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JOHN GRIGSBY, field representative for the National
Association to Keep and Bear Arms, began a town-to-town
horseback ride in Medford, Oregon, on February 12.
Mounted on his palomino Tennessee Walking horse, Dancer,
he will arrive in Shelton on Tuesday to speak at a 7 p.m.
meeting, free to the public, at the fairgrounds.
II IIIII II
Velma Graves
paints mural
for readers
Public Invited
FUN NIGHT
At the Airport
Rummage sale set
Bowling balls, skis and
furniture are among the items to
-be offered at the rummage sale
scheduled by Canal Court Order
of Amaranth for today and
The Frog and Toad Reading
Club at the Shelton Public
Library began on Monday and is
open to all readers through the
fifth grade. The program will run
through August 31 and children
may join at anytime during the
summer by registering at the
library.
They will receive
membership cards when they
register, and after reading their
first book they will start their
reading record. Each participant
will have a frog or- a toad to move
through the four-foot by 14-foot
frog pond mural planned by the
library staff and designed by Mrs.
Velma Graves.
For each book read,
participants will move their
cardboard frog or toad forward
through 28 stations ranging
alphabetically from Alligator
Alley through Kingfisher Castle
and the Newt Nest to end with
Zillians of Zebra-fish.
Readers are encouraged to tell
about books they have read and
enjoyed. Tapes made of their
comments will be aired over radio
KMAS for the benefit of others
who might enjoy the same books.
Young people in grades six
through high school are asked to
serve on a board to review books
for the library and also to assist
with building a puppet stage,
making puppets and producing
puppet plays.
Anyone participating in any
of the summer programs will be
exempt from the $7 non-resident
fee.
For more information contact
the Shelton Public Library
(426-3512). The library is open
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. The
library will be closed Saturday
and Sunday during the summer.
Janelle Johnson
to be awarded
art scholarship
ROBIN WINNE, left, and Andee Tylczak are participating in the Frog and
Toad Reading Club at the Shelton Public Library.
In the springtime of each and
every year my sister, a
city-farmer, has her trials and
tribulations with the starlings.
They sit in solemn rows along
her landscaped backyard fence to
supervise the planting of the
swelling seeds. When my poor
sister has at long last completed
this back-breaking task to retire
upon her patio with a cooling
drink, the belligerent birds make
their move.
In stately single file they
travel slowly down the rows to
unearth and devour each tender
embryo in turn while my stricken
sister races madly from one end
of the garden to the other,
sobbing and cursing.
This year it is even worse. Her
pride and joy is a newly-planted
strawberry bed, laden with
rapidly ripening fruit. My sister is
no fool. She figured out a way to
fox the starlings.
Over a stalwart framework of
wooden stakes she stretched a
sturdy length of nylon net,
carefully mitering the corners to
assure a fowl-proof fit. She
hummed a gay little song of
carefree confidence as she
heck and gone. My sister rushed
into the garden.
"Shoo, you naughty birds!"
she cried.
(This is not precisely what my
sister said. I am sorry to confess
that in her extremity she was
driven to the utterance of a few
choice obscenities that would
have blasted the fusilage from a
lesser bird than the starling.)
The feathered fiends inserted
berry-stained beaks beneath the
net, flattened their well-fed
carcasses and crept lewdly on
their bulging black bellies below
the ineffectual barricade to fly
insolently into the peach tree
where from a safe and defiant
distance they crudely commented
upon my sister's actions,
appearance and ancestry. All but
one.
This particular starling, larger
and uglier than any of the others,
clung tenaciously to a huge,
half-eaten strawberry which he
ultimately dropped as he wriggled
reluctantly from the promised
land. He halted fearlessly a mere
15 or 20 inches from my
squatting, screaming sister. He
gazed at her in a cold and superior
departed in the early morning for manner, five minutes every morning before
Every Saturday Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Janelle Johnson of Shelton her place of employment. When In a blinding rage, my sister l apply make-up.
8 P M the PU[~auditorium. was selected at the June 6 she returned to her home in the siezed the dripping berry and * * *
" " meeting of the Shdton Art Club evening she sang a different tune, flung it with all her might at the Within my garden
' as winner of the~ 1973 art indeed, leering fowl. The splatteringNo'hUmmingbird, "
scholarship. W i t h i n h e r r a t h e r morsel hit him full in the chest, No wren, no robin
Air Shocks pallet-knife demonstration less-than-adequate structure, causing his gross body to reel Is seen or heard.
was presented by Marlene avidly gorging themselves onbackwards. He uttered one vile Dastardly starling,
Honeywell, Puyallup art teacher luscious berries, were starlings to epithet, ate the mangled berry, I wonder whether
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Favorite pictures chosen by
popular vote at the Forest
Festival Art Show were painted
by Karen Kytta, first place; Hazel
Beckwith, second; Shirley
Jefferies, third; and Sue
Rutherford, fourth.
Organics to meet
on Tuesday night
Graduates named
Stanley Linn and Michael
Lambert, both of Shelton, were
graduated on June 3 from the
University of Puget Sound in
Tacoma.
One rumor has it that my
sister sat the whole night long
beside her strawberries, flailing
the air with a brace of tennis
rackets. I am more inclined to
believe the neighbor who swears
that my sister slept in the bed
"Summer vegetables to plant,
and preparing the organic garden
for summer" will be the topic for
the Tuesday meeting of the
Shelton Organic Garden Club to
be held at 7:30 p.m. at 829
Railroad Avenue.
ALL SMITTY
Mufflers ........... $8.95
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TRANSMISSION
Coolers ......$22.50 TO $36.95
128 S. 1st Shelton
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Saturday, June 16 & Sunday June
oners
The Cub Tavern is back in
town with old time friendly atmosphere,
sport center and home of the MUG CLUB.
Super Hot Dogs e Chili • Foosball • Pool
109 SOUTH SECOND
Come in and meet Kathy & Carol!
Garth Getty, Owner-Operator
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with the berries.
I insist that she should take a
birds-eye view of the situation.
All winter long she has supplied
feed for these voracious creatures.
I am certain that the starlings now
wonder at the eccentricity which
prompts her to playfully
bury in the soil the seeds that she
heretofore provided in easily
accessible feeders.
I have advise' her that even a
starling would cringe in terror at
the sight of a concrete owl, but
my sister feels that the display of
one would be not quite cricket.
"It would be downright
mean," she declares, "to set up a
birdbath to lure them and a
concrete owl to scare them!"
This, of course, is an excellent
example of my sister's somewhat
biased thinking. She sees no
parallel in her present practice of
seduction with the succulent
strawberry, attempt to foil with
the not-too-frustrating net, and
ultimate routing of the rowdy
thieves with well-aimed blows and
abusive shouting.
Perhaps, as a last resort, she
will protect her garden as I do
mine. I simply stand out there for
Degree woJ
Theodore F. Baze
Ethel Baze of Shelton,
his professional degree
health from Loma
University in Sunday
He will specialize in
therapy.
OES will meel
Fathers will be honore
8 p.m. meeting of
Chapter No. 40 OES to
Saturday in the Masonic
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