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Shelton-Mason County.Journal WHAT%COOKIN' i i:;! i!:i:iiiiii: ~!:!iiiiii!~!~i !i,iii~i i! ?> ~i1511 IIIIISI~II~I ii!iii:!~!!~! i!iiiii:i:~!:! ii~iiiiiii!iiii iiiii!~i!i!i!ii! 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 nah~l&~@rnasonoounty.com 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 < i iiiii/i !/CI~III i ii~ By NATALIE JOHNSON r~(t~a~ie@n~a,~.oY~coun~v,com iii:i~iiii,i~!~i~i~i!i~i~i~ii~!ili~::i~ii~ili:i~¸ ~T~i~i~:i~i~iii~Ci~ii~i~iCii~i~i:i~!~i~¸ ,,!ii!iiiiiiiiiii!!ii i iii ' stWiiiiiii!iii!!iiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiii! ,iiiiiliiii!!ililililililili!iiii!iiii!i~i!!!i~i!iii!ili~iiiii!i~iiiii~~ ,, ,iiiiiiiPi i,c !iu e ,iihei iiiii!iiii!i 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. sayi ~ ~*~g~ ~ ,,i thought it was just bril- 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 rs unite: 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 May 3, 2012 - Shelton-Mas0n County Journal- Page B:I