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Mason County gearing up to vaccinate next phase
By Isabella Breda
isabe//a@masoncounty. com
More than 1,000 frontline health care workers,
first responders and long-term care facility residents
and staff have received at least one dose of the CO-
VID—19 vaccine in Mason County.
“I think we’re keeping at a good pace,” said Nicole
Eddins, PharmD, senior director of Mason Health
Ancillary Services in a Zoom interview Tuesday.
“We’re proactively reaching out to everyone who’s in
the Phase 1A category in Mason County. They’re re-
ceiving phone calls from us, making sure they know
how to schedule.”
All. of the long-term care facilities, dental offices
and health clinics have been contacted and are next
in line to receive their vaccine.
Mason Health has already assisted Maple Glen
and Alpine Way senior living in administering vac~
cines to residents and staff.
Last week, state health officials announced plans
for Tier B, which will begin with B1, including peo-
ple 70 or older and those 50 or older living in multi-
generational households.
“That’s going to be a pretty big number so we’re
preparing to have a large-scale vaccination clinic for
that,” Eddins said. “So at the same time 1B is for—
mally started by the state, we will have that planned
and ready to go.” ’
The event will likely take shape as a drive-
through vaccination clinic so hundreds can be vac—
cinated on site in a single day.
Updates about vaccination in the county are at
masongeneral.com/about/covid-19.
The state is also rolling out their “PhaseFinder”
tool, which allows people to enter their age, location,
occupation and contact information and receive an
alert via email or text when they are eligible for vac-
cination. The tool can be found at wadoh.jotform.
com/203418436942154.
Once Tier B1 is complete, Tier B2 vaccinations
will include high-risk essential workers ages 50 or
older who work in congregate settings such as gro-
cery stores, prisons, public transportation, schools
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last week. Phase 1 aims to
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and agriculture.
As of Jan. 6, Dr. Umair Shah, the state’s health '
secretary, said the federal government has sent
Washington a total of 522,550 doses of the vaccine
from Pfizer and Moderna.
Eddins said the county has put about half of the
vaccines they’ve received in people’s arms and are
expecting another shipment soon.
No severe allergic reactions have been reported in
the county to either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna
vaccines.
“I think it’s probably a good idea to warn folks
that with the second dose you’re more likely to expe-
rience minor side effects like body aches feeling
a little lethargic the next day,” Eddins said. “That’s
a normal immune response, and that’s a great
thing that your body is telling you ‘hey it’s working’
—— making the antibodies to remember this thing
and fight it next time.”
Jennifer Capps, the chief development and com—
munications officer at Mason Health, said in a Zoom
interview that Mason Health is putting together
various community education opportunities to learn
more about the vaccine. These will likely include a
live Q&A on Facebook and a recorded interview se-
ries, answering questions about the vaccines.
More information about mRNA vaccines and the
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines is at wisz.
cdc.g0v/c0ronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html.
Eddins said it’s important to remember that the
potential side effects from the vaccine are minimal
in comparison to being infected with COVID-19.
“When compared to COVID, it’s definitely easier
to handle than COVID.”
Deadline approaching for watershed management-plan
Watershed
By Isabella Breda
isabel/a@masoncounty. com
The Kennedy-Goldsborough Water-
shed Restoration and Enhancement
Committee has until June 30 to adopt
a plan, but committee members have
saidthey are still struggling to reach
consensus on the scope of the plan.
“My big concern is that there is still,
I think, a pretty big gap philosOphical—
ly on what the approach should be,”
watershed Committee Representa—
tive and Mason County Commission-
er Kevin Shutty said. “I’m concerned
about the ability of this group to get to
a consensus by the time that we need
to.”
Shutty said there is disagreement
over whether the plan should be pro-
spective —— preparing a plan that will
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ment on water consumption - or “ret-
rospective in the sense that we would
be looking for impact of consumptive
use on already existing wells.”
The creation of the plan for the
Kennedy-Goldsborough Watershed,
or Watershed Resource Inventory
Area 14 (WRIA) was mandated by
the Streamflow Restoration Act (RCW
90.94) that was passed by the Wash-
ington state legislature in 2018.
The December draft plan outlines
more than 40 proposed projects with-
in the watershed that will help offset
consumption from a “projected 4,294
permit exempt (PE) well connections
[over the 20-year planning horizon.”
The projects include habitat acqui-
sition, restoration through streambed
improvements, fish passage barrier
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removal and Stormwater retrofitting.
Shutty said one low-impact devel—
opment project that is included in the
plan is the rooftop runoff collection,
that David Windom, director of Mason
County Community Services is a “big
proponent of.”
“We’re gonna be looking for proj-
ects that help put water back into the
ground,” Shutty said. “If you start to
include low-impact development proj-
ects like the rooftop runoff you can see
a really good opportunity to offset con-
sumptive use.”
The ultimate goal of the plan is to
benefit year—round streamflow with-
in the watershed and help create a
sustainable watershed for fish and
wildlife. "
According to the Washing-
ton Stormwater Center, the
Kennedy-Goldsborough
spans across over 240,000 acres in
the south Puget Sound region. “The
Squaxin Island Tribe has inhabit-
ed this area for thousands of years.
Known as ‘The People of the Waters’
th‘eir'livelihood has always depended
on the salmon & shellfish populations
that are part of this ecosystem.”
Shutty said he anticipates the draft
plan will go back to the individual
entities for review by the end of the
month.
The group will be meeting from 9
am. to 2 pm. today. The meeting can
be accessed at watech.webex.com/
watech/j.php?MTID=m54f888ccb96e
1e7430bca43682069026. Those with
difficulty connecting can contact Mike
Noone at Mike.Noone@ecy.wa.gov or
(360) 764-0741.
Homeowner Application
Open Through February
The homeowner application for the next
Habitat House is currently open until the end of
February. Applications are available in both the
Belfair and Shelton Stores. Or you can visit our
website to find the application there.
Habitat
for Humanity® February 28'h,2021
of Mason («my
Application
Deadline is '
at 5pm.
For more information on how you can volunteer or support
Habitat for Humanity of Mason County call the office at
360-426—8134 or visit the website at www.habitatmasonwa.org. H
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