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By Gordon Weeks
gordon@masoncounty com
Veterans of the armed forces can
celebrate, and be celebrated, at three
Veterans Day events in Mason County.
Disabled American Veterans Chap-
ter 60 of Shelton hosts a breakfast and
Veterans Day ceremony from 11 am.
to noon Saturday at Memorial Hall,
210 W. Franklin St., downtown Shel-
ton. Trevor Severance of the Mason
County Sheriffs Office is the guest
speaker, and members of the Shel-
ton NJROTC will participate in the
ceremony. v
Veterans will be honored at a cer-
emony from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday
at the Blue Star Memorial Monument
at the Evergreen Garden Club Gar-
dens in Belfair, between state Route
3 and Dairy Queen. During the event,
the Kiwanis Club of North Mason and
the Big 19 Scout Troop will retire the
current American flag and raise a new
flag at the monument.
Local vocalists join together as the
Songs of Freedom“ Choir to perform a
free concert of patriotic music to honor
veterans at 7 pm. Friday at Shelton
Presbyterian Church, 1450 E. Shelton
Springs Road in Shelton. The event in—
cludes the presentation of colors and
a salute to veterans, where every vet—
eran is invited to stand and be recog-
nized during the service song of their
military branch. For more information,
call Beth Johnston at 360-432~9677.
Mason County veterans’ organi—
zations also invite veterans who are
homeless or in need to attend the
Stand Down 2023 event from 9 a.m.
to 1 pm. Nov. 17 at Memorial Hall
in downtown Shelton. Breakfast will
be served, cold weather clothing and
supplies will be distributed, and ser-
vice officers will be on hand to pro-
vide information on resources. If you
can’t attend the event, the services are
available between am. and 1 pm.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and from
9 a.m. to noon on Thursdays. For more
information, go to MasonCountyVeter-
ans.com.
Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 Shelton-Mason County Journal — Page 13
Salute veterans at local Veterans Day events
Last November, Shelton NJROTC students fire three volleys in salute at
the Veterans Day program at Memorial Hall in downtown Shelton. Dis-
abled American Veterans Chapter 60 of Shelton hosts a breakfast and Vet—
erans Day ceremony from 11 am. to noon Saturday at Memorial Hall, 210
W. Franklin St. Journal file photo by Gordon Weeks-
Season 1 of'Moonlighting’shows promise
television show that mul—
tiple generations of TV
viewers have never seen, and
it ended an entire season of
simmering sexual tension
with a free-for—all food fight.
Because I’m faced with
slim pickings for recent the-
atrical releases, I’ll try an
experiment by reviewing the
first season of a Show that
made its streaming debut on
It’s the most influential
N THE
1 DARK REVIEWS
Hulu in October, after origi-
nally airing from 1985—89.
You can tell me if you want
me to continue.
“Moonlighting” wasn’t the
first romantic sitcom to throw
together a strait—laced, classy,
glamorous gal with a crude
and clever class clown, but
even during its six-episode
first season as a midseason
replacement, it stood out for
Willis.
its snappy patter, written by
series creator Glenn Gordon
Caron, and for the intense
chemistry between co-leads
Cybill Shepherd and Bruce
The first season of “Moon—
lighting” was seeing what it
could get away with during
a decade when even popcorn
entertainment often took it—
self overly seriously. .
Its early episodes shared
some ofthe same padding
as too many of its contem-
porary peers, from “Knight
Rider” to “The A-Team,” but
by the standards of the era,
its main characters’ overlap—
ping dialogue was delivered
at a blistering pace, and its
background score leaned on
diegetically inserted rock and
R&B songs from the 1950s
and ’605.
Despite its frenetic ban—
ter and abrupt plot twists,
“Moonlighting” felt as smooth
and cool as its classic theme
song by Al J arreau, and as
much as its lead characters
(and the actors playing them)
rubbed each other the wrong
way, they shared a guarded
vulnerability, and developed
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respect for each other’s
merits.
Would—be boss-lady Maddie
Hayes was (like Shepherd) a
famous former CoverGirl, and
her smirkingly loyal employee
and partner, licensed private
eye David Addison, was (like
Willis) a working-class wise-
aleck, and just as Maddie was
a responsible adult who re-
mained focused on their busi-
ness’ bottom line, David was
a rogue who encouraged her
to live a little more.
As cold as Maddie could be,
she cared about others, and
as much as David presented
himself as a male chauvinist,
he never objected to work—
ing for a woman, and he had
deeper feelings that could get
hurt, too, as much as he pre~
tended otherwise.
Honestly, the first-season
til "I! Slllll'lVl
"raises
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plots of “Moonlighting” would
probably rate a B—average at
best, but the mysteries they
investigated were mostly
just excuses to hang out with
Maddie and David, and bask
in their dawning affection
for one another, even as we
delighted in their peevish
sniping.
What made Maddie and
David such a winning pro—
spective couple washow they
sparked off each other, which
made it clear how much joy
they had to offer one another,
if only they could let their
guards down and get out of
their own way.
Audiences never wanted
either of them to stop teas-
ing the other entirely, in no
small part because Maddie
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