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McLeans celebrate 50 years aate Loop residents Thomas and Kathleen Mc- ". Will mark their golden wedding anniversary !U ay' Kathleen Helen McDonald married Thomas ¢ean on March 18, 1949 in Seattle when the pho- bg .apb above was taken. They have lived in Ma- re County for 17 years and during their marriage l  resided in Seattle, Bellevue, Washington, and eq m WOod City, California. He was a sales repre- ;ative for US Steel Corporation, retiring in 17 I. She has been a "domestic engineer," and is il Working, her family notes. She is a member of Le Mason General Hospital Guild and he belongs I[GH Cancer Support Group. The couple's fami- eludes daughters Tina Knoth and Barbara lleLand her husband Jim, and son David McLean ld a ls wife Connie, as well as five grandchildren ,lL two great-grandchildren. The McLeans will :urate their 50-year marriage with a family re- n late spring. P unu t  CHEF JOHN CRUSE from Mason General Hospital wowed the crowd at a Sherwood Guild fund-raiser with a demonstration of brunch entrees and a tasting session afterward. Full house for MGH chef: Cruse cookery aids hospital guild fun(I Mason General Hospital's chef, John Cruse, played to a full house Wednesday evening, March 10, when he demonstrated brunch cookery at a Sherwood Guild fund-raiser. Cruse anticipated Easter Sun- day with the preparation of several seasonal favorites: eggs Benedict, crepes and Hangtown fry, a combination of eggs, vegeta- bles and fresh oysters• "Naturally," said Sherwood Guild spokesperson Nancy Plews, "we all wanted to taste, so a buf- fet line was set up and Cruse's entrees were accompanied with fresh fruit and little cakes•" Guild president Kate Fourqui- er demonstrated a simple floral centerpiece with flowers contrib- uted by Lynch Creek Floral. The arrangement was awarded as door prize at the end of the eve- ning. All the proceeds of Slerwood Guild activities, Plews said, bene- fit Mason General Hospital. Two enter lty guilty pleas 00Underson verdi(00t: gui before trial ald Gunderson 29, of All tl . yn q..adguilt at the end of a " Y " ason ,,, g trial March 9 in M Y SUperior Court of reckless gaad pOSsession of an file- i dge James Sawyer sched- llt n " • 0-" Clng for April 15. onle'day trial concerned  (L March 15, 1998, when oUnty Sheriffs De ut, ig"""lcott saw Gunderson 111. A down Highway 3 with a vi Ire r a short chase down lel, s  Loop Road he arrested Ill  a and found him with a . aOunt of methampheta-  INSIC scientist Kiber- ;tol a of the Washington  tate erime La  told Deputy ':0h i r'A?tbe : Fit lha[c ao n e th: !eahetamine, the other ] 1. vunt of the drug, she s, tiated that there was e" elth of a ha- gram of meth ,-. gie with the smaller 000000,ttea t00at tll, e( ,,-.n the dru g. "Basicall,y ld h,nPment that we have ht,. e been difficult to et :e, . he said. g *aained by defense at- , "aries Lane she sm she lit s , . - 'd - rhY Whether or not the liar' i>.ged to Gunderson. I Ili'hen called Endicott, erto a ;officer for the city of" :g'iaW e Ssigned to WestNet, ¢t* mOrcement network• rad he and a reserve of- ofa#mnitoring traffic just ""Ya When he saw Gun- Cary's Tire & Repair. 426-9762 STUDS OFF B Y A PRIL GATEWAY REN00TAL CENTER derson's vehicle with two people in it on Highway 3. "I estimated it was going much faster than the posted speed limit so it got my at- tention right away," he said. THE VEHICLE, which bore a disabled person's license plate, took to the shoulder of the road, hit brakes hard and made a right turn onto Grapeview Loop Road, Endicott said. He estimated that the vehicle hit a top speed greater than 70 miles per hour on Grape- view Loop Road and described the cloud of smoke and fresh skid marks it left on the blacktop lead- ing up to a driveway, where it raised a dust cloud. "I turned in, followed the dust cloud down, got in behind the cloud and found out it was the same vehicle with the same plates," he said, describing the ve- hicle as a 1981 Mercury. "I had the driver step from the vehicle and informed him that he was un- der arrest for reckless driving," he said. Endicott said he searched Gun- derson and found a baggie with meth in his shirt pocket. He said he handcuffed Gunderson, had the reserve officer take him back to the patrol car, and then searched the passenger, Jamie Valley of Belfair, and found him in possession of meth as well. Under questioning by Lane he testified that the arrests were made about 10 a.m. and that he couldn't remember whether or not he drew his gun. "In any incident like that where, in my opinion, somebody was trying to get away from us, my gun could very easily have been drawn," he said. ENDICOTT TOLD the jury he didn't conduct a field test of the drug because there wasn't enough of the substance. "I decid- ed I'd be better off sending it to the lab intact," he said. Finlay rested the state's case and Lane called Valley, who de- scribed himself as a friend of Gunderson, to the stand. At the time of the arrest, Valley said, he was living with Gunderson and dating his sister. "We were heading that morn- ing to go down to Grapeview to look at a car," Valley said. He said they didn't know they were being followed until they were stopped in front of a house on the gravel road. He first saw the offi- cers, he said, when their patrol car had stopped in front of the house. He said both officers had their guns out. He disputed Endi- cott's testimony that he searched Gunderson first. "Officer Endicott found a bag with methamphetamine in my pocket and he put me in the po- lice car. Then they searched Ron," he said. Under cross-examination by Finlay he testified that he didn't see the search of Gunder- son and doesn't know what Endi- cott found. AFTER CLOSING state- ments by Finlay and Lane, the jury discussed the evidence for about four hours before bringing in the verdict• Jurors were Sidney Crackett, Ronald Henning, Suzanne Mc- Neil, Lynda Geelan, Jerry Chris- tiansen, Edwin Johnson, Dalrie Hollopeter, Richard Bohanon, Yvonne Julian, Valerie Huisingh, Shannon Key and Anthony Lewis. Two pleas entered in Mason County Superior Court March 10 helped reduce the trial schedule facing court officials. Kevin Michael Swenson, 43, of 51 East Catfish Lake Road, Shelton, entered an Alford plea to charges of possession of meth- amphetamine and giving false in- formation for a law officer• Judge James Sawyer accepted his guilty plea after denying a defense mo- tion by attorney Charles Lane to suppress evidence in the case. Swenson was arrested January 27 by an officer of the Shelton Po- lice Department after he was found with two baggies of meth- amphetamine, an illegal drug, and told the arresting officer that he was 42-year-old Mark Wayne Stone, according to court papers. The officer said he stopped Swenson because he was driving the car of a person whose driver's license had been suspended. Sen- tencing was set for today. • James David Keith, 27, of 350 NE Snowcap Drive, Tahuya, pied guilty to burglary in the sec- ond degree. A second count of theft in the second degree was dropped by the state. Judge Saw- yer scheduled sentencing for March 25. Keith was arrested after a re- port of a January 24 burglary of Ben Lee's Silver Moon Resort on North Shore Road near Belfair. Witnesses said he took bottles of liquor and compact discs, accord- ing to court papers. 0 ? ¸" " /:L ¸: '' 1622 Olympic Hwy. So., Shelton, WA 98584 °,,' ' (Across from the Red Apple Market) ' °y,, 360-427-4035 '' ] 35 Years Experience- Licensed °'" ,,  Loving Grooming for Your Special Dog ] Modern, Clean, Air-Conditioned Hours: Mon.-Sat. 8-5 -- Early Ins by Appt. ] Call for Appointment ,y,, ,,Y. ,,y. ,,-,, ,,y. ,,-,, ,,-,, ,y,, .,y. Hupp will observe victory, memory Re,!ay, th (Contlnuedfrom page 1 ) IIIII I IIIII I IIII I IIIIIIIIIIIIII eD=A , ° ': UGEgTY:, w ent • well,' she said. She attributes Diana even knows that to skill on the part of her 1  •  1 doctors and timing that puther [T"[T f'ltt€']l 1-1 1i under the knife a few months af- VV 1 • V .•.L L 1 Jk ter she'd started a rigorous fit- ,,/ nessprogram: In January, when Diana Hupp says she knows She smiles, recalling that Tam- we first found the lump, 1 wasn t . • , • • • , _ . ..... ;, something of why t was she had mys condmon was determined to ready, emononmLy or pnymcany, breast cancer, be benign. Her prayers had been u now  was. , It came to her, she said, as she answered, but she recalled that I was allowed to do whatever I rode t, , ' • " , " " .......  .... • er exermse btke the morn- she had, perhaps, bargained with coma. ao. tgn away, t, sarrea ing after she learned that her bio- her Maker. "That was 18 to 24 working my arm up the wau; psy showed a malignancy, months before I was diagnosed." pretty soon 1 was walking the cor , , ,  , • " . - Months earlier, she said, her Shed make the same bargain ndor three or four times a day ..... • " " • daughter Tammy had discovered again in a heartbeat. She, exults They told ,m e I was wearing out some breast lumps. "And I re- in her small granddaughter, Tam- the carpet, she laughed, membered praying, 'Okay, God, it" my's baby. And five years back, Within two weeks she was somebody has it, I'd rather it be finding some reason f()r her can- back at the gym, though fbr six weeks she was restricted to low- er-body workouts• And then she began her eight and a half months of chemothera- py. "! was lucky there, too," she said. "I had low-dose chemothera- py. I only lost two-thirds of my hair. "I wore a wig for three days," she said, "and I couldn't stand it. I took it off and said, 'This is who I am right now.' I'd wear a hat if it got really cold•" OTHER THAN intense fa- tigue, she said, she suffered no serious side effects from chemo- therapy. But after six months, she couldn't handle the workouts, and reduced her regimen to her home exercise bike until a month after the chemo was finished. She was lucky, she said, that she was working half time as the Master Street Address Guide co- ordinator for the 911 emergency dispatch program. Some days, she felt great. On others, she could manage only two or three hours on the job. But her faith in her ability to recover never flagged. "People were sure that I was in denial," she reflected. "I didn't re- act the way people do on tele- vision and in the magazines. I wasn't angry. I wasn't upset. I was just tired. But I knew ! had everything I needed: I had thith, I had the support of family and friends, and I had prayers." She paused. "There has been so much in my life that helped me prepare for this. At one point, Jay asked me, 'You didn't know how strong your faith was, did you?' And he was right." PEOPLE REFER to "cancer survivors" a lot. Diana doesn't think of herself as a "survivor." "This was something that hap- pened, and I dealt with it; it had a lot about it that was positive all the way through," she said pen- sively. "I would never wish cancer on anybody," she said. "But I would not trade one minute of the last five years. "It was a learning experience; I learned a lot. I learned how to go with it, to do what my body tells me to do. It was an incredible ex- perience; I found out who I am and where my strength comes from. I found out that everything I have and do is beyond me, and I am thankful to God." HER EXTENDED family, she said, included her congrega- me.' "I was 82 and I knew it wouldn't change my life dramati- cally," she mused. "I knew I had total support. But for someone so young..." cer helped her make sense of the process. "I recalled," she said, "that cer- tainty of knowing that if God gave me that condition, he'd help me deal with it." u tion, Saint Edward's Catholic Church, and close friends Don and Margie Knudsen who helped her through the tough times. She remembers dinner with them on June 17, after her session with the doctor, eating take-out pizza and watching the O.J. Simpson white Bronco "chase" on tele- vision. "We talked about how life was different now that I'd been diag- nosed with breast cancer," she said. "And when, in t997, Don was diagnosed with cancer, he and I had a unique bond. Cancer brings people together." She sighed. "He was not lucky like I was," she said. "But he dealt with his cancer in such an inspiring way." He died last No- vember, she said. She knows she was lucky. AND NOW, Diana says, she recalls some of the lessons she learned. She continues to work out to stay fit. She keeps up the routine of massages that helped a lot when she was :recovering from surgery and undergoing chemo- therapy• She has shed some of the unne- cessary demands she put on her- selI, and she doesn't take on more than she knows she can do. So this year, Diana isn't as in- volved in the preliminaries to Re- lay for Life as she might be another year. "But I am so excited that we finally have one here in Mason County," she said. "A lot of people are Working very, very hard on it, and I think it's great that it's at North Mason so the whole county can come together." And when Diana runs that first lap that's reserved for those who have been through the can- cer experience, she'll mentally run with Don Knudsen, the friend who shared her experience, she said. "He'll be utmost in my mind." GET IN TUNE It used to be that car owners could look forward to having their auto- mobiles tuned up at regular intervals to ensure that they ran properly. Now, new vehicles regularly come off the showroom floor with the prom- ise of no tune-ups needed for 100,000 miles. While no one is question- ing the validity of this claim, this does not mean that car owners should not have their cars undergo an annual underhood tune-up-type inspec- tion. This checkup should be undertaken with the idea of inspecting parts that require cleaning, adjustment, or replacement. Just because a vehicle claims to have an extended tune-up period does not mean that the adage about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure does not apply. To ensure that your car delivers its top performance and optimum driveability, ask us for the information you need. At CARY'S TIRE & REPAIR, from fixing pesky minor problems to major automotive work, we're'here to give you a hand. Visit us at 202 South First Street in Shelton (426-9762). Don't be shy about asking us for the help you need because we have more services available to serve you than you might realize. HINT: Because a bad ground can cause all kinds of driveability prob- lems, every engine electrical/electronic ground should be regularly checked and tightened. WEDDING & PARTY SUPPLIES • Invitations • Arches / Gateways • Candelabras • Flower Baskets/Urns • ,\\; Silver Fountain Punch Bowls Coffee Pots Helium Tanks 10'x10' Canopy Folding Tables & Chairs Much, Much More Than We Can List Here! Our "Store within a .mrc Carlson Craft items: ! Announcements Guest Books Progra ms L Thank You Cards r • Wedding Albums • Personalized Napkins • And lots more! Make an appointment with Jennifer, our Wedding and Events Coordinator. i A RENTALS * SALES * SERVICE AVA. Serving Mason County 24 years ,tA,0,t,, Momber 2505 Olympic Highway North #200 Shelton (Next to Les Schwab Tires) (360) 426-1091 March 18, 1999 Shelton-M Page 9 [] McLeans celebrate 50 years aate Loop residents Thomas and Kathleen Mc- ". Will mark their golden wedding anniversary !U ay' Kathleen Helen McDonald married Thomas ¢ean on March 18, 1949 in Seattle when the pho- bg .apb above was taken. They have lived in Ma- re County for 17 years and during their marriage l  resided in Seattle, Bellevue, Washington, and eq m WOod City, California. He was a sales repre- ;ative for US Steel Corporation, retiring in 17 I. She has been a "domestic engineer," and is il Working, her family notes. She is a member of Le Mason General Hospital Guild and he belongs I[GH Cancer Support Group. The couple's fami- eludes daughters Tina Knoth and Barbara lleLand her husband Jim, and son David McLean ld a ls wife Connie, as well as five grandchildren ,lL two great-grandchildren. The McLeans will :urate their 50-year marriage with a family re- n late spring. P unu t  CHEF JOHN CRUSE from Mason General Hospital wowed the crowd at a Sherwood Guild fund-raiser with a demonstration of brunch entrees and a tasting session afterward. Full house for MGH chef: Cruse cookery aids hospital guild fun(I Mason General Hospital's chef, John Cruse, played to a full house Wednesday evening, March 10, when he demonstrated brunch cookery at a Sherwood Guild fund-raiser. Cruse anticipated Easter Sun- day with the preparation of several seasonal favorites: eggs Benedict, crepes and Hangtown fry, a combination of eggs, vegeta- bles and fresh oysters• "Naturally," said Sherwood Guild spokesperson Nancy Plews, "we all wanted to taste, so a buf- fet line was set up and Cruse's entrees were accompanied with fresh fruit and little cakes•" Guild president Kate Fourqui- er demonstrated a simple floral centerpiece with flowers contrib- uted by Lynch Creek Floral. The arrangement was awarded as door prize at the end of the eve- ning. All the proceeds of Slerwood Guild activities, Plews said, bene- fit Mason General Hospital. Two enter lty guilty pleas 00Underson verdi(00t: gui before trial ald Gunderson 29, of All tl . yn q..adguilt at the end of a " Y " ason ,,, g trial March 9 in M Y SUperior Court of reckless gaad pOSsession of an file- i dge James Sawyer sched- llt n " • 0-" Clng for April 15. onle'day trial concerned  (L March 15, 1998, when oUnty Sheriffs De ut, ig"""lcott saw Gunderson 111. A down Highway 3 with a vi Ire r a short chase down lel, s  Loop Road he arrested Ill  a and found him with a . aOunt of methampheta-  INSIC scientist Kiber- ;tol a of the Washington  tate erime La  told Deputy ':0h i r'A?tbe : Fit lha[c ao n e th: !eahetamine, the other ] 1. vunt of the drug, she s, tiated that there was e" elth of a ha- gram of meth ,-. gie with the smaller 000000,ttea t00at tll, e( ,,-.n the dru g. "Basicall,y ld h,nPment that we have ht,. e been difficult to et :e, . he said. g *aained by defense at- , "aries Lane she sm she lit s , . - 'd - rhY Whether or not the liar' i>.ged to Gunderson. I Ili'hen called Endicott, erto a ;officer for the city of" :g'iaW e Ssigned to WestNet, ¢t* mOrcement network• rad he and a reserve of- ofa#mnitoring traffic just ""Ya When he saw Gun- Cary's Tire & Repair. 426-9762 STUDS OFF B Y A PRIL GATEWAY REN00TAL CENTER derson's vehicle with two people in it on Highway 3. "I estimated it was going much faster than the posted speed limit so it got my at- tention right away," he said. THE VEHICLE, which bore a disabled person's license plate, took to the shoulder of the road, hit brakes hard and made a right turn onto Grapeview Loop Road, Endicott said. He estimated that the vehicle hit a top speed greater than 70 miles per hour on Grape- view Loop Road and described the cloud of smoke and fresh skid marks it left on the blacktop lead- ing up to a driveway, where it raised a dust cloud. "I turned in, followed the dust cloud down, got in behind the cloud and found out it was the same vehicle with the same plates," he said, describing the ve- hicle as a 1981 Mercury. "I had the driver step from the vehicle and informed him that he was un- der arrest for reckless driving," he said. Endicott said he searched Gun- derson and found a baggie with meth in his shirt pocket. He said he handcuffed Gunderson, had the reserve officer take him back to the patrol car, and then searched the passenger, Jamie Valley of Belfair, and found him in possession of meth as well. Under questioning by Lane he testified that the arrests were made about 10 a.m. and that he couldn't remember whether or not he drew his gun. "In any incident like that where, in my opinion, somebody was trying to get away from us, my gun could very easily have been drawn," he said. ENDICOTT TOLD the jury he didn't conduct a field test of the drug because there wasn't enough of the substance. "I decid- ed I'd be better off sending it to the lab intact," he said. Finlay rested the state's case and Lane called Valley, who de- scribed himself as a friend of Gunderson, to the stand. At the time of the arrest, Valley said, he was living with Gunderson and dating his sister. "We were heading that morn- ing to go down to Grapeview to look at a car," Valley said. He said they didn't know they were being followed until they were stopped in front of a house on the gravel road. He first saw the offi- cers, he said, when their patrol car had stopped in front of the house. He said both officers had their guns out. He disputed Endi- cott's testimony that he searched Gunderson first. "Officer Endicott found a bag with methamphetamine in my pocket and he put me in the po- lice car. Then they searched Ron," he said. Under cross-examination by Finlay he testified that he didn't see the search of Gunder- son and doesn't know what Endi- cott found. AFTER CLOSING state- ments by Finlay and Lane, the jury discussed the evidence for about four hours before bringing in the verdict• Jurors were Sidney Crackett, Ronald Henning, Suzanne Mc- Neil, Lynda Geelan, Jerry Chris- tiansen, Edwin Johnson, Dalrie Hollopeter, Richard Bohanon, Yvonne Julian, Valerie Huisingh, Shannon Key and Anthony Lewis. Two pleas entered in Mason County Superior Court March 10 helped reduce the trial schedule facing court officials. Kevin Michael Swenson, 43, of 51 East Catfish Lake Road, Shelton, entered an Alford plea to charges of possession of meth- amphetamine and giving false in- formation for a law officer• Judge James Sawyer accepted his guilty plea after denying a defense mo- tion by attorney Charles Lane to suppress evidence in the case. Swenson was arrested January 27 by an officer of the Shelton Po- lice Department after he was found with two baggies of meth- amphetamine, an illegal drug, and told the arresting officer that he was 42-year-old Mark Wayne Stone, according to court papers. The officer said he stopped Swenson because he was driving the car of a person whose driver's license had been suspended. Sen- tencing was set for today. • James David Keith, 27, of 350 NE Snowcap Drive, Tahuya, pied guilty to burglary in the sec- ond degree. A second count of theft in the second degree was dropped by the state. Judge Saw- yer scheduled sentencing for March 25. Keith was arrested after a re- port of a January 24 burglary of Ben Lee's Silver Moon Resort on North Shore Road near Belfair. Witnesses said he took bottles of liquor and compact discs, accord- ing to court papers. 0 ? ¸" " /:L ¸: '' 1622 Olympic Hwy. So., Shelton, WA 98584 °,,' ' (Across from the Red Apple Market) ' °y,, 360-427-4035 '' ] 35 Years Experience- Licensed °'" ,,  Loving Grooming for Your Special Dog ] Modern, Clean, Air-Conditioned Hours: Mon.-Sat. 8-5 -- Early Ins by Appt. ] Call for Appointment ,y,, ,,Y. ,,y. ,,-,, ,,y. ,,-,, ,,-,, ,y,, .,y. Hupp will observe victory, memory Re,!ay, th (Contlnuedfrom page 1 ) IIIII I IIIII I IIII I IIIIIIIIIIIIII eD=A , ° ': UGEgTY:, w ent • well,' she said. She attributes Diana even knows that to skill on the part of her 1  •  1 doctors and timing that puther [T"[T f'ltt€']l 1-1 1i under the knife a few months af- VV 1 • V .•.L L 1 Jk ter she'd started a rigorous fit- ,,/ nessprogram: In January, when Diana Hupp says she knows She smiles, recalling that Tam- we first found the lump, 1 wasn t . • , • • • , _ . ..... ;, something of why t was she had mys condmon was determined to ready, emononmLy or pnymcany, breast cancer, be benign. Her prayers had been u now  was. , It came to her, she said, as she answered, but she recalled that I was allowed to do whatever I rode t, , ' • " , " " .......  .... • er exermse btke the morn- she had, perhaps, bargained with coma. ao. tgn away, t, sarrea ing after she learned that her bio- her Maker. "That was 18 to 24 working my arm up the wau; psy showed a malignancy, months before I was diagnosed." pretty soon 1 was walking the cor , , ,  , • " . - Months earlier, she said, her Shed make the same bargain ndor three or four times a day ..... • " " • daughter Tammy had discovered again in a heartbeat. She, exults They told ,m e I was wearing out some breast lumps. "And I re- in her small granddaughter, Tam- the carpet, she laughed, membered praying, 'Okay, God, it" my's baby. And five years back, Within two weeks she was somebody has it, I'd rather it be finding some reason f()r her can- back at the gym, though fbr six weeks she was restricted to low- er-body workouts• And then she began her eight and a half months of chemothera- py. "! was lucky there, too," she said. "I had low-dose chemothera- py. I only lost two-thirds of my hair. "I wore a wig for three days," she said, "and I couldn't stand it. I took it off and said, 'This is who I am right now.' I'd wear a hat if it got really cold•" OTHER THAN intense fa- tigue, she said, she suffered no serious side effects from chemo- therapy. But after six months, she couldn't handle the workouts, and reduced her regimen to her home exercise bike until a month after the chemo was finished. She was lucky, she said, that she was working half time as the Master Street Address Guide co- ordinator for the 911 emergency dispatch program. Some days, she felt great. On others, she could manage only two or three hours on the job. But her faith in her ability to recover never flagged. "People were sure that I was in denial," she reflected. "I didn't re- act the way people do on tele- vision and in the magazines. I wasn't angry. I wasn't upset. I was just tired. But I knew ! had everything I needed: I had thith, I had the support of family and friends, and I had prayers." She paused. "There has been so much in my life that helped me prepare for this. At one point, Jay asked me, 'You didn't know how strong your faith was, did you?' And he was right." PEOPLE REFER to "cancer survivors" a lot. Diana doesn't think of herself as a "survivor." "This was something that hap- pened, and I dealt with it; it had a lot about it that was positive all the way through," she said pen- sively. "I would never wish cancer on anybody," she said. "But I would not trade one minute of the last five years. "It was a learning experience; I learned a lot. I learned how to go with it, to do what my body tells me to do. It was an incredible ex- perience; I found out who I am and where my strength comes from. I found out that everything I have and do is beyond me, and I am thankful to God." HER EXTENDED family, she said, included her congrega- me.' "I was 82 and I knew it wouldn't change my life dramati- cally," she mused. "I knew I had total support. But for someone so young..." cer helped her make sense of the process. "I recalled," she said, "that cer- tainty of knowing that if God gave me that condition, he'd help me deal with it." u tion, Saint Edward's Catholic Church, and close friends Don and Margie Knudsen who helped her through the tough times. She remembers dinner with them on June 17, after her session with the doctor, eating take-out pizza and watching the O.J. Simpson white Bronco "chase" on tele- vision. "We talked about how life was different now that I'd been diag- nosed with breast cancer," she said. "And when, in t997, Don was diagnosed with cancer, he and I had a unique bond. Cancer brings people together." She sighed. "He was not lucky like I was," she said. "But he dealt with his cancer in such an inspiring way." He died last No- vember, she said. She knows she was lucky. AND NOW, Diana says, she recalls some of the lessons she learned. She continues to work out to stay fit. She keeps up the routine of massages that helped a lot when she was :recovering from surgery and undergoing chemo- therapy• She has shed some of the unne- cessary demands she put on her- selI, and she doesn't take on more than she knows she can do. So this year, Diana isn't as in- volved in the preliminaries to Re- lay for Life as she might be another year. "But I am so excited that we finally have one here in Mason County," she said. "A lot of people are Working very, very hard on it, and I think it's great that it's at North Mason so the whole county can come together." And when Diana runs that first lap that's reserved for those who have been through the can- cer experience, she'll mentally run with Don Knudsen, the friend who shared her experience, she said. "He'll be utmost in my mind." GET IN TUNE It used to be that car owners could look forward to having their auto- mobiles tuned up at regular intervals to ensure that they ran properly. Now, new vehicles regularly come off the showroom floor with the prom- ise of no tune-ups needed for 100,000 miles. While no one is question- ing the validity of this claim, this does not mean that car owners should not have their cars undergo an annual underhood tune-up-type inspec- tion. This checkup should be undertaken with the idea of inspecting parts that require cleaning, adjustment, or replacement. Just because a vehicle claims to have an extended tune-up period does not mean that the adage about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure does not apply. To ensure that your car delivers its top performance and optimum driveability, ask us for the information you need. At CARY'S TIRE & REPAIR, from fixing pesky minor problems to major automotive work, we're'here to give you a hand. Visit us at 202 South First Street in Shelton (426-9762). Don't be shy about asking us for the help you need because we have more services available to serve you than you might realize. HINT: Because a bad ground can cause all kinds of driveability prob- lems, every engine electrical/electronic ground should be regularly checked and tightened. WEDDING & PARTY SUPPLIES • Invitations • Arches / Gateways • Candelabras • Flower Baskets/Urns • ,\\; Silver Fountain Punch Bowls Coffee Pots Helium Tanks 10'x10' Canopy Folding Tables & Chairs Much, Much More Than We Can List Here! Our "Store within a .mrc Carlson Craft items: ! Announcements Guest Books Progra ms L Thank You Cards r • Wedding Albums • Personalized Napkins • And lots more! Make an appointment with Jennifer, our Wedding and Events Coordinator. i A RENTALS * SALES * SERVICE AVA. Serving Mason County 24 years ,tA,0,t,, Momber 2505 Olympic Highway North #200 Shelton (Next to Les Schwab Tires) (360) 426-1091 March 18, 1999 Shelton-M Page 9 []