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i:i!i
The forest fire that raged un- were reported, he said. A 20-member Forest Service closed to national forest visitors.
controlled last week in the Olym-
pic National Forest has been con-
tained.
Firefighters who worked hard
in the steep and rocky terrain of-
ficially contained the 90-acre
blaze at 6 p.m. Sunday night, said
Ken Eldredge, Olympic National
Forest spokesperson. No injuries
The cause of the fire near The
Brothers in southeastern Jeffer-
son County has been attributed to
a lightning strike from an earlier
storm that smoldered perhaps for
as long as several weeks before
being kicked up on Sunday, Sep-
tember 12, by high winds.
hotshot crew from the Umpqua
National Forest in southern Ore-
gon that arrived on September 14
remained on the job at the fire
scene Wednesday. A helicopter
continued dropping buckets of
water from Lena Lake on the still
burning areas•
The fire has kept several areas
Those areas, which will remain
closed until further notice, in-
clude the Lena Lakes trail and
campground, The Brothers Trail
and the lower portion of The
Brothers Wilderness Area south
of Murhut Ridge, Eldredge said.
GREEN
KIDS AND ADULTS alike get wacky balloon hats to wear during last
Friday's gala celebration marking the 10th anniversary at Shelton's
William G. Reed Public Library.
a day to celebrate the
in Shelton and the
to transform
marked the 10th
to the day that the
Public Library at
Alder streets in
was officially
librarians, library
officials turned
CUrrent library staff
patrons to take part
lStivities. There was
drunk, cake to be ca-
provided by the
band Swing Fev-
Walk Against AIDS all set
off in the
the hoopla, the
late Garth Getty,
to the
Public Li-
and Regional
five-county library
a that operates the
,rary, flickered mis-
FROM the city's
to the well-used
of today was re-
resident Pat
1890, the first "library" in
LOR of Shel.
handmade
ate his
Power of li-
The Mason County HIV/AIDS
Advisory Council will sponsor the
fifth annual Mason County Walks
Against AIDS event on Saturday
on Kneeland Boulevard.
Registration starts at 9:30 a.m.
in the Wal-Mart parking lot on
the side near the high school. The
opening ceremony will begin at 10
a.m. and walkers will head out
shortly thereafter.
's long history is
At the conclusion of the event,
performers from the Boys and
Girls Club of North Mason will
provide entertainment while re-
freshments are served.
There will be munchies avail-
able before the walk as well, and
as an added enticement, three lo-
cal massage therapists from Ka-
leidoscope Massage and Body
Creations in Shelton and North
Bay Massage in Allyn will give
free massages to walkers.
A level route around the Moun-
tain View area will be accessible
to participants in wheelchairs,
families with babies in strollers,
and others who need an easy
route, say planners of the event.
The walk is designed to raise
consciousness of AIDS and HIV
and to raise $4,500 to assist local
victims of the immunodeficiency
diseases. "All the money raised is
spent in Mason County," empha-
sized spokesperson Carla Huyck
of the county health department.
Donations may be made at the
walk or mailed to MCHAAC at
P.O. Box 1382, Shelton, 98584.
All donations are tax-deductible
and receipts are available.
Prizes will be awarded the
three teams raising the most
money and all participants who
raise $100 or more will receive T-
shirts. The shirts will also be
available for sale and can be or-
dered in special sizes from chil-
dren's small to XXXL.
More information is available
from Huyck at the health depart-
ment, 427-9670 (275-4467 from
North Mason phones), Extension
545.
ted at celebration Ribbon-cutting is today
Shelton was opened, she said.
Members paid $3 a year, had ac-
cess to 80 books and also got to
choose another three books from a
catalog.
A ladies' literary society was
formed in 1904 for "the mutual
improvement of the community."
The fee was only $1 a year, but
the library was open Saturday af-
ternoons only•
The library bounced around
town for several years, operating
at times in private homes. In
1910, it closed for'remodeling and
recataloging. By 1913, it was lo-
cated in A.L. Bell's Insurance and
Land Office at the corner of Third
and Railroad. The hours were
2:30 to 4 p.m. on Fridays.
ONE YEAR LATER, Mary
Simpson, the widow of Sol G.
Simpson of Simpson Logging
Company fame, donated $7,500
for a town hall and library to
maintain a public reading room.
A Simpson partner, A.H. Ander-
son, also donated money for the
building.
Mark Reed bought the land
from Grant Angle and deeded it
to the city. Reed also married
Simpson's daughter, Irene. "I fig-
ure she must have been quite a
lady because they also built and
named a new high school after
her too," Tostevin said. The cur-
rent Shelton library, named after
William G. Reed, stands on the
site of the former Irene S. Reed
High School and a stone wall
bearing the school's name domi-
nates the library's parking lot.
During World War I, the Shel-
ton Town Council met in the town
hall-library. The staff carried on
library business and Red Cross
knitting and stored war supplies
there. By 1923, the library boast-
ed 2,300 books. There was money
for more books, but no more room.
The town council urged donations
for the construction of Memorial
Hall, which still stands at Second
and Franklin streets•
Now the library occupied the
former town hall by itself and was
open seven days a week. Librar-
ians were expected not only to
shelve the books but to stoke the
furnace as well. When they want-
ed time off, they paid the substi-
tutes out of their own pockets at
the rate of 25 cents an hour.
IN 1962, there was a major re-
modeling of the library thanks to
a trust fund left by Mrs. Ander-
son. Something wonderful, wash-
rooms, were added. "The library
had 15,000 books," Tostevin said.
Eventually, the move for a new
library was afoot. Bond issues
were set, and committees worked
but failed to effect their passage.
"We tried twice but the voters
Center
AUTOMOTIVE
The Professionals
of people who are particular about their cars!
Highway North 426-1467
WA 98584 Dan Moldenhauer, owner
didn't go for it," she said. "We got
comments like, 'Schools have
books so what do we need it for?'"
The library, Tostevin observed,
was m a world of hurt. One pro-
posed site was on the grounds of
the old Lincoln School off Cota
Street.
Fast forward to 1988. The
Shelton Public Library was still
too small and the building was
crumbling.
Tostevin said she was part of
the opposition to the merger with
Timberland, but things eventual-
ly smoothed out and the vocal mi-
nority got some concessions. The
city got a new library, more
books, access to all of Timber-
land's branches, an online cata-
log, interlibrary loans and much
more. In the long run, she said, it
was a good deal.
Even Garth Getty eventually
put down his picket signs.
REFERENCE Librarian Mike
Potts remembers interviewing for
a job 10 years ago amidst saw-
horses and sawdust in the new
building. He gave a nod to Wil-
liam G. Reed.
"Mr. Reed thought of himself
as a steward of resources, not
only his personal ones but also
community and public resources,"
he said. The library staff mem-
bers also feel they're stewards of
the public trust and are trying to
do the best they can to do what
they should with that trust, he
added.
The Reed family donated
$500,000 and the land on which
the library sits, Potts explained.
Several other major donors
emerged. Local fund-raising also
helped the project win a grant of
$265,000.
Dory Whitmarsh started work-
ing in Timberland's South Mason
branch in 1974. One memorable
library program involved a visit
from the choir flom the women's
prison in Purdy. "There were as
many guards as there were
ladies," she recalled.
"It came time for Timberland
and Shelton to join," she said. "It
came time for the wounds to heal
and for everybody to come togeth-
er."
at Shelt, c)n's WorkSource
Mason County employers and
job-seekers have a new place to
turn for a variety of job-place-
ment and business-and-career re-
sources at WorkSource Mason
County.
Washington Employment Se-
curity Commissioner Carver Gay-
ton will join other state and local
officials at the ribbon-cutting set
for 3 p.m. today at the new facili-
ty at 2505 Olympic Highway
North, Suite 420 in Gateway Cen-
ter.
"WorkSource is a unique con-
cept in the labor market," said
Gayton. "The centers provide in
one place all the information,
technology and services that job-
seekers and business need to
succeed."
AT A WORKSOURCE center,
those seeking jobs have free use
of computers, copiers, faKes and
other career and training resourc-
es. They also have access to job
data bases and workshops on how
MIKE POTTS, Dory Whitmarsh and Pat Tostevin present a compre-
hensive historical account of public libraries in Shelton. Their ac-
count took the history of libraries in Shelton from the city's early
years right up to the present day.
to get and keep a job. Translation
services will also be available, as
well as information on accessing
unemployment insurance.
Meanwhile, businesses can
take advantage of computer job-
matching services, get assistance
with recruitment and layoffs, and
have access to electronic rsum
banks, labor market information
and retraining resources.
"This is a wonderful moment
for all the partners in Mason
County that worked so hard to
make this happen," said Dennis
Cole, WorkSource's executive di-
rector. "WorkSource is no longer
just a concept. It is alive and
real."
WorkSource is a joint venture
of organizations dedicated to ad-
dressing local employment needs.
Mason County partners include
the Employment Security Depart-
ment, Washington Division of Vo-
cational Rehabilitation, Educa-
tional Service District 113, Green
Thumb, Lewis-Mason-Thurston
Area Agency on Aging, Mason
County Literacy, Olympic Col-
lege, Pacific Mountain Private In-
dustry Council and Shelton Com-
munity Services Office.
THE CENTER'S administra-
tor, Ann Fenton, observed, "Each
partner brings its own strengths
to the system, and the result is a
center that is greater than the
sum of its parts. The services we
offer have proven to be some of
the most useful to those looking
for work, and for businesses look-
ing for qualified workers."
In addition to the services of-
fered at the center, employers
and job-seekers can access job-
matching information and other
employment resources 24 hours a
day at the Web site work.
aource.wa.gov.
Other WorkSource Center
facilities are located in Bel-
lingham, Kelso, North Seattle,
Omak, Renton, Spokane, Walla
Walla, White Salmon and at two
locations in Vancouver. Other
centers will open by June of next
year.
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. SALMON PANSIES
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elre00'" in" ulympl,?S00'" " con'aine-- n.l:
!i ..... firefighters still pounng it
e
i:i!i
The forest fire that raged un- were reported, he said. A 20-member Forest Service closed to national forest visitors.
controlled last week in the Olym-
pic National Forest has been con-
tained.
Firefighters who worked hard
in the steep and rocky terrain of-
ficially contained the 90-acre
blaze at 6 p.m. Sunday night, said
Ken Eldredge, Olympic National
Forest spokesperson. No injuries
The cause of the fire near The
Brothers in southeastern Jeffer-
son County has been attributed to
a lightning strike from an earlier
storm that smoldered perhaps for
as long as several weeks before
being kicked up on Sunday, Sep-
tember 12, by high winds.
hotshot crew from the Umpqua
National Forest in southern Ore-
gon that arrived on September 14
remained on the job at the fire
scene Wednesday. A helicopter
continued dropping buckets of
water from Lena Lake on the still
burning areas•
The fire has kept several areas
Those areas, which will remain
closed until further notice, in-
clude the Lena Lakes trail and
campground, The Brothers Trail
and the lower portion of The
Brothers Wilderness Area south
of Murhut Ridge, Eldredge said.
GREEN
KIDS AND ADULTS alike get wacky balloon hats to wear during last
Friday's gala celebration marking the 10th anniversary at Shelton's
William G. Reed Public Library.
a day to celebrate the
in Shelton and the
to transform
marked the 10th
to the day that the
Public Library at
Alder streets in
was officially
librarians, library
officials turned
CUrrent library staff
patrons to take part
lStivities. There was
drunk, cake to be ca-
provided by the
band Swing Fev-
Walk Against AIDS all set
off in the
the hoopla, the
late Garth Getty,
to the
Public Li-
and Regional
five-county library
a that operates the
,rary, flickered mis-
FROM the city's
to the well-used
of today was re-
resident Pat
1890, the first "library" in
LOR of Shel.
handmade
ate his
Power of li-
The Mason County HIV/AIDS
Advisory Council will sponsor the
fifth annual Mason County Walks
Against AIDS event on Saturday
on Kneeland Boulevard.
Registration starts at 9:30 a.m.
in the Wal-Mart parking lot on
the side near the high school. The
opening ceremony will begin at 10
a.m. and walkers will head out
shortly thereafter.
's long history is
At the conclusion of the event,
performers from the Boys and
Girls Club of North Mason will
provide entertainment while re-
freshments are served.
There will be munchies avail-
able before the walk as well, and
as an added enticement, three lo-
cal massage therapists from Ka-
leidoscope Massage and Body
Creations in Shelton and North
Bay Massage in Allyn will give
free massages to walkers.
A level route around the Moun-
tain View area will be accessible
to participants in wheelchairs,
families with babies in strollers,
and others who need an easy
route, say planners of the event.
The walk is designed to raise
consciousness of AIDS and HIV
and to raise $4,500 to assist local
victims of the immunodeficiency
diseases. "All the money raised is
spent in Mason County," empha-
sized spokesperson Carla Huyck
of the county health department.
Donations may be made at the
walk or mailed to MCHAAC at
P.O. Box 1382, Shelton, 98584.
All donations are tax-deductible
and receipts are available.
Prizes will be awarded the
three teams raising the most
money and all participants who
raise $100 or more will receive T-
shirts. The shirts will also be
available for sale and can be or-
dered in special sizes from chil-
dren's small to XXXL.
More information is available
from Huyck at the health depart-
ment, 427-9670 (275-4467 from
North Mason phones), Extension
545.
ted at celebration Ribbon-cutting is today
Shelton was opened, she said.
Members paid $3 a year, had ac-
cess to 80 books and also got to
choose another three books from a
catalog.
A ladies' literary society was
formed in 1904 for "the mutual
improvement of the community."
The fee was only $1 a year, but
the library was open Saturday af-
ternoons only•
The library bounced around
town for several years, operating
at times in private homes. In
1910, it closed for'remodeling and
recataloging. By 1913, it was lo-
cated in A.L. Bell's Insurance and
Land Office at the corner of Third
and Railroad. The hours were
2:30 to 4 p.m. on Fridays.
ONE YEAR LATER, Mary
Simpson, the widow of Sol G.
Simpson of Simpson Logging
Company fame, donated $7,500
for a town hall and library to
maintain a public reading room.
A Simpson partner, A.H. Ander-
son, also donated money for the
building.
Mark Reed bought the land
from Grant Angle and deeded it
to the city. Reed also married
Simpson's daughter, Irene. "I fig-
ure she must have been quite a
lady because they also built and
named a new high school after
her too," Tostevin said. The cur-
rent Shelton library, named after
William G. Reed, stands on the
site of the former Irene S. Reed
High School and a stone wall
bearing the school's name domi-
nates the library's parking lot.
During World War I, the Shel-
ton Town Council met in the town
hall-library. The staff carried on
library business and Red Cross
knitting and stored war supplies
there. By 1923, the library boast-
ed 2,300 books. There was money
for more books, but no more room.
The town council urged donations
for the construction of Memorial
Hall, which still stands at Second
and Franklin streets•
Now the library occupied the
former town hall by itself and was
open seven days a week. Librar-
ians were expected not only to
shelve the books but to stoke the
furnace as well. When they want-
ed time off, they paid the substi-
tutes out of their own pockets at
the rate of 25 cents an hour.
IN 1962, there was a major re-
modeling of the library thanks to
a trust fund left by Mrs. Ander-
son. Something wonderful, wash-
rooms, were added. "The library
had 15,000 books," Tostevin said.
Eventually, the move for a new
library was afoot. Bond issues
were set, and committees worked
but failed to effect their passage.
"We tried twice but the voters
Center
AUTOMOTIVE
The Professionals
of people who are particular about their cars!
Highway North 426-1467
WA 98584 Dan Moldenhauer, owner
didn't go for it," she said. "We got
comments like, 'Schools have
books so what do we need it for?'"
The library, Tostevin observed,
was m a world of hurt. One pro-
posed site was on the grounds of
the old Lincoln School off Cota
Street.
Fast forward to 1988. The
Shelton Public Library was still
too small and the building was
crumbling.
Tostevin said she was part of
the opposition to the merger with
Timberland, but things eventual-
ly smoothed out and the vocal mi-
nority got some concessions. The
city got a new library, more
books, access to all of Timber-
land's branches, an online cata-
log, interlibrary loans and much
more. In the long run, she said, it
was a good deal.
Even Garth Getty eventually
put down his picket signs.
REFERENCE Librarian Mike
Potts remembers interviewing for
a job 10 years ago amidst saw-
horses and sawdust in the new
building. He gave a nod to Wil-
liam G. Reed.
"Mr. Reed thought of himself
as a steward of resources, not
only his personal ones but also
community and public resources,"
he said. The library staff mem-
bers also feel they're stewards of
the public trust and are trying to
do the best they can to do what
they should with that trust, he
added.
The Reed family donated
$500,000 and the land on which
the library sits, Potts explained.
Several other major donors
emerged. Local fund-raising also
helped the project win a grant of
$265,000.
Dory Whitmarsh started work-
ing in Timberland's South Mason
branch in 1974. One memorable
library program involved a visit
from the choir flom the women's
prison in Purdy. "There were as
many guards as there were
ladies," she recalled.
"It came time for Timberland
and Shelton to join," she said. "It
came time for the wounds to heal
and for everybody to come togeth-
er."
at Shelt, c)n's WorkSource
Mason County employers and
job-seekers have a new place to
turn for a variety of job-place-
ment and business-and-career re-
sources at WorkSource Mason
County.
Washington Employment Se-
curity Commissioner Carver Gay-
ton will join other state and local
officials at the ribbon-cutting set
for 3 p.m. today at the new facili-
ty at 2505 Olympic Highway
North, Suite 420 in Gateway Cen-
ter.
"WorkSource is a unique con-
cept in the labor market," said
Gayton. "The centers provide in
one place all the information,
technology and services that job-
seekers and business need to
succeed."
AT A WORKSOURCE center,
those seeking jobs have free use
of computers, copiers, faKes and
other career and training resourc-
es. They also have access to job
data bases and workshops on how
MIKE POTTS, Dory Whitmarsh and Pat Tostevin present a compre-
hensive historical account of public libraries in Shelton. Their ac-
count took the history of libraries in Shelton from the city's early
years right up to the present day.
to get and keep a job. Translation
services will also be available, as
well as information on accessing
unemployment insurance.
Meanwhile, businesses can
take advantage of computer job-
matching services, get assistance
with recruitment and layoffs, and
have access to electronic rsum
banks, labor market information
and retraining resources.
"This is a wonderful moment
for all the partners in Mason
County that worked so hard to
make this happen," said Dennis
Cole, WorkSource's executive di-
rector. "WorkSource is no longer
just a concept. It is alive and
real."
WorkSource is a joint venture
of organizations dedicated to ad-
dressing local employment needs.
Mason County partners include
the Employment Security Depart-
ment, Washington Division of Vo-
cational Rehabilitation, Educa-
tional Service District 113, Green
Thumb, Lewis-Mason-Thurston
Area Agency on Aging, Mason
County Literacy, Olympic Col-
lege, Pacific Mountain Private In-
dustry Council and Shelton Com-
munity Services Office.
THE CENTER'S administra-
tor, Ann Fenton, observed, "Each
partner brings its own strengths
to the system, and the result is a
center that is greater than the
sum of its parts. The services we
offer have proven to be some of
the most useful to those looking
for work, and for businesses look-
ing for qualified workers."
In addition to the services of-
fered at the center, employers
and job-seekers can access job-
matching information and other
employment resources 24 hours a
day at the Web site work.
aource.wa.gov.
Other WorkSource Center
facilities are located in Bel-
lingham, Kelso, North Seattle,
Omak, Renton, Spokane, Walla
Walla, White Salmon and at two
locations in Vancouver. Other
centers will open by June of next
year.
25% OR MORE OFF
- STOREWIDE -
U-PICK PUMPKINS READY SOON t
Now picking 4 varieties
HUNTE0000
,00Jm) CORN '
Canning Corn Cooking Com
Hunter Farms LAST CHANCEl
ZUCCHINI While supplies last
PICKLING CUKES! PEACHES,PEARS
PLUMS,TOMATOES
WINTER SQUASH ....
New Crop
POTATOES
Sweet Spanish
ONIONS
lb.. 25 lb. • 50 lb.
3# MIXED ONIONS
Red • White • Yellow
JUICING CARROTS
25# - 4.95
COOKING OR CANNING BEETS
25# - 1095
APPLES
• Red • Gold • Galas
• Jonathon • Jonagolc
Washington
SLICING CUKES
FALL
DECORATIONS
• Gourds • Corn Stalks
• Ornamental Corn
• Straw
i i i ii i i
Large Assortment ol
PEPPERS
iiii
°U,T.',.° I I i
,mv " Carso • Hats • Camping Gear ; Mountain HAY
BUSINESS "alLY A FW*cast IronCookware'Rain Gear'Boots Ice Cream
SALE U"wEEKS Fall Color
LEFT! OYSTERS & Large Assortment
CLAMS MUMS, ASTERS,
. SALMON PANSIES
i
Mon-Fri 11:30-6:30, Sat 10-5
Barkley Square, 2121 Olympic Highway North • 427-8305
A Family Farm Tradition
898-2222,26.2222or UTI ll,tlllN __
East 1921 Highway 106, Union, WA OPEN 9 am-6 pm 7 DAYS AWEEK
U-PICK PUMPKINS READY SOON() (.
Thursday, September 23, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 3