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832,000 grant lets ,county
hire help for litter pickups
Mason County commission-
ers took action Tuesday to ap-
prove adding a $32,000 anti-lit-
ter grant to its 1999 program.
The agreement with the
Washington Department of
Ecology enables the county to
deal with littering on public
rights-of-way and illegal
dumps on public property. The
major part of the grant will in-
volve the continuation of large-
scale roadside cleanup opera-
tions by inmates from a nearby
correctional institution.
The funds will come from
the state Waste Reduction, Re-
cycling and Model Litter Con-
trol Fund, reported Gary Yan-
do, director of community de-
velopment. Toni Clement, recy-
cling coordinator for the county
and the city of Shelton, will be
involved in administration of
the grant.
The agreement is broken
down into four parts, Yando
said Tuesday. The city of Shel-
ton will receive $4,352 for
cleanup of public spaces. The
Skokomish Tribe will receive
$2,176 to clean up litter and
dump sites along the two state
highways, Highway 101 and
State Route 106, on the reser-
vation.
The county will receive two
chunks of the grant: $21,847 to
clean up over 1,200 miles of
road, 200 acres of public land
and about 30 illegal dump sites
using crews from Cedar Creek
Corrections Center and $3,625
to clean up the roadsides in the
Tahuya State Forest and to
assist the Washington Depart-
ment of Natural Resources
with cleanup on other public
lands in the county.
A COUNTYWIDE CAMPAIGN to clean up public lands
and illegal dumps will continue this year, thanks to
a $32,000 state grant. Last fall crews from Clallam
Correction Center, shown above, participated in the
effort.
i Three are arrested in
a potential meth case
Three Shelton area residents
face drug charges after a police
officer stopped their van because
it had a dirty license plate.
The three residents of 261 East
Willow Blue Lane are to be ar-
raigned next Thursday on charg-
es of conspiracy to sell the drug
and possession of drug parapher-
nalia. They are Fred Lee Camp-
bell, 47, James Michael Kinred,
39, and Cheryl Kay Ryland, 43.
Judge James Sawyer on Tues-
day found probable cause for the
arrests. He set bail at $5,000 for
ampbell, $2,500 for Ryland and
: i00 for Kinred.
ACCORDI, NG TO court pa-
pers, the trio s home was being
watched by Mason County sher-
iffs deputies as a possible drug
house. They were arrested and
jailed last Saturday evening by
Officer Scott Brown of the Shel-
ton Police Department. Brown's
account of the bust appeared in
papers filed in a Mason County
Superior Court file.
Brown was on patrol shortly
after 10:30 p.m. Saturday when
he spotted a van headed north on
North 13th Street. He saw that
the license number on the rear
plate was obscured by dirt and
grease and stopped the van by
Christmas village. Campbell was
at the wheel, with Kinred and Ry-
land his passengers.
With the assistance of Shelton
Communications, the emergency
dispatch center in the Shelton Po-
lice Station, Brown learned that
Campbell's driver's license had
been suspended. He put Campbell
in the patrol car and discovered
that the motorist was carrying a
portable scale that had some
white residue.
Brown then ordered Kinread
and Ryland out of the van while
he searched the vehicle. He
smelled a strong chemical odor
and found three smoking devices
on the front console. There was a
black pouch with two syringes
near Ryland's seat in the back of
the van, the officer added in his
report.
HE ALSO FOUND a store-
bought antihistamine, coffee fil-
ters, a camp stove and other
things needed for "a clandestine
laboratory for the manufacture of
methamphetamine," Brown indi-
cated in his report. He sealed the
van as evidence and arrested its
three occupants.
Brown later learned from the
Mason County Sheriffs Office
that Deputy Frank O'Brien had
been conducting an investigation
of alleged drug-related activities
in the house on Willow Blue
Lane. According to court papers,
O'Brien got a signed statement in
which Campbell said he had pur-
chased the antihistamine and cof-
fee filters with the intention of
using them to make the illegal
drug with his housemates.
2 FOR
220
2 loads ANY SIZE crushed
rock delivered into Shelton.
3" Minus at s3 75 Ton
Call for details! 426-4743
Located on Highway 101
Special savings to outlying areas
We deliver )
Kennedy
Creek
Quarry
Census bureau has lots of jobs
Approaching along with the
turn of the century and the new
millenium and Y2K is another
decade-ending federal census.
The turn of the calendar at
decade's end always brings with
it a major effort by the U.S. Bu-
reau of the Census, which is now
hiring for temporary jobs.
"The bureau is gearing up for
Census 2000, hiring and training
thousands of individuals to carry
on the enormous task of counting
every person living in the United
States as mandated by the Con-
stitution," said Renee Timothy,
assistant manager of recruiting
for the Tacoma office of the bu-
reau.
Census information, Timothy
said, determines congressional
representation and the allocation
of federal funds for roads, hospi-
tals, schools and other facilities.
"HUNDREDS OF temporary
jobs are available in your neigh-
borhood," Timothy said. "Most
jobs are in the field, checking ad-
dresses and interviewing resi-
dents."
Census takers, she said, will
work for three to five weeks be-
ginning in February, and another
wave of hiring will come in April.
Workers are paid a competitive
wage, she said. The job includes
training and reimbursement for
mileage costs.
"These positions," Timothy ob-
served, "are ideal for people who
want to work around their cur-
rent employment, as well as re-
tirees, people in government pro-
grams, and people who are not
currently employed."
Waivers are available, she ad-
ded, to help recipients of govern-
ment benefits to work on Census
2000 without reducing their bene-
fits.
APPLICANTS should be 18
years or older and must hold
U.S. citizenship. They must have
no convictions other than minor
traffic violations since the age of
18. Additionally, each applicant
must take a written basic skills
test and pass a security and em-
ployment reference check.
Additional information is avail-
able from the local office of the
U.S. Bureau of the Census at
(253) 593-6607. A toll-free
number, 1-888-806-5878, is also
available.
Briefing session slated Monday
l:'or 101 Connec tor corridor study
Next Monday afternoon at 3 report on the 101 Connector Cor- ed, will attend the session, ments with the report, Hauth not°
o'clock the Mason County com-
missioners will review and re-
ceive a briefing about a draft of a
ridor Study.
Lyle Renz, consultant with
Skillings-Connolly, Incorporat-
Garden classes
start off series
Mason County Master Garden-
ers will kick off the winter 1999
series of Country Living classes
with a series of classes for home
gardeners and landscapers.
Tips from Master Gardeners
Adelheid Krohne and Debi Cote
for designing the foul-weather
landscape will help local resi-
dents plan gardens that look
great even in the rain and snow.
The two will lead the class from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Janu-
ary 28, in the meeting room at
Reed Library at Seventh and Al-
der in Shelton.
A $5 fee will be assessed at the
door for the session. Registration
can be prearranged by calling
427-9670, Extension 396, or 275-
4467, Extension 396.
Master Gardener Steve Ed-
mondson will share vegetable-
gardening expertise in a session
on growing fresh and delicious
veggies from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fe-
bruary 4 in the Reed Library.
This session, too, will involve a $5
fee, and telephone numbers for
registration are the same as for
the above offering.
Vegetable gardening year-
round, pruning fruit trees, gar-
dening for bees and butterflies,
using herb plantings creatively in
the landscape: it's all part of the
Country Living series. A brochure
on the entire list of offerings is
available by calling the telephone
numbers listed above.
However, the document is not
yet read for public comments,
cautioned Jerry Hauth, county
engineer. What the board will
review is a draft of the phase 2
analysis in which the viability of
a middle route was examined.
What the report does not include
are responses to the draft which
came from internal review of the
report.
In fact, at Tuesday's board
meeting the commissioners ap-
proved an extension of the con-
tract with Skillings-Connolly to
February 18. The additional
time will allow the consulting
firm to coordinate those corn-
ed. No additional cost is antici-
pated from the four-week exten-
sion, he added.
Still ahead in the process is
preparation of a draft environ-
mental impact statement (EIS)
which will review alternatives to
construction of a connector route
as well as identify impacts from
the various alternatives if the
road is built, Hauth added. It is
not appropriate to send out this
phase 2 report for public com-
ments, he said.
Briefing sessions are open to
the public for observation and are
held in the commissioners'
chambers at 411 North Fifth
Street.
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arlili
832,000 grant lets ,county
hire help for litter pickups
Mason County commission-
ers took action Tuesday to ap-
prove adding a $32,000 anti-lit-
ter grant to its 1999 program.
The agreement with the
Washington Department of
Ecology enables the county to
deal with littering on public
rights-of-way and illegal
dumps on public property. The
major part of the grant will in-
volve the continuation of large-
scale roadside cleanup opera-
tions by inmates from a nearby
correctional institution.
The funds will come from
the state Waste Reduction, Re-
cycling and Model Litter Con-
trol Fund, reported Gary Yan-
do, director of community de-
velopment. Toni Clement, recy-
cling coordinator for the county
and the city of Shelton, will be
involved in administration of
the grant.
The agreement is broken
down into four parts, Yando
said Tuesday. The city of Shel-
ton will receive $4,352 for
cleanup of public spaces. The
Skokomish Tribe will receive
$2,176 to clean up litter and
dump sites along the two state
highways, Highway 101 and
State Route 106, on the reser-
vation.
The county will receive two
chunks of the grant: $21,847 to
clean up over 1,200 miles of
road, 200 acres of public land
and about 30 illegal dump sites
using crews from Cedar Creek
Corrections Center and $3,625
to clean up the roadsides in the
Tahuya State Forest and to
assist the Washington Depart-
ment of Natural Resources
with cleanup on other public
lands in the county.
A COUNTYWIDE CAMPAIGN to clean up public lands
and illegal dumps will continue this year, thanks to
a $32,000 state grant. Last fall crews from Clallam
Correction Center, shown above, participated in the
effort.
i Three are arrested in
a potential meth case
Three Shelton area residents
face drug charges after a police
officer stopped their van because
it had a dirty license plate.
The three residents of 261 East
Willow Blue Lane are to be ar-
raigned next Thursday on charg-
es of conspiracy to sell the drug
and possession of drug parapher-
nalia. They are Fred Lee Camp-
bell, 47, James Michael Kinred,
39, and Cheryl Kay Ryland, 43.
Judge James Sawyer on Tues-
day found probable cause for the
arrests. He set bail at $5,000 for
ampbell, $2,500 for Ryland and
: i00 for Kinred.
ACCORDI, NG TO court pa-
pers, the trio s home was being
watched by Mason County sher-
iffs deputies as a possible drug
house. They were arrested and
jailed last Saturday evening by
Officer Scott Brown of the Shel-
ton Police Department. Brown's
account of the bust appeared in
papers filed in a Mason County
Superior Court file.
Brown was on patrol shortly
after 10:30 p.m. Saturday when
he spotted a van headed north on
North 13th Street. He saw that
the license number on the rear
plate was obscured by dirt and
grease and stopped the van by
Christmas village. Campbell was
at the wheel, with Kinred and Ry-
land his passengers.
With the assistance of Shelton
Communications, the emergency
dispatch center in the Shelton Po-
lice Station, Brown learned that
Campbell's driver's license had
been suspended. He put Campbell
in the patrol car and discovered
that the motorist was carrying a
portable scale that had some
white residue.
Brown then ordered Kinread
and Ryland out of the van while
he searched the vehicle. He
smelled a strong chemical odor
and found three smoking devices
on the front console. There was a
black pouch with two syringes
near Ryland's seat in the back of
the van, the officer added in his
report.
HE ALSO FOUND a store-
bought antihistamine, coffee fil-
ters, a camp stove and other
things needed for "a clandestine
laboratory for the manufacture of
methamphetamine," Brown indi-
cated in his report. He sealed the
van as evidence and arrested its
three occupants.
Brown later learned from the
Mason County Sheriffs Office
that Deputy Frank O'Brien had
been conducting an investigation
of alleged drug-related activities
in the house on Willow Blue
Lane. According to court papers,
O'Brien got a signed statement in
which Campbell said he had pur-
chased the antihistamine and cof-
fee filters with the intention of
using them to make the illegal
drug with his housemates.
2 FOR
220
2 loads ANY SIZE crushed
rock delivered into Shelton.
3" Minus at s3 75 Ton
Call for details! 426-4743
Located on Highway 101
Special savings to outlying areas
We deliver )
Kennedy
Creek
Quarry
Census bureau has lots of jobs
Approaching along with the
turn of the century and the new
millenium and Y2K is another
decade-ending federal census.
The turn of the calendar at
decade's end always brings with
it a major effort by the U.S. Bu-
reau of the Census, which is now
hiring for temporary jobs.
"The bureau is gearing up for
Census 2000, hiring and training
thousands of individuals to carry
on the enormous task of counting
every person living in the United
States as mandated by the Con-
stitution," said Renee Timothy,
assistant manager of recruiting
for the Tacoma office of the bu-
reau.
Census information, Timothy
said, determines congressional
representation and the allocation
of federal funds for roads, hospi-
tals, schools and other facilities.
"HUNDREDS OF temporary
jobs are available in your neigh-
borhood," Timothy said. "Most
jobs are in the field, checking ad-
dresses and interviewing resi-
dents."
Census takers, she said, will
work for three to five weeks be-
ginning in February, and another
wave of hiring will come in April.
Workers are paid a competitive
wage, she said. The job includes
training and reimbursement for
mileage costs.
"These positions," Timothy ob-
served, "are ideal for people who
want to work around their cur-
rent employment, as well as re-
tirees, people in government pro-
grams, and people who are not
currently employed."
Waivers are available, she ad-
ded, to help recipients of govern-
ment benefits to work on Census
2000 without reducing their bene-
fits.
APPLICANTS should be 18
years or older and must hold
U.S. citizenship. They must have
no convictions other than minor
traffic violations since the age of
18. Additionally, each applicant
must take a written basic skills
test and pass a security and em-
ployment reference check.
Additional information is avail-
able from the local office of the
U.S. Bureau of the Census at
(253) 593-6607. A toll-free
number, 1-888-806-5878, is also
available.
Briefing session slated Monday
l:'or 101 Connec tor corridor study
Next Monday afternoon at 3 report on the 101 Connector Cor- ed, will attend the session, ments with the report, Hauth not°
o'clock the Mason County com-
missioners will review and re-
ceive a briefing about a draft of a
ridor Study.
Lyle Renz, consultant with
Skillings-Connolly, Incorporat-
Garden classes
start off series
Mason County Master Garden-
ers will kick off the winter 1999
series of Country Living classes
with a series of classes for home
gardeners and landscapers.
Tips from Master Gardeners
Adelheid Krohne and Debi Cote
for designing the foul-weather
landscape will help local resi-
dents plan gardens that look
great even in the rain and snow.
The two will lead the class from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Janu-
ary 28, in the meeting room at
Reed Library at Seventh and Al-
der in Shelton.
A $5 fee will be assessed at the
door for the session. Registration
can be prearranged by calling
427-9670, Extension 396, or 275-
4467, Extension 396.
Master Gardener Steve Ed-
mondson will share vegetable-
gardening expertise in a session
on growing fresh and delicious
veggies from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fe-
bruary 4 in the Reed Library.
This session, too, will involve a $5
fee, and telephone numbers for
registration are the same as for
the above offering.
Vegetable gardening year-
round, pruning fruit trees, gar-
dening for bees and butterflies,
using herb plantings creatively in
the landscape: it's all part of the
Country Living series. A brochure
on the entire list of offerings is
available by calling the telephone
numbers listed above.
However, the document is not
yet read for public comments,
cautioned Jerry Hauth, county
engineer. What the board will
review is a draft of the phase 2
analysis in which the viability of
a middle route was examined.
What the report does not include
are responses to the draft which
came from internal review of the
report.
In fact, at Tuesday's board
meeting the commissioners ap-
proved an extension of the con-
tract with Skillings-Connolly to
February 18. The additional
time will allow the consulting
firm to coordinate those corn-
ed. No additional cost is antici-
pated from the four-week exten-
sion, he added.
Still ahead in the process is
preparation of a draft environ-
mental impact statement (EIS)
which will review alternatives to
construction of a connector route
as well as identify impacts from
the various alternatives if the
road is built, Hauth added. It is
not appropriate to send out this
phase 2 report for public com-
ments, he said.
Briefing sessions are open to
the public for observation and are
held in the commissioners'
chambers at 411 North Fifth
Street.
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