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Mayor's Award.
The Marysville Strawberry
Festival float won the Grand
Sweepstakes, Capital Lake-
fair won the Grand Marshal
award and the McCleary Bear
Festival won the President's
Award.
"They've had Bear Festi-
val in McCleary for 50 years
-- they actually serve bear
stew," Freeman said.
The Forks Old-Fashioned
Fourth of July festival won
the Governor's Award and the
Hoquiam Logger's Playday
won the Mayor's Award. Clas-
sic car groups participated in
the parade as well as Sun-
day's Car Show-Off. In the
parade, the Friends of Willie
and Joe, which brought an as-
sortment of vintage military
vehicles, won first place in the
classic car category.
Shelton High School won
first place for best marching
band, with Hawkins Middle
School coming in second.
The Equestriennes of Ma-
son County won first place in
the mounted equestrian Sat-
egory.
North Queens Drill Team
from Seattle won best dance/
drill team, but Shelton's The
Dance Shack, took second
place. Members of the Forest
Festival Committee chose win-
ners of the Chairman's Awards.
Manke Lumber and the
Southside School Royalty won
the Spirit Award, The Shelton
United Methodist Church's
Roaring like a Lion display
won the Creativity Award and
Jesse Young for Congress won
the Novelty Award.
"They had the one that was
all decked out in all the greens
and stuff -- that was Camp
Grisdale," Freeman said.
The Community Service
Awards went to Lindseyz
Landscaping and Excavation
and the North Mason fourth
and fifth grade band.
%Ve give these out because
we feel that people went above
and beyond," Freeman said.
Each year the festival has
something for everyone, in-
chiding vendors on Loop Field
Saturday, a four-day carnival,
a ftm-~, parade, family fun
night, fireworks and a duck
float on Goldsborough Creek.
More than 100 car enthusi-
asts turned out for the Forest
Festival Car Show-Off, which
took over Olympic Highway
North on Sunday.
While this year's festival
was a success, Freeman said
more people need to volunteer
to keep it going in the future.
'~¢¢e are desperate to get
some people to help us," she
said.
The Forest Festival royalty
has seven more parades to go
to until their season is over.
"Our next parade is (June)
16th and that's the Marysville
Strawberry Festival," Free-
man said.
The Forest Festival court
will also appear at the Seafair
parade in Seattle on July 28.
Journal photos by Natalie Johnson
Above, local Cub Scouts walk through the 2012
Mason County Forest Festival parade on Saturday.
Below, the 2012 Mason County Forest Festival float
rolls down Railroad Avenue. This year's royalty
included Princess of Hemlock Jordan Crossan
from Shelton High School (SHS), left, Princess of
Spruce Harley Sweitzer of SHS, Princess of
Cedar Emily Grimmius of North Mason High
School (NMI-IS), Queen of the Forest Brianna Eddy
of NMHS and Princess of Douglas Fir
Allyssa Castro of SHS.
Above, the Equestriennes of Mason County
modeled their costumes after the 2012 Mason
County Forest Festival's theme of Olde Tyme
Timber. Below, classic cars took over Olympic
Highway North in the 2012 Mason County
Forest Festival Car Show-Off on Sunday.
Senior center
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its support.
"We scored high, but we
did not score high enough to
get the grant," Shaw said.
Shaw said the senior
center has been located in
downtown Shelton for 30
years. The former PUD 3
building was ideal, Shaw
said, because of the size of
the building, the location
along the bus route and the
additional number of park-
ing spaces. The facility also
has an emergency genera-
tor.
"We desperately need
more space," Shaw said.
The senior center has
approximately 900 mem-
bers, she said. That does
not include seniors served
by several of the activities
at the senior center, includ-
ing daily lunches and guest
speaker presentations.
The existing center on
Railroad Avenue has ap-
proximately 5,000 square
feet of usable space. The
main PUD 3 building on
West Cota Street has nearly
triple that space and a side
building, formerly used for
PUD 3 operations and engi-
neering, has another 8,412
square feet.
The goal of a larger cen-
ter won't rest because of
this setback, Shaw said.
"This is just a large bump
in the road of reaching our
goal of a larger activities
and resource center," Shaw
said. "We have no choice but
to go forward."
There's a chance Shaw
and PUD 3 officials can come
to an alternative arrange-
ment to use the building.
Joel Myer, PUD 3 spokes-
man, confirmed such a pos-
sibility exists but declined
to elaborate on the situation
"because the details of such
an arrangement are still be-
ing developed."
"Rest assured, we are
investigating a number of
options," Myer said in an
email. "We want to ensure
a beneficial result for the
Mason County Senior Ac-
tivities Association, Mason
County PUD No. 3 and its
customers."
Shaw said the county's
senior population -- those
50 and older -- continues to
increase. It's better to have
those people seek services
in Mason County than in
nearby Kitsap or Thurston
counties, she said. If seniors
go to those adjacent coun-
ties for services, they also
are spending money there.
"It's an economic issue
as well as a service issue,"
Shaw said.
The senior center plans
to meet with Community
Development Block Grant
officials in the near future to
learn how its grant applica-
tion might be strengthened.
"We are strongly consid-
ering reapplying next year,"
Shaw said.
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