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Written by his grandson; R. W. Rogers

To commemorate my Grandfather and his magnificent work, I always wanted to make sure some sort of history was available for anyone interested. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this was something I wanted to do until he passed away on Saturday, October 13, 2001 at the age of 82. I've looked and gathered what bits and pieces I can and could. However, I eventually came across a Documentary of my Grandfather by a titled name ~DrStang, the page is merely a .doc file linked below and kudos to this unknown person. Additional photos were added to enhance what is mentioned in the Documentary of Harry T. Halverson. (Side Note) This Documentary was done prior to Harry's passing. Harry's two seismographs from Kinemetrics were since taken in for diagnostics. When he passed away, they just seemed to quit working. I would have changed the wording below to past tense, yet reading it feels like he's still right here. This for me, is hard to pass up.

Go here to read the entire history of this wonderful man! http://www.rogersfinephotography.com/Harry_T.html

Included in the sale:

The list of members on LinkedIn.com who belong to: Friends of Olympia.
There are 41 members currently. (as of 7 July 2008)

Also included is the url: www.friendsofolympia.com

The LOGO is NOT offered for sale. The LOGO for City of Olympia is owned by the City of Olympia not this url.

I'm selling this blog, the url, and the list of names, PLUS I will turn over to the buyer the manager rights to run this group on LinkedIn.com

LinkedIn.com owns the use of the group on their site, so I cannot offer it for sale, I can only offer the management of the group.

Please contact: rjgrawet@yahoo.com for your questions or to make an offer.

Tugboats Racing in Budd Inlet......beautiful mountains.......lazy back roads thru farm and ranch country........we have all the beauty that God makes available to us on earth!

Come and visit us!

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Joyce and I headed north out of Shelton, Wa (about 20 minutes from our home in Olympia) this morning for Port Townsend, WA. Port Townsend is exactly 100 miles from Olympia and a two hour ride for us. We like to ride up on a Saturday for lunch. Its really pretty and right on the water. You can see across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

BUT..............it got kind of chilly as we headed north.

So, we decided to turn back around and head up the Skokomish Valley just outside of Shelton. We had made a quick ride up a few years ago. This time we wanted to 'drink in' the entire valley slowly and savor its beauty.

There were fields full of millions of yellow buttercups that just were amazing! We stopped and watched some beautiful horses in a field and enjoyed the view including the house and barn in the background. What an idyllic little valley.

I hope you all can come some spring or summer and ride up the valley with us.

Send me your photos and/or just a snippet on what your weekend had for you so far.........

Thanks to Mr. Whitlock for the wonderful photo looking north from the 4th Avenue bridge.
We live in a very beautiful city. The city has very progressive politics and an active citizenry.

We love business that is a friend to our environment. Please send us your favorite Olympia pictures.

Also please consider sending us any post that offers Olympia area products to the world and/or the other way around. We'd like to help Olympia grow in an eco- friendly and sustainable way.

Please get out and support Governor Gregoire's re-election efforts in whatever way you can! We can NOT afford to let Dino Rossi become governor. His Bush wannabe politics will take our state to ruin much as 'King' George has take the United States to its worse condition in 100 years.

This weekend, our Republican opponent will attend the state Republican Party convention and present his agenda to bring the extreme policies of the Bush Administration to our state.

Our Republican opponent has supported policies like cutting healthcare for the poorest children and denying the true causes of global climate change. It's obvious that his agenda has not changed.

We cannot wait until November to send the message that we reject the extreme plans of our Republican opponent. We need to send a strong message to the Republicans before the final day of their convention this Saturday.

As a state senator, our Republican opponent wrote a budget that would have slashed healthcare for 46,000 low-income kids. He also supported President Bush's decision to cut healthcare for millions of poor children.

But I believe healthcare is a right, not a perk, so we've provided healthcare to 84,000 more kids and fought the Bush Administration over its irresponsible and illegal decision.

Our Republican opponent is denying the true causes of global climate change, and his supporters include the state's largest, most powerful anti-environmental lobbyists.

But I believe our greatest legacy to our children and grandchildren is a cleaner, greener Washington. So we've been getting results that have made Washington a national leader in the fight against global climate change and created the Puget Sound Partnership to clean up the Puget Sound.

Your support before midnight Saturday will help prevent the Bush Administration's policies and their messenger from gaining momentum in this campaign.

We have made so much progress and, together, we will continue to take on challenges and get results.

Sincerely,
Chris Gregoire

P.S. Want to learn more about my campaign? Sign up for updates by clicking here.

wa-democrats.org

Look all around you......flowers are blooming everywhere!

Olympia in spring time. Photo by Joyce G.

It was SOOOOOOOOOO............beautiful here this last weekend. With the temps going into the 90's so early on Saturday, and the 70/80 degrees on Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sunday....it was a weekend to get outdoors and enjoy the sites.

Here's a picture of my wife Joyce sitting on our motorcycle at Boston Harbor (just south of downtown Olympia). What a great location! Moutains, Water, Boats, beautiful homes, and a cute little restaurant. Could you ask for anything more?

Oh by the way; we're up to 21 members of Friends of Olympia and growing steadily. AND....take a look at the little map on the right side. If you click on it, it will show you a little flag representing the country of a visitor to this site......we are quite worldly you know!

Springtime at last! Spring in Olympia is full of Rhodies. All colors come to life and every street has its own rhodies to share.

The rhodies in our yard blossom at different times; so that there is always one or more plants going to bloom from March thru June.

Now that's crazy! A Camel in Olympia??????

Well....yes....within 25 miles of downtown Olympia is this lone camel. He's near Vader, Washington. By the way; there's some really great drives for motorcyclists on the backroads of southwest Washington including the road that goes by this camel. Please also stop by my website for motorcyclists at: http://www.worldwidemotorcycleassociation.com or click on the url to the right to go there.

Email me if you want to know how to find it. rjgrawet@yahoo.com
Also; go to our pictures website about Olympia to see lots of pics of Olympia and get many other suggestions for things to do. Just click on the url to the right and go to the picture gallery.

Please send me your favorite Olympia pictures.

Ah......spring at last! Flowers blooming everywhere; blue sky; nice warm days........ah.......Olympia, Olympia, so beautiful you are!

Send your pictures of Olympia; we really like pictures of you IN Olympia. RJGrawet@yahoo.com

We hope that this becomes a public record of the beauty of Olympia, Washington. Those of us who live here know how pretty this place is. Let's share it with the world!

Please join the Friends of Olympia by emailing me: rjgrawet@yahoo.com
If you are LinkedIn.com member; you can join by pasting this url into your browser and clicking on it.

Welcome to Friends of Olympia. Please send your favorite Olympia pictures for posting at this site.

We're really glad to meet you. Please consider sending us a photo that you've taken from the Olympia, Washington area or from any Olympia oriented place or name. IE: I think it would be fun to have pictures of Olympia Dukakis (from her), and from Olympia named cities around the world, in addition to pics of our own Olympia.

Send pictures to: rjgrawet@yahoo.com

Stop back soon to see the latest addition of pictures.

A typical sunny day in Olympia, Washington. Sailboats passing on Budd Inlet with Mt. Rainier showing its full presence in the background. This is what its all about! This is why we live here. When the sun is out on a blue sky day; there is no place more beautiful on earth!

Please send me your favorite picture of the city, of you, of you in the city, or any picture that relates back to Olympia. Even send pictures of 'other' Olympia's in the world.

Let's make this a repository for those who want to gain a broader look at our wonderful city.