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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