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Page A-26 Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 Lights: ‘Keeping Spirits Bright’ encourages safe festivities continued from page A—25 to restore the community’s status as Christmastown, USA earned them en- try into the Guinness Book of World Records. Last December, Shelton took on the Hallmark Channel. Known as the “Christmas Tree Capital of the World,” Shelton and Mason County celebrat- ed this distinction with a bid for the Guinness World Record for “Most Lit Christmas Trees” in one location. The previous record of 559 trees was set by Hallmark in 2015, but Shel- ton beat that Dec. 7, 2019, with 797 trees arranged in a lighted maze When and that families could explore, along with Santa visits, hot chocolate, apple ci- der, food, caroling, gingerbread house contests, live music, gift workshops and vendors at the “12 Days of Christ- mas.” Organizers distributed the trees throughout the community and money was presented to the Kristmas Town Kiwanis for the “Food for Tots” Food Drive and the “Toys for Tots” program. “Everyone is anticipating another festive holiday season,” said McCutch- eon, who described event organizers as content to let Shelton’s Christmastown, USA record from last year stand, espe- cially since they’d only be challenging themselves for the title. “People want our small-town traditions to continue, and our phones have been ringing with residents asking us to decorate the town, to conjure up a bit of cheer.” McCutcheon touted the “Keeping Spirits Bright” promotion as encour- aging Christmas festivities via safe avenues because the event is in com- pliance with the latest state guidelines and restrictions. “We’ve been working hand in hand with Mason County Public Health on this one, but the only thing that could be more perfectly suited to social dis- tancing than our tree maze is driving around to check out all the displays of Christmas lights around the county,” McCutcheon said. “Especially at the end of a year that’s made us feel so isolated and disconnected from each other, a festive event like this can offer some fun relief.” The custom Google map of contest participants’ addresses was released Dec. 1 and will be updated frequently. McCutcheon credited Rachel Han- sen with providing not only “creative ideas,” but also a driving force of “en- ergy and willpower” to help make this event happen, and she encouraged people to visit christmastownwa.org for local activities, shopping inspira- tions and the history of Christmas- town, USA. where toen joy tasty treats in 'Christmastown, USA’ 39km; Boxleilnerr , kbox/eitner@masoncounty com Rachel Hansen, coordinator for Explore Hood Ca- nal & South Puget Sound, offered Shelton-Mason County Journal readers the inside scoop on a couple of the‘ local Christmastown, USA, highlights, which are listed at christmastownwa.org. The “Holiday Dining Wagon,” designed to ‘ sup— port local restaurants, will hit the decorated streets of downtown Shelton at 5, 6 and 7 p.m. during the next three Fridays and Saturdays before Christmas. The wagon will provide onboard meals and Christmas light tours for groups of up to five for $100 per group. Fridays at 5 and 6 p.m. will showcase the cuisine of The Strip, while 7 p.m. will treat guests to the cooking of Smoking Mo’s. Saturdays at 5 p.m. will see the return of Smoking Mo’s selections to the wagon, while 6 p.m. will feature the meals of El Sarape, with the 7 p.m. dining option to be determined. This Sunday, Xinh Dwelley will serve up Christ- mas seafood dinners at 5, 6 and 7 p.m., complete with crab cakes, tahini salads, sauteed clams and lemon tarts, for five guests for $150. For more information, or to reserve your seat, go to christmastownwa.org/wagon-rides. And the second annual Gingerbread Challenge runs from Monday through Dec. 11, during which con- testants can deliver their gingerbread house entries to the Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce at 215 W. Railroad Ave. in Shelton, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on those days. . - Entrants are encouraged to use designs inspired by either traditional holiday motifs or Christmastown, USA, in particular, and are not required to be houses. Each entry’s major components, from walls to roof, must be constructed of gingerbread, while the rest of the display can be decorated with any edible material, . but all visible components of the display must be ed- ible, even though the internal support structure does not need to be edible —- as long as it’s not visible from any angle. The bases should likewise be Eoncealed with ed- ible products, except for the side edges, which can be trimmed with ribbons or other material. Write your name, address and the name of your structure on the underside of your base. All entrants should expect their entries to remain on display through Dec. 21, and any entries not picked up by 5 p.m. that day may be discarded. IN THE DARK REVIEWS ‘The Game’ offers a hard-knock lesson to Michael Douglas 0, let’s say you’ve just S finished celebrating Thanksgiving in full, festive fashion, but you might feel like you need a bit of a breather before you launch right into nearly- a month—long campaign of holly-jolly sea- sonal sentiments, leading up to Christmas and New Year’s. By At the same time, you still want a film in keeping with some of the prevailing mes- sages of the winter holidays —— be grateful for how much you have, in- cluding your loved ones, and believe that how you treat others matters, even the folks you don’t know -— al- beit perhaps delivered more sternly than the customary treacle. This is why you shouldn’t sleep on David Fincher, because before he won Academy Awards with 2010’s “The mam LakeLimerickGolf.com GolfPro@LakeLimerick.com KIRK BOXLEITNER and 1999’s “Fight Club.” Open Mom-Sat. 2pm-8pm Full Menu Available ' .For Take-out, Including Growlers of Beer'& Cider. 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As Nicholas approaches his own 48th birthday, his successes as an invest- ment banker do nothing to dissuade us from suspecting he might be head- ed toward the same end, since he’s already estranged himself from his ex-wife, now remarried and pregnant with the child she never had with N icholas,'and his admittedly sketchy younger brother Conrad (Penn). Nicholas’ rigidly ordered and lonely existence is initially knocked off—kilter by the unexpected return of his puck- ish kid brother “Connie,” Whose latest scheme seems to involve a company called Consumer Recreation Services, which offers participation in a cryp- tic, immersive game to wealthy elites 0 Pizza 0 Salads 0 Sandwiches - More! Don’t‘Forget... We Are Here For You! - Call or Order Online! such as Nicholas. The fun of watching “The Game” unfold is seeing how far the game it- self will go within Nicholas’ life, as his irritation at the game’s interference with all the tidy conveniences he’s'set up in his day-to-day routine gives way to being excited in spite of himself, ‘ over the sense of adventure provided by the game’s scenarios, before his previous skepticism of the game winds up being validated by the far more malicious havoc that it begins to play with his career and his sanity. Watching Michael Douglas as Nico- las Van Orton, whose cautiously me- thodical rationality quickly gives way to an entirely justified, all-consuming paranoia, is like watching the alter- nate history of a Bruce Wayne who never became Batman; all the ingredi- see-REVIEW, page As};