ACTIVIST CATHI BAILEY, John Kerry's point person in Mason County, will be one of 17 at-large delegates from Washington at the Democratic National Convention in Beantown next week.

Patti Case		Betty Wing		Catherine Wolf
Patti Case, Betty Wing and Catherine Ann Wolf (left to right) have been named Mason General Hospital Foundation's recipients of 2004 American Business Women of the Year awards.

For service rendered ...

World War II veteran Frank Wokojance of Shelton accepts his Jubilee of Liberty medal from visiting congressman George Nethercutt Jr. Saturday during a special ceremony in the Shelton Civic Center. Wokojance was a scout and fought in every campaign in Europe. "That was a long war for me," Wokojance says. Also receiving the medal all of them for their parts in the Normandy Invasion of 1944 were George Woolett, William Worth, Linden Fellbaum, Charles Soper and Marvin Wilson, the latter three posthumously.

HOLDING HER hair over her lap, Kippie Strandwold smiles in relief at finally wearing her usual hairdo again. Stylist Victoria Yando looks on from behind yer. After surviving three cancers, Strandwold decided to grow out her preferred bob-style hair and donate her tresses to Locks of Love, an organization that provides wigs to children who lose their hair due to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer.

ROBERT EMERAS has lived all over the world since spending the 1967-1968 year in Shelton as a French foreign exchange student, but he still cherishes special connections to local friends from that era and the Squaxin Island Indian Tribe. Educator Emeras has had professional stints in three African countries, Australia, France and the United States. He now teaches at a university on a French island in the Indian Ocean. Here he pauses July 10 at the Olympia transit center on his way to Federal Way to talk to a teacher of Lushootseed, the Squaxin Indians' ancient language.

A STANDARD-PRACTICE maneuver recently saved a resident of Shelton Health and Rehabilitation Center from choking. While eating breakfast at the center a few weeks ago, Nancy Rose began to choke on a piece of sausage that became lodged in her throat. Nurses' assistants Maryann McCarty, left, and Ataila Denna stand on either side of Rose. They used the Heimlich maneuver to help save Rose from choking.

Grand ol' picnic

U.S. Senate candidate George Nethercutt greets Shelton's Eric Rehwaldt Saturday during the local Republicans' campaign picnic at the fairgrounds. Several other GOP candidates were on hand as well and addressed a crowd of more than a hundred. See the GOP booth at the fair, remind backers.

A Knight to remember...

THREE OF 'EM, in fact as evidenced by the return of Nineties' Climber all-league brothers Korey, Kasey and Trevor Knight on the occasion of their World-bound men's fastpitch team's open-division doubleheader Saturday in Callanan Park. That's Trevor smiling in the on-deck circle above seconds before launching one over the centerfield fence. Clockwise from the top in the insets: Shelton's legendary ballpark recaptures its magic of yore; Kasey looks on from the dugout beside batting-helmetted Hall-of-Famer Tim Wahl; brother Trevor (11) pops up dusty and grinning after scoring the first run, and his 3-year-old son Christian and his dad Terry the original "Knighter" of fastpitch fame look on from the cheap seats. Coyly accommodating Knights' teammate Mark Brown in the mid-game photo at near is Brown's 16-month-old daughter, Twila.

HERALD READER Richard Medeiras captured this photo of a fireman at a burning home at 2480 Old Belfair Highway on Wednesday, July 14. The house burned to the ground.

THANKS IN LARGE part to some beautiful weather, the Allyn Day Salmon Bake and Brew Fest drew large crowds this year.