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Case
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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
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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
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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
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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
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