April 26, 2007

	Resounding 'yes' for Monte schools
	66.6% for Prop. 1; Prop. 2 hanging on last-minute ballots By Dee Anne Shaw Vidette Editor Montesano School Board President Lori Blanchard had just one thing to say about the election results for a $19.25 million bond issue Tuesday night at the Auditor's Office. "YAY!" Proposition 1, the $16.13 million proposal to build a new Simpson School, modernize Beacon School, and re-roof the Junior/Senior High School and the gym, is passing with 66.5 percent of the vote, 1,358 to 682. "I'm just so excited and so very grateful that people recognized the need," Blanchard said. "I think they will see that it truly is a plan that will benefit everyone." Superintendent Marti Harruff said she was "ecstatic."		Jaws start to drop and excitement mounts as Montesano Superintendent Marti Harruff reads the election results at the County Auditor's Office on Tuesday night. From left, chairman of the citizen's committee, Steve Poler; School Board President Lori Blanchard; board member Kim Lillegard; Supt. Harruff, and board member Ray Sowers. (Photo by Dee Anne Shaw)
	She's back to Story Time, full-time
	Lifelong Montesanan and lifelong reader By Tommi Halvorsen Gatlin Vidette Reporter Carol Brumfield has been going to the Monte library since she was a little tot. Now at 26, she's not about to stop - in fact, she's there full time. In January, Brumfield, a Montesano resident virtually her entire life, was hired full time as the new children's librarian at the cozy W.H. Abel Memorial Timberland Library, where she first met Ramona in Beverly Cleary's books - "I read every single one" - and Maurice Sendak's wild things.		Carol Brumfield reads about a cat who hates rain to 3-year-old Kelly Hewitt and other tots at Story Time at Montesano's W.H. Abel Memorial Timberland Library. (Photo by Dee Anne Shaw)
	Monte sweeps Toledo
	2A Evergreen Baseball By Jerrad Kellogg Vidette Reporter Narrowly missing early mercy rule endings in both games, the Montesano Bulldogs easily rolled over visiting Toledo, 13-5 and 9-0, in a 1A Evergreen League baseball double header Thursday, April 19, at Vessey Park. This was the first home-stand of the season for the Bulldogs, who previously had a problem with the back-stop netting and were unable to play at Vessey until now. And in their first home appearance Montesano cruised to victory behind a solid offensive performance in which they out-hit Toledo 31-8 over the two games.		Montesano's Cody Martin legs out an infield hit to the third baseman in the opening game of the doubleheader to lead-off the Bulldog's first inning at bat, in which they went on to push Martin, Frank Carpenter and Tyler Fry around the bases. (Photo by Jerrad Kellogg)