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Shelton-Mason County Journal Time to Y your ,3LIES On Memorial Day, I always reflect back on the many WWII war stories my father told me. He was in the Navy for the duration. Of course I never really understood some of them, but I know he and my mom often talked to their friends about the time in 1944 when he was deployed to Bremerton and assigned to a new ship that was leaving for the Pacific region. He had a short time for shore leave and, I guess as sailors do, he and his buddies got a little rowdy and the MPs sent them back to their ship. Like I said, growing up I heard that story many times, and my folks and friends would laugh because that's when my parents met. Then one day I realized - I was born February 6, 1945. Well, this MIKE past week- CALLAGHAN end was big for the island; we had the opening of the Farmers Market in the parking lot of the community hall. The market is just a great place to meet friends and buy great island produce and crafts. Remember, they are open on Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon. Also, the Jarrell's Cove Marina opened for the season. Gary and Lorna have been working hard over the winter to get their marina in tip-top shape. If for no other reason all islanders need to get down there to see their new bulkhead. Then there was the spaghetti feed. Again this is a great event and a traditional island fundraiser. Thanks to all who came and joined in. Oh and don't forget the new Fresh Start Market and Dell. June 10 is this month's date for the community club meeting. They need all is- landers to join and pay their dues. Dues are $15 a person. I know volunteers for the com- munity club will have a table set up at the Farmers Market to collect those dues, so take a minute and stop by. Jim Irving sent in this note. Patricia Grover, the coordinator for the Mason County Noxious Weed Con- trol Board has loaned a weed wrench to the Harstine Islmld Community Club for members to use to rid their proper- ties of scottsbroom and other invasive plants. The wrench will be available for check- out at the hall starting this week. We appreciate Pat's work in finding the funding to purchase the wrench for our use. Let's put it to good use. When you use the weed wrench take before and after pictures, contact Jim Irving at 432-9231 for information. The next Senior Lunch will be June 15 at noon at the community hall. On the menu they will have reuben sandwiches, potato salad, pickles, and tapioca pudding with whipped cream. YOU need to get there a little early : : : COOKIN' See Island on page B-5 Art on the Island Journal photo by Natalie Johnson Kathy Ross's most popular sculptures are papier-mache figures like this. Harstine artists come together over Memorial Day weekend By NATALIE JOHNSON Kathy Ross' home sits deep in the woods of Harstine Island - the perfect environment for ere- ating art, she said. Last weekend, her home was filled inside and out with not only her art, but the works of lo- cal artists Lillian Morlock and Susan Holland as well, for her first ever KR3d Studio Show. Ross organized the open house art show not only as a way to showcase local artists, but to meet new people in a community she only moved to a year and a half ago. "I was initially thinking of trying to organize a Harstine Is- land Studio Tour," she said. The idea of shuttling people from one home studio to another was enticing, Ross said, but soon became impractical. Instead, she opened her home to island art- ists and anyone who wanted to come appreciate them. Ross' art took up most of the space, and ranged from bronze to papier-mache to tin sculpture, her newest obsession. "I am in search of elegant cookie tins," she said. Ross is also perennially in search of wooden coasters, beads, old jewelry and triangle display cases that she says she "COVets." After working with bronze for many years, Ross said she moved to tin because it is cheaper and less laborious. The colorful cook- ie tins she uses to create sculp- tures small and large also allow her to experiment, she said. Her most recent tin sculpture, a library, will soon be placed in the Shelten Timberland Library, Ross said. Books show up in much of Ross's art, particularly inher papier-mache sculptures, which frequently are not only made of pages from books, but portray girls reading while wearing long dresses flowing in the wind. "I'm kind of an old English- major type," Ross said. "I have a couch-sized amount of diaries" Ross' work could be best de- scribed as playful or silly, and often includes wild hair and googly eyes on figurines. See Art on page B-5 Market gives building on F ickering Road a 'Fresh Start' By NATALIE JOHNSON Deborah Wallace has long been what she calls a "cautious omnivore," eating meat only occasionally and focusing on eat- ing organic andre when she can, local foods in season. Last Sunday, aider a year of constant work, she opened the Fresh Start Market and Deli on Pickering Road, which special- izes in the healthy food she has come to love. "It's taken me a year to get it like this," she said. "Everything we have here we bought at auction." Wallace and her book club pal Theresa Jacobson did the majority of the work, re- doing all of the floors, paint and completely remodeling what was once the bar area. "It was girl power the whole way redo- hag this thing," Wallace said. The front room of Fresh Start looks like a typical, market, but shoppers have a choice between organic or local produce, canned or packaged goods and even beer, and the standard brands found at most grocery stores. Wallace also encourages buying in bulk, but also sells pre-packaged sugar, for example. The market also has a sink allowing cus- tomers to wash their fruits and vegetables in the store, or fill up reusable water bot- tles. "We don't sell plastic water bottles here," Wallace said. Both the market and deli also display and sell local art. There are also several permanent art fixtures, including a mural on the market's wall of fruit and vegeta- bles, which includes il hidden rabbits, and a floor painted to look like graffiti in the bulk room. Wallace has always cooked, but only started catering after she and her husband got into the sea-plane business, she said. "I started catering sea-plane events - we call them splash-ins," she said. After beginning her catering career, Wallace also worked as a vegetarian chef at the Harmony Hill Retreat Center in Journal photo by Natalie Johnson f Market employee Becca Huisman puts a pot of coffee on at the dell ,, Union for seven years. "That really all led me to this," she said. Wallace also plans to hold cooking classes in the fall on eatin G heart healthy or special needs cooking. The market also supports tLhe Pioneer Food Bank. "One olf my most important things for me regarding food is that children get good food," she said. The building itself has had a troubled past, Wallace said, closing, opening and closing again several times before she bought the building, determined to make it a market focusing on fresh, local and or- ganic fare. "This buildingwasbuiltin 1987," she said. "It used to be a restaurant and a bar- they were making counterfeit money in the back. When it became vacant yet again, we thought we really need a market out here." Wallace shared this recipe for spring vegetable pot pie. _ ge Thursday, June 2, 2011 Shelton-MaSon County Jourr B,1