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Island: nth of memories leads to fall is just about over so to welcome a brand-new September. It's a transi- because when its days roll by it is time to to autumn, while the in Australia and are saying hello to take a look at just one day month, September date in 1752 the Lib- arrived in Philadelphia, Eighty-four years 1, 1836, Nar- came to Walla became one of the first !0f European extraction to of the Rockies. The first landed on the site of Seat- of 1851 and two in September of 1853, was ere- is a transitional the season, but it also a transitional month for of the state in which was happening right live in Septembers past? it was written in The Jour- t"E.H. Haskell was in town from Harstine Island 8 first lot of Italian prunes. )lendid large fruit and for canning pur- has a crop of about three 1901 the paper had this t, "Mr. Lott has the Model on Harstine Island. in two boxes of his strawberries as well as of his fine apples, of Baldwins, Ben Da- His samples :an idea of what this sec- Produce. Good apples will a box." Then in 1904 it "The Harstine Is- Punchers came up and knocked the Allyn out to the tune of 28 to Sunday in 1904 was Sep- how certain dates in a person's memory. recalled to your memory: Wheii 10 old going on 11, 1, 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake devastated' Tokyo and Yokohama, killing ap- proximately 100,000 people. We did not hear the news as rapidly as we do today but when word of that catastrophe reached these shores it made a telling impact. WELL, NOW THAT Septem- ber is just hours away it means that oysters "R" back on the eat- able list, which is good news for those who relish them. On the other hand, the ninth month of the year is traditionally characterized as ushering in the cold season. By this we don't mean the weather but the common cold that plagues most of us at o.ne time or another. Oh well, sit back and enjoy what September 2007 will have in store for us. Thora Seward, a long-time Harstine Island resident, almost made it to celebrate her 103rd birthday. She was less than three weeks away from that milestone when she died on Sunday, Au- gust 19, at the Mother Joseph Care Center in Olympia. She has not been residing at her home on the old Ferry Loop Road for sev- eral years and her 101st birthday was celebrated at Garden Court in Olympia where she was living. The Seward family moved into their new home on Harstine Island in the later years of the Fifties. The bridge was yet to be built so attached to the house they opened a modest store named Pumpkin Center which served islanders for a few years, Thora was treasurer for the store, as she was for all her husband's enterprises. She loved to talk and made friends quickly, becoming active in the Harstine Island Women's Club. Her name is listed in the club's 2006-2007 directory as one of its honorary members. Thora enjoyed participating in productions of the Harstine Island Theatre Club. Your correspondent remembers being with her in the chorus of the musical comedy ver- sion of Ten Nights in a Barroom. She sang with gusto and with equal st0_splayed one of the temper- ance signs which stated, "Whiskey is risky and rum is a bummer." Her son, Richard, shared with me that Thora had a passion for pinochle and never missed an opportunity to take a hand in the game. FRIENDS AND FAMILY bid farewell to one of the island's tbw centenarians at a memorial ser- vice held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 25, in the ttarstine Island Community Hall. Thora was bur- ied at Jarrell's Cove Cemetery and it is suggested that those who wish to make donations in her memory send them to the Jarrell's Cove Cemetery Association. Congratulations are in order for John and Marilyn Laubach who earlier this month celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their sons and families at South Lake Tahoe, California. Residents of Harstine Island for a number of years, they are well known to residents of the island, the county and the state. Transplants from other places, as are many of us now dwelling on Harstine Island, the Laubachs hail originally from Southern California. May they en- joy many more years together. The Harstine Prostate Cancer Awareness and Support Group will meet at noon on Tuesday, Sep- tember 11, at the Olympic Bakery on Pickering Road. As is their cus- tom, members issue an invitation to join them to anyone in the area who wants to know more about a condition which confronts many men. Meetings provide intbrma- tion about treatment and care as well as accounts of personal expe- riences and words of support and encouragement. Birds are adaptable. Where the situation requires it, especially when securing some desirable food, these creatures will pertbrm in ways that are not their usual inclination to do. Hummingbirds, who are beginning to show up less and less at the feeder and are thin- ning out as some of them travel to winter feeding areas, are expert hoverers. Recently we observed goldfinch and even a black-headed grosbeak trying to emulate the hummers, if only fbr a short pe- riod of time. They beat their wings flmously and actually hovered to peck at a dangling'peanut butter treat because thdre was no perch on which they cmlld plant their tbet. ON ONE OF OUR warmer days a goldiinch landed on the rim of the bird feeder and h)oked hmgingly at the water. It sipped at bit but the water, though inviting, was to() deep tbr the tiny bird to immerse itself in and take a bath and so it; waited. Soon a house wren showed up. This somewhat big;er bird happily bopped into the wa- (Please turn to page 20.) FRIDAY, AUG. 31 from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. • Enter drawing for a II::€]E]E lVIkSlSIG "!- Yota," 877-BACK (877-2225) 60 N. Lake Cushman Road * Suite 107 * Hoodsport (next to the Hoodsport Post Office) trols put heat drunk drivers from page 18.) a cell phone when be- wheel themselves. ent agencies to drive home these points with "Drive Get Nailed." That's call extra patrols on a L to beef up enforcement that prohibits people Under the influence of r drugs. The latest such through the La- weekend and involve of the Mason County as well as officers Shelton Police Depart- the Squaxin Island according to Julie Fur- Washington Traffic "August is one of the deadliest months for traffic fatalities, and Labor Day weekend is one of Washington's deadliest holidays, averaging more than eight deaths each year," she said. Last year there were 3,350 crashes statewide that involved a drinking driver, and 229 of those were fatal crashes result- ing in 252 deaths. That's down from the 268 such fatalities re- ported in 2005, which was the deadliest year since 2002. A new law went into effect on July 1 that makes driving under the influence a felony crime if the offender had four prior DUI arrests within a 10-year period. Conviction of felony DUI carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Our Physical Therapy has over 82 years experience/ Let our team of highly skilled professionals assist you in your recovery. *Your facility of choice for all your rehabilitation & nursing needs* Shelton Health & Rehabilitation Center 153 Johns Court (360) 427-2575 We are your bridge from hospital to home. % "A vision for the family." Wallace Kneeland Blvd. Kati Mason County Eye Clinic • EYE SURGERY : 2300 Kati Cou00 : : : Suite C i Shelton, WA Thursday, August 30, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 19 Island: nth of memories leads to fall is just about over so to welcome a brand-new September. It's a transi- because when its days roll by it is time to to autumn, while the in Australia and are saying hello to take a look at just one day month, September date in 1752 the Lib- arrived in Philadelphia, Eighty-four years 1, 1836, Nar- came to Walla became one of the first !0f European extraction to of the Rockies. The first landed on the site of Seat- of 1851 and two in September of 1853, was ere- is a transitional the season, but it also a transitional month for of the state in which was happening right live in Septembers past? it was written in The Jour- t"E.H. Haskell was in town from Harstine Island 8 first lot of Italian prunes. )lendid large fruit and for canning pur- has a crop of about three 1901 the paper had this t, "Mr. Lott has the Model on Harstine Island. in two boxes of his strawberries as well as of his fine apples, of Baldwins, Ben Da- His samples :an idea of what this sec- Produce. Good apples will a box." Then in 1904 it "The Harstine Is- Punchers came up and knocked the Allyn out to the tune of 28 to Sunday in 1904 was Sep- how certain dates in a person's memory. recalled to your memory: Wheii 10 old going on 11, 1, 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake devastated' Tokyo and Yokohama, killing ap- proximately 100,000 people. We did not hear the news as rapidly as we do today but when word of that catastrophe reached these shores it made a telling impact. WELL, NOW THAT Septem- ber is just hours away it means that oysters "R" back on the eat- able list, which is good news for those who relish them. On the other hand, the ninth month of the year is traditionally characterized as ushering in the cold season. By this we don't mean the weather but the common cold that plagues most of us at o.ne time or another. Oh well, sit back and enjoy what September 2007 will have in store for us. Thora Seward, a long-time Harstine Island resident, almost made it to celebrate her 103rd birthday. She was less than three weeks away from that milestone when she died on Sunday, Au- gust 19, at the Mother Joseph Care Center in Olympia. She has not been residing at her home on the old Ferry Loop Road for sev- eral years and her 101st birthday was celebrated at Garden Court in Olympia where she was living. The Seward family moved into their new home on Harstine Island in the later years of the Fifties. The bridge was yet to be built so attached to the house they opened a modest store named Pumpkin Center which served islanders for a few years, Thora was treasurer for the store, as she was for all her husband's enterprises. She loved to talk and made friends quickly, becoming active in the Harstine Island Women's Club. Her name is listed in the club's 2006-2007 directory as one of its honorary members. Thora enjoyed participating in productions of the Harstine Island Theatre Club. Your correspondent remembers being with her in the chorus of the musical comedy ver- sion of Ten Nights in a Barroom. She sang with gusto and with equal st0_splayed one of the temper- ance signs which stated, "Whiskey is risky and rum is a bummer." Her son, Richard, shared with me that Thora had a passion for pinochle and never missed an opportunity to take a hand in the game. FRIENDS AND FAMILY bid farewell to one of the island's tbw centenarians at a memorial ser- vice held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 25, in the ttarstine Island Community Hall. Thora was bur- ied at Jarrell's Cove Cemetery and it is suggested that those who wish to make donations in her memory send them to the Jarrell's Cove Cemetery Association. Congratulations are in order for John and Marilyn Laubach who earlier this month celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their sons and families at South Lake Tahoe, California. Residents of Harstine Island for a number of years, they are well known to residents of the island, the county and the state. Transplants from other places, as are many of us now dwelling on Harstine Island, the Laubachs hail originally from Southern California. May they en- joy many more years together. The Harstine Prostate Cancer Awareness and Support Group will meet at noon on Tuesday, Sep- tember 11, at the Olympic Bakery on Pickering Road. As is their cus- tom, members issue an invitation to join them to anyone in the area who wants to know more about a condition which confronts many men. Meetings provide intbrma- tion about treatment and care as well as accounts of personal expe- riences and words of support and encouragement. Birds are adaptable. Where the situation requires it, especially when securing some desirable food, these creatures will pertbrm in ways that are not their usual inclination to do. Hummingbirds, who are beginning to show up less and less at the feeder and are thin- ning out as some of them travel to winter feeding areas, are expert hoverers. Recently we observed goldfinch and even a black-headed grosbeak trying to emulate the hummers, if only fbr a short pe- riod of time. They beat their wings flmously and actually hovered to peck at a dangling'peanut butter treat because thdre was no perch on which they cmlld plant their tbet. ON ONE OF OUR warmer days a goldiinch landed on the rim of the bird feeder and h)oked hmgingly at the water. It sipped at bit but the water, though inviting, was to() deep tbr the tiny bird to immerse itself in and take a bath and so it; waited. Soon a house wren showed up. This somewhat big;er bird happily bopped into the wa- (Please turn to page 20.) FRIDAY, AUG. 31 from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. • Enter drawing for a II::€]E]E lVIkSlSIG "!- Yota," 877-BACK (877-2225) 60 N. Lake Cushman Road * Suite 107 * Hoodsport (next to the Hoodsport Post Office) trols put heat drunk drivers from page 18.) a cell phone when be- wheel themselves. ent agencies to drive home these points with "Drive Get Nailed." That's call extra patrols on a L to beef up enforcement that prohibits people Under the influence of r drugs. The latest such through the La- weekend and involve of the Mason County as well as officers Shelton Police Depart- the Squaxin Island according to Julie Fur- Washington Traffic "August is one of the deadliest months for traffic fatalities, and Labor Day weekend is one of Washington's deadliest holidays, averaging more than eight deaths each year," she said. Last year there were 3,350 crashes statewide that involved a drinking driver, and 229 of those were fatal crashes result- ing in 252 deaths. That's down from the 268 such fatalities re- ported in 2005, which was the deadliest year since 2002. A new law went into effect on July 1 that makes driving under the influence a felony crime if the offender had four prior DUI arrests within a 10-year period. Conviction of felony DUI carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Our Physical Therapy has over 82 years experience/ Let our team of highly skilled professionals assist you in your recovery. *Your facility of choice for all your rehabilitation & nursing needs* Shelton Health & Rehabilitation Center 153 Johns Court (360) 427-2575 We are your bridge from hospital to home. % "A vision for the family." Wallace Kneeland Blvd. Kati Mason County Eye Clinic • EYE SURGERY : 2300 Kati Cou00 : : : Suite C i Shelton, WA Thursday, August 30, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 19