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Kitchen: Organization feeds about 500 people each month
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Due to miscommunication with-
in the agency, Community Kitchen
failed to apply for money from United
Way of Mason County that is collected
through workplace giving campaigns,
Benjamin said.
For the first time this year, non-
profit groups that received money
from United Way of Mason County
got them for two years instead of one,
which means Community Kitchen
will have to wait two years to apply
again.
Community Kitchen feeds about
500 individuals each month, some of
them up to four times a day, Benja-
min said.
"It's in everyone's best interest
that we stay open," he said.
Assistant manager Krista Kirton
has volunteered at Community Kitch-
en for six years.
"I would hate to see it close ...
There are people who come in who
have nothing to eat," she said.
Tax-deductible donations can be
made by dropping by the Community
Kitchen.
Benjamin, a native of Southern
California, moved to Shelton in the
1980s and opened the Community
Kitchen 16 years ago.
'Volunteers began feeding hungry
people under a canopy in Brewer
Park a few days a week.
"Nobody was feeding anybody back
them at all ... You had to go to Olym-
pia to get a free meal," Benjamin re-
called.
If Community Kitchen closes, "It
would put a burden on Community
Lifeline ... which would cause all
kinds of problems," he said.
Community Lifeline, another Shel-
ton organization that provides food
for the needy, serves free meals to all
from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and
from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturdays
and Sundays at 2318 N. Third St. But
unlike Community Kitchen, it does
not serve breakfast or lunch.
Community Kitchen volunteers
pick up trash, and point clients with
mental health issues toward services,
"so we're doing more than just feeding
people," Benjamin said.
Joseph Lisk, who has cooked,
cleaned and served for 11 years,
agrees.
Without the Community Kitchen,
former clients will be loitering on the
streets in front of downtown busi-
nesses and harassing people, he said.
"We're trying to keep that under
control," Lisk said. "If people are
bored, they'll do something stupid."
Lisk said he serves "vets, home-
less, low-income families, people who
need food, anyone who needs a hot
meal."
Pot: Moratorium won't affect retail stores, some producers
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State law requires the com-
mission to schedule a public
hearing within 60 days of its
vote to begin the moratorium.
The public hearing has been
scheduled for 6:30 p.m. July
22.
The moratorium can be re-
newed every six months with a
commission vote. The commis-
sion can chose to lift the mora-
torium at any time.
Neatherlin said he was
concerned about approving
a moratorium 24 hours after
the commission first discussed
it during a briefing Monday
morning.
"These people may have al-
ready spent their life savings
to purchase a piece of land,"
he said. "They have a right to
recoup the money invested be-
cause they followed us. We al-
lowed it and we have to take
responsibility for it."
Neatherlin said the county
is equally responsible for pro-
tecting the rights of residents
of Sells Drive and legal com-
mercial marijuana growers.
Other speakers asked the
commission Tuesday why they
allowed commercial marijuana
operations in rural residential
areas.
"I think in our hearts we
feel you have let us down,"
said James McElroy, who said
he lives near a proposed Can-
nabis producer.
The moratorium will not
affect retail stores or the 11
marijuana producers and pro-
cessors who have already filed
valid permits with the county,
either for new construction or
change of use permits.
The companies grand-
fathered into the previous
zoning regulations include
Hazy Daze on Old Belfair
Highway; Seattle Inceptive
Group on Old Belfair High-
way; Jankowski Construction,
also known as Stone Supply,
on Northeast Elfendahl Pass completed permit as of Tues-
Road; DM Belfair. Invest-day, when the moratorium
ments, also known as Forbid-
den Farms, on Southeast Sells
Drive; ABI Management, also
known as Greenleaf Grow-
ers, at the Port of Shelton
Industrial Park; Mac Garden
on Southeast Banjo Lane in
Shelton; Canopy Park LLC
on West Westfield Court in
Shelton; M&R Distributing at
the Port of Shelton's Sander-
son Field; Raft Hollingsworth,
also known as the Holling-
sworth Cannabis Company,
on Honeysuckle Lane in Shel-
ton; and Highwater Farms on
West Skokomish Valley Road.
Eight additional compa-
nies have had pre-permit
conferences with the Mason
County Planning Depart-
ment, said Barbara Adkins,
director of planning and com-
munity development. None of
these are grandfathered into
the county zoning because
they had not submitted a
was approved.
Five of these businesses will
be affected by the moratorium,
Adkins said.
Mason County Chief Depu-
ty prosecutor Tim Whitehead
told the commission Monday
that state law grandfathered
those applicants into the com-
mission's current zoning ordi-
nance, regardless of any mora-
torium.
"These folks have a right to
rely upon our legislation when
they apply for permits," he
said.
The commission does not
have the authority to approve
state licenses for marijuana
growers. The county can only
set zoning regulations and ap-
prove building permits for the
operations.
"We voted on what zoning
would be allowed - we just had
to tell these people where they
could locate," Jeffreys said.
In November, the commis-
sion voted 2-0 to approve zon-
ing ordinances for commercial
marijuana operations. Sheldon
was absent at that meeting.
Along with rural com-
mercial, industrial and other
non-residential areas, the or-
dinance allowed marijuana
growers and processors to lo-
cate their businesses in rural
residential areas with lot sizes
of 5 acres or larger.
The Mason County Plan-
ning Commission will now
review the county's zoning
ordinance as it relates to com-
mercial Cannabis growers and
processors.
City of Shelton regulations
limit retail marijuana busi-
nesses to general commercial
zones and limits producers
and processors to industrial
zones. This means such busi-
nesses are allowed in a few
blocks near where Olympic
Highway North meets Wallace
Kneeland Boulevard.
Artist: All levels welcome to three-day art workshops
continued from page A-19 terest in finding what real beauty is." To register, go to hoodscanalart.org/ • The Hudson River School painting
His Hood's Canal Artist Haven is register, with Erik Koeppel Sept. 3-5. Students
Kamin said he believes that tech- designed to promote fine art training in For more information, go to will discuss and apply this traditional
nique has largely been abandoned in Mason County. hoodscanalart@gmail.com, approach to landscapes. The topics in-
favor of works by artists "making a All levels of artists are welcome to The classes are: clude composition, drawing, light and
statement." take the three-day art workshops. • Foundation drawing with Juliette atmosphere.
"Existentialism reared its ugly head, The cost is $645, which includes Aristides Aug. 27 to Aug. 29. The seE- • Traditional landscape painting
and people lost their sense of beauty," lunch and breakfast. Scholarships are sions will include lecture demonstra- with Lauren Sansaricq. Develop a
he said. "I think there's a renewed in- available, tions, and individual time with Aris- deeper understanding of how master
tides, who was one of Kamin's teachers, landscape painters in the 19th century
Drawing a figure from life, students approached outside paintings.
will compose, measure and construct • Still-life: Form plus Function with
drawings. The topics include light on Elizabeth Zanzinger Nov. 5-7. The class
form, materials, technique and compo- emphasizes drawing, form, texture and
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