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\\; Pollsters track views dlaS OLD HOUSE doesn't know it, but its days are dwin- g down to a precious few. This Saturday, firefighters burn it down during a practice burn. Firefighters to practice at this house warming The intersection of Front and Cedar streets in downtown Shelton will be closed for sever- lhours this Saturday, January 7, as the Shelton Fire Depart- meat conducts live fire training at a city-owned house in that vi- cinity. The training will begin at ap- ProXimately 9 a.m. and should COnclude around 3 p.m. Several .lets will be closed and others . U be restricted to limited ac- 88. Front Street will be closed at e entrance to the city's sewer P station. Access will be 1 aintained to.the businesses on roat Street, to residences on edar between First and Front treets and to Lumbermen's ,Parking lot, notes a press re- .ase from Assistant Shelton lre Chief Dave Salzer. (raduates of the 2006 Mason County Fire Recruit Academy will be training in the house. Fires will be set and extin- guished throughout the day. At the conclusion of the training, the remains of the structure will be burned to the ground. An excavator with a water supply will be on site until the fire is out. All required state and local permits have been is- sued, and during this week fire department personnel will be at the site preparing the building for the fire training. On Saturday, apparatus and support resources will be staged on Front Street. A clear bound- ary will be set up around the site to keep all but authorized personnel a safe distance away from the area. Those with questions about the training event can call Sal- zer at 432-5170. " years ago: Jug said jail new kitchen note: These items The Journal in January included in the Mason Society's news- Mann assumed the pres- of the Shelton Chamber for 1957, succeed- James at the annual dinner held at the Hotel. Other officers Winston Scott, first vice Bill Dickie, second President, Chet Williams, and Ed Faubert, sec- County Sheriff W.A. Potter proposed to the commission the need for kitchen. This was neces- of the number of He said the for feeding prisoners a city restaurant high" now that is not far from 10 Mason County commis- and two superior court officially began new four- of office on January .W. Streckenbach and Roy .ll, first and second district 's respectively, and Charles T. Wright and Clifford were all re- in November 1956. Irene S. Reed High School team beat the Olym- for the first time since And, they did it in the OWn gym. Roger Bogden the winning basket, en- the game six minutes when Jerry Corey fouled scoring 21 points. Final 50 to 48! The coach? Andy Thomas Ryan of Seattle the optometric practice Dr. Glenn W. Landers Landers died November Mitchell and his western band. The Tropics was located on the Shelton-Olympia highway near what is now the intersection of Highway 101 and Steamboat Is- land Road. Hydroplane driver Bill Munc- ey came to Shelton and talked about the Miss Thriftway and his racing career. The occasion was the combined Chamber of Commerce-Rotary-Lions meet- ing in the Shelton Hotel. Mason County's Golden Age Club elected officers for 1957. They were: Mrs. John Jackson, president; Mrs. Hilda Westby, vice president; Mrs. Martha Clark, treasurer; and Mrs. Rose Jackson, secretary. The Golden Age Club met at the Memorial Hall twice a month for talking, games and craftwork. Mrs. Catherine (Grandma) Pfundt of Holly died just two months short of her 99th birth- day. Mrs. Pfundt had been a resident of Holly on Hood Canal since 1889. A very active lady, she had the honor of cutting the ribbon of the new Holly Road in 1950. Seven hundred attended the event. A snowstorm in Mason Coun- ty closed one county school and put loggers out of work in the woods but "created many new jobs for city street and county road crews." Shelton reported six inches of snow, Matlock eight to 12 inches and Kamilche nine. At Union, the snowstorm failed to dampen the square dancing spirit. The Union square dancers put on their boots and hiked up the schoolhouse hill for their reg- ular dancing party. "The hike in the snow provided added excite- ment and fun for the evening." the tests held Creek by the Army the safest colors Preliminary tests is most likely all-around color. The conducted in Decem- by Fort Lewis soldiers with state and agencies. every Saturday night (Northwest Barn to the tunes of Tex on car-racing project By SEAN HANLON Washington who might otherwise thought the track would improve Another quarter has been heard from on the subject of the NAS- CAR track with the publication of a public opinion poll conducted for folks on the other side of the Kit- sap County line. The poll reflects an even split between supporters and oppo- nents of the racetrack proposed for an area south of the Bremer- ton airport and just north of the Mason County line. Kitsap County commissioned the poll by Elway Research, Incor- porated, a firm which interviewed 600 people roughly divided among the three districts that elect coun- ty commissioners. Most of the re- spondents were between the ages of 36 and 64 and more than half have attended NASCAR races or watched them on TV. NASCAR stands for the Nation- al Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a private company that stages races of cars that resemble regular rigs but are souped up and plastered with advertisements for things like Viagra and motor oil. When people in Kitsap were asked if they support or oppose the building of a NASCAR track in their county "as things stand today," the pollsters found them split right down the middle: 46 percent support the track, with 28 percent doing so strongly, and 46 percent do not support the track, with 31 percent having strong feelings against it. International Speedway Cor- poration, a partner company of NASCAR, has been boosting the proposition that a racetrack be built with public money and the money be returned to the public in the form of a tax on ticket sales and any economic activity that NASCAR events might generate. THE POLLSTERS found that 69 percent of the people who re- sponded to the poll thought the proposed racetrack would do more economic good than harm, but 28 percent said the track would hurt the county's reputation and 60 percent opposed using public money to build it. A proposal to enlist the state in this project was bandied about in last year's session of the Wash- ington Legislature but a bill was never introduced. After the law- makers went back home, Lieuten- ant Governor Brad Owen of Shel- ton carried the ball in his capac- ity as chairman of the Legislative Committee on Economic Develop- ment and International Relations. There are 12 other members of this panel evenly divided between state representatives and state senators and between Democrats and Republicans. Given that NASCAR boosters never got to a hearing during last year's session of the legislature, this panel took it upon itself to lis- ten to what they had to say. Owen was impressed. "I have my own feelings about them and support them and will support them based on the infor- mation we have garnered over the years," he said on Monday a few hours after calling lawmakers to order for this year's session. One of his duties as lieutenant gover- nor is to preside over sessions of the Washington State Senate. HIS COMMITTEE reviewed a proposal that calls for construc- tion of a racetrack located near Bremerton just a few miles from the Mason County line with seat- ing for 83,500 fans and a $345- million price tag. Owen said this would definitely be an economic plus because NASCAR has a track record of generating "a signifi- cant amount of revenue" over and above what it costs to build such a facility and retire the bonds used to pay for it. He said he learned that 50 to 60 percent of the people who at- tend NASCAR events come from out of state and their spending is added to the 40 to 50 percent from leave this state to attend NAS- CAR events elsewhere. "NASCAR has been touted in other states as being like having two Super Bowls in your state be- cause of the number of people it draws," Owen said. The Super Bowls of the Na- tional Football League are widely regarded as the biggest money- makers in sports on account of the prices their tickets fetch and the advertising dollars their broad- casts attract. Sticking for a mo- ment with the Super Bowl theme, Owen allows that the Legislative Committee on Economic Develop- ment and International Relations is something like the offensive line of a football team: a group of unsung heroes who clear a path so that others can wow the crowd and score the points. AFTER SOUNDING the gav- el and creating an opening for NASCAR boosters to drive their track through, Owen had this to say about the first day of the leg- islative session: "This is kind of the official paperwork day and the swearing-in day." At the same time he had to admit that he has seen no sign of official paperwork on which any lawmaker put his or her name behind public fund- ing of a NASCAR track. As things now stand 100 percent of the state lawmakers who represent Mason County and the part of Kitsap County where the track would be located oppose using public funds to build it. State Representative Bill Eick- meyer, D-Belfair, said the idea of using state funds to help build the track is "a dead duck" given the mood of the legislature, and the other lawmakers from the 35th District are no more encourag- ing. State Representative Kathy Haigh, D-Shelton, said the chanc- es are "not good" that any state funding measure will pass muster this year. Haigh recalls that last year NASCAR boosters encouraged their fans to contact lawmakers, but most of the calls she received after that were from people who oppose state funding of a track. This is not to say the owners of NASCAR can't build something with their own money. "I'm not here to tell people what they can and cannot do in the way of business," Haigh said. "They have a lot that they have to do in the way of business, but in terms of public financing it's probably not going to happen in this state." THE POLLSTERS employed by Kitsap County found that 43 percent of respondents said the track would be good for the quality of life and 41 percent said it would do some long-term harm. "Overall, most respondents anticipated eco- nomic and reputational benefits to the county, but worried about adverse effects on existing infra- structure like roads and bridges," the pollsters wrote. "Respondents were evenly divided over the im- pact on the quality of life and the culture of Kitsap County." State Senator Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, also opposes public funding of the track and thinks the costs and benefits of such a project might not be as advertised. "I think the job-creation benefit is probably stretched somewhat, and I think the congestion and in- frastructure needs are very, very understated," he said. In his view the racetrack boost- ers "are really pushing a big snow- ball up here." Pollsters found that expecta- tions about the effects on the com- munity of building a track differed depending on the age, location and education of the persons respond- ing to the polls. They found: * 49 percent of persons over age 65 thought the track would harm the quality of life and 65 percent of persons under age 35 the quality of life. • 49 percent of persons with a high-school education thought the quality of life would be helped and 59 percent with a college or professional degree thought the quality of life would be hurt. • 33 percent of the persons liv- ing in Kitsap County District 1 said the proposed track would do more good than harm while 36 percent in District 2 and 34 per- cent in District 3 said it would do more harm than good. As it happens the proposed track would be located in District 2. Pollsters said "the county was divided geographically on this question" and concluded that "District 1 was almost a mirror image of Districts 2 and 3." EDC making case for track The Economic Devel- opment Council of Mason County is urging track back- ers to boost the fortunes of NASCAR in the Washington Legislature. Matt Matayoshi, execu- tive director of the EDC, told members of the organization that the racetrack project "hinges on legislative involve- ment" and urged them to call or write lawmakers "and let them know why you back the track!" The track is proposed by NASCAR fbr a location just a few miles flmm Belfair across the Kitsap County line, and so Matayoshi is asking people to contact lawmakers who represent Kitsap in the legislature. That includes the three lawmakers from Mason County: State Senator Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, State Representative Bill Eickmey- er, D-Belfair, and State Rep- resentative Kathy Haigh, D- Shelton, all representing the 35th District. Matayoshi also provided the following "talk- ing points" to EDC members who want to act on this: • No new taxes will be cre- ated to pay for the facility, and existing taxes will not be increased. The facility will generate significant new tax revenue for Kitsap and sur- rounding counties as well as the state. • Community use of the fa- cility will be available when major racing events are not being held. Local officials have formed a task force to explore potential uses such as athletic fields, education programs, charity events and fund-raisers. • Traffic impacts will only occur roughly three weekends per year and will be managed by the country's leading traf- fic consultants, experienced in handling transportation for major events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games. Estimated cost of build- ing the racetrack is $345 million, and the owners of NASCAR are hoping to get government funding for half of that. Matayoshi told EDC members that the track will attract out-of-state tourism that will generate more than $4 billion in econoric benefit to the state, including $1.1 billion and thousands of con- struction and operations jobs in Kitsap County. NASCAR is a privately owned operation that is also known as the National As- sociation for Stock Car Auto Racing. The ownership group is International Speedway Corporation. Gardeners will be giving good grape advice The Master Gardeners of Ma- son County will be presenting a workshop on growing grapes that will cover techniques and practi- cal tips on pruning and training grapevines. This course will also go over the basics of arbor planning for grapevine growers. Attendees will be able to take home Island Belle grapevine cuttings at no charge. The featured cuttings are descen- dants of the first wine vineyard on Stretch Island. The class will be held in the demonstration gardens at the Ma- son County Fairgrounds off High- way 101, with signs leading motor- ists to the proper location from the main entrance to the fairgrounds. Instruction will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 3. No fee or preregistration is re- quired, and the class will present an opportunity for people to learn more about the Master Gardeners, who constitute a program orga- nized by staffofthe Mason County Cooperative Extension of Wash- ington State University. Volunteer training for Master Gardeners will be held on Fridays from September through November of this year. Certification as a Master Gar- dener requires the payment of a $150 registration fee and the completion of 90 hours of volun- teer service over the course of two years. An application form and more information may be obtained by calling R. Jeanne Rehwaldt, co- ordinator of the Master Gardeners of Mason County, at 427-9670, Ex- tension 688. Thursday, Janu,ry 25, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 25 \\; Pollsters track views dlaS OLD HOUSE doesn't know it, but its days are dwin- g down to a precious few. This Saturday, firefighters burn it down during a practice burn. Firefighters to practice at this house warming The intersection of Front and Cedar streets in downtown Shelton will be closed for sever- lhours this Saturday, January 7, as the Shelton Fire Depart- meat conducts live fire training at a city-owned house in that vi- cinity. The training will begin at ap- ProXimately 9 a.m. and should COnclude around 3 p.m. Several .lets will be closed and others . U be restricted to limited ac- 88. Front Street will be closed at e entrance to the city's sewer P station. Access will be 1 aintained to.the businesses on roat Street, to residences on edar between First and Front treets and to Lumbermen's ,Parking lot, notes a press re- .ase from Assistant Shelton lre Chief Dave Salzer. (raduates of the 2006 Mason County Fire Recruit Academy will be training in the house. Fires will be set and extin- guished throughout the day. At the conclusion of the training, the remains of the structure will be burned to the ground. An excavator with a water supply will be on site until the fire is out. All required state and local permits have been is- sued, and during this week fire department personnel will be at the site preparing the building for the fire training. On Saturday, apparatus and support resources will be staged on Front Street. A clear bound- ary will be set up around the site to keep all but authorized personnel a safe distance away from the area. Those with questions about the training event can call Sal- zer at 432-5170. " years ago: Jug said jail new kitchen note: These items The Journal in January included in the Mason Society's news- Mann assumed the pres- of the Shelton Chamber for 1957, succeed- James at the annual dinner held at the Hotel. Other officers Winston Scott, first vice Bill Dickie, second President, Chet Williams, and Ed Faubert, sec- County Sheriff W.A. Potter proposed to the commission the need for kitchen. This was neces- of the number of He said the for feeding prisoners a city restaurant high" now that is not far from 10 Mason County commis- and two superior court officially began new four- of office on January .W. Streckenbach and Roy .ll, first and second district 's respectively, and Charles T. Wright and Clifford were all re- in November 1956. Irene S. Reed High School team beat the Olym- for the first time since And, they did it in the OWn gym. Roger Bogden the winning basket, en- the game six minutes when Jerry Corey fouled scoring 21 points. Final 50 to 48! The coach? Andy Thomas Ryan of Seattle the optometric practice Dr. Glenn W. Landers Landers died November Mitchell and his western band. The Tropics was located on the Shelton-Olympia highway near what is now the intersection of Highway 101 and Steamboat Is- land Road. Hydroplane driver Bill Munc- ey came to Shelton and talked about the Miss Thriftway and his racing career. The occasion was the combined Chamber of Commerce-Rotary-Lions meet- ing in the Shelton Hotel. Mason County's Golden Age Club elected officers for 1957. They were: Mrs. John Jackson, president; Mrs. Hilda Westby, vice president; Mrs. Martha Clark, treasurer; and Mrs. Rose Jackson, secretary. The Golden Age Club met at the Memorial Hall twice a month for talking, games and craftwork. Mrs. Catherine (Grandma) Pfundt of Holly died just two months short of her 99th birth- day. Mrs. Pfundt had been a resident of Holly on Hood Canal since 1889. A very active lady, she had the honor of cutting the ribbon of the new Holly Road in 1950. Seven hundred attended the event. A snowstorm in Mason Coun- ty closed one county school and put loggers out of work in the woods but "created many new jobs for city street and county road crews." Shelton reported six inches of snow, Matlock eight to 12 inches and Kamilche nine. At Union, the snowstorm failed to dampen the square dancing spirit. The Union square dancers put on their boots and hiked up the schoolhouse hill for their reg- ular dancing party. "The hike in the snow provided added excite- ment and fun for the evening." the tests held Creek by the Army the safest colors Preliminary tests is most likely all-around color. The conducted in Decem- by Fort Lewis soldiers with state and agencies. every Saturday night (Northwest Barn to the tunes of Tex on car-racing project By SEAN HANLON Washington who might otherwise thought the track would improve Another quarter has been heard from on the subject of the NAS- CAR track with the publication of a public opinion poll conducted for folks on the other side of the Kit- sap County line. The poll reflects an even split between supporters and oppo- nents of the racetrack proposed for an area south of the Bremer- ton airport and just north of the Mason County line. Kitsap County commissioned the poll by Elway Research, Incor- porated, a firm which interviewed 600 people roughly divided among the three districts that elect coun- ty commissioners. Most of the re- spondents were between the ages of 36 and 64 and more than half have attended NASCAR races or watched them on TV. NASCAR stands for the Nation- al Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a private company that stages races of cars that resemble regular rigs but are souped up and plastered with advertisements for things like Viagra and motor oil. When people in Kitsap were asked if they support or oppose the building of a NASCAR track in their county "as things stand today," the pollsters found them split right down the middle: 46 percent support the track, with 28 percent doing so strongly, and 46 percent do not support the track, with 31 percent having strong feelings against it. International Speedway Cor- poration, a partner company of NASCAR, has been boosting the proposition that a racetrack be built with public money and the money be returned to the public in the form of a tax on ticket sales and any economic activity that NASCAR events might generate. THE POLLSTERS found that 69 percent of the people who re- sponded to the poll thought the proposed racetrack would do more economic good than harm, but 28 percent said the track would hurt the county's reputation and 60 percent opposed using public money to build it. A proposal to enlist the state in this project was bandied about in last year's session of the Wash- ington Legislature but a bill was never introduced. After the law- makers went back home, Lieuten- ant Governor Brad Owen of Shel- ton carried the ball in his capac- ity as chairman of the Legislative Committee on Economic Develop- ment and International Relations. There are 12 other members of this panel evenly divided between state representatives and state senators and between Democrats and Republicans. Given that NASCAR boosters never got to a hearing during last year's session of the legislature, this panel took it upon itself to lis- ten to what they had to say. Owen was impressed. "I have my own feelings about them and support them and will support them based on the infor- mation we have garnered over the years," he said on Monday a few hours after calling lawmakers to order for this year's session. One of his duties as lieutenant gover- nor is to preside over sessions of the Washington State Senate. HIS COMMITTEE reviewed a proposal that calls for construc- tion of a racetrack located near Bremerton just a few miles from the Mason County line with seat- ing for 83,500 fans and a $345- million price tag. Owen said this would definitely be an economic plus because NASCAR has a track record of generating "a signifi- cant amount of revenue" over and above what it costs to build such a facility and retire the bonds used to pay for it. He said he learned that 50 to 60 percent of the people who at- tend NASCAR events come from out of state and their spending is added to the 40 to 50 percent from leave this state to attend NAS- CAR events elsewhere. "NASCAR has been touted in other states as being like having two Super Bowls in your state be- cause of the number of people it draws," Owen said. The Super Bowls of the Na- tional Football League are widely regarded as the biggest money- makers in sports on account of the prices their tickets fetch and the advertising dollars their broad- casts attract. Sticking for a mo- ment with the Super Bowl theme, Owen allows that the Legislative Committee on Economic Develop- ment and International Relations is something like the offensive line of a football team: a group of unsung heroes who clear a path so that others can wow the crowd and score the points. AFTER SOUNDING the gav- el and creating an opening for NASCAR boosters to drive their track through, Owen had this to say about the first day of the leg- islative session: "This is kind of the official paperwork day and the swearing-in day." At the same time he had to admit that he has seen no sign of official paperwork on which any lawmaker put his or her name behind public fund- ing of a NASCAR track. As things now stand 100 percent of the state lawmakers who represent Mason County and the part of Kitsap County where the track would be located oppose using public funds to build it. State Representative Bill Eick- meyer, D-Belfair, said the idea of using state funds to help build the track is "a dead duck" given the mood of the legislature, and the other lawmakers from the 35th District are no more encourag- ing. State Representative Kathy Haigh, D-Shelton, said the chanc- es are "not good" that any state funding measure will pass muster this year. Haigh recalls that last year NASCAR boosters encouraged their fans to contact lawmakers, but most of the calls she received after that were from people who oppose state funding of a track. This is not to say the owners of NASCAR can't build something with their own money. "I'm not here to tell people what they can and cannot do in the way of business," Haigh said. "They have a lot that they have to do in the way of business, but in terms of public financing it's probably not going to happen in this state." THE POLLSTERS employed by Kitsap County found that 43 percent of respondents said the track would be good for the quality of life and 41 percent said it would do some long-term harm. "Overall, most respondents anticipated eco- nomic and reputational benefits to the county, but worried about adverse effects on existing infra- structure like roads and bridges," the pollsters wrote. "Respondents were evenly divided over the im- pact on the quality of life and the culture of Kitsap County." State Senator Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, also opposes public funding of the track and thinks the costs and benefits of such a project might not be as advertised. "I think the job-creation benefit is probably stretched somewhat, and I think the congestion and in- frastructure needs are very, very understated," he said. In his view the racetrack boost- ers "are really pushing a big snow- ball up here." Pollsters found that expecta- tions about the effects on the com- munity of building a track differed depending on the age, location and education of the persons respond- ing to the polls. They found: * 49 percent of persons over age 65 thought the track would harm the quality of life and 65 percent of persons under age 35 the quality of life. • 49 percent of persons with a high-school education thought the quality of life would be helped and 59 percent with a college or professional degree thought the quality of life would be hurt. • 33 percent of the persons liv- ing in Kitsap County District 1 said the proposed track would do more good than harm while 36 percent in District 2 and 34 per- cent in District 3 said it would do more harm than good. As it happens the proposed track would be located in District 2. Pollsters said "the county was divided geographically on this question" and concluded that "District 1 was almost a mirror image of Districts 2 and 3." EDC making case for track The Economic Devel- opment Council of Mason County is urging track back- ers to boost the fortunes of NASCAR in the Washington Legislature. Matt Matayoshi, execu- tive director of the EDC, told members of the organization that the racetrack project "hinges on legislative involve- ment" and urged them to call or write lawmakers "and let them know why you back the track!" The track is proposed by NASCAR fbr a location just a few miles flmm Belfair across the Kitsap County line, and so Matayoshi is asking people to contact lawmakers who represent Kitsap in the legislature. That includes the three lawmakers from Mason County: State Senator Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, State Representative Bill Eickmey- er, D-Belfair, and State Rep- resentative Kathy Haigh, D- Shelton, all representing the 35th District. Matayoshi also provided the following "talk- ing points" to EDC members who want to act on this: • No new taxes will be cre- ated to pay for the facility, and existing taxes will not be increased. The facility will generate significant new tax revenue for Kitsap and sur- rounding counties as well as the state. • Community use of the fa- cility will be available when major racing events are not being held. Local officials have formed a task force to explore potential uses such as athletic fields, education programs, charity events and fund-raisers. • Traffic impacts will only occur roughly three weekends per year and will be managed by the country's leading traf- fic consultants, experienced in handling transportation for major events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games. Estimated cost of build- ing the racetrack is $345 million, and the owners of NASCAR are hoping to get government funding for half of that. Matayoshi told EDC members that the track will attract out-of-state tourism that will generate more than $4 billion in econoric benefit to the state, including $1.1 billion and thousands of con- struction and operations jobs in Kitsap County. NASCAR is a privately owned operation that is also known as the National As- sociation for Stock Car Auto Racing. The ownership group is International Speedway Corporation. Gardeners will be giving good grape advice The Master Gardeners of Ma- son County will be presenting a workshop on growing grapes that will cover techniques and practi- cal tips on pruning and training grapevines. This course will also go over the basics of arbor planning for grapevine growers. Attendees will be able to take home Island Belle grapevine cuttings at no charge. The featured cuttings are descen- dants of the first wine vineyard on Stretch Island. The class will be held in the demonstration gardens at the Ma- son County Fairgrounds off High- way 101, with signs leading motor- ists to the proper location from the main entrance to the fairgrounds. Instruction will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 3. No fee or preregistration is re- quired, and the class will present an opportunity for people to learn more about the Master Gardeners, who constitute a program orga- nized by staffofthe Mason County Cooperative Extension of Wash- ington State University. Volunteer training for Master Gardeners will be held on Fridays from September through November of this year. Certification as a Master Gar- dener requires the payment of a $150 registration fee and the completion of 90 hours of volun- teer service over the course of two years. An application form and more information may be obtained by calling R. Jeanne Rehwaldt, co- ordinator of the Master Gardeners of Mason County, at 427-9670, Ex- tension 688. Thursday, Janu,ry 25, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 25