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Shelton-Mason County Journal g 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 .I 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 2012 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page B-1