ARDEAN ANVIK IS headed to the Republican National Convention, which will take place Monday, August 30, through Thursday, September 2, in New York City. The delegate is from Star Lake.

UP ON THE SCAFFOLDING at the right is building owner Martin Jones while a pedestrian negotiates the corner of Second and Cota streets. George Valley said he sold the first automatic washer, automatic dryer, automatic dishwasher and microwave oven in Shelton at this locale. "They were difficult to sell in those days. Nobody had ever heard of them before," he said. Valley turns 81 on Sunday. Scraping the facade in a facelift revealed part of Shelton's business history.

Oh yes we did!'

Wide-eyed shock notwithstanding, Shelton High School's popular Rich 'Coach U' Unterseher warms to the applause upon arrival Friday night at Shelton's Piper's Pizza restaurant, where dozens turned out to throw him a surprise party to mark his retirement after two decades as weightlifting and motivation coach at the high school.

POLE CARVER Randy Capoeman, on the right in the picture on the left, and his son Titus watch events unfold during last week's ceremony capped by the raising of a welcoming pole from the Squaxin Indian Tribe. In the picture on the right many hands are needed as the welcoming pole goes up at property along Mud Bay owned by Ralph Munro.

LOOKING UP at her new husband, Mary Kay Pauley smiles as Don Pauley puts his arm around her. These two former classmates recently married 49 years after graduating from high school.

CHECKING THE TRENCH prior to installation of a water line to the 1914 Grant School is volunteer Jim Geist. Plans call for the water line to connect the historic structure to a well.

Drive-through at Belfair's post office unintentional

No injuries were involved when a vehicle jumped the curb and rammed the mailbox outside the Belfair Post Office Monday afternoon. "It sounded like a bomb went off," said postal employee Colleen Johnson, pictured above surveying the damage inside with the post office's maintenance staffer, Wayne Godfrey. A desk near the door was separated from the pushed-in wall. At right, an unidentified postal patron inspects the smashed box that was pushed through the external wall. "We were glad nobody was hurt," Johnson said.