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ISLAND
Island
community
plans to host
spaghetti feed
fundraiser
All of Mason County is in-
vited to the annual Harstine Is-
land spaghetti feed fundraiser
from 5 to 8
p.m. on Sat-
urday, May
28. , This
has been a
long running
tradition
that brings
together the
MIKE Community
CALLAGHAN Hall, Grange
% and Theater
Club to create a delicious din-
ner. Members of the commu-
nity club cook the spaghetti,
grange members make the
desserts, and the Theater Club
serves the wine. Like a great
Italian restaurant, you are
invited to sit down at a linen
covered table, visit with neigh-
bets and be served by a great
bunch of waiters. Both meat
sauces and vegetarian sauces
are available. The cost is only
$6 for adults and $3 for chil-
dren. With prices like that you
can bring the whole neighbor-
hood - so please join us.
The cooks of this fine dinner
are looking for a few donations
of food - remember this is a
fundraiser. They would great-
ly appreciate it if you drive
past the hall, could you please
drop off some canned spa-
ghetti sauce, canned tomatoes
and some regular spaghetti
noodles.
The Harstine Island Com-
munity Choir's May "H~art
Beats" concert series is
here. This group has been work-
ing for months to prepare the
concert. Years ago they started
small and have grown into one
of the premier choirs in the
area. Now is your chance to
hear them.
They will be performing
a group of wonderful love
songs like Disney's "Kiss the
Girl" from The Little Mer-
maid, "Some Enchanted
Evening" from South Pacific
and "Summertime" from Por-
gy and Bess. Mourn through
songs of sorrow such as "Danny
Boy" and "Barb'ry Ellen." Songs
range from master composer's
works like Brahms' melodious
love songs to today's preeminent
choral composers works like
Z. Randall Stroope's powerful
"Omnia sol" and Morten Lan-
ridsen's haunting "I)irait-on'.
Harstine Island Community
Choir debuts the commissioned
love song of local composer and
musician, Pat Butler. You can
find them at 7 p.m. on Friday,
May 20 at United Methodist
Church in Shelton; at 3 p.m. on
Saturday, May 21 at St. Hugh
Episcopal Church, Allyn and 3
p.m. Sunday, May 22 at Harst-
ine Island Community Hall.
Every May, there is a cem-
etery clean up the weekend be-
fore Memorial Day. If you are
available May 21 to help, they
will be meeting at 9 a.m. at
the island cemetery on Island
Drive North. The cemetery is
located about 2.9 miles north
of the bridge. You will need to
bring tools like a weed wacki-
er, rake, shovel, wheelbarrow,
etc. It usually takes a couple of
hours and it is fun to meet and
talk with the folks who have
been doing this important job
for years.
COOKIN'
See Island on page B-5
Little fiddlers, guitarists and banjo enthusiasts
Bluegrass From the Forest last Sunday.
gathered for the Chick's
Kids workshops and
Journal photos by Natalie Johnson
performance at
Kids keep teacher's legacy alive
at Bluegrass From the Forest
By NATAUE JOHNSON "Chick's passion was
to keep bluegrass music
Few people who knew alive by imparting it to
Chick Rose Can talk about the next generation," said
him without getting emo- Enh Dew,t, who i~elped
tional, organize the Chick's Kids
Rose, the leader of blue- performance in Rose's ab-
grass group Chick's Kids, sence.
who perform at bluegrassDuring last weekend's
shows around the state, Bluegrass From the Forest
died this year, only two Festival at Shelton High
months before he was School, longtime friends
scheduled to come to Blue- and students of Rose or-
grass From the Forest.ganized a bluegrass camp
full of workshops and les- structor this year.
sons for kids just learning This year, the Chick's
to play bluegrass music Kids group had more than
to those who had already a dozen kids from around
been playing 10 or more the area, some local, some
years, who camped with their
While ultimately adults parents at the festival,
supervise and organizeranging in age from five or -:
the event, the ~enage and six to early teens.
young adult instructors "It empowers this wiaole i
did the actual work, De- new generation of blue-
whirst said. grass musicians," De-
"[Rose's] goal was to whirstsaid.
make it fun and to use ju- One of the young
nior instructors - kids re- instructors who made
spend to other kids," she these workshops a success
said. was Athena Patterson, a
In fact, Dewhirst's own
daughter acted as an in- See Grass on page B-5
B - Brew your own beer
By NATALIE JOHNSON
Some people are content with Bud
Light, but not Bill Thornton.
"Most Americans have gotten used
to Miller or Bud but it all tastes the
same," Thornton said, "You have a
taste test and people can't tell the dif-
ference, it's just a really light beer."
After being frustrated by bland
American beer for too long, Thornton
and his wife Done!le began their own
beer about ten years ago. This Janu-
ary, the Thorntons opened up their
own brewing supply shop, Mason
County Brewing Supplies, on Cota
Street in Shelton.
"There is no other beer supply place
in this whole county," Thornton said.
A serious brewer for only a few
years, Thornton had been traveling
as far as Bremerton to get brewing
supplies and thought Mason County
should have a closer option.
"We also own an online glass busi-
ness. We sell glass to artists," he said.
"I really wanted to have another on-
line business."
Regulations in the brewing supply
industry forced the Thorntons to open
up the physical storefront downtown,
but they also sell supplies online.
The process of making beer is actu-
ally pretty simple, Thornton said. As
long as you have the right supplies,
and good guidance, you can't go wrong.
"It's really simple, you can do it on
a stovetop or outside on the burner,"
he said.
The decision to start brewing his
own beer was almost as simple as
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Donelle, left, and Bill
Thornton recently opened
a brewery supply store in
Shelton.
making it, Thornton said.
"Well, I'm a hell of a beer drinker!"
he said.
While brewing your own beer takes
longer than walking or driving to your
nearest convenience store for a Bud
Light, the benefits are worth the four
week walt, he said.
"Usually you make your own beer
because it tastes better than store-
bought," he said.
There really is only one "beginners
mistake" that can ruin a whole batch,
Thornton said.
"Not following directions," he said.
Experienced brewers like the
Thorntons start the brewing process
with grains, he said, but inexperienced
See Cook on page B-5
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
The Anna's Bay Chorale practices for their
summer concert at the Harmony Hill Retreat
Center in Union.
Chorale heats up
for summer concert
By NATALIE JOHNSON
Inspired by the success of their performance of Han-
deI's "Messiah" in December, the Anna's Bay Chorale is
continuing their classical series with Mozart's "Requi-
em" this July.
"It's an all Mozart program, which fits the cycle we
started with 'Messiah," Chorale director Matthew Ble-
gen said. "It was clear the choir was ready for a heavy
diet of the classics."
Blegen said that his goal is to take another step
through music history with every new piece the choir
performs. Mozart is in the beginning of the classical pe-
riod and is heavily influenced by baroque styles, he said.
"What we're used to hearing has evolved through
western music," he said. "Baroque is all about baroque-
ness- showing off."
In the Renaissance, music began mirroring the new
social idea that individuals have worth, Blegen said. This
See Chorale on page B-5
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