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Courtesy photo
Shelton Yacht Club members pick oysters on
the Hood Canal Saturday for annual fundraiser.
Piekin'and a grinnin'
Going on an
oyster hunt
By NATALIE JOHNSON hope to gather 30 gallons of
For a few hours on Sat- shucked oysters each year to
urday, the clouds parted feed hungry seafood lovers at
enough for the Shelton Yacht their dinner fundraiser.
Club members to harvest six Austin said that beyond
huge bins of oysters, the purpose of simply gath-
"This is the third year in ering oysters, the outing is
almost a bonding experience
a row that every time we get for members.
there it stops raining," Diana 'You go out there and slog
Austin, the yacht club's com-
modore said. through the mud ... you're
squashing through the mud
The club harvests the oys- and if you're not careful you'll
ters every year for their an-
nual Oyster Ham Dinner, lose your boots," she said.
In the past few years, club
the club's only fundraiser, members have been gather-
Austin said.
For two hours, over 20 ing more and more oysters
members of the club scoured to keep up with demand at
a beach on Hood Canal south their dinner.
of Seabeck owned by the Every year, the club bor-
Manke family, rows wire bins from Taylor
"You're looking for the nice shellfish. Austin said that
clumps and you're looking the bins are about 16 square
for a nice sized shell," Aus- feet and fit in the back of the
tin said. "It's a wild beach, pickup truck.
In the past, club members
it's not managed in any way,
other than they own it." set out to fill four bins. This
Everything for the dinner year they filled six to the
is donated, Austin said, in- brim.
chiding the oysters. Austin said they couldn't
have their fundraiser with-
"Manke donates the oys-
ters ... Taylor donates the out the donated oysters.
shucking," she said.
In the end, club members See Oyster hunt on page B-4
HARST00NE SLANDNEWS
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Musicians perform at Bluegrass from the Forest last year.
Bluegrass from the Forest gears up for 2Oll
By NATALIE JOHNSON
Fiddlers, guitarists, mandolin lov-
ers and banjo enthusiasts will once
again gather in the forest for 72 hours
of near constant jamming this May.
Mason County's own Bluegrass
From the Forest festival is scheduled
for May 13 to 15 this year at the Shel-
ton High School Auditorium.
"I'd kind of like people to know
what it's all-about because people
kind of get it confused with Forest
Festival or Fiddle Fest, but it's total-
ly different," festival organizer Greg
Linder said.
Seven years ago, Linder and his
band Runaway Train partnered
with Duane Wilson of Kristmastown
Kiwanis to create the Bluegrass
From the Forest festival. The festi-
val doesn't just include a few perfor-
Journal photo by Aria Shephard
Mike Lester and Butch Boles play music for passersby at the Mike Les-
ter Insurance Agency in Allyn for the agency's "March of Dimes" kick-
off fundraiser. Last year, the insurance agency raised $1,400 for the
nationwide Farmers Insurance "Be a Hero for Babies" campaign that
donates funds to the charity March of Dimes for the health of infants.
Allyn businesses raise
funds for heal1 hy babies
By ARLA SHEPHARD of babies.
Lester's goal this year is to raise at least
$5,000 for March of Dimes and to get every
business in Allyn to participate with some
kind of promotion each Thursday to pro-
mote the campaign.
The insurance agency, which raised at
least $75 last week, is hosting refreshments
and live music each Thursday, while next-
door businesses Old Town Flowers and the
Allyn liquor store are offering free carna-
tions and cookies, respectively.
"We believe in helping every baby have a
healthy start in life," Lester said.
Helen Lester has dubbed each Thursday
from now until September "Happy Thurs-
day" in Allyn.
Last week, her workplace, the Mike
Lester Insurance Agency, hosted the first
"Happy Thursday" event, kicking off a five-
month campaign to raise money for healthy
infants nationwide.
Last year, the insurance agency raised
$1,400 for Farmers Insurance's "Be a Hero
for Babies" campaign that donates funds to
the charity March of Dimes for the health
mances, he said, but is a full-fledged
festival with numerous acts, music
related activities, jamming, food and
vendors.
This year festival organizers plan
to continue the tradition of bringing
nationally known artists to Mason
County to showcase world-class blue-
grass music at the festival
This year's featured act is blue-
Saturday night and Sunday, along
with several other national and local
acts, Linder said.
"What goes on in a typical blue-
grass festival is camping, non-stop
jamming, with bands and everybody,"
he said.
However, the shows aren't the
only draw to the festival, Linder said.
There are also competitions and mu-
grass band the Boxcars, Linder said. sic tutorials to entertain the crowds
Although they are a fairly new band,
he said, the band members have
played with well-known artists like
Allison Kraus.
'Tee do this every year," Linder
said. "We get a top act, and then we
get the top regional acts too - there
are five more regional acts and the
main band."
The Boxcars will play at all four
official shows, on Friday, Saturday,
on the grounds of the Shelton High
School.
"Other than that the official shows
and the camping and the informal
jam sessions day and night, there are
master workshops," he said.
This year's festival also includes a
"mandolin tasting," which Linder de-
scribed as like a wine tasting but with
mandolins.
See Cookin' on page B-4
Are you prepared for disaster?
Happy St. Patrick's Day - I hope you're
wearing green today, if not someone
should pinch you.
Speaking of being pinched, you'll also
be pinched if you don't attend Saturday,
March 19, Kiwanis Crab and Clam Din-
ner. There is going to be a fabulous dinner
served at 4 p.m. at Pioneer School. The
crab is as fresh as you can get it, caught
the day before, cooked,.put in the
cooler andserved to you alolg
with clams, garlic bread, salad,
dessert and drinks. For those not
excited about seafood, there will
be some great spaghetti. Now,
the food is wonderful, but this is
a fundraiser. There is also a live
and silent auction going on. All
the proceeds go back to the kids
of Pioneer School. The Kiwanis
Club has set up five different col-
lege scholarships for graduating
eighth graders. This is a very
unusual scholarship in that once a Pio-
neer student graduates from high school
they get the scholarship they earned in
eighth grade. We see this as a great in-
centive to help kids choose the choice to
graduate. The monies also go to our local
cub scouts, girl scouts, law enforcement
camp, reading programs, and extra cur-
ricular programs that don't receive fund-
ing because of a lack of school funds. So,
help the kids, eat well, enjoy the day and
just have a wonderful time.
My granddaughter, Madison, eight
years old, enjoyed reading about her
seagull math project in last week's pa-
per. I think she wanted to be in here again
because she worked hard studying the
trip over the bridge and she came home
excited. When she went to school on Fri-
day there was a rainbow centered right
over the mainland side of the bridge and
she explained the picture of it to me sev-
Thursday, March 17,201
eral times. Now, I have to think that with
St. Patrick's Day being close, there must
have been a pot of gold at the end of Madi-
son's rainbow.
Senior lunch is preparing a scrump-
tious lunch for you on Wednesday, March
23. They will be serving roast pork loin,
tomatoed rice, applesauce, cheddar cheese
biscuits and for dessert, tapioca pudding
with whipped cream. Doors
open at noon, but be there a little
early so you can chat with island
;" ::i: friends.
/ The Harstine Island wOmen's
Club is again offering scholar-
ships for higher education to
residents of. Harstine Island.
Applications may be obtained at
Shelton High School, Olympic
MIKE College in Sheltor/, North Mason
CALLAGHAN High School, and Choice Schools
Office in Shelton and South
Puget Sound Community College
in Olympia. You may also contact Kayce
Benson through e-mail at sharonkayce(,
gmail.com.
Judy and I didn't make it to February's
community club meeting, but heard all
had a good time and who wouldn't with
the Back Woods Irish entertaining. Now,
remember the info about the Crab and
Clam Dinner mentioned above, well, the
Back Woods Irish are up for auction at the
dinner, so if you would like them to enter-
tain at your home, eat some crab and bid
on their services. Also, next months com-
munity club meeting is going to be a fun
one. It is the annual chili cook off. Ken
and Sandy Kramer and Ed and San-
dy Murphy are hosting it. So start think-
ing about your best chili recipe, practice
it, invite friends over for the next couple of
weeks and experiment on them and then
enter your chili in the contest.
See Harstine on page B-4
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