SEDRO-WOOLLEY — It was a Thursday afternoon of boxing at Country Meadow Village.

Yes, Country Meadow Village is a retirement community in Sedro-Woolley. And, yes, the pugilists were in fact a pair of feisty tenants, one of whom was in a wheelchair and the other who got around with a walker.

Bernadine Salsman, with her walker perched in front of her, had no idea what hit her. Janet “The Rebel” Monk wasn’t really sure either.

But it didn’t take Monk — rocking and rolling in her wheelchair with each thrown haymaker — long to figure it out. Once she did, it was lights out for Salsman.

“I just kept throwing punches,” Monk said after the fight ended in a first-round knockout. “I figured one of us was going to go down.”

Salsman, Monk and the other Country Meadow Village tenants gathered weren’t boxing in the tradtional sense.

They were duking it out, swinging for the fences and looking to pick up spares on Country Meadow Village’s latest purchase — a Nintendo Wii system.
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