Volunteers help store prosper
PK ELL. Wash. (AP) — It didn't take much
for Sydney Cudyka to get involved with the
Pe El) Community Thrift Shop 10 years ago
It was a friendly proposition.
"We just fell into it, I guess," she said
"We're all friends, we re all trustworthy If
someone can't go. we get someone else to
take our plac e."
The Visiting Nurses Association of
Chehalis operated a thrift shop in the town
for three years liefore pulling out. A hand
ful of loc al residents decided the venture
was such a good idea they would continue
it.
"Somebody had to do it." explainer] Trish
Islay, a relative newcomer to the western
Lewis County town and one of the 1(1 or so
thrift shop volunteers.
Money raised by the thrift shop over the
past nine years, almost $20, has gone to sup
port the town's volunteer fire and ambu
lance service. Spurred by economic need
and community pride, a group of mostly
elderly women has watched over the thrift
shop sine e July 1085.
Now. others in the once-booming timber
town urn loining in.
Volunteer tat Kir and donated materials are
flowing into a pair of community service
projects A renovated park on the west end
of town and a new space for tin* thrill shop
are two examples
The thrift shop has (wen plugging along
inside a converted apartment just down the
street from Town Hall
Hut when volunteers learned their rent
would go up, the non-profit group knew it
would have had a diffit nit time making the
new payments
Where to go nest?
Kiev approai bed the town couiu il earlier
this year and asked about the possibility of
using a portion of a partly occupied builiiing
n< ross the street from Town flail The city
had a< quired the dilapidated structure and
was using it for storage and maintenance.
Because of the shop's donations over the
past nine years, many felt it was time for the
city to give something Imck
"The town's really getting back together
and the town's working together." Mayor
Jack Rutledge said
After a turbulent rec ent history that saw
the recall of Rutledge's predec essor and an
ongoing federal < ivil rights lawsuit against
the- town rtnd its police offic ers, the town
was in need of some good news
A good volunteer public effort provided
just the pick me up
Renovation of the city park on the west
end of town c ame first Rutledge said play
ground equipment has l>e>en installed, three
picnic table sheds have gone up and 75 rail
road ties from the old Burlington Northern
line have been plac od in the park
Official* also are pondering the installa
tion of a "kiddie" pool
With help from l^rwis County jail inmates
on work release programs, both progs ts are
making significant headway
An inmate with carpentry experienc e* is
overseeing the* work on the new thrift shop
The two-man crow is |>nt< lung the roof with
metal shanks and insulating, sealing and
wiring the thrift shop's spac e dow n lielow
T he* building c ould use the work
No one c ould remember exat tly how long
the clay brii k slruc tore has lieeii there, but
it 's at least hi years old
"It was Icefore my time, and 1 was leirn in
1 " said longtime Pe fill resident )a< k
Collier
It has been a laundromat, a car dealership.
a lumber store and a guy even operated a
shake mill out of it for awhile
It is one of many old buildings that line
the main highway. Thev recall a time when
the tiny timber town boasted its own movie
theaters, hank, clothing stores and several
taverns.
it was a booming metropolis way hack,"
Isley said
But the timber industry isn't what it once
was along the Chehalis River, and I’e Kll is
In h different era
Volunteer Inlxir and donations an? fueling
a comeback of sorts
Sometime letfore Nov. 1, the volunteers
will pat k up the shop's merchandise and
move it across the street Volunteer labor
and materials art* helping to renovate a jior
tion of the creaky building.
It should la* quite a parade
Asked to describe the shop's inventory,
volunteer Mary Lister dost ribed it this way:
''Anything!'' she said "You should go
across and look Anything from nuts to free
apples."
Indeed, the shop includes an eclectic mix
of donated men handise spread throughout
the numerous rooms Towels, soc ks. jump
suits. picture frames ami lampshades all
reserve their particular corners of the mix
Hv November, it should l>e open for busi
ness.
The new digs will provide more open
space than the multi-room converted apart
ment where the thrift shop is currently locat
ed Islev said the new spat e should work
well.
Cudyka eyed the old building and won
dered
"We hope so." she said, "we hope so.''
College course to ‘go where no one has gone before’
Ol.YMIMA (A!*) Th»> Tvorgreen Stale
College is going vvIiiti' few schools have
gone before offering a course on Slur irvk.
il si iem e-fitiiotl 1 V series
Beginning Monday. r>~ students will
wiiti h Star l irk episodes and explore the
relationships between popular culture,
media, si iem e and lei hnology
The wildly popular course is tailed
"Where No One lias Gone Before,“ a title
gleaned from the introduction to the TV
series Required reading includes A Hrief
History of t'lmr by Stephen Hawking. Arrive
•Vew World by Aldous Huxley end Arthur (
Clarke s 2001 ,-t S/mi r L)dysst>\
The Kii-credit course, spread over two
quarters, would make up pist under IK per
i ent of the total 180 i redits needed to earn
a h<u holer's degree
!l is llic tiroiiK Hi Id of Lvergroan fm ultv
mitmtiers Carrie Margolin ami Argentina
Daley . both fans of the original TV series
Margolin, a cognitive psyi hologist, will
explore the development of artifii ml intelli
gome Dalev will dix uss si reemvriling and
popular i ulture Si ience teachers will lei •
ture two hours each week oil phvsu s and
astronomy for the course
"It's a good fit with what Kvergreen is
uniquely situated to do in terms of drawing
on different disciplines." said l vergreen
Provost Barbara Leigh Smith "I don’t think
this is alt that unique, actually We have
i oiifideiu.e that this is serious and important
and worth doing "
Many students agree The i lass is full and
20 students are on a waiting list
The class is so popular, in fact, that n
lawyer from Olympia wanted to enroll at
Evergreen just for the class. One student's
mother called from Colorado trying to get
her son into it. and another student franti
cally called a faculty member on a < ellular
telephone for help after fie missed the course
cutoff last spring
Margolin is worried that some students
may have enrolled just to watt h (erne Kod
denberry s original Star Trek TV series and
its successors. The Xr\t Generation and
Deep Spate Sine
Mi < om ern would be tfiat people would
think all they're doing is watching Star
Irek, she said. "We're not teaching Star
Trek"
Tomato
juice, guns
weapons
for skunks
GARFIELD. Wash (AP) —
Skunks are raisin# a slink in
this Whitman County town,
sanding some people to the
grocery store for tomato juice
and others to get their shot
guns.
Jack Doeblor and his wife,
Mary Keman. took the tomato
juice approach.
"Saturday morning at 5:30,
I smelled skunk, and I knew
the dogs had returned." Doe
bier said
Luckily, Keman had stocked
up on tomato juice, considered
by many to be a first-rate
method for removing skunk
aroma from dogs
Doobler drenched his white
dogs with the rod juice to
deodorize them
Skunk season runs from late
spring to early fall This year,
the striped stinkers seem to
have shown up in record num
bers.
"As soon os the sun goes
down, you've got to get your
animals inside because the
skunks come out." said Patti
Devlin, whose house has been
sprayed before.
The skunks walk down the
street "like they own the place
Our dogs have boon sprayed
several times.” she said.
Mayor C.heryle Curtis’
garage was trashed by a skunk
that got trapped inside
overnight.
"The little dude did all
kinds of damage," Curtis said.
"He dumped over buckets of
oil Hu tore insulation off the
walls."
Everyone seems to have his
or her own way of dealing
with skunks Some people
feed them, the city provides
traps and some people catch
tiie skunks and release them
outside of town.
Some people believe the
only good skunk is a dead one.
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