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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 (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. 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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