May 17, 2007 Shelton Mason County Journal | ![]() |
©
Shelton Mason County Journal. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 3 (3 of 46 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
May 17, 2007 |
|
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader ![]() |
',i i::i:; ;
ALAIRE HALL, QUEEN OF THE FOREST 2007, stands by Lacie Mes-
senger as Princess of Cedar, Emilie Schnabel as Princess of Spruce,
Sara Chapman as Princess of Douglas Fir and Nancy Yuan as Princess
of Hemlock. Mattie Sobotka is an alternate on the court. On the junior
court, Hannah Avina is Princess of Wildlife and Kairee Brown is Ju-
nior Princess of Wildflowers. Brothers Jacob and Robert Hanes won the
titles of Paul Bunyan and Smokey Bear, respectively.
00orest Fest has plenty
to offer again this year
County Forest Festival
r is just around the corner.
the weekend of
lay, May 31, through Sun-
3, the annual celebra-
open on Thursday, May
a Family Night in Shel-
Gateway Center on Moun-
View. This event, complete
will run from 4 to
The carnival will continue
4 to 11 p:m. on Friday, June
will burst with activi-
with the Goldsbor-
and Walk. Shelton's
Festival footrace is set to
at 8 a.m. on June 2, with
the seven- and two-mile op-
COmmencing at the Seventh-
Church on Shelton
ey Road, where shuttle buses
COnvey entrants from down-
and check-in are
:30 to 7:30 that morning at
Office Park on the car-
ner of Second Street and Railroad
Avenue. Entry is $25 with com-
memorative T-shirt available till
May 15 and $20 without T-shirt.
Sign-up forms are available from
veteran race director Dana Tilton
at Chez Beaujeas beauty salon
downtown, at the Shelton Athletic
Club and on-line at Mason Coun-
ty's Forest Festival Web site. Run-
ners and walkers may start sign-
ing up already for the 10th annual
Goldsborough Creek run.
NEW THIS YEAR, the Paul
Bunyan Parade will head down
Railroad Avenue and turn onto
Second Street, instead of First
Street, proceeding down Frank-
lin Street. Retired teacher and
administrator and lifelong Mason
County resident Betty Wolf will
serve as grand marshal of this
year's parade. Mason County roy-
alty will appear on the official For-
est Festival float in the parade.
A Kiddie Parade will lead off
the procession at 10:30 a.m., fol-
:00eld day will find forest
at Panhandle Lake
t Seventh annual Forest Fes-
will be held on Fri-
18, at Panhandle Lake
).
'event is held in conjunction
Forest Festival. It
fifth-graders throughout
and more then 300
are expected to partici-
Festival Field Day con-
a full day of environmen-
activity stations.
address forestry and
eCOsystems, including such
as fire prevention, forest
forest economy, Mason
salmon and
areas, reforestation, for-
wildlife and log-
Fifth-grade teachers took part
in a training program about water
quality and forests to prepare for
this year's event. After Forest Fes-
tival Field Day, students will com-
plete billboard contest entries. The
billboard contest finalists' posters
will be displayed at The Office
Supply Store at 450 West Rail-
road Avenue on May 31 and June
1. The finalists artwork will move
on June 2 to a booth at Loop Field
hosted by the Mason Conservation
District during Forest Festival.
Folks can vote for the People's
Choice Award winner at either
The Office Supply Store or" at Loop
Field during Forest Festival. The
grand-prize winner will have his
or her forest artwork displayed on
(Please turn to page 6.)
00Mell Chevrolet
where the satisfied
customers buy ...
"ere We helpful, courteous and friendly? YeSI Iter
ere you pleased with the way your vehicle was delivered? YeS
%ltl You recommend us to friends? Yes a/ld We aie
your comments: @U #'e llr]
B.&£.N. - She/ton
lowed by the Paul Bunyan Grand
Parade at 11 a.m.
An application form for the
Kiddie Parade was in last week's
newspaper. Application forms to
participate in both the Paul Bu-
nyan and the Kiddie Parade pre-
ceding it are available on-line at
www.masoncountyForestFes-
tival.com.
In consideration of parade at-
tendees, event organizers ask
people to not bring their dogs to
watch the parade. No dogs will
be allowed on Loop Field, where
a logging show will take place
after the parade, starting at 1:30
p.m. Live entertainment will fol-
low. Loop Field is located on 10th
and Franklin streets in downtown
Shelton. Vendors - both commer-
cial and nonprofit --are invited to
participate by contacting Linda
Trail at 426-1368.
A FIREWORKS display will
cap the evening at 10 p.m. at
Wallace Kneeland Boulevard on
Mountain View.
Finally, on Sunday, June 3,
the festivities will come to a close.
The carnival will end at noon, but
a car show will be just starting,
with registrations running from 9
a.m to noon and the vehicles go-
ing on display from noon to 4 p.m.
Kristmas Town Kiwanis will float
wooden ducks down Goldsborough
Creek, meeting at First Street.
More information about Forest
Festival is available by sending an
e-mail to FFRoyaltyPageant@
aol.com, attention Lisa Fox.
OFF ALL PARTS AND SERVICE
dors age 55 and over (Up to sl O0 savings)
Marshal Wolf recalls
her formative years
The Mason County Histori-
cal Society Museum will be open
to the public on Sunday for this
year's edition of "Forest Festival
Memories."
Guest speaker on May 20 will be
Betty Wolf, grand marshal of the
upcoming Paul Bunyan Parade
at the 2007 Mason County Forest
Festival. She will talk about her
life in this area.
A lifelong educator, Mrs. Wolf
retired in 1988 from Southside
School where she was a student,
then a teacher and ultimately the
principal and superintendent. She
was honored in 2001 for her ser-
vice to the community by the Ma-
son General Hospital Foundation.
Also sharing memories will be
Alexander Bidwell, a sixth-grader
at Pioneer School and a volunteer
at the museum. He recently par-
ticipated in the People to People
program, which took him to Wash°
ington, D.C., Gettysburg, Wil-
liamsburg and other historical
sites. The tour group included ap-
proximately 200 student ambas-
sadors from across the U.S. Alex-
ander will illustrate his talk with
photos.
MEMBERS OF the Mason
County Forest Festival court will
be on hand to talk about their
summer schedule. They will have
festival buttons, with proceeds to
be used to support festival events.
Winners of the Paul Bunyan Essay
Contest will read their winning
entries and receive their awards.
The contest is sponsored each year
by the historical society and open
to young students who write es-
says about the legendary Paul Bu-
nyan and his faithful companion,
Babe, the blue ox.
The museum displays include
Betty Wolf
festival queen portraits, a collage
of Paul Bunyan photos and parade
and logging show photos from the
past.
The museum will open at 1 p.m.
and the program will begin at 2
p.m. at 427 West Railroad Avenue
in downtown Shelton.
The planning committee has
been hard at work, fine-tuning and
finalizing preparations tbr this
year's 63rd annual Mason County
Forest Festival. The multi-event
festival, scheduled to run May 31
through June 3, will have a couple
of significant changes from prior
stagings of the events.
PARADE-WATCHERS should
(Please turn to page 6.)
HAVING MORE RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS IS NOT THE SAME
AS HAVING MORE MONEY.
qb learn how consolidating your retirement accounts to Edward
.Iones cxmhi make sense for you, (',all today.
Janis Byrd www.edwardJones.com sc
Financial Advisor
1717 Olympic Hwy. N.
Shelton,WA 98584
360-432-8965
20 % OFF
ALL 4" VEGGIE STARTS
99
SPECIALS
OF THE
WEEK
5/17.5/23
At the intersection
of Highway I01 and
108, just minutes
away from Olympia
and Shelton
360-426-5254
. _ FACT 0 R" (
SKOOK200c00oCREEK q0000M00ade freSsh TouOrowX00n]Yctory
I I
COMPLETE
ROLL-YOUR-OWN
*1299+
One Pound Bag
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Srnokmg
Now Greatly Reduces Se, nous Risks to Your Health
liARLBOEO
Oigretto|
...............
.65
+ tax
--NEW--
Walk-In Humidor
GREAT SELECTION
of Fine Cigars &
Humidor Accessories
t .............. ._
CIGARS MAKE
GREAT GIFTS
Try our own
ISLAND BLENDZ
Hand rolled-Fine cigars
LARGE SELECTION
5"
' RECEIVE vex OaLLOS
, GAS DISCOUNT '
' EIIADILY
I
HOURS: Mon-Thur 6am-12am / Fri & Sat 6am-2am / Sun 6am-1 lpm
oblh ' "
The Kamilche Trading Post operates under a compact with the State f sht,nito n Safe To Shop .,., .
TOBACCO PRODUCTS DRIVE -THRU OPEN Sun-Thur 7am-9pm, Fri & Sat 7am-10pm J
Thursday, May 17, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 3
',i i::i:; ;
ALAIRE HALL, QUEEN OF THE FOREST 2007, stands by Lacie Mes-
senger as Princess of Cedar, Emilie Schnabel as Princess of Spruce,
Sara Chapman as Princess of Douglas Fir and Nancy Yuan as Princess
of Hemlock. Mattie Sobotka is an alternate on the court. On the junior
court, Hannah Avina is Princess of Wildlife and Kairee Brown is Ju-
nior Princess of Wildflowers. Brothers Jacob and Robert Hanes won the
titles of Paul Bunyan and Smokey Bear, respectively.
00orest Fest has plenty
to offer again this year
County Forest Festival
r is just around the corner.
the weekend of
lay, May 31, through Sun-
3, the annual celebra-
open on Thursday, May
a Family Night in Shel-
Gateway Center on Moun-
View. This event, complete
will run from 4 to
The carnival will continue
4 to 11 p:m. on Friday, June
will burst with activi-
with the Goldsbor-
and Walk. Shelton's
Festival footrace is set to
at 8 a.m. on June 2, with
the seven- and two-mile op-
COmmencing at the Seventh-
Church on Shelton
ey Road, where shuttle buses
COnvey entrants from down-
and check-in are
:30 to 7:30 that morning at
Office Park on the car-
ner of Second Street and Railroad
Avenue. Entry is $25 with com-
memorative T-shirt available till
May 15 and $20 without T-shirt.
Sign-up forms are available from
veteran race director Dana Tilton
at Chez Beaujeas beauty salon
downtown, at the Shelton Athletic
Club and on-line at Mason Coun-
ty's Forest Festival Web site. Run-
ners and walkers may start sign-
ing up already for the 10th annual
Goldsborough Creek run.
NEW THIS YEAR, the Paul
Bunyan Parade will head down
Railroad Avenue and turn onto
Second Street, instead of First
Street, proceeding down Frank-
lin Street. Retired teacher and
administrator and lifelong Mason
County resident Betty Wolf will
serve as grand marshal of this
year's parade. Mason County roy-
alty will appear on the official For-
est Festival float in the parade.
A Kiddie Parade will lead off
the procession at 10:30 a.m., fol-
:00eld day will find forest
at Panhandle Lake
t Seventh annual Forest Fes-
will be held on Fri-
18, at Panhandle Lake
).
'event is held in conjunction
Forest Festival. It
fifth-graders throughout
and more then 300
are expected to partici-
Festival Field Day con-
a full day of environmen-
activity stations.
address forestry and
eCOsystems, including such
as fire prevention, forest
forest economy, Mason
salmon and
areas, reforestation, for-
wildlife and log-
Fifth-grade teachers took part
in a training program about water
quality and forests to prepare for
this year's event. After Forest Fes-
tival Field Day, students will com-
plete billboard contest entries. The
billboard contest finalists' posters
will be displayed at The Office
Supply Store at 450 West Rail-
road Avenue on May 31 and June
1. The finalists artwork will move
on June 2 to a booth at Loop Field
hosted by the Mason Conservation
District during Forest Festival.
Folks can vote for the People's
Choice Award winner at either
The Office Supply Store or" at Loop
Field during Forest Festival. The
grand-prize winner will have his
or her forest artwork displayed on
(Please turn to page 6.)
00Mell Chevrolet
where the satisfied
customers buy ...
"ere We helpful, courteous and friendly? YeSI Iter
ere you pleased with the way your vehicle was delivered? YeS
%ltl You recommend us to friends? Yes a/ld We aie
your comments: @U #'e llr]
B.&£.N. - She/ton
lowed by the Paul Bunyan Grand
Parade at 11 a.m.
An application form for the
Kiddie Parade was in last week's
newspaper. Application forms to
participate in both the Paul Bu-
nyan and the Kiddie Parade pre-
ceding it are available on-line at
www.masoncountyForestFes-
tival.com.
In consideration of parade at-
tendees, event organizers ask
people to not bring their dogs to
watch the parade. No dogs will
be allowed on Loop Field, where
a logging show will take place
after the parade, starting at 1:30
p.m. Live entertainment will fol-
low. Loop Field is located on 10th
and Franklin streets in downtown
Shelton. Vendors - both commer-
cial and nonprofit --are invited to
participate by contacting Linda
Trail at 426-1368.
A FIREWORKS display will
cap the evening at 10 p.m. at
Wallace Kneeland Boulevard on
Mountain View.
Finally, on Sunday, June 3,
the festivities will come to a close.
The carnival will end at noon, but
a car show will be just starting,
with registrations running from 9
a.m to noon and the vehicles go-
ing on display from noon to 4 p.m.
Kristmas Town Kiwanis will float
wooden ducks down Goldsborough
Creek, meeting at First Street.
More information about Forest
Festival is available by sending an
e-mail to FFRoyaltyPageant@
aol.com, attention Lisa Fox.
OFF ALL PARTS AND SERVICE
dors age 55 and over (Up to sl O0 savings)
Marshal Wolf recalls
her formative years
The Mason County Histori-
cal Society Museum will be open
to the public on Sunday for this
year's edition of "Forest Festival
Memories."
Guest speaker on May 20 will be
Betty Wolf, grand marshal of the
upcoming Paul Bunyan Parade
at the 2007 Mason County Forest
Festival. She will talk about her
life in this area.
A lifelong educator, Mrs. Wolf
retired in 1988 from Southside
School where she was a student,
then a teacher and ultimately the
principal and superintendent. She
was honored in 2001 for her ser-
vice to the community by the Ma-
son General Hospital Foundation.
Also sharing memories will be
Alexander Bidwell, a sixth-grader
at Pioneer School and a volunteer
at the museum. He recently par-
ticipated in the People to People
program, which took him to Wash°
ington, D.C., Gettysburg, Wil-
liamsburg and other historical
sites. The tour group included ap-
proximately 200 student ambas-
sadors from across the U.S. Alex-
ander will illustrate his talk with
photos.
MEMBERS OF the Mason
County Forest Festival court will
be on hand to talk about their
summer schedule. They will have
festival buttons, with proceeds to
be used to support festival events.
Winners of the Paul Bunyan Essay
Contest will read their winning
entries and receive their awards.
The contest is sponsored each year
by the historical society and open
to young students who write es-
says about the legendary Paul Bu-
nyan and his faithful companion,
Babe, the blue ox.
The museum displays include
Betty Wolf
festival queen portraits, a collage
of Paul Bunyan photos and parade
and logging show photos from the
past.
The museum will open at 1 p.m.
and the program will begin at 2
p.m. at 427 West Railroad Avenue
in downtown Shelton.
The planning committee has
been hard at work, fine-tuning and
finalizing preparations tbr this
year's 63rd annual Mason County
Forest Festival. The multi-event
festival, scheduled to run May 31
through June 3, will have a couple
of significant changes from prior
stagings of the events.
PARADE-WATCHERS should
(Please turn to page 6.)
HAVING MORE RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS IS NOT THE SAME
AS HAVING MORE MONEY.
qb learn how consolidating your retirement accounts to Edward
.Iones cxmhi make sense for you, (',all today.
Janis Byrd www.edwardJones.com sc
Financial Advisor
1717 Olympic Hwy. N.
Shelton,WA 98584
360-432-8965
20 % OFF
ALL 4" VEGGIE STARTS
99
SPECIALS
OF THE
WEEK
5/17.5/23
At the intersection
of Highway I01 and
108, just minutes
away from Olympia
and Shelton
360-426-5254
. _ FACT 0 R" (
SKOOK200c00oCREEK q0000M00ade freSsh TouOrowX00n]Yctory
I I
COMPLETE
ROLL-YOUR-OWN
*1299+
One Pound Bag
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Srnokmg
Now Greatly Reduces Se, nous Risks to Your Health
liARLBOEO
Oigretto|
...............
.65
+ tax
--NEW--
Walk-In Humidor
GREAT SELECTION
of Fine Cigars &
Humidor Accessories
t .............. ._
CIGARS MAKE
GREAT GIFTS
Try our own
ISLAND BLENDZ
Hand rolled-Fine cigars
LARGE SELECTION
5"
' RECEIVE vex OaLLOS
, GAS DISCOUNT '
' EIIADILY
I
HOURS: Mon-Thur 6am-12am / Fri & Sat 6am-2am / Sun 6am-1 lpm
oblh ' "
The Kamilche Trading Post operates under a compact with the State f sht,nito n Safe To Shop .,., .
TOBACCO PRODUCTS DRIVE -THRU OPEN Sun-Thur 7am-9pm, Fri & Sat 7am-10pm J
Thursday, May 17, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 3