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Shelton-Mason County Journal
WHAT%COOKIN'
sale
• this weekend
By NATALIE JOHNSON
nataZie@masoncounty.com
['1 "rith sunny spring weath-
/V er, eager gardeners flock
V V to local garden centers
to buy young plants to flesh out
their flowerbeds.
Betti Haskins said this year
gardeners should spend their
money not at a large store, but
at a community plant sale, such
as the one set to benefit the St.
David of Wales Episcopal Church
this weekend.
"You're gonna pay a little bit
more at the plant sale for some
things that you could buy at
Walmart. [but] the quality is bet-
ter," she said. "All the plants that
we have are locally grown right
here. You're not buying some-
thing that was propogated some-
where else."
The plant sale is scheduled for
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday at the
St.
Da:
vid's Parish
Hall at 218 N. Third
St., and will include hundreds
of plants grown and donated by
community members and paris-
honers at St. David's.
In the past, Haskins said,
some members of the church
have bought flowers to donate to
the fundraiser, but this year she
expects many of the donations
to come straight out of members'
gardens.
"I've got some geraniums. I
have
some ling-
onberries. There's
a whole bunch of perennials,"
she said. "We've got one person
who donates plants that's got 275
plants that she's bringing in. We
have a 92-year-old that has 50
plants ready to bring in."
Vegetable starts, shrubs and
many other varieties of plants
will
be available
at the sale, she said.
Haskins hopes to raise be-
tween $1,200 and $1,500 from the
See Plant on page B-3
HARST00NENEWS
Journal pnotos oy Natalie Johnson
Ashley Biermann, left, and Seth Thompki.ns, visiting from Seattle, harvest shellfish Saturday at the second annual
Hamma Hamma Oyster Rama.
Bivalve bash
packs Lilliwaup
Shuckers, slurpers come
from around the sound
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncouny,com
Shellfish lovers from near and far
gathered in remote Lilliwaup last week-
. end for the Hamma Hamma Oyster
Company's second annual celebration of
the bivalve - the Hamma Hamma Oys-
ter Rama.
"I think it's a lot of fun. It's a nice es-
cape," said Anna Mendenhall, who was
Visiting from Seattle. "We'll be barbequ-
ing them (,oysters) tonight."
Others, like Seth Thompkins and
Ashley Biermann, had some experience
with shellfish harvesting, and came to
Bobby Dutton, 4, from Shoreline,
plays with a clamshell Saturday at
the second annual Hamma Hamma
See Oyster on page B-5 Oyster Rama.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Weather
change
,lets us
focus on
gardens
"r t is funny how our
/minds work -- one or
--,Ltwo days of sun and
the memory of those long
rainy days seem to vanish
into the mist from which
they came. And that is good
because this past weekend
the Westport beaches were
open for razor clam digging
and the
weather
was good.
I was
lucky
enough to
take my
10 year
old grand-
son on
By MIKE his first
CALLAGHAN trip to
dig those
elusive little bivalves. Now,
my next chore will be to see
if he will eat what he har-
vested.
And with this weather
change all of us are think-
ing about gardening. The
annual Harstine Island
Garden Club plant sale was
a huge success this year. I
got to the sale around 11
and there were only four
or five tables with plants
out of some 15 tables they
started with. In fact, they
had the least leftovers com-
pared to recent years. Arlen
Morris wrote in on behalf of
the garden club to thank all
it's members and the mem-
bers of the community who
donated time and plants to
make this another success-
ful event. Each successful
,,!