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SHELTON-
MASON COUNTY
JOURbI.AL
...Thursday, February 15, 2007 121st Year -- Number 7 5 Sections -- 46 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents
Taylor to quit city, head chamber
JEFF GREEN when he resigned to take a job as he said. "We have to create that will serve out the remainder of nia, Taylor retired from the Navy
tyr the Shelton-Mason Coun-
,thamber of Commerce it was
ek to the future. And for Dick
r it was d6ih vu all over
The chamber this week an-
ced that Tavlor was its new-
'.eXecutive director, replacing
Y Cronouist, who moved to
otlthern Cali '
g0. forma a few months
?I.i r Taylor, currently a Shelton
mmissioner, it's old home
e served as the chamber's
tire director for 16 months,
March 1999 to July 2000,
executive director of an Olympia
nonprofit agency.
Taylor said he will begin work-
ing at the chamber on February
26 and resign from the city com-
mission on March 19, after Mayor
John Tarrant returns from a week-
long trip to China.
TAYLOR SAID he wants to
work to "grow" the chamber's
membership and build its image
within the community as a real
voice and advocate for businesses.
"I want people that are excited to
join because they see value in it,"
value."
He also wants the chamber to
continue to be an integral part of
the community and a fully partici-
pating member of it.
"The chamber is active right
now with its Governmental Af-
fairs Committee. I really advocate
that," he said, adding the commit-
tee played a key role with the city
on the stormwater issue and In-
frastructure Task Force.
Tarrant and Commissioner
Dawn Pannell ultimately will se-
lect a new commission member
to replace Taylor. The appointee
Hair, kitty, kitty, kitty
resident Ray Coleman displays a
of cat food that sprouted hair a few
after he opened it last week. Cole-
said he bought a case of Priority
cat food at the Shelton Wal-Mart
two weeks ago. The can shown
containing turkey giblets, was
first he opened. He left it uncov-
ered on a shelf and four days later no-
ticed the hair. His cat refused to eat the
contents of that can and of a second he
opened. Coleman said he threw out the
remaining cans, but is having a sample
of the hairy matter analyzed through
the Mason County Cooperative Exten-
sion Office.
grOwth potentially crushing
GREEN
School District faces
in coming residential
growth, state fund-
the Washington Assess-
ff Student Learning tests,
Joan Zook said
during a "state of the
speech to a local service
With a handful of large hous-
ing developments planned in the
Shelton area, Zook told members
of the Shelton Kiwanis Club the
school district is projecting an ad-
ditional 1,000 students "when and
if this growth happens."
The trick for the district will
be having schools ready, she said,
adding that one thousand addi-
tional students "when our schools
are full is a devastating number."
Zook said the district is form-
ing a task force to study its long-
range needs starting in March.
There is no doubt the district will
end up with portable classrooms
at its schools, she acknowledged.
Adding classroom space takes
(Please turn to page 8.)
Three flee from burning home
occupants of a mobile
Harstine Island escaped
lives and little else fol-
a fire on Tuesday, Febru-
District 5 reports construc-
the fire and
s at 911. When
arrived at the resi-
st 481 Lansky Road the sin-
gle-wide mobile home and an ad-
jacent travel trailer were engulfed
in flames.
Bryan Jennings and his girl-
friend were awakened by a child
and all three occupants fled
through a side door, Mason Coun-
ty Fire Marshal Craig Haugen
said. They said there was a fire in
the kitchen area and when they
opened a door, the blaze grew rap-
idly.
The three occupants were trans-
ported by medics to Mason Gener-
al Hospital for treatment of minor
injuries and possible smoke inha-
lation. The Red Cross was called
to assist the displaced occupants.
The cause of the fire remains
undetermined, Haugen said.
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the inside College will show
19
........................... 34
Calendar ....... 17
...42
Dining ..... 32
Journal ................. 18
of Record ............. 27
*....*....o..,.o..o,o.**.e* 10
I.o 4
...... 21
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10
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Bruce Miller film
The late Bruce Miller is the
subject of a documentary film to
be screened here on Friday.
A presentation of Teachings
of the Tree People - The Work
of Bruce Miller will be followed
by discussion with Delbert Mill-
er, tribal historic preservation
officer of the Skokomish Tribal
Nation. The program will begin
at 11 a.m. on February 16 at
Olympic College Shelton, 937
West Alpine Way.
The hour-long documen-
tary explores the man whose
Skokomish name was subiyay.
Miller narrated the film and
composed some of the music. He
worked to pass on tribal culture,
language and arts to younger
generations. A nationally ac-
claimed artist and Skokomish
tribal leader, Miller interpreted
the sacred teachings of the natu-
ral world to anyone who wanted
to learn.
For more information, call
432-5400.
Taylor's term, which concludes at
the end of this year.
TAYLOR WAS appointed to
the Shelton City Commission in
March 2001 to fill the position va-
cated by Carolyn Kerr. Taylor ran
for the commission seat in 1999,
but lost a close race to Kerr by
39 votes. Kerr served in office for
some 131/2 months before resign-
ing to become the city's director
of financial services. She resigned
from that post less than a year lat-
er, in February 2002.
A native of Martinez, Califor-
in 1993 after a 34-year career
which included several years
in Turkey as the U.S. national
representative with NATO. He
also served two years as the com-
manding officer at the Pacific
Beach naval facility in Grays
Harbor County.
Taylor is past president of the
Shelton Lions Club and a mem-
ber of both the Washington State
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
American Legion Post 31, Shel-
ton. Taylor's wife, Marlene, is a
Shelton port commissioner.
Busacca l0000Icomes
poli sci professor
By JEFF GREEN
You can call him professor
Busacca these days.
Jeremy Busacca, a 1990 Shel-
ton High School graduate, is cur-
rently teaching political science
as a visiting assistant professor
at Whittier College in Southern
California. He visited Shelton re-
cently, as Whittier observed an
extended break in January.
He's also working on a doctoral
dissertation about the American
Indian Movement, which flared
up in the 1970s as activists like
Dennis Banks, Russell Means
and others sought sovereignty
and self-determination for Native
Americans.
Busacca attended the Univer-
sity of California at Santa Cruz
as an undergraduate, earning a
bachelor's degree in politics and
minoring in history.
HE THEN spent two years
working in Santa Barbara as a
research associate for a medical
device manufacturer before real-
izing that career wasn't for him.
He got into graduate school at
Claremont Graduate University,
earning a master's degree in in-
ternational studies, then study-
ing for a doctorate in comparative
politics.
He said he has always been in-
terested in politics. While he was
in high school the Berlin Wall fell.
When he was in college came the
first Gulf War as well as genocide
in Rwanda and Bosnia.
"Power affects your life; poli-
tics affects your life," he tells his
students. "What are the political
implications (of a public policy
or event)? How does that affect
you?"
For him, politics is in the
blood. His parents, Bill and Lynn
Busacca, were students at the
Jeremy Busacca
University of California at Berke-
ley during the 1960s when the
Free Speech and Civil Rights
movements were under way and
protests against the Vietnam War
were just beginning.
BOTH OF his parents remain
very interested in politics, he add-
ed. Jeremy, his older brother, Mi-
chael, and the elder Busaccas sat
around talking about politics and
current events at the family din-
ner table as he was growing up.
He learned early to pay attention
to the news.
"I guess I've always been a
newspaper reader," he said. "My
girlfriend says I need to go on a
media diet." He subscribes to The
New York Times and The Los
Angeles Times, pores over other
newspapers on-line and also such
(Please turn to page 11.)
Acquisition by Taylor
boosts oyster output
Taylor Shellfish Farms has ac-
quired Fanny Bay Oyster Com-
pany of Union Bay in British Co-
lumbia.
Sellers of the 22-year-old fam-
ily business are Glenn and Sha-
ron Hadden, longtime friends of
the Taylor family. The transac-
tion gives the Shelton-based Tay-
lor company rights to the Fanny
Bay name and title to a 20,000-
square-foot state-of-the-art pro-
cessing plant, 250 acres of prime
growing area in Baynes Sound
north of Nanaimo on Vancouver
Island and a popular retail store
next to the ferry landing on Den-
man Island.
Eighty longtime employees
will keep their jobs. "Fanny Bay
has regarded employees as fam-
ily," said Bill Taylor, president of
Taylor Shellfish. "We will contin-
ue that relationship."
Acquisition of Fanny Bay is ex-
pected to increase Taylor's half-
shell production by 20 percent to
approximately 50 million oysters
per year. "We are excited about
the future," Sharon Hadden said.
"The Taylors bring a new level of
professionalism to the shellfish
industry in B.C."
TAYLOR SAID Fanny Bay
has an "excellent reputation" and
expects that its oysters "will fit
nicely into our product profile."
At the same time he said the
business philosophy of the Had-
dens is similar to that of his own
enterprise.
"We see a very good fit with
their excellent reputation in the
half-shell market," he said. "Oth-
er than shifting a few of the crops
and using our resources to boost
production, we don't envision any
substantial changes. Our main
interest is securing a long-term
supply of consistent and superior
quality oysters."
The buyout follows the pur-
chase of four smaller B.C. com-
panies in the Powell River area
made in the last six years. Fanny
Bay will provide processing capa-
bility for those farms.
Taylor Shellfish Farms is a
fourth-generation family-owned
company with nearly 500 employ-
ees farming shellfish on 9,500
acres of owned and leased tide-
land in Puget Sound and Willapa
Bay in Washington State, British
Columbia and Mexico. The com-
pany has hatcheries in Quilcene
and Kona, Hawaii, as well as a
pearl farm in Fiji and a distribu-
tion company in Hong Kong.
SHELTON-
MASON COUNTY
JOURbI.AL
...Thursday, February 15, 2007 121st Year -- Number 7 5 Sections -- 46 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents
Taylor to quit city, head chamber
JEFF GREEN when he resigned to take a job as he said. "We have to create that will serve out the remainder of nia, Taylor retired from the Navy
tyr the Shelton-Mason Coun-
,thamber of Commerce it was
ek to the future. And for Dick
r it was d6ih vu all over
The chamber this week an-
ced that Tavlor was its new-
'.eXecutive director, replacing
Y Cronouist, who moved to
otlthern Cali '
g0. forma a few months
?I.i r Taylor, currently a Shelton
mmissioner, it's old home
e served as the chamber's
tire director for 16 months,
March 1999 to July 2000,
executive director of an Olympia
nonprofit agency.
Taylor said he will begin work-
ing at the chamber on February
26 and resign from the city com-
mission on March 19, after Mayor
John Tarrant returns from a week-
long trip to China.
TAYLOR SAID he wants to
work to "grow" the chamber's
membership and build its image
within the community as a real
voice and advocate for businesses.
"I want people that are excited to
join because they see value in it,"
value."
He also wants the chamber to
continue to be an integral part of
the community and a fully partici-
pating member of it.
"The chamber is active right
now with its Governmental Af-
fairs Committee. I really advocate
that," he said, adding the commit-
tee played a key role with the city
on the stormwater issue and In-
frastructure Task Force.
Tarrant and Commissioner
Dawn Pannell ultimately will se-
lect a new commission member
to replace Taylor. The appointee
Hair, kitty, kitty, kitty
resident Ray Coleman displays a
of cat food that sprouted hair a few
after he opened it last week. Cole-
said he bought a case of Priority
cat food at the Shelton Wal-Mart
two weeks ago. The can shown
containing turkey giblets, was
first he opened. He left it uncov-
ered on a shelf and four days later no-
ticed the hair. His cat refused to eat the
contents of that can and of a second he
opened. Coleman said he threw out the
remaining cans, but is having a sample
of the hairy matter analyzed through
the Mason County Cooperative Exten-
sion Office.
grOwth potentially crushing
GREEN
School District faces
in coming residential
growth, state fund-
the Washington Assess-
ff Student Learning tests,
Joan Zook said
during a "state of the
speech to a local service
With a handful of large hous-
ing developments planned in the
Shelton area, Zook told members
of the Shelton Kiwanis Club the
school district is projecting an ad-
ditional 1,000 students "when and
if this growth happens."
The trick for the district will
be having schools ready, she said,
adding that one thousand addi-
tional students "when our schools
are full is a devastating number."
Zook said the district is form-
ing a task force to study its long-
range needs starting in March.
There is no doubt the district will
end up with portable classrooms
at its schools, she acknowledged.
Adding classroom space takes
(Please turn to page 8.)
Three flee from burning home
occupants of a mobile
Harstine Island escaped
lives and little else fol-
a fire on Tuesday, Febru-
District 5 reports construc-
the fire and
s at 911. When
arrived at the resi-
st 481 Lansky Road the sin-
gle-wide mobile home and an ad-
jacent travel trailer were engulfed
in flames.
Bryan Jennings and his girl-
friend were awakened by a child
and all three occupants fled
through a side door, Mason Coun-
ty Fire Marshal Craig Haugen
said. They said there was a fire in
the kitchen area and when they
opened a door, the blaze grew rap-
idly.
The three occupants were trans-
ported by medics to Mason Gener-
al Hospital for treatment of minor
injuries and possible smoke inha-
lation. The Red Cross was called
to assist the displaced occupants.
The cause of the fire remains
undetermined, Haugen said.
llillllllllllllllllillllilllllllllllllllllllllillll
the inside College will show
19
........................... 34
Calendar ....... 17
...42
Dining ..... 32
Journal ................. 18
of Record ............. 27
*....*....o..,.o..o,o.**.e* 10
I.o 4
...... 21
*t*"s'0"*e..e.°*.e*o, j.o.o..*.ee.*o* 30
10
llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliilllll
00imJ!!l!!llllJl!!l!l!lllU00
Bruce Miller film
The late Bruce Miller is the
subject of a documentary film to
be screened here on Friday.
A presentation of Teachings
of the Tree People - The Work
of Bruce Miller will be followed
by discussion with Delbert Mill-
er, tribal historic preservation
officer of the Skokomish Tribal
Nation. The program will begin
at 11 a.m. on February 16 at
Olympic College Shelton, 937
West Alpine Way.
The hour-long documen-
tary explores the man whose
Skokomish name was subiyay.
Miller narrated the film and
composed some of the music. He
worked to pass on tribal culture,
language and arts to younger
generations. A nationally ac-
claimed artist and Skokomish
tribal leader, Miller interpreted
the sacred teachings of the natu-
ral world to anyone who wanted
to learn.
For more information, call
432-5400.
Taylor's term, which concludes at
the end of this year.
TAYLOR WAS appointed to
the Shelton City Commission in
March 2001 to fill the position va-
cated by Carolyn Kerr. Taylor ran
for the commission seat in 1999,
but lost a close race to Kerr by
39 votes. Kerr served in office for
some 131/2 months before resign-
ing to become the city's director
of financial services. She resigned
from that post less than a year lat-
er, in February 2002.
A native of Martinez, Califor-
in 1993 after a 34-year career
which included several years
in Turkey as the U.S. national
representative with NATO. He
also served two years as the com-
manding officer at the Pacific
Beach naval facility in Grays
Harbor County.
Taylor is past president of the
Shelton Lions Club and a mem-
ber of both the Washington State
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
American Legion Post 31, Shel-
ton. Taylor's wife, Marlene, is a
Shelton port commissioner.
Busacca l0000Icomes
poli sci professor
By JEFF GREEN
You can call him professor
Busacca these days.
Jeremy Busacca, a 1990 Shel-
ton High School graduate, is cur-
rently teaching political science
as a visiting assistant professor
at Whittier College in Southern
California. He visited Shelton re-
cently, as Whittier observed an
extended break in January.
He's also working on a doctoral
dissertation about the American
Indian Movement, which flared
up in the 1970s as activists like
Dennis Banks, Russell Means
and others sought sovereignty
and self-determination for Native
Americans.
Busacca attended the Univer-
sity of California at Santa Cruz
as an undergraduate, earning a
bachelor's degree in politics and
minoring in history.
HE THEN spent two years
working in Santa Barbara as a
research associate for a medical
device manufacturer before real-
izing that career wasn't for him.
He got into graduate school at
Claremont Graduate University,
earning a master's degree in in-
ternational studies, then study-
ing for a doctorate in comparative
politics.
He said he has always been in-
terested in politics. While he was
in high school the Berlin Wall fell.
When he was in college came the
first Gulf War as well as genocide
in Rwanda and Bosnia.
"Power affects your life; poli-
tics affects your life," he tells his
students. "What are the political
implications (of a public policy
or event)? How does that affect
you?"
For him, politics is in the
blood. His parents, Bill and Lynn
Busacca, were students at the
Jeremy Busacca
University of California at Berke-
ley during the 1960s when the
Free Speech and Civil Rights
movements were under way and
protests against the Vietnam War
were just beginning.
BOTH OF his parents remain
very interested in politics, he add-
ed. Jeremy, his older brother, Mi-
chael, and the elder Busaccas sat
around talking about politics and
current events at the family din-
ner table as he was growing up.
He learned early to pay attention
to the news.
"I guess I've always been a
newspaper reader," he said. "My
girlfriend says I need to go on a
media diet." He subscribes to The
New York Times and The Los
Angeles Times, pores over other
newspapers on-line and also such
(Please turn to page 11.)
Acquisition by Taylor
boosts oyster output
Taylor Shellfish Farms has ac-
quired Fanny Bay Oyster Com-
pany of Union Bay in British Co-
lumbia.
Sellers of the 22-year-old fam-
ily business are Glenn and Sha-
ron Hadden, longtime friends of
the Taylor family. The transac-
tion gives the Shelton-based Tay-
lor company rights to the Fanny
Bay name and title to a 20,000-
square-foot state-of-the-art pro-
cessing plant, 250 acres of prime
growing area in Baynes Sound
north of Nanaimo on Vancouver
Island and a popular retail store
next to the ferry landing on Den-
man Island.
Eighty longtime employees
will keep their jobs. "Fanny Bay
has regarded employees as fam-
ily," said Bill Taylor, president of
Taylor Shellfish. "We will contin-
ue that relationship."
Acquisition of Fanny Bay is ex-
pected to increase Taylor's half-
shell production by 20 percent to
approximately 50 million oysters
per year. "We are excited about
the future," Sharon Hadden said.
"The Taylors bring a new level of
professionalism to the shellfish
industry in B.C."
TAYLOR SAID Fanny Bay
has an "excellent reputation" and
expects that its oysters "will fit
nicely into our product profile."
At the same time he said the
business philosophy of the Had-
dens is similar to that of his own
enterprise.
"We see a very good fit with
their excellent reputation in the
half-shell market," he said. "Oth-
er than shifting a few of the crops
and using our resources to boost
production, we don't envision any
substantial changes. Our main
interest is securing a long-term
supply of consistent and superior
quality oysters."
The buyout follows the pur-
chase of four smaller B.C. com-
panies in the Powell River area
made in the last six years. Fanny
Bay will provide processing capa-
bility for those farms.
Taylor Shellfish Farms is a
fourth-generation family-owned
company with nearly 500 employ-
ees farming shellfish on 9,500
acres of owned and leased tide-
land in Puget Sound and Willapa
Bay in Washington State, British
Columbia and Mexico. The com-
pany has hatcheries in Quilcene
and Kona, Hawaii, as well as a
pearl farm in Fiji and a distribu-
tion company in Hong Kong.