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By NATALIE JOHNSON
Islanders and mainlanders alike turned
out in droves for Harstine Island's 24th
annual Apple Squeeze event last Satur-
day.
The event started in 1988 with a group
of Harstine Islanders who wanted to find
a use for the apples they grew in their own
orchards, said Jim Anderson, a long time
squeeze volunteer.
Now, the apples are all bought from
growers in Eastern Washington, but the
tradition is still intact. Each year the
event produces a massive 350 gallons of
cider, from about 6,300 pounds of apples.
Over the years the event has expanded
from simply an apple cider related event
to a larger festival, including the last day
of the Harstine Island Farmers Market
and vendors inside the Harstine Island
Community Club.
"I think people like to have something
like this to do at this time," said Harstine
Island Garden Club Member Barbara La-
June. "It's not just the islanders, it's other
people too - it just kind of grows from year
to year."
Most of the core volunteers for the
apple squeeze are garden club members,
LaJune said, but many are just interested
community members who want to lend a
helping hand.
"It's a fun thing to do," LaJune said.
"it's not just the
islanders, it's other
people too--it just
kind of grows from
year to year,"
"People come around and say what can I
do - they all want to put a little bit of time
in and do something. I get calls at home a
lot of times."
Adults have their share of fun, but kids
particularly enjoy the "squeeze" in apple
squeeze, or more accurately, the chop.
Each of the apple squeeze's custom
apple juicers are made with a variety of
proprietary ingredients, Anderson said,
and chop the apples up before squeezing
the juice out of them to make the event's
signature apple cider.
"It's a big kid thing," he said. "When
they come here and throw an apple on the
press it's an extra thing for them."
At the end of the day, when all the
apples have been juiced, the Harstine Is-
land community members who put on the
apple squeeze are happy to have given a
few smiling kids, and adults too, a little
taste of fall.
Journa 3noto Dy NataJle JolTnsor
Two children squeeze apples during the 24th annual Harstine Island
Apple Squeeze event last Saturday.
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Gay Paris program to
feature former Journalist
Charlie Gay, the former
editor and publisher of the
Journal, will present a pro-
gram on his recent stay in
Paris, France at ] p.m. on
Saturday, Oct. 15, at the
Mason County Historical
Society Museum.
Gay, 58, a 1971 gradu-
ate of Shelton High School
returned this summer from
a ten-month stay in the
French capital, where he
wrote about his observations
and took about 5,000 photos.
He lived in an 1880s build-
ing in the Latin Quarter and
reached his 180-square-foot
garret on the seventh floor
via 108 stairs.
Ever since 1977, when he
was 24 and first laid eyes on
Paris, Gay had had a dream
to live there for an extended
period, but he had a jour-
nalism career in Shelton to
tend. He started working at
the Journal shortly after his
father bought it in 1966 and
served as managing editor
of the newspaper from 1980
to 1999 and then after his
father's death, editor and
publisher from 1999 to 2008
until his family sold the
business. He then had an
opportunity for a long stay
in Paris.
Between 1977 and 2008,
he returned to France 13
times on vacation to feed
his hunger for French cul-
ture, art, history, natural
and manmade wonders,
bread and flan. During that
time, the photography nut
amassed about 4,500 slides
of sites all over France.
For all but three weeks of
his 2002-2011 stay, he was
confined to an area of about
six miles by 10 miles and
never tired of exploring the
famous and lesser-known
places in the city of 2.5 mil-
lion people.
During his October 15
program at the museum,
Gay will talk about life in
Paris, show photos of the
four seasons in the city and
answer the inevitable ques-
tions
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tion, call the museum dur-
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