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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 J 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 Septic Tanks Backhoe Service Bulldozing Gravel 426.1500 206 East Pine Street e @ Federal !regulations prohibit payment of dividends in excess of available earnings. Dividends are calculated oail the I actual dollar value, Dividends are compounded and paid quarterly, Monies not left to maturity by law must lie subject to early with- drawal i;/i:,=/' , Page 18 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 28, 1978 percent It's the Credit Union Six-Month Share Certificate paying 7%% per annum. SIMPSON EMPLOYEES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION AND MASON COUNTY .FEDERAL CREDIT UNION are now delivering 7sA% per annum on *5,000.00 when left on account for six months and accompanied by *2,000.00 in shares. Offer subject to availability MASON COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 521 Railroad Avenue 426-1601 SHELTON New Belfair Center - 275-6066 BELFAIR