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Will they up the ante on Annas?
(Continued from page 1.)
York City and Washington, D.C.
About a month after that, on
October 12, county commission-
ers approved $54,516.74 in fes-
tival funding with most of this
amount endorsed by the advisory
committee. More money may yet
be spent on the fest by the coun-
ty if festival officials can make
the case that such funds would
be wisely spent.
KAMIN SAID last spring she
supported the festival but pro-
nounced herself "flabbergasted"
by a proposal to bypass the com-
mittee and give $25,000 to the
nonprofit group even though the
promoters had missed the appli-
cation deadline for 2006 grants
of local funds generated by the
lodging tax. She was overridden
in a 2-1 vote by Tim Sheldon and
Lynda Ring-Erickson.
Kamin said this was "bad gov-
ernment" and called the commis-
sion's action "unprecedented"
given that the festival was an
untested group requesting more
money from the county than any
of the other applicants for grants
from the lodging tax.
In voting on December 8 to
recommend that the festival not
get more funding at this time,
the advisory committee made
note of a statement by Matthew
Melendez Blegen, director of the
nonprofit organization, to the ef-
fect that money provided by the
county would be matched by an-
other grant of funds "to support
the start-up" of the festival. This
recalled some billionaire ban-
ter which was heard last spring
around the time commissioners
were bypassing their citizen ad-
visors.
At the time he was pitching
the county for financial assis-
tance, Melendez Blegen said the
festival's 2006 budget projected
that 47 percent of its funding
would come from ticket sales,
membership dues and retail
sales. Grants would provide 18
percent of the necessary funds,
sponsorships would provide 23
percent and other contributions
would make up the final 12 per-
cent.
ONE GOAL WAS to build up
a roster of 3,000 members who
would help underwrite some of
the expenses and allow the fes-
tival to offer more competitive
ticket prices. Melendez Blegen
said a special effort would be
made to attract the attention
of all music lovers while target-
ing college-educated women be-
tween the ages of 45 and 65, who
tend to be single with individual
incomes of $75,000 or in house-
holds with incomes of $125,000.
In support of this strategy, he
cited studies indicating 47,892
such women live in King and the
other counties on this side of the
state.
The hope was that a full se-
ries of concerts and educational
workshops would draw as many
as 6,000 people to various musi-
cal programs and workshops and
that these people would generate
up to $2 million in spending on
local lodging and dining.
Kamin pointed out that the
festival has a relatively small
target audience and would be
hosted at some expense to tax-
payers in "the neighborhood of
the richest man in the world."
That was a reference to Bill
Gates, the Microsoft billionaire
who has a second home in Union.
Melendez Blegen then raised the
specter of the Paul G. Allen Fam-
ily Foundation, a charitable en-
terprise funded by another Mi-
crosoft billionaire.
He said a grant from the
county would give the festival a
better chance of getting a grant
from the foundation in that man-
agers of the Allen fund said in
deciding how to spend for worthy
purposes they would look closely
at such things as grassroots sup-
port, business community sup-
port and its ability to engage
with county government.
AS IT HAPPENS, grant ap-
plications are pending but grant
funds have not come through, ac-
cording to Gerry RingErickson,"
husband of the commissioner
and a supporter of the festival.
"I'm very hopeful and very con-
fident that Annas Bay will put
together a fine program in 2007
and the future," he said.
Draft minutes of the commit-
tee's meeting of December 8 in-
dicate that acquisition of grant
funds "was not reflected on the
financial statements" submitted
to the county by managers of the
festival. RingErickson said that
while grants have not panned
out as yet matching funds have
been generated "thanks to a sub-
stantial level of support from the
citizens and the business com-
munity."
He said Mason County resi-
dents have been very supportive
of the festival and takes issue
with the statements by members
of the advisory committee that
events planned for October and
December of this year were can-
celed due to a lack of attendance
and support. "The attendance
was pretty good," RingErickson
said.
Melendez Blegen said it is "an
oversimplification" to say that
the events were canceled due to
lack of attendance and support.
He wrote in an e-mail to this
newspaper that managers of the
festival decided not to "fully con-
tract" these events until after the
first festival "because we knew
there would be things we'd learn
in the initial series that we'd
want to apply to subsequent fes-
tivals." After much debate and
discussion they decided to ex-
tend memberships through 2007
reschedule these series "in order
to give ourselves the leeway to
contract the top-quality artists
that would equal our critically
acclaimed inaugural series and
allow us to integrate and apply
what we had learned logistically
from the inaugural festival."
AS FOR THE matter of at-
tendance, they had hoped to see
1,200 at the inaugural festival
and instead saw a little over
900, with 45 percent of those at-
tendees coming from out of the
area. As the first fest entered its
second week, more people from
out-of-county attended festival
events, Melendez Blegen wrote.
Put another way the decision
to slow things down and spread
them out gives managers of the
festival a chance to learn from
"Of Thee We Sing" and build on
it in the future. "We've learned
a lot and certainly are in a good
position to put on a fine program
in 2007," RingErickson said.
According to the minutes of the
county advisory committee's De-
cember 8 meeting, which are not
official, Marcy Craig and Kasey
Cronquist moved to deny a re-
quest from the Annas Bay Music
Festival for a grant of $52,000
from the lodging tax, the coun-
Speed limit an issue for Stars
(Continued from page 2.)
passed, which would create a
danger for our children, others
and property. It's a fact driving
too slow has caused accidents
and may contribute to road
rage."
Gallagher considered the nar-
row width of the road in ques-
tion, which doesn't provide
much shoulder for pedestrians
or bicyclists to avoid motorists.
The neighbors argued the sides
of the road are mowed, allowing
room for pedestrians to move.
Gallagher also asked about a
handicapped resident who had
initially requested a reduced
speed limit in the community. '
Marie responded that one res-
ident who is handicapped had
requested a reduced speed, .but
has since moved away. Another
handicapped neighbor, who still
lives at Star Lake, doesn't drive,
members of the group said. Gal-
lagher noted that some resi-
dents still have to cross the road
to check their mail.
COMMISSIONER Ring-Er-
ickson remembered when the
Star Lake community was first
opened and she knew there had
been "just a howl to keep the
speed limits down" at that time.
Gallagher pointed out how it had
also originally been intended to
be a recreational and retirement
area, but slowly more families
have moved in and have stayed
in the development.
T.J. Martin, the county's
land-use attorney, pointed out
how the speed limit at the en-
trance to the development will
increase, not decrease, from the
current speed limit of 25 miles
per hour up to 35. Ring-Erick-
son encouraged members of the
community to meet with the
county engineer about their con-
cerns regarding the speed limit.
You can take a chance on Lotto
The Economic Development
Council of Mason County's annual
luncheon will be held from noon to
1:30 p.m. on Friday, January 12,
at the Alderbrook Resort and Spa
in Union.
The luncheon will feature a
presentation by Bill Lotto of the
Lewis County Economic Develop-
ment Council. The meal features
a choice of chicken or salmon and
will cost $15.
Advance registrations are re-
quired due to limited seating. Call
the EDC office at 426-2276 by
Monday, January 8, if you plan on
attending. Be sure to include your
choice of lunch.
By
Russ Denney
Commissioner Sheldon also en-
couraged them to return to the
board and address this issue at
a later date.
"I do think there's been some
confusion about the speed," he
said.
During Tuesday's t;ieeting,
the commissioners also reap-
pointed Ring-Erickson as chair-
person of board for 2007; She
had served as chairperson in
2006, too.
I
SPECIALS
OF THE
WEEK
1/4-1/10
SKOOKUM CREEK
H TOBACCO ,,,
COMPLETE
iiiiiii
If George Washington I
COMPLETE
had run the Revolutionary J ROLL-YOUR-OWN
War by public opinion, we =12 99+ tax
One Pound Bag
would still be speaking
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smodng
the King's English. NowGreaUyReducesSenousRiskstoYourHea"h
Monday-Friday 6:30 o.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
215 South Second
426-3371
PANTORIUM
CLEANERS & TAILORS
Serving Sheton and
Mason County for 81 years
I i
Page 6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 4, 2007
ty's cut of money paid tbr the use
of hotel and motel rooms. Cron-
quist and Craig were joined in a
unanimous vote to deny funding
by Kamin, Brian Cook, Ken Wil-
son and Neil Werner.
Annas Bay's proclaimed mis-
sion is to "produce and present
world-class art music in novel
ways that reach out to and en-
thuse new listeners, revitalize
modern performance practice
and enrich our community."
ALSO KNOWN in some cir-
cles as "new music," art music is
one of the efforts to streamline
and rejuvenate the long-hair mu-
sic industry. Classical music still
revolves around the likes of Mo-
zart, Hayden and the beloved Bs:
Brahms, Bach and Beethoven.
Those fellows did their best work
hundreds of years ago and com-
posers of today who would like
to appeal to their relatively well-
educated and well-heeled fans
will have to be long-gone too be-
fore their work can properly be
referred to as classical, hence the
unfamiliar names: new music
and art music.
Another problem with the long-
hair classics is many of the most
popular works are symphonic
or choral compositions that call
for dozens of accomplished per-
formers to sing and play strings,
woodwinds, percussion and
brass. This costs money and so
the apostles of new music and
art music hope to make it big by
going small. Managers of Annas
Bay announced programs would
be held in the more intimate con-
fines of the Elmer and Katherine
Nordstrom Great Hall, a struc-
ture to be built at Harmony Hill
in Union and named after own-
ers of a celebrated chain of pricey
department stores. The building
was said to cost $1.1 million.
Organizers of the istival hope
to restore Union to its former
glory as a mecca of the arts. They
recall days long gone when it was
the site of an artists' colony and
played host to a number of ac-
complished musicians of the ear-
ly years of the last century. They
say it all began in the Music Room
of Olympus Manor. This was the
abode of Orre Nobles who invited
musicians to visit on their way
to and from performances before
larger groups in Seattle and Ta-
coma. The Music Room was de-
stroyed by the Olympus Manor
fire in 1952.
The festival's first event was an
echo of these early gatherings, a
music program held before about
40 guests in the home of Paula,
Richmond and Andy Bell. Ring-
Erickson wrote that with heavy
fog clouding the mountains to
the north and west of Union, the
first song played there recalled
Julie Andrews singing and dane,
ing in the Austrian Alps to The
Sound of Music, a Hollywood
musical about a family of sing-
ers who escape the clutches o|
Hitler's war machine.
"THE HILLS MAY have
been drowned in rivulets, but the
shores were alive with music,"
RingErickson wrote.
While denying more funds to
the music festival at this time,
the Mason County Commission
went along with the following
grant proposals supported by
the advisory committee: $99,700
to the Joint Chamber Tourism l
Council for marketing; $45,000
to the Mason County Chamber
of Commerce for the operation
of visitors centers in Shelton and
Hoodsport; and $17,000 to the
North Mason Chamber of Com-
merce for a third visitors center.
Also: $5,000 for marketing
the Mason County Fair and Ro-
deo; $3,900 to the Allyn Com-
munity Association for the mar-
keting of Allyn Days; $2,500 to
the Kristmas Town Kiwanis for
marketing Bluegrass from the
Forest; $1,500 to Mason Con-
servation District and the Coop-
erative Extension of Washington
State University for marketing:
the Harvest Celebration Farm
Tour; and $1,500 or $3,000 to!
the North Mason Rotary for the
Taste of Hood Canal, the amount
depending on whether it is a one-
or two-day event.
Funding was denied to Out-
look Writing and Design, the
Mason County Forest Festival
and the Shelton Drag Strip As-
sociation. Those groups and the
Annas Bay Music Festival were
invited by the advisory commit-
tee to provide more information, :
in which case their applications
would be reconsidered by the ad-
visory committee.
The Forest Festival applica-
tion was deemed to be incom-
plete, and the draft minutes oi
December 8 reflect that a request
from the Shelton Drag Strip As;
sociation for $28,100 is compli,:
cated by doubts that the Port of
Shelton will give the group a peri
mit to have another weekend of
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at Sanderson Field.
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Will they up the ante on Annas?
(Continued from page 1.)
York City and Washington, D.C.
About a month after that, on
October 12, county commission-
ers approved $54,516.74 in fes-
tival funding with most of this
amount endorsed by the advisory
committee. More money may yet
be spent on the fest by the coun-
ty if festival officials can make
the case that such funds would
be wisely spent.
KAMIN SAID last spring she
supported the festival but pro-
nounced herself "flabbergasted"
by a proposal to bypass the com-
mittee and give $25,000 to the
nonprofit group even though the
promoters had missed the appli-
cation deadline for 2006 grants
of local funds generated by the
lodging tax. She was overridden
in a 2-1 vote by Tim Sheldon and
Lynda Ring-Erickson.
Kamin said this was "bad gov-
ernment" and called the commis-
sion's action "unprecedented"
given that the festival was an
untested group requesting more
money from the county than any
of the other applicants for grants
from the lodging tax.
In voting on December 8 to
recommend that the festival not
get more funding at this time,
the advisory committee made
note of a statement by Matthew
Melendez Blegen, director of the
nonprofit organization, to the ef-
fect that money provided by the
county would be matched by an-
other grant of funds "to support
the start-up" of the festival. This
recalled some billionaire ban-
ter which was heard last spring
around the time commissioners
were bypassing their citizen ad-
visors.
At the time he was pitching
the county for financial assis-
tance, Melendez Blegen said the
festival's 2006 budget projected
that 47 percent of its funding
would come from ticket sales,
membership dues and retail
sales. Grants would provide 18
percent of the necessary funds,
sponsorships would provide 23
percent and other contributions
would make up the final 12 per-
cent.
ONE GOAL WAS to build up
a roster of 3,000 members who
would help underwrite some of
the expenses and allow the fes-
tival to offer more competitive
ticket prices. Melendez Blegen
said a special effort would be
made to attract the attention
of all music lovers while target-
ing college-educated women be-
tween the ages of 45 and 65, who
tend to be single with individual
incomes of $75,000 or in house-
holds with incomes of $125,000.
In support of this strategy, he
cited studies indicating 47,892
such women live in King and the
other counties on this side of the
state.
The hope was that a full se-
ries of concerts and educational
workshops would draw as many
as 6,000 people to various musi-
cal programs and workshops and
that these people would generate
up to $2 million in spending on
local lodging and dining.
Kamin pointed out that the
festival has a relatively small
target audience and would be
hosted at some expense to tax-
payers in "the neighborhood of
the richest man in the world."
That was a reference to Bill
Gates, the Microsoft billionaire
who has a second home in Union.
Melendez Blegen then raised the
specter of the Paul G. Allen Fam-
ily Foundation, a charitable en-
terprise funded by another Mi-
crosoft billionaire.
He said a grant from the
county would give the festival a
better chance of getting a grant
from the foundation in that man-
agers of the Allen fund said in
deciding how to spend for worthy
purposes they would look closely
at such things as grassroots sup-
port, business community sup-
port and its ability to engage
with county government.
AS IT HAPPENS, grant ap-
plications are pending but grant
funds have not come through, ac-
cording to Gerry RingErickson,"
husband of the commissioner
and a supporter of the festival.
"I'm very hopeful and very con-
fident that Annas Bay will put
together a fine program in 2007
and the future," he said.
Draft minutes of the commit-
tee's meeting of December 8 in-
dicate that acquisition of grant
funds "was not reflected on the
financial statements" submitted
to the county by managers of the
festival. RingErickson said that
while grants have not panned
out as yet matching funds have
been generated "thanks to a sub-
stantial level of support from the
citizens and the business com-
munity."
He said Mason County resi-
dents have been very supportive
of the festival and takes issue
with the statements by members
of the advisory committee that
events planned for October and
December of this year were can-
celed due to a lack of attendance
and support. "The attendance
was pretty good," RingErickson
said.
Melendez Blegen said it is "an
oversimplification" to say that
the events were canceled due to
lack of attendance and support.
He wrote in an e-mail to this
newspaper that managers of the
festival decided not to "fully con-
tract" these events until after the
first festival "because we knew
there would be things we'd learn
in the initial series that we'd
want to apply to subsequent fes-
tivals." After much debate and
discussion they decided to ex-
tend memberships through 2007
reschedule these series "in order
to give ourselves the leeway to
contract the top-quality artists
that would equal our critically
acclaimed inaugural series and
allow us to integrate and apply
what we had learned logistically
from the inaugural festival."
AS FOR THE matter of at-
tendance, they had hoped to see
1,200 at the inaugural festival
and instead saw a little over
900, with 45 percent of those at-
tendees coming from out of the
area. As the first fest entered its
second week, more people from
out-of-county attended festival
events, Melendez Blegen wrote.
Put another way the decision
to slow things down and spread
them out gives managers of the
festival a chance to learn from
"Of Thee We Sing" and build on
it in the future. "We've learned
a lot and certainly are in a good
position to put on a fine program
in 2007," RingErickson said.
According to the minutes of the
county advisory committee's De-
cember 8 meeting, which are not
official, Marcy Craig and Kasey
Cronquist moved to deny a re-
quest from the Annas Bay Music
Festival for a grant of $52,000
from the lodging tax, the coun-
Speed limit an issue for Stars
(Continued from page 2.)
passed, which would create a
danger for our children, others
and property. It's a fact driving
too slow has caused accidents
and may contribute to road
rage."
Gallagher considered the nar-
row width of the road in ques-
tion, which doesn't provide
much shoulder for pedestrians
or bicyclists to avoid motorists.
The neighbors argued the sides
of the road are mowed, allowing
room for pedestrians to move.
Gallagher also asked about a
handicapped resident who had
initially requested a reduced
speed limit in the community. '
Marie responded that one res-
ident who is handicapped had
requested a reduced speed, .but
has since moved away. Another
handicapped neighbor, who still
lives at Star Lake, doesn't drive,
members of the group said. Gal-
lagher noted that some resi-
dents still have to cross the road
to check their mail.
COMMISSIONER Ring-Er-
ickson remembered when the
Star Lake community was first
opened and she knew there had
been "just a howl to keep the
speed limits down" at that time.
Gallagher pointed out how it had
also originally been intended to
be a recreational and retirement
area, but slowly more families
have moved in and have stayed
in the development.
T.J. Martin, the county's
land-use attorney, pointed out
how the speed limit at the en-
trance to the development will
increase, not decrease, from the
current speed limit of 25 miles
per hour up to 35. Ring-Erick-
son encouraged members of the
community to meet with the
county engineer about their con-
cerns regarding the speed limit.
You can take a chance on Lotto
The Economic Development
Council of Mason County's annual
luncheon will be held from noon to
1:30 p.m. on Friday, January 12,
at the Alderbrook Resort and Spa
in Union.
The luncheon will feature a
presentation by Bill Lotto of the
Lewis County Economic Develop-
ment Council. The meal features
a choice of chicken or salmon and
will cost $15.
Advance registrations are re-
quired due to limited seating. Call
the EDC office at 426-2276 by
Monday, January 8, if you plan on
attending. Be sure to include your
choice of lunch.
By
Russ Denney
Commissioner Sheldon also en-
couraged them to return to the
board and address this issue at
a later date.
"I do think there's been some
confusion about the speed," he
said.
During Tuesday's t;ieeting,
the commissioners also reap-
pointed Ring-Erickson as chair-
person of board for 2007; She
had served as chairperson in
2006, too.
I
SPECIALS
OF THE
WEEK
1/4-1/10
SKOOKUM CREEK
H TOBACCO ,,,
COMPLETE
iiiiiii
If George Washington I
COMPLETE
had run the Revolutionary J ROLL-YOUR-OWN
War by public opinion, we =12 99+ tax
One Pound Bag
would still be speaking
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smodng
the King's English. NowGreaUyReducesSenousRiskstoYourHea"h
Monday-Friday 6:30 o.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
215 South Second
426-3371
PANTORIUM
CLEANERS & TAILORS
Serving Sheton and
Mason County for 81 years
I i
Page 6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 4, 2007
ty's cut of money paid tbr the use
of hotel and motel rooms. Cron-
quist and Craig were joined in a
unanimous vote to deny funding
by Kamin, Brian Cook, Ken Wil-
son and Neil Werner.
Annas Bay's proclaimed mis-
sion is to "produce and present
world-class art music in novel
ways that reach out to and en-
thuse new listeners, revitalize
modern performance practice
and enrich our community."
ALSO KNOWN in some cir-
cles as "new music," art music is
one of the efforts to streamline
and rejuvenate the long-hair mu-
sic industry. Classical music still
revolves around the likes of Mo-
zart, Hayden and the beloved Bs:
Brahms, Bach and Beethoven.
Those fellows did their best work
hundreds of years ago and com-
posers of today who would like
to appeal to their relatively well-
educated and well-heeled fans
will have to be long-gone too be-
fore their work can properly be
referred to as classical, hence the
unfamiliar names: new music
and art music.
Another problem with the long-
hair classics is many of the most
popular works are symphonic
or choral compositions that call
for dozens of accomplished per-
formers to sing and play strings,
woodwinds, percussion and
brass. This costs money and so
the apostles of new music and
art music hope to make it big by
going small. Managers of Annas
Bay announced programs would
be held in the more intimate con-
fines of the Elmer and Katherine
Nordstrom Great Hall, a struc-
ture to be built at Harmony Hill
in Union and named after own-
ers of a celebrated chain of pricey
department stores. The building
was said to cost $1.1 million.
Organizers of the istival hope
to restore Union to its former
glory as a mecca of the arts. They
recall days long gone when it was
the site of an artists' colony and
played host to a number of ac-
complished musicians of the ear-
ly years of the last century. They
say it all began in the Music Room
of Olympus Manor. This was the
abode of Orre Nobles who invited
musicians to visit on their way
to and from performances before
larger groups in Seattle and Ta-
coma. The Music Room was de-
stroyed by the Olympus Manor
fire in 1952.
The festival's first event was an
echo of these early gatherings, a
music program held before about
40 guests in the home of Paula,
Richmond and Andy Bell. Ring-
Erickson wrote that with heavy
fog clouding the mountains to
the north and west of Union, the
first song played there recalled
Julie Andrews singing and dane,
ing in the Austrian Alps to The
Sound of Music, a Hollywood
musical about a family of sing-
ers who escape the clutches o|
Hitler's war machine.
"THE HILLS MAY have
been drowned in rivulets, but the
shores were alive with music,"
RingErickson wrote.
While denying more funds to
the music festival at this time,
the Mason County Commission
went along with the following
grant proposals supported by
the advisory committee: $99,700
to the Joint Chamber Tourism l
Council for marketing; $45,000
to the Mason County Chamber
of Commerce for the operation
of visitors centers in Shelton and
Hoodsport; and $17,000 to the
North Mason Chamber of Com-
merce for a third visitors center.
Also: $5,000 for marketing
the Mason County Fair and Ro-
deo; $3,900 to the Allyn Com-
munity Association for the mar-
keting of Allyn Days; $2,500 to
the Kristmas Town Kiwanis for
marketing Bluegrass from the
Forest; $1,500 to Mason Con-
servation District and the Coop-
erative Extension of Washington
State University for marketing:
the Harvest Celebration Farm
Tour; and $1,500 or $3,000 to!
the North Mason Rotary for the
Taste of Hood Canal, the amount
depending on whether it is a one-
or two-day event.
Funding was denied to Out-
look Writing and Design, the
Mason County Forest Festival
and the Shelton Drag Strip As-
sociation. Those groups and the
Annas Bay Music Festival were
invited by the advisory commit-
tee to provide more information, :
in which case their applications
would be reconsidered by the ad-
visory committee.
The Forest Festival applica-
tion was deemed to be incom-
plete, and the draft minutes oi
December 8 reflect that a request
from the Shelton Drag Strip As;
sociation for $28,100 is compli,:
cated by doubts that the Port of
Shelton will give the group a peri
mit to have another weekend of
races on an abandoned runway',
at Sanderson Field.
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of Highway 101 and
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away from Olympia
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