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MON| TUE / PUD 3 crew causes gas leak By NATALIE JOHNSON nataliemasoncounty.com Mason County Fire Pro- tection District 5 and 11 responded to a gas leak at about 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, in a Shelton neighbor- hood, District 5 Chief Tim McKern said. Mason County PUD 3 has confirmed that one of its crews punctured the line on Euclid Avenue while working on a utility pole. "We are investigating the incident to figure out just what happened," said Joel Myer, PUD 3 public informa- tion and government rela- tions manager. Myer said the PUD is tak- ing a second look at the pave- ment markings used to show utility lines "and whether or not there might have been a problem with the visibility of these markings." McKern said fire district 5 crews evacuated an area on Eu- clid Avenue between Seventh Street and 10 th Street as a pre- caution. Eight residents were home at the time of the gas leak. The Mason Transit Au- thority (MTA) sent a bus to help with potential evacua- tions, McKern said. He said the relatively mi- nor leak was fixed in about an hour and a half. McKern said the crew that punctured the line responded correctly to the situation. "They did the right thing - as soon as they saw it they backed up and called the gas company," he said. Myer said PUD 3 line crews review safety proce- dures, such as routine gas wleaks, at monthly safety meetings. Rezone Continued from page A-1 from the growth board, Thur- ston Superior Court, and an appeal by the port under the Land Use Petition Act (LUPA). "It's enormously frustrat- ing," O%eary said. "It is real- ly the economic development opportunity of a generation." O%eary said the develop- ment is estimated to bring 600 jobs in the construction phase, and 1,700 retail jobs once it's complete, with up to $1 mil- lion in tax revenue per year. "Mason County needs jobs," O'Leary said. In the past the port has contended that land that close to the airport should be used for commercial or in- dustrial purposes, as it is cur- rently zoned. Port Executive Director John Dobson said the port is only concerned about 60 acres of the property, which are closest to the flight path over the Sanderson Field runway. %Ve're still finding a way to resolve this issue ... a por- tion of it is acceptable by the port to be residential," Dob- son said. '%Ve want to stop the litigation ... there's no ffs ands or buts about that." Dobson said the port is considering a land-swap with Hall Equities. The port has been working to secure land south of the Shelton Hills' property to trade with Hall Equities for the disputed land. "Commissioner (Dick) Taylor is the one who's taken the lead ... I'll give (Shelton) Mayor (Gary) Cronce credit as well.., if they can come up with something that works we'd be grateful," he said. LTAC Continued from page A-1 included $10,000 for administration. Bloomfield said Olympic Broadcasting turned in an amended application that the commission will consider in its decision. The LTAC board was scheduled to review lodging tax grant applications that had been returned for clarification. These include appli- cations from the Union Tourism Association for Union Traveler Days and Union Pump- kinFest, and applications from the Hood Ca- nal Highland Celtic Festival and the Anna's Bay Center for Music. The board also planned to hear a new lodg- ing tax grant application from the Shelton- Mason County Journal for its Visitor Guides and OysterFest programs. Bloomfield said the LTAC board will con- sider these applications at the March meet- ing. 'qey're fall events so March is fine for them," he said. "It's not going to interfere with their ability to do their work." Veterans Continued from page A-1 of information on a proposal to rebuild the original faqade and porch on the building, and eventually reorganize the inside of the building, which now houses county veteran services. Ring Erickson asked Washington state Reps. Kathy Haigh and Fred Finn to work to put the project on the state capital budget. "We've got a lot of vet- erans that are going to be coming back now," she said. "We really need to ... up our game." Although the building is within the Shelton city lim- its, the county has owned and managed the hall since April 1925. Ring Erickson said Fos- ter & Williams Architects of Shelton developed a "concept paper" showing a plan to re- store an original colonial fa- qade to the building, as well as make internal changes. Foster & Williams esti- mated the project would have cost about $200,000 several years ago, she said. Howev- er, since the beginning of the recession, construction bids have come in significantly lower than expected, she said. "The first thing, I think, is for us to get it into the state capital Lynda budget," Ring Erickson she said. "There are fewer plac- es we can get money than there used to be." Beyond restoring the orig- inal front porch and faqade to the building, Ring Erick- son also spoke of the need to manage public and private space in the building. Originally, local residents and veterans used the hall as a social space, but now job and medical counseling for veterans takes place there, with little private space to facilitate it, she said. Supporters intend the project to restore the build- ing both to its functional and aesthetic peak. Ring Erick- son compared the idea to the city's public safety building restoration, which is right across the street from the Memorial Hall. "Let's work with what we've got," Ring Erickson Shelton Continued from page A-1 The new building will still have seven units for emergency housing, in ad- dition to administrative of- rices, service offices and a community training room to hold classes on nutrition, parenting or managing fi- nances, Nielsen said. This meeting space will also be available to the com- munity, she said. "It's a community build- ing - we want it to be usable by other nonprofits,' she said. The second building will be used primarily for low- income housing, and will in- clude four one-bedroom and four two-bedroom units. In addition to the CDBG grant, administered through the City of Shelton, the Housing Trust Fund has guaranteed the project $2,4 million in funding, and the shelter has already used $170,000 of funds collect- ed under House Bill 2060, which sets aside $10 from county recording fees to go toward homeless shelters. The shelter plans to build both of the new buildings ac- cording to green standards. That means crews will use sustainable, recycled prod= ucts, fluorescent lighting and extensive weatheriza- tion. Nielsen said the shelter plans to keep its building on First Street in Shelton, but to sell the emergency shelter and maybe its First Street low-income apart- ment building as well, which was built in 1912. Nielsen hopes the proj- ect will begin on schedule in March or April 2012, and finish in the first half of 2013. said. "It's probably a pretty modest project. It's just a re- ally good time to bring the community together." Ring Erickson said the Memorial Hall Committee would work with veterans' service organizations to out line specific changes to the interior of the building after it received funding. "They have a common goal of making Mason Coun- ty a good place for veterans," Ring Erickson said of all of the local veterans groups. 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