Prison Compost

Stafford Creek Correctional Center composts all of its organic waste on site, around 500 tons per year. In this photo, inmate Josh Nygren holds a handful of finished compost during a tour organized by the Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce.

Tackle

Photo Illustration

To accompany a piece about bullying.

Affectionate Cat

Animal handler Dave Coleburn gets a rub from one of a pair of 8-month-old mountain lion siblings he brought to the Grays Harbor County Fair. He's got the kittens' parents on his property in Anacortes and has looked after the pair since birth.

Kite Gangster

Andy Sias, the owner of Ocean Shores Kites, brandishes one of the store's rubber band guns.

Wired

The 7th Street Kids got to practice flying around the stage ahead of the upcoming production of "The Wizard of Oz."

Shot From the Hip

Why am I posting this shot? I don't know. It's from the McCleary Bear Festival parade a couple of weeks ago. My D2H must have fired when I was walking through the crowd because I didn't know I had it. I kind of like it though!

"Take me to your leader"

Ironworker Tryouts

Ironworkers Local 86 held tryouts in an effort to get more local apprentices working at the SR 520 Pontoon Project site. Of the 25 people that showed up, only 15 were able to complete each of the four tasks set up by the union. The most grueling test was "packing rebar," in which each of the tryouts teamed up with a union member in hefting a 100-pound bundle of steel back and forth across a vacant lot (about 200 feet). At each end, they had to drop and pick up the bundle multiple times in rapid succession. Within the first hour, this test claimed nine of the 10 dropouts.



The tryouts were taught to tie rebar then instructed to do it over and over again as fast as they could.

Probably the most backbreaking test was tying a rebar grid on the ground. Tryouts were dinged for using their knees to bend over because it was too slow.

Waiting

The driver of a truck that overturned on the Port Industrial Road sits on one of heavy steel tubes he was hauling and waits for help. The truck tipped when its load broke loose.