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entries for
By NATALIE JOHNSON very, very much fun." Valley has a long history of
natalie@masoncounty.com Sixty-nine years after his first helping plan Forest Festival.
Forest Festival, Valley, now 82, is After graduating from SHS,
running the button design contest Valley attended Washington State
For many Mason County resi- for the 2013 Forest Festival.University, then spent 20 years in
dents, memories of Forest Festival Every year, festival organizers the Air Force.
last a lifetime• ask children and students to de- He returned to Sheltan in 1974.
Bill Valley can remember the sign a button that illustrates the The next year, he took over as
first Forest Festival in 1944• He, theme of the festival• Organizers the art teacher at Shelton Middle
at age 14, performed as part of the then sell the buttons to help sup- School•
Shelton High School (SHS) band. port the events• That year, he also helped de-
"It was really quite an event for This year, the theme is "En- sign the Forest Festival parade
a young person," he said• "It was chanted Forest." float.
"The art classes in the middle come back and help out," he said.
school always participated in the "I ended up with the project."
button design contest," he said. The button contest is open
"We had numerous winners out of to students from kindergarten
that group. We had some real nice through 12th grade. The entry
kids that did some good work.can be in any medium, includ-
Valley ran the button contesting pencil, pen, watercolor, pastel
through the mid-1980s, and came or photography. Guidelines can
back again in 2009 and 2010. be found on masoncountyforest
In 2012, he volunteered to help, festival.com.
and ended up running the contest All entries are due by Jan. 31.
again.
"This year they asked me to See Button on page B-6
Chris Schneider adds
40 et 81Shelton-Mason
Journal photos by Gordon Weeks
a bag of potatoes to the food items donated to a family in need Saturday at the 66th
County Journal Christmas basket program at the old Shelton Armory.
I
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40 et 8~Journal fund
raises $31K in donations
By GORDON WEEKS
gordon@masoncounty.com
Volunteers on Saturday distrib-
uted food to 3,417 residents in need
during the 66th 40 et 8/Shelton-
Mason County Journal Christmas
basket program donation at the old
Shelton Armory.
More than $31,330 in donations
produced 887 boxes of food, said
Gene Strozyk, chairman of the do-
nation drive. Last year, the pro-
gram gave out 905 baskets, worth
$30,813.
The toy shopping day of the pro-
gram was Dec. 15 at Walmart.
The line for the donations
stretched for a block when the doors
to the armory opened at 8 a.m
Richard Harrison has volun-
teered for the donation drive for 15
years. The contents of the baskets
cost about $40, he said.
"Everything has gotten a lot more
expensive, but it seems there's more
of a demand every year," he said.
Oliver Petty, 84, has served with
the basket program for 18 years. He
remembers one difficult year when
Members of the Teddy Bear Brigade pose with some of the
stuffed animals that were handed out to children Saturday at
the Shelton Armory.
"Everything has gotten a lot more
expensive, but it seems there's
more of a demand every year."
The program was launched in gave $50 and John and Margaret
1941. The first drive collected a to- Ozga donated $40.
heavy snow kept all but 200 fami- tal of $100. Beta Zeta contributed $50, Edee
lies from collecting food. In the past week, anonymous do-Larson gave $200, Connie Kisor
"Ever run a forklift in the snow?" nors contributed $50 in memory of gave $20 and Ray Duffy donated
he asked. Uppy and Lillian, $100 in memory $150.
After the crowds cleared Sat- of Ernie Landsaw, $100 in memory Anonymous donors made a to-
urday, 85 unclaimed boxes of food of Mary Kimbel and $100 in memo- .tal of $550 in contributions to the
remained on the armory floor. They ry of Dennis Norwood and Margeu- fund.
were donated to the Mason County rite McKinney. The Canal Court No. 79 Order of
Shelter and Turning Pointe Domes- Mar,y~and Stuart Milbrad doma~. ............. ~,,~ .~.-..--~ .-~- ~
tic Vxolenfie~rvlces. e'd $5~-,~0y ana wonme ~ergnson- ....... See Fund on page 8-6
Thursday~Dec. 27,
Tides
at
"have been noticing very high tides
this past couple of weeks. Look-
. ing out across Pickering Pas-
sage, the high tide has gobbled up
the shoreline and it seems to linger
longer there. In that regard, I re-
ceived a note from Don Rogers, who
lives at Hartstene Pointe. Don wrote,
"Mike, the high tide this past Mon-
day morning coupled with the storm
surge created quite a sight here at
Hartstene Pointe. At its height the
entire North Beach
picnic area was in-
undated with water
almost up to our
parking.lot. The
pavilion slab was
under water and
the restrooms
flooded. The lagoon
By MIKE and spit (were) en-
CALLAGHAN tirely flooded with
the spit completely
covered. Old timers
who have been around the Pointe for
decades said they had never seen the
North Beach and spit areas impacted
like this. When the water receded
along with the tide, there was not
much evidence of damage, other than
to the old spit bulkhead that took a
hit or two but otherwise remained
in place, as did the other bulk-
heads. However there will be a lot of
cleanup of debris."
If you have any high-water stories,
I'd like to hear and report them.
Another piece of island trivia that
hasn't surfaced for a while is the
gull count as you cross the bridge. I
was at a party last week and one of
the guests reported that they had
counted 19 gulls perched on the light
poles. I think that will be the record
for 2012 -- let's see if we can beat it
in 2013.
This is your last reminder for the
New Year's dance. The Harstine Is-
land Community Club will again put
together a New Year's Eve Buffet
and Dance. It will be Dec. 31 and it
will be in the community hall. The
buffet will run from 8 to 11 p.m. and
music will be played from 8 p.m. to
12:30 a.m. You'll hear Swing Fever
and its big band sound. If you haven't
danced in the new year with this
group you have missed out -- they
are terrific. Advanced tickets are $20
a person and if you wait to buy at the
door they will be $25. This is a BYOB
event. Tickets can be bought from
Bill Shoaf 670-9645 or at the Fresh
Start Dell.
The Harstine Island Women's Club
celebrated its holiday luncheon Dec.
6 at the community hall. Hosting
and providing decorations, entertain-
ment and a wonderful assortment
of holiday-themed pies were Sharon
Zeeban, Donna Hamilton, Pat La
Clair, Carol Bush, April Hansen and
Barb LaJune. Next on the agenda is
the always fun meeting Jan. 3.
Brown bag lunch, bingo and the
great white elephant prizes everyone
brings. So get yours ready, here's
your chance to have some fun. All
members and all Island women are
welcome at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 3 for a
See Harstine on page B-6
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