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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.
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