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Hood Canal West:
I I II II I II III I I
Writer honors
senior citizens
By VIRGINIA REIS
1]1is week the senior citizens
will be honored in this column.
Christmas mostly centers on the
children. Our youth-oriented
society often looks on the
elderly as "has-beens." Their
accumulated knowledge and
experience are surely at least as
valuable and important as
youthful beauty and athletic
prowess.
My daughter just returned to
Seattle from a visit to her
86-year-old great-aunt who lives
self-sufficiently, and
independently on a farm in
Connecticut. She will not live
with those who love her, or in
any less harsh climate, or with a
companion.
You will understand if you
read my daughter's explanation
in this poem.
AUNT AIMEE
Your town is filled with warmth and concern,
You have so many friends to whom you can turn.
Your home is aglow with your memories,
And the pets you love so, may roam where they please.
Your garden and yard are a beautiful sight,
Whether blooming in spring, or in winter's own white.
It is easy to see, with nay eyes and my heart,
Why you, my dear aunt, would never depart,
From the place you and Douglas once plotted about,
And the New England town that's now yours without doubt.
I love you so much, and your Sister does too,
My parents, my brother, and my cousins all do.
It has been very hard for us all to desist,
And allow you the freedom to live as you've wished.
We've struggled within and we've talked and we've wept,
But respect you we would, and our promise we've kept.
1 speak for us all, I am sure, when I say,
That if you can be happy until your last day,
If you can depart with a feeling of pride,
You'll have left us a legacy after you've died,
An example of life lived fully and free,
Of proud independence, to the others and me.
Beth Reis
Community News
The Hood Canal Community
Church invites the entire
community to its "Watchnight
Service" December 31 from 8:30
p.m. until after midnight.
The evening will include
colored slides of the Holy Land
taken by Mrs. Marian Robbins
who was there recently, and
wants to share her experiences.
There will also be a motion
picture entitled "The Conversion
of Colonel Bottomly." The
colonel is retired from the
United States Air Force after 33
years of service.
It will be a beautiful evening
to share with friends and
neighbors, and will include
us. Laura Guthrie, daughter of
Ben and Marie Guthrie of Lake
Cushman, is leaving January 16
for a year as an exchange
student in Mt. Pleasant,
Australia. This is a suburb of
Perth in western Australia.
Laura is 16 years old, a
junior in Shelton High School.
She will return in January of
1980, and graduate that June
with her own class ......
Laura will spend some time
first in San Francisco on
American Field Service
orientation, then a few weeks in
Australia getting ready.
Laura, Hood Canal, the state,
and the nation, are proud .to
have you represent us. Good
refreshments, luck. Have a happy, fruitful year,
/e :ht cebrR¥ :;g keep us posteiL • .....
Programs to focus on history of Pacific Northwest
The Future of Our Heritage from the Washington State
series, begun last fall in Olympia, Commission for the Humanities
has received a $10,271 grant to present a seven.part public
Nisbet says budget
means tax increase
State Representative Andrew "To advance the school
Nisbet, R-24th District, this funding timetable, as the
week said that the 1979-81 state Governor suggests, ignores the
budget proposed by Governor problems that need to be
Dixy Lee Ray represents a major resolved in allocating those
tax increase for Washington state funds. Also, by pledging future
citizens, despite Ray's claim of revenues that may not
budget austerity, materialize, she places the state's
Nisbet said that Ray's taxpayers in peril of a tax
proposal to increase state increase in 1980, rather than a
spending by approximately $1.5 tax reduction," he said.
billion over the next two years
runs counter to the demand by _____________--_
most taxpayers that state
govemment hold the line on tqal Publit,,tion$
s p e n d i n g. -------- ----------- -=--
"Nowhere in the Governor's ABANDONED CAR SALE
In compliance with Chapter
budget does she address the need 42 Laws of 1969, 1st
for tax relief for the majority of Extraordinary Session, as
taxpayers," Nisbet said. "Instead, amended by Chapter 281, notice
is hereby given that Mel's Shell
she proposes to fuel inflation by Service will, at public auction on
increasing state spending nearly January 2, t979, at 2 p.m. sell
for cash to the highest bidder
$400 for each man, woman and the following described
child in Washington. automobiles:
1967 Ford pickup; license
"Despite the few 'crumbs' no. U48677; vehicle I.D. No.
she is throwing to groups such as F'25BRB49485.
senior citizens and those with 1973 Mazda; license No.
mental health needs, the JCM164; vehicle I.D. No.
SN3A-120541.
Govemor's budget would benefit 1965 Rambler; license No.
only a small segment of the AQI880; vehicle I.[9. No.
state's population, primarily H304789.
1962 Nova Chevrolet; license
those in the upper levels of the No. BUP255; vehicle I.D. No.
state bureaucracy whose 204370129727.
Mel's Shell Service, Disposal
mismanagement has been a major No. R23040008.
factor in the soaring costs of
government."
Nisbet also criticized other
aspects of the Governor's
proposal, particularly her request
to advance the schedule for full
funding of basic education.
12/28-1t
Easter
HANDICAPPED
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BUTTERFLIES
ARE FREE
FRIDAY, DEC. 29
SATURDAY, DEC. 30
I.W.A. HALL
8:00 P.M.
forum and a series of workshops
and seminars, focusing on various
aspects of Pacific Northwest and
personal history.
The program, which begins
January 24 with a talk by
Northwest poet William Stafford,
is coordinated by Dr. Ronald
Manheimer, Heritage project
director and adjunct faculty
member in philosophy at The
Evergreen State College.
All events to be offered by
the series are free and open to
the public and all are
cosponsored by Evergreen, the
Senior Center of Thurston
County, Timberland Regional
Library, Friends of the Library,
and the Retired Senior Volunteer
Program (RSVP).
Stafford leads the list of
scheduled forum speakers with
his January 24 discussion of "My
Mother's Voice: Heritage of the
Poet and Poetry." The English
professor from Lewis and Clark
College will reveal the origins of
his own poetic voice in this
evening program, set to begin at
7:30 o'clock in the Olympia
Public Library.
Also scheduled to speak
during the heritage series are Dr.
Alice Kethley, acting associate
director of the Institute on
Aging and Research and assistant
professor of social work at the
University of Washington. She'll
talk February 7 on the need for
older Americans to reform the
very attitudes toward aging and
productivity that they
collectively helped to establish
years ago.
On February 28, a tribal
leader will explore ways that
Native Americans can recover
their own heritages while making
their lives in a contemporary
world. And, on March 28, Dr.
Harry Moody, executive
secretary of Brookdale Center on
Aging, Hunter College, City
University of New York, will
examine contrasting East-West
attitudes on aging. Using a
slide-tape show, Moody will also
illustrate ways that many
western artists actually
transcended their own history in
their works during their later
years.
On April 18, bicentennial
historian Page Smith will lecture
on heroes and heroines in
American history. Smith,
emeritus professor of history at
University of California, Santa
Cruz, has won numerous awards
for his books and is particularly
celebrated for his knowledge of
revolutionary war writers.
On May 9, Ronald Clarke
will identify more modern
aspects of heritage, namely the
factor of heritage in community
planning. Clarke, himself a
planner with the Washington
State Planning and Community
Affairs Agency, assists
communities in considering their
local and created heritages when
planning for their futures.
The forum portion of the
heritage series concludes in June.
Supplementing the evening
forums will be a series of
seminars and workshops, which
begin in February when State
Capitol Museum Historian David
Nicandri will lead four sessions
on Pacific Northwest history.
He'll also offer discussions on
the history of work in the
Pacific Northwest during March
and April.
Les Rodgers
Owner/Operator
! 39 Wolbce Blvd. (heeleml Center)
Poetry seminars
offered in the spring by
David Young at the
Center, and creative
teacher Wendy Schofield
also offer workshops on
heritage and autobiogtl
during the winter months.
All of the heritage
are scheduled for 7:30
Olympia's new public
The seminars and
be scheduled at the
Museum and the Senior
Complete details on the
program will be available
the Thurston County
Center (943-6181) after the
of the year.
Shltu 426-1811
Happy New Year
OTTO FIELD
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Six-Month Share Certificate
paying 7%% per annum.
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FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
AND
MASON COUNTY
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Offer subject to availability
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