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Shelton-Mason County Journal 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 20t2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page B-1