The Shelton-Mason County Journal

Thursday, April 22, 2004
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RANDY CAPOEMAN begins work on a 25-foot-long cedar log outside the Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center. The carver from Taholah, who is of Squaxin descent, will be an artist-in-residence there for the next six weeks carving a welcome pole.

Julie Sund, senior policy advisor to the vice chair of the Select House Committee on Homeland Security, is a Shelton High School garduate who is the subject of a Journal feature story this week.

ORANGE FENCING and "No Trespassing" signs greet would-be visitors at the area known as "The Dips" along Skokomish Valley Road. The area has been trashed by partyers and has been closed.

EDITH MEGER turned 100 April 21. She was born in Oregon and remembers growing up on a farm without modern technology, or even a car. She was the subject of this week's What's Cookin'? feature.

Pianists will represent community in Olympia
Emma Yantis of Mason Lake will represent Mason County at the state convention of the Washington State Music Teachers Association, scheduled for June at Western Washington University in Bellingham. She was selected for the honor after playing "Masques" by Claude Debussy at an adjudication held Friday at Shelton United Methodist Church. Seated with her is Joe Sartori of Shelton who was selected as alternate after playing "Rhapsody Opus 79 Number 2" by Johannes Brahms. Honorable mentions went to Nancy Yuan, Loren Smith, Tracy Yuan and Charissa Rogers. Also participating in the playoffs were Kati Johnson, Lindsay Orme, Aaron Murdock, Nichole Newell, Shanna Crumley and Jessica Villm. Deborah Rambo was adjudicator of the competition. Yantis and Sartori will participate in a district recital scheduled for May 2 at United Churches in Olympia.

JOSH ACKLEY SHOWS he's literally in the driver's seat of a fire truck last Friday. The Shelton fifth-grader was honorary junior fire marshal of the Shelton Fire Department that day. His grandmother won the bid at a Mountain View Elementary auction to make him honorary fire marshal for a day.

'YOU BOUGHT ANOTHER pair?!?' Track Mom confronts confessed shoe-aholics Alex (left) and Andrew with the goods in a choreographed moment at home last week. "They've got a room full of 'em!" she says, laughing. The record-setting Shelton High School thinclads are the subject of a Journal sports feature.

SMILES PROVE CONTAGIOUS Friday night in Highclimber Stadium, scene of the soccer community's benefit match for the local Guatemalan community. Getting a kick out of a teammate's on-the field antics, above, is briefly sidelined Mexican League player Jesus Gomez. Seated beside him is teammate Juan Loza. In the insets, their rival Tsunami team's Luis Ibarra (left) and Jacob Rice gallop in from either side as the ball bounces in the midfield (top) and then the youngsters' keeper, Ulysses Brambila (6), smothers a point-blank shot off the foot of an unidentified Mexican League player as Tsunami defenseman Matt Hoss arrives an instant too late. And getting a charge outta it all on the Mexican League's Taylor United bench, near, is veteran supporter Jesus Martel. The older Mexican Leaguers wound up winning 8-5, but more important by far, say organizers, is the fund-raiser's take to help defray costs in the wake of the local Guatemalans' recent multiple-death traffic accident was a startling $1,000 plus.

EVERYBODY FREEZE! North Mason High School students Jena Shumaker, Lindsay Werdall, Morgan Sullivan and Amy Hansen "stop" the action during a skit they performed for fourth-grade students as part of Students in the Watershed last week. Once everybody was frozen in position, the younger students were asked questions about what they had just seen in the skit.

Cyclists converge in Tahuya
A group of riders rounds the starting point of the Tahuya-Seabeck-Tahuya Road Race held last Saturday in what in six quick years has become one of the Pacific Northwest's biggest single-day road racing events. Over 200 competitors participated in what experts describe as a "relatively short" 67-mile affair. Symmetric's Dylan Sebel ended up winning the event. The riders that can be seen beginning the race above are just finishing a five kilometer "neutral rollout" from the fire station in Tahuya that gave them a chance to warm up their legs for the big hills that would follow.

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