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Case Continued from page A-1 to fight the Seattle Shellfish project, which the county ap- proved last May only to have the shoreline association appeal the decision for environmental reasons to the state's Shoreline Hearings Board. The group dropped the appeal in November, however, in part because they felt Mason County leans pro-aquaculture and they wanted to focus on the issue of tidal land ownership, said Curt Puddicombe, the association's vice president. "Given the ... lack of fortitude to regulate these kinds of activi- tiea, and the fact that the nurs- ery rafts are probably less envi- ronmentally damaging than geo- duck aquaculture itself, we felt that dropping the appeal to the Shoreline Hearings Board would allow us to focus on the fact that the proposal is actually on state land, and not land owned by Seattle Shellfish," Puddicombe said. Seattle Shellfish owner Jim Gibbons said the environmental concerns were "far off base" and that he was surprised the Case Inlet group dropped its appeal. "I see [the project] going for- ward," he said. "I'm not in the least bit worried." The project, which also in- cludes eight 12-inch diameter steel pilings to support the 360- foot log boom, has yet to receive permit approval from the U.S Army Corps of Engineers. Pamela Sanguinetti, a proj- ect manager and biologist with the Seattle district of the Army Corps, said that the review process for the project is near- ing its end, but that factors like tide land ownership do need to be addressed. "That in itself is not holding up the permit, but we are aware of it and it is something we need to find an answer to," she said. Brian Flint, a spokesperson with DNR, confirmed that the agency had received the let- ter and had sent a letter back to the association saying they would research the matter fur- ther. Health Continued from page A-1 deaths, teen pregnancy rates, access to healthcare and health and dental insurance also contributed to Mason County's overall poor health rating. She also said that levels of education and poverty and neighborhood access to a gracery store or "healthy food outlet" influence the health of a community. To answer Byrne's question, Kirkpatrick said that Mason County, and the city of Shel- ton can't do all the work to make the commu- nity healthier. "People make choices when they're easy to make," Kirkpatrick said. Often, people chose to eat unhealthy foods, or skip a workout, when it is convenient to do so. Kirkpatrick also said that Mason County really needs to court more livable wage jobs. "If you look at the counties that rank very high they are primarily urban counties ... they have more resources, generally, they have higher income, generally, and those two factors alone significantly affect health outcome," she said. Mayor John Tarrant agreed, saying that Shelton and Mason County residents need to spend their money locally to boost the local economy. "If we just spend our dollars locally ... the multiplier effect is tremendous," he said. Super Continued from page A-1 concludes, "we encourage the board to reexamine the other applicants in the current pool, or we support the re-opening of the position to find other qualified candidates." The school board's four current finalists are: Paul Apostle, who is completing his super- intendent certification and most recently served as an assistant superin- tendent in Renton from 2008-2010; Dr. Linda Martin, who has served as the superintendent at the Lopez Island School District since 2009; Wayne Massie, who has served as the superinten- dent of the Tekoa School District since 2006; and Matthew McCauley, who has served as associate superintendent at the Everett School District since 2008. Vote Continued from page A-1 School levies only require a simple, 50-percent majority to pass and Pio- neer voters supported the $2.04 per $1,000 of assessed valuation levy by a margin of 59.29 percent to 40.71 percent. The Shelton School District levy was also resoundingly successful with 62.46 percent of voters support- ing the measure and only 37.54 per- cent rejecting it. Things were a whole lot closer at the Southside School District, though, after Tuesday's intial counts showed 50.43 percent of voters ap- proving the levy and 49.57 percent opposing it. On the emergency services front, Fire District 3's levy seems to have passed with a comfortable margin while Fire District 9's fell short. In Fire District 3, 66.97 perecent of vot- ers supported the measure while only 33.03 percent opposed it. The Fire District 9 levy only gar- nered 55.33-percent approval with 44.67 percent of voters rejecting it. According to the Mason County Auditor's Office some 8,415 ballots were cast in this election for a voter I"H RD" it inth( Sheiton-Mason County li Mason Countys script for word of mouth" 5601 421 S. First you need :):iil i:Z Y~ • Zg: or the Journal, 2010 was one of our best years in more than a century of doing business. That may come as a shock to people used to hearing about the inevitable demise of print media and especially of newspapers. We can't deny that our cousins in the big city have fallen on hard times and we think we know why. Unlike little newspapers the big boys enslaved themselves to the stock market. Their quest for ever-increasing profits and 30 percent annual growth could only have spelled doom for them eventually. Unlike this newspaper, they chased international readership via the Internet, forgoing generations of paid readership for a pot of gold that wasn't there. We will not be deserted by our paying audience because the staff here knows the only reason you buy this newspaper is because everything in it is of, by and for the people of Mason County. Our financial success continues because print advertising has and continues to be the best method of marketing goods and services. Paid print advertising offers 10-times the readership of free newspapers with the same circulation. It is more effective than any electronic media because it captures the readers while at the same time the reader captures it. We'd like our current advertisers and potential customers to know that we want them to try all methods of marketing their business because they all work and this one quite simply works better than the rest. And thank you dear reader for continuing to purchase this newspaper. You are the reason our advertising works so well. That is also why we strive to cover the news, information and entertainment that is important to you. 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