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May 8, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Hoodsport ROY JOHNSON, center, was recently honored with a dinner after his retirement from Simpson Timber Company. With him here are Paul Armstrong, left, and George Frisk, right, who both were Johnson's supervisors during his employment. e man IS trlng Roy Johnson, who retired held at Taylor Towne April 25. from Simpson Timber Company Johnson started working for as a bulldozer operator last Simpson 21 years ago at the November, was honored by fellow South Olympic Tree Farm as a employees at a retirement dinner caterpillar equipment operator. ono He and his wife, Mildred, live at Hidden Haven Mobile Home Park. They plan to spend their free time hunting, fishing and enjoying the out-of-doors in their new motor home. Union By KAREN M. JAMES A general carpentry class is being taught by Jim Watts of ltoodsport at Hood Canal School Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. The class is sponsored by Olympic College. Participants will learn to use tools and work on individual projects. Anyone interested in taking part in the class should come to the meeting May 14. Voting on the Hood Canal School levy is Tuesday. The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the firehall. The Union Ladies Civic Club meets today at 11:30 a.m. at the Union rttehall. Potluck luncheon will be served at noon. Officers for 1975-76 were elected at the club's March meeting. They are Vera Zacny, president; Eleanor Buechel, vice-president; Margaret Stillwell, secretary; and Vera Galyean, treasurer. David Ray Orthopedic met April 16 at the home of Clara Bittle. Officers for 1975-76 were elected. The new officers are Sandy Carney, president; Sally Graham, vice-president; Stevie Krause, secretary; and Anna G hramm, treasurer. Orthopedic members and their guests will wind up their year's activities with a dinner at Casa de Canal May 21. Eleanor Buechel has returned from a week in Spokane. Eleanor was in charge of her grandchildren while her daughter, Margaret Hawk, completed part of her nurse's training at a hospital in Colfax. Rick and Susan Buechel took in the Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee this last weekend. They reported good weather and a beautiful parade. Union residents in the Mason General Hospital include Vera Bishop and Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bonner. Mrs. Dorsey Goff has recently returned home from the hospital. Mrs. Sue Lewis, mother of Dorothy Metzler, is in Fir Lane Nursing Home. By DOLORES DRAKE The week of May 12-16 is Headstart Week. The Skokomish Valley Headstart sessions are held at the Skokomish Trial Center Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Everyone is welcome to come and visit. Those interested in registering their 3½ to five-year-old children for the 1976-76 Headstart program should phone Charlotte Tobin at 877-5268. May 5 the Headstart children visited Mrs. Jean Moore's second grade class at Hood Canal School, treating them to cookies they had made in their classroom. The two groups then joined in for an hour of kite flying fun on the track field. Roaring 20's Dance The Tiny Tim Orthopedic Guild is sponsoring a Roaring 20's Dance to be held at the community hall in Hoodsport May 17 from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. A lot of fun is planned including a Charleston contest, auction, door prizes, and a midnight dinner featuring chicken with salads and rolls. Music will be by Kenny Knight and the Good Guys. Everyone is welcome to come as you are or in costumes of the twenties. For advance tickets contact Sandi Thurman at 877-5706 or Tammy Pierce at 877-5788. All proceeds will go to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma. Pilot Program The Olympic College is interested in expanding its program to satisfy the needs and interests of more people in the Kitsap Peninsula. Last Thursday the mobile unit from Olympic College made a visit to Hoodsport to acquaint local residents with the classes or activities that could be offered locally if there is enough interest. The mobile unit will be in Hoodsport again today at the community hall from about 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Anyone interested in taking craft classes, viewing films, taking credited classes or a number of other actiVities should stop in and let them know what their interests Watch 10:00 a.m. & 10:00 p.m. Sunday may be. Baby Shower Mrs. Kirk Petersen was showered with baby gifts at a party given for her May 4 at the community hall. Hostesses for the shower were Marty Lanning, Helen Spaulding and Pauline Ferrier. Attending were many local friends along with relatives from Tacoma and Seattle and Sherry's college friends from Bremerton. Sherry is expecting their first child in early June. Sunny Trips South Faith Evans made a weekend trip with a friend to Reno and Lake Tahoe. It had been 20 years since Faith had been to Lake Tahoe, so there was a vast change, making it impossible for her to relocate former homes where she had visited. Louis and Athmore Richardson made a three-week trip to Oregon and California, visiting in Portland, Medford, Glendale, Fullerton, Palm Springs, Indio and Huntington Beach. While in Palm Springs, Louis attended the Colgate Dinah Shore Winners Circle golf tournament. He also got in quite a lot of golf while in the sunny South. Golf Club News Lake Cushman Ladies Golf Club business meeting was called to order last Monday by Bee Hewin in the absence of Mary Thompsen. Fifteen members were present. The coming date to look forward to is May 18 at 2:30 p.m. for the tee-off with both men's and women's clubs sponsoring a two-ball foursome with potluck dinner to follow. Fisheries Director Visits Donald Moos, director of the Washington State Department of Fisheries, visited both the George Adams and Hoodsport Hatcheries May 1. He was accompanied by Frank Haw, who is in charge of sports fisheries for the state. Later in the day, Moos treated both hatchery managers, Rudy Schwab in Hoodsport and Harry DeVoe, Skokomish Valley, and their wives to dinner at the Alderbrook Inn. Lower Skokomish News The Healthmobile will be at the Tribal Center May 28. Bill Smith, Gary Peterson and Guy Miller, Tribal Council members, will be gone to Washington, D.C. this week on tribal business. Nile Thompson has been employed as linguist for the Skokomish Tribe. With the help of Louisa Pulsifer, Nile is compiling a dictionary of the Skokomish langauge. He is also teaching the Skokomish language in a class offered through Olympic College. The class meets Thursday evenings at the Skokomish Learning Center. Joanna Elizondo, Skokomish Learning Center director, helped Mrs. Moore's second grade class and Mrs. Peterson's first grade class study Mexico. Both classes learned to make Ojos de Dios, yarn crosses, and block prints of Mexican motifs. Both classes also learned several Spanish words and their meanings. The second-graders learned to sing "La Cucaracha" and baked Mexican wedding cakes. The first-graders learned to sing "Happy Birthday" in Spanish and to dance the Mexican hat dance. Next week Joanna will be going to Mrs. Esarey's kindergarten class to help them learn about Mexico. Horse Show Ten-year-old Carrie Thurman was the only participant under 35 CORRECT FORMAL WEAR Complete Tuxedo Rental Service Men's Women's 409 RAILROAD years of age in the professional class, three-year-old two-gait, at the Thurston County Sheriffs' Posse Horse Show held May 4 at Trails End. Carrie placed second on her Tennessee Walker horse named Midnight Maiden. Carrie plans to ride in the Gig Harbor show May 17 and enter the state show in Yakima the end of May. Spring Rains Warmer days along with the spring rains have been ideal for the pale brown morel mushrooms which have been peeking out from under the fir needles and leaves around abandoned orchards. Last Saturday, the Jim Thurman family, along with a friend, Dewey Dunlap of Olympia, gathered a number of morel mushrooms after already getting wet picking oysters that morning. Home from Hospital Jesse Sharpes is recuperating at home after a week's stay in a Seattle hospital following knee surgery. Jesse would like to thank everyone for their remembrances and the much-appreciated visits. Wedding in Quincy Roland and Maybelle Willson attended the their granddaU$ Lambier. Mr. and aunt and uncle of traveled to wedding. Friends de Canal birthday dinner Lanning. Meaning of life What is the life, or for that of any creature? answer to this be religious. Y~ make any question? I regards his own his fellow creatureS! is not merely fit for life. Time schedule Six hours in sleep, grave study six, Four spend rest on nature • ,oal. I could talk for hours about the bargains of FAI BRAND WOMEN'S AND MEN'S SHOES at H & H SHOES in Olympiat H & H SHOES 411 W. 4th ,4 Wednesday, May 28 nnuo At the fairgrounds Thursday, May 29 At the fairgrounds gh Music Dept. At the high school I I m Friday, May 30 Join in th, fun all 4 I at th M County Fairgroun Dance "The Stars" At the fairgrounds Music Man At the high school Saturday, May 31 Parade 10 a.m. Bunyan Parade In downtown Shelton Festival memb buffon f th th fai" Irgroun Iu$ ,11 ,f All Age Dance At the fairgrounds th activiti th, fai 18 Shelton-Mason County Iournal Thursday, May 8, 1975