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Shelton-Mason county Journal By NATALIE JOHNSON Sara Huddleston has some big shoes to fill. Last year at Mason Matters her Ameri- Corps predecessors - Delphina Lyles and Tara Rigby - created community gardens, educated parents about health care and got the Pioneer Food Bank offto a good start. Huddleston said she's up to the challenge. "The goal of Mason Matters is to get the community involved and this is a great way to do that," she said, speak- ing about the Pioneer Food Bank. Huddleston graduated from Middlebury College in her home state of Vermont in 2009. After two years of working as a paralegal in New York, she wanted a change. Sara "I decided I don't want to Huddleston go to law school," she said. While still in college, Huddleston took a class called "Fast Food, Slow Food" and immedi- ately felt called to the subject. "I realized my calling might be nutrition and exercise," she said. Mason Matters, with its focus on nutrition through community gardens and food banks, was a perfect fit for her, despite it being on the other side of the country, she said. can be intimidating for some cooks. The Pioneer Food Bank had its first fall To help food bank patrons use their food distribution day on Thursday, Oct. 20, and most effectively, Huddleston and food bank served 15 families, she said. volunteers distributed recipes. They also gave '~¢¢e got fresh produce to people, which is out eight donated slow cookers to families at my passion," she said. the last distribution day. Volunteers handed out vegetables such as "I handed out a recipe for simple roasted beets and Brussels sprouts - ingredients that vegetables," she said. On the back of the recipe for vegetables was another recipe for a slaw cooker Vegeta- ble soup. One of Huddlesten's projects this year is to change the way people donate to food banks. She's been busy creating flyers for the Pioneer Food Bank that suggest donating whole grains, beans, nuts and fresh fruits and vegetables. %Ve also really want to let people know that food banks are not just a place to bring the things you have in the back of your cup- boards or 500 things oframen," she said. In addition to helping the food bank, Hud- dleston will continue to work on the Mason Matters Health Literacy Program: The cur- riculum for the program centers on the book "What to Do When Your Child Gets Sick." "It's just teaching people you don't have to go to the emergency room every time you get sick," she said. Huddleston also works half-time with the Mason County Department of Public Health this year. While Huddleston will continue to manage many of these programs through Mason Mat- ters this year, she's working on a guidebook to allow different organizations in the community to take over projects such as the HOPE Com- munity Garden and the Pioneer Food Bank. "AmeriCorps built these programs - we want to return them to the community," she said. NARSTINEISLANDNEWS The SHS "If Pigs Could Fly" team prepares to launch a pumpkin at last Saturday's 2011 Fest Catapult Competition. Journal photo by Natalie Johnson Union Pumpkin- en By NATALIE JOHNSON per." SHS's "If Pigs Could Fly" trebuchet Six competing armies came together won first place in the accuracy division on a muddy Union battlefield last Sat- by smashing out a window in the target urday, covered with gourd innards and - an old boat donated by Hunter Farms, armed to the teeth with homemade tre- where the event took place. The Charlie buchets. Brown trebuchet came in at second after They came, they saw, they Chucked a tiebreaker. some pumpkins. While shut out of "What kid wouldn't want to break a window with a pumpkin?" said Shelton High School Career and Technical Edu- cation teacher Roger McCausland. The premise of the 2011 Union Pump-ing a pumpkin a massive kinFest Catapult Competition is simple. 251 feet. Teams compete in high school and adult "That is the pumpkin (Olympic Catapult League: Open Divi- throw of the century," sion) by hurling pumpkins with hand- said announcer Mick Mc- made trebuchets - a kind of catapult Cartney. -judging the best by distance and accu- West Sound Tech also racy and style, won the design portion Two teams from SHS entered trebu- with SHS coming in second. chets, one Charlie Brown themed and an- Adults also got a chance to hurl some other painted pink to champion breast can- gourds on Saturday in the open divi- cer awareness called "If Pigs Could Fly." sion. Two adult teams showed up for the Both Charlie Brown and the pink pigevent, a Hunter Farms team and a "Save trebuchet fought hard against competi- Our Air" team with their "99 percenter" tor West Sound Tech, which brought trebuchet. two teams and one trebuchet, decorated The Hunter Farms catapult won first with an axe and named "Pumpkin Chop- place in the distance competition with a throw of 117 feet. The 99 percenters occupied the field during the accuracy portion and won first place. Last year's PumpkinFest Catapult Competition was hampered by horren- dous weather, organizers said, but this year the rain cleared in plenty of time for the competition, let- the accuracy test, West kid ring all teams hurl their Sound Tech ran away pumpkins in optimum with the distance portionVVUU~UM ~ ~ aA~m mJ~n~ wa~t cool, sunny weather. of the competition, shoot- Despite the bad weath- to break a window with a pumpkin?" er last year, organiz- ers estimated a crowd of about 150 came, but this year more than 300 peo- ple showed up. Shelton's McCausland plans to talk up the com- petition at an upcoming and Technical Education) CTE (Career "conference. Organizer James John Bell said he hopes McCausland's advocacy will bring more teams to the competition next year. "Next year I think we're going to have 6 to 12 high schools because of Roger ad- vocating to the high schools," he said. Thursday, Nov. 3,201 Edgin awarded Honored C itizen posthumoUsly I am excited that Judy and I got to do some trick-or-treating with the grand- kids. But, I'm not so excited about the time change coming up. On Nov. 6 we will fall back. ] don't like it when we do because the day seems to be over be- tween 4 and 5 p.m. For those coming home after a hard day on the job, there is no time to enjoy the yard or garden. Even though it is winter, there are still a lot of things that need to be done out- doors. The three re- cipients for the island's Hon- ored Citizens of the Year were Lynn Fish, Sandy Murphy and MIKE Sam Edgin. Bill Bur- CALLAGHAN rows was awarded the Citizen of the Year award. In the past two columns, you've read about Lynn and Sandy. This week I will use Jim Anderson's notes about Sam Edgin. Sam was awarded Honored Citizen posthumously. He was a past commu- nity club president. He worked with the grange to get the map sign moved from the mainland side of the bridge to the island where it is located today. The state came in and declared the commu- nity halls septic and water systems in- adequate and Sam worked to have both repaired and brought up to code. Sam was a very outgoing guy; there wasn't a person who was a stranger. Using that trait, Sam became an auctioneer and when he retired here to the island he volunteered his time and talent to many fundraising activities, includ- ing many island charities. He was a past president of Pioneer Kiwanis and also a Kiwanis district governor. When it was discovered that Sam had cancer, he was treated by Mason General Hos- pital. He was so impressed with their efforts that he became President of the Mason County Hospital Foundation, where he again led the way with fund- raising activities. The next senior lunch is sched- uled for Nov. 16. On the menu they will have sausage with sauerkraut and potatoes, crudit~s and brownies. They start serving lunch right at noon, so get there a little early so you can find a good seat. Thanksgiving dinner will be at the community hail: As has been the 1 See Harstine on page B-2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page B-1