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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.
Also, Ring Erickson said
she hopes to add a formal me-
morial for all Mason County
veterans near the hall.
"This community cer-
tainly sent people to World
War I ... we have Civil War
veterans buried in our cem-
eteries," she said. "It would
be really nice to have a place
where you could reflect on
the veterans."
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