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SNAPPING TO ATTENTION during the cold snap of recent weeks are a
trucker and an officer of the Washington State Patrol. This truck ride
was on a downward slide, but it's all just grist for the Mason County
meteorological mill. David Haugen measured 14 inches in the last two
months of last year and Larry Antush recorded six inches that trans-
lates into 1.69 inches of"snowmelt water content."
Some keep cool when it
comes to global warming
By SEAN HANLO
Feeling all hot and bothered
about whether the weather is an
unnatural disaster? You can ei-
ther take a chill pill or listen to the
rhythm of the rain people.
The prevailing winds in Mason
County recall an adage as old as
the Farmers Almanac: Everybody
talks about the weather but no
one does anything about it, and
that means global warming too.
One can hardly breathe free air
these days without hearing all
about global warming and the
contributions humanity makes to
rising temperatures. No less an
authority that former Vice Presi-
dent Al Gore makes it an issue in
An Inconvenient Truth, a film he
produced which puts the heat on
fossil fuels, and legion are the sci-
entists who tend to agree.
The U.S. government tends to
taking a temperate approach to
proclamations about the tempera-
ture. "We forecast out for seven
days," said Johnny Burg, a meteo-
rologist in the Seattle office of the
National Weather Service. ,
After confessing that the accu-
racy of the official forecasts "drops
off dramatically" five days into the
future, he made this forecast last
Thursday about the weather of
yesterday and today. "Wednesday
is going to be a warm day because
it's going to be mostly sunny, and
Thursday is going to be cloudy and
so things will cool off."
AS THIS PAPER was going
to press yesterday for publication
today, Burg's best guesstimate for
Wednesday was looking mostly
sunny indeed. Who knows what
today and tomorrow might bring?
An updated forecast may be found
on page 11 of this newspaper.
Accurate predictions of the
weather owe much to the knowl-
edge which meteorologists have
about the Coriolis Effect and the
rotation of the Earth. The planet
spins from west to east, and the
weather tends to move in this di-
rection too. "That is pretty much
the general flow of most things,"
Burg opined. "It goes from west to
east here; all the world weather
patterns pretty much go from west
to east."
The Coriolis Effect is an effect
of the Earth's rotation that causes
meteorites and falling space junk
to bounce in an easterly direction
in the Northern Hemisphere and in
a westerly direction in the South-
ern Hemisphere. It explains, to
the satisfaction of meteorologists,
why the winds of a cyclone rotate
counterclockwise in the north and
clockwise in the south.
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis was
a French scientist who first de-
scribed this phenomenon in 1835,
or before discussions of the Earth's
temperature started heating up.
Global warming describes the be-
lief that a few warm years in the
Nineties indicate that the North
Pole is melting and the sea level
is rising because fumes generated
by the burning of fossil fuels are
turning the Earth into a hothouse.
The Greenhouse Effect describes
how the fumes assemble in the up-
per atmosphere, sending heat that
once radiated from the Sun to the
Earth and then back into space
bouncing back to the Earth.
BURG PUTS the ice on any in-
quiries that might mak his office
a party to discussions as to wheth-
er the Greenhouse Effect is a dan-
ger to us all and instead refers
such questions to folks back East.
The National Weather Service is
a division of the National Oceanic
& Atmospheric Administration,
as NOAA is also called. NOAA's
skipper has assigned long-range
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Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 25, 2007
Dickinson charged,.
with robbing bank
A former Shelton resident ac-
cused of robbing Peninsula Cred-
it Union in the summer of 2005
appeared on Monday in Mason
County Superior Court.
Robert Carroll Dickinson, 43,
was identified in an investigation
of robbery in the first degree with
a firearms enhancement. He is an
inmate at the McNeil Island Cor-
rections Center where he is serving
a 36-month sentence for robbing a
bank in Oakville on July 20, 2005.
He was sentenced for that crime
on August 29, 2005.
Dickinson is accused of entering
Peninspla Credit Union on June
23, 2005 and taking $9,036 in cash
while packing a gun. He reported-
ly came to inquire about opening
City considers
shrinking UGA
The City of Shelton is holding a
second open house to share infor-
mation about the proposed Shel-
ton Urban Growth Area Plan. One
topic of discussion is the possible
removal of some lands from this
designation.
The open house will be from 6
to 8 p.m. on Thursday, February
1, at the Shelton Civic Center,
525 West Cota Street. Property
owners, residents, business own-
ers and other interested persons
are invited to attend this meeting
to learn more about how the plan
was developed, ask questions and
provide comments.
It should be noted Shelton is
not proposing an annexation of
the urban growth area, said Steve
Goins, director of the city's Com-
munity and Economic Develop-
ment Department. Annexation is
largely a citizen or property owner
driven process. The city is required
to comply with the state's Growth
Management Act to plan for land
adjacent to the city that may some-
day be served by the city.
Shelton is preparing to com-
plete the urban growth area plan
and adopt it as a new chapter in
the city's comprehensive plan.
The urban growth area plan will:
include goals and policies specific
to the urban growth area that pro-
vide guidance to decision-makers;
be a blueprint for orderly growth
and development; enable the cost-
effective extension of city services;
give greater predictability to prop-
erty owners when it comes to the
future use and enjoyment of their
property; and provide the city with
a framework for future annexation
decisions and extensions of public
services.
Also under consideration are
refinements to the urban growth
area boundary that would result
in the removal of some lands from
the urban growth area. The city
is planning to adopt the urban
growth area plan by April of this
year.
For more information, call
Goins at 432-5136.
an account and passed a
Cathy Krumples which said
money please there is a gun."
then allegedly lifted his shirt
displayed a pistol.
Detective Virgil Pentz of
Shelton Police Department
ported that on July 20, 2005
Federal Bureau of
advised him that a bank
robbed in Oakville and the
description matched photos
surveillance cameras taken at
Shelton credit union.
On July 26, 2005 Pentz
learned Dickinson was
Lewis County driving a stolen €
Dickinson reportedly led
a 21-minute chase during
he attempted to ram a deputy
eventually had the tires
and became involved in a
accident. Dickinson also
edly fled on foot but was
short distance from where
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ors may be overwhelming.
think about using
tones of white, beige, or pastels
limiting the bright colors to
If the room is north-facing and
rally dark, use rich, warm hues,
brighter, the better. If a room
sunshine only part of the day,
muted colors with touches of
fabrics. Remember that warm
make walls seem to advance,
ing them best suited to
Cool colors make walls in
rooms seem to recede.
If you know what colors
like best but are having
deciding which colors work
in different rooms, do
favor - enlist the aid of
FLOOR COVERING. We
how color coordination can
magic throughout a
we can save you an
amount of aggravation while
riding you with qualit}
every room in your home.
by room or floor by floor,
create a plan to address your
ticular floor fashion
1306 Olympic Hwy So.
a consultation at
HINT:. It is okay to break
"color rules" in powder rooms
cause they are only used
periods of time, So, go
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redl
PAYING YOURSELF FIRST
COULD PAY OFF LATER.
LIKE WHEN YOU RETIRE.
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of tlw future - like retirement. Edward Jones can help
make saving for retirement easier with our monthly IRA
investing program.
This simple, convenient service puts your retirement
investing on "autopilot" by letting you put aside a set
amount every month into an Edward J,mes IRA. You ca,,
even set it up so that the money comes at, tomatieally from
any accollnt you choose.
For more information or to enroll in our monthly
IRA investing program, call your local Edward Jones
investment representative today.
A systematic investment plan does not assure a profit and does not
protect against toss in a declining market. Such a plan involves
continuous investment in securities regardless of fluctuating price
levels of such securities, the investor should consider the financial
ability to continue the purchases through periods of low price levels.
Armin Baumgartel
Dan Baumgartel
Investment Representatives
821 West Railroad Avenue,
Suite A, Sheiton
426-0982 • 1-800-441-0982
Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIPC
SNAPPING TO ATTENTION during the cold snap of recent weeks are a
trucker and an officer of the Washington State Patrol. This truck ride
was on a downward slide, but it's all just grist for the Mason County
meteorological mill. David Haugen measured 14 inches in the last two
months of last year and Larry Antush recorded six inches that trans-
lates into 1.69 inches of"snowmelt water content."
Some keep cool when it
comes to global warming
By SEAN HANLO
Feeling all hot and bothered
about whether the weather is an
unnatural disaster? You can ei-
ther take a chill pill or listen to the
rhythm of the rain people.
The prevailing winds in Mason
County recall an adage as old as
the Farmers Almanac: Everybody
talks about the weather but no
one does anything about it, and
that means global warming too.
One can hardly breathe free air
these days without hearing all
about global warming and the
contributions humanity makes to
rising temperatures. No less an
authority that former Vice Presi-
dent Al Gore makes it an issue in
An Inconvenient Truth, a film he
produced which puts the heat on
fossil fuels, and legion are the sci-
entists who tend to agree.
The U.S. government tends to
taking a temperate approach to
proclamations about the tempera-
ture. "We forecast out for seven
days," said Johnny Burg, a meteo-
rologist in the Seattle office of the
National Weather Service. ,
After confessing that the accu-
racy of the official forecasts "drops
off dramatically" five days into the
future, he made this forecast last
Thursday about the weather of
yesterday and today. "Wednesday
is going to be a warm day because
it's going to be mostly sunny, and
Thursday is going to be cloudy and
so things will cool off."
AS THIS PAPER was going
to press yesterday for publication
today, Burg's best guesstimate for
Wednesday was looking mostly
sunny indeed. Who knows what
today and tomorrow might bring?
An updated forecast may be found
on page 11 of this newspaper.
Accurate predictions of the
weather owe much to the knowl-
edge which meteorologists have
about the Coriolis Effect and the
rotation of the Earth. The planet
spins from west to east, and the
weather tends to move in this di-
rection too. "That is pretty much
the general flow of most things,"
Burg opined. "It goes from west to
east here; all the world weather
patterns pretty much go from west
to east."
The Coriolis Effect is an effect
of the Earth's rotation that causes
meteorites and falling space junk
to bounce in an easterly direction
in the Northern Hemisphere and in
a westerly direction in the South-
ern Hemisphere. It explains, to
the satisfaction of meteorologists,
why the winds of a cyclone rotate
counterclockwise in the north and
clockwise in the south.
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis was
a French scientist who first de-
scribed this phenomenon in 1835,
or before discussions of the Earth's
temperature started heating up.
Global warming describes the be-
lief that a few warm years in the
Nineties indicate that the North
Pole is melting and the sea level
is rising because fumes generated
by the burning of fossil fuels are
turning the Earth into a hothouse.
The Greenhouse Effect describes
how the fumes assemble in the up-
per atmosphere, sending heat that
once radiated from the Sun to the
Earth and then back into space
bouncing back to the Earth.
BURG PUTS the ice on any in-
quiries that might mak his office
a party to discussions as to wheth-
er the Greenhouse Effect is a dan-
ger to us all and instead refers
such questions to folks back East.
The National Weather Service is
a division of the National Oceanic
& Atmospheric Administration,
as NOAA is also called. NOAA's
skipper has assigned long-range
(Please turn to page 8.)
Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
(25 + Years Experience)
General Dentistry
full service practice
Restorative care (Crowns, Bridges, Fillings)
Extractions • Full & Partial Dentures
Repairs • Relines
Most Insurances Accepted
S. Peters, DPD C. Ngo, DDS
Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 25, 2007
Dickinson charged,.
with robbing bank
A former Shelton resident ac-
cused of robbing Peninsula Cred-
it Union in the summer of 2005
appeared on Monday in Mason
County Superior Court.
Robert Carroll Dickinson, 43,
was identified in an investigation
of robbery in the first degree with
a firearms enhancement. He is an
inmate at the McNeil Island Cor-
rections Center where he is serving
a 36-month sentence for robbing a
bank in Oakville on July 20, 2005.
He was sentenced for that crime
on August 29, 2005.
Dickinson is accused of entering
Peninspla Credit Union on June
23, 2005 and taking $9,036 in cash
while packing a gun. He reported-
ly came to inquire about opening
City considers
shrinking UGA
The City of Shelton is holding a
second open house to share infor-
mation about the proposed Shel-
ton Urban Growth Area Plan. One
topic of discussion is the possible
removal of some lands from this
designation.
The open house will be from 6
to 8 p.m. on Thursday, February
1, at the Shelton Civic Center,
525 West Cota Street. Property
owners, residents, business own-
ers and other interested persons
are invited to attend this meeting
to learn more about how the plan
was developed, ask questions and
provide comments.
It should be noted Shelton is
not proposing an annexation of
the urban growth area, said Steve
Goins, director of the city's Com-
munity and Economic Develop-
ment Department. Annexation is
largely a citizen or property owner
driven process. The city is required
to comply with the state's Growth
Management Act to plan for land
adjacent to the city that may some-
day be served by the city.
Shelton is preparing to com-
plete the urban growth area plan
and adopt it as a new chapter in
the city's comprehensive plan.
The urban growth area plan will:
include goals and policies specific
to the urban growth area that pro-
vide guidance to decision-makers;
be a blueprint for orderly growth
and development; enable the cost-
effective extension of city services;
give greater predictability to prop-
erty owners when it comes to the
future use and enjoyment of their
property; and provide the city with
a framework for future annexation
decisions and extensions of public
services.
Also under consideration are
refinements to the urban growth
area boundary that would result
in the removal of some lands from
the urban growth area. The city
is planning to adopt the urban
growth area plan by April of this
year.
For more information, call
Goins at 432-5136.
an account and passed a
Cathy Krumples which said
money please there is a gun."
then allegedly lifted his shirt
displayed a pistol.
Detective Virgil Pentz of
Shelton Police Department
ported that on July 20, 2005
Federal Bureau of
advised him that a bank
robbed in Oakville and the
description matched photos
surveillance cameras taken at
Shelton credit union.
On July 26, 2005 Pentz
learned Dickinson was
Lewis County driving a stolen €
Dickinson reportedly led
a 21-minute chase during
he attempted to ram a deputy
eventually had the tires
and became involved in a
accident. Dickinson also
edly fled on foot but was
short distance from where
(Please turn to page 11.)
andMore/
by Blaine & Uncla
Sh¢lton Floor Covering
COLOR SELECTION
When selecting a color for
room, pay special attention to
much sun the room gets.
strong, rich colors in a sunny
can be pretty, using very bright
ors may be overwhelming.
think about using
tones of white, beige, or pastels
limiting the bright colors to
If the room is north-facing and
rally dark, use rich, warm hues,
brighter, the better. If a room
sunshine only part of the day,
muted colors with touches of
fabrics. Remember that warm
make walls seem to advance,
ing them best suited to
Cool colors make walls in
rooms seem to recede.
If you know what colors
like best but are having
deciding which colors work
in different rooms, do
favor - enlist the aid of
FLOOR COVERING. We
how color coordination can
magic throughout a
we can save you an
amount of aggravation while
riding you with qualit}
every room in your home.
by room or floor by floor,
create a plan to address your
ticular floor fashion
1306 Olympic Hwy So.
a consultation at
HINT:. It is okay to break
"color rules" in powder rooms
cause they are only used
periods of time, So, go
paint the guest bath
redl
PAYING YOURSELF FIRST
COULD PAY OFF LATER.
LIKE WHEN YOU RETIRE.
With so much happening in out" liw, s, it's easy to lose sight
of tlw future - like retirement. Edward Jones can help
make saving for retirement easier with our monthly IRA
investing program.
This simple, convenient service puts your retirement
investing on "autopilot" by letting you put aside a set
amount every month into an Edward J,mes IRA. You ca,,
even set it up so that the money comes at, tomatieally from
any accollnt you choose.
For more information or to enroll in our monthly
IRA investing program, call your local Edward Jones
investment representative today.
A systematic investment plan does not assure a profit and does not
protect against toss in a declining market. Such a plan involves
continuous investment in securities regardless of fluctuating price
levels of such securities, the investor should consider the financial
ability to continue the purchases through periods of low price levels.
Armin Baumgartel
Dan Baumgartel
Investment Representatives
821 West Railroad Avenue,
Suite A, Sheiton
426-0982 • 1-800-441-0982
Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIPC