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The Matlock Old-Timers Historical Fair is hosted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Mary M. Knight School. Engine enthusiasts can marvel at the Steam Donley and antique tractors. Inside the gym, patrons can find bargains at the swap meet tables, listen to live music and create crafts. Thrill-seekers can plummet down the giant pink slider. Admission is free. The school is at 2987 Matlock-Brady Road. The displays include World War II vehicles, some of them still...
A 95-year-old decorated World War II veteran who later tutored Pioneer Schools students was recently honored by the state House of Representatives. State Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, introduced House Resolution 4639, which honors Burton Stoltz, who lives in the Agate area. The House unanimously passed the resolution April 7. In a news release, Couture said it was "an honor and a pleasure" to present the resolution to Stoltz on his 95th birthday. "Burt is a WWII Navy veteran and treasured in...
Olympic College Shelton hosted a resource fair for current and potential students April 19 throughout the campus. Booths were spread out between the main building, library and outside, with many community groups in attendance. "I was pleasantly surprised at the number of attendants that we had at the Resource Fair," OC Shelton Director Allison Smith wrote in an email to the Journal. "I saw numerous community members who were unfamiliar to me on campus that day and that is one of the objectives o...
Ginny Swarts and Betty Olson were born in 1921 and 1922, when Warren G. Harding was president, radio was new, and the movies were silent except for live musical accompaniment. This month, the two best friends at Alpine Way Continuing Care Community in Shelton celebrated their 101st and 102nd birthdays. They also celebrated a friendship born over a mutual love of music, bingo and bus trips. "We do everything together," said Swarts. She added, "We really fit like two peas in a pod." Swarts was...
On April 12, more than 100 people molded clay to create about 260 pieces of art - mostly bowls - to benefit patrons of the Saints' Pantry Food Bank in downtown Shelton at the first of the three-night Empty Bowls fundraiser in the Shelton Civic Center. Some participants returned Wednesday to glaze the bowls. The fundraiser culminates with the purchase of soup and bread with a bowl for $10 from 5 to 7 p.m. April 26. The participating restaurants are Wilde Irish Pub, Olympic Bakery & Deli,...
The Skyline Drive-In Theater is presenting a free screening at 8 tonight of a locally made documentary film, "We Speak for the Forests." The film's director, Mason County Climate Justice co-founder and CEO Zephyr Elise, talked to the Shelton-Mason County Journal about the filmmaking process, which began when Union resident and fellow MCCJ member James Bell spent four months documenting the clear-cut logging near his home. Two years after Elise took over the film that Bell started, "We Speak for...
Belfair Elementary School student Isabelle Hill was paying attention last June when the North Mason Regional Fire Authority hosted its annual Safety Days at her school. Now in the fifth grade, Hill recently was awakened by her grandfather, who said her grandmother was on the bathroom floor and wasn't breathing. Did she know how to perform CPR, he asked. The answer was "yes," thanks to the instruction Hill received in June. She applied her new skill, but was unable to bring her grandmother back...
Stan Gabelein created stunningly realistic wildlife oil paintings for decades before he began writing at age 78. In less than two years, the Mason County resident wrote and published an autobiography and a novel. He penned the autobiography, "The Outdoorsman: Stories of a Hunting and Fishing Life," in three months. After all, he said, "I had all the information I needed." "A lot of people say they're going to write their stories, but never do," Gabelein said in an interview with the Journal at...
Firefighters from North Mason Regional Fire Authority, Central Mason Fire & EMS and Mason County Fire District's 11 and 3 competed in the 32nd Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Firefighter Stairclimb on March 12 at the Columbia Center building in Seattle. North Mason's Mickey Cotter, Elijah Freese, Kyle Barker, Tavia Henry and Travis Wilson finished 54th as a team. "As a whole, we did great. Our top guy, Mickey, shaved a minute off his top time and reached his goal," NMRFA firefighter Wilson said. "I...
The United States Navy Sea Chanters will perform patriotic tunes, sea chanteys, opera, Broadway and traditional choral music at a free concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Shelton High School Performing Arts Center. Admission is free, but patrons are asked to make reservations at www.usnavyband.ticketleap.com/us-navy-band-sea-chanters-shelton-wa. However, no one will be turned away without reservations. The Navy Band Chanters are the U.S. Navy's official chorus. Based in Washington, D.C., the group...
Shelton High School's theater, drama club and entertainment production students stage two one-act plays "10 Ways to Survive: The End of the World" and "The Zombie Apocalypse" at 6:30 p.m. Friday, and 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the school's Performing Arts Center. Admission is free, with donations accepted to support the performing arts program. Doors open a half-hour before each show. Don Zolidis wrote both short comedies. The show takes an absurd look at the fears of impending doom....
