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Shelton-Mason County Journal Harstine rummage approachi If you haven't taken the t: into the new boat launch Latimer's Landing you s| have it all paved and striped throughs for your boat. The : has been renewed with youn evergreens and -- I'm happy it looks like they have put in of those crimson leafed mapl want to picnic on the water, installed a couple of nice con uic tables. There still isn't a there -- I heard that when t: in a few yc kept getti~ ized. As I drc the boat la got to thin else could launch a b south Pug, By MIKE couldn't co CALLAGHAN a quick an thought tb very many little more thought, I kind of my mind. I think you can tau Port of Allyn, Fair Harbor, J~ State Park, Shelton Marina, Harbor, West Bay Marina an toward Tacoma Zittal's and I Did I miss any? There's a new publisher in they are shaking things up a Journal. I'm telling you this deadline for this article has c] the past my deadline was 9 a. day morning of each week. N deadline has moved up to 9 a. morning, and this means I wi most of the article writing th~ night. So, if you have someth would like to see published in ine Island column, please get Thursday afternoon. My emai for information is sobadog@m (Editor's note: Publisher ] Sleight has been with the Jc since November 2011) As summer approaches t] going to be a lot of activities the island. One coming up a Start Grocery is the Beaucm peaux Band playing some ja dell They will be there July Okay, here is my last rem: the Harstine Island Theater "Light Up the Sky" by Moss ] will be presenting the play ir ning on June 29, June 30 anc have an afternoon presentati 1. The comedy revolves arom of New York theater folk wh( the opening of their new pla5 ton. The lead actress, the bac several others, are in seventt at the prospect of a tremend¢ cess, which they hope for in t a young unknown writer. Ga a hotel room, these people go their paces with tremendous many exhibitions of tempera: The annual Island Rumm~ coming up Aug. 4. This is al~ citing event as people usuall~ the door early and burst in lo that great deal. Those doors c a.m. and will stay open until See Harstine sale nle to drive area at muld. They with pull- andscaping g native to add -- a couple es. If you ~hey have zrete pic- ~athroom ~ey put one ars ago it Lg vandal- ve through unch area I ring, where me go to )at in the ~t Sound? I me up with ~wer so I ere weren't After a changed ach at the ,rrell Cove Boston d heading ,ongbranch. town and ittle at the )ecause my ranged. In m. Mon- )w, that m. Friday 1 be doing t Thursday ng you the Harst- it to me by address n.c01n. [ari urnal ere are on or near ;the Fresh tp Cha- y.z in their 5, nder for 31ub's play Iart. They the eve- [ they will ~n on July Ld a group attend in Bos- ker, and L heaven US sac- he work of ;hered m through gasto and nent. ge Sale is ays an ex- line up at )king for pen at 9 n page B-2 "Mn a hurrkane, among the things that get blown down first are ceil phone towers. When a[! else fails, ham radio can get through." Journa Dno~os Dy Natahe Johnson Ray Albee, president of the Mason County Amateur Radio Club, shows off his ham radio setup the day before the annual Amateur Radio Field Day, a national event for ham radio clubs in the American Radio Relay League. At t0p, a ham radio is shown. • • Amateur radio enthusiasts gather for annual fieM day By NATALIE JOHNSON sored by the American Radio Relay competition among themselves, and nalalie@m.asoncountv.com league. The annual field day has earn points based on how many other ................................................................................. taken place nationwide since 1933, stations they contact. They can get he said. bonus points for inviting elected of- In 1954. 14-year-old Don Myers"It's an emergency preparedness ficials and members of the press to became known by a new name -- exercise," Myers said. "There's a con- the event, or by using solar, water or W7WST - his call number as a li- test aspecz to it." wind power to run their radios. censed ham radio operator. The object of the game is to contact Every year at the field day, the "When I was a kid, radios wereas many other ham radio operators club sets out to achieve the difficult more a big deal than they are today," as possible in a 24-hour period with task of contacting someone in all 50 he said. as many different methods as pos- states and every province in Canada, Every ham operator is licensed by sible, whose residents also participate in the Federal Communication Com-The Mason County club's station the American Radio Relay League. mission and assigned a call number, at the fairgrounds had three radios "It wouldn't surprise us if we did Myers still uses his original call num- set up - one set up to send and re- -- it would please us," Myers said. ber today. Amateur radios are also ceive Continuous Wave (CW) andLast year the club made about 400 known as ham radios. Morse code, another for voice on all contacts and set out to do the same or "You can communicate with a com- bands, and a third for digital commu- better this year. purer anywhere in the world, but just nications. "We have a friendly competition for fun on my ham radio I'll get up Some larger clubs can have 15 or with the Olympia club -- whoever in the morning and contact Japan," more stations, Myers said. has a high score will provide a feed he said. "Other (radiosJ are bigger andto the other club," Don Myers said. Last weekend, Myers organized more powerful, others are smaller. "The overriding object is to have a tot the Mason County Amateur RadioThe antennas can get elaborate," he of fun." Club's participation in Amateur Ra- said. dio Field Day, a national event spon- The clubs have a good-natured See Radio on page 8-4 Bikes for Books gets students pedaling Courtesy pno~o From bottom left, fifth-grader Noah Benson, third- grader Melanie Pena, fourth-grader Austin Severance, second-grader D.J. Kelley and first- grader Annabelle Gammons receive bikes from members of the Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge on June 18. Lodge members, from top left, are Jeff VanGundy, Jim Clark, Tim Timblin and Allan Cricl Mt. View Elementary's year-ending gram was "kind of built over the years," stance, and didn't read the book. awards assembly filled the gym with Ranney said. "This year. we took it up It also counted how many words cheers and applause, another notch." were digested altogether, making it Several staff members worked as a At quarterly assemblies, the mount-- possible for a new honor - induction team to build excitement for the year- ing reading scores of individuals and into the Million Word Club. Those stu- long reading incentive program, which classrooms were announced with fan- dents will be treated with a shopping culminated June 18 with the assembly fare. The year's theme of "Read With trip to a Shelton bookstore, Ranney and presentation of new bicycles to one Me Under the Sea" was carried out at said. student at each grade level, the final assembly via a huge projector The fifth-grade bike winner, Noah Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge of screen that displayed each top reader's Benson, read the most words at more Shelton provided four of the bikes picture as animated sea life floated by. than 4 million. First-grader Annabelle through its Bikes for Books program. Included in the honors were stu- Gammons racked up almost 1.1 mil- The school's parent-teacher organiza- dents with the most improvement in lion words. She also took home a bike. tion purchased the fifth bike. reading skills. Mount Moriah Lodge also gave four "I'm still flying high from it," Mt. Tests for reading comprehensionbikes each to Southside, Bordeaux and View librarian Candy Ranney said lat- helped calculate the "points" earned Evergreen elementary schools. Each er in the week. "I'm still getting notes during the year. A computer program school has its own reading incentive from kids saying how great it was." can even ..sloat:,.,~hose who may have The Shelton school's reading pro- only seen a Harry Potter movie, for in- See Bicycles on page B-2 Thursday. June 28, 2012 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page B-1