SANDI KVARNSTROM and husband Carl frame the Purdy Canyon Drive-In, which closed its doors one last time Saturday evening to make way for a new Purdy Creek Bridge to be built next year.

Fiddle Fest this weekend

THE EDUCATS (left to right, Paul Barber, Vern Morgus and Ron Grinnell) will be one of 12 acts on stage Saturday night in the Shelton High School Auditorium at the 22nd annual Shelton Fiddle Fest. The benefit for Save Our County's Kids features shows at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday.

SHELTON'S STATE-PLACING "Synergy" color guard polishes its act just days before last weekend's all-Washington competition. That's seventh-year coach Mary Kay Anderson at top left, and in rifle-tossing mode before her are (from left) Neal MacFarlane, Cory Cisneros, Melissa Wood, Kinsey Shough, Sarah Gates, Jackie Smith, Michael MacFarlane and Tasha Hillstrom. From left in the inset are Melissa, Michael, Shiann Hoff, Lainie Juhl, Cory, Sarah (near), Tasha, Valerie Close and Neal. And in the nearmost photo are Caitlin Sutter (left) and Mandy Speer.

JOHN TARRANT has announced a reelection bid for mayor of Shelton.

JAY HUPP plans to run for the Shelton Port Commission now held by Marlene Taylor.

KEVIN GARDUNO, a first-grader at Evergreen Elementary School gets ready for a dental procedure with help from dental assistant Mariah Martinez in the SmileMobile last week.

FROM ONE SMALL town to another: Magda Abd El Rahman is spending this year away from her small, Palestinian village just outside of Jerusalem in Israel, to experience real American life in Shelton.

FORMER HIGHCLIMBERS (left to right) Dave Austin, Mike Johnson and Don Brown have been voted into the Shelton-Mason County Sports Hall of Fame.

EVENTUAL RUNNER-UP Nikki Robinson of the Climbers strains to bench her second attempt in Saturday's Shelton Powerlift Invitational.

SHELTON TRACK SCENES in sunny Highclimber Stadium last week find the hosts in characteristically lighthearted form as they outduel the ballyhooed Timberline boys' contingent. That's sprint and long-jump standout Kyle Burbridge exhorting teammate Emma Crateau, above, and then pouring it on in the 200 (inset right). Winding up in the discus circle in the other inset is Climber junior Isaac Garfias. Our winsome cut-ups in the nearmost shot? Never too preoccupied to ham it up, they're Climber javelinists Kalea Christensen and Stephen Carnahan.

EXPRESSIONS OF OPTIMISM understandably abound on Climber Field Thursday afternoon as the hosts pound nonleague Cleveland 16-5 in a varsity baseball outing under sunny skies. Watching his sharp single find the gap above is sophomore veteran Mike Osberg. Tracking the flight of a long fly ball, near, is infielder Kanie Renshi, the Climbers' exchange student from Japan.

Chamber Singers will perform in concert

The Chamber Singers of Shelton High SChool will give a series of performances at the Colonial House in downtown Shelton this month. Among the students in the chorale are, from left to right, Alex Davis-Brazill, Liam Malpass, Lawrence Chapman, Kellen Gold, Colin Dysart, Molly Swanson, Erika Christensen and Laurie Hartley. The series is entitled "Ah Primavera!" and will includea full-length concert of songs and Renaissance madrigals, theatrical skits, instrumental music and dessert. "Ah Primavera!" will run on Friday and Saturday nights for two consecutive weekends, April 13-14 and April 20-21, with showtimes at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $15, with proceeds to benefit the choral music program as SHS. For tickets, send an email to pnakhla@sheltonschools.org or call choral director Paul Nakhla at 432-2136.

Girl Scouts deliver
Easter baskets

A group of local Girl Scouts has brightened the lives of many youngsters this Easter season. Members of Belfair's Girl Scout Troop 271 recently delivered some 40 Easter baskets to Turning Pointe in Shelton. Seen here with the baskets are troop members Danielle Pomeroy, Teresa Lake, Mary Lytle, Jessica Hopfensperger and Nicole Jones.