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Letters to the editor...
Common sense needed
Editor, Belfair Herald:
The issue before the Mason
County Planning Commission on
Tuesday, January 19, (Fish and
Wildlife Habitat Areas) was not
about the illegal taking of private
property.
The Constitution of the United
States of America; Fifth Amend-
ment, says: "Private property
shall not be taken for public use
without just compensation."
The idea of placing limits on
government by our founding fa-
thers in drafting the U.S. Consti-
tution were not only embodied in
our state constitution, they were
reinforced and strengthened.
The Fish and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation Areas section of
Mason County Interim Resource
Ordinance (MCIRO) as proposed,
is excessive, overly restrictive,
and amounts to nothing more
than a regulatory taking of pri-
vate property.
This Planning Commission,
along with state and county offi-
cials, Applied Environmental
Services, the Tribes, and environ-
mentalists know the above state-
ment is correct.
The taking of our land and the
chipping away at our constitu-
tional rights will not save any
species of fish or wildlife. Before
anyone attempts to take our prop-
erty and provoke a confrontation
with property owners, I would
like to offer an alternative to the
proposed Fish and Wildlife Habi-
tat Conservation Area and recom-
mend to those who want to confis-
cate private property to consider
it first.
Require all Native Americans
to remove their fishing nets from
across the mouths of our rivers,
streams, and creeks, thereby al-
lowing free, unrestricted access to
all our rivers and streams.
Phase out all commercial fish-
ing for any threatened or endan-
gered species.
If adopted, the fish would re-
turn in greater numbers, ensur-
ing their survival. Government,
Native Americans, and environ-
mentalists are recommending
that thousands of acres of private
property be confiscated, utilizing
setbacks and buffers and justify-
ing this illegal action in the name
of the environment.
I encourage the Planning Com-
mission to reject the Fish and
Wildlife Habitat Conservation Ar-
eas inclusion into the MCIRO in
its entirety and reopen public
hearings on this matter out in the
rural areas of our community.
As a property owner, I became
aware of this attempt to steal my
land by accident. A majority of
property owners are just now be-
coming aware of the changes be-
ing proposed and they deserve to
be heard.
Common sense tells us all that
you can't harvest a natural re-
source by the millions and expect
many to return and reproduce. If
we stop the fishing, they will re-
turn.
Bill Quigley
Belfair
Advocates 'yes' vote for levy
Editor, Belfair Herald:
The North Mason School Dis-
trict gets great value tbr our levy
dollar.
Both of our elementary schools
academically test above the state
average even though our district
has a disproportionate number of
lower income families.
The high school offers ad-
vanced placement classes in
Math, English and American His-
tory to give our best students a
jump on college level courses.
Athletic programs produce divi-
sion I athletes with associated
scholarships worth thousands of
dollars. This is on top of the hun-
dreds of students who participate
in after school activities at all lev-
els.
We have reasons to be proud of
the North Mason school district.
In 1990 our superintendent, Dr.
Pickel, won the leadership award
from the Washington State
School Administrators Associa-
tion. The district won a "Schools
for the 21st Century" award in
1991 that provided $100,000 per
year for six years for integrating
our. curriculum. Only 32 of the
296 school districts in the state
won such an award. In addition,
North Mason's close association
with the Theler wetlands
provides a world class setting for
learning used by educators
throughout the state. The
number of North Mason adminis-
trators to students is below the
state guidelines of 4 administra-
tors per 1000 students; this as-
sures us an above average ratio of
teachers to students. This respon-
sible, prudent use of tax money
deserves our continued support.
All of these positive things are
occurring even though the North
Mason area is in the worst 10
percent of the state for drug use.
Can you imagine the impact of re-
moving all after school activities?
Remember that every dollar
raised in our levy stays in our
school district, neither the county
nor the state controls any of that
money.
If you're looking to send a mes-
sage to Olympia about tax reform,
find another way. A levy loss is
no way to send a message to our
lawmakers in Olympia. When
the largest high school in the
state, South Kitsap was about to
lose the second year of its levy af-
ter firing 30 teachers the year pri-
or, Olympia didn't raise a finger
to help them. They won't think
twice about this district suffering.
The four-year replacement levy
has great benefits to our school
district; it will add stability for
every teacher and administrator
in the district to do their job bet-
ter and with greater confidence.
At a time when some local school
districts have to resort to emer-
gency accreditation to obtain
teachers, we need to do all we can
to assure the good ones now serv-
ing our children stay. Only the
first of the four years has any in-
crease at all, a five-percent in-
crease. Since the levy rates have
been adjusted down to account for
the 25% increased assessment for
the district, this replacement levy
is likely to be less than inflation.
This administration, school
board, and teachers have served
this entire community extremely
well so please join me in support-
ing them now by voting yes on the
school levy. Glenn Landram
Belfair
Trestle painting deemed wrong
Editor, Belfair Herald:
Re: letter by Anthony Krueger,
"Painting trestle called harmless"
in the Thursday, January 14, is-
sue, I thought I'd share my view-
point.
Through the years I've wit-
nessed what some believe to be
harmless activity. I don't see it
that way, for I have seen the re-
sponse of angry motorists who
have come to my door hoping I
can help them to find out who it
was that splattered the red paint
down onto their car. One young
woman was very frustrated, I re-
call.
And the man who had a paint
can drop down onto his car. He'd
called the police from his cell
phone and waited along the high-
way for a while before he came to
the door asking if I would talk to
the police when they got there.
He had to get going. I told him I
would tell the officers the incident
that had occurred.
The officers came but one offic-
er seemed to feel that it was a
traditional thing and I was left
feeling that I was just causing
someone else some trouble. It is a
circumstance where one is right
but they are made to feel wrong.
Once an angry man sped up
the driveway over the parking lot,
coming to an abrupt stop, jumped
out of his car, and ran up the hill-
side to the tracks trying to catch
the ones that had done something
from the trestle. I don't know
what had happened in that case
but I remember how grateful I
was that my grandson hadn't
been playing where he speedily
raced his car or he would have
run right over him.
One question. If it is so right,
then why the angry motorists?
Sharon Walker
Belfair
Obituary
Orvetta M. Smith
Orvetta Myrtle Smith, a
Grapeview resident, died Tues-
day, January 12, in Port Orchard.
She was 79.
She was born April 7, 1919, in
Lone Elm, Kansas, to Clifford and
Mable (Roe) McCoy. She was
raised in Colony, Kansas, and
graduated from Joplin High
School in Joplin, Missouri.
She served in the U.S. Marine
Corps from April 1945 to June
1946. She served at Camp Pen-
dleton in California and Camp
Lejeune in North Carolina until
her unit was disbanded.
She married George R. Smith,
who was also a Marine, on Sep-
tember 28, 1946, in Kansas City,
Kansas. He preceded her in death
on February 10, 1979.
Mrs. Smith worked as a book-
keeper for the Bank of America in
Vallejo, California, for seven
t
P.O. Box 250, Belfair, Washington 98528
Telephone 275-6680
Belfair office open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday
News and advertising copy deadline noon Mondays, For your convenience
there Js o mail slot by the door for copy, Office located in Beynon Center.
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Office Telephone (360) 275-6680
years, retiring in 1965.
She is survived by a son, Leon
Smith of Belfair; daughters Bob-
bie Kimball of Grapeview, Cheryl
Masino of Port Orchard and Rene
Allison of Belfair; grandchildren
Malynda Green of Belfair, Leann
Smith of Belfair, Sairah, Kendra
and Kristoffer Kimmell of Grape-
view, Jeremy and Chavawn Masi-
no of Port Orchard, and Aaron,
David and LaDawna Swinney of
Oklahoma; and by two great-
grandchildren.
A graveside service was held
Friday, January 15, at Forest
lawn Cemetery, Bremerton.
Arrangements are by Lewis
Funeral Chapel in Bremerton.
A sectior of l"heShelton-Mason County Journal serving asthe voice of Belfair,
Atlyn, Grapeview, Tahuya, Mason Lake, South Shore, North Shore and Victor.
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Page 2 - Belfair Herald section of Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 21, 1999
COMMUNIT" CALENDAR
ThurBday, January 21
8 a.m., Belfair Senior Nutrition
Program held at the Theler Center
until 3 p.m. Senior activities and
lunch served at noon. For information
or lunch reservations call 275-4898 or
275-6246.
9:15 a.m., TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) Chapter 1032, Belfair Com-
munity Baptist Church. Call Bey
Weston, 275-8282, for information.
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., WIC
(Women, Infants and Children) nutri-
tional program, North Mason Medical
Clinic. Call 275-8340.
10 a.m., TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) WA 1321 meeting, base-
ment at Saint Hugh Community
Episcopal Church in Allyn. For infor-
mation, call 895-1363.
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
5:30 p.m., Exercise for Fitness,
Hawkins Middle School commons, $3
per session, donated to North Mason
Kiwanis and the Boys and Girls Club
of Mason County. Call 275-8602 for
information.
6 p.m., Mason County Network
meets in the Grapeview School Li-
brary. For information, call 275-6769.
6:30 p.m., Bible study at Belfair
Community Baptist Church.
7 p.m., "Powerhouse," a youth
group for young people in sixth
through 12th grades is held at the
Belfair Community Baptist Church.
All young people welcome to attend.
For information call 275-6031.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Friday, January 22
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7 p.m. - midnight, Java luke box;
teen get-together at Belfair Commun-
ity Baptist Church.
7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
women's meeting, NE 42 Old Belfair
Highway.
7:00 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
Men's Big Book study, Allyn Histori-
cal Church, Allyn.
7:30 p.m., Narcotics Anonymous,
open, Belfair Community Baptist
Church.
9:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
candlelight meeting, NE 42 Old Bel-
fair Highway.
Saturday, January 23
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Sunday, January 24
9 a.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, Allyn Historical Church, Allyn.
Monday January 25
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7 p.m., TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) Chapter 1197, Belfair Com-
munity Baptist Church. Weigh-in
from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Call 275-7504
for information.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Tuesday, January 26
8 a.m., Belfair Senior Nutrition
Program held at the Theler Center
until 3 p.m. Senior activities and
lunch served at noon. For information
or lunch reservations call 275-6246.
8:30-10:30 a.m., TOPS 1357 (Take
Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at the
Prince of Peace Catholic Church on
Sand Hill Road in Belfair.
Noon, North Mason Kiwanis Club
meeting at Belfair Community Bap-
tist Church Fellowship Hall. Call
275-2529 for information.
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
4:30 p.m., Mason County Fire Dis-
trict 2 commissioners' meeting, Bel-
fair Fire Hall, Old Belfair Highway.
5:30 p.m., Exercise for Fitness,
Hawkins Middle School commons, $3
per session, donated to North Mason
Kiwanis and the Boys and Girls Club
of Mason County. Call 275-8602 for
information.
6 p.m., Teen-2-Teen youth Bible
study for teens in grades 9-12, youth
center at the Belfair Community
Baptist Church.
7 p.m., Grapeview School Board,
Grapeview School Library.
7 p.m., Mason County Board of
Commissioners' meeting, Building l,
Shelton. Call 275-4467 for informa-
tion.
7:30 p.m., Fraternal Order of Ea-
gles 4226, ladies' auxiliary only,
meets at FOE building, 23495 High-
way 3, Belfair. Call 275-6885 for in-
formation.
7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Wednesday, January 27
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., WIC
(Women, Infants and Children) nutri-
tional program, North Mason Medical
Clinic. Call 275-8340.
10 a.m., Tahuya Bridge Club
meets at the Canal Room of the Ta"
huya Market. Call 275-2098 for infor"
mation.
Noon, Alcoholics AnonymouS,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Noon, North Mason Chamber d
Commerce meets at Mason County
Fire District 2 Fire Hall on Old Bel.
fair Highway for a no-host lunch.
Meeting is open to the public. Call
275-5548 for more information.
6 p.m., Knights of ColumbUS,
Prince of Peace Council 12002 will
meet at the Prince of Peace Catholic
Church on Sand Hill Road in
For more information, contact
Tachell at 275-0329.
6 to 8 p.m., Pioneer Club for
ren 4 years old through ei
Belfair Community Baptist Church.
6 to 8 p.m., "Man to Man,"
men's fellowship group held at
Belfair Community Baptist
All men welcome to attend. For
mation call 275-6031.
6 to 8 p.m., "Woman to Woman'
Bible study will be held at the Belfa
Community Baptist Church. Child"
care available; open to public. For in"
formation, call 275-6031.
7 p.m., Mason County Fire District
5 commissioners' meeting, Station 3,
Mason-Benson Road.
7 p.m., Trauma Anonymous Sup"
port Group, will be held at Westpark
Christian Church, 5204 First 'Street
in Bremerton. For information call
478-7927.
7 p.m., Healing Hearts, a su
group for victims of
violence; for meeting place or more
information, call 427-1263.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anow
open, Belfair Community
Church.
BY LORRAINE KELLY
I mentioned in my last article
that I was going to try and find
information on Dewatto Bay.
Well, I headed to Timberland Li-
brary in Belfair. That was the
first time I had been in the new
building. Very nice and the staff
was very helpful, however, there's
not much written on Dewatto
Bay, so now I'm off to Shelton to
see what I can find there.
I found a few facts which I will
share with you and hopefully will
find more or some old timers who
will share their knowledge with
me.
AT THE PEAK of activity De-
watto was home to trappers, fish-
ermen, and loggers; there were
even a few farms with livestock.
Dewatto Bay was a safe harbor
for fishermen when the storms
would hit the canal.
By 1910, it is said the boats so
filled Dewatto Bay during the sal-
mon run that the lights at night
caused the bay to resemble a
small town. Netting of salmon
was halted in the mid-1920s, so
many of the fishermen went
north to the straits and as far
north as Alaska.
When the fishing slacked off,
logging became the big industry
in the bay. It is said that as much
as three million board feet of tim-
ber was rafted in the bay each
month. There is still some logging
going on but not on the scale it
once was and not in Dewatto Bay.
IF YOU TAKE a trip down to
the bay, turn onto Dewatto Beach
Drive, which is a dead end dirt
road which skirts the bay on the
south side. The first building you
come to on your right hand side is
a little one room cabin, which is
about 100 years old. I'll try to find
out the history on this cabin and
report back.
Traveling on, the next building
on the right is what the locals call
the store front. Local gossip has it
that at one time it housed a store
and post office. I haven't been
able to verify this but will keep
trying.
From this building on around
the bay are more small cabins,
which are used as summer resi-
dences.
ONE OF THE year round res-
idents on Dewatto Beach Drive
are Lloyd and Marlene Iddings.
They purchased their place in
1959 from the estate of Theresa
Riddell, a local author. The cabin
on the property was built between
1890 to 1892. The Iddings used
HMS announces
students of month
Hawkins Middle School has
announced its seventh- and
eighth-grade students of the
month for December, 1998.
These students were selected
for academic achievement, partic-
ipation in activities, and for hav-
ing a positive attitude.
Outstanding students are: Ke-
mie Nanstad and Jeff Criss for
math, Savanah Jones and Heath-
er Lazier for English, Destanie
Hackiewicz and Jonelle Shelton
Freeman for social studies, Aaron
Beeson for shop, David Burmas-
ter for band, and Nate Rosa and
Danny Hoffman for science.
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Located in Belfair behind Key Bank
this cabin as a summer place un-
til they replaced the cabin with a
new home they built in 1983.
They have a beautiful view of
the canal and the Olympic Moun-
tains. They eventually retired
and became full time residents.
Lloyd served as a member of the
Port of Dewatto Commission for
approximately 8 years. Like the
rest of us, the Iddings think
there's no place like Dewatto. I'm
heading over to the their place to
tap into Lloyd's knowledge of the
area, so more news next time.
One note: I found an old ceme-
tery here in the Dewatto area and
am heading out with my husband
to investigate. Hopefully, there
will be some interesting things to
report.
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Letters to the editor...
Common sense needed
Editor, Belfair Herald:
The issue before the Mason
County Planning Commission on
Tuesday, January 19, (Fish and
Wildlife Habitat Areas) was not
about the illegal taking of private
property.
The Constitution of the United
States of America; Fifth Amend-
ment, says: "Private property
shall not be taken for public use
without just compensation."
The idea of placing limits on
government by our founding fa-
thers in drafting the U.S. Consti-
tution were not only embodied in
our state constitution, they were
reinforced and strengthened.
The Fish and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation Areas section of
Mason County Interim Resource
Ordinance (MCIRO) as proposed,
is excessive, overly restrictive,
and amounts to nothing more
than a regulatory taking of pri-
vate property.
This Planning Commission,
along with state and county offi-
cials, Applied Environmental
Services, the Tribes, and environ-
mentalists know the above state-
ment is correct.
The taking of our land and the
chipping away at our constitu-
tional rights will not save any
species of fish or wildlife. Before
anyone attempts to take our prop-
erty and provoke a confrontation
with property owners, I would
like to offer an alternative to the
proposed Fish and Wildlife Habi-
tat Conservation Area and recom-
mend to those who want to confis-
cate private property to consider
it first.
Require all Native Americans
to remove their fishing nets from
across the mouths of our rivers,
streams, and creeks, thereby al-
lowing free, unrestricted access to
all our rivers and streams.
Phase out all commercial fish-
ing for any threatened or endan-
gered species.
If adopted, the fish would re-
turn in greater numbers, ensur-
ing their survival. Government,
Native Americans, and environ-
mentalists are recommending
that thousands of acres of private
property be confiscated, utilizing
setbacks and buffers and justify-
ing this illegal action in the name
of the environment.
I encourage the Planning Com-
mission to reject the Fish and
Wildlife Habitat Conservation Ar-
eas inclusion into the MCIRO in
its entirety and reopen public
hearings on this matter out in the
rural areas of our community.
As a property owner, I became
aware of this attempt to steal my
land by accident. A majority of
property owners are just now be-
coming aware of the changes be-
ing proposed and they deserve to
be heard.
Common sense tells us all that
you can't harvest a natural re-
source by the millions and expect
many to return and reproduce. If
we stop the fishing, they will re-
turn.
Bill Quigley
Belfair
Advocates 'yes' vote for levy
Editor, Belfair Herald:
The North Mason School Dis-
trict gets great value tbr our levy
dollar.
Both of our elementary schools
academically test above the state
average even though our district
has a disproportionate number of
lower income families.
The high school offers ad-
vanced placement classes in
Math, English and American His-
tory to give our best students a
jump on college level courses.
Athletic programs produce divi-
sion I athletes with associated
scholarships worth thousands of
dollars. This is on top of the hun-
dreds of students who participate
in after school activities at all lev-
els.
We have reasons to be proud of
the North Mason school district.
In 1990 our superintendent, Dr.
Pickel, won the leadership award
from the Washington State
School Administrators Associa-
tion. The district won a "Schools
for the 21st Century" award in
1991 that provided $100,000 per
year for six years for integrating
our. curriculum. Only 32 of the
296 school districts in the state
won such an award. In addition,
North Mason's close association
with the Theler wetlands
provides a world class setting for
learning used by educators
throughout the state. The
number of North Mason adminis-
trators to students is below the
state guidelines of 4 administra-
tors per 1000 students; this as-
sures us an above average ratio of
teachers to students. This respon-
sible, prudent use of tax money
deserves our continued support.
All of these positive things are
occurring even though the North
Mason area is in the worst 10
percent of the state for drug use.
Can you imagine the impact of re-
moving all after school activities?
Remember that every dollar
raised in our levy stays in our
school district, neither the county
nor the state controls any of that
money.
If you're looking to send a mes-
sage to Olympia about tax reform,
find another way. A levy loss is
no way to send a message to our
lawmakers in Olympia. When
the largest high school in the
state, South Kitsap was about to
lose the second year of its levy af-
ter firing 30 teachers the year pri-
or, Olympia didn't raise a finger
to help them. They won't think
twice about this district suffering.
The four-year replacement levy
has great benefits to our school
district; it will add stability for
every teacher and administrator
in the district to do their job bet-
ter and with greater confidence.
At a time when some local school
districts have to resort to emer-
gency accreditation to obtain
teachers, we need to do all we can
to assure the good ones now serv-
ing our children stay. Only the
first of the four years has any in-
crease at all, a five-percent in-
crease. Since the levy rates have
been adjusted down to account for
the 25% increased assessment for
the district, this replacement levy
is likely to be less than inflation.
This administration, school
board, and teachers have served
this entire community extremely
well so please join me in support-
ing them now by voting yes on the
school levy. Glenn Landram
Belfair
Trestle painting deemed wrong
Editor, Belfair Herald:
Re: letter by Anthony Krueger,
"Painting trestle called harmless"
in the Thursday, January 14, is-
sue, I thought I'd share my view-
point.
Through the years I've wit-
nessed what some believe to be
harmless activity. I don't see it
that way, for I have seen the re-
sponse of angry motorists who
have come to my door hoping I
can help them to find out who it
was that splattered the red paint
down onto their car. One young
woman was very frustrated, I re-
call.
And the man who had a paint
can drop down onto his car. He'd
called the police from his cell
phone and waited along the high-
way for a while before he came to
the door asking if I would talk to
the police when they got there.
He had to get going. I told him I
would tell the officers the incident
that had occurred.
The officers came but one offic-
er seemed to feel that it was a
traditional thing and I was left
feeling that I was just causing
someone else some trouble. It is a
circumstance where one is right
but they are made to feel wrong.
Once an angry man sped up
the driveway over the parking lot,
coming to an abrupt stop, jumped
out of his car, and ran up the hill-
side to the tracks trying to catch
the ones that had done something
from the trestle. I don't know
what had happened in that case
but I remember how grateful I
was that my grandson hadn't
been playing where he speedily
raced his car or he would have
run right over him.
One question. If it is so right,
then why the angry motorists?
Sharon Walker
Belfair
Obituary
Orvetta M. Smith
Orvetta Myrtle Smith, a
Grapeview resident, died Tues-
day, January 12, in Port Orchard.
She was 79.
She was born April 7, 1919, in
Lone Elm, Kansas, to Clifford and
Mable (Roe) McCoy. She was
raised in Colony, Kansas, and
graduated from Joplin High
School in Joplin, Missouri.
She served in the U.S. Marine
Corps from April 1945 to June
1946. She served at Camp Pen-
dleton in California and Camp
Lejeune in North Carolina until
her unit was disbanded.
She married George R. Smith,
who was also a Marine, on Sep-
tember 28, 1946, in Kansas City,
Kansas. He preceded her in death
on February 10, 1979.
Mrs. Smith worked as a book-
keeper for the Bank of America in
Vallejo, California, for seven
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years, retiring in 1965.
She is survived by a son, Leon
Smith of Belfair; daughters Bob-
bie Kimball of Grapeview, Cheryl
Masino of Port Orchard and Rene
Allison of Belfair; grandchildren
Malynda Green of Belfair, Leann
Smith of Belfair, Sairah, Kendra
and Kristoffer Kimmell of Grape-
view, Jeremy and Chavawn Masi-
no of Port Orchard, and Aaron,
David and LaDawna Swinney of
Oklahoma; and by two great-
grandchildren.
A graveside service was held
Friday, January 15, at Forest
lawn Cemetery, Bremerton.
Arrangements are by Lewis
Funeral Chapel in Bremerton.
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COMMUNIT" CALENDAR
ThurBday, January 21
8 a.m., Belfair Senior Nutrition
Program held at the Theler Center
until 3 p.m. Senior activities and
lunch served at noon. For information
or lunch reservations call 275-4898 or
275-6246.
9:15 a.m., TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) Chapter 1032, Belfair Com-
munity Baptist Church. Call Bey
Weston, 275-8282, for information.
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., WIC
(Women, Infants and Children) nutri-
tional program, North Mason Medical
Clinic. Call 275-8340.
10 a.m., TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) WA 1321 meeting, base-
ment at Saint Hugh Community
Episcopal Church in Allyn. For infor-
mation, call 895-1363.
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
5:30 p.m., Exercise for Fitness,
Hawkins Middle School commons, $3
per session, donated to North Mason
Kiwanis and the Boys and Girls Club
of Mason County. Call 275-8602 for
information.
6 p.m., Mason County Network
meets in the Grapeview School Li-
brary. For information, call 275-6769.
6:30 p.m., Bible study at Belfair
Community Baptist Church.
7 p.m., "Powerhouse," a youth
group for young people in sixth
through 12th grades is held at the
Belfair Community Baptist Church.
All young people welcome to attend.
For information call 275-6031.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Friday, January 22
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7 p.m. - midnight, Java luke box;
teen get-together at Belfair Commun-
ity Baptist Church.
7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
women's meeting, NE 42 Old Belfair
Highway.
7:00 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
Men's Big Book study, Allyn Histori-
cal Church, Allyn.
7:30 p.m., Narcotics Anonymous,
open, Belfair Community Baptist
Church.
9:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
candlelight meeting, NE 42 Old Bel-
fair Highway.
Saturday, January 23
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Sunday, January 24
9 a.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, Allyn Historical Church, Allyn.
Monday January 25
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
7 p.m., TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) Chapter 1197, Belfair Com-
munity Baptist Church. Weigh-in
from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Call 275-7504
for information.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Tuesday, January 26
8 a.m., Belfair Senior Nutrition
Program held at the Theler Center
until 3 p.m. Senior activities and
lunch served at noon. For information
or lunch reservations call 275-6246.
8:30-10:30 a.m., TOPS 1357 (Take
Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at the
Prince of Peace Catholic Church on
Sand Hill Road in Belfair.
Noon, North Mason Kiwanis Club
meeting at Belfair Community Bap-
tist Church Fellowship Hall. Call
275-2529 for information.
Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
4:30 p.m., Mason County Fire Dis-
trict 2 commissioners' meeting, Bel-
fair Fire Hall, Old Belfair Highway.
5:30 p.m., Exercise for Fitness,
Hawkins Middle School commons, $3
per session, donated to North Mason
Kiwanis and the Boys and Girls Club
of Mason County. Call 275-8602 for
information.
6 p.m., Teen-2-Teen youth Bible
study for teens in grades 9-12, youth
center at the Belfair Community
Baptist Church.
7 p.m., Grapeview School Board,
Grapeview School Library.
7 p.m., Mason County Board of
Commissioners' meeting, Building l,
Shelton. Call 275-4467 for informa-
tion.
7:30 p.m., Fraternal Order of Ea-
gles 4226, ladies' auxiliary only,
meets at FOE building, 23495 High-
way 3, Belfair. Call 275-6885 for in-
formation.
7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Wednesday, January 27
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., WIC
(Women, Infants and Children) nutri-
tional program, North Mason Medical
Clinic. Call 275-8340.
10 a.m., Tahuya Bridge Club
meets at the Canal Room of the Ta"
huya Market. Call 275-2098 for infor"
mation.
Noon, Alcoholics AnonymouS,
open, NE 42 Old Belfair Highway.
Noon, North Mason Chamber d
Commerce meets at Mason County
Fire District 2 Fire Hall on Old Bel.
fair Highway for a no-host lunch.
Meeting is open to the public. Call
275-5548 for more information.
6 p.m., Knights of ColumbUS,
Prince of Peace Council 12002 will
meet at the Prince of Peace Catholic
Church on Sand Hill Road in
For more information, contact
Tachell at 275-0329.
6 to 8 p.m., Pioneer Club for
ren 4 years old through ei
Belfair Community Baptist Church.
6 to 8 p.m., "Man to Man,"
men's fellowship group held at
Belfair Community Baptist
All men welcome to attend. For
mation call 275-6031.
6 to 8 p.m., "Woman to Woman'
Bible study will be held at the Belfa
Community Baptist Church. Child"
care available; open to public. For in"
formation, call 275-6031.
7 p.m., Mason County Fire District
5 commissioners' meeting, Station 3,
Mason-Benson Road.
7 p.m., Trauma Anonymous Sup"
port Group, will be held at Westpark
Christian Church, 5204 First 'Street
in Bremerton. For information call
478-7927.
7 p.m., Healing Hearts, a su
group for victims of
violence; for meeting place or more
information, call 427-1263.
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anow
open, Belfair Community
Church.
BY LORRAINE KELLY
I mentioned in my last article
that I was going to try and find
information on Dewatto Bay.
Well, I headed to Timberland Li-
brary in Belfair. That was the
first time I had been in the new
building. Very nice and the staff
was very helpful, however, there's
not much written on Dewatto
Bay, so now I'm off to Shelton to
see what I can find there.
I found a few facts which I will
share with you and hopefully will
find more or some old timers who
will share their knowledge with
me.
AT THE PEAK of activity De-
watto was home to trappers, fish-
ermen, and loggers; there were
even a few farms with livestock.
Dewatto Bay was a safe harbor
for fishermen when the storms
would hit the canal.
By 1910, it is said the boats so
filled Dewatto Bay during the sal-
mon run that the lights at night
caused the bay to resemble a
small town. Netting of salmon
was halted in the mid-1920s, so
many of the fishermen went
north to the straits and as far
north as Alaska.
When the fishing slacked off,
logging became the big industry
in the bay. It is said that as much
as three million board feet of tim-
ber was rafted in the bay each
month. There is still some logging
going on but not on the scale it
once was and not in Dewatto Bay.
IF YOU TAKE a trip down to
the bay, turn onto Dewatto Beach
Drive, which is a dead end dirt
road which skirts the bay on the
south side. The first building you
come to on your right hand side is
a little one room cabin, which is
about 100 years old. I'll try to find
out the history on this cabin and
report back.
Traveling on, the next building
on the right is what the locals call
the store front. Local gossip has it
that at one time it housed a store
and post office. I haven't been
able to verify this but will keep
trying.
From this building on around
the bay are more small cabins,
which are used as summer resi-
dences.
ONE OF THE year round res-
idents on Dewatto Beach Drive
are Lloyd and Marlene Iddings.
They purchased their place in
1959 from the estate of Theresa
Riddell, a local author. The cabin
on the property was built between
1890 to 1892. The Iddings used
HMS announces
students of month
Hawkins Middle School has
announced its seventh- and
eighth-grade students of the
month for December, 1998.
These students were selected
for academic achievement, partic-
ipation in activities, and for hav-
ing a positive attitude.
Outstanding students are: Ke-
mie Nanstad and Jeff Criss for
math, Savanah Jones and Heath-
er Lazier for English, Destanie
Hackiewicz and Jonelle Shelton
Freeman for social studies, Aaron
Beeson for shop, David Burmas-
ter for band, and Nate Rosa and
Danny Hoffman for science.
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this cabin as a summer place un-
til they replaced the cabin with a
new home they built in 1983.
They have a beautiful view of
the canal and the Olympic Moun-
tains. They eventually retired
and became full time residents.
Lloyd served as a member of the
Port of Dewatto Commission for
approximately 8 years. Like the
rest of us, the Iddings think
there's no place like Dewatto. I'm
heading over to the their place to
tap into Lloyd's knowledge of the
area, so more news next time.
One note: I found an old ceme-
tery here in the Dewatto area and
am heading out with my husband
to investigate. Hopefully, there
will be some interesting things to
report.
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