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Stove's neigh- bor even has maple trees for sale for $10 each, which is a screaming good deal and could add a lot of the yell at the top • of your voice color in the early fall when we really need to be cheered up. Tomorrow, Friday, Jane 10 is the monthly meeting of the Harstine Island Commu- nity Club. The doors open at 6 p.m. and the potluck dinner will start at 6:30. This month's program will feature Wild Fe- lid Advocacy Center. Shelleen Mathews will present the pro- gram. She and her husband are the community club's neighbor up the road. They are undertaking the building of a compound for wild cats that cannot be released back into the wild. Also, when you attend the meeting, remember that Com- munity Club dues are due. All Island Eyes sent out this next message and if you are a member, you have probably al- ready seen this about the food drive, but it is a great cause that needs all the help it can get. Tara Rigby said that their May 20 distribution night was a success. We had 18 families (totaling 95 individu- als) from our community come into receive food.from the food bank. Thank you to the won- derful volanteers that came out to serve families in our community. In addition to the food we distributed we also had a mem- ber of the nutrition team from WSU Extension present hand- ing out a tasty sample of home- made salsa and chips. Our next food drive starts Monday, Jane 6 and runs through Jane 15. Then our next distribution night will be on Friday, June 17. We will be open from 4:30 until 6 p.m. in the Pioneer Mid- dle School cafeteria~ Please let me know whether you will be available to help with our June 17 event. We will need to get the food from the storage unit at 3 p.m. to be set-up at the school by 4:30 p.m. Three to four people will be adequate. Then we will need eight to 10 people to help during the distribution time and load leftover food in truck(s). Ffnally, we will need three to four people to COOKIN' See Island on page B-5 Former Shelton resident wins Macy's Million Dollar Makeover with Clinton Kelly By NATALIE JOHNSON It's a common expression in the Eng~shian- guage, but how many people can truly ~ they look like a million bucks? "~ " " Amy Ferrell can. This month the former ~helton resident won the l~acyJs Million Dol- lar Makeover contest, winning a makeover with Clinton Kelly, a style expert who appears on TLC's "What Not to Wear," a million dollars, and many other perks, Ferrell said. ~The million dollar maksover was designed to be a life makeover," she said. "They ended up do- ing was giving me a million dollars and a bunch of prizes ... my family of seven got a trip to Italy and are going to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade." Ferrell said she came across the application for the makeover contest by accident while surf- ing Facebook, and decided to apply on a whim. "They just asked a bunch of questions ... I submitted some pictures; and about a week and a half after that they asked me to do a video," she said. "Then about two weeks later they were doing criminal background checRs." Ferrell and seven other people were chosen from 19,000 applicants to compete:l~ head to head TV matchups. Viewers could ~ote for the person they thought should win each matchup. Ferrell said that many people voting in Shel- ton helped contribute to her ultimate win. See Million on page B-5 Amy Ferrell after her mflliozi-doIlar makeover. " Couaesy photo SOCK volunteer awarded for dedication to charity By NATALIE JOHNSON From an early age Linda Trail has made volanteering a priority in her life, and is now getting a lit- tle more attention than she wants for it. SOCK (Save Our County's Kids) named Trail its volunteer of the year last month, recognizing her years of service to the organi- zation and her community. While she appreciates the recognition, Trail said that she doesn't feel entirely comfortable with the notoriety. "I'm not one for wanting my name up in lights," she said. "I do things ... because I enjoy doing them." For the last several years Trail has organized SOCK's Christmas Bazaar, and donates many of the raffle items personally. When the bazaar was still a chamber of com- merce function, Trail ran it for 13 years. When SOCK needed some- one to run the event, she stepped up. "There wasn't anybody - I vol- anteered and I've been doing it ever since," she said. Trails official title for the ba- zaar is vendor coordinator, and she said that in the past she has also volanteered her time to coor- dinate vendors for forest festival and other events. While Trail, who is 63, only just got recognition for her selfless ser- vice, she said she has been hooked on donating her time and money to those in need since she was only five years old. ~lVIy mother taught me at an Courtesy photo SOCK recognized Linda Trail as its Volunteer of the Year. early age to care about other peo- ple," she said. When, in childish curiosity, the five-year old Trail was staring at a paraplegic homeless man, her mother taught her not to stand by and stare, but to do something constructive. =I was looking at him and my mother grabbed me and she took me over and she said, we don't stare at people that are less fortu- nate than we are," Trail said. While she tried to obey her mother, she said, the urge to stare was simply too strong for a little girl. "So what she did to curb that was give me a nickel and at that time, I'm 63, pencils were a nickel or something.., and she made me go over there," Trail said. =Any- way I went over there and handed him the nickel and he handed me the pencil and then it was okay." From that moment on, Trail she said. "I feel good about what was compelled to help people and I'm doing." even donated her allowance to po- Trail said that volanteer orga- lio victims as an older child, nizations in the county, particu- As an adult, Trail said she larly SOCK, are always looking taught her children, grandchil- for morevolanteers. dren and now great-grandchil- "there's a lot of people out there dren to do the same. When her. that just don't have any direction kids were young, and she watched - they want to do something but other people's children, Trail said they don't have anybody to push that she would take kids clam them," she said. =SOCK really digging to get food if their parents needs people to get involved." were struggling to buy dinner. Trail shared this recipe for ha- "I'm always helping somebody," •nana cake, ThurSday, June 9, 2011 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page B-I