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@ s slate noon meeting Club members will learn about the award-winning program at Mary M. Knight High School from its Anderson at their meeting set for noon on Tues- 20, at Xinh's Clam and Oyster House located at Railroad in downtown Shelton. auxiliary meet Friday of Foreign Wars Post 1694 and its auxiliary will final nominations and election of post officers at 7 April 16, at Memorial Hall, Second and Frank- in Shelton. Commander Garth Marshall reminds their dues must be paid by May 1 or they will be from the roll and lose their accidental life insurance. of new officers will be held May 1. on April 16, the auxiliary will host a noon card party Proceeds benefit cancer aid and research. sets meeting at OCS ntaff member from Washington State Commissioner of Lands Jennifer Belcher's office will discuss land-use management in Mason County at the next meeting of Women Voters of Mason County set for 1:30 April 20, in Room 118 at Olympic College Shel- Alpine Way. Those attending should bring lunches and beverages. LO women hear Eldridge &i_ Le8 Eldridge, a member of the Western Washington Growth nagement Hearings Board, will be the speaker at the Mason """ -A; ty_ Democratic=Women's Club meeting on Wednesday, l 21. The session begins at 11:30 a.m. with a no-host it,on at El Tapatio in Gateway Center on Mountain View, ldridge scheduled to speak at noon. dowers to meet Monday Mason County Widows and Widowers Support Group at 10 a.m. Monday, April 19, at Shelton's church, 1900 King Street on Mountain View. at the nondenominational group should bring lunches. s of '43 slates potluck Ic e Irene S. Reed Class of 1943 will gather for a potluck I,.eae°n meeting at noon Monday, April 19, at Christmas Vil- e_ Clubhouse, 2650 North 13th Street on Mountain View. ends of the class are also welcome to attend. women meet April 23 tired United States Air Force Colonel Bob Lawrence, who ip'a- candidate for the Sixth Congressional District last year, a Peak to the Mason County Republican Women at 11:30 0-" 'riday, April 23, at Alpine Way Retirement Apartments. e attending can make lunch reservations by calling Ya Laubach at 426-2359 or Gwen Runyan at 427-0373. 00Ioraemakers meet April 21 '.rest Homemakers will be working on individual proj- their next gathering set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, at Ruth Goodwin's home. Co-hostess for the meeting ra Kaattari. 100 Years Ago the April 11, 1899, Mason County Journal: Larrow escapes for a life in a single week, is not often met perhaps fighting in the Philippines) but it fell the Sheane, son of Photographer Sheane, this week. came near going under when Jesse Rodenberger was Lake Isabella, and Wednesday afternoon he was caught moving shaft in the Shelton Sawmill, and whirled shaft several times, stripping all his clothing off, except when he dropped to the floor. Call For Info and Reserve Your S ,eites will read next Thursday )ve of Life poetry Daniel Pearl writer Marilyn featured in the and Writers Work- series next Thurs- Hall. is free and open to a regular that features Seat- shington and out- In readings on the ay of each month at and Noble bookstore llage. His poetry in Bellowing Review, Ma- and he is at pt called Us. g in Shelton, Pearl some of the best on. Outside of the has written soft- applications for al agencies. is a teacher in the Lake Washington School Dis- trict and a writer for KUOW Ra- dio in Seattle. Her poetry has appeared in a number of venues, most recently in Sheila Bender's latest book on writing. The reading will begin at 7 p.m. April 22 in the fireplace room of the hall at 218 North Third Street in downtown Shelton across from the Simpson Timber Company offices. The host writers' circle will serve coffee and cookies. 'ACHES? 1,', Call 0000-777-3239 (24 hr.) Your free video on nd Headaches What's Cookin'? Nell and Mary content on canal By MARY DUNCAN Nell and Mary Simmons have shared over 60 years of married life. And the tie that binds just may have to do with water - Hood Canal water, that is. Although he was born in Olympia, a descendant of pioneer Michael T. Simmons, Nell has lived his entire 84 years in Potlatch. "I spent 50 percent of my life on that water out there," Nell says pointing from his living room overlooking the canal just north of the Tacoma power plant. "I KNOW OUR kids spent 50 percent of the summer in that water," Mary notes. The couple has two children who also live here with their families. Their daughter Patricia is married to Haldane Johnson and lives in the Skokomish Valley and son Michael lives in Hoodsport with his wife Donna. One of the family's favorite activities was fishing and Nell is still at it. "The fishing has changed. Used to be lots of fish in the canal. It was nothing to catch fish in those days. I always brought home fish. Now I can't even get a bite on a line," he la- ments. "I feel sorry for everybody nowadays," Mary adds. "My kids and their kids can't do that." There were clams here, Nell says of his boyhood beaches in Potlatch when his dad worked for Phoenix Logging. But there were no oysters; they were planted, he reminds. WITH THAT HE launches into a story. "My dad had a brother in Olympia who raised oysters. We would go and get a couple of gunnysacks full. What we didn't eat we'd throw on the beach. Maybe they got away." His suggestions is accompanied by a sly grin. The Simmonses still cultivate oysters on their beach. Shrimping is another fishery which has been dramatically al- tered. Mary describes the eaHy: days catch as huge, big shrimp, commenting, "You don't see any like that now." Nell calls them "dandy shrimp." "When I was a kid, there were two or three active shrimp boats on the canal," Nell says. Shrimp sold for 5 cents a pound in Seat- tle. Nell worked on one as a boy, pulling the net and sorting out the culls, he explains. Then the crew would cook up a batch. "The guys on the boat would tell me, 'Take them to your dad. We don't want you to eat them. They're smart pills and we don't want you to get smart.' " He laughs at the recollection. NEIL EVEN HAS a geoduck story. Seems as a young man he wandered out on the mudflats in Union. A guy up to his waist in muck had a jug of whiskey on a big mound of sand nearby and he asked Nell to bring over the whiskey. "I thought he was going to drown," Nell recalls, adding it was good whiskey but he doesn't remember if the fellow got his geoduck. Reminiscing about the sealife, Mary remembers six or seven orcas putting on quite a show. "Oh, that was pretty. We've seen big gray whales too, but it's not very often that they come in here. "The first one I ever saw, I was sitting on Neirs mother's porch and one came right out of the wa- ter off Bald Point. LARGE SELECTION OF GERANIUMS FIRST CROP VEGETABLE STARTS FUCHSIA STARTS We still have lots of • Perennials • Pansies • Herbs Open daily 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. M.K.A. 27 Calder Road Elma • 482-3572 POTLATCH RESIDENTS Nell and Mary Simmons have achieved two admirable milestones: This August they will mark 62 years of marriage and both have been voters in Mason County for over 50 years. "Then we had one surface right in front of our place, close to the old pilings of the Phoenix Company," she adds. When they were first married the couple lived about half mile from their current home in a house built of sturdy, old-growth timber. "IT'S A terrible-looking house," Mary observes of its present condition, "but they ought to save all that wood." The siding is all 1-by-12-foot planks which Nell says the wind blew right through. The couple met in August 1936 and were married the following June. Mary, who was born in North Dakota and moved to Puyallup with her family when she was 6, explains how she and Nell were introduced. "His aunt and uncle lived in Auburn and his brother met a girl who lived there. That girl moved to Puyallup next to me and his brother was still going with the girl," Mary explains so it was those two who decided the two should meet. "He came driving up in a brand-new '36 Ford coupe," she continues. "So he took me for a ride in that new car." "I SHOULD have never done that," he teases. He was working for Phoenix Logging Company, and he bought the coupe for $736. "The payments were 25 bucks a month and that was hard to do," Nell says, referring to the uncertain- ties of logging. Nell worked in the woods his entire life, retiring in 1979. "I done everything in the woods ex- cept highclimb and be the boss," he declares. He was even a siderod at Simpson Timber for a time. Over the years he worked at Camps 3 and 5 and at Grisdale and Govey. When working at Camp 5 he stayed in camp during the week and came home on the weekends. "I went $10 in the hole every month," Nell says since he paid for room and board there while taking care of his family in Potlatch, plus gas and clothes. "We lived off the company store." THEY ALSO lived off the land. Nell says he has been a hunter since age 16 or 17. "I killed my share of deer. I didn't get one every year. I went out to have fun, and if I got a deer it was a bonus," he declares. Mary adds, "We've seen lots of elk, love to see them, but he only got one elk." The family used to stay in the mountains for several weeks during the summer. "We lived mostly on fish and canned beans. I think I still got creaks in my shoulder from hauling sacks of those cans," he says, re- calling that cans were made of tin then. Mary glances at Nell and comments, "We lived through it anyway." During his working days, Nell logged some giant trees. "The biggest were from the Wynoochee," he notes. He de- scribes how one log filled a train car bed with two little ones on each side. Mary remembers the beauty of the old-growth forests. "Brown's Creek, it was so pretty, just beau- tiful," she says. Logging today? "It's gone to pot," Nell observes. "There's nothing left of it, compared to what it used to be." ANOTHER CHANGE the cou- ple marvels about is all the building along Hood Canal. Both say most places were small ca- bins since there were few who stayed over the winter. The Os- car Ahl Inn was located on Highway 101 and it included a string of cabins. The Ahl name reminds Nell of another story. "I was with Denny when he died." They were part of a crew fighting a fire above Lake Cushman and Den- ny came down to get supplies. He had to go by boat, Nell reminds. Ahl got about 100 feet from shore and keeled over, dead. Nell says they swam out and brought him ashore. "We couldn't get a pulse. We even tried smelling salts. Nobody did CPR (cardiopulmonary resusci- tation) then." Mary says Nell took CPR lessons and knows the life-sav- ing technique. Mary also notes he did much of the work around Lake Cushman, including roads and the golf course. "He worked on all of it," she adds. ASK THIS amiable couple the secret to a long marriage and both attest to simply getting along well. Then Nell quips, "We don't communicate." Talking about their own mar- riage summons a Simmons family story, which Mary re- lates. Michael T. Simmons was Nell's great-granddad and his granddad was named Christo- pher Columbus Simmons since he was the first white male born in Washington territory, down near Washougal. Christopher Columbus Sim- mons married a 14- or 15-year- old girl. A suspicious judge asked if she was over 18 and she said, "Yes." However, this was no fraud. Before the ceremony, a family member wrote the number 18 on a piece of paper and placed it in her shoe so she would not have to lie to the judge about being "over 18." "That's the story in the fami- ly," Mary concludes. MARY AND NElL have Don't fiddle around. For the best homeowners' insurance, come see us. Mutual o00numclaw You need more than just fire insurance. You also need protection for theft, storm damage, liability coverage and much more. So don't fiddle around when it comes to homeowners' insurance. Let us help you find the best coverage for your needs. Arnold & Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 426-3317 1535 Olympic Highway North, Shelton shared so many memories over their lifetime together, it is not surprising to discover that they also share another bond. Both have been voting for over 50 years. He registered to vote in 1936; she in 1940. Then they voted at the school perched high on the hill in Hoodsport. Mary served on the elections board, counting paper votes by hand and sending the totals on to state or county. She also moni- tored people as they voted, she adds. Ask Nell about 20-something people who don't register to vote, and he responds firmly, "That's what gets me. They should be voting and they're not." NElL CONTINUES, "I'm in- terested in what's going on - all the ideas they got going. I tried to vote for the fellow I thought was the best person." Mary agrees that she too voted for the person, not the political party. Both proclaim there is not enough money anywhere in the world to get them to budge from their idyllic spot on the canal. Yet the pair muse about property values, then and now. "Dad told me he could have bought any property from Union to Belfair for $85," Nell says. "Instead he bought a boat for $85 and when he brought it back it sank about 30 feet from shore." This recipe is pure and sim- ple, much like the man who has been using the riches of the canal all his life. Of course, he shucks his oyster right on his own beach. Nell eats his with "a lot of crackers." And Mary notes she does not eat it because she doesn't care for oysters, never has. Nell's oyster stew Steam oyster until just firm. Cut into little pieces and cook in butter for a few minutes. Add salt, pepper and whole milk. Heat through. Jazz • Tap • Swing Tumbling • Hip Hop 426-7681 FRIDAY NIGHT SWING Four-Week Session Begins April 30 6:30 p.m. Swing I Beginners 8:00 p.m. Swing II Lindy Hop The ial Inn at Colonial Estates Annual Thurston County WOMEN'S SHOW Aprn 10 a.m.-4 p.m. J •:o Special Guest Appearances • Craft and Gardening Demonstrations • Variety of Unique Booths • Tours, Door Prizes • Dessert Buffet • :* Free Admission Active Living for Independent Seniors / Take exit 107 (Pacific Ave) off ] 3730 Elizabeth Ave. SE I I-S. oo east to Fones ad., turn / Olympia I right and go to end. Turn left on I | Elizabeth and follow to our en- / (360) 459-9110 April 15, 1999 Journal Page 9 m @ s slate noon meeting Club members will learn about the award-winning program at Mary M. Knight High School from its Anderson at their meeting set for noon on Tues- 20, at Xinh's Clam and Oyster House located at Railroad in downtown Shelton. auxiliary meet Friday of Foreign Wars Post 1694 and its auxiliary will final nominations and election of post officers at 7 April 16, at Memorial Hall, Second and Frank- in Shelton. Commander Garth Marshall reminds their dues must be paid by May 1 or they will be from the roll and lose their accidental life insurance. of new officers will be held May 1. on April 16, the auxiliary will host a noon card party Proceeds benefit cancer aid and research. sets meeting at OCS ntaff member from Washington State Commissioner of Lands Jennifer Belcher's office will discuss land-use management in Mason County at the next meeting of Women Voters of Mason County set for 1:30 April 20, in Room 118 at Olympic College Shel- Alpine Way. Those attending should bring lunches and beverages. LO women hear Eldridge &i_ Le8 Eldridge, a member of the Western Washington Growth nagement Hearings Board, will be the speaker at the Mason """ -A; ty_ Democratic=Women's Club meeting on Wednesday, l 21. The session begins at 11:30 a.m. with a no-host it,on at El Tapatio in Gateway Center on Mountain View, ldridge scheduled to speak at noon. dowers to meet Monday Mason County Widows and Widowers Support Group at 10 a.m. Monday, April 19, at Shelton's church, 1900 King Street on Mountain View. at the nondenominational group should bring lunches. s of '43 slates potluck Ic e Irene S. Reed Class of 1943 will gather for a potluck I,.eae°n meeting at noon Monday, April 19, at Christmas Vil- e_ Clubhouse, 2650 North 13th Street on Mountain View. ends of the class are also welcome to attend. women meet April 23 tired United States Air Force Colonel Bob Lawrence, who ip'a- candidate for the Sixth Congressional District last year, a Peak to the Mason County Republican Women at 11:30 0-" 'riday, April 23, at Alpine Way Retirement Apartments. e attending can make lunch reservations by calling Ya Laubach at 426-2359 or Gwen Runyan at 427-0373. 00Ioraemakers meet April 21 '.rest Homemakers will be working on individual proj- their next gathering set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, at Ruth Goodwin's home. Co-hostess for the meeting ra Kaattari. 100 Years Ago the April 11, 1899, Mason County Journal: Larrow escapes for a life in a single week, is not often met perhaps fighting in the Philippines) but it fell the Sheane, son of Photographer Sheane, this week. came near going under when Jesse Rodenberger was Lake Isabella, and Wednesday afternoon he was caught moving shaft in the Shelton Sawmill, and whirled shaft several times, stripping all his clothing off, except when he dropped to the floor. Call For Info and Reserve Your S ,eites will read next Thursday )ve of Life poetry Daniel Pearl writer Marilyn featured in the and Writers Work- series next Thurs- Hall. is free and open to a regular that features Seat- shington and out- In readings on the ay of each month at and Noble bookstore llage. His poetry in Bellowing Review, Ma- and he is at pt called Us. g in Shelton, Pearl some of the best on. Outside of the has written soft- applications for al agencies. is a teacher in the Lake Washington School Dis- trict and a writer for KUOW Ra- dio in Seattle. Her poetry has appeared in a number of venues, most recently in Sheila Bender's latest book on writing. The reading will begin at 7 p.m. April 22 in the fireplace room of the hall at 218 North Third Street in downtown Shelton across from the Simpson Timber Company offices. The host writers' circle will serve coffee and cookies. 'ACHES? 1,', Call 0000-777-3239 (24 hr.) Your free video on nd Headaches What's Cookin'? Nell and Mary content on canal By MARY DUNCAN Nell and Mary Simmons have shared over 60 years of married life. And the tie that binds just may have to do with water - Hood Canal water, that is. Although he was born in Olympia, a descendant of pioneer Michael T. Simmons, Nell has lived his entire 84 years in Potlatch. "I spent 50 percent of my life on that water out there," Nell says pointing from his living room overlooking the canal just north of the Tacoma power plant. "I KNOW OUR kids spent 50 percent of the summer in that water," Mary notes. The couple has two children who also live here with their families. Their daughter Patricia is married to Haldane Johnson and lives in the Skokomish Valley and son Michael lives in Hoodsport with his wife Donna. One of the family's favorite activities was fishing and Nell is still at it. "The fishing has changed. Used to be lots of fish in the canal. It was nothing to catch fish in those days. I always brought home fish. Now I can't even get a bite on a line," he la- ments. "I feel sorry for everybody nowadays," Mary adds. "My kids and their kids can't do that." There were clams here, Nell says of his boyhood beaches in Potlatch when his dad worked for Phoenix Logging. But there were no oysters; they were planted, he reminds. WITH THAT HE launches into a story. "My dad had a brother in Olympia who raised oysters. We would go and get a couple of gunnysacks full. What we didn't eat we'd throw on the beach. Maybe they got away." His suggestions is accompanied by a sly grin. The Simmonses still cultivate oysters on their beach. Shrimping is another fishery which has been dramatically al- tered. Mary describes the eaHy: days catch as huge, big shrimp, commenting, "You don't see any like that now." Nell calls them "dandy shrimp." "When I was a kid, there were two or three active shrimp boats on the canal," Nell says. Shrimp sold for 5 cents a pound in Seat- tle. Nell worked on one as a boy, pulling the net and sorting out the culls, he explains. Then the crew would cook up a batch. "The guys on the boat would tell me, 'Take them to your dad. We don't want you to eat them. They're smart pills and we don't want you to get smart.' " He laughs at the recollection. NEIL EVEN HAS a geoduck story. Seems as a young man he wandered out on the mudflats in Union. A guy up to his waist in muck had a jug of whiskey on a big mound of sand nearby and he asked Nell to bring over the whiskey. "I thought he was going to drown," Nell recalls, adding it was good whiskey but he doesn't remember if the fellow got his geoduck. Reminiscing about the sealife, Mary remembers six or seven orcas putting on quite a show. "Oh, that was pretty. We've seen big gray whales too, but it's not very often that they come in here. "The first one I ever saw, I was sitting on Neirs mother's porch and one came right out of the wa- ter off Bald Point. LARGE SELECTION OF GERANIUMS FIRST CROP VEGETABLE STARTS FUCHSIA STARTS We still have lots of • Perennials • Pansies • Herbs Open daily 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. M.K.A. 27 Calder Road Elma • 482-3572 POTLATCH RESIDENTS Nell and Mary Simmons have achieved two admirable milestones: This August they will mark 62 years of marriage and both have been voters in Mason County for over 50 years. "Then we had one surface right in front of our place, close to the old pilings of the Phoenix Company," she adds. When they were first married the couple lived about half mile from their current home in a house built of sturdy, old-growth timber. "IT'S A terrible-looking house," Mary observes of its present condition, "but they ought to save all that wood." The siding is all 1-by-12-foot planks which Nell says the wind blew right through. The couple met in August 1936 and were married the following June. Mary, who was born in North Dakota and moved to Puyallup with her family when she was 6, explains how she and Nell were introduced. "His aunt and uncle lived in Auburn and his brother met a girl who lived there. That girl moved to Puyallup next to me and his brother was still going with the girl," Mary explains so it was those two who decided the two should meet. "He came driving up in a brand-new '36 Ford coupe," she continues. "So he took me for a ride in that new car." "I SHOULD have never done that," he teases. He was working for Phoenix Logging Company, and he bought the coupe for $736. "The payments were 25 bucks a month and that was hard to do," Nell says, referring to the uncertain- ties of logging. Nell worked in the woods his entire life, retiring in 1979. "I done everything in the woods ex- cept highclimb and be the boss," he declares. He was even a siderod at Simpson Timber for a time. Over the years he worked at Camps 3 and 5 and at Grisdale and Govey. When working at Camp 5 he stayed in camp during the week and came home on the weekends. "I went $10 in the hole every month," Nell says since he paid for room and board there while taking care of his family in Potlatch, plus gas and clothes. "We lived off the company store." THEY ALSO lived off the land. Nell says he has been a hunter since age 16 or 17. "I killed my share of deer. I didn't get one every year. I went out to have fun, and if I got a deer it was a bonus," he declares. Mary adds, "We've seen lots of elk, love to see them, but he only got one elk." The family used to stay in the mountains for several weeks during the summer. "We lived mostly on fish and canned beans. I think I still got creaks in my shoulder from hauling sacks of those cans," he says, re- calling that cans were made of tin then. Mary glances at Nell and comments, "We lived through it anyway." During his working days, Nell logged some giant trees. "The biggest were from the Wynoochee," he notes. He de- scribes how one log filled a train car bed with two little ones on each side. Mary remembers the beauty of the old-growth forests. "Brown's Creek, it was so pretty, just beau- tiful," she says. Logging today? "It's gone to pot," Nell observes. "There's nothing left of it, compared to what it used to be." ANOTHER CHANGE the cou- ple marvels about is all the building along Hood Canal. Both say most places were small ca- bins since there were few who stayed over the winter. The Os- car Ahl Inn was located on Highway 101 and it included a string of cabins. The Ahl name reminds Nell of another story. "I was with Denny when he died." They were part of a crew fighting a fire above Lake Cushman and Den- ny came down to get supplies. He had to go by boat, Nell reminds. Ahl got about 100 feet from shore and keeled over, dead. Nell says they swam out and brought him ashore. "We couldn't get a pulse. We even tried smelling salts. Nobody did CPR (cardiopulmonary resusci- tation) then." Mary says Nell took CPR lessons and knows the life-sav- ing technique. Mary also notes he did much of the work around Lake Cushman, including roads and the golf course. "He worked on all of it," she adds. ASK THIS amiable couple the secret to a long marriage and both attest to simply getting along well. Then Nell quips, "We don't communicate." Talking about their own mar- riage summons a Simmons family story, which Mary re- lates. Michael T. Simmons was Nell's great-granddad and his granddad was named Christo- pher Columbus Simmons since he was the first white male born in Washington territory, down near Washougal. Christopher Columbus Sim- mons married a 14- or 15-year- old girl. A suspicious judge asked if she was over 18 and she said, "Yes." However, this was no fraud. Before the ceremony, a family member wrote the number 18 on a piece of paper and placed it in her shoe so she would not have to lie to the judge about being "over 18." "That's the story in the fami- ly," Mary concludes. MARY AND NElL have Don't fiddle around. For the best homeowners' insurance, come see us. Mutual o00numclaw You need more than just fire insurance. You also need protection for theft, storm damage, liability coverage and much more. So don't fiddle around when it comes to homeowners' insurance. Let us help you find the best coverage for your needs. Arnold & Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 426-3317 1535 Olympic Highway North, Shelton shared so many memories over their lifetime together, it is not surprising to discover that they also share another bond. Both have been voting for over 50 years. He registered to vote in 1936; she in 1940. Then they voted at the school perched high on the hill in Hoodsport. Mary served on the elections board, counting paper votes by hand and sending the totals on to state or county. She also moni- tored people as they voted, she adds. Ask Nell about 20-something people who don't register to vote, and he responds firmly, "That's what gets me. They should be voting and they're not." NElL CONTINUES, "I'm in- terested in what's going on - all the ideas they got going. I tried to vote for the fellow I thought was the best person." Mary agrees that she too voted for the person, not the political party. Both proclaim there is not enough money anywhere in the world to get them to budge from their idyllic spot on the canal. Yet the pair muse about property values, then and now. "Dad told me he could have bought any property from Union to Belfair for $85," Nell says. "Instead he bought a boat for $85 and when he brought it back it sank about 30 feet from shore." This recipe is pure and sim- ple, much like the man who has been using the riches of the canal all his life. Of course, he shucks his oyster right on his own beach. Nell eats his with "a lot of crackers." And Mary notes she does not eat it because she doesn't care for oysters, never has. Nell's oyster stew Steam oyster until just firm. Cut into little pieces and cook in butter for a few minutes. Add salt, pepper and whole milk. Heat through. Jazz • Tap • Swing Tumbling • Hip Hop 426-7681 FRIDAY NIGHT SWING Four-Week Session Begins April 30 6:30 p.m. Swing I Beginners 8:00 p.m. Swing II Lindy Hop The ial Inn at Colonial Estates Annual Thurston County WOMEN'S SHOW Aprn 10 a.m.-4 p.m. J •:o Special Guest Appearances • Craft and Gardening Demonstrations • Variety of Unique Booths • Tours, Door Prizes • Dessert Buffet • :* Free Admission Active Living for Independent Seniors / Take exit 107 (Pacific Ave) off ] 3730 Elizabeth Ave. SE I I-S. oo east to Fones ad., turn / Olympia I right and go to end. Turn left on I | Elizabeth and follow to our en- / (360) 459-9110 April 15, 1999 Journal Page 9 m