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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...
The North Mason Food Bank recently won a year of free internet from Astound Broadband as part of the company’s effort to recognize small businesses for contributing to their communities. “We believe that smaller locally owned organizations like the North Mason Food Bank are integral to the success of the communities in which they reside,” said Patrick Knorr, chief commercial officer for Astound Business Solutions, a broadband service provider. “We wanted to help make a difference for small l...
Central Mason Fire and EMS joins with North Mason High School, Washington State Patrol and Mason County Sheriff’s Office to host the “Last Dance” event today and tomorrow, aiming to show students the dangers of driving under the influence. According to a news release, today will have emergency responders giving students a look at fatality collisions. It will include a mock accident on the football field where responders will extricate pre-selected students from vehicles. The public might see inc...
My mom would buy stationery. I have been looking for some but with no luck. As I am getting older, I feel writing letters is a nice way to communicate. Belfair had an earthquake on April 13, 1949. Mary was at the hairdresser's and was under the dryer when it hit. Bet that was a shocker for everyone. Saturday, April 9, 1949 Picked up Squires at 9:10 and he worked about 2 hours then said it was too hot on some new plants, so he went home. I wrapped some stuff for the bazaar and Blanche cleaned the...
Train cabooses and lighthouses, a saying goes, are two things everyone likes. So it seems extra special when a caboose, even in a battered and weathered state, returns after four decades away to the site where it was instrumental in moving the area's greatest economical resource, trees. That was the case Thursday when two trucks delivered Caboose 1201 to its former home at the Simpson Lumber Co. former sorting yard in Dayton, 10 miles west of downtown Shelton. The nonprofit Peninsular Railway &...
