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Foreign exchange
Students at Hood Canal School have been taking a
closer look at some distant lands and sharing what
they've learned with their classmates. Pictured are
Bridgette Johnson and Destini "Martin displaying
their sense of Spain and Blake Fraser showing off the
best of Bulgaria. There's a story about this program
on page 28.
Pioneer School:
[magination Station
explores inner space
By KAREN EVERETT
Beginning Wednesday, Janu-
ary 24, Pioneer Primary students
in first through third grades will
have the opportunity to use their
creative power in an after-school
program called Imagination Sta-
tion.
For the seventh year the Pio-
neer School District is oflering
Wednesday workshops in the
arts from around the world and
throughout the centuries. The
lead instructor for this program
is Laurie McGovern, who teaches
Correction:
Others can rent
Nordstrom hall
A story in last week's paper
gave an incomplete description of
the relationship between the An-
has Bay Music Festival and the
Elmer and Katharine Nordstrom
Great Hall at the Harmony Hill
Retreat Center in Union•
The festival rents the hall fi'om
a nonprofit organization which es-
tablished Harmony Hill w.ith the
assistance of the Nordstrom fam-
ily as a refuge fbr persons afflict-
ed by cancer and other maladies•
The hall may be rented by other
groups.
a second- and third-grade split
class at Pioneer. Mrs. McGovern
has studied abroad in China and
Japan in recent years and brings
to students first-hand knowledge,
experiences, stories and projects
from her travels.
This year's workshop choices
will include haiku poetry and
Asian brush painting, African
pottery making, Native American
ledger art, Japanese story scrolls,
Australian tblk art, and the mak-
ing ot' Yup'ik story sticks from
Alaska. Students will have the op-
portunity to make kites and trees
through recycled art and will learn
to paint in the style of famous art-
ists including Picasso and Suerat.
AS SHE HAS done for several
years, Suzanne Jackson will assist
Mrs. McGovern. New instructors
to the program this year are Jona-
thon Corcoran, Kelly McCarty and
Erin Bacon, all teachers at the pri-
mary school.
"Each staff member of Imagi-
nation Station has had extensive
training in the arts, poetry, and
experience in the cultures repre-
sented in the workshops," Mrs.
McGovern said.
Application tbrms for the work-
shops have gone home with the
students. As space in the work-
shops is limited, applications will
be honored on a first-come, first-
served basis and children will need
(Please turn to page 6.)
THINK SAVING FOR
RETIREMEN
IS COMPLICATED?
CASINO * SORT.
Edward Jones
Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 11, 2007
Schoolboard roundup: lSk
To redo Mountain Viewltb0000:
Th
try agaiYI! 00atu'
they must , try
the h
By JEFF GREEN
Shelton School Board mem-
bers are hoping the third time is
the charm as they voted Tues-
day night to seek bids yet again
fbr part of' the remodel project
at Mountain View Elementary
School.
Last December, the board
learned to its dismay that bids
had come in more than $1 mil-
lion higher than what the school
district had budgeted fi)r the
first third of the remodel project
at Mountain View. The board
voted to reject the bids.
In September, bids fi)r the
entire project were also more
than $1 million over what was
budgeted for it. At that time,
the board rejected the bids and
district officials pared back the
scope of the project by 60 per-
cent, opting to complete the
project in stages.
Tuesday night, Mark Weston,
the district's director of opera-
tions, outlined the latest ver-
sion of the project's first phase.
It includes a paved parking lot
just west of the school with a ca-
pacity tbr about 100 vehicles; a
new play shed between the main
building and the hexagonal
building on the east side of the
campus; a stormwater drainage
facility north of the ball field;
a new portable classroom; an
asphalt fire loop; and sidewalk
improvements between the new
parking lot and existing school
building.
WITH THE new parking lot,
the main entrance would then
be on the west side of the build-
ing, with traffic and congestion
to be moved oil" K Street. Be-
cause the new play shed will be
reconfigured and located 25 feet
east of the main building, which
has the current play shed at-
tached to its east wall, the dis-
trict will be able to improve the
school bus loop in that area.
Mountain View Principal
John Hill pointed out that under
this plan, the school will be los-
ing a covered walkway between
the main building and the hex-
agonal building, exposing staff
and students to the elements.
Weston said the old walkway
has to come down to make way
for the fire lane. He said people
can walk through the new play
shed and there would be un-
covered areas of 20 and 25 feet
between the play shed and the
hexagonal and main buildings.
In the end, the board voted
5-0 to call for bids "on the proj-
ect, adding an alternate bid for
a new covered walkway and re-
designed fire lane. That gives
the board the option, of adding
the new walkway if bids come in
favorably for a change. Weston
said the district can be ready to
go out tbr bids within 30 days.
Officials estimate the dis-
trict will have $2,111,042.60 in
its Capital Projects Fund and
are budgeting $1.2 million for
the first phase of the Mountain
View project.
OTHER PROJECTS rec-
ommended for thnding from the
Capital Projects Fund include:
adding three portable class-
rooms, with one at each elemen-
tary school, $325,000; adding
one portable classroom at Oak-
land Bay Junior High School,
$108,000; retrofitting remain-
ing heating, ventilation and air-
conditioning units at Shelton
High School that weren't done
earlier, $100,000; replacing the
rotting back wall at the SHS
Pool, $100,000; and improve-
ments to the sound and lighting
systems and seats at the SHS
Auditorium, $125,000.
Superintendent Joan Zook
said adding the portables at the
elementary schools would give
the district a green light for add-
ing all-day kindergarten pro-
grams at the schools next year,
depending on what action the
Washington Legislature takes
during its current session.
In other school district busi-
hess on Tuesday, the board:
• Approved a resolution as-
thorizing refinancing of a por-
tion of the district's outstanding
bonds to take advantage of low-
er interest rates. The move will
save taxpayers $1,369,244 dur-
ing the next 14 years in money
that will not be collected.
Zook emphasized the sav-
ings flow directly to taxpayers
through reduced tax levies and
are not available for district
expenses. Recent low interest
rates allowed the district to ex-
reed its savings target. Inter-
est rates on the $22,590,000 in
refinanced bonds averaged 4.02
percent, compared to 5.26 per-
, an ar
cent on the old debt ,,
• . esel
• Watched as Zook admire . ,
water
tered the oath of office to :t'-
C_. ne
board member Marty m i
who replaces Ross Gallag n:
Thank you very much for t
.... $1will t.
opportunity, Crow toia '
board, which picked him fr ary 1
several applicants shoal
• Do (
• Voted 5-0 to eliminate g
district s requirement that S] way 1
• • [ ReseI
students take one cross m
-h sttil av
science to graduate. T e ,I -:
already requires students, Pa:
eluding those in Shelton, to } warm
four science classes to gralars s
ate. (]
SHS Principal Wanda
ndtson said requiring the !
science class, which she T
scribed as a kind of lower-le {
biology class, limits stude
choices and keeps them frtrf :•
taking other classes in ecol0[: ""
biology and marine science, ! Th
example. ':', work
• Voted 5°0 to allow EI p.n
green Principal Steve Warne- Maso
apply to the state for a $29,i Nortl
grant for the district s Hig M(
Capable Program. Warner _are i
that grant amount will 2007
about 21 percent of the progr this l
The program s annual budgeli towa
$142,709, which includes theA
full-time teachers, supplies is fin:
other costs, i er ad
• Voted 5-0 to approve a r TI
lution establishing the Cthe g
Boelk Memorial Football Sc tend.
arship. Trustees of the scl Kim
arship fund will award one!543.
more scholarships annually t
itgadung senior for college'
• " . so SHS football coa;
es will pick a deserving pla: UI
each year to receive a scholi
ship to pay for a summer f0 By
ball camp. t A
Boelk, who played on t.-,
SHS football team when he ra--
in high school, was killed i ......
" • i wre
traffic accident last Septem0 t Wa-t
He was 22 and graduated fI ap"el
SHS in 2002. } in MI
Ed
.... f lama
Hood Canal ballots !Cent,
i: of att
goln o voters soon:
Mason County Auditor Karen auditor's vote tallying systen .hey
Herr announced this week that preparation for the election. T: in S
ballots ibr a special election on {! i anUPiryl "
February 6 will be mailed on Janu- tm.l:a:Tdi
ary 17 to voters in the Hood Canal i
School District. office at 411 North Fifth Streef with
Ballots in the all-mail election downtown Shelton. four
must be postmarked no later than Persons who have not receii Hoph
or: and
election day. Voters in the Hood a ballot by the end of this m ,
Canal district will be voting on a are advised to make arrangemet: head
three-year maintenance-and-op- to get one by calling 427-9670, l Ga
tension 470. Afric
erations levy and a transportation
levy to be collected in 2008.
Herr and her staff will conduct
a logic and accuracy test of the
THINK AGAIN.
Some of the best plans in life are often the simplest ones,
especially when saving for retirement. For example, you can
invest a set amount of money on a monthly basis into an
Edward Jones IRA. This lets you:
i Take full advantage of contribution limits and potential
tax benefits
E Eliminate the worry about investing at the right time
t Add potential growth and diversification to your portfolio
I Keep your long-term financial goals in focus
To learn why it may make sense for you to invest a set amount
of money into an Edward Jones IRA each month, call or visit
your local investment representative today.
Atltomahcally ilw(!shng each rlvollth does not tl]su[tt d ploflt IId dOS *Kd proh,:l agaiost loss ltl dechaulg ,latkets Such t plall
itwolve$ contlllUaI I[IMUSII|FOIIt ill Set:tlrltleS regardless of fltlchlahrlg price libels of such securities YOtl shollf] coflsitllr yOtll
t+nacJal aiOdl|y t0 c0rltintle the purchases through periods 0t low price levels.
Armin Baumgartel
Dan Baumgartei
Inveslmen! Representatives
821 West Railroad Avenue,
Suile A, Shelton
426-0982 • !-800-441-0982
Armln Baumgartel [)an Baumgartel
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIP("
taunl
BIRTHSTONE
for the month of
fWeek
Cordi
/lWes00
Th
(
' ! cordil
I st & Railroad, Suite 1
426-5811
• AlfMajor Credit Cards
• Free Gift Wrapping
• One year Interest FP£E
w/Required Minimum Purchase
Monday-Friday 10-$:30
Saturday 10-4
In Store Professional::
Jewelry Repair J
/
Foreign exchange
Students at Hood Canal School have been taking a
closer look at some distant lands and sharing what
they've learned with their classmates. Pictured are
Bridgette Johnson and Destini "Martin displaying
their sense of Spain and Blake Fraser showing off the
best of Bulgaria. There's a story about this program
on page 28.
Pioneer School:
[magination Station
explores inner space
By KAREN EVERETT
Beginning Wednesday, Janu-
ary 24, Pioneer Primary students
in first through third grades will
have the opportunity to use their
creative power in an after-school
program called Imagination Sta-
tion.
For the seventh year the Pio-
neer School District is oflering
Wednesday workshops in the
arts from around the world and
throughout the centuries. The
lead instructor for this program
is Laurie McGovern, who teaches
Correction:
Others can rent
Nordstrom hall
A story in last week's paper
gave an incomplete description of
the relationship between the An-
has Bay Music Festival and the
Elmer and Katharine Nordstrom
Great Hall at the Harmony Hill
Retreat Center in Union•
The festival rents the hall fi'om
a nonprofit organization which es-
tablished Harmony Hill w.ith the
assistance of the Nordstrom fam-
ily as a refuge fbr persons afflict-
ed by cancer and other maladies•
The hall may be rented by other
groups.
a second- and third-grade split
class at Pioneer. Mrs. McGovern
has studied abroad in China and
Japan in recent years and brings
to students first-hand knowledge,
experiences, stories and projects
from her travels.
This year's workshop choices
will include haiku poetry and
Asian brush painting, African
pottery making, Native American
ledger art, Japanese story scrolls,
Australian tblk art, and the mak-
ing ot' Yup'ik story sticks from
Alaska. Students will have the op-
portunity to make kites and trees
through recycled art and will learn
to paint in the style of famous art-
ists including Picasso and Suerat.
AS SHE HAS done for several
years, Suzanne Jackson will assist
Mrs. McGovern. New instructors
to the program this year are Jona-
thon Corcoran, Kelly McCarty and
Erin Bacon, all teachers at the pri-
mary school.
"Each staff member of Imagi-
nation Station has had extensive
training in the arts, poetry, and
experience in the cultures repre-
sented in the workshops," Mrs.
McGovern said.
Application tbrms for the work-
shops have gone home with the
students. As space in the work-
shops is limited, applications will
be honored on a first-come, first-
served basis and children will need
(Please turn to page 6.)
THINK SAVING FOR
RETIREMEN
IS COMPLICATED?
CASINO * SORT.
Edward Jones
Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 11, 2007
Schoolboard roundup: lSk
To redo Mountain Viewltb0000:
Th
try agaiYI! 00atu'
they must , try
the h
By JEFF GREEN
Shelton School Board mem-
bers are hoping the third time is
the charm as they voted Tues-
day night to seek bids yet again
fbr part of' the remodel project
at Mountain View Elementary
School.
Last December, the board
learned to its dismay that bids
had come in more than $1 mil-
lion higher than what the school
district had budgeted fi)r the
first third of the remodel project
at Mountain View. The board
voted to reject the bids.
In September, bids fi)r the
entire project were also more
than $1 million over what was
budgeted for it. At that time,
the board rejected the bids and
district officials pared back the
scope of the project by 60 per-
cent, opting to complete the
project in stages.
Tuesday night, Mark Weston,
the district's director of opera-
tions, outlined the latest ver-
sion of the project's first phase.
It includes a paved parking lot
just west of the school with a ca-
pacity tbr about 100 vehicles; a
new play shed between the main
building and the hexagonal
building on the east side of the
campus; a stormwater drainage
facility north of the ball field;
a new portable classroom; an
asphalt fire loop; and sidewalk
improvements between the new
parking lot and existing school
building.
WITH THE new parking lot,
the main entrance would then
be on the west side of the build-
ing, with traffic and congestion
to be moved oil" K Street. Be-
cause the new play shed will be
reconfigured and located 25 feet
east of the main building, which
has the current play shed at-
tached to its east wall, the dis-
trict will be able to improve the
school bus loop in that area.
Mountain View Principal
John Hill pointed out that under
this plan, the school will be los-
ing a covered walkway between
the main building and the hex-
agonal building, exposing staff
and students to the elements.
Weston said the old walkway
has to come down to make way
for the fire lane. He said people
can walk through the new play
shed and there would be un-
covered areas of 20 and 25 feet
between the play shed and the
hexagonal and main buildings.
In the end, the board voted
5-0 to call for bids "on the proj-
ect, adding an alternate bid for
a new covered walkway and re-
designed fire lane. That gives
the board the option, of adding
the new walkway if bids come in
favorably for a change. Weston
said the district can be ready to
go out tbr bids within 30 days.
Officials estimate the dis-
trict will have $2,111,042.60 in
its Capital Projects Fund and
are budgeting $1.2 million for
the first phase of the Mountain
View project.
OTHER PROJECTS rec-
ommended for thnding from the
Capital Projects Fund include:
adding three portable class-
rooms, with one at each elemen-
tary school, $325,000; adding
one portable classroom at Oak-
land Bay Junior High School,
$108,000; retrofitting remain-
ing heating, ventilation and air-
conditioning units at Shelton
High School that weren't done
earlier, $100,000; replacing the
rotting back wall at the SHS
Pool, $100,000; and improve-
ments to the sound and lighting
systems and seats at the SHS
Auditorium, $125,000.
Superintendent Joan Zook
said adding the portables at the
elementary schools would give
the district a green light for add-
ing all-day kindergarten pro-
grams at the schools next year,
depending on what action the
Washington Legislature takes
during its current session.
In other school district busi-
hess on Tuesday, the board:
• Approved a resolution as-
thorizing refinancing of a por-
tion of the district's outstanding
bonds to take advantage of low-
er interest rates. The move will
save taxpayers $1,369,244 dur-
ing the next 14 years in money
that will not be collected.
Zook emphasized the sav-
ings flow directly to taxpayers
through reduced tax levies and
are not available for district
expenses. Recent low interest
rates allowed the district to ex-
reed its savings target. Inter-
est rates on the $22,590,000 in
refinanced bonds averaged 4.02
percent, compared to 5.26 per-
, an ar
cent on the old debt ,,
• . esel
• Watched as Zook admire . ,
water
tered the oath of office to :t'-
C_. ne
board member Marty m i
who replaces Ross Gallag n:
Thank you very much for t
.... $1will t.
opportunity, Crow toia '
board, which picked him fr ary 1
several applicants shoal
• Do (
• Voted 5-0 to eliminate g
district s requirement that S] way 1
• • [ ReseI
students take one cross m
-h sttil av
science to graduate. T e ,I -:
already requires students, Pa:
eluding those in Shelton, to } warm
four science classes to gralars s
ate. (]
SHS Principal Wanda
ndtson said requiring the !
science class, which she T
scribed as a kind of lower-le {
biology class, limits stude
choices and keeps them frtrf :•
taking other classes in ecol0[: ""
biology and marine science, ! Th
example. ':', work
• Voted 5°0 to allow EI p.n
green Principal Steve Warne- Maso
apply to the state for a $29,i Nortl
grant for the district s Hig M(
Capable Program. Warner _are i
that grant amount will 2007
about 21 percent of the progr this l
The program s annual budgeli towa
$142,709, which includes theA
full-time teachers, supplies is fin:
other costs, i er ad
• Voted 5-0 to approve a r TI
lution establishing the Cthe g
Boelk Memorial Football Sc tend.
arship. Trustees of the scl Kim
arship fund will award one!543.
more scholarships annually t
itgadung senior for college'
• " . so SHS football coa;
es will pick a deserving pla: UI
each year to receive a scholi
ship to pay for a summer f0 By
ball camp. t A
Boelk, who played on t.-,
SHS football team when he ra--
in high school, was killed i ......
" • i wre
traffic accident last Septem0 t Wa-t
He was 22 and graduated fI ap"el
SHS in 2002. } in MI
Ed
.... f lama
Hood Canal ballots !Cent,
i: of att
goln o voters soon:
Mason County Auditor Karen auditor's vote tallying systen .hey
Herr announced this week that preparation for the election. T: in S
ballots ibr a special election on {! i anUPiryl "
February 6 will be mailed on Janu- tm.l:a:Tdi
ary 17 to voters in the Hood Canal i
School District. office at 411 North Fifth Streef with
Ballots in the all-mail election downtown Shelton. four
must be postmarked no later than Persons who have not receii Hoph
or: and
election day. Voters in the Hood a ballot by the end of this m ,
Canal district will be voting on a are advised to make arrangemet: head
three-year maintenance-and-op- to get one by calling 427-9670, l Ga
tension 470. Afric
erations levy and a transportation
levy to be collected in 2008.
Herr and her staff will conduct
a logic and accuracy test of the
THINK AGAIN.
Some of the best plans in life are often the simplest ones,
especially when saving for retirement. For example, you can
invest a set amount of money on a monthly basis into an
Edward Jones IRA. This lets you:
i Take full advantage of contribution limits and potential
tax benefits
E Eliminate the worry about investing at the right time
t Add potential growth and diversification to your portfolio
I Keep your long-term financial goals in focus
To learn why it may make sense for you to invest a set amount
of money into an Edward Jones IRA each month, call or visit
your local investment representative today.
Atltomahcally ilw(!shng each rlvollth does not tl]su[tt d ploflt IId dOS *Kd proh,:l agaiost loss ltl dechaulg ,latkets Such t plall
itwolve$ contlllUaI I[IMUSII|FOIIt ill Set:tlrltleS regardless of fltlchlahrlg price libels of such securities YOtl shollf] coflsitllr yOtll
t+nacJal aiOdl|y t0 c0rltintle the purchases through periods 0t low price levels.
Armin Baumgartel
Dan Baumgartei
Inveslmen! Representatives
821 West Railroad Avenue,
Suile A, Shelton
426-0982 • !-800-441-0982
Armln Baumgartel [)an Baumgartel
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIP("
taunl
BIRTHSTONE
for the month of
fWeek
Cordi
/lWes00
Th
(
' ! cordil
I st & Railroad, Suite 1
426-5811
• AlfMajor Credit Cards
• Free Gift Wrapping
• One year Interest FP£E
w/Required Minimum Purchase
Monday-Friday 10-$:30
Saturday 10-4
In Store Professional::
Jewelry Repair J