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Shelton-Mason County Journal
ISLAND
Food drive
started
this week
I even hate to say this but
driving into town the one
bright spot along the road is all
that screaming yellow scotch
broom. As I have mentioned
before, I really think it would
be neat if the island had a little
more floral color in the spring,
summer and fall.
I've talked to a couple of
people who have started plant-
ing some of the bright leafed
maples in
an effort to
liven up the
roadways. I
that
Paul here at
the Harst-
ine Island
nursery has
MIKE a large selec-
CALLAGHAN tion of Japa-
nese maples
and Steve up at S&S produce
has added trees and flowers to
his wide range of fresh fruits
and vegetables. 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,
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