Professional Documents
Culture Documents
North Bay
January 2015
Volume #20, Issue #1
Circulation 5,000
Your Allyn Community Association newsletter Published monthly since 1996 & mailed to these North Mason neighborhoods:
ALLYN VICTOR GRAPEVIEW MASON LAKE BENSON LAKE TRAILS END LAKE SOUTH SHORE
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Allyn Community
Association Events for 2015
By Barry Betsinger, ACA Vice-President
Look to the Allyn Community Association for events you dont want to miss this
year! First of all, plan to come to the 2nd annual Casino Royale Night on March
21st at the Victor Hall. All that attended last year had a great time and wanted us to
schedule another event for 2015! By March 21st, I think we will all be tired of winter,
rain and dark evenings. What better way to celebrate than by attending this event!
If you are not familiar with some of the games at the local casino, the professionals
running the tables will be more than happy to teach you roulette, craps, Texas holdem and black jack. For instance, my wife didnt know how to play craps but always
wanted to learn. She wound up playing most of the night and was given tips to beat
the odds. She and others came away winners! We will also have music, catered hors
doeuvres and many silent and live auction items to bid on. This event is one of the
two ACA fundraisers that we depend on each year.
If we can raise at least $3,500 from this event, it will be used for landscape maintenance of the north triangle as you enter Allyn, Bell Park, which is at the south end of
2 Margaritas and the flower pots. Any additional income will allow us to operate
and fund the monthly North Bay Review and sponsor our Memorial Day celebration, Santas arrival and Christmas Caroling. Watch for other articles, advertisements
and announcements in the
North Bay Review, our ACA
FaceBook page and local busiSt. Hughs Supports Coffee Oasis.....................3
nesses.
The Port Report.................................................3
Our Memorial Day CelSarah Eckert Guild News....................................4
ebration will be on May 25th
Christmas Miracle In Allyn..................................5
Continued on page 2
Masterpieces From The Kitchen.......................6
Allyn Artist Offering Classes.................... .......7
Voices Unite For Sounds Of The Season...............8
Problem Solver...................................................9
Walking Sticks for Charity..................................9
Evergreen Garden Club.....................................10
Two Thousand Fourteen Community Calendar......................................11
had many memorable mo- Sunrise Equine Rescue.......................................12
ments for the Allyn Com- Notes From Victor..............................................14
munity Association and for Allyn Historic Church Update.........................15
North Mason as a whole. Allyn Birthday Club........................................15
Throughout this issue, each Taylor Shellfish Signs Declaration.....................16
month of 2014 will have a cou- The Wheels That Spin.......................................17
ple of memories highlighted. History In Your Backyard................................18
This is our Year in Review... Grapeview Grapevine........................................ 19
from the North Bay Review!
Mason Generals New Year Baby........................20
The Year In
R EVIEW
Look in next months issue of the North Bay Review and on the Allyn
Community Association Facebook page for more details about this
fun and exciting fundraiser!
Below: Photo by Barry Betsinger shows when work began on the new tower that carries electrical
transmission lines across North Bay. After talking with the project manager last year, this is some of
what Barry wrote: The new tower base is to be made of 4 - 30 diameter concrete piles and capped
for the new galvanized pole. These piles will be sunk 56 feet into the ground with the last 20 feet being
glacial till. Glacial till in
the lower strata of this
area is very compressed
larger rocks which will
be strong enough to hold
the pole. This means that
the mud in this area is
approximately 36 feet
deep!
Sure is going to make us
look at the tower in a new
way, knowing that!
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St. Hughs Supports Coffee Oasis Coming To North Mason The Port Report
By JoAnna Meyer
In 2014, the women of St. Hugh Episcopal Church in Allyn, the ECW, gave financial help to many in the North
Mason area. In fact, checks totaling over $10,000 were disbursed to numerous worthy outreach organizations and
groups in our area. This was money taken in from our two annual sales the Patio Sale in July and the Holiday
Bazaar in October.
It was decided to support Coffee Oasis, the new location being brought to life in Belfair. It already has two locations Bremerton and Port Orchard. This faith-based endeavor helps youth who are street kids and others who are
looking for a hand-up for learning job skills and good fellowship with other teens. This is a safe place for them to
find companionship while learning Christian values, to learn solid work ethics and put it to use productively.
A friend and I decided to go to the Bremerton location and see what our impressions would be. Parking at the back
of the building, which is at 822 Burwell, I noted a stairway up to a second level and a sign that read Youth Shelter.
Entering by the back door (there is also an entry on Burwell) we found a plain but cozy setting with a lounge
area at the back where some young people were visiting. Moving to the front, we chose a two-top near an electric fireplace, which also had
a comfy looking couch and chair set around it.
Smelling the marvelous fragrance of coffee, we walked over to glass French doors to see a young man working with a coffee roaster in
an attached room they grind and use these beans in all their own cafs, as well as the Espresso Drive-Thru at 1502 6th Street. Several
delightful types are also sold in bags in all their cafs.
A gracious young lady welcomed us at the ordering counter which was nicely displayed and inviting! The menu board above offered
numerous selections for our lunch and espresso drinks. I chose a Veggie Panini with a choice of 3 sides. My friend had a grilled cheese
sandwich, the biggest Ive ever seen! She also had the choice of 3 sides. Her large mocha was served in a huge soup cup topped with whipped
cream. You can be sure The Coffee Oasis will be my favorite lunch spot next time I am in Bremerton.
After lunch, we had a conversation with a pleasant man, who told us he is the manager there - I was surprised to learn that he lives in
the Allyn/Belfair area and will be the manager of our new Coffee Oasis when it opens!
I am very eager to have our own Caf and Youth Shelter available for our youth. They need a safe place to gather and learn to be productive with their time. These cafes are maintained by the young people, doing a great job in order to make each a self-sustained business in
its own right.
The founders of the Coffee Oasis have created a wonderful way to assist our local kids and community. If we all support this program,
our community will be blessed with the benefit of this outreach. To learn more, may I suggest you look up their website: www.coffeeoasis.
com. Oh yes, and stop by one of their locations for lunch and a superior coffee drink!
There was the Port of Allyn Childrens Day in October for the playground project with a profit of about $200. Now we are in a new year
and hope that 2015 will bring the new playground to Allyn Waterfront. We have raised over $8200 so far. We have Grants coming in 2015
totaling $7000 from the North Mason Rotary and a Cheney Foundation Grant of $3000. We are still short, close to $13,000, unless we get
further Grants. We are looking for a Foundation to help us with the remaining dollars. Please contact me if you are looking for a tax writeoff for 2015 and are able to help us with a large donation. I can be reached at leshappy66@wavecable.com. Donations are being accepted at
the Allyn Community Association at P.O. Box 52, Allyn, WA 98524 for the playground.
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As a driver, youve no doubt welcomed the low oil prices, as theyve translated to less
expensive trips to the gas station. But is cheap oil good for you as an investor?
Its possible. When everyone spends less on gas, they have more money available to spend
on goods and services so you and your fellow citizens are likely adding billions of dollars
to the economy. Typically, a strong economy is good for the financial markets and for
investors. Still, the drop in oil prices may affect different market sectors in different ways. For
example, consumer goods companies may do much better than energy companies.
While you may be tempted to adjust your investment mix in response to whats happening
with oil, you shouldnt let one specific development, such as a decline in oil prices, lead you to
reconfigure your entire portfolio. Things change rapidly in the financial world, and no one
can predict what the future may bring so youll help yourself by following a consistent,
long-term investment strategy.
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Happy New Year to all of you from Sarah Eckert Guild. The next Guild meeting is on
February 19th, but no meeting in January. If you are interested in touching the lives of children
at Mary Bridge Hospital and Health Care Center, please join us at our March meeting. For
more information on our groups activities and goals, call Arlene Burton at 360-275-1245.
As we move forward to 2015, Sarah Eckert continues to raise funds for the Mary Bridge
children. With our fundraisers
for the year still being planned, we
are looking forward to successful
events. The key to our success
is members who are committed
to supporting the fundraising
efforts.
I close with the theme from
this Years Festival of Trees: Heart
to Heart and Hand in Hand.
Once again the doors of a hundred-year-old church are open. The church bells are ringing and people are singing at the Historic Allyn Church. The Bible is being taught, cover to
cover, and folks are gathering for potlucks and communion.
In March, a church plant from Calvary Chapel is helping people rediscover Jesus. They
volunteered at the Hood Canal Celtic Festival by directing traffic, innovation prayer of blessing and Sunday chapel service. Last fall they donated 38 free back packs for school kids in
Belize. Throughout November they brought in food donations for Faith in Action so the
community could have a Happy Thanksgiving.
This Christmas someone prayed for a man living in the Allyn RV Park. He had no money
to fix the hot water heater and had been without hot water since October. Now taking cold
showers in winter, going below freezing, something had to be done. This week his prayers
were answered. The church got it fixed and confirmed the repair work. It was a Christmas
miracle. We may have saved a life this winter because of this little old church.
It may not be modern, but its home to the faithful. This warm and cozy safe place is my
hideaway. So, if you need a place to pray, to be strengthened and encouraged by Gods Word,
visit this little old wedding chapel
on the waterfront. No membership is required. People are just
coming together and lives are
being changed. There is help and
hope in the community. Isnt that
what Jesus does? Life is tough, but
God is good.
World Record Snowfall: Mt. Baker ski area has the world record for snowfall at 1,140 inches
of snow in the 1998/1999 winter season. Mt. Baker ski area is located near, but not on,
the real 10,781 Mount Baker. You can just imagine what the snow totals were
on the real Mount Baker that year!
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Beverly Hooks, impressionist artist, author and resident of Allyn, is offering art classes
every month- taught weekly at the Salmon Center. Beverly is a recognized national and international selling artist.
I love art, it is my passion! I love that I can share my impressions through my paintings
and be accepted for the work I render. Hooks stated, And I love painting commissions which
allow me to establish a creative bond with my clients.
She thoroughly enjoys teaching and being able to share her knowledge and to see the creative
ideas of her students come to fruition. She has been a painter and a selling artist for over twenty
years. She began in oil painting and
after experiencing the detriments of
oil paint, she then turned to acrylic.
I paint and teach in the same
style and concepts I did as an oil
painter. Hooks said, I feel it is
important to share with my students the technical aspect of a good
composition. Also, teaching them
how to get to the desired painting
through understanding essential
knowledge such as perspective,
color, color value, and tonal value,
helping my students develop their
own style of painting.
She is excited and thankful for the opportunity to teach art at the Pacific Northwest Salmon
Center in Belfair. I hope to share the pure ambience of this distinctive, peaceful place and help
expose and protect the delicate environment in which we call home. She would like to promote art in the community, state
and region; through on-going
monthly classes, taught weekly.
For detailed information, registration and to view her artwork,
visit www.beverlyhooks.com. You
can also call Beverly at 360-6494530 or email her at beverly@
beverlyhooks.com.
Memorial Day 2014, marked the 15th year of A Time for Remembering. This annual event is
presented by the Allyn Community Association to honor those who have served our country and
those we have lost to war. In 2014, nearly 300 people gathered to honor our military. Above left:
Vietnam Veterans console each other after the Wreath for the Fallen was placed in Case Inlet.
Above right: WWII Veteran, Wally Scherer, listens to speakers honoring his generation of heroes.
The Monday before Christmas, Allyn turned back time for a good oldfashioned Christmas Sing-A-Long. No frills, no glitz, just a group of 50+
people getting together to join voices to fill the Allyn Waterfront Gazebo
with songs of the holiday.
Volunteer Bonnie Knight, was happy with the turnout. The holiday
spirit sure can be felt in here, she said, and Im so glad so many people
came out to enjoy this. Volunteers made an assortment of Christmas
cookies and the ACA supplied the coffee, hot chocolate and hot apple cider.
With his deep voice, Steve Rose led the group, accompanied by Judy
Scott playing ukulele and Marty Brush strumming his guitar. Everyone
had a caroling book and yelled out page numbers for the next song they
wanted to sing. All age groups joined in, singing classic carols, with childrens favorites tossed into the mix and Cruz Rodriquez lead everyone in a beautiful rendition
of Feliz Navidad.
If you werent able to make it this year, try and make it in 2015. Its a great way to bring in the
holiday when surrounded by so much Christmas cheer and community spirit.
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Loretta, Becky, Catyn, and Karen show off their holiday spirit at
the Evergreen Garden Clubs Christmas Party.
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As you know, many families and individuals in our community go without proper food.
While all of us are susceptible to hard times, children and the elderly are at the most risk. With
the generous support of people like you and the North Mason Food Bank, we will be able to
help many of these families and individuals.
During this tax season, Dennis Bryan and Johnnie Hawkins, both CPAs and local owners of Olympic Tax & Business Consulting and Parker Mooers & Cena, along with associated
financial advisor, Peter J. Taafe, CRPC, CFP, will partner in collecting unopened, nonperishable food, laundry detergent, and diapers. For your convenience, we have a collection bin in
our lobby for you to bring any items you would like to donate. Thank you for your support.
Olympic Tax & Business Consulting is located at 10 NE Creelman Ln, Suite C, Belfair. Please
feel free to contact us if you have any questions about contributing by calling (360)275-0998.
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With the New Year comes new opportunities and a fresh outlook. We are excited to share
our plans for progressing toward one of our long-time goals: Becoming a Certified Equine
Therapy Center. This would allow us to help children and adults with disabilities, veterans,
wounded warriors and more.
We would like to introduce a new member to
our volunteer staff, PATHI (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International)
certified therapeutic riding instructor, Amy Plets.
Amy has 14 years experience working in the field
of equine assisted activities and therapy. Amy and
her family have recently moved from Michigan and
are settling in nicely here in Grapeview. She and
her family began volunteering at the rescue and
have won the hearts of all. Amy will be instructing and educating the current board members and
volunteers in order that we may assist with therapy
sessions. As funds become available, SER will be
implementing plans to build a wheelchair ramp for easier mounting and covered seating for
families and spectators alike. We will also be gathering funds to finish the last two run-in
shelters and update our fencing. We will be holding a fundraiser dance on March 14th at the
Grapeview Fire Hall featuring the Lester Crow Band. Be sure to put that on your calendar!
Proceeds from the dance will be allocated toward hay and feed with the remainder going
toward the start of our building projects!
Those interested in participating in the therapy program, or as a therapy volunteer,
please contact Amy Plets at amy@sunriseequinerescue.org for requirements and details.
Volunteers interested in helping out with barn chores, horse grooming, exercising or helping
with plans and building, please contact Sunrise Equine Rescue at 360-275-2960 or janean@
sunriseequinerescue.org.
As always, we welcome you to
give us a call and schedule a time
to come out and get some mud on
your boots. For more info, visit
Sunriseequinerescue.org or call
360-275-2960. Located at 401 E
Mason Benson Road, Grapeview,
WA. Business office mailing address: Sunrise Equine Rescue, PO
Box 2427, Belfair, WA 98528.
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Sarah Hotchkiss
Winter Secretary
Victor Improvement Club
victorimprovement.org
Notes
from Victor
Don Schultz swears in Joseph Myers, President and George Kirk, Vice President at the January
9th Victor Club meeting.
New Business: Don Schultz presented the nominees for the 2015 Officers, which he joked
had been selected in smoky back rooms. They are: Joseph Myers, President; George Kirk,
Vice President; Sarah Hotchkiss, Winter Secretary; Bev Jackson, Summer Secretary; and
Kris Schweigert, Treasurer. Rick Lawson made a motion to vote the new officers in. Meris
Fraser seconded the motion. And the slate was unanimously approved. The two new board
members, Joseph Myers and George Kirk, were sworn in. Don noted that he has learned from
this experience that it is not too early to be thinking about next years candidates.
David OKeefe reported that the storage room needs a remodel. He explained in detail the
work that would be done. Joseph Myers asked, tongue-in-cheek, that this issue be resolved
now so that he would not be known for a tax-and-spend presidency. After much discussion,
Mary Schultz moved to permit funding the project, which is expected to cost $1,100, plus
potentially an additional $500 to upgrade electronic capabilities for sound systems. Suzie
Smith seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved.
We celebrated the birthdays of Melda Hatch (2nd), and Margie Meservey (27th).
We ended with Generous John Kingery selecting Joe Mauro to draw the winner of the
jackpot. Joes first draw was Debi Carey who was not in attendance. Next, Blake Heinz was
selected, who also missed out. In the end, Tracy Gaudio won the pot of $37.
The meeting ended at 8:35.
The latest report from Washington State says it all: 99 percent of Mason PUD 3s electricity
comes from sources that do not emit carbon. Thats a big deal, especially in todays debate over
how to control the amount of carbon dioxide coming from cars, industry and power plants.
For Mason PUD 3 customers, 88 percent of their electricity comes from hydropower; ten
percent from nuclear energy; and one percent from wind turbines. Only one percent comes
from fossil fuels, meaning coal and natural gas. Information for the report comes from the
Washington State Department of Commerces Utility Fuel Mix Report for 2014.
How does that compare with the big, corporate-owned utilities in Washington State? Puget
Sound Energy gets 44 percent of its power from fossil fuels; Avista is just over 52 percent;
Pacific Power & Light is about 25 percent. Even green old Portland cant keep up. Portland
General Electrics power is 61 percent coal and natural gas.
Overall, public utilities in Washington State have much cleaner energy sources than other
utilities in the Pacific Northwest. Of those required to meet the states renewable energy law,
public utilities average about 5.3 percent of their power from coal and natural gas plants. For
the three large investor-owned utilities, nearly 41 percent of their power comes from coal
and natural gas.
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Taylor Shellfish
Signs Climate Change Declaration
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Knowing how to help save a life in a medical emergency can make someone a great value
to their community or workplace, and endorsing that, Mason General Hospital & Family
of Clinics is offering another First Aid/CPR/AED course. The class will be on Thursday
evening, February 12, 2015 from 5 to 9 p.m. in the Hospitals Learning Center, located next
to the Shelton McDonalds on Olympic Highway North.
Combining First Aid with CPR and AED training, the course includes a course completion card that will be made available at the end of the class. It is open to the entire community,
and an early, non-refundable registration fee of $35 (exact cash or check) includes the cost of
books and materials. A Spanish interpreter can be made available if needed and comfortable
clothing is recommended for all
attendees.
Class size is limited to 16
persons and advanced registration and payment for the class
is required by February 4. Please
call the Learning Center at (360)
427-3609.
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Actor Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in the DOWNinfatuated with the cars of the
TON ABBEY series on PBS television, with the
30s and 40s. You could enter
households struggle to face the changing times
and exit them without knocking
following the Great War (World War I), said, The
the hat off your head! You drove
nature of life isnt permanence but flux This
them without your chin sharcertainly holds true in one unfortunately necessary
ing the same horizontal plane
aspect of our sweet lives, the automobile industry!
as your knees! They certainly
When I think of the new cars these days, straight
lacked many of the safety feaoff the assembly lines in the U.S.A., Japan, Italy,
tures of modern automobiles, but
Germany, Great Britain, France and Sweden, I
there were less traffic and slower
shudder with annoyance. With nearly every ten
speeds in those days. The cars
minutes of a marvelous movie youre wishing to
had character!
watch on television, highly powered car commerOne of our favorite pastimes when we were little kids
cials interrupt the unraveling plot to the extent you
in Allyn was observing the vehicles that passed through or
lose sight of the story line, and then these advertisestopped in town. With our store and service station on the
Wee Pause Cafe, 1948 (Eddy Stock on brother Wes motorized cart)
side of SR-3, we sat in an ideal location for such occupation.
ments, attempting to pressure you into buying a
brand new car because its some American holiday,
feature auto theft, robbery get-away, and such reckless and illegal driving that instant arrest
or death would certainly be the ultimate outcome!
I would really prefer to think of the automobile as an art form and even a measuring tool
for our progress and evolution, at least technologically, but Im not referring to those vehicles
of the 1950s when designers strove for the rocket look with those outlandish tail fins to coincide with popularized science fiction films and actualized exploration of space. Nothing
has changed. One manufacturer comes up with an innovative design, and soon all cars again
begin to look the same, until the next uniquely different feature catches the consumers fancy.
When we (Samuel and Elsie
Corliss and twins, Donald and
David) came to Allyn in 1946,
riding in the dark-blue Ford sedan in the photograph of Mother
and Dad at Deep Water Point,
the automobiles then, from the
1930s and 1940s, really werent
that abundant. The town had
transcended out of the Great DeDick and Helon Valley, 1950 (Their new Packard, south side of the cafe)
pression and then World War II.
Carrying cargo for the store from Then one day, my remembering it well, Dick and Helon Valley at the Wee Pause Caf initiated
depot and dock in Bremerton the 1950s by driving home in a new burgundy/cream Packard with wide white-wall tires!
and the farm outlet in Silverdale, With all this ostentation, it was the talk of the town, well, until abandoned in the shadows of
our car finally gave up the ghost, a potentially new topic for gossip.
To be continued in Februarys North Bay Review.
as they say, and collapsed. We
then bought a practical 1949
burgundy woody Plymouth
station wagon, which served us
well until 1957, after we had sold
Sam and Elsie Corliss, 1946
the store and moved to Califor(Our car when we came to Allyn)
nia. With all of its use, including
a camping facility for us kids, I regret I havent a good photo of it.
It seems, often when we reach a certain age, our early memories become so remote we
could have easily stepped in and out of an old black-and-white movie, like those seen on
the commercial-free TCM channel. In these vintage silver-screen productions, I often find
myself, ironically, concentrating more on the rides than on plot and portrayal. Im totally
Corliss Store, 1947 (Gone but not forgotten)
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Here we are in the New Year, 2015! Not yet a member of the Mason Benson Club (MBC)
but would like to join? Just go to the website (www.mbcwa.com) and click on the link MBC
Membership Renewal in order to join. While on the website, or if already a member, you may
want to provide input on what you would like to see as Events and Activities in 2015. From the
Home page, there is a link to a survey for adding your two cents and making a difference.
Rental and Catering: Did you know that the MBC building is available for rental by
both club members and non-club members? Building capacity is 299 and many improvements
both inside and outside make it a wonderful venue for all kinds of social events! Catering is
also available for events with a minimum of 75 guests. You will want to book early though
as the building has been used for club activities or rentals almost every weekend from June
to September! For more information, please call Joy Jenne at (360) 432-0123.
Bricks are still available! The bricks are located in the main entry way and there is
room in the design for more. The bricks contain family names, quotes, quips and remembrances that are literally cast in stone. Order forms are available at the MBC or online at
the MBC website by clicking on Engraved Bricks from the menu on the Home page.
For a wealth of information,
dont forget these websites: www.
co.mason.wa.us, www.crimereports.com, or if you cant find what
you are looking for, just send an
e-mail to me and I will do what I
can to help: RobertCook@Windermere.com.
Grapeview Grapevine
By Linda (Spooner) Humphrey 275.2106
sunbirdlinda@wavecable.com / www.grapeviewwa.com
Sherwood Guild, a chapter of Mason General Hospital Foundation, will host the 2015
Cooking with Xinh dinner event on two nights Sunday, March 22 or Monday, March
23, at 6 p.m. Seating is limited so reservations must be made by Monday, March 17. Tickets
are $50 each and can be purchased
by calling MGH Foundation office
at (360) 427-3623.
The event takes place at Xinhs
Clam & Oyster House, 221 W.
Railroad, Shelton. The evening
will include a cooking demonstration and recipes from renowned
seafood Chef Xinh Dwelley, plus,
dinner, dessert and wine or beer.
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December 22,
2014 brought
the community
together for the
ACA Christmas
Sing-a-long. More
photos and story
on page 8.
Fifty-eight minutes into New Year 2015 on January 1, Olivia Lee King was born in The
Birth Center at Mason General Hospital. The 2015 New Years Baby weighed 8 lbs., 13 oz.
and was 20- inches long. Olivia and her parents, Cyle and Holly King, received a gift bag
filled with many items, including toys, diapers and sparkling apple cider all made possible
by The Birth Center staff, MGH&FC and MGH Foundations Auxiliary Gift Shop. The Gift
Shop contributed to the festivities by
giving a generous discount on many
items for the new baby, such as baby
care items and adorable toys and accessories. Helping in the celebration
was Birth Center Director Kris Gaa,
R.N, shown here (right) with baby
Olivia and her proud parents.
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