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By Kirk Boxleih1er H kbox/eitner@masoncounty com The Port of Hoodsport closed out 2022 by dis- cussing the state of its dock going into'2023. When Katherine Yackel, operations manager of the YSS Dive Shop in Hoodsport, asked whether donations or fundraisers could be'organized for the dock, Port Commissioner Cody Morris said the port is working with attorneys to establish an account for funding any dock work. After a recent dock inspection, Morris said the dock was in “much rougher shape” than he’d real- ized, so dock work will be emphasized, but at the same time, all the port’s spending projects must be compartmentalized. Once the port creates an account for its dock, it must collect outside donations specifically intend— ed to go toward the dock. Morris said he hoped the port “will get that rolling within the next month or two.” . Morris said YSS Dive is among several local en— tities interested in helping fund the dock, so he recommended developing a short—term plan for dock repairs, to offset “general wear and tear,”‘ and what he deemed “a more grandiose plan,” to mitigate the amount of serious damage that the dock sustains every year. “In a dream world, we’d be getting a’breakwa- ter system going to cut down on” that damage, Morris said, before reporting he’d spoken to either hydraulicists or aquatic engineers ‘~— he said he was unsure which —- who’d told him a significant issue is “the actual direction of how the dock faces, and its relationships to the tide and the wind.” Morris said the dock work would be a “massive project” regardless, requiring not only permission from the state Department of Natural Resources, but also “lots of money, in both the engineering and the buildout.” r Fortunately for the port, Morris cited “quite a few parties who have a mutual interest in seeing this happen,” including boaters, as well as Alder- brook Resort & Spa. * Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 3 The Port of Hoodsport dock. Journal file photo Yackel asked the port inform her when it’s ready to receive donations, because “we’ve poked around in the diving community, touching on do— ing a fundraiser for the port, and they’re inter— ested in helping.” Yackel volunteered to submit “some fun ideas” for fundraisers, developed by the diving commu— nity, including a possible “dive around the clock” event to benefit the dock, which would invite div- ers to go into the water for a 24-hour-period to EACH SATURDAY WIN A 2022 JEEP CHEROKEE TRHILHHWK l..1"1"1u (inn CASINO‘RESORT th‘n’lll t M“=$«:‘§. with W‘ t. Little Port of Ho‘odsport tackles the matter of its deck raise money,ian idea met with a positive reaction from all the commissioners. Commissioner Terry Brazil offered to put the port in contact with a representative of the Ever- ett-based Reid Middleton engineers, whom he met twice at the commissioners! most recent meeting in Tacoma. According to Brazil, the representative said his people would be willing to give the port a report on what it needs to do by scheduling an appoint- ment for a Reid Middleton crew to conduct anon— site analysis. Kincannon said she’d also met an engineer at that same Tacoma meeting, “last name Ander— son,” whose contact information and email cor- respondence with her she’d already forwarded to Port of Hoodsport Operations Manager Kathleen Wyatt. “We should get a couple of different people to ‘ look at it, and do some comparisons,” said Kin- cannon, who concurredwith Morris on the- need for short-, medium— and long-range plans for the work on the dock. Brazile likewise recommended such work be conducted in phases. Brazil additionally pointed out that Reid'Mid— dleton “knows how to write grants, where to get grants, and all the angles of which different or- ganizations have the money for grants,” such as ‘boating organizations and shoreline manage- ment, which is why he said the group “gets a lot of grants, in a lot of states,” that can be used to fund repairs, rebuilds and additions. “I’m glad you’re working on this,” Yackel said. “That’s really exciting news. The dock is key to commerce, along with boaters in the summer. We get so much tourism coming in from them, but we could get even more of it.” Hardware Distillery owner Jan Morris predict- ed she could “get practically every business (in Hoodsport) involved in a fundraiser,” as she simi- larly considered the dock “good economic devel- opment for businesses,” as “boaters come in and shop at Hoodsport.” -5 mm. 145‘ cm QUALIFYING DRAWiNGS EACH WINNER RECEIVES $500 FREE PLAY AND AN ENTRY lNTO THAT WEEK'S JEEP DRAWING JEEP DRAWiNGS x SATURDAY NIGHTS ; 12:30AM EARN 10X ENTRIES ON FRIDAYS More!