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WHAT%COOKIN'
Brady Trucking and
Bark celebrates 53
decades of business
By NATALIE JOHNSON
nahdic@masoncou~ty.com
Jeff and .Nancy Brady start-
ed Brady Trucking and Bark
in 1982 with just one truck. He
drove the truck and she acted as
bookkeeper.
Thirty years later, the busi-
ness is a model of success in
Shelton, with 38 employees and
20 trucks.
"Being self-employed, it's not a
get rich quick scheme, it's a life-
style," Jeff Brady said. "It's not
a 40-hour a we~k commitment.
Here we are 30 years later and
I still work a lot of hours. I don't
really think retirement is an op-
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Jeff and Nancy Brady, owners of Brady Trucking and
Bark, are celebrating being in business for 30 years this
month.
tio~." ' hire trucking, mostly hauling
Now the company does for- wood products. The business also
deals in wholesale landscapingHe also said having a hands-
material and has retail outlets in on attitude has helped him suc-
Shelton and Sequim. ceed.
Jeff Brady said small business"I don't expect my employees
owners have to work hard for to do anything I don't do," he
many years to have success, said.
"Going into business, often In fact, Jeff Brady still drives
people think they're going to a truck for his company -- a re-
have two or three years ... of dif- stored 1954 Kenworth.
ficulty economically building up In addition to working long
the business," he said. "The real- hours, the couple also regularly
ity is it's always going to be dif- travels to Central .America to
ficult." help build churches, homes and
After all these years, the busi- schools.
ness is still a family affair."We have been involved in
"All of our kids have worked doing mission work in Central
here through the years," NancyAmerica for 20 years. We lead
Brady said. groups from all over the United
With the recession, they've States to Central America to do
had to work overtime to keep construction projects," he said.
the business up and running," he "That's something we see con-
said. tinuing."
"There's ups and downs with In the last'20 years, they
the economy," he said "We've have helped build more than 50
had to make adjustments -- churches and 450 homes, schools
that's one of the challenges of be-
ing in business." See Trucking on page B-4
HARST NEISLANDNEWS
Journal onoio DV KevJn SDradhr
Rosaura Gaspar, left, and her children, Esmaralda, center, and Maria, talk with Courtney Morgan,
librarian at Evergreen Elementary School, about artwork on display on May 23 at the Shelton Civic Center.
'New and improved' show features multiple schools 'work
By KEVIN SPRADLIN had to stop.
kevin@mas(mcounty.cmn "Look how ridiculously happy
......................................................... those aliens are." she said of the smit-
ing, bright pinkish, purpleish char-
Art might be the truest reflection acters drawn by Marissa Aguilar,
of a person, in Marianella Rincon-Rector's first-
If that's the case. then Shelton has grade glass at Evergreen.
plenty of creative young people. The civic center was full of art
Teachers, parents and family pieces depicting dragons-and super-
men~bers attended the "new and im- heroes, plants and animalsreal
proved" art show on May 23 at the or imagTined - and favorite cartoon
Shelton Civic Center. characters, among dozens of other
In past years, Shelton School Dis- subjects.
trict students have had in-school art Tools included clay, tissue and
shows. This year, however, students juice boxes, yarn, popsicle sticks and
from Evergreen. Mountain View and soda bottles, among other items.
Bordeaux elementary schools; Oak- Jaime said the endeavor was a
land Bay Junior High School; Olym- choice-based one. which left the final
pic Middle School; and Shelton High product much to the creation of the
School all submitted entries, student.
"The thing about kids' art that is With that approach, Jaime said,
so compelling is that their absolute "when they find something they re-
joy comes through." said Evergreen ally love ... they perfect it."
art teacher Joyce Moore Jaime as she Quite so. It was not third-grader
scanned submissions showcased on Zachary Gray's first dragon, Jaime
tables, walls and partitions, said.
One piece caught her eye and she "Look a~ the quality of the texture
and the scales," she said of the pencil-
drawn sketch -- Gray's 83rd attempt
at dragons.
Jaime said younger students draw
what they are familiar with - some-
times even if they don't like it.
"They draw wha~ they love," she
said. "They draw wh~t they see. They
draw what scares them to death."
Sometimes, a student can go be-
yond the limits of their teacher's in-
struction. The greatest triumph a
teacher like Diane Garner, at Olym-
pic Middle School, experiences is
when both student and teacher are
rewarded.
Seventh-grader Cazden Hume
used spray paint and razor blades to
create a portrait entitled, "The Awak-
ening of Pyramid Mountain."
Such tools aren't permitted in the
classroom, but Garner said the fin-
ished product was so breath-taking
she simply had to allow it be put on
See Art on page B-4
Thursday, May 31,
Signs of summer
starting to show
Certain things let us know the
summer season is here. I guess
first would be when S&S Pro-
duce opens on Highway 3 across from
.Deer Creek Store. Another sign is
the Memorial Day opening Of Gary
and Lorna's Jarrell's Cove Marina.
I saw Gary changing the sign from
"Closed for the season," to "Open from
10 to 6." Then there is the opening of
the Harstine Island Farmer's Mar-
ket. They will be open from 10 a.m. to
noon every Saturday, now through Oc-
tober. This event is sponsored by
Harstine Island Gar-
den Club.
Another sure sign
is the annual spa-
ghetti dinner. This
year's was a big suc-
cess. A little more
than 200 adults at-
tended, along with
some 20 children
By MIKE eating and enjoying
CALLAGHAN each other's com-
pany. I've been told
that the spaghetti
sauce was cooked and simmered by
Billy and Lyn Fish. Don and Mary
Nichols. along with Barbara LaJune,
did their usual great job of getting the
whole thing organized. Of course the
waiters looked pretty good. But I think
the real "thanks" goes to the clean up
crew. They always have the dirty job,
but it is the most important part of the
dinner. Without a clean dish you can't
serve the spaghetti. The dinner is
unusual in that many clubs take part.
Besides the community club, the the-
ater club sponsors the wine booth. The
tasty desserts, which they had plenty
of, were served up by the grange.
The Harstine Grange is inviting all
islanders of all ages to their June 15
meeting. The purpose of this meet-
ing is to gather ideas from the com-
munity as to what the bridge triangle
area should look like. For the night,
the grange will suspend their regular
business meeting. They would like
everyone to share in a potluck din-
ner. After dinner they plan to discuss
ways to create an appealing welcome
for visitors and residents as they come
onto the island. The potluck will start
at 6:30 p.m. and the discussion at 7:30
p.m.
Most do not know or understand the
long-standing tradition of the grange's
work on the triangle area.,They will
outline that history at the meeting. In
a recent effort to clean up the triangle
area, the county shut them down. At the
meeting they will explain the problems
they have had to overcome. They have
now obtained the proper county permits
and have a list of county mandated
constraints, such as height, materials
See Harstine on page B-4
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