{"id":3319,"date":"2019-06-01T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2019-06-01T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T21:16:37","slug":"dusty-anchors-celebration-of-life-will-be-held-june-22-at-olympic-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"Dusty Anchors Celebration of Life will be held June 22 at Olympic High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-135x90.jpg 135w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-85x57.jpg 85w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-280x187.jpg 280w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-576x384.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-145x97.jpg 145w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Dusty-Anchors-10-566x377.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUSTY ANCHORS<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of Life for Dusty Anchors will be held June 22 at 1 p.m. at Olympic High School\u2019s commons area. Anchors, a former local radio sports announcer and softball coach at Olympic, died May 16 at the age of 69 after a long battle with heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>For years Anchors was the \u201cVoice of Westsound\u201d, a man whose tireless positive enthusiasm was difficult to overlook. He and Lane C. Dowell made a wonderful radio broadcast team doing basketball games and a weekend coaches\u2019 corner show on local radio.<\/p>\n<p>Anchors also did the public address at Olympic College basketball games and coached women\u2019s basketball there, coached his two daughters in fastpitch softball \u00a0select teams and for Olympic High School and did it with a passion and a heart big enough to draw attention to even the casual observer.<\/p>\n<p>In his last years, Anchors also coached at Eastlake High School and Battle Ground and then at Ridgefield High School<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUSTY ANCHORS A celebration of Life for Dusty Anchors will be held June 22 at 1 p.m. at Olympic High&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}