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women
Mona Akin: Comptroller
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Betty Mast:
Assistant Office Manager
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Cindy Bingham :
Office Supervisor
Doralyn Okonek: Accounts
Payable, Computer Operator
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Bunnie Sweeney :
Credit Manager, Bookkeeper
Charlette Vanderweyden:
Office Clerk
Dorothy Hartley:
Computer Operator, Bookkeeper
Barb Brewsaugh: Receptionist
Sharon McKay:
Computer Operator
Carol Mead: Bookkeeper
& Receptionist,
Lumbermen's Homes
Patty Whitley: Bookkeeper
& Receptionist, Lumbermen's
Electric & Plumbing
Lorraine Smith: Sales
Reggie Raichart: Sales
First & Pine- 426-261 i Mon.-FrL 8-5:30 • Sat. ~-4:30 • Sun. 10-4:30
OPEN EVERY SUNDAY
10-4:30
Front & Pine Bainbridge -- Lynnwood
426-2614 Shelton
When Mason County hears the name of Julie Raichart,
thoughts turn to the Senior Center, the facility in which she
has served as director since early in 1973, functioning prior
to that date on an advisory board.
Julie, in her dedication, has become a heart beating in
unison with the pulse throb of her proteges; she is a shoulder
upon which those less strong than herself may rest to gain
new strength; she is a hand outstretched in unquestioning aid.
In her great concern and awareness, Julie Riachart suffers
the agonies of others, laughs with them in their pleasures and
crusades in their behalf.
But there is yet another dimension to Julie Raichart, the
sensitive and artistic woman whose rollicking sense of humor
never sinks a single barb into the spirit of a fellow human
being. There is a joyous Julie who wanders enthralled
through the great museums of Europe as sometimes in long
summer months she visits Italian relatives whose homes are
scattered throughout the Old World.
Julie Raichart pursues through works of art and the
written word the widely diversified cultures that have
captured her interest.
"I'm a compulsive reader," she laughs. "I even read the
fine print on the cereal box at the breakfast table. It is my
personal curse to live in the midst of more literature than I
can read in a lifetime."
Born in Tacoma and reared in the midwest, Julie once
made her home in Phoenix, Arizona. There she spent long
days in Indian art museums and directly from the Indians
learned weaving skills and authentic patterns now faithfully
reproduced on her loom.
Julie Raichart begins the fashioning of her fabulous rugs
by the washing of a purchased fleece which is then picked
free of clinging shreds of vegetation. The wool is then carded
into long and continuous fibers to be spun into yarn as Julie's
wheel sings its own inimitable tune.
Dyes gleaned from nature color the yarns in muted hues.
Berries, leaves, teas and flowers are processed to produce
dyes that are permanent when set with alum.
Julie Raichart. career woman, is also a homemaker for
her husband Larry, her 15-year-old daughter Regi, and four
dogs who are very much members of the family.
"When 1 retire," says Julie, who shows no signs of doing
so, "I want an acreage with sheep grazing in green meadows
where fleece may be spread to dry on long and sunny
summer days."
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JULIE RAICHART is well known as director of the Senior Center. Just as
interesting is the Julie whose hobby is weaving.
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