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Mercers mark 50 years R.C. and Virginia Mercer of Olympia will cele- brate their golden wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at 1519 Puget Street in Shelton. The event will be hosted by Leona and Lloyd Danielson, Mrs. Mer- cer's brother and sister-in-law. Virginia Daniel- son married R.C. Mercer on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949, at Middle Fork Church in Redding, Iowa, at which time they posed for the photo above. The Mercers, who have lived in Mason County for 45 years, also resided in Maloy, Iowa. He worked at Simpson Timber Company, retiring in the 1980s, and currently works for Chehalis Livestock. She retired in 1996 after 20 years as catalog and credit manager for JC Penney in Shelton. The Mercers are members of Westwood Baptist Church in Olympia. Their family includes daughter Kath- leen Reynolds and her husband Larry of Hume, Missouri, and son Kevin Mercer of Olympia, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Adopt-a-Pet Adopt-a-Pet is a nonprofit volun- teer group whose placement services, kennels and spay-neuter assistance program are financed through month- ly garage sales. To list pets with the placement-assistance program or to list lost and found pets, call before 8 p,m. Sunday for publication. All pets from Adopt-a-Pet kennels are vet- checked Call 426-2610 to set up a kennel visit or to donate items. Or visit the Web site at www.aap- wa.org. FOUR BEAUTIFUL mixed breed puppies, males and females, are 14 weeks old and will be small- to me- dium-sized. A NEUTERED, shepherd cross, Zylan is medium-sized with short black-and-tan hair and "has a great personality with much love to give," according to kennel volunteers. RANGER, A 7-MONTH-OLD, neu- tered shepherd cross who has short, gold-colored hair, will be large-sized His caretakers say he is mild-man- nered and sweet. A NEUTERED LAB cross, Brindle is 3 years old and large-sized with short, brindle-colored hair. He would BEAUTIFUL COOKIE, a spayed shepherd cross, is 21/2 years old and has black and white fur. A fenced yard is required. Call 426-2610 to meet her. make a good watchdog but is not good around other dogs, volunteers advise. JET, A 11/2-YEAR-OLD, neutered hound cross with black-and-tan short hair, is described as a real lover. City of Shelton Animal Shelter Adoptions cost $25 plus $5 for a city license. New dogs are brought in all the time. Call 427-7503 or visit the shelter at 902 West Ihne Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon- day through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Here's a listing of some of the dogs available this week: BORDER COLLIE, male, black and white. HUSKY CROSS, 6-month-old male, black, brown and white. High School Spotlight: Sean heeds inner nudge By MARY DUNCAN Sean Rowan knows his way around computers and networks and all that technology - so much so that the Shelton School District has hired him as a tech- nician. Nonetheless, he does not plan to enter the next century in a virtual world. Sean's future plans are spiri- tual in nature. "I'm planning for what they call a discipleship pro- gram through our church after high school," he explains. Sean belongs to Gateway Christian Fellowship and Master's Com- mission is the name of the pro- gram in Spokane that beckons him. "It's not just mission work," he continues. "It's also inner- church work and pastoral train- ing and drama training. After I do that I'm actually planning to go to a technical-vocational school. Right now I work as one of the student techs for the school district." ALTHOUGH SEAN says he is thinking either network man- agement or PC repair, he notes, "I'm possibly thinking about pro- gramming, but that one's way out there. That's something that takes a lot of time, and I want to save that time for what I plan to do with my life after that." He explains, "After the voca- tional training I'll work in my computer profession for a while and when I've got enough money together, I'm going to go to Bible college. Then I'm going to go off and try to pastor a church some- where, be part of a ministry somewhere." So does Sean have a calling, a feeling he has no choice in be- coming a minister? "You kind of nailed that one on the head," he admits with a smile. "I've actu- ally felt that since I was really, really little, but there was a time when I pulled away and I was in- volved in all kinds of other stuff. "It was just recently, in the last few years, that call started to nudge at me again and I got back in church and back involved in what I was supposed to be in- volved in," he coxnments. ONE OF THE things he is most involved with is what he calls his "side vocation," work- ing with computers. Sean ex- plains his job with the school dis- trict. "They actually have a reg- ular tech staff and students they hire to work as tech staff as well, he said, referring to "a few of the better computer literate stu- dents." Staffers fix and program the computers, make Web pages, help manage the network and train teachers and students on Crable talks of Tibet at AAUW meeting Dr. Doranne Crable from The Evergreen State College will dis- cuss the culture of Tibet with the Olympic Branch of the American Association of University Women. Crable's presentation will be- gin at 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, April20, in the Chinook Recreational Room at Panorama City, located on the southwest corner of 21st Street and Sleater-Kinney Way in Lacey. Now on sabbatical from TESC, Crable was a recipient of an AAUW educational foundation grant. She will speak about her fellowship year in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she worked on her PhD dissertation. Her most recent project is an opera based on the life of Buddha and her presentation will include the introduction of Buddhism in Japan. The meeting will be preceded JaQua Britestar is back at Chez Bcaujcas! ¢00ez BEAUJEAS ::: GIFT SHOP II Ii .and j.Q.00 Britc00/0r Styhng Salon is offcring i 113 SOUTH SECOND 00olo00.,g $,5o00 OFF 4Z 7 8 e 84 by a no-host dinner at 5:30 p.m. and a time for socializing at 7. Dinner reservations can be made by calling 491-5000 no later than Tuesday morning. ....... ,2- :'! i:i  Page 8 - Shelton-Mason County Journal, Thursday, April 15, 1999 I  Deanna and Cory Rawding SEANROWANINTENDStousehisexceptionalcomput- Rt00wdtng February 13 er skills to enable him to attend a Bible college and achieve his goal of pastoring a church. Deanna Knipschield and Cory bride's niece, were how to use things, he notes. "So it's a really exciting job opportu- nity." He-adds, "The most annoying part is the repetitive task part. The challenge is the fun part." Sean first became interested in computers at school in Cali- fornia, where he lived until 1992. "They had what was called a magnet program and they were getting students started in a vo- cation early," he recalls. EVEN OUTSIDE school, Sean is often at the computer. "I do the church Web site and I also run a few Web sites for the school dis- trict. I'm working on one for United Way. That's kind of go- ing along slow, but I do find I'm on there a lot at home." Home is at Phillips Lake, and when his family moved, Seen recalls, "There was like nobody out there, no neighbors around. It used to be when we lived in Cali- fornia, you'd have neighbors looking directly down on you. You go from an eighth of an acre to like a three-acre lot - space." Then he concedes, "I love it. I would never go back there. It was just such a change. You can breathe easier and feel safe walking down the street at night." While his job takes a great deal of time, Sean is involved in his church youth group on Wednesday nights and a Bible study group Tuesday nights as well as attending Sunday ser- vice. He works with others estab- lishing Crossroads, a Christian youth center at the corner of Sec- ond and Cota streets. SEAN COMMENTS on youth outreach efforts and the teen- You Call This . Spnng. We are having a Spring Sale anywayI ltlMVl00lC00 agers. "Once they're in that en- vironment and they believe in it, they are very receptive to it. It's a lot of times though, in our age group, things start to interfere, for instance, dating and it becomes a distraction. "It (religion) doesn't say you can't, and it doesn't suggest you shouldn't, but it's like the whole message is to concentrate on the teachings of God first before you're distracted by everything else," he suggests. "It's a very hard age and it's one of the ages they get persecuted the most for their faith too. Those teenage years are a very hard time for the faithful." Sean pauses for a moment then adds, "I think that one of my biggest goals has been to try to help people and teenagers my age understand that when they're in the times of hardship and times of depression, turn to God and turn to the Word to find your answers." Sean says he looks on his high-school years as "the oppor- tunity to increase my knowledge in so many different areas. I mean I've got the diversity of a lot of growing in my education here and learning more about new technology and getting a chance to get myself ready to go out in the world. "To have a free education here before I have to go off and really work for my education, that's been something I've appreciated tOO." Rawding, both of Shelton, were united in marriage at 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 13, at Steam- boat Island Grange. Jim Snell performed the single-ring cere- mony. Dawna Knipschield was maid of honor for her sister. The bridesmaids were Betty Lett, Sa- die Anderson and Tina Conk- lin, the bride's cousin. The groom's best man was Mason Oliveira. Dave Schmidt, Will Anderson and Jason An- derson were the groomsmen. Taylor Muenchow, the bride's daughter, and Joslyn Settle, the A reception was h grange hall. Muzik 4 the music for the c, reception. The bride is the Debbie Knipschield and the late Dennis She is a 1990 graduate High School. The groom, the son and Shelley Rawding pia and Debby and of Elma, graduate High School in 1995. After a week-long cruise, the newlywe Shelton. Everything's running late this spring. The camellias that usually open for Valentine's Day are blooming in full spate, and the forsythia that is usually long gone by Easter has just passed its prime. Tulip festival had to be delayed by weeks in the Skagit Valley and the swallows that in most years would have staked their claims and begun building their nests have only just arrived and begun inspecting the vacant And me? I'm behind dening because it was go out and behind in cleaning because it was try to get motivated. Now the weather predict temperatures That'll fast-forward sion in the garden get the birds settled I wonder what have on all the chores I_-'veryone's buzzing at Secretaries Week! Give Teleflora's Office Buzz Bouquets. They're a great way to thank the people that keep the office humming. Each is colorfully illustrated and comes with a bouquet of fresh spring flowc and lnatching metallic balh)n. l ) send one anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, call or visit our shop. Perfect for: pastor vailablel weddings vow renewals theater groups prayer meetings music recitals Seating for 200 with an area for catered receptions Located at: 421 West E Street across from Callanan Park on Mountain View. (360) 42 6-0607 L00ncti CreeFv_C[o00a00 Gifts and Espresso 331 W. Railroad 426-8600 Mercers mark 50 years R.C. and Virginia Mercer of Olympia will cele- brate their golden wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at 1519 Puget Street in Shelton. The event will be hosted by Leona and Lloyd Danielson, Mrs. Mer- cer's brother and sister-in-law. Virginia Daniel- son married R.C. Mercer on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949, at Middle Fork Church in Redding, Iowa, at which time they posed for the photo above. The Mercers, who have lived in Mason County for 45 years, also resided in Maloy, Iowa. He worked at Simpson Timber Company, retiring in the 1980s, and currently works for Chehalis Livestock. She retired in 1996 after 20 years as catalog and credit manager for JC Penney in Shelton. The Mercers are members of Westwood Baptist Church in Olympia. Their family includes daughter Kath- leen Reynolds and her husband Larry of Hume, Missouri, and son Kevin Mercer of Olympia, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Adopt-a-Pet Adopt-a-Pet is a nonprofit volun- teer group whose placement services, kennels and spay-neuter assistance program are financed through month- ly garage sales. To list pets with the placement-assistance program or to list lost and found pets, call before 8 p,m. Sunday for publication. All pets from Adopt-a-Pet kennels are vet- checked Call 426-2610 to set up a kennel visit or to donate items. Or visit the Web site at www.aap- wa.org. FOUR BEAUTIFUL mixed breed puppies, males and females, are 14 weeks old and will be small- to me- dium-sized. A NEUTERED, shepherd cross, Zylan is medium-sized with short black-and-tan hair and "has a great personality with much love to give," according to kennel volunteers. RANGER, A 7-MONTH-OLD, neu- tered shepherd cross who has short, gold-colored hair, will be large-sized His caretakers say he is mild-man- nered and sweet. A NEUTERED LAB cross, Brindle is 3 years old and large-sized with short, brindle-colored hair. He would BEAUTIFUL COOKIE, a spayed shepherd cross, is 21/2 years old and has black and white fur. A fenced yard is required. Call 426-2610 to meet her. make a good watchdog but is not good around other dogs, volunteers advise. JET, A 11/2-YEAR-OLD, neutered hound cross with black-and-tan short hair, is described as a real lover. City of Shelton Animal Shelter Adoptions cost $25 plus $5 for a city license. New dogs are brought in all the time. Call 427-7503 or visit the shelter at 902 West Ihne Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon- day through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Here's a listing of some of the dogs available this week: BORDER COLLIE, male, black and white. HUSKY CROSS, 6-month-old male, black, brown and white. High School Spotlight: Sean heeds inner nudge By MARY DUNCAN Sean Rowan knows his way around computers and networks and all that technology - so much so that the Shelton School District has hired him as a tech- nician. Nonetheless, he does not plan to enter the next century in a virtual world. Sean's future plans are spiri- tual in nature. "I'm planning for what they call a discipleship pro- gram through our church after high school," he explains. Sean belongs to Gateway Christian Fellowship and Master's Com- mission is the name of the pro- gram in Spokane that beckons him. "It's not just mission work," he continues. "It's also inner- church work and pastoral train- ing and drama training. After I do that I'm actually planning to go to a technical-vocational school. Right now I work as one of the student techs for the school district." ALTHOUGH SEAN says he is thinking either network man- agement or PC repair, he notes, "I'm possibly thinking about pro- gramming, but that one's way out there. That's something that takes a lot of time, and I want to save that time for what I plan to do with my life after that." He explains, "After the voca- tional training I'll work in my computer profession for a while and when I've got enough money together, I'm going to go to Bible college. Then I'm going to go off and try to pastor a church some- where, be part of a ministry somewhere." So does Sean have a calling, a feeling he has no choice in be- coming a minister? "You kind of nailed that one on the head," he admits with a smile. "I've actu- ally felt that since I was really, really little, but there was a time when I pulled away and I was in- volved in all kinds of other stuff. "It was just recently, in the last few years, that call started to nudge at me again and I got back in church and back involved in what I was supposed to be in- volved in," he coxnments. ONE OF THE things he is most involved with is what he calls his "side vocation," work- ing with computers. Sean ex- plains his job with the school dis- trict. "They actually have a reg- ular tech staff and students they hire to work as tech staff as well, he said, referring to "a few of the better computer literate stu- dents." Staffers fix and program the computers, make Web pages, help manage the network and train teachers and students on Crable talks of Tibet at AAUW meeting Dr. Doranne Crable from The Evergreen State College will dis- cuss the culture of Tibet with the Olympic Branch of the American Association of University Women. Crable's presentation will be- gin at 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, April20, in the Chinook Recreational Room at Panorama City, located on the southwest corner of 21st Street and Sleater-Kinney Way in Lacey. Now on sabbatical from TESC, Crable was a recipient of an AAUW educational foundation grant. She will speak about her fellowship year in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she worked on her PhD dissertation. Her most recent project is an opera based on the life of Buddha and her presentation will include the introduction of Buddhism in Japan. The meeting will be preceded JaQua Britestar is back at Chez Bcaujcas! ¢00ez BEAUJEAS ::: GIFT SHOP II Ii .and j.Q.00 Britc00/0r Styhng Salon is offcring i 113 SOUTH SECOND 00olo00.,g $,5o00 OFF 4Z 7 8 e 84 by a no-host dinner at 5:30 p.m. and a time for socializing at 7. Dinner reservations can be made by calling 491-5000 no later than Tuesday morning. ....... ,2- :'! i:i  Page 8 - Shelton-Mason County Journal, Thursday, April 15, 1999 I  Deanna and Cory Rawding SEANROWANINTENDStousehisexceptionalcomput- Rt00wdtng February 13 er skills to enable him to attend a Bible college and achieve his goal of pastoring a church. Deanna Knipschield and Cory bride's niece, were how to use things, he notes. "So it's a really exciting job opportu- nity." He-adds, "The most annoying part is the repetitive task part. The challenge is the fun part." Sean first became interested in computers at school in Cali- fornia, where he lived until 1992. "They had what was called a magnet program and they were getting students started in a vo- cation early," he recalls. EVEN OUTSIDE school, Sean is often at the computer. "I do the church Web site and I also run a few Web sites for the school dis- trict. I'm working on one for United Way. That's kind of go- ing along slow, but I do find I'm on there a lot at home." Home is at Phillips Lake, and when his family moved, Seen recalls, "There was like nobody out there, no neighbors around. It used to be when we lived in Cali- fornia, you'd have neighbors looking directly down on you. You go from an eighth of an acre to like a three-acre lot - space." Then he concedes, "I love it. I would never go back there. It was just such a change. You can breathe easier and feel safe walking down the street at night." While his job takes a great deal of time, Sean is involved in his church youth group on Wednesday nights and a Bible study group Tuesday nights as well as attending Sunday ser- vice. He works with others estab- lishing Crossroads, a Christian youth center at the corner of Sec- ond and Cota streets. SEAN COMMENTS on youth outreach efforts and the teen- You Call This . Spnng. We are having a Spring Sale anywayI ltlMVl00lC00 agers. "Once they're in that en- vironment and they believe in it, they are very receptive to it. It's a lot of times though, in our age group, things start to interfere, for instance, dating and it becomes a distraction. "It (religion) doesn't say you can't, and it doesn't suggest you shouldn't, but it's like the whole message is to concentrate on the teachings of God first before you're distracted by everything else," he suggests. "It's a very hard age and it's one of the ages they get persecuted the most for their faith too. Those teenage years are a very hard time for the faithful." Sean pauses for a moment then adds, "I think that one of my biggest goals has been to try to help people and teenagers my age understand that when they're in the times of hardship and times of depression, turn to God and turn to the Word to find your answers." Sean says he looks on his high-school years as "the oppor- tunity to increase my knowledge in so many different areas. I mean I've got the diversity of a lot of growing in my education here and learning more about new technology and getting a chance to get myself ready to go out in the world. "To have a free education here before I have to go off and really work for my education, that's been something I've appreciated tOO." Rawding, both of Shelton, were united in marriage at 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 13, at Steam- boat Island Grange. Jim Snell performed the single-ring cere- mony. Dawna Knipschield was maid of honor for her sister. The bridesmaids were Betty Lett, Sa- die Anderson and Tina Conk- lin, the bride's cousin. The groom's best man was Mason Oliveira. Dave Schmidt, Will Anderson and Jason An- derson were the groomsmen. Taylor Muenchow, the bride's daughter, and Joslyn Settle, the A reception was h grange hall. Muzik 4 the music for the c, reception. The bride is the Debbie Knipschield and the late Dennis She is a 1990 graduate High School. The groom, the son and Shelley Rawding pia and Debby and of Elma, graduate High School in 1995. After a week-long cruise, the newlywe Shelton. Everything's running late this spring. The camellias that usually open for Valentine's Day are blooming in full spate, and the forsythia that is usually long gone by Easter has just passed its prime. Tulip festival had to be delayed by weeks in the Skagit Valley and the swallows that in most years would have staked their claims and begun building their nests have only just arrived and begun inspecting the vacant And me? I'm behind dening because it was go out and behind in cleaning because it was try to get motivated. Now the weather predict temperatures That'll fast-forward sion in the garden get the birds settled I wonder what have on all the chores I_-'veryone's buzzing at Secretaries Week! Give Teleflora's Office Buzz Bouquets. They're a great way to thank the people that keep the office humming. Each is colorfully illustrated and comes with a bouquet of fresh spring flowc and lnatching metallic balh)n. l ) send one anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, call or visit our shop. Perfect for: pastor vailablel weddings vow renewals theater groups prayer meetings music recitals Seating for 200 with an area for catered receptions Located at: 421 West E Street across from Callanan Park on Mountain View. (360) 42 6-0607 L00ncti CreeFv_C[o00a00 Gifts and Espresso 331 W. Railroad 426-8600