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By JOURNAL STAFF The winter holidays are a magical time of loving, sharing and rejoicing - as well as being rammed by a reckless New Year's driv- er, sleeping through most of a family Thanksgiv- ing gathering and coming home to find the family dog has eaten five boxes of Christmas chocolates. Mason County news makers shared tales of some of their favorite hol- iday fiascos. For Eric Rehwaldt, an assistant football coach for the Highclimbers, his first Christmas in Shel- ton was memorable thanks to his 5-year- old Dalma- tion. R e hwaldt had purchased several pounds of Godiva chocolates to give as gifts that Christmas before he and his fam- ily took a vacation to San Francisco. "We came home and my Dalmation was lying there with a smile," Re- hwaldt recalled. "There were chocolate wrappers everywhere. She'd found the chocolates in five dif- was being annoying, so my grandma said she was going to roll him up in a carpet and take him to the water," Stroud said. "He didn't believe her, but she did it." Stroud said her grand- mother rolled her brother up in a carpet and dragged him across the beach to the water. "My mother wasn't too happy, but I thought it was funny," Stroud said. At least grandma was awake for the family fes- tivities. Cat Ross, execu- tive director of North Ma- son County Resource in Belfair, recalled that she was working 12-hour days last month called. "It was cold. Not much was going on in Shelton." Byrd was on patrol in Shelton when a car raced past him at about 80 mph on First Street. "I turned on him and away we went," he said. Byrd followed the speeding driver in his new 1976 Dodge patrol car. The driver lost con- trol at the Front Street intersection, but recov- ered and raced up Capital Hill Road. Byrd and sev- eral officers followed the driver through a T-inter- section as he lost control and came to a stop. When Byrd drove be- hind him, the driver when her threw his car into reverse, daughter ramming Byrd's new car. offered to The driver was arrested "People say host the and chargedwithreckless chocolate kills Thanks- driving. giving din- When they put the driv- dinner, thrived on it." sipped ona drink and then put it down. "Getting those smothering kisses from grandkids and the aromas that filled the air from the kitchen all hit me at once, and as I set- tled into the couch, I pro- ceeded to fall asleep," she said. "The next thing I re- member was 'Morn, it's ner for the er in handcuffs, Byrd said family, a nearby resident yelled dogs,_. (but my A re- from his front door, "Man, aog) was fine lieved Ross thatwas the coolest piece s h o w e d of driving I ve ever seen!" I swear she up for the Another safety official, Mason County Fire Dis- trict 2 Chief Beau Bak- ken, confessed to holiday mischief as a child. "We used to wrap empty boxes and we would leave them out in the street," he said. After tying a string to the box, Bakken and his friends would hide and wait for a hapless strang- er to come across the box. When someone picked up the box, Bakken and his buddies would yank it ty Commissioner Lynda Ring Erickson shared an amusing Christmas mishap. "My Christmases are pretty quiet," she said. "I did decide ... about 10 years ago, I was going to do all my Christmas shop- ping in Mason County." After driving from one end of the county to another, Ring Erickson had found presents for most of the people on her list, with the excep- tion of her two teenage nieces. With no luck finding presents for the teens, Ring Erickson bought each of them a miniature Christmas tree in a pot. "To this day, I'm not sure they've forgiven me," she said. "They think I'm mentally not Greeting drawn by -- Ava Pinero Age 4 Shelton Continuing Care Community The D~Tence Be~een IJidng ~ld/dr/rig Well 360-426-2600 900 West Alpine Way Shelton, WA 98584 (360) 426-2600 Beth Johnston, R.N., Manager ferent boxes, unwrapped time to eat,' " she re- away. , , each chocolate, and ate it. called. "What happened to Bakken recalled that ]t~r£/d~~ /~ Then she found a whole the parade? The sun was one day, a bus filled with loaf of sourdough bread casting its last shadow passengers stopped. The and ate every scrap of it, over the mountains. Yep, driver stepped out, fell for the trick and picked up didn'tRehwaldteven leaVechuckledcrumbs."as ing."I slept away Thanksgiv- the box. heremembered his dog~ Ross added, "Of course The bus explodes People say chocolate ,the proverbial and ex- laughing at the bus driv- kills, dogs, (but) she was pected nap after the tur-er," Bakken said. fine,' he said. "I swear key was inevitable." As the bus drove down she thrived on it." Dean Byrd, chief dep- the street, Bakken and Taylor Stroud, a ju- uty at the Mason County his friends could still hear nior on the Shelton girls' Sherifffs Office, said New the laughing. basketball team, fondly Year's Eve in 1976 ranks "I felt so bad for em- recalled a Christmas from high on his list of holiday barrass!ng him,' Bakken her childhood, memories, said, "I ve grown up a lot "I remember when I "It was,a pretty quiet since then." was little, my brother New Year s Eve," he re- Outgoing Mason Coun- t ~,~,~ (,,) Joshua Manning I ........ / /i\\ ~ ' Mt,SthGwr;dlecol =l I/~ ~ Mt. ViewSchooi "I :'TTf°° Aut, Rep.ir / )~- i ~ "I" ,,, & Towing I / ]~ I ~ l I ~ _ I JIM'S AUTOMOTIVf, INC. " I /{~ 2911E. 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