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A hay wagon filled with children brings up the rear of Sheriff Steve Mansfield's contingent of supporters in the Napavine parade yesterday.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Dogs wearing campaign T-shirts, balloon and sign carrying supporters and candidates for office handing out stickers and brochures instead of candy.

I’ve gone to a couple of parades lately to get a sense of how many volunteers the various candidates have walking with them.

Centralia attorney Jonathan Meyer who is running for Lewis County prosecutor brought quite the crowd with him yesterday to Napavine’s Funtime Festival parade. It’s hard to tell how many were with incumbent prosecutor Michael Golden, because his group of gold T-shirt wearing people got separated from each other as they moved through the parade route – the same thing happened last weekend at the Toledo Cheese Days parade.

Both men running for Lewis County coroner brought a contingent with them as did both men running for Lewis County sheriff.

I’m guessing the little ones traveling in the hay wagon were more comfortable than the kids last week in Toledo who rode in the manure spreader trailer.

Don’t know how much it all says about who would be ahead if there were polls, but I was most impressed by the “hard and fruity” Now and Later candies, the pep band in Toledo last week, and of course, always the princesses and their courts.

The vote-by-mail primary is just one month away, on Aug. 17. And I’ve been told numerous times, but haven’t verified it yet, those running for prosecutor, sheriff and coroner will see their names on those ballots and then the same pairs of candidates for each office should be on the November general election ballots again.

Deputy Sgt. Ken Cheeseman trails behind his supporters in the Napavine parade yesterday. The candidate for sheriff was among many, many office-seekers walking in the parade.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Hi readers. It’s me, news reporter Sharyn Decker.

Just a quick note to tell you, the mother of the boy who was hit by a motorbike a little over two weeks ago at Orchard Drive in the Salkum area says he is doing great.

You can see her full comment by looking at the June 14 post, “Child airlifted after Salkum-area motorcycle accident”

You can find that by clicking on the category “News briefs” and moving backwards in time through “older entries” until you see that headline and then either click on the headline or click at the end where you see it says “1 comment”

Or, you should be able to search for that news story in the search box on the right side of the web site’s page.

Or, I could provide a link back to it I just now realized. Nearly all of this stuff doing a news web site is new to me. It’s a work in progress.

By the way, since I’m right here talking to you, I’ve been wanting to say thank you so much for reading the news here. Almost nothing makes me happier than when somebody reads a news story I write.

Lewis County Sirens so far has been just loads of fun to do. I’m not quite all the way up to speed yet, but am keeping so busy.

The news story you see here this weekend about the campaigns for sheriff, is just one of a handful of coming stories on the upcoming election. And today I was out off of South Scheuber Road where several fire departments and a contractor took care of demolishing a private school so a new one can be built.

I’m just now choosing a photograph and will post it all momentarily.

Yesterday I spent several hours working on a very … well, not exactly fun story, although I really enjoyed myself. I won’t tell you right now what it is, but expect it tomorrow.

Before I sign off here, I also want to say: if anybody has an idea for a news story, or if you simply have a news tip, don’t hesitate a minute to email me or call me. All my contact information is over there on the right side of the web page, under “Contact us at Lewis County Sirens”.

Back to work I go now.