew, reached 2,800 children
in five assemblies and four workshops
held at the three Shelton elementary
schools, Southside and Pioneer.
Jury still out at press time: °
Ford goes to trial in assauli: case
Jury deliberations continued
Wednesday evening in a Mason
County Superior Court trial of
Darren Wayne Ford, charged
with three criminal counts result-
ing from his arrest after a high-
speed chase last fall down High-
way 101.
Ford, 36, of SE 151 Skalapin
Lane, Shelton, faced charges of
unlawful imprisonment and as-
sault in the second degree, both
involving his girlfriend, Roberts
Longnecker. He was also charged
with driving with license sus-
pended in the first degree.
The charges were filed after an
incident last October 20, when
Ford was arrested near the Little
Crbek Casino on State Route 108
and Longnecker was taken to Ma-
son General Hospital with a bro-
ken nose.
DEPUTY PROSECUTOR
Reinhold Schuetz called Craig
Lundeen of Olympia as the state's
first witness in the case, Lun-
deen, who cleans fire safety sys-
tems for restaurants and other
small businesses, told the court
he was on the job at Burgermas-
ter in Shelton when he noticed a
man dragging a woman out of the
back of the nearby White Spot Ta-
vern.
"She was kicking and scream-
ing," he said.
Lundeen testified that he saw
the man carry the woman around
a Toyota pickup truck and force
her inside. When she tried to
open the door, he slammed it on
her, Lundeen said.
"She was flailing, kicking,
screaming for help. She was resis-
ting even coming out of the bar,"
he said.
Under cross-examination by
defense attorney John Sinclair,
Lundeen said the truck was about
20 yards away and he couldn't see
a lot of what was happening on
the passenger's side of the vehi-
cle. He said he didn't see the
woman being struck.
SCHUETZ NEXT called to
the stand Dr. Joseph Hoffman,
who was working as a physician
at Mason General Hospital when
Longnecker was brought into the
emergency room.
"She presented with trauma to
her head and face," he said, but
added that she was alert.
He asked her what happened,
he told the jury. Longnecker told
him she had been assaulted by
her boyfriend. "My examination
showed a deformed nose with
lacerations starting at the bridge
of the nose," he said.
Hoffman told the court he con-
ducted tests to make sure Long-
necker hadn't suffered any brain
damage. Under cross examina-
tion, he testified that the injuries
to her face could have been
caused by any object striking her
face.
SCHUETZ THEN called Offi-
cer Barry Hagmann of the Squax-
in Island Tribal Police to the
stand. He said he was at the Lit-
tle Creek Casino when he heard a
call on the radio that someone
had been abducted from the
White Spot Tavern in a tan Toyo-
ta pickup that was southbound on
Highway 101.
He said he was waiting on
State Route 108 when the vehicle
arrived with a Shelton police
cruiser in pursuit. He said Long-
necker got out of the car about 30
seconds after it stopped at the
side of the road.
"She was basically hysterical
at this point and she stated to me
that she had trouble breathing.
She asked me to look at her nose,"
he said.
Under cross examination, he
testified that he could not see in-
side the truck, which had tinted
windows. "The spotlight that was
on the vehicle was actually re-
flecting off the tinted windows,"
The vehicle stopped after it
turned on to State Route 108, he
said. "I could not tell exactly what
was going on inside the vehicle
due to the tinting of the windows
but there was movement on the
inside of the truck," he said.
Hudnell said Longnecker's face
was bloodied when she got out of
the vehicle. He then talked at
some length about blood that was
splattered on the inside of the
truck, noting that he was trained
in the interpretation of blood
splatter evidence during a tour of
duty in the U.S. Army.
Hudnell said he found blood
spots in a circular pattern that in-
dicated the blood had fallen
straight down from her nose.
"There was no indication that the
injury was caused by contact with
the interior of the vehicle," he
said.
TOM LEAVITT of Olympia
was the last witness called by the
state. He was in charge of the
crew that was doing maintenance
at Burgermaster when the couple
came out the back door of the
nearby tavern.
"There was a man and a wom-
an behind the tavern and he ap-
peared to be brutalizing her," he
said.
Leavitt said he called the po-
Ford testified that Longnecker
left the White Spot first and that
when he caught up with her she
was on the ground by the pickup
truck. "I went up to her and tried
to pick her up off the ground and
she swung her arms and tried to
get away. I noticed that there was
blood coming from her face," he
said.
HE SAID HE offered to take
her to the hospital but that she
refused. "She wanted to go to my
mother's," he said. "She was in
pain and she was trying to push
me off and there was blood com-
ing from her face."
He said she was at the wheel of
the truck as it sped south on
Highway 101. "She was driving
down the freeway and she was go-
ing pretty fast and I told her to
slow down. She'd slow down and
then she'd speed back up," he
said.
He said that he never struck
Longnecker and didn't cause the
injury to her face.
"I love Roberta," he said.
The jurors were Catherine
Eichinger, Betty D'Alessio, Gary
Selig, Bonnie Garrison, Mary La-
fady, Robert Lloyd, Maxine Rabu-
sitz, Lyndol Whitten, Charles
Hickenbottom, Julie Hofferbert,
Donald Hanson and Carolyn Ha-
daller. Suzanne Berrian was the
he said. lice on his cell phone. "From alternate juror.
Last ballot tally: where IwasatIsawthisguy
COURT GIBEAU, the owner either hit this gal or smash her
of the tavern, testified next for head into the side of the truck. rll
the state. He said that Ford She went limp after that, he miners
no change at all seemed drunkwhenhecameinto said. P
J-J-
the White Spot. He said the de-
00en00a.t 00eer .o te00ti.e00 t00at t00en S led here
made a hostile remark when he put the woman in the truck and
Absentee ballots in the Pioneer The canvass board met Friday was refused service. He said drove away. Schuetz played a The Journal bird-spotters' hot-
School District failed to narrow
the slim margin by which voters
rejected a 20-year, $16.1 million
bond issue.
The bond issue sought money
for a new high school, six class-
rooms at the primary school and
modernizing and adding class-
rooms at the intermediate and
middle school.
Outstanding ballots were
counted Friday when the Mason
County Canvass Board certified
the results of the February 2 elec-
tion in which four school districts
sought voter approval of spending
measures.
The final count was 1,274 "yes"
to 864 "no." That's nine votes shy
of the 60 percent supermajority
required for the passage of school
spending measures. According to
the final tally, 59.6 percent of the
voters supported the bond issue
to go over the ballots one more
time.
Results in the other districts
are as follows:
• North Mason School District:
Voters approved a four-year, $9.2-
million operations and main-
tenance levy by a vote of 1,642 to
1.024. The measure was approved
by 61.6 percent of the voters.
• Hood Canal School District:
Voters approved a two-year,
$760,000 maintenance-and-opera-
tions levy by a vote of 1,067 to
476. The measure was approved
by 69.2 percent of those casting
ballots.
• Mary M. Knight School Dis-
trict: Voters rejected an $8.4- mil-
lion bond issue by a vote of 230 no
to 125 yes. The measure was op-
posed by 64.8 percent of the vot-
ers.
Longnecker wasn't drunk.
"She was fine. She didn't have
any marks or anything. She was
in good condition," he said.
He testified that the two start-
ed arguing and that Longnecker
told Ford to stop touching her.
Officer Michael Hudnell of the
Shelton Police Department was
the next witness to testify. He
said that when the call came in,
he was investigating a hit-and-
run accident involving a Toyota
pickup truck in the parking lot of
Gateway Center, a nearby shop-
ping center.
HUDNELL SAID HE headed
toward the White Spot with his
lights and siren on. He said he
used his police radio to keep tabs
on the truck as it headed south on
Highway 101. He said that at one
point he reached a speed of 125
miles per hour.
tape of his call to the police. "She
was screaming and honking the
horn and he threw her in the
truck," jurors heard Leavitt tell-
ing the 911 dispatcher.
SINCLAIR BEGAN HIS de-
fense of Ford with some opening
remarks about the couple's condi-
tion that night. "They were both
fairly intoxicated at that time and
they did have some arguments at
that tavern," he said.
He called Ford to testify on his
own behalf. Ford said he and
Longnecker were together all day
and that they each consumed six
to eight glasses of Smith & Wes-
son, a mixed alcoholic drink. They
started arguing during dinner at
the Orient Express.
"We had an argument," he
said. "She thought I was coming
on to the waitress, which I
wasn't."
line opened early this year with
the announcement by Reid Myers
that he encountered two hum-
mingbirds as he worked outdoors
in the trees at his home on the
north bank of Goldsborough
Creek on Monday.
The first rufous hummingbirds
in the local area are usually the
males, which display fiery red
throats. The green-backed fe-
males come a bit later in the sea-
son.
Myers is hoping the early-ar-
riving hummers didn't drown in
Tuesday's downpour.
If the hummingbirds appear,
can swallows be far behind?
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Small blaze at SMS
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started when some grease caught
fire. School employees used a fire
extinguisher to put out the fire
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