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By LOU DONNELL
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who complained of nothing to do last week must have been
a cave somewhere; there were so many things going on that
request a second camera from the Journal so that Carol could
the events.
the most exciting event of the week was the championship
game in Yakima last Friday night. It would have been fun to
impossible to cover that and still be in Shelton early Saturday
to cover the Forest Festival parade, so Carol Wentlandt,
manager for the Herald and also chairman of the North
board, took our camera when she and her family drove
on Friday. They stayed at the same motel as the team
reports that they must have had to refill the swimming pool
left, so much water splashed out each time one of the husky
~ed in and with the temperature around 90 on Saturday,
l a lot of jumping into the pool going on.
were quite a few local people who stayed over at the same
another large group of North Mason fans went to the game
According to a man who rode on the bus, the driver was
hard time staying awake on the return trip since the game
until after one a.m. and he had begun work at five a.m.
~rning. He stopped a few times to run around the bus or to
everyone got back safe and sound.
a glorious sunny day on this side of the mountains on
too, probably a little too hot for the comfort of those who
rode in the annual Forest Festival parade. (Particularly
the Bear.) I was wishing I could have worn shorts while
top of the marquee at Penney's so I could have gotten my
I always feel overly conspicuous anyway being up there
have the nerve. Maybe it's just my imagination, though,
first year I climbed the ladder to take pictures from the
vantage point one of my children who had wanted some
during the parade had complained later that he had come
stand area and looked all over for me but couldn't find
up there does have its advantages in addition to not having
about someone walking in front of the camera just as I'm
a picture. A friendly man from inside Penney's was nice
out through the window paper mats for Al Ford and
on and later, when it really hit the spot, a soft drink to help
who didn't attend the Band Blast at North Mason High
0a Thursday night missed a fun show. There was one skit after
the fast-paced show and the audience voted by cheers or
which skits deserved pies in the faces of the
Everyone taking part in the blast appeared to be having as
has the audience was viewing it.
today well-wishers dropped by the LakeLand Village Country
Principal Ralph Lackey and long-time teacher Laura
looking forward to retirement beginning next Monday
out for the summer.
of course, the day the seniors have been waiting for was
week when they were awarded their diplomas during a
ceremony held in the gym. Since this week's paper was
together earlier in the day, those pictures will have to wait
issue.
r He
of the preliminary
the 1975-76 school
Mason School
the board at their
May 28 added
rehiring four of the
Who were laid off due
with some of the
to be used to retain
two of the classified
scheduled to be laid
aSSibly a little left over
and materials. Which
Will be affected has
Y thousand dollars of
OUnt will come from
funds. Several years
adopted the policy
monies from federal
automatically put in
fund which, through
ithas given them
money
s SUch as putting in the
:s between the high
r~a and junior high two
Without having to ask
bond issues on the
once money is put
ilding fund it can only
that purpose and
transferred out for
Last week the board
they would instruct
treasurer to put the
000 received from
;t funds next year into
fund instead of the
M, with any amount
be put in the building
could be around
would be available
the event emergency
tny of the buildings is
ext year.
last two years the
budgets have
$35,000 in restricted
on hand at the end of
board wiped this out
the total amount
cash balance
the end of the year,
total $50,000.
in the preliminary
Presented by
~ent Norm Sanders,
$47,709 had been
unrestricted cash
Only $15,000 of this
retained by shifting
the portions of the
:h will employ the
one or two
and possibly,
This $32,709 from
cash balance,
$20,000 expected
funds which
the general fund
building fund, adds
to the amount
be available to
next year.
of even more
n~oney becoming
education next year
When one board
member asked the two board
members who serve on the
negotiations committee to offer a
proposal to the North Mason
Education Association (NMEA)
that teachers accept a six percent
salary increase next year instead
of the 12% percent included in
the preliminary budget. The next
negotiation meeting was set for
this last Monday night but it will
not be known publicly until the
regular board meeting if the
teacher-negotiators and NMEA
have agreed. If they are willing to
negotiate contracts based on a
smaller pay raise, more than four
of the 14 teachers laid off would
keep their jobs next year.
One new budget item, never
before included in a budget for
North Mason School District, calls
for $10,000 to be available for
legal advice. By law, school
districts are entitled to free legal
advice from the county
prosecutor but, according to
Sanders, the local district has
been unable to secure assistance
from the prosecutor's office in
recent years and, because of
previous experience, has not
requested any help from that
office in the past two years.
In other business:
the board approved a request
to allow retiring personnel to be
included in the district's health
insurance policy, providing
retirees pay their own payments
and reimburse the district for the
small cost of handling their
accounts. ('overage is better
through group policies and the
cost is less than if purchased as an
individual.
the board voted to approve
the application for funds from the
state to continue the URRD
program next year.
the board instructed Sanders
to begin negotiations with the
American Lutheran Church for
possible purchase of 27.1 acres of
undeveloped land adjacent to
school property. This would not
include the five acres which
contain the parsonage and well.
June ! was the deadline for
North Mason School District to
turn in its budget to the state so if
the legislature provides any
additional money for schools, the
final budget, due later in the year,
will have to be changed to
incorporate those funds.
POETRY BOOKS
Poetry books containing
poems by local residents are on
sale at all North Mason school
offices, the Allyn firehall and the
Huckleberry Herald office. A
small charge will cover costs of
publica tion.
ull
2n
place
North Mason's baseball team
came within one run of becoming
state champion for class A schools
when the Bulldogs were defeated
5 to 4 in an ! l-inning game
played last Friday night in
Yakima. In their first try in the
school's history in competition
beyond regular league play, the
Bulldogs wound up in second
place after becoming champions
of the western league, entitling
them to meet the eastern division
champs, Carroll, a parochial
school from Yakima, in the state
playoff last Friday.
By JO TESTU
In 1975, the Year of the
Bulldog, North Mason has turned
up winner in almost every sport
they've attempted. The football
team entered in state
competition, the wrestling team
placed third, with two individual
state champions and the
basketball team tied for first in
LOOKING AT THE TROPHY won by the North Mason
baseball team last Friday night, naming them second in the
state, are two team members, Dan Sullivan and Bob Blevins.
BULLDOG BASEBALL PLAYERS put their heartbreaking 5-4 loss for the
state championship behind them and enjoyed some fun in the motel pool the
day after the game.
COACH HARLAN OLSON throws one of the baseball
players into the pool as the Bulldog team relaxed on
Saturday following Friday night's game in Yakima.
KEEP THE
CANAL CLEAN
Residents of the North Mason
area are reminded that it is
unlawful to dispose of garbage or
refuse of any kind, such as brush,
grass clippings, food, etc., by
throwing such material in any
body of water in Mason County,
including ditches, streams, lakes,
rivers, Hood Canal or Puget
Sound. The same law prohibits
such disposals upon the surface of
the ground or along any
roadways. The ordinance
prohibiting such acts carries
penalties, a fine of not less than
$25 nor more than $150, or
imprisonment not to exceed 30
days, or both, for each offense.
first aiq ass to
in Be "
A standard first aid and
personal safety course will be
taught at Belfair firehall on
Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, 7 to lO p.m., beginning
June I I through July 3. Anyone
age 13 or older is invited to sign
up. CPR training will be included
in the class which will be
instructed by Cindy llunt and
Phyllis Barovich, two
EMT-trained women who help
operate the Belfair aid car. More
information may be had by
calling 275-3438.
earns Ea,
Belfair's Boy Scout Troop
513 has another Eagle Scout; the
eighth to attain this rank in recent
years since Dillon Fisher became
Scoutmaster, boosting the local
troop's percentage of Eagle
Scouts compared to the number
of boys in the troop up even
higher above average than it was.
Duane Bowmer, 14, an eighth
grade student at North Mason
Upper Elementary, received his
Eagle Scout award in a Court of
Honor held May 27. Eagle Scouts
Randy Peterson and Tom
Johnson conducted the court and
the Eagle oath was given by Eagle
Scout Gary Johnson. Another
local Eagle Scout, John Hannan,
read a letter congratulating Duane
which had been received from the
National Boy Scout office.
Assisting Eagle Scout Gary
Johnson in presenting the award
to Duane was a brother, David
Bowmer, a Webelo, with another
brother, Star Scout Darrell
Bowmer, also taking part in the
ceremony by presenting their
mother a bouquet of flowers.
Parents of the new Eagle Scout
are Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Bowmer of Belfair. One other
son, Mark, is only six years old so
has his scouting years still ahead
of him.
To earn an Eagle award,
Duane collected 24 merit badges;
of these 10 were required to be
among the total earned but 14
could be chosen from many
fields. Working on the music
merit badge gave him tl)e most
enjoyment. He is a saxophonist in
the junior high band and other
interests include building models
and rockets.
l)uane spent three years as a
Cub Scout before entering Boy
Scouts three years ago.
or
in
all
the league. Now that "spring has
sprung," baseball has had its
chance and went further into class
A competition than any other
team has done so far this year.
Harlan Olson and his blue and
white baseball players advanced
all the way up to the class A finals
in state.
For most who made the
five-hour trip in car, bus, plane,
whatever, the five hours seated on
the benches at the game weren't
too comfortable. The game,
supposed to start at 8:30, began a
little after 9 p.m. and the stadium
was crowded.
In the first inning, with the
Bulldogs as visitors" team, North
Mason made their only four runs
of the game.
Ron Burrows made it to first
on an infielder's error. Aaron
Olson was then issued a walk and
Ken Aries' sacrifice bunt went
Landram's three-run triple to
deep left centerfield. Start Presley
then hit a single up the middle to
score Landram. Carroll then
replaced starting pitcher Greg
McDonald with Scott Morse and
he managed to retire the Bulldogs
after a four-run first inning.
With a four-run margin,
starting pitcher Bob Blevins
silenced the Patriots' bats as he
fanned his first two batters and
quickly retired the side. The
Patriots started their comeback as
they began chipping away at the
lead. They scored one run in the
second and two in the third, all
unearned on errors. Their only
earned run off Blevins came in the
sixth when Greg McDonald
blasted a 400-foot home run to
tie the score 4-4.
Carroll's winning run came
the bottom of the 1 ! th after they
had back-to-back singles off
down as a hit to load the bases, reliever Ken Aries who then
This set the stage for George issued an intentional walk to load
the bases. Chris Martin's pinch-hit
single scored a run when
outfielder Stan Presley couldn't
field the ball successfully and the
game was over.
Landram and Aries each
collected two hits and Presley,
Burrows and Olson got the
Bulldogs' only other hits.
RESULTS:
ab r h rbi
Burrows 4 1 l 0
OIson 3 1 1 0
Aries 4 1 2 0
Landram 5 1 2 3
Presley 5 0 1 1
Blevins 5 0 0 0
Sullivan 5 0 0 0
Medeiros 1 0 0 0
Smith 5 0 0 0
Hauge 3 0 0 0
Tobin 1 0 0 0
During the 5-113innings
pitched by Blevins therecord
was: 4 runs, 5 hits, 1 error, 9
shutouts and 3 walks. During
Aries' 5-1/3 innings of pitching
there were 1 run, 6 hits, 1 error, 8
shutouts and 2 walks.
nner
ueen
NORTH MASON'S FLOAT, graced by Princess Dana Petrick, took the
highly-coveted Queen's trophy in Saturday's Forest Festival parade m
Shelton.
South Shore News
By MAC MCKINNEY
898-2989
Eagle Scout Duane Bowmer
The Lions: 54th annual
International District No. 19
convention was held in Penticton,
Canada. The following Canal Lion
members and their wives
attended: Mr. and Mrs. D. St. Hill,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Campbell, Mr. and
Mrs. L. McKinney and Mr. Gene
Stark.
The group left May 20,
driving over Snoqualmie Pass to
Vantage Ferry, to Ephrata,
crossing over to Highway 97, then
to Penticton.
The convention started off
with a bang; more people came
than they had printed tickets for.
The groups were divided and
extra banquet rooms were set up.
An exchange of pins began and
the canal pins were gone in no
time. This was the largest
attendance to date for the
mid-year convention.
On the return trip Sunday
most of the canal group drove to
Winthrop, Washington and over
the North Cascade Pass. Winthrop
was jumping with people and the
drive over the pass was a beautiful
sight to see; the snowbanks were
four to 12 feet high.
The Reed twins, Lois and
Jeanne, spent a week visiting
friends and relatives in Spokane.
They report a wonderful time and
came home relaxed and are
working like bees.