HER DREAM becoming a reality, Shelton High School 2003 graduate Sarah Davis has been offered a job as a firefighter by the Tacoma Fire Department. She's the city's youngest fire recruit ever at age 18.

BILL ESTES LISTENS HARD during a discussion at Saturday's Democratic caucus at Shelton Middle School. This was one of seven caucus sites to be found around Mason County that day. John Kerry secured more than half of the delegates to the county convention.

PAYING ATTENTION TO THEIR DUTIES are high- school students who participated in the Northwest Drill and Rifle Conference at Shelton High School. Pictured clockwise from far left are: Gil Comacho standing with the colors of South Kitsap High School; the drill commander of the Kentwood High School Marine cadets saluting an officer; South Kitsap at ease; Staff Sergeant Robyn Ward comparing notes with SHS parent Lloyd Haskins Sr.; Joshua Spiegel, right, and Kyle Grisby of SHS checking out the judges' station; Kentwood in formation; a judge at the SHS Minidome; and Joe Gordon sizing up Corey Chapman while a rifle unit awaits further orders.

MARJORIE WRIGHT volunteers with William G. Reed Library's Friends of the Library organization. Besides helping to coordinate book sales, she worked to support literacy in the past, before she retired. She was featured in this week's What's Cookin'?

ZERO DICKINSON HAS A HAPPY moment with his mother. Aja has been working on budget and parenting issues with a mentor mom in a program called MotherCare Volunteers, which needs experienced mothers to work with inexperienced ones.

ONE THAT GOT AWAY finds all-league senior guard Colby Brewer briefly duffward during a recent Climber outing. The 5-9 sparkplug scored 31 points last week but the Climbers couldn't manage even a split and saw their once-comfortable lead in the playoff chase fall to essentially nothing.

TAKING THE UPPER hand en route to one of the Highclimbers' 11 regional berths last weekend is junior 145-pounder Eric Arbanasin.

SMILE MAKING AN early appearance despite his customary frame of mind, notoriously hard-to-please recordholder Pat Penoyar of Climber swim fame anticipates the task at hand at the start of the district championship last weekend in Tacoma. The state-veteran senior wound up meeting even his own lofty expectations, copping a pair of individual crowns and earning no less than repeat All-American consideration in the process.

Disney dreaming

Lia Pittman (Right) daydreams while scrubbing the floor as "Cinderella" in Shelton High School Theatre's recent Night of Musical Theatre production. Donning a chef's hat, Steven Wells (left) sings about the joys of cooking seafood from a scene in Disney's The Little Mermaid. Songs from Disney animated features were the theme for this annual musical event. More than 40 students including live musicians and a troupe of dancers made up the cast and crew of the show. Titled "When You Wish Upon a Star," this show was directed and produced by students Elyse Masias and Jake Bennor.

THIS NEW billboard, one of two inside the Belfair Urban Growth Area, has got people talking both on the street and inside of legal offices.