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City commission roundup: Port is pining for _ street under Shelton city commissioners at their workshop meeting Monday afternoon heard a request from the Port of Shelton regarding the Shelton marina project. The port wants to add the Pine Street right-of-way to its lease of Spruce and Laurel streets rights- of-way that run south of State Route 3 and through and under the port's marina property just east of Shelton. The port plans to add a boat ramp and access from State Route 3 onto the marina property. The marina docks are already located over some of the submerged Pine Street right-of-way, city commis- sioners were told. Commissioner Dick Taylor said he would just as soon cede the Pine Street right-of-way to the port and let it do with it what it wants. The commission will further discuss the proposed 20-year agreement at next Monday night's meeting. In city business on January 22 the commission: • Approved a contract & Carr, Incorporated of for transportation planning engineering services to city in developing citywide impact fee and sidewalk ment fee programs. The total tract fee is not to exceed $147 Among other things, the the consultant will include ing the transportation the city's Capital Facili preparing a sidewalk (Please turn to • CAMERAS - • LAPTOPS CHECKING OUT THE NEW Johns Prairie Substation ofPUD 3 are: Com- missioner Linda Gott, third from left, and General Manager Wyla Wood, second from right. On the far right is Commissioner John Whalen, who represents the public utility district on the governing board of Energy Northwest. Also pictured are three representatives of the company that built the substation. Whoops! t)ower people looking ahead aft(00':r 50 shocking years By SEAN HANLON PUD 3 has gotten a jump start on the next 50 years of power gen- eration from Energy Northwest, an electricity consortium formerly known as "Whoops2 That's how mst people pro- nounce WPPSS, which is short for the Washington Public Power Supply System. Rich Trimble, who is manager of marketing and member services at Energy North- Science expo to raise funds for field trip Southside School fifth-graders are hosting an evening of "Spa- ghetti and Science" starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, February 9, in the school gym at 161 SE Collier Road. The event will raise funds for the students' trip in March to Port- land, Oregon, to visit the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and an overnight camp-in at the facility. Admission to the spaghetti dinner and science expo is $5, for adults and $3 for children ages 12 and younger. The meal includes spaghetti, French bread, salad, beverage and dessert. The science expo follows the dinner and includes a slide show, a presentation on successful science fair projects and booths where sci- ence fair material will be avail- able. Those with questions may call Mary Hovind at 426-8070, or Kathy Fuller at 426-1360. FULL SERVICE AUTO REPAIR Specializing in brakes, exhaust and custom work FREE ESTIMATES & FLUID CHECKS west, recently paid a call on the PUD 3 Commission to talk about the agency in advance of a celebra- tion of its 50th anniversary. His presentation touched on the generation of electricity by means of wind, gas and bovine biomass. Energy Northwest works with public utility districts to develop supplements and alternatives to the hydroelectric dams that provide almost all of the electric- ity used by people in the Pacific Northwest. King County has been a hotbed of bovine biomass for those who think cow pies can be used for fuel, and in 2005 it awarded En- ergy Northwest a contract to help develop the proposed Enumclaw Plateau BioEnergy Project. The goal was "to better manage dairy farm manure, protect the environ- ment and create new renewable energy options," but Trimble told the PUD 3 Commission that En- ergy Northwest is "shifting down our interest in biomass." AT THE SAME time it is plunging ahead with permitting of the Pacific Mountain Energy Cen- ter. This project is all about turn- ing coal or petroleum coke into gas at the Port of Kalama and then burning the gas to generate elec- tricity. Energy Northwest hopes to begin construction in 2008 and be- gin operation in 2012, generating upwards of 80 jobs and 300 mega- watts of public power. "There are those in the environ- mental community who are argu- ing that this shouldn't be built be- cause it produces CO2: greenhouse gases," Trimble said. "They are are against any thermal power." This brought a barb directed at environmentalists from John Whalen, the senior member of the PUD 3 Commission and a board member of Energy Northwest as well. "They don't really know what's going on," he said. "They only know they don't want a coal plant." Energy Northwest has a 2007 budget of $718.5 million that in- cludes funding of the Nine Canyon Wind Project, the coal gasification system and Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant that went on line in 1972 and spent $100 million on fuel last year. With the Bonneville Power Administration expected in the future to generate a large but shrinking piece of the electric pie, PUD 3 will be looking to buy more of its power from the consortium. (Please turn to page 8.) TAX-FREE INCOME IS THE BEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE YOURSELF AT RETIREMENT. With an Edward Jones lioth IliA, any earnings arc lax- free, and distributions can be lakcn l'rec o1' lwnallics or g¢ • taxes. YOu may even benefit from conv'rii|ig a Iradiliona] IRA to a Roth IRA. At Edward Jones, we spend time getting to know your goals so we can help you reach them. 'Ib learn more about why an Edward Jones IRA can make sense for you, call or visit your local investment representative u)day. "Quality and Trust -- That's Hometowne Service" i Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 1,2007 *Distributions of earnings from a Roth IRA could be subject to taxes and a 10% penalty if the account is less than five years old and the owner is under age 59 %. Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel Investment Representatives 821 West Railroad Avenue, Suite A, Shelton 426-0982 • 1-800-441-0982 Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel www, edwardjones.com Member SIP(: City commission roundup: Port is pining for _ street under Shelton city commissioners at their workshop meeting Monday afternoon heard a request from the Port of Shelton regarding the Shelton marina project. The port wants to add the Pine Street right-of-way to its lease of Spruce and Laurel streets rights- of-way that run south of State Route 3 and through and under the port's marina property just east of Shelton. The port plans to add a boat ramp and access from State Route 3 onto the marina property. The marina docks are already located over some of the submerged Pine Street right-of-way, city commis- sioners were told. Commissioner Dick Taylor said he would just as soon cede the Pine Street right-of-way to the port and let it do with it what it wants. The commission will further discuss the proposed 20-year agreement at next Monday night's meeting. In city business on January 22 the commission: • Approved a contract & Carr, Incorporated of for transportation planning engineering services to city in developing citywide impact fee and sidewalk ment fee programs. The total tract fee is not to exceed $147 Among other things, the the consultant will include ing the transportation the city's Capital Facili preparing a sidewalk (Please turn to • CAMERAS - • LAPTOPS CHECKING OUT THE NEW Johns Prairie Substation ofPUD 3 are: Com- missioner Linda Gott, third from left, and General Manager Wyla Wood, second from right. On the far right is Commissioner John Whalen, who represents the public utility district on the governing board of Energy Northwest. Also pictured are three representatives of the company that built the substation. Whoops! t)ower people looking ahead aft(00':r 50 shocking years By SEAN HANLON PUD 3 has gotten a jump start on the next 50 years of power gen- eration from Energy Northwest, an electricity consortium formerly known as "Whoops2 That's how mst people pro- nounce WPPSS, which is short for the Washington Public Power Supply System. Rich Trimble, who is manager of marketing and member services at Energy North- Science expo to raise funds for field trip Southside School fifth-graders are hosting an evening of "Spa- ghetti and Science" starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, February 9, in the school gym at 161 SE Collier Road. The event will raise funds for the students' trip in March to Port- land, Oregon, to visit the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and an overnight camp-in at the facility. Admission to the spaghetti dinner and science expo is $5, for adults and $3 for children ages 12 and younger. The meal includes spaghetti, French bread, salad, beverage and dessert. The science expo follows the dinner and includes a slide show, a presentation on successful science fair projects and booths where sci- ence fair material will be avail- able. Those with questions may call Mary Hovind at 426-8070, or Kathy Fuller at 426-1360. FULL SERVICE AUTO REPAIR Specializing in brakes, exhaust and custom work FREE ESTIMATES & FLUID CHECKS west, recently paid a call on the PUD 3 Commission to talk about the agency in advance of a celebra- tion of its 50th anniversary. His presentation touched on the generation of electricity by means of wind, gas and bovine biomass. Energy Northwest works with public utility districts to develop supplements and alternatives to the hydroelectric dams that provide almost all of the electric- ity used by people in the Pacific Northwest. King County has been a hotbed of bovine biomass for those who think cow pies can be used for fuel, and in 2005 it awarded En- ergy Northwest a contract to help develop the proposed Enumclaw Plateau BioEnergy Project. The goal was "to better manage dairy farm manure, protect the environ- ment and create new renewable energy options," but Trimble told the PUD 3 Commission that En- ergy Northwest is "shifting down our interest in biomass." AT THE SAME time it is plunging ahead with permitting of the Pacific Mountain Energy Cen- ter. This project is all about turn- ing coal or petroleum coke into gas at the Port of Kalama and then burning the gas to generate elec- tricity. Energy Northwest hopes to begin construction in 2008 and be- gin operation in 2012, generating upwards of 80 jobs and 300 mega- watts of public power. "There are those in the environ- mental community who are argu- ing that this shouldn't be built be- cause it produces CO2: greenhouse gases," Trimble said. "They are are against any thermal power." This brought a barb directed at environmentalists from John Whalen, the senior member of the PUD 3 Commission and a board member of Energy Northwest as well. "They don't really know what's going on," he said. "They only know they don't want a coal plant." Energy Northwest has a 2007 budget of $718.5 million that in- cludes funding of the Nine Canyon Wind Project, the coal gasification system and Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant that went on line in 1972 and spent $100 million on fuel last year. With the Bonneville Power Administration expected in the future to generate a large but shrinking piece of the electric pie, PUD 3 will be looking to buy more of its power from the consortium. (Please turn to page 8.) TAX-FREE INCOME IS THE BEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE YOURSELF AT RETIREMENT. With an Edward Jones lioth IliA, any earnings arc lax- free, and distributions can be lakcn l'rec o1' lwnallics or g¢ • taxes. YOu may even benefit from conv'rii|ig a Iradiliona] IRA to a Roth IRA. At Edward Jones, we spend time getting to know your goals so we can help you reach them. 'Ib learn more about why an Edward Jones IRA can make sense for you, call or visit your local investment representative u)day. "Quality and Trust -- That's Hometowne Service" i Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 1,2007 *Distributions of earnings from a Roth IRA could be subject to taxes and a 10% penalty if the account is less than five years old and the owner is under age 59 %. Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel Investment Representatives 821 West Railroad Avenue, Suite A, Shelton 426-0982 • 1-800-441-0982 Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel www, edwardjones.com Member SIP(: