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Each year Debbie Hill remembers her mother, Mary "Ba" Beerbower,
year's luminaria at North Mason's Relay for Life.
'Ba's Brigade' among teams scheduled
to take part in Shelton Relay for Life
By NATALIE JOHNSON
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ebbie Hill relays for her mother, Mary Beerbow-
er, a woman better known by the nickname her
oldest grandchild gave her -- "Ba."
"My mom's nickname for 25 years was 'Ba' because
her oldest grandchild instead of saying grandma said
'Ba,'" she said.
Hill is the captain for a long-running relay team
called Ba's Brigade -- a team Beerbower named, but
was never able to participate in.
"She definitely wanted to," Hill said.
In July 2005 Beerbower was diagnosed with an ag-
gressive form of Leukemia, and given only a week to
live. After 101 days of chemotherapy treatment at
Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, in Novem-
ber 2005, she came home to spend the holidays with
her family.
"She came home to a welcom- oncologist. I can still picture her
ing committee of friends and fam- wagging her finger at him saying,
ily," Hill said: "You have to make me well be-
Over the course of her treat-cause I have to be in the Relay for
ment, Beerbower had five d_if- Life," Hill said. "It didn't take her
ferent bone marrow biopsies, too long to decide she wanted it to
The fifth, taken in March 2006, be 'Ba's Brigade.'"
showed the Leukemia had come Despite her illness, Hill said
back. Beerbower was involved in many
Only eight days later she wasdecisions in forming Ba's Brigade.
gone. While orange is the color for Leu-
Hill can remember the day kemia awareness, "Ba" preferred
"Ba" decided to form the relay blue, and eventually got her way.
team named after her. "When she came out of her
"It was when she was in her,
hospital bed looking up at her See Relay on page B-3
Courtesy photos
at Relay for Life. These bags are from last
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Local businesses are com-
ing together to support the
less fortunate in our com-
munity with hearty soup
dinners.
Led by the Green Dia-
mond Resource Company,
the Stone Soup Society
plans to provide one meal
each week for a year to the
St. David's Parish Hall Min-
have to make
me
because I have
to be in the
Relay for Life,'"
: istries, which serves free
dinners every night to
any-
one in the community in
need of a hot meal.
The Soup Society serves
dinner at St. David's Episco-
pal Church at 5 p.m. every
Friday night.
"We designed this pro-
gram in the tradition ,of the
old stone soup story," Patti
Case, public affairs/regula-
tory manager at Green Dia-
mond said.
The story, she said, fea-
tures a peddler who comes
to a town and promises to
make a soup from water and
a special stone. The commu-
nity's residents say there is
a famine, but members offer
a few carrots, a meat bone,
onions and other ingredi-
ents and a delicious soup is
provided to all.
"In the same vein, many
hands make light work here
in Shelton," Case said. "We
are asking businesses to
provide ingredients for one
soup, a contribution that is
manageable for the many
small businesses here in our
community."
Barb Weza, who runs the
community meals program,
onco ogist) said Case came up with the
idea for the Stone Soup So-
ciety.
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liant that she would use the
analogy of the stone soup
story," Weza said. "With her
position in the community
... she's such an asset to the
whole thought process of it."
Local businesses have
: volunteered to serve as the
"Kitchen Cabinet." Mem-
bers of the cabinet
rotate
to provide one soup dinner
each month to the program
-Debbie Hill on : at St. David's.
her mother, Mary Cabinet members include
Beerbower West Coast Bank, Mason
See Soup on page B-3
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ant sa
Jjudy and I had a chance this
past week to go to the San
uan Islands and visit Friday
Harbor. We had never been there
before and had a wonderful time.
We talked with several of the
locals and One of them asked where
we were from. We told her about
Harstine Island. She asked if there
was a bridge over to where we lived By MIKE
and we told her 'yes.' Her reply CALLAGHAN
was, "then you don't really live on
an island."
Judy and I have repeated that
story several times because we
thought it was funny. But after
watching the ferries come and go
from Friday Har-
bor we began to
understand what
she meant.
For one thing
they don't have
a hospital. So if
someone is preg-
nant, they have
to take the ferry
over to Anacortes
when the baby is
due.
A plant sale is scheduled on
Harstine Island at the Commu-
nity Hall, where a profusion of
plants can be found for sure.
I sal
Gardeners can find not only in-
door, outdoor, potted, bedding
and tomato plants, but also trees,
vegetable starts, herbs, fuchsia
baskets, donated tools and garden
books, pots, bird houses, garden art
and garden advice.
Also, each year there is an inter-
esting seminar on some aspect of
garden landscaping or managing
the wild environment. This year is
no exception.
The plant sale will be at 9 a.m.
Saturday. This is one of the big-
gest fimdraisers for the garden
club. You can help by donating
plants. They will be accepting do-
green
nations right up to the day before
the sale, after 2 p.m. on Friday or
by previous arrangement with Bar-
bara La June.
Please be generous with your
donations and you purchases. Pro-
ceeds from the sale support school
horticulture programs, island beau-
tification and landscaping projects,
hall and grounds maintenance
and improvements, the Saturday
market and the popular Fall Apple
Squeeze Festival.
The seminar for this spring
features a demonstration and
information on probably one
of the most overlooked and least
Thursday,
practiced aspects of successful gar-
dening -- knowing your soil and
knowing the kind of soil in which
individual plants grow best. Don
Wagoner, longtime northwest
nurseryman, who happens to live
just across the bridge and is often
a vendor at our Saturday markets
will share his vast knowledge of
soils and soil testing at 11 a.m. in
the hall.
Not only will he share his knowl-
edge but will test any soil you wish
to bring in. He requests you bring a
small sample in a plastic bag
See Harstine on page B-4
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