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I Elma Chamber to host fifth annual wine and seafood festiva The Elma Chamber of sion includes one entry,coastal cuisine and gift Commerce is hosting the one keepsake wine glass merchandise booths for pa- fifth annual Elma Chain-and six tasting tickets for trons' shopping pleasure. ber Wine & Seafood Festi- $15. Entertainment kicks off val, noon to 9:00 p.m., on Pre-sahe is available at 1 p.m. Musical perform- Jan. 21. through Jan. 19 at Les ers include the Humptu- The wine and seafood Schwab Tire Centers in lips Band, The Varmints festival is in a new loca- Grays Harbor, Shelton and and Sammy Eubanks. A tion, just outside Elma at West Olympia or from anyspecial overnight package the Satsop Business Park, chamber board member, is offered by the Microtel 150 Technology Way. Attendees must be 21 Inn & Suites in Elma. The festival features years of age or older. Prices Ride the free shuttle ser- wine tasting, a beer gar- will be higher at the door. vice from downtown Elma den, wine sales, food, gift Organizers anticipate to the festival. and merchandise booths more than 25 wineries For other details contact and live entertainment from across Washington, the chamber at 482-3055 or throughout the day. multiple food booths of-email info@elmachamber. Pre-sale package admis- fering seafood and otherorg. Cooking Continued from page B-1 important." The park is scheduled to open to the public in spring 2012 and Palmer is work- ing to get the park ready for campers by then. The park has been vacant for the past year and windstorms have left the roads hazardous and trees in danger of falling on campgrounds. Palmer has been spending much of his time clearing out downed trees, sav- ing some for firewood and using others to make benches and fencing to keep camp- ers on designated trails and driving areas. "We're trying to recycle and reuse ev- erything we can," he said. "This is, for all intents and purposes, a national park. There's talks in the future about adding educational facilities." Palmer said the work he's doing is a family affair. His wife Emma of 22 years and his 8-year-old daughter Katherine are involved with helping get the park ready for visitors in the spring and preserving it for the next generation. "We're trying to recycle and reuse everything we can ... This is, for aR! intents and purposes, a nationam park." Palmer may have spent much of his life in other countries, and in other parts of the United States. but he grew up in Ma- son County and he said it will always be his home. Likewise, Palmer said preserving Ma- son County for future generations of fami- lies, campers and especially Boy Scouts is a blessing and a privilege. "It's such a beautiful place," he said. "These are precious resources that we have." ti sale -- $20 per adult in sions. When we got to the Hars ne advance and $25 at the pits, I was surprised by Continued from page B-I door so get your tickets how small it was. I mean, early. Tickets can be pur- I thought we were going their cuts). If public safety chased from Jim Irving,to ahuge stadium. We is a concern it will take 432-9231, or Gary Benz,set up for the competi- more than a handful of 427-3180, or Jim Irish.tion by putting up our neighborhood watch ef- We hear all the time poster board and setting forts to make necessary about how bad our edu- up the team movie on our changes, cation system is. Aftermom's MacBook Pro. We Please make your public spending 30 years teach- added the final touch to safety needs known to the ing, I usually take excep- the robots, and the com- commissioners, tion to that thought. So. it petition began. We got If you would like to rent is with great pleasure that pulled out for questions the Harstine Island Com- I include this story in the and demonstrations of munity Hall for any event article. There is a group of our project, the robot and the new person to contact kids at our Pioneer School we were tested on core is Shelleen Mathews at who have started a robot- values such as "gracious 427-4466. ics club. Josie Beaudoin, professionalism" where Just a reminder - sew- 10, sent us this report and the judges assessed how ing is Dec. 20 at the home I didn't change a word of well our team worked to- of Marlene Echaniz. If you it. gether. Then we did the like to sew, they would "Pioneer Nerdy and practice competitions in love to have you show Proud First Robotics the pit area. Finally, we up. If you are unable to Team goes to competition, got to the three rounds of join us please give Mar- It was Dec. 3, when my the real deal. We didn't lene call at 427-3873. team, Nerdy and Proud, do too good, though. We The Harstine Island entered the door to Jef- got 11th place out of 20 Community Club will ferson Middle School teams. However, when be hosting a New Year's (where our competition it came to the awards Eve dinner/dance. Back was held). We weren't ceremony, we each got a by popular demand Swing nervous, mainly becauseparticipation medal and Fever will again take the we were excited. Even our our team won the "Most stage and play from 8 Pioneer School Superin-Inspirational" trophy. p.m. to 12:30 a.m. A buf- tendent, Marry Brewer, The most important thing fet dinner will be served showed up to support us. we learned at the robotics at 8 p.m. and the doors We were there because for competition is that "gra- will open at 7 p.m. Mix- three months we worked cious professionalism" is ers will be provided but on a robot that could what F.I.R.S.T. Robotics BYOB. Tickets are on accomplish various mis-is all about." 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