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Day 41 · Completed

Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Shelton

Downtown Shelton, Mason County, Washington

Her last Bone Marrow Awareness Day, talking with people all over Shelton

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Day 41, October 17: a Bone Marrow Awareness Day in Shelton, with no walking miles on the route.

Gouache view down a sloping street lined with timber and brick buildings and utility wires, toward pale bay water and wooded hills beyond.
Illustration inspired by Shelton, Mason County, WA.

On October 17 Jeana spent the last Bone Marrow Awareness Day of the walk in Shelton, by the old railway station and downtown, talking with young and old about joining NMDP.

Her awareness days are days she spends walking around a town or a city, talking to people about how to join the national registry, NMDP, and why it is so important to join. This was the last of them on the fifth Steps to Marrow walk.

After breakfast with Lori they drove into Shelton, where people had gathered by the old railway station. She talked to old and young alike: you never know who you are talking to, she says, and it may lead to registering the perfect match for a patient in need. One young man said he would post about joining the registry on his Facebook page.

Then she walked on into downtown Shelton on a sunny Saturday afternoon, sharing the QR code that takes people straight to the Jada Bascom Foundation website.

From the road

Her last Bone Marrow Awareness Day, talking with people all over Shelton, and a drive out toward Agate with Lori

This was the last of what she calls her bone marrow awareness days on the fifth Steps to Marrow walk: days she spends walking around a town or a city, talking to people about how to join the national registry, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), and why it is so important to join.

After sleeping in a little and having breakfast with Lori, they drove into Shelton, by the old railway station, where people were holding a No Kings rally and inviting everyone to exercise their right to vote. It was a very peaceful rally, with lots of people her age, and younger and middle-aged people too. Seeing all the white hair, she thought many of them had probably protested against the war in Vietnam in the 60s and at No Nukes rallies in the 70s, and had been peacefully exercising their right to protest for a long time.

She feels it’s good to share information about NMDP with everyone, so she talked to old and young alike. You never know who you’re talking to, she says; it may lead to registering the perfect match for a patient in need. The people she talked to were inspired by Jada’s story, and by the message of joining NMDP to find out whether they are the match that could save a life. One young man said he would post about joining the registry on his Facebook page, and tell people he had met her at the rally in Shelton.

She walked on into downtown Shelton to talk with others who were out and about on a sunny Saturday afternoon, speaking with everyone she could and, of course, sharing the QR code that takes people straight to the Jada Bascom Foundation website.

Then Lori called and suggested a drive. She wanted to show Jeana the turnoff to her family’s property out toward Agate, and in the end she drove her all the way out to it. Jeana was delighted to see it after so many years. It was a lovely drive along Hammersley Inlet and Oakland Bay.

On the way back they stopped at the restaurant where Lori’s daughter Elizabeth works on weekends, and Jeana enjoyed meeting her. There is nothing quite like good food and gracious company to make an evening special, she says. As Mary Poppins would say, the day was practically perfect in every way.

Her host that night was Lori, in Shelton.

You never know who you’re talking to. It may lead to registering the perfect match for a patient in need.

Jeana Moore
A still creek runs between banks of trees in full autumn colour, gold and orange against a blue sky, reflected in the water.A long line of people at the rally stands along the roadside in Shelton beneath a row of tall trees turning gold, under a clear blue sky.A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty, in a long pale green gown and paper crown and holding up a torch, walks along the edge of a parking lot.Clear water rushes past a mossy boulder and a tuft of grass growing from the rocks in a river.A shallow river runs over rocks between brushy banks, the sunlit water reflecting the sky.A colourful hand-painted sign on a coffee stand reads “Life is all about choices”, above “Espresso · Lotus · Tea”.Jeana, in her safety vest, stands in long grass beneath tall trees beside a road.Jeana stands small on a grassy verge where a quiet road bends away into the trees.Jeana stands by a stop sign and street signs at a quiet road junction, with trees behind her.A wide stretch of grey-blue water, with a wooded point and a distant shore under soft white clouds.A madrone tree with smooth reddish branches leans over a rocky beach.A big fir leans out over a pebbly beach, where small waves lap the shore and the water stretches away to a wooded far side.Water glints through the leafy branches of two slender trees on the shore.
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Local history and background reading for this stop.

  1. Welcome to Shelton — checked Sep 5, 2026
  2. Join the donor registry — checked Sep 5, 2026
The flyer: STOP BLOOD CANCER set in tall letters over a dark plum page, a quote, and a QR code beside a text-to-join line for the U.S.One standing face of the table tent: the same headline and quote on the left, a large QR code on the right.

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Print it. Put it where people already stand.

A coffee counter, a church foyer, a break room, a race table. Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk, and a number to text for anyone who would rather not scan — no app, no wifi, nothing to hand back.Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk — nothing to install, nothing to hand back. The number to text printed beside it is for joining NMDP, which registers people who live in the U.S., its territories and the freely associated states. If you live anywhere else, find your country’s registry.

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