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/ Journal photo by Natalie Johnson Falling tree limbs caused widespread power outages on Harstine Island, pictured here, and throughout the county for much of last week. Snow Continued from page A-1 "The last time I remember something significant like this is December 1996 and January 1997," he said. However, Best said the county's notori- ous 2007 storm was much harder on coun- ty roads than this one. "We had the snow then the rapid rain then the flooding and the landslides - it was a mess," he said. "So far we're doing pretty good." Mason County urged residents to stay at home during the morning of Wednes- day, Jan. 18, as crews struggled to deal with the snow with the county's 14 snow- plows. Many of these, said Director of Public Works Charlie Butros, are not ac- tual snowplow vehicles, but plow attach- ments that fit on large pieces of machin- ery or large trucks. Local school districts closed for the snow, giving children a full week off. The Shelton and North Mason School Districts were closed all week Tuesday, Jan. 17, through Friday, Jan. 20, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 16. Mason County fire and EMS crews re- sponded to 158 calls on Thursday, Jan. 19. Of those 158 total calls, 96 were for general service. On Jan. 20, fire crews re- sponded to 105 total calls. In contrast, on Sunday, Jan. 22, there were only 26 total fire district calls in the county. On Wednesday, Jan. 18, Mason County PUD 3 responded to several outages. The first was reported at 11 a.m. and involved a fallen tree, which damaged a power line when it fell across U.S. High- way 3 at Deer Creek, affecting about 140 PUD 3 customers. County and PUD 3 crews cleared the road and repaired the damage throughout Wednesday. At about 4:30 p.m., a tree fell across power lines at the corner of Pickering Road and Schneider Road, causing an out- age. PUD 3 crews also worked to restore power to areas on Turner Avenue and An- gleside Road in Shelton, Sherwood Hills near Allyn, Torten Shores, southeast of Shelton, and removed a tree limb on a power line on Walker Park Road. The crews also addressed an outage in parts of Hurley Waldrip Road and Old Olympic Highway due to a downed tree across a power line. The heavy snowfall quit that after: noon, but an ice storm continued to do damage to the county on Thursday, Jan. 19, when the area was subjected to freez- ing rain. More than 4,000 PUD 3 customers were • affected by outages during Thursday's ice storm. A fallen tree on power lines in Lake Limerick took out power for 650 custom- ers. Other outages were reported on Ar- cadia Shores, Fish Hatchery Road, Ka- milche Point, Lynch Road, Maples Road on Harstine Island, Old Arcadia Road, Old Olympic Highway and Turner and Angleside Streets in Shelton. By that afternoon, the total rose to more than 3,600 total customers without power, mostly those served by the Collins Lake substation on the Tahuya Peninsu- la, which serves 2,900 customers. The substation lost power at 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, affecting the Belfair Tahuya Road, Tahuya River Valley, Collins Lake, Dewatto, Tahuya, Hohobas Camp area, North Shore Road to Burma Road, Tee Lake and Maggie Lake. Power was restored to these customers within an hour, according to PUD 3. Friday brought still more outages. Harstine Island lost power for much of the day. Other areas without power in- cluded Arcadia Shores, Brewer Road, Shorecrest, Timberlakes, Pickering Road, Kamilche Point, Bloomfield Road, North Shore Road, Stretch Island, Hurd Road (Belfair View Estates), Tiger-Mis- sion Lake, Thomas Road (Grapeview), Mueller Road, Cougar Smith Road and Kelly Road. Crews from Mason County PUD 1 helped restore outages to PUD 3 services areas. Crews from Okanogan County PUD and Douglas County PUD in north central Washington also worked to restore power in Mason County. Isolated outages were also being ad- dressed over last weekend. Chamber Continued from page A-1 Kim Klint of Mason Mat- ters, Rachel Hansen of the Mason Area Fair and Image in Action Design, Stepha- nie Fyfe of Steph's Espresso and Tom Simmons of The Daisy Pot. Cooper, who took on the Shelton Neon Project this year, restoring five neon signs in the downtown area, won the citizen of the year prize. Nominees for volunteer of the year included, Allison Wagner of Falcon Finan- cial, Inc., Patti Tupper of Tupper's Floor Coverings & Interiors and Rick Verbar- endse of Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club. Patti Tupper, of Tupper's Floor Coverings, won the volunteer of the year prize. 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