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Shelton-Mason County Journal WHAT'SCOOKIN' Former executive the projects we're working on," she said. director will join United aruber has always worked with service orga- Way ofTh nizations such as United urston County Way, she said. don't have any other By NATALIE JOHNSON experience," she said. "My work needs to have mean- Friends and coworkers gave Jeannie Gr- ing. It needs to be based uber a warm send-off last Thursday when Jeannie on helping people." she left her post as the executive director of Gruber Gruber said several United Way of Mason County. projects stand out from Gruber left her position of just over three her years at United Way years to accept a job as the director of the of Mason County. Ultimately, she said en- retired and senior volunteer program at couraging communication between service United Way of Thurston County. groups was one of her major accomplish- Gruber said she has mixed feelings about ments. moving on to the larger United Way office, "A year and a half ago we started having but is excited about the new work she can a community services group meeting once a do with the organization, month," she said. "We recognized a need for "It feels exciting because there's a lot of the service providers ... to get together and hope, but sad because I don't want to leave address community issues." Together, the groups participating in these discussions have talked about most effective ways to provide services without doubling up on scme services and neglecting others. "We built a lot of partnerships and re- lationships that wouldn't have been there otherwise," Gruber said. "It also helps be- cause some of the providers serve the same clients." In such small and close-knit communi: ties, communication is vital, she said. "You don't do anything alone out here," she said. During Gruber's time as executive direc- tor, United Way also restarted an older pro- gram - the asset building coalition, which is designed to help low-income people save money through financial literacy programs. "We try to buoy our working poor," she Said. In a similar effort, United Way is now participating in a national program called "bank on," which creates programs for peo- ple with no bank accounts. In Mason County the program repre- sents a collaboration between many agen- cies including United Way, Our Commu- nity Credit Union, Habitat for Humanity, Mason County Literacy and Mason County Homeless Shelter. "This would enable them to cash checks - it encourages them to save," she said. In Thurston County, Gruber will help recruit senior and retired volunteers and set them up with programs tailored to their skills and experience. While she will be based in Thurston County, Gruber said the work will not keep her out of Mason County. • "My territory will be Thurston, Mason and Lewis ... this is a big job," she said. "I'll still be able to work in Mason County." Gruber said that she has specific ideas for programs with United Way, but also has See Gruber on page 8-2 A new HARST[NEISLANDNEWS batch of Master Gardeners Larger number of Mason County residents taking up seeds, plants By NATALIE JOHNSON Wayward weeds, roots and seeds beware - there are new Master Gardeners in town. The Mason County Mas- ter Gardener program, founded by Washington State University in 1973, welcomed a new batch of 20 students to the first class of its annual four-month pro- gram on Friday. During their first class, which took place at the Pioneer Primary School's greenhouse, students learned about propogat- ing, or making new plants, said program coordinator Jeanne Rehwaldt. "Most people think seeds," she said. "We're do- ing cuttings ... We're also doing divisions of plants." This year, more students than usual are from North Mason, Rehwaldt said, aid- ing in the program's cur- rent and future Belfair projects. Half of the pro- gram's classes take place in North Mason, and half in the south end of the county, she said. Throughout the next sev- eral months students will meet at many different lo- cations throughout Mason County, from the Pacific Northwest Salmon Center in Belfair for a class on soil one week to Mason County Public Works for water quality workshops or Lake Isabella for fruit tree prun- ing classes. Many of Mason County's Master Gardeners took the class simply wishing to meet friends and learn a bit more about gardening, but now hold leadership roles in the organization. Rehwaldt took the class in 1997 and by 1999 was its program coordinator. Karen King took the class two years ago and now helps teach the Mas- ter Gardener courses and helps with the nutrition See Gardener on page B=2 ABOVE: Master Gardener Lou Schmidt teaches students at last Friday's Master Gardener class at the Pioneer Primary School greenhouse. BELOW: Master Gardener Pat Carpenter demonstrates how to propogate different kinds of plants. JOurnal photos by Natalie Johnson Thursday, September 22, How did Harstine • Island get its nam ? I'm not sure what it is, but with the change of weather, things on the island have quieted down. It's so quiet in fact that there just isn't much island news. Consequently, this allows me to explore a question I've had since moving to the island -- just who was this Henry J. Hartstein guy anyway? As most know, there has been much discussion about the spelling of Harstine Island and I don't want to get into that. When Lt. Charles Wilkes cruised through the south sound he was captain of a ship named the Por- poise. He was charged with surveying the MIKE area. When he dis- CALLAGHAN covered Harstine and Stretch Islands the two men he named them after were not aboard. Wilkes named the two islands after these men because of their courage on an earlier voyage. I am going to take a passage from Charles Wilkes' book "Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, Volume 1." There on page 144 you will find an explanation as to what these two men did. It was written in 1845 and some of the grammar shows that. It's kinda neat to know that Hartstein was such a brave soul. "March 17th we had light winds from the eastward, and a smooth sea, with delightful weather. There was, however, a heavy bank cumuli to the southwest- ward and after a few hours' calm, the wind came from that quarter and began to blow fresh, accompanied with heavy squalls. We did not succeed that night in reaching New Island, where it was my intention to have anchored and rode out the gale. We in consequence found our- selves the next morning 30 miles to the eastward of our position of the previous evening, having drifted at the rate of 3 miles an hour. From appearances, I in- ferred that the gale had set in for several days; I therefore determined to make for Good Success Bay and await the break- ing up of the storm .... 'Tee anchored in the bay early in the afternoon, when we took our boats and went on shore for a few hours. There was but little surf when we landed, but it rapidly increased, and one of the boats in attempting to pass through it filled See Harstine on page B-2 2011 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page B-1