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I]:aqi darm Clock is call of a cock
(Continued from page 23.)
driver "without whose dedication
this would surely be a less glori-
ous world."
Things apparently have become
quieter and safer in Baghdad
where Van Parys is working be-
cause not once does he write to us
of rockets blasting through the air
or mortar shells descending as he
had in his previous three commu-
niques. At the same time there are
things of a less dangerous nature
that disturb his peace and quiet.
He calls one of these things an
"Iraqi Alarm Clock" and describes
it this way:
"Somewhere in the neighbor-
hood (outside my compound) there
is a rooster who is on Greenwich
Mean Time. tie starts at 3 a.m.
every morning and keeps it up un-
til 5:30 or so when it starts to get
light. Maybe he is practicing for
next year's Ramadan when every-
one must eat before the sun comes
up."
Ramadan is a lengthy fast ob-
served by Muslims before the sun
goes down during the phases of
the moon around about the time
Thankgsiving and Christmas are
observed. Van Parys wrote not
just about the rooster but also
about another noise that can not
be ignored and is most annoying
when a person is trying to sleep.
He wrote: "We have two landing
zones near my residence at 'Motel
31/2.' These are used at all hours
and the choppers come right over
my unit. After the first week you
don't really notice the shaking
windows and the roar comparable
to a freight train driving through
your bedroom."
WISHING MERRY Christmas
to all, he concludes: "Well that is
it for this special edition from the
land of sand, suspected location of
the Garden of Eden (under previ-
ous administrations), the Tower of
Babel and other antiquities lost in
the shifting, simmering sands."
Happy New Year! It will be
starting off well because there
are three LaJune senior lunches
planned for the month of Janu-
ary, with the first one scheduled
for Wednesday at noon at the Har-
stine Island Community Hall.
Dessert for that day will be angel
food cake with berry sauce. This
popular dessert, sometimes called
angel cake, cornstarch cake or sil-
ver cake, began its rise to acclaim
as the 1800s rolled.
During the early years of the
Disaster job benefits are available
Few people from the nine coun-
ties that have been approved for in-
dividual disaster assistance in the
wake of the early-December storms
have come forward to apply for di-
saster unemployment benefits.
There is a narrow, 30-day appli-.
cation period, so it is important for
people to apply as soon as possible.
The deadline for Mason County is
January 17.
Disaster unemployment ben-
efits are only for people who do not
qualify for regular unemployment
benefits. These include people who
were injured in the storm, who are
self-employed, who were prevented
from beginning new work or who
became head of their household
due to a death caused by the disas-
ter.
Qualified applicants will be eli-
gible to receive $165 to $515 per
week in benefi(s. Applications are
available on-line at www.dua.
go2ui.eom, by e-mail at dua@
esd.wa.gov or by phone at 877-
416-7274.
19th Century many cooks of Afri-
can descent persisted with strong
hands and arms to whip the egg
whites and aerated them suffi-
ciently to become the leavener of
the light and fluffy, no-fat cake of
the angels. It became a favorite
African-American food at after-
funeral receptions. The invention
of baking powder, circa 1850, pro-
vided another boost to the mak-
ing of angel food cake. The powder
worked well with the softer flour
and the egg whites folded in with
them.
The dessert appeared on the
White House menu in 1883 be-
cause it was the favorite of Lucy
Webb Hayes, wife of Rutherford B.
tiayes, 19th President of the Unit-
ed States. Around 1865 the first
rotary egg beaters were patented
and eliminated long and toil-
some hand beating. The "Dover"
egg beater was listed in the 1897
Sears catalog for 9 cents! The se-
nior lunch menu on January 2 will
include lasagna, green salad and
garlic bread to go with the angel
food cake.
THE HARSTINE Communi-
ty Choir joined with Anna's Bay
Community Choir on December
16, bringing more than 60 voices
to a program of 21 classic Christ-
mas songs in the Shelton High
School Auditorium. An audience of
400 gave what may be the largest
volunteer choir in the history of
Mason County a standing ovation.
The Harstine Community Choir
rehearses every Sunday from 4 to
6 p.m. at the island community
hall. "We have no dues or partici-
pation fees to make certain that
anyone can afford to come and
share the joy of music," said direc-
tor Elizabeth Berndt. "This spirit
is repeated in not charging admis-
sion to any performances. Dona-
tions, however, will be gratefully
accepted."
i
HAPPY TERIYAKI
ZERO Trans-Fat Oils
&&&&
SPECIALS All Day
7b-GO Meal be/ore or after the game?
HAPPY TERIYAKI
310 ! Olympic Hwy. N.
Shelton
360-432-1000
OPEN
Mon 12/51 8am-Spm
Tues l/l 8am-Spm
(560) 432-8959
1927 Olympic Hwy. North
Come See Our 1st-Run
MOVIES!
SI00[LICN CINI:00A$
24-HOUR MOVIE INFO 426-1000
www.$HELTONC|NEMA$.oom
Corner of 5th & Franklin
National Treasure 2:
Book of Secrets
Daily 4:00, 6:45pm
Fri-Sat 9:15pm
Water Horse:
Legend of the Deep
Dally 2:15, 4:30, 7:00pm
Fri-Sat 9:15pm
Alvin &
The Chipmunks
Daily 2:00pm
i
* NINAS 't tM II UlN. I IIqFS,
year's Sp0000lty
jlppetizers
00roiled 0000umamoto Oysters or
00aked
# ,
(ourse 2
Mushroom $oup -¢zl Winning
(ourse 3
00lood Orange Goat Cheese $alad
;ntree choice of
ck reast or zck of fLqmb
$tuffed Chicken or Jfew ork ,teak
or .ggbster Pasta
cDesserl
Orange Choco/ate Cheesecake
"[?ern's will be sertqng our regular menu, as well
www.vernsrestaura nt.com
109 s. ls ST, DOWNOWN SON '=w-,:2we---3
Page 26 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 27, 2007
The days of December have
dwindled down to a very few. In
fact, there are just four days left,
but they are days that now have a
few more moments of daylight in
the allotted 24 hours. The day that
is often called the shortest day of
the year whizzed by last week and
the cosmic rhythms shifted from
fall to winter. The partridge is en-
sconced in a pear tree and the two
turtle doves are in hand, leaving
only 10 days of Christmas to sing
about.
A winter windstorm hit Puget
Sound on December 27, 2002, cut-
ting off power for 260,000 and ty-
ing up traffic for a while after gusts
toppled a tractor-trailer rig over on
its side on the Tacoma Narrows.
Let's hope such things do not hap-
pen this week and interfere with a
happy adieu to 2007 and a celebra-
tory hooray for the arrival of 2008.
The good things of the new year
should be jumped into with alac-
rity. For, once again, it is a Leap
Year. A happy thing did happen
on this day 75 years ago when on
December 27, 1932 at a time that
the Great Depression was very
pressing, Radio City Music
was opened and the Rockettes
gan rocketing into fame.
EVENTS SCHEDULED
the community hall:
women's pinochle, noon;
2, LaJune Senior Lunch,
January 3, women's club,
a.m., Harstine Island
ty Club Executive Board, 7
January 5, pinochle, 7 p.m..;
ary 6 and every Sunday,
Church, Sunday School, 9:30
service, 11 a.m.
nity Choir, 4 p.m.; January 7
every Monday, Take Off
Sensibly, 9:30 a.m.; January 1(
garden club, 7 p.m.; January 11
community club, 6 p:m.;
15, women's pinochle, noon;
ary 16, LaJune Senior
noon; January 18, grange,
p.m.; January 19, pinochle, 7
January 28, theatre club, 6
January 29, women's
noon; January 3"0, LaJune
Lunch, noon; January 31,
tive Board, 7 p.m.
,..,. BAR & GRILL
w/fries*
HAPPY
HOURS
9-11 AM
6pm on
'Home of Shuffleboard Champions" FREE Pool Tues
Meat Shoot SATURDAYS 1:30pm Pool
114 WEST COTA • SHmO,, WA • 426-2221
KOB00E00
TERIYAKI
• CHINESE . KOREAN FOOD
, SEAFOOD • BEER & WINE
Newly expanded and remodeled dining room/
I]:aqi darm Clock is call of a cock
(Continued from page 23.)
driver "without whose dedication
this would surely be a less glori-
ous world."
Things apparently have become
quieter and safer in Baghdad
where Van Parys is working be-
cause not once does he write to us
of rockets blasting through the air
or mortar shells descending as he
had in his previous three commu-
niques. At the same time there are
things of a less dangerous nature
that disturb his peace and quiet.
He calls one of these things an
"Iraqi Alarm Clock" and describes
it this way:
"Somewhere in the neighbor-
hood (outside my compound) there
is a rooster who is on Greenwich
Mean Time. tie starts at 3 a.m.
every morning and keeps it up un-
til 5:30 or so when it starts to get
light. Maybe he is practicing for
next year's Ramadan when every-
one must eat before the sun comes
up."
Ramadan is a lengthy fast ob-
served by Muslims before the sun
goes down during the phases of
the moon around about the time
Thankgsiving and Christmas are
observed. Van Parys wrote not
just about the rooster but also
about another noise that can not
be ignored and is most annoying
when a person is trying to sleep.
He wrote: "We have two landing
zones near my residence at 'Motel
31/2.' These are used at all hours
and the choppers come right over
my unit. After the first week you
don't really notice the shaking
windows and the roar comparable
to a freight train driving through
your bedroom."
WISHING MERRY Christmas
to all, he concludes: "Well that is
it for this special edition from the
land of sand, suspected location of
the Garden of Eden (under previ-
ous administrations), the Tower of
Babel and other antiquities lost in
the shifting, simmering sands."
Happy New Year! It will be
starting off well because there
are three LaJune senior lunches
planned for the month of Janu-
ary, with the first one scheduled
for Wednesday at noon at the Har-
stine Island Community Hall.
Dessert for that day will be angel
food cake with berry sauce. This
popular dessert, sometimes called
angel cake, cornstarch cake or sil-
ver cake, began its rise to acclaim
as the 1800s rolled.
During the early years of the
Disaster job benefits are available
Few people from the nine coun-
ties that have been approved for in-
dividual disaster assistance in the
wake of the early-December storms
have come forward to apply for di-
saster unemployment benefits.
There is a narrow, 30-day appli-.
cation period, so it is important for
people to apply as soon as possible.
The deadline for Mason County is
January 17.
Disaster unemployment ben-
efits are only for people who do not
qualify for regular unemployment
benefits. These include people who
were injured in the storm, who are
self-employed, who were prevented
from beginning new work or who
became head of their household
due to a death caused by the disas-
ter.
Qualified applicants will be eli-
gible to receive $165 to $515 per
week in benefi(s. Applications are
available on-line at www.dua.
go2ui.eom, by e-mail at dua@
esd.wa.gov or by phone at 877-
416-7274.
19th Century many cooks of Afri-
can descent persisted with strong
hands and arms to whip the egg
whites and aerated them suffi-
ciently to become the leavener of
the light and fluffy, no-fat cake of
the angels. It became a favorite
African-American food at after-
funeral receptions. The invention
of baking powder, circa 1850, pro-
vided another boost to the mak-
ing of angel food cake. The powder
worked well with the softer flour
and the egg whites folded in with
them.
The dessert appeared on the
White House menu in 1883 be-
cause it was the favorite of Lucy
Webb Hayes, wife of Rutherford B.
tiayes, 19th President of the Unit-
ed States. Around 1865 the first
rotary egg beaters were patented
and eliminated long and toil-
some hand beating. The "Dover"
egg beater was listed in the 1897
Sears catalog for 9 cents! The se-
nior lunch menu on January 2 will
include lasagna, green salad and
garlic bread to go with the angel
food cake.
THE HARSTINE Communi-
ty Choir joined with Anna's Bay
Community Choir on December
16, bringing more than 60 voices
to a program of 21 classic Christ-
mas songs in the Shelton High
School Auditorium. An audience of
400 gave what may be the largest
volunteer choir in the history of
Mason County a standing ovation.
The Harstine Community Choir
rehearses every Sunday from 4 to
6 p.m. at the island community
hall. "We have no dues or partici-
pation fees to make certain that
anyone can afford to come and
share the joy of music," said direc-
tor Elizabeth Berndt. "This spirit
is repeated in not charging admis-
sion to any performances. Dona-
tions, however, will be gratefully
accepted."
i
HAPPY TERIYAKI
ZERO Trans-Fat Oils
&&&&
SPECIALS All Day
7b-GO Meal be/ore or after the game?
HAPPY TERIYAKI
310 ! Olympic Hwy. N.
Shelton
360-432-1000
OPEN
Mon 12/51 8am-Spm
Tues l/l 8am-Spm
(560) 432-8959
1927 Olympic Hwy. North
Come See Our 1st-Run
MOVIES!
SI00[LICN CINI:00A$
24-HOUR MOVIE INFO 426-1000
www.$HELTONC|NEMA$.oom
Corner of 5th & Franklin
National Treasure 2:
Book of Secrets
Daily 4:00, 6:45pm
Fri-Sat 9:15pm
Water Horse:
Legend of the Deep
Dally 2:15, 4:30, 7:00pm
Fri-Sat 9:15pm
Alvin &
The Chipmunks
Daily 2:00pm
i
* NINAS 't tM II UlN. I IIqFS,
year's Sp0000lty
jlppetizers
00roiled 0000umamoto Oysters or
00aked
# ,
(ourse 2
Mushroom $oup -¢zl Winning
(ourse 3
00lood Orange Goat Cheese $alad
;ntree choice of
ck reast or zck of fLqmb
$tuffed Chicken or Jfew ork ,teak
or .ggbster Pasta
cDesserl
Orange Choco/ate Cheesecake
"[?ern's will be sertqng our regular menu, as well
www.vernsrestaura nt.com
109 s. ls ST, DOWNOWN SON '=w-,:2we---3
Page 26 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 27, 2007
The days of December have
dwindled down to a very few. In
fact, there are just four days left,
but they are days that now have a
few more moments of daylight in
the allotted 24 hours. The day that
is often called the shortest day of
the year whizzed by last week and
the cosmic rhythms shifted from
fall to winter. The partridge is en-
sconced in a pear tree and the two
turtle doves are in hand, leaving
only 10 days of Christmas to sing
about.
A winter windstorm hit Puget
Sound on December 27, 2002, cut-
ting off power for 260,000 and ty-
ing up traffic for a while after gusts
toppled a tractor-trailer rig over on
its side on the Tacoma Narrows.
Let's hope such things do not hap-
pen this week and interfere with a
happy adieu to 2007 and a celebra-
tory hooray for the arrival of 2008.
The good things of the new year
should be jumped into with alac-
rity. For, once again, it is a Leap
Year. A happy thing did happen
on this day 75 years ago when on
December 27, 1932 at a time that
the Great Depression was very
pressing, Radio City Music
was opened and the Rockettes
gan rocketing into fame.
EVENTS SCHEDULED
the community hall:
women's pinochle, noon;
2, LaJune Senior Lunch,
January 3, women's club,
a.m., Harstine Island
ty Club Executive Board, 7
January 5, pinochle, 7 p.m..;
ary 6 and every Sunday,
Church, Sunday School, 9:30
service, 11 a.m.
nity Choir, 4 p.m.; January 7
every Monday, Take Off
Sensibly, 9:30 a.m.; January 1(
garden club, 7 p.m.; January 11
community club, 6 p:m.;
15, women's pinochle, noon;
ary 16, LaJune Senior
noon; January 18, grange,
p.m.; January 19, pinochle, 7
January 28, theatre club, 6
January 29, women's
noon; January 3"0, LaJune
Lunch, noon; January 31,
tive Board, 7 p.m.
,..,. BAR & GRILL
w/fries*
HAPPY
HOURS
9-11 AM
6pm on
'Home of Shuffleboard Champions" FREE Pool Tues
Meat Shoot SATURDAYS 1:30pm Pool
114 WEST COTA • SHmO,, WA • 426-2221
KOB00E00
TERIYAKI
• CHINESE . KOREAN FOOD
, SEAFOOD • BEER & WINE
Newly expanded and remodeled dining room/