The Shelton-Mason County Journal

Thursday, April 28, 2005
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ALL THAT JAZZ at the Shelton Dance Center starts with a stretching exercise for Lindsay Orme. She dances jazz, couples and hip-hop when she's not hitting the books as a senior at Shelton High School. She was recently awarded a National Merit Scholarship.

COMMUNITY SERVICES MENTOR Steve Gray paints a fire hydrant with Michael Nicolas, an 11-year-old student at Mountain View Elementary School. The job was assigned to Nicolas through the Shelton School District Community Service Program.

A GROUP OF STUDENTS listens to Claudine Reynolds of Green Diamond Resource Company during the recent Forest Festival Field Day held at the Panhandle Lake 4-H Camp.

FUNNY THINGS HAPPEN on the way to the Climber varsity lads' 1-nil victory over visiting Bremerton last week in Highclimber Stadium. Caught in the middle of his impromptu book-spinning circus act on the hosts' sideline, near, is defender and magician-in-training Richard Choi, who segued smoothly into his leaping-coin act. Looking on with a grin is teammate Austin Case, and on the bench at right are Adam Spurling and Derek Ranney. Inset right is a hard-charging Dwain Friedlander, and animated in the other inset are statisticians Merina Bigley (left) and Whitney Jones amid sidelined players (clockwise from left) Ryan Mortensen, Ranney and Case and assistant coach Shelley O'Dell. Rallying around teammates Ethan Miller (16) and Chanvir "Chuck" Singh (in the cap) at the start of the second half, above, are (clockwise from near left) Richard Rodriguez, Mark Rockel, Friedlander, Spurling, Andy Korver, Andy Ellingson, Case, Rory Cavaille and Ryan Hebbe.

A HELICOPTER takes off from near the mouth of the Tahuya River with Bremerton resident Susan Spinks on board. Spinks, who suffered hip injuries in a motorcycle accident, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being rescued from a deep ravine in Tahuya by members of Fire District 2 and Fire District 8.

GRAPEVIEW SCHOOL students seen enjoying a new rock wall at the campus are, from left to right in back, Spencer Bales, Jason Barth, Zach Thomas, Rile Sherman peeking out of the middle, Tiffany McNeley and Katie Buxton. In front, from left, are Jesse Dickenson, Bjorn vanDijk, Samantha Arkin, C.J. Allen, Katelyn James, Danny King, Casey Garrett, Samantha Smith, Jason Manke-Thomas and Joanna Sprouffske. Students and parents decided to replace the school's teeter-totters with a "RockBlock" climbing wall and held a jog-a-thon last October to raise the necessary funds.

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