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May 21, 2013

1983 Article By Mike Contris – Olympian Newspaper Columnist

August 27, 2012 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Mike Appreciated My Dad’s Remembrances Of Old Bordeaux, WA This may be a repeat post, but I couldn’t find a previous one in my blogs, so I’m sharing the article by former Olympia, WA columnist Mike Contris again. As you can see it was first published in 1983. The reason I’m sharing it is because [...]

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Carnival of Genealogy – 57th Edition “I read it in the news!”

June 7, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Technically, I didn’t read this article in the news since it happened about nine years before I was born, but it was in the Daily Olympian newspaper in 1941. As the caretaker of the family documents and pictures, this article was one of a few about our family that made the news. Dad never “won” [...]