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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-
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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