March 25, 1999 Shelton Mason County Journal | ![]() |
©
Shelton Mason County Journal. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 6 (6 of 33 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
March 25, 1999 |
|
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader ![]() |
High School Spotlight:
t
INA CHOI, seated right, will represent the county at
the state music teachers' convention this summer. She
was selected at piano competition where Thi Nguyen,
was named first alternate and Stacey Ozga, was tapped
as second alternate.
Choi judged top
pianist- again
ina Choi won the piano playoff
competition March 12 in the
spring audition and honors reci-
tal presented by the Mason (oun-
ty (hapter of the Washington
Stale Music Teachers Associa-
tion (WSMTA).
This is the second year in a
row Choi was selected to repre-
sent the county at the WSMTA
convention this June at Whit-
man College in Walla Walla.
in fact, Choi has gone to the state
convention fot, r of the hast five
years, losing the competition to
her brother (',had in 1997.
The 18-year-old Shelt(m tilth
School senior l)layed the
"Hungarian Rhapsody Number
6" by Franz Liszt betbre adjudi-
cator Janet Mooney. Choi has
been studying piano since she
was 5 with Gary Bensen.
The playoff competition fea-
tured 12 adwmced piano stu-
dents. '['hi Nguyen, 16 and a stu-
dent with Gary Bensen, was cho-
sen first alternate. The foreign
exchange student from Berlin,
Germany, played "Toccata" by
A. I. Khachaturian. Another of
Bensen's students, Stacey Ozga,
a 14-year-old Shelton Middle
School eighth-grader, was
named second alternate afl, er her
performance of "Toccata in F
Minor" by Robert Vandail.
ADVANCED stude.nts receiv-
ing special recognition from
Mocmey at the playoff included
Joseph Sartori, first honorable
mention, teacher Carole Bensen;
,John Smith, second honorable
mention, teacher Gary Bensen;
Alyssa Coker, honorable men-
tion, teacher Kathryn McLin;
Beth Sartori, honorable mention,
teacher Gary Bensen; and Hil-
ma Yantis, honorable mention,
teacher Gnew Silva.
Others competing in the play-
off were Gary Bensen s student
Jane tiong, McLin's student
Natalie Gilliom, and Melba
O'Neill's students Caitlin ttan-
sen and Jessica Mabey.
In addition to the playoff com-
petitors, other music students au-
ditioned before Mooney on
March 13. "Our adjudicator did
an exellent job this year listen-
ing to and educating 66 stu-
dents," observed Gary Bensen.
All students played in an honors
recital March 14.
Students of Gary Bensen's to
audition were Elizabeth and
Samuel Eat(m, Cathy Brooks,
Erin Bolender, Bryden McGrath,
Tracy and Nancy Yuan, and
,lames and Jessica ttong.
ALSO PLAYING at the audi-
ti()n were Carole Bensen's stu-
dents Rachel Goida, Simon Rog-
ers, Samantha Ehrich, Dan
Golda, Lauren Smith, Juli
13olender, Elizabeth Rusher,
Amanda King, Kate Wang,
Mitchel Buendel and I)anny
Haigh.
O'Neill's students were Amy
Thorton, Taylor and Peter
Sloane, Hannah Carroll, Kris-
ten Farrell, Jordan McComb,
Lauren and Lindsay ()rme, Kyle
Mortensen, Joymarie Olels,
Michele Hunter and Anna Geb-
hardt.
Students of McLin's who
played were Charissa Rogers,
Shanna Crumley, I:tayley Barn-
ard, Tyler Ensiow, Alana Brew-
er, Nicole Newell, Emilie
Schnabel, Aaron Murdock, Katie
Mahony, Lily Stewart, Amy
Wallace and Jessica Kent.
Sliva's students were Jennifer
Hess, Kati Jot mson, Jennifer
Beeby, Conor Wing, Emma
Yantis, lieidi Kover and Saori
Hattori.
Students of Carol Bradtbrd
who performed were Emilia and
Saara Snow and Bridgette Losey.
The event, held at Shelton's
United Methodist Church, in-
volved 66 students and six teach-
ers from Mason County.
By Ca00ly.
You know how kids act out
when they've got their friends
t)ver.
Last night it was like that at
our house. Things were going
ahmg fine, everyone was more or
less getting along, and then sud-
denly it all broke loose.
There was screaming and yell-
ing. You could hear muttered
threats, bangings on walls and
the furniture being thrown
around. So I checked it out.
And sure enough, the guys had
one of their friends over. There
they were, the scottie and the
sheltie, screeching and clamoring
at the living room door. And
there, outside, wagging his tail,
was a German shepherd the size
of a small Percheron.
And no, I didn't invite him in.
Beth eyes counseling
By MARY DUNCAN
A soft-spoken Shelton senior
says with a chuckle, "Pretty
much everybody calls me any-
thing they want. I have a lot of
nicknames. Most people know
me as Beth. My close friends
know me as Beth Ann; my fami-
ly knows me as Beth and then
there's my teachers and some ac-
quaintances that know me as
Elizabeth."
Although she is not sensitive
about her first name, there is one
moniker Beth Potter cannot
imagine living without - Chris-
tian. "I can't imagine why any-
one wouldn't want to," Beth ob-
serves of her faith. "It's really
the truth. A lot of people don't un-
derstand why I am the way I am,
but I just am. I wouldn't want to
be any other way."
She attributes her spiritual
commitment to her family. "Both
my parents are Christians and
they raised all three - I have two
older sisters who are both
Christians," she interjects, "and
they've raised us very well, I
think. They've always told us
they don't really care what kind
of boyfriend we have, they just
(:are that he's a Christian. They
always support us in everything
we do. And then I have my
grandparents and my aunts and
uncles are Christians, most of
them." Beth says she has lived in
the same house on the same road
all her life and notes her dad
grew up here.
IIER PARENTS are Jim and
Nancy Potter. He is a commis-
sioner for Mason County Fire
District 4 who works at the post
office in Olympia, Beth says,
and her mom works at Allstate
Insurance. "She's a secretary
right now but she's working to
become an agent," she adds.
Her oldest sister, Jaime, is 21
and a junior at Northwest Bible
College in Kirkland, one ot" the
schools Beth is considering
"since most of my family has
gone there." Beth has been ac-
cepted at a small Christian col-
lege in Southern California, but
even with a scholarship, she is
not sure she could afford it.
Her other ister, Colleen,
who's 19, is living at home and
working at a daycare downtown.
"They both were in the Spotlight
thing too," Beth notes. She laughs
openly at the idea of a Potter fe-
male tradition.
'Tm spoiled," Beth admits,
"but I think we all three are. I
like being youngest. I kind of
wish I had some younger si-
blings once in a while but I do a
lot of babysitting so I see a lot of
young kids."
BETH'S CAREER goal re-
flects her compassion and car-
ing about others. "I want to be a
youth counselor, tbr maybe trou-
bled youth or just youth in gener-
al," she states firmly.
Beth explains why she would
like to work with youth. "There's
Smith leads
genealogy
workshop
A genealogy workshop by
Shirley Smith called "Traveling
to the Source" will be held at 7
p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, located at the corner
of 12th and Connection streets on
Mountain View.
The free classes are presented
as a service to the community by
the Shelton LDS Family History
Center.
4th and Railroad • 426-8615
Hurry in --- Last three days of our
ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
March 25, 26, 27
Last chance to enter our
PRIZE DRAWINGS
Page 6 - SheltomMason County Journal - Thursday, March 25, 1999
BETH POTTER thinks most people would be surprised
to learn she has a temper and certainly is not perfect.
a lot of them out there. They don't
know what they want or where
they're going or what they're do-
ing and they just need somebody
to talk to," she observes.
"! think I could be that person.
If my friends have problems, I
just sit there and listen to them
and hopefully try to give them
advice that they need. Sometimes
they don't take it and sometimes
they do. But I enjoy helping peo-
ple. If I can help someone, it
makes me feel good," Beth com-
ments.
Beth says she will probably
major in psychology but "I was
thinking about minoring in
art." She says, "I like to draw.
My freshman year I took an art
class and I've taken three more.
I enjoy doing it. I do it for fun.
I'm good at it but I'm not as good
as some people."
WITH A LAUGH sneaking
out, Beth confesses, "I draw when
I'm bored. And I write; I like to
write poetry and stories. I like to
read." She tends to indulge in
Christian romance or mystery
books.
At school Beth is a member of
the concert choir. "I enjoy sing-
ing. It's a fun class but other than
that, nothing really," she says of
her school involvement. "I'm
busy. After school, I tutor for
three days out of the week and
then two days out of the week I ba-
bysit."
The future counselor offers
some advice about succeeding at
high school. "Don't stress out
about it. I mean, high school is
hard homework-wise, but if you
go home and get it done, then
you'll be okay. And set your pri-
orities straight, but don't try to
conform to the crowd. Be yourself
'cause if you're yourself, most of
the time people will like you for
you.
"That's basically it. I don't try
to be like anybody else. I just to be
myself and if somebody doesn't
like me, then they don't like me.
If they like me, they like me,"
she continues matter-of-factly.
"Normally I don't have any trou-
ble with anybody."
BETH PAUSES and quickly
adds, "Don't throw your life
down the drain by doing some-
thing stupid, like most of the kids
do."
While there are some people
who consider Beth "perfect," she
protests, "I'm really not. A lot of
people say, 'You're happy. I can't
imagine you mad.' I have the
worst temper you've ever seen.
Beth explains, "I'm not that
bad at home, either. I do lose my
temper. I do get mad. It's like,
'Oh you cuss? No, you don't cuss.'
Yeah, I cuss once in a while, be-
lieve me I do, but not a lot. I don't
like it."
Sharing her self-insight, Beth
says, "I act different around my
friends. I don't mean to. Even
around my friends I'm a lot
more hyper and outgoing so even
they don't know how I sometimes
act at home. I'm a lot more seri-
ous at home than I am around my
friends so they've never seen my
serious side.
"I think people overestimate
me. They think I'm a lot better
than I am, and I'm not. I have
my ups and downs all the time,"
Beth concedes. "So I have my
moments. I think people would be
surprised if they sat down with
me and actually spent some time
with me and got to know me."
• New shipments
of plants coming
in weekly
• Lots of new gifts!
OPEN EVERY DAY
920 East Johns Prairie Road
426-3747
Depoe, Rogge to wed in Aug ust,
STAR LAKE RESIDENTS Karina Pauline Dep0e :
Timothy Nathan Rogge will be united in mar
on Sunday, August 8, at a private reside.Cfl:~
Johns Prairie Creek Road in Shelton. The brlde'f
be is the daughter of Weldon and Cynthia DeP° ;
Lake Limerick. She is a 1998 graduate of S heJ d
High School and attended South Puget S0
Community College in Olympia. She is ernP! 01 l
in Shelton by Evergreen Drug Center and Cat t
Community Services Home Care. The groo " tl
is the son of Peggy Rogge of Mount Rainier ll
Daniel Rogge of Chicago, Illinois. The 1996 '0€'
graduate is foreman of a crew for Whitney'S
estry.
March 29- April 3
Monday through Saturday
Women's Clothing Accessories 50 °/°
EASTER ITEMS 500/0
Men's Suits, Slacks & Dress Shir00s 28 °/°
TREASURES THRIFT
305 W. Railroad Avenue, Downtown
427-3858
Volunteers needed. Accepting donationS,
FOUNDATION Proceeds benefit the Mason Oe
High School Spotlight:
t
INA CHOI, seated right, will represent the county at
the state music teachers' convention this summer. She
was selected at piano competition where Thi Nguyen,
was named first alternate and Stacey Ozga, was tapped
as second alternate.
Choi judged top
pianist- again
ina Choi won the piano playoff
competition March 12 in the
spring audition and honors reci-
tal presented by the Mason (oun-
ty (hapter of the Washington
Stale Music Teachers Associa-
tion (WSMTA).
This is the second year in a
row Choi was selected to repre-
sent the county at the WSMTA
convention this June at Whit-
man College in Walla Walla.
in fact, Choi has gone to the state
convention fot, r of the hast five
years, losing the competition to
her brother (',had in 1997.
The 18-year-old Shelt(m tilth
School senior l)layed the
"Hungarian Rhapsody Number
6" by Franz Liszt betbre adjudi-
cator Janet Mooney. Choi has
been studying piano since she
was 5 with Gary Bensen.
The playoff competition fea-
tured 12 adwmced piano stu-
dents. '['hi Nguyen, 16 and a stu-
dent with Gary Bensen, was cho-
sen first alternate. The foreign
exchange student from Berlin,
Germany, played "Toccata" by
A. I. Khachaturian. Another of
Bensen's students, Stacey Ozga,
a 14-year-old Shelton Middle
School eighth-grader, was
named second alternate afl, er her
performance of "Toccata in F
Minor" by Robert Vandail.
ADVANCED stude.nts receiv-
ing special recognition from
Mocmey at the playoff included
Joseph Sartori, first honorable
mention, teacher Carole Bensen;
,John Smith, second honorable
mention, teacher Gary Bensen;
Alyssa Coker, honorable men-
tion, teacher Kathryn McLin;
Beth Sartori, honorable mention,
teacher Gary Bensen; and Hil-
ma Yantis, honorable mention,
teacher Gnew Silva.
Others competing in the play-
off were Gary Bensen s student
Jane tiong, McLin's student
Natalie Gilliom, and Melba
O'Neill's students Caitlin ttan-
sen and Jessica Mabey.
In addition to the playoff com-
petitors, other music students au-
ditioned before Mooney on
March 13. "Our adjudicator did
an exellent job this year listen-
ing to and educating 66 stu-
dents," observed Gary Bensen.
All students played in an honors
recital March 14.
Students of Gary Bensen's to
audition were Elizabeth and
Samuel Eat(m, Cathy Brooks,
Erin Bolender, Bryden McGrath,
Tracy and Nancy Yuan, and
,lames and Jessica ttong.
ALSO PLAYING at the audi-
ti()n were Carole Bensen's stu-
dents Rachel Goida, Simon Rog-
ers, Samantha Ehrich, Dan
Golda, Lauren Smith, Juli
13olender, Elizabeth Rusher,
Amanda King, Kate Wang,
Mitchel Buendel and I)anny
Haigh.
O'Neill's students were Amy
Thorton, Taylor and Peter
Sloane, Hannah Carroll, Kris-
ten Farrell, Jordan McComb,
Lauren and Lindsay ()rme, Kyle
Mortensen, Joymarie Olels,
Michele Hunter and Anna Geb-
hardt.
Students of McLin's who
played were Charissa Rogers,
Shanna Crumley, Hayley Barn-
ard, Tyler Ensiow, Alana Brew-
er, Nicole Newell, Emilie
Schnabel, Aaron Murdock, Katie
Mahony, Lily Stewart, Amy
Wallace and Jessica Kent.
Sliva's students were Jennifer
Hess, Kati Jot mson, Jennifer
Beeby, Conor Wing, Emma
Yantis, lieidi Kover and Saori
Hattori.
Students of Carol Bradtbrd
who performed were Emilia and
Saara Snow and Bridgette Losey.
The event, held at Shelton's
United Methodist Church, in-
volved 66 students and six teach-
ers from Mason County.
By Ca00ly.
You know how kids act out
when they've got their friends
t)ver.
Last night it was like that at
our house. Things were going
ahmg fine, everyone was more or
less getting along, and then sud-
denly it all broke loose.
There was screaming and yell-
ing. You could hear muttered
threats, bangings on walls and
the furniture being thrown
around. So I checked it out.
And sure enough, the guys had
one of their friends over. There
they were, the scottie and the
sheltie, screeching and clamoring
at the living room door. And
there, outside, wagging his tail,
was a German shepherd the size
of a small Percheron.
And no, I didn't invite him in.
Beth eyes counseling
By MARY DUNCAN
A soft-spoken Shelton senior
says with a chuckle, "Pretty
much everybody calls me any-
thing they want. I have a lot of
nicknames. Most people know
me as Beth. My close friends
know me as Beth Ann; my fami-
ly knows me as Beth and then
there's my teachers and some ac-
quaintances that know me as
Elizabeth."
Although she is not sensitive
about her first name, there is one
moniker Beth Potter cannot
imagine living without - Chris-
tian. "I can't imagine why any-
one wouldn't want to," Beth ob-
serves of her faith. "It's really
the truth. A lot of people don't un-
derstand why I am the way I am,
but I just am. I wouldn't want to
be any other way."
She attributes her spiritual
commitment to her family. "Both
my parents are Christians and
they raised all three - I have two
older sisters who are both
Christians," she interjects, "and
they've raised us very well, I
think. They've always told us
they don't really care what kind
of boyfriend we have, they just
(:are that he's a Christian. They
always support us in everything
we do. And then I have my
grandparents and my aunts and
uncles are Christians, most of
them." Beth says she has lived in
the same house on the same road
all her life and notes her dad
grew up here.
IIER PARENTS are Jim and
Nancy Potter. He is a commis-
sioner for Mason County Fire
District 4 who works at the post
office in Olympia, Beth says,
and her mom works at Allstate
Insurance. "She's a secretary
right now but she's working to
become an agent," she adds.
Her oldest sister, Jaime, is 21
and a junior at Northwest Bible
College in Kirkland, one ot" the
schools Beth is considering
"since most of my family has
gone there." Beth has been ac-
cepted at a small Christian col-
lege in Southern California, but
even with a scholarship, she is
not sure she could afford it.
Her other ister, Colleen,
who's 19, is living at home and
working at a daycare downtown.
"They both were in the Spotlight
thing too," Beth notes. She laughs
openly at the idea of a Potter fe-
male tradition.
'Tm spoiled," Beth admits,
"but I think we all three are. I
like being youngest. I kind of
wish I had some younger si-
blings once in a while but I do a
lot of babysitting so I see a lot of
young kids."
BETH'S CAREER goal re-
flects her compassion and car-
ing about others. "I want to be a
youth counselor, tbr maybe trou-
bled youth or just youth in gener-
al," she states firmly.
Beth explains why she would
like to work with youth. "There's
Smith leads
genealogy
workshop
A genealogy workshop by
Shirley Smith called "Traveling
to the Source" will be held at 7
p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, located at the corner
of 12th and Connection streets on
Mountain View.
The free classes are presented
as a service to the community by
the Shelton LDS Family History
Center.
4th and Railroad • 426-8615
Hurry in --- Last three days of our
ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
March 25, 26, 27
Last chance to enter our
PRIZE DRAWINGS
Page 6 - SheltomMason County Journal - Thursday, March 25, 1999
BETH POTTER thinks most people would be surprised
to learn she has a temper and certainly is not perfect.
a lot of them out there. They don't
know what they want or where
they're going or what they're do-
ing and they just need somebody
to talk to," she observes.
"! think I could be that person.
If my friends have problems, I
just sit there and listen to them
and hopefully try to give them
advice that they need. Sometimes
they don't take it and sometimes
they do. But I enjoy helping peo-
ple. If I can help someone, it
makes me feel good," Beth com-
ments.
Beth says she will probably
major in psychology but "I was
thinking about minoring in
art." She says, "I like to draw.
My freshman year I took an art
class and I've taken three more.
I enjoy doing it. I do it for fun.
I'm good at it but I'm not as good
as some people."
WITH A LAUGH sneaking
out, Beth confesses, "I draw when
I'm bored. And I write; I like to
write poetry and stories. I like to
read." She tends to indulge in
Christian romance or mystery
books.
At school Beth is a member of
the concert choir. "I enjoy sing-
ing. It's a fun class but other than
that, nothing really," she says of
her school involvement. "I'm
busy. After school, I tutor for
three days out of the week and
then two days out of the week I ba-
bysit."
The future counselor offers
some advice about succeeding at
high school. "Don't stress out
about it. I mean, high school is
hard homework-wise, but if you
go home and get it done, then
you'll be okay. And set your pri-
orities straight, but don't try to
conform to the crowd. Be yourself
'cause if you're yourself, most of
the time people will like you for
you.
"That's basically it. I don't try
to be like anybody else. I just to be
myself and if somebody doesn't
like me, then they don't like me.
If they like me, they like me,"
she continues matter-of-factly.
"Normally I don't have any trou-
ble with anybody."
BETH PAUSES and quickly
adds, "Don't throw your life
down the drain by doing some-
thing stupid, like most of the kids
do."
While there are some people
who consider Beth "perfect," she
protests, "I'm really not. A lot of
people say, 'You're happy. I can't
imagine you mad.' I have the
worst temper you've ever seen.
Beth explains, "I'm not that
bad at home, either. I do lose my
temper. I do get mad. It's like,
'Oh you cuss? No, you don't cuss.'
Yeah, I cuss once in a while, be-
lieve me I do, but not a lot. I don't
like it."
Sharing her self-insight, Beth
says, "I act different around my
friends. I don't mean to. Even
around my friends I'm a lot
more hyper and outgoing so even
they don't know how I sometimes
act at home. I'm a lot more seri-
ous at home than I am around my
friends so they've never seen my
serious side.
"I think people overestimate
me. They think I'm a lot better
than I am, and I'm not. I have
my ups and downs all the time,"
Beth concedes. "So I have my
moments. I think people would be
surprised if they sat down with
me and actually spent some time
with me and got to know me."
• New shipments
of plants coming
in weekly
• Lots of new gifts!
OPEN EVERY DAY
920 East Johns Prairie Road
426-3747
Depoe, Rogge to wed in Aug ust,
STAR LAKE RESIDENTS Karina Pauline Dep0e :
Timothy Nathan Rogge will be united in mar
on Sunday, August 8, at a private reside.Cfl:~
Johns Prairie Creek Road in Shelton. The brlde'f
be is the daughter of Weldon and Cynthia DeP° ;
Lake Limerick. She is a 1998 graduate of S heJ d
High School and attended South Puget S0
Community College in Olympia. She is ernP! 01 l
in Shelton by Evergreen Drug Center and Cat t
Community Services Home Care. The groo " tl
is the son of Peggy Rogge of Mount Rainier ll
Daniel Rogge of Chicago, Illinois. The 1996 '0€'
graduate is foreman of a crew for Whitney'S
estry.
March 29- April 3
Monday through Saturday
Women's Clothing Accessories 50 °/°
EASTER ITEMS 500/0
Men's Suits, Slacks & Dress Shir00s 28 °/°
TREASURES THRIFT
305 W. Railroad Avenue, Downtown
427-3858
Volunteers needed. Accepting donationS,
FOUNDATION Proceeds benefit the Mason Oe