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DG: You live in a beautiful area here. It's in southern Washington.

RM: We like it. It's just real...

DG: Right. And it's along the coast.

RM: A good place to live, I think.

DG: What is it? Pacific County here?

RM: Pacific County, yeah.

DG: And what's the population of Pacific County?

RM: Gee, I don't know.

DG: I think somebody said maybe around twenty thousand or something like that.

RM: Yeah. It's about... I think you're pretty close.

DG: Is that right?

RM: Yeah, twenty something thousand.

DG: And you're retired from working at...

RM: Well, I had -- we had our own oyster business, sold that out, and then I started -- then I retired and started selling manufactured homes and the area was too small so we had to close.

DG: That was in the last ten years?

RM: Yeah.

DG: And you've been very active in the community.

RM: Well, I've done several things, yeah.

DG: What boards are you presently serving on?

RM: Well, I'm on the Grays Harbor College board and the Harbor Community Bank board, and I guess that's about it.

DG: Now, but you've served on the school board?

RM: Oh, yeah, well, I'm still on the Grays Harbor College School board.

DG: But the local school board also, right?

RM: Yeah. I was on the local school board, yeah.

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DG: Now, we were talking about some of your community activity.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: And so we talked about the different boards that you served on. And then you were treasurer of the...

RM: Methodist, South Bend Methodist Church.

DG: For?

RM: Forty years.

DG: Forty years. [Laughs]

RM: Nobody wanted it so...

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