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JACK HUGHES OF SHELTON brought home a trio of medals from na-
tional unicycle competition last month. He won one of his golds in a
2h.mile race down a mountain trail and the other in an uphill
sprint.
Open house September 23,
offers a 1,00,ok at WorkSource
WorkSource of Mason County
and the partners collaborating on
workforce development will hold
an open house next Thursday,
September 23, at the new Work-
Source Center at 2505 Olympic
Highway North.
The event will run from 3 to 6
p.m. and will begin with a ribbon-
cutting ceremony "to commemo-
rate the statewide launch of
Washington's WorkSource sys-
tem," says spokesperson Ann
Fenton.
WorkSource, Fenton says, is a
unique collaboration of state, re-
gional and local organizations
whose purpose is to address the
workforce needs of Washington.
She calls the one-stop job cen-
ter "different because it provides
a convenient place for job-seekers
and employers to access a variety
of job- and career-oriented infor-
mation.
"WorkSource," she adds, "also
keeps Washington businesses
competitive by helping to upgrade
employees' skills and by providing
training for potential workers."
Dog show slated
here in Oct, ber
The Mason County Fair-
grounds will go to the dogs the
weekend after OysterFest.
Literally.
The Gig Harbor Kennel Club
will present its 12th and 13th
American Kennel Club licensed
all-breed dog shows and obedi-
ence trials October 9 and 10 at
the fairgrounds.
Entries will close on September
22 at the superintendent's office,
says publicist Sue Henly.
Show hours will be from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. and the public is wel-
National unicycle landscape
is taking on colorful Hughes
included lots of fun besides the
competition for the 300 competi-
tors in attendance. There was a
parade through downtown Sno-
qualmie, games of unicycle hock-
ey (yes, there were some colli-
sions) and shows and demonstra-
tions such as an exhibition by the
world's giraffe unicycle riding
champion whipping around on his
10-foot-high contraption• "I met
some pretty cool people," Jack
said.
Since The Journal last report-
ed on Jack after the state meet in
October 1998, he's advanced from
a level-three unicyclist to being
one trick away from qualifying for
level five. There are 10 levels of
skill; only two riders in the world
are rated at level 10.
A level-five rider must be able
to demonstrate five types of
mounts; ride in a figure 8 using
only one foot; "idle" or rock back
and forth 25 times one-footed
with both the left and right foot;
ride in a circle in three ways: with
the seat in front of him, with it in
back of him and with it to one
side; hop and turn 90 degrees to
the right and left; and "wheel
walk" for 10 meters.
The last requirement is the
only one Jack can't do, an incred-
ibly difficult thing to master that
requires taking his feet off the
pedals and propelling the unicycle
by standing on the wheel and
pushing it forward witll his feet.
Jack exceeds the level-five re-
quirement for hop-and-turn. He
can already make n 180-degree
reversal of direction in the air.
JACK'S SKILLS seem light
years away from when he started,
constantly falling off the home-
made unicycle and propping him-
self up with his arms in the hall-
way of his house trying to learn.
He described unicycle riding as
twice as hard as it looks. There's
a tendency to fall in every direc-
tion. It took him three months of
falling to master the balancing
act needed.
Jack has been working on his
juggling and comic routine in
scribed as a 30-foot sprint up a
fairly steep grade, in 14.66 sec-
onds. And he cruised 2z/2 miles
down a dirt trail in the downhill
competition in 16:22 for his other
gold. He only "bit it" once, falling
off the unicycle in full view of his
father's videccamera.
Jack was also proud to finish
10th among the 65 people of all
ages and classes who entered the
downhill.
In two races on the fiat at the
school, Jack captured a bronze
medal in the 100-meter sprint
with an 18.21-second clocking and
won a fifth-place ribbon for cover-
ing 1600 meters in 5:39.
Jack's parents, Frank and Pat-
ty Hughes, spent the five days at
nationals with their son. Frank, a
skilled machinist, built Jack his
first unicycle two years ago when
the youngster saw a unicyclist
perform and wanted to try the
sport.
Morn and Dad have been very
supportive of the boy's new activi-
ty, but they can't say it has kept
Jack off the streets. He can be
seen constantly riding roads be-
tween the family's Little Skoo-
kum home and Shelton, training
about 15 miles a day. Unfor-
tunately not everyone is suppor-
tive when they see this slender
kid riding down the road pump-
ing his legs off. Some people
scream at him and a few have
even thrown things at hin from
passing cars. Young Jack has a
hard time understanding this
meanness.
THE NATIONAL convention
Shelton's rapidly improving
young unicyclist, Jack Hughes,
returned from national competi-
tion last month with several med-
als for various feats ranging from
short sprints to a ride down a
mountain trail.
JItk en-
tered the ei
Middle School this week, attend-
ed the Unicycling Society of
America's National Unicycle Con-
vention at Mount Si High School
from July 30 to August 3 and
came back with two gold medals,
a bronze and a fifth-place ribbon.
After placing in several events
at last October's state meet at
Mount Si, Jack couldn't pass up
the opportunity to test his skills
at this summer's nationals that
happened to be right here in
Washington. It was less than a
year ago that SMS teacher Gene
Crater retrieved a flier about the
state meet from the garbage and
gave it to the self-taught unicy-
cleat in hopes Jack would do
something competitive with his
pastime. A whole new world
opened up to him when he attend-
ed the state event and met other
one-wheel fanatics, and now he's
already won two national rages.
MOST OF the national con-
vention was at the high school in
Snoqualmie, but the mountain
unicycling portion of the competi-
tion was held on Snoqualmie
Pass, where Jack won his two
gold medals. He competed in rac-
es for 13- and 14-year-old novices•
He won the uphill, which he de-
Man's car crashes at Wal-Mart
steel gate. A witness told the
state patrol Stein's sedan also col-
lided with another vehicle on the
off-ramp from Highway 101.
Officer Scott Brown of the
Shelton Police Department said a
medical evaluation indicated
Stein may have suffered a minor
stroke•
Shoppers got a crash course in
driver's education at 1:15 p.m.
last Thursday when a man who
may have suffered a medical
emergency drove his vehicle into
a garden gate at Wal-Mart.
Shelton police said 88-year-old
Robert Stein of Lilliwaup drove
his 1992 Ford Taurus into the
CO
EATING IL
COMPARE OUR W PRICES!
hopes of doing some serious en-
tertaining in the future. He was
thrilled recently to get a gig at a
birthday party. "You know," he
said straight-faced, "I used to ride
bikes, and then I took the train-
ing wheel off the front."
He also rode in the Forest Fes-
tival Parade with the Shelton Ro-
tary Clowns for the second time
last spring, zipping around on his
six-footer, and entered the Shel-
ton Middle School Variety Show,
demonstrating his riding and jug-
gling skills to an appreciative au-
dience. For variety, he even
bounced down the steps in the au-
ditorium.
Now Jack is preparing for his
second trip to the state unicycle
meet, to be held once again at
Mount Si, home of a big school
unicycle program. He plans to
compete in half a dozen events.
He's hoping to win some events
this time after a year of improve-
ment and the experience at na-
tionals he's had since his first ap-
pearance at state, when he took
two seconds and two thirds.
He plans to go to the national
convention in Michigan next sum-
mer and to work hard to earn his
way. And he has another incred-
ible goal for 2000 - to finish the
200-mile Seattle-to-Portland bike
race on one wheel while everyone
else uses two.
i
MARV
FAUGHENDER
SHELTON PORT
COMMISSIONER
Time for a change
Status Quo-
Existing state,
more of the same.
Let's do more
than exist.
Vote for Mary!
Paid for by Committee to Elect
Mary Paughender, Chloe Scoles,
'leasurer, East 2070 Island Lake
Drive, Shelton,WA 98584.
i
[ i iiiiiii
We deliver
Located at Sanderson
Industrial Park
427-8084
We carry kerosene.
,uNor.m.O
Page 12 - Shelton-Maaon County Journal - Thursday, September 16, 1999
come to attend and observe. Sat-
urday's show will feature compe-
tition for the best-bred canine
shown by its exhibitor in addition
to regular competition.
Additional information is avail-
able from Eugene Bilden, show
chairman, at (253) 952-1230 or
co-chairman Fred Pool-Harris at
(253) 847-7763.
Typically, says a local breeder
who often participates in such
shows, the event will feature be-
tween 1,200 and 2,000 dogs. Hen-
ly says a judging schedule will be
issued early in October.
Brown Dog Shows, Incorporat-
ed will run the competition.
Mason County partners in
WorkSource include the Washing-
ton Division of Vocational Reha-
bilitation, Educational Service
District 113, Washington Employ-
ment Security Department,
GreenThumb, Lewis-Mason-
Thurston Area Agency on Aging,
Mason County Literacy, v. #
College, Pacific Mountain A,
Industry Council .d ,It#
Community Services Office.
"0 i "
The office is Suite 4 font#
state complex in GatewaY.._ t,.:Vo,
in Shelton's Mountain
neighborhood.
Euse trial is windina
up in superior court
Testimony continued Wednes-
day afternoon in the trial of Zach-
ary Euse. He is accused in Mason
County Superior Court of manu-
facturing methamphetamine in a
shed on rental property in Ta-
huya.
Deputy Prosecutor Amber Fin-
lay represented the state in pro-
ceedings before Judge To,[,,|
don and a jury of 13 op,€$[
eluding an alternate: lSuse/i|
defended by Charles lane• .,|
tailed report on the trial |
published in next weekse@.|
of The Shelton.Mason " =
Journal.
/
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WE'VE DONE SOME OF ":
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1999
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PHce ¢omplHso,s ated on MSRP of corn l,ltly i(i.(1 ,l m(lets Level of equipment v.rle$,
BAD WE WEREN'T THERE
FOR YOU
IN 9TH
GRADE GEOME
71
years
of serving
Mason
County
JACK HUGHES OF SHELTON brought home a trio of medals from na-
tional unicycle competition last month. He won one of his golds in a
2h.mile race down a mountain trail and the other in an uphill
sprint.
Open house September 23,
offers a 1,00,ok at WorkSource
WorkSource of Mason County
and the partners collaborating on
workforce development will hold
an open house next Thursday,
September 23, at the new Work-
Source Center at 2505 Olympic
Highway North.
The event will run from 3 to 6
p.m. and will begin with a ribbon-
cutting ceremony "to commemo-
rate the statewide launch of
Washington's WorkSource sys-
tem," says spokesperson Ann
Fenton.
WorkSource, Fenton says, is a
unique collaboration of state, re-
gional and local organizations
whose purpose is to address the
workforce needs of Washington.
She calls the one-stop job cen-
ter "different because it provides
a convenient place for job-seekers
and employers to access a variety
of job- and career-oriented infor-
mation.
"WorkSource," she adds, "also
keeps Washington businesses
competitive by helping to upgrade
employees' skills and by providing
training for potential workers."
Dog show slated
here in Oct, ber
The Mason County Fair-
grounds will go to the dogs the
weekend after OysterFest.
Literally.
The Gig Harbor Kennel Club
will present its 12th and 13th
American Kennel Club licensed
all-breed dog shows and obedi-
ence trials October 9 and 10 at
the fairgrounds.
Entries will close on September
22 at the superintendent's office,
says publicist Sue Henly.
Show hours will be from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. and the public is wel-
National unicycle landscape
is taking on colorful Hughes
included lots of fun besides the
competition for the 300 competi-
tors in attendance. There was a
parade through downtown Sno-
qualmie, games of unicycle hock-
ey (yes, there were some colli-
sions) and shows and demonstra-
tions such as an exhibition by the
world's giraffe unicycle riding
champion whipping around on his
10-foot-high contraption• "I met
some pretty cool people," Jack
said.
Since The Journal last report-
ed on Jack after the state meet in
October 1998, he's advanced from
a level-three unicyclist to being
one trick away from qualifying for
level five. There are 10 levels of
skill; only two riders in the world
are rated at level 10.
A level-five rider must be able
to demonstrate five types of
mounts; ride in a figure 8 using
only one foot; "idle" or rock back
and forth 25 times one-footed
with both the left and right foot;
ride in a circle in three ways: with
the seat in front of him, with it in
back of him and with it to one
side; hop and turn 90 degrees to
the right and left; and "wheel
walk" for 10 meters.
The last requirement is the
only one Jack can't do, an incred-
ibly difficult thing to master that
requires taking his feet off the
pedals and propelling the unicycle
by standing on the wheel and
pushing it forward witll his feet.
Jack exceeds the level-five re-
quirement for hop-and-turn. He
can already make n 180-degree
reversal of direction in the air.
JACK'S SKILLS seem light
years away from when he started,
constantly falling off the home-
made unicycle and propping him-
self up with his arms in the hall-
way of his house trying to learn.
He described unicycle riding as
twice as hard as it looks. There's
a tendency to fall in every direc-
tion. It took him three months of
falling to master the balancing
act needed.
Jack has been working on his
juggling and comic routine in
scribed as a 30-foot sprint up a
fairly steep grade, in 14.66 sec-
onds. And he cruised 2z/2 miles
down a dirt trail in the downhill
competition in 16:22 for his other
gold. He only "bit it" once, falling
off the unicycle in full view of his
father's videccamera.
Jack was also proud to finish
10th among the 65 people of all
ages and classes who entered the
downhill.
In two races on the fiat at the
school, Jack captured a bronze
medal in the 100-meter sprint
with an 18.21-second clocking and
won a fifth-place ribbon for cover-
ing 1600 meters in 5:39.
Jack's parents, Frank and Pat-
ty Hughes, spent the five days at
nationals with their son. Frank, a
skilled machinist, built Jack his
first unicycle two years ago when
the youngster saw a unicyclist
perform and wanted to try the
sport.
Morn and Dad have been very
supportive of the boy's new activi-
ty, but they can't say it has kept
Jack off the streets. He can be
seen constantly riding roads be-
tween the family's Little Skoo-
kum home and Shelton, training
about 15 miles a day. Unfor-
tunately not everyone is suppor-
tive when they see this slender
kid riding down the road pump-
ing his legs off. Some people
scream at him and a few have
even thrown things at hin from
passing cars. Young Jack has a
hard time understanding this
meanness.
THE NATIONAL convention
Shelton's rapidly improving
young unicyclist, Jack Hughes,
returned from national competi-
tion last month with several med-
als for various feats ranging from
short sprints to a ride down a
mountain trail.
JItk en-
tered the ei
Middle School this week, attend-
ed the Unicycling Society of
America's National Unicycle Con-
vention at Mount Si High School
from July 30 to August 3 and
came back with two gold medals,
a bronze and a fifth-place ribbon.
After placing in several events
at last October's state meet at
Mount Si, Jack couldn't pass up
the opportunity to test his skills
at this summer's nationals that
happened to be right here in
Washington. It was less than a
year ago that SMS teacher Gene
Crater retrieved a flier about the
state meet from the garbage and
gave it to the self-taught unicy-
cleat in hopes Jack would do
something competitive with his
pastime. A whole new world
opened up to him when he attend-
ed the state event and met other
one-wheel fanatics, and now he's
already won two national rages.
MOST OF the national con-
vention was at the high school in
Snoqualmie, but the mountain
unicycling portion of the competi-
tion was held on Snoqualmie
Pass, where Jack won his two
gold medals. He competed in rac-
es for 13- and 14-year-old novices•
He won the uphill, which he de-
Man's car crashes at Wal-Mart
steel gate. A witness told the
state patrol Stein's sedan also col-
lided with another vehicle on the
off-ramp from Highway 101.
Officer Scott Brown of the
Shelton Police Department said a
medical evaluation indicated
Stein may have suffered a minor
stroke•
Shoppers got a crash course in
driver's education at 1:15 p.m.
last Thursday when a man who
may have suffered a medical
emergency drove his vehicle into
a garden gate at Wal-Mart.
Shelton police said 88-year-old
Robert Stein of Lilliwaup drove
his 1992 Ford Taurus into the
CO
EATING IL
COMPARE OUR W PRICES!
hopes of doing some serious en-
tertaining in the future. He was
thrilled recently to get a gig at a
birthday party. "You know," he
said straight-faced, "I used to ride
bikes, and then I took the train-
ing wheel off the front."
He also rode in the Forest Fes-
tival Parade with the Shelton Ro-
tary Clowns for the second time
last spring, zipping around on his
six-footer, and entered the Shel-
ton Middle School Variety Show,
demonstrating his riding and jug-
gling skills to an appreciative au-
dience. For variety, he even
bounced down the steps in the au-
ditorium.
Now Jack is preparing for his
second trip to the state unicycle
meet, to be held once again at
Mount Si, home of a big school
unicycle program. He plans to
compete in half a dozen events.
He's hoping to win some events
this time after a year of improve-
ment and the experience at na-
tionals he's had since his first ap-
pearance at state, when he took
two seconds and two thirds.
He plans to go to the national
convention in Michigan next sum-
mer and to work hard to earn his
way. And he has another incred-
ible goal for 2000 - to finish the
200-mile Seattle-to-Portland bike
race on one wheel while everyone
else uses two.
i
MARV
FAUGHENDER
SHELTON PORT
COMMISSIONER
Time for a change
Status Quo-
Existing state,
more of the same.
Let's do more
than exist.
Vote for Mary!
Paid for by Committee to Elect
Mary Paughender, Chloe Scoles,
'leasurer, East 2070 Island Lake
Drive, Shelton,WA 98584.
i
[ i iiiiiii
We deliver
Located at Sanderson
Industrial Park
427-8084
We carry kerosene.
,uNor.m.O
Page 12 - Shelton-Maaon County Journal - Thursday, September 16, 1999
come to attend and observe. Sat-
urday's show will feature compe-
tition for the best-bred canine
shown by its exhibitor in addition
to regular competition.
Additional information is avail-
able from Eugene Bilden, show
chairman, at (253) 952-1230 or
co-chairman Fred Pool-Harris at
(253) 847-7763.
Typically, says a local breeder
who often participates in such
shows, the event will feature be-
tween 1,200 and 2,000 dogs. Hen-
ly says a judging schedule will be
issued early in October.
Brown Dog Shows, Incorporat-
ed will run the competition.
Mason County partners in
WorkSource include the Washing-
ton Division of Vocational Reha-
bilitation, Educational Service
District 113, Washington Employ-
ment Security Department,
GreenThumb, Lewis-Mason-
Thurston Area Agency on Aging,
Mason County Literacy, v. #
College, Pacific Mountain A,
Industry Council .d ,It#
Community Services Office.
"0 i "
The office is Suite 4 font#
state complex in GatewaY.._ t,.:Vo,
in Shelton's Mountain
neighborhood.
Euse trial is windina
up in superior court
Testimony continued Wednes-
day afternoon in the trial of Zach-
ary Euse. He is accused in Mason
County Superior Court of manu-
facturing methamphetamine in a
shed on rental property in Ta-
huya.
Deputy Prosecutor Amber Fin-
lay represented the state in pro-
ceedings before Judge To,[,,|
don and a jury of 13 op,€$[
eluding an alternate: lSuse/i|
defended by Charles lane• .,|
tailed report on the trial |
published in next weekse@.|
of The Shelton.Mason " =
Journal.
/
ADVANCED HEATING
AND COOLING, INC.
"Your comfort is our business"
Residential and Small Commercial
SALES & INSTALLATION
krce Fsti mat es
. f h,t ['umi)s • Gas & Electric Furnaces
• \\;i'LtMiti(;ning " Electric Air Cleaners
• Shct,tn.,tal \\;k',l:k • Systems DesigiffDuct Work
Financing Available
Toll Free: 1 (888)818-9335
(360)426-1255
ST ('ONT LIC#ADVANHC022NF ,,
• Radio Dispatch
Factory Trained Technici
24 Hour EmergenCy ai
& Repair
• Maintenance & Service
Contracts
September is new car and true,Ilia
month at Mell Chev • Olds.
New 2000 Models arriving daily
The '99s have gotta go!
WE'VE DONE SOME OF ":
IYOUR HOMEWORK FOR YO
[TOO
1999
FEATURE OLDSMOBILE ALERO gL3
ENGINE 3.4L V8
AUTOMATIC TRANRMI8810N STANDARD
POWER DRIVER'S SEAT STANDARD
REMOTE KEYLESS ENTRY STANDARD
ALLOY WHEEL8
4-WHEEL DISC BRAKE8
AB8 [ANTI-LOCK BSAKES]
TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM
TOTAL MSRP (,ctuo,o OPrOHL ZOU,eaEr
TAX TITLE LICENQE REOISTRATION AND OTHER OPTIONAL
EQUIPMENT EXTRA }
1999 Iqqq ........ lq.. A fl
HONDA ACCORD LX TO YYOTA CAMRY LE NI88AN
23L 4 CYL
OPTIONAL - $8O0
NOI AVAILABLE
NOT AVAILABLE
STANDARD INSTALLED OPTION
STANDARD .....
2.EL 4 CYL
STANDARD
INCLUDED
NOT AVAILABLE
OPTIONAL - 9385
NOT AVAILABLE
OPTIONAL - $55B
NOT AVAILABLE
$21,193
PHce ¢omplHso,s ated on MSRP of corn l,ltly i(i.(1 ,l m(lets Level of equipment v.rle$,
BAD WE WEREN'T THERE
FOR YOU
IN 9TH
GRADE GEOME
71
years
of serving
Mason
County