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Sculptor Richard Beyer created what might be Seattle's most iconic public artwork, "Waiting for the Interurban" in the Fremont neighborhood. The five life-size adults, a baby in arms and a dog are depicted waiting for the electric trolley that used to run between Seattle and Everett, and passerbys bedeck the figures with clothing and signs. Between 1968 and 2006, Beyer created more than 90 large sculptures for public places, including the "Kissing Couple" on the harbor boardwalk in downtown Olym...
It was an idea on a whim, but it's safe to say Shelton High School alumni will be part of more 24 Hours of Lemons races in the future. The SHS Alumni team placed 26th overall in the 24 Hours of Lemons race at The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton on Oct. 15 and 16. The race was called Smells Like AMC Spirit 2022, with a logo featuring Kurt Cobain. The Alumni team finished seventh in C-class with a total time of 32 hours, 34 minutes and took home the Organizer's Choice award. "It was amazing. We...
Alejandro Leon won the speed shucking contest and Miriel Silva won the half-shell competition and best presentation at OysterFest on Oct. 1 and 2 at Sanderson Field. Leon won the speed competition Oct. 1 with a time of 1 minute, 17 seconds, just one second faster than Gabriel Quintana. Silva finished third in 1:19. Leon won $500 for winning, Quintana won $250 and Silva earned $100. In the half-shell competition Oct. 2, Silva won the competition in 2 minutes, 26 seconds and earned himself $750....
Sunny skies and temperatures that pushed 80 degrees greeted thousands of seafood, music and beer enthusiasts who descended on Shelton’s Sanderson Field on Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 for the return of OysterFest after a two-year hiatus due to COVID. The Shelton Skookum Rotary Club, which has staged the event since 1982, was tabulating attendance numbers as the Journal was going to press. The group estimates about 11,000 patrons passed through the main gate, which does not include 450 people who camped in RVs at the site or the thousands of vendors...
"Can you sell?" Henry Gay asked. "Yes," I answered. That was my job interview. The work-wanted ad I ran to find a new job in my field had succeeded. Barb Nelson, Gay's retired ad manager of 40 years, had set everything up. That day, I said I could see myself working here for that long. Little did I know that 30 years later I would be just 10 years away from 40 years. When I started at the Shelton-Mason County Journal in mid-August 1992, Stephen Gay was the pressroom manager. His dad, Henry, ran...
Three years ago, Shelton resident Kim Kenyon was standing on a ladder replacing boards to put a roof on his shop when "my ladder up and left me," he recalled. The 10-foot drop shattered his foot. "I was looking at the bottom of my shoe after it busted," he said. The U.S. Army veteran, who has lived almost all of his 74 years in Shelton, spent almost three years in a manual wheelchair, which was "cumbersome," he said. "I had to take down the bathroom doors," he said. "I kept running over my...
The nonprofit organization Friends of Lake Cushman Dog Park is one of 20 finalists for PetSafe "Bark for Your Park" grants of $25,000 each. Four communities will receive one of those grants. Friends of Lake Cushman Dog Park Secretary Bill Long thanked Mason County commissioners and County Parks & Trails Manager John Taylor and staff for their support of the planned dog park, and called upon the Mason County community for assistance. "We desperately need the help of our community to vote for us...
After Triton Cove resident James Aylesworth turned 100, his niece drove him to the Navy recruiting office in Silverdale, where the World War II veteran offered to re-enlist. He didn't want to be paid, he explained. He specifically wants to help the Ukrainians fight the Russians in any capacity he can. "I want to help my country no matter how damn old I am," he said. The recruiter never followed up with a promised reason for rejecting his offer, Aylesworth said. Since then, he turned 101 and...
Members of Irene S. Reed High School's Class of 1952 celebrated their 70th high school reunion with lunch at Railroad Tap Station in Shelton. The Class of 1952 featured 129 graduates - 71 men and 58 women. Twenty-six men and 30 women are alive, and 13 graduates, two spouses and one daughter attended the June reunion. Dorene Stevens Rae organizes the reunions for the Class of 1952, being voted in by her classmates. "I just like to keep people up front, so they know what's going on and they love...
Eli Elliott of Shelton turns 6 this week, and until a week and half ago, his hair had never been cut beyond a trim. Two Saturdays ago, Eli's mother, Amanda Elliott, braided his elbow-long hair and cut it off at KSB Salon in Shelton, where she is a master stylist. Eli said he was inspired by a video on the nonprofit Wigs for Kids and wanted to give his locks "to kids who have cancer and don't have any hair anymore." He winked at his grandmother, Angela Bonds, during the haircut, and pronounced th...
