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Shelton-Mason County Journal
NARST[NEISLANDNEWS
New Exploring post__in Mason Fire District leadership experience; have
4 Chief Bob positive relationships with
Burbridge. adults in leadership roles;
ty dV It won't be have an opportunity to take
Coun almost rea to go long untilthe on leadership themselves;
Mason Coun- and to grow in a supportive
By NATALIE JOHNSON pressed interest in participat- ty post will environment.
natatie@masoncounty.com ing in the Explorer program, be chartered Participants can start as
which allows teens to partici- and ready to young as age 14 if they have
pate in career environments, go, Tupper finished the eighth grade, and
By the end of this year, Exploring south sound co- Bob said. can stay in the program until
youth in Mason County may ordinator John Tupper said Burbridge A c c o r d - age 21.
have a new way to get in- posts can cover any career, ing to the For example, participants
volved in their community, as "from accounting to zoology." E x p 1 o r i n g in the Fire District 4 program
well as gain valuable skills for "There are no Explorer program,participants are would learn to fight fires and
their adult life. Posts in Mason County right intendedto gain practicalgain basic life-saving knowl-
Mason County Fire District now," he said. experience; engage in pro- edge, even helping in real-
4, the Mason County Sher- The Fire District 4 Board grams centered on five areas, world situations.
iff's Office and Mason County of Commissioners voted this including career opportuni- While the program 'helps
Emergency Communications month to agree to be the lead ties, life skills, citizenship,
MACECOM) have all ex- agency in the program, said character education and See Explorers on page B-7
WHATSCOOKIN'
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Longtime area resident Dean Olson recently released his ninth collection of poetry called "Crossing."
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New collection, 'Crossing' about transitions in life
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@mas°nc°unty'c°m
Dean Olson doesn't believe po-
etry requires "grand words" to be
meaningful. Instead, he strives for
his work to be simple, accessible,
and most of all, relatable to his
readers' daily lives.
"My older brother once said to
me, 'Well I got most of it,'" he said.
"Well; hell, I wanted him to get all
of it."
Olson, who grew up with his
parents and five siblings in the
Skokomish Valley and graduated
from Irene S. Reed High School in
Shelton in 1956, recently released
his ninth collection of poetry, en-
titled ',Crossing."
"Crossing" is full of short po-
ems, often less than a page long,
packed with memories and experi-
ences from throughout Olson's life.
He said this collection of his poems,
like many of his others, is about
transitions in life, growing up and
growing old.
"That's what I write about, re-
ally," he said. "I think aging is a
wonderful time. I want to see it as a
humorous time."
family history. As a child, his and
his brothers' bedroom were in the
attic of the family home.
"When I was 17, I couldn't wait to
get out of there. I could only stand
up in the middle of the attic," he
said.
Olson said he likes to play with
One of his favorite poems, "Red language and use it creatively in his
Plaid Pendleton," describes the free-form poetry.
wave of emotions and memories he "The thoughtful use of language
still feels when wearing or looking is cardinal," he said. "It's not to say
at his father's Pendleton jacket, that the poem shouldn't be surpris-
"I almost wore it today -- I should ing. I try not to make it so difficult,
have," he said: so mysterious."
In the poem, Olson writes about In the early 1990s, when he was
how the jacket still smells of bour- living in Hoodsport after return-
bon and cigarette smoke, and re- ing to Washington from living for
minds him of watching his parents 20 years in Alaska, Olson first be-
go to dances at the local grange gan writing poetry, but put it aside
all. • ; because he was Still working and
Another of his poems, "Inno- didn't have any time for it.
cence," also recalls memories of "I felt like I had something to
learning to dance at the grange.
Other poems deal with Olson's See Poet on page B-7
Thursday
Community
Night offers
free classes
for adults
spent 30 years teaching in Yuma,
Ariz., and now really enjoy the
Pacific Northwest. During his
college days, one of my fellow teach-
ers worked as a firefighter and he
rescued a small black bear while
fighting a fire in the Mogollon
Rim area of northern Arizona. That
rescued bear was taken to Wash-
ington, D.C., and became a mascot
named Smokey. Now, with fires so
close to us here, I can really appreci-
ate the saying, "Only you can prevent
forest fires."
I saw this little note in the cham-
ber of commerce
Harstine II
passengers
By MIKE
CALLAGHAN
magazine, Bight.
went into service ferrying
between Harstine Island
and the mainland
in March 1945. The
last official run
was on June 22,
1969 -- the day the
Harstine Island
bridge opened. The
Mason County His-
torical Society has
a calendar for sale
with a great picture
of Harstine II and
other great pictures.
You can get the cal-
endar for $10 and it is available at
the museum.
Pioneer School is working hard to
get its Community Nights concept up
and running. Their goal is to provide
free classes to ~he aduits in the dis-
trict.
These classes will be taught in the
evening by local individuals and or-
ganizations that have a passion for a
subject.
Right now, they have seven classes
planned and these are titled "Keep
ydur Family Safe," "Raising Healthy
Kids," "Kinship Program," "Love and
Logic," "Powerful Gmail," "Beginning
Ballroom Dancing" and "Learning
Styles."
These classes will be presented
during four nights: Oct. 23 and 30
and Nov. 6 and 13.
Although the theme will remain
the same for each class, the content
will be different each time. You can
sign up and follow one class for all
four nights or you can change each
session. In the class Keep your Fam-
ily Safe, you will learn CPR for chil:
dren and adults, including use of an
AED.
You will find out if you are pre-
pared for an emergency and learn
,how to create a family emergency
preparedness plan: In Raising
Healthy Kids, you can learn helpful
information so you can make the best
decisions when you have a sick child.
In the Kinship Program, you will
get to meet other grandparents. In-
formation will be shared on what
benefits may be available to kinship
caregivers.
There is going to be an important
Mason County fundraiser coming up.
It is called "Help and Hope for the
Homeless."
It will benefit the Emergency Cold
Weather Shelter, Mason County Home-
less Shelter and Turning Pointe Do-
mestic Violence Shelter. It will be on
Oct. 20 at the Pavilion at Sentry Park.
This will be a dinner/dance with
entertainment provided by Swing
Fever. The dinner will be a prime rib
and salmon buffet with vegetarian
options. The cost will be $50 per per-
son. Please call 427-9516 for tickets.
That spooky holiday, Halloween, is
just behind the pumpkin. The Senior
Lunch boos are brewing up a special
lunch of witches cauldron stuff, bat
droppings and wormy dirt.
So, if you have the nerve, they will
be spewing out the gruel at noon on
Halloween day.
Good thing they didn't plan :it for
midnight.
They will have their trick-or-treat
bag out for a donation, so don't forget
or you will probably get your win-
dows soaped.
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