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Education Organization Elects officers
Cou~esy photo
PEO installing officer are left to right: Edee Larson, installer;, Myr-
na Bennett, president; Ellie Nevers, vice-president; Jan List, record-
ing secretary; Shirley Gray, corresponding secretary and Gerry
Himlie, chaplain. Unable to be present for the installation were Su-
san Stokes, treasurer and Linda Petrie, guard.
Officers for the 2011 - 2012 Chapter
E Philanthropic Education Organization
(PEO), a, were recently elected.
Chapter B., PEO has been active in
Shelton and Mason County since 1897.
The Shelton chapter was organized by
Jean Todd Fredson and is believed to be
the oldest continuing running organiza-
tion in Mason County.
Some of the organizations the club
supports are Mason County Literacy,
the Women and Children's Shelter and
the Saint's Pantry Food Bank. They also
actively support women through edu-
cational financial assistant programs.
Locally, the Mary M. Knight Achieve-
ment Award, amounting to $1,000 goes
to women continuing their education at
Olympic College in Shelten. Nationally,
Chapter B supports Cottey College for
women, a two-year liberal arts college in
Nevada and Missouri.
Gracie Marie Culp
Gracie Marie Culp
was born April 25, 2011
at Capital Medical Cen-
ter in Olympia to Sun-
.shine Dawn Beerbower
and Nicholas Bud Culp of
Rochester. She weighed
six pounds and nirm ounc-
es.
Thomas Anthony
Yanez
Thomas Anthony Yanez
was born April 24, 2011
at.Capital Medical Center
in Olympia to Amber Lyn
Franzen and James An-
thony Yanez of Lacey. He
weighed seven pounds and
three ounces.
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Xavier John Koch
Xavier John Koch, was
born April 21, 2011 at
Capital Medical Center in
Olympia to Jade Olinda
Koch and Brandon J. Koch
of Shelton. He weighed six
pounds and 10 ounces.
Charlie Lehr
Gilberts
Charlie Lehr Gil-
berts was born April
21, 2011 at Capital
Medical Center in
Olympia to Adrienne
Lea Gilberts and Chris
T. Gilberts of Tumwa-
ter. ~e weighed eigh~
pounds and eight
ounces.
Courtesy photo
Shelton High SchOol senior Jorge Roman learns how to operate a forklift
in the shadow of the Satsop cooling tower from Shannon Stull during the
Try-a-Trade career fair at Satsop Business Park Thursday, May 5.
Shelton High students 'Try-a-Trade'
at Satsop Business Park last week
More than 300 high school
students from 20 school dis-
tricts in Western Washing-
ten weren't writing essays,
calculating problems or
taking history tests Thurs-
day. Instead they spent
their school day operating
cranes, manning lifts, dump
trucks and backhoes, driv-
ing asphalt rollers, running
jackhammers and soldering
pipes - and maybe in the
process getting a glimpse of
their future life's work.
"Try-a-Trade" event was a
hands-on career fair put on
by the Regional Education
and Training Center (RETC)
at Satsop Business Park.
Event organizer Ryan Davis,
RETC executive director,
said a small army of volun-
teers and sponsors helped
make the event a great suc-
cess.
While the students tried
their hand at various trades
outside, school counsel-
ors were invited to attend
a workshop inside at the
RETC headquarters put on
by the Washington State La-
bor Council. The goal was to
give the counselors matari,
als and information to help
students seeking a career
in the skilled trades. "The
counselors can help students
and parents understand that
modern apprenticeships are
higher education pathways
and lead to advanced post-
secondary degrees," said
Kairie Pierce, who led the
workshop.
Outside, Mark Martinez
of the Pierce County Build-
ing Trades Council volun-
teered his day to hand out
safety goggles, hardhats and
bright orange safety vests to
all the students. "I'm always
interested in showing young
people different pathways
to well-paying careers," he
said.
"We're out here to try to
get young folks to under-
stand that construction is
a viable career option and
it's not a dead-end job," said
Martinez who went through
his apprenticeship in roof-
ing some 35 years ago and
whose wife is a journeyman
painter.
As part of the event,
students also toured B1wr-
Northwest, probably the
largest steel fabricator on
the West Coast. They could
even try their hand at op:
erating the company's huge
cranes.
But it wasn't just the
building trades represented
at Try-a-Trade, Grays Har-
bor Fire District No. 5 used
its new outdoor training facil-
ity at Satsop Business Park
to talk to students about
firefighting as a career. They
explained their work, talked
about various training pro-
grams, showed off their fire
engines and even set fire to a
car and then put it out- over
and over again.
"This is the only event of
its kind in the region and it
is important to open doors
for high school students
about to graduate into the
workforce," Davis said. He
continued with "The skilled
trades are the backbone of
our workforce and economy
and we need the next gen-
eration of workers ready to
meet new challenges in sus-
tainable building, advanced
manufacturing, public ser-
vice and energy efficiency."
"We love hosting this
event," said Tam] Garrow,
CEO of Satsop Business
Park. "It's a cool way for the
Park to participate in some-
thing that will make a differ-
once in young l 0plo's liw
- to give them a real-life,
hands-on glimpse of future
career options:
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