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ORE 970 COMP
GROSSENBACHER
BROS INC
1166 NE 31ST AVE
PORTLAND OR 97232
LOCAL RESIDENTS PROTESTING the degradation of the Skokomish
River by the Cushmman Hydroelectric Project wave signs at the
powerhouse in Potlatch on Sunday.
nstrators decry
' effect on Skok
de, it was a day for
and action against
"rivers, waters
to activists for
on the eve of federal
several species of
to local waters as
d, demonstrators fo-
impact of the Cush-
on salmon Sunday as
mgns at passing
over the out-
Potlatch power-
the organizers, Skoko-
resident Guy Par-
International Riv-
Day of Action dem-
powerhouse was
public of the degra-i
Skokomish by the
Light dams on the
North Fork.
IN THE day, the
re Parsons,
and Mary Ann
Jose Vigil. Renee
Vigil also had been
Parsons said.
course of Sunday,
me 25 people took
demonstration.
end," Parsons said,
from the Skoko-
Church showed up
and took part with bells and
prayers." The roar of passing traf-
fic and the steady rumble of the
three Allis-Chalmers generators
in the powerhouse were joined by
the sound of their bells and na-
tive chant.
Parsons says the Skokomish
River has been interfered with at
every turn. The two Cushman
dams have reduced habitat, inter-
fered with the river's channel ca-
pacity, and exacerbated flooding
problems, he said.
On Sunday, he handed out a
song sheet with his revision of the
'60s protest song, "Where Have
All the Flowers Gone?" In Par-
sons' take, it was "Where Have
All the Salmon Gone?" and the
answer rings, "This dam stops
them from getting home."
AND THE IMPACT is on
more than salmon, Parsons said.
"I'm tired of this affecting all our
lives. I'm tired of the taxpayers
paying for it."
For Parsons, concern about the
dwindling salmon resources is a
generational thing. "My grandfa-
ther protested the same way," he
said, referring to the late Red
Parsons, whose letters to The
Journal were legendary. "He used
to say commercial fishing in the
canal was allowing fishing in a
bathtub. He talked about the old
days when the canal was full of
salmon. Now we never see any-
thing."
Parsons said Jean Smith, one
of the women, made reference to
his efforts on behalf of the river
as "Red's blood come back to help
the tribe." Clearly moved, Par-
sons said Tuesday that the wom-
en's "ringing the big bells and
chanting for 45 minutes was defi-
nitely the highlight of the day. It
was an incredible scene."
Reflecting on the factors that
impel him to action, Parsons said,
'Tou've got three' factors: science,
policy and economics all playing
into decisions that are made.
"WE'VE BEEN turning our
backs on the best available sci-
ence and making decisions for the
short term," he said, calling the
local, state and national regula-
tory agencies "useless.
"They've got analysis paraly-
sis," he contended. "They've got
agency protectionism. And mean-
while, the fish don't have a place
to live."
He's concerned that a flood
plan for the Skokomish has been
shelved. "Before they do any
dredging, they've got to figure out
how to keep the river opened and
moving."
Besieged county seeks
profession00 help
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllIIIIl!
The Mason County commis-
sioners, beleaguered by plan-
ning issues, have decided to hire
outside, professional help to as-
sist them move toward com-
pliance with the state Growth
Management Act requirements.
The board on Tuesday author-
ized Gary Yando, community
development director, to solicit
telephone bids from the small
works roster for the services of a
GMA policy advisor and a plan-
ning consultant. The consul-
tants will assist Yando and Bob
Fink, county planner, in resolv-
ing specific comprehensive plan
and development regulations is-
sues identified by the Western
Washington Growth Manage-
ment Hearings Board as non-
compliant or invalid according
to the GMA.
ON JANUARY 14, the hear-
ings board issued findings of in-
validity, partial compliance,
continued noncompliance and
continued invalidity in the
county's revised plan and land-
use regulations, Yando reported.
The county has 180 days from the
date of the order to respond to
those findings on the amended
plan adopted last August.
"In order for us to move for-
ward in the effort to fix the cur-
rent problems, as they are identi-
fied in the growth board's deci-
sions, the department of commu-
nity development feels that we
need to seek consultant assis-
tance," Yando stated. "This is
due to the fact that we are cur-
rently in the process of working
on issues that affect our resource
ordinance."
The Interim Resource Ordi-
nance is designed to protect criti-
cal areas such as agricultural
resource lands, aquifer recharge
areas, frequently flooded lands,
forestlands and fish and wild-
life habitat during the growth
planning process.
For the advisor position, the
county is looking for a firm or
individual with "extensive ex-
pertise" in growth-management
issues and hearings board deci-
sions who can help assess what
actions are required to bring the
county plan into compliance with
the GMA and make recom-
mendations on various courses
of actions which the county could
pursue, Yando noted.
FOR THE PLANNER posi-
tion, Yando continued, the coun-
ty is seeking a firm or individu-
al with previous GMA experience
who "can quickly collaborate to
define work products and move
to produce them."
Hiring from the small works
roster is acceptable when the
costs are between $2,500 and
$25,000, Yando said. After con-
tacting three or four firms by
telephone, he added, "I'll come
back to the board and see where
we're going."
Thursday, March 18, 1999
113th Year - Number 11
5 Sections - 42 Pages SO Cents
Kneeland land reported
bought for $7.7 million
The sale of the Kneeland prop-
erty located west .f I!ghway 101
and south of theort $," Shelton
was completed on Monday, ac-
cording to the owner's family, but
details were sketchy at press time
Wednesday.
Don Kneeland of Olympia,
nephew of John Kneeland who is
the general partner of Goose Lake
Enterprises, a family limited
partnership, confirmed that the
property consisting of some 722-
plus acres sold for $7.75-million.
The new owner of the property
is Shelton 101 Limited Liability
Corporation, Kneeland said.
Rumors of the sale had been
swirling about Shelton for
months. More details about it will
appear in The Journal next week.
Another
By JEFF GREEN
Who said things couldn't get
worse along rain-soaked Highway
101?
Now a mudslide four miles
north of the large slide blocking
Highway 101 near Lilliwaup is
becoming active and moving to-
ward the highway near Jorsted
Creek, according to a spokesman
for the Washington State Depart-
ment of Transportation.
An earlier slide at Milepost 322
slide threatens
101
just south of Jorsted Creek has
reduced traffic to one lane for lo-
cal access only. But last weekend
a large mass of material started
oozing toward the highway at the
rate of five feet a day and has the
potential to be as big as the slide
at Milepost 326 a mile north of
Lilliwaup, said Don Whitehouse,
assistant regional administrator
for operations for the DOT.
"I was up there on Monday and
you can still hear the trees
breaking," Whitehouse told The
Journal about the slide area near
Jorsted Creek. Tuesday a contrac-
tor began removing downed trees
there via a helicopter.
WHITEHOUSE SAID the
contractor would try Wednesday
to begin removing "danger trees"
from the large slide just nbrth of
Lilliwaup. So-called danger trees
are ary that have been disturbed
(Please turn to page 2.)
ay for Life lets Hupp Man hurt in clash at shelter
wctory over cancer Five people are being investi- never has been an authorized res- and broke the door down, police
gated for assault in the first de- ident of the Mason County Shel- said. The five defendants then
gree after they were arrested in ter," Adamson told the court, punched and kicked Jones before
Hupp heads out
of Relay for Life
be marking the
of her bout with
says, "I can use
motivate, prom-
SOmething we need
Hupp maintains,
off some of the
accompany the
"It's not so scary
deal with it." Her
ou deal with it in
chronicling her
the disease.
STEP was diag-
of a lump in
way back in
not a real surprise;
of fibrocystic dis-
ady undergone
There
about it.
iopsy June 13,
Her husband,
his mother in the
her son-in-
took her to
Hospital where
the'
wait for a call,"
"we had a deal
on Thursday,
the conver-
U the office, and he
good news and bad
was that a
cyst he tested was okay. The bad
news was that the lump in my
breast was malignant.
"I knew," she reflected, "that
he to give me the news
on the phone. But I had told him,
'I want to know everything right
up front.' So the question was
what were we going to do, and he
outlined the options."
THE HARDEST thing she
had to cope with, she said, was
telling Jay and their two daugh-
ters. She had an hour before Jay
picked her up. The first thing she
did, she says, was pray. "I said,
'Okay, Blessed Mother, if I've
ever needed your help, I need it
now.' And the peace I received
was incredible."
Her husband's reaction?
"Frustration and anger," she said,
but he knew that wasn't helpful.
So he matched my responses; all
the way through, he went with
my reactions."
Telling daughters Tammy Put-
vin and Kelley Hupp was tough,
but at least they were together, in
Nevada at a reunion of Adak,
Alaska, schoolmates. It was a
happy circumstance that Tammy,
newly married, and Kelley, at-
tending school in Hawaii, were in
the same place. "It would .have
been worse," she said, "if Kelley
were in Hawaii by herself."
On June 17, Dr. Ogle intro-
duced Diana to Dr. Ann Murphy,
a Bremerton oncologist. Surgery
was set for the following Wednes-
day. Plans were set as firmly as
they could be without knowing
turn to 9.)
connection with an incident in
which a man was allegedly kicked
down the stairs of the Mason
County Shelter and hit in the face
with a two-by-four.
Jayson Jones, 16, was taken to
Mason General Hospital with bro-
ken bones in his face. He was
treated there and released to the
custody of his parents, according
to the Shelton Police Department.
Five people are scheduled for
arraignment on March 25 in con-
nection with the events of last
Saturday. Two of them were ap-
parently living at the homeless
shelter without the knowledge of
the management. Judge James
Sawyer found probable cause for
the arrest of:
• Daniel Lee Andrews, 21,
of 415 South 14th Street, Shelton.
Sawyer appointed Ron Sergi to be
his attorney and set bail at
$25,000. Andrews also faces alle-
gations that he violated the condi-
tions of his release in a drug pos-
session case.
* Jessi Mason, 20, of 208
North First Street, Shelton. She
has been living at the shelter
since 1996. Attorney Rich Adam-
son has been asked to begin evic-
tion proceedings against her.
Sawyer appointed Jeanette
Boothe to be her attorney and set
bail at $10,000 cash or bond.
* Duane Arthur Brennan,
18, of Shelton. He says he has
been living at the shelter. "He
Sawyer appointed Ann Stenberg
to be his attorney and set bail at
$25,000.
• Clifton Allen Parker, 18,
of 1014 Wilson Street, Olympia.
Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold
Schuetz told the court he has
several prior convictions. Sawyer
appointed Richard Woodrow to be
his attorney and set a cash-only
bail of $25,000.
• Meliasa A. Rodgers, 20, of
Shelton. She too gave the shelter
as her home address but Adam-
son said she's not authorized to
live there either. "That's where I
was staying. That's where I was
living with Jessi," Rodgers said.
Sawyer appointed Charles Lane
to be her attorney and set bail at
$15,000.
"All five subjects involved were
underage and had been drinking,"
Schuetz said. Judge Sawyer, how-
ever, did not find probable cause
for their arrest on charges of be-
ing minors in possession of alco-
hol.
The trouble happened last Sat-
urday night at a party in Mason's
apartment at the shelter, accord-
ing to the report of Detective Jer-
ry Lingle of the Shelton Police
Department. Jones went into the
bathroom with a female and
locked the door, according to the
statement of probable cause.
The others mistakenly thought
the female was being attacked
the three men dragged him out
into the hall and threw him down
the stairs, court papers allege. Po-
lice are investigating allegations
that he was hit in the face with
an eight-foot two-by-four.
Supervisors of the shelter are
now trying to have Mason evict-
ed. The incident occurred in a
wing set aside for developmental-
ly disabled people. "It is a view of
the shelter that this action placed
those developmentally disabled
tenants in great jeopardy," Adam-
son said.
Judge Sawyer told four of the
defendants to stay away from the
shelter, as well as from each
other. He can't tell Mason to stay
away because she currently has a
lease for her apartment there.
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On the inside
Births .................................. 14
Clauifleds ......................... 27
Community Calendar ....... 7
Crosaword ......................... 32
Entertainment, Dining... 26
Journal of Health ............ 14
Journal of Record ........... 16
Obituaries ................... 17, 18
Opinions, Letters ............... 4
Sports ................................. 20
Tides ................................... 19
Weather .............................. 19
IMHilIHIMIHHIHIHHIIHIIHIIHIIHIIIHIIIIIHIIHIH
Court rules
in favor of
state board
Mason County has challenged
the Western Washington Growth
Management Hearings Board
rulings on its 1996 Comprehen-
sive Plan all the way to the
Washington State Court of Ap-
peals, but without success.
In a ruling issued March 5 the
Court of Appeals upheld the find-
ings of the hearings board
against each of the county's ar-
guments.
The appellate court ruled that
(Please turn to page 12.)
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Dick Taylor
Taylor
to head
chamber
Shelton resident Dick Taylor
has been named the new execu-
tive director of the Shelton-Mason
County Chamber of Commerce.
Taylor, 57, a former U.S. Navy
commander, was hired last Fri-
day from among three finalists for
the job. He started working half
days at the chamber on Monday.
He currently is executive officer
of the Home Builders Association
of Mason County, a half-time po-
sition, and will start working full
time at the chamber on April 1.
He said his main objective at
the chamber is to create an at-
mosphere to attract business and
industry to the local community.
He'll also work to attract mem-
bers to the chamber and retain
their membership.
"I want to build a rapport with
all the other agencies, like the
Economic Development Council of
Mason County and Olde Towne
Shelton Association, that have a
common goal," Taylor told The
Journal. 'rhe goals are similar,
"You've got to have a synergy
between the organizations that
are working together to improve
our community."
Taylor is a former head of se-
curity at Bangor Submarine Base
in Kitsap County. In addition to
his work with the Home Builders
Association, Taylor also serves as
a study skills paraprofessional at
Shelton High School, working
with young people.
A native of Martinez, Califor-
nia, he retired from the Navy in
1993 after spending 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 member
of both the Washington State Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars and Ameri-
can Legion Post 31, Shelton. He
and his wife, Marlene, have four
grown children and five grand-
children.
He's familiar to thousands of
locals as the Republican who
wore out lots of shoe leather while
running unsuccessfully for the
Washington State Senate in 1997
and for the House in 1998. He lost
to Tim Sheldon the first time and
Bill Eickmeyer the second.
ORE 970 COMP
GROSSENBACHER
BROS INC
1166 NE 31ST AVE
PORTLAND OR 97232
LOCAL RESIDENTS PROTESTING the degradation of the Skokomish
River by the Cushmman Hydroelectric Project wave signs at the
powerhouse in Potlatch on Sunday.
nstrators decry
' effect on Skok
de, it was a day for
and action against
"rivers, waters
to activists for
on the eve of federal
several species of
to local waters as
d, demonstrators fo-
impact of the Cush-
on salmon Sunday as
mgns at passing
over the out-
Potlatch power-
the organizers, Skoko-
resident Guy Par-
International Riv-
Day of Action dem-
powerhouse was
public of the degra-i
Skokomish by the
Light dams on the
North Fork.
IN THE day, the
re Parsons,
and Mary Ann
Jose Vigil. Renee
Vigil also had been
Parsons said.
course of Sunday,
me 25 people took
demonstration.
end," Parsons said,
from the Skoko-
Church showed up
and took part with bells and
prayers." The roar of passing traf-
fic and the steady rumble of the
three Allis-Chalmers generators
in the powerhouse were joined by
the sound of their bells and na-
tive chant.
Parsons says the Skokomish
River has been interfered with at
every turn. The two Cushman
dams have reduced habitat, inter-
fered with the river's channel ca-
pacity, and exacerbated flooding
problems, he said.
On Sunday, he handed out a
song sheet with his revision of the
'60s protest song, "Where Have
All the Flowers Gone?" In Par-
sons' take, it was "Where Have
All the Salmon Gone?" and the
answer rings, "This dam stops
them from getting home."
AND THE IMPACT is on
more than salmon, Parsons said.
"I'm tired of this affecting all our
lives. I'm tired of the taxpayers
paying for it."
For Parsons, concern about the
dwindling salmon resources is a
generational thing. "My grandfa-
ther protested the same way," he
said, referring to the late Red
Parsons, whose letters to The
Journal were legendary. "He used
to say commercial fishing in the
canal was allowing fishing in a
bathtub. He talked about the old
days when the canal was full of
salmon. Now we never see any-
thing."
Parsons said Jean Smith, one
of the women, made reference to
his efforts on behalf of the river
as "Red's blood come back to help
the tribe." Clearly moved, Par-
sons said Tuesday that the wom-
en's "ringing the big bells and
chanting for 45 minutes was defi-
nitely the highlight of the day. It
was an incredible scene."
Reflecting on the factors that
impel him to action, Parsons said,
'Tou've got three' factors: science,
policy and economics all playing
into decisions that are made.
"WE'VE BEEN turning our
backs on the best available sci-
ence and making decisions for the
short term," he said, calling the
local, state and national regula-
tory agencies "useless.
"They've got analysis paraly-
sis," he contended. "They've got
agency protectionism. And mean-
while, the fish don't have a place
to live."
He's concerned that a flood
plan for the Skokomish has been
shelved. "Before they do any
dredging, they've got to figure out
how to keep the river opened and
moving."
Besieged county seeks
profession00 help
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllIIIIl!
The Mason County commis-
sioners, beleaguered by plan-
ning issues, have decided to hire
outside, professional help to as-
sist them move toward com-
pliance with the state Growth
Management Act requirements.
The board on Tuesday author-
ized Gary Yando, community
development director, to solicit
telephone bids from the small
works roster for the services of a
GMA policy advisor and a plan-
ning consultant. The consul-
tants will assist Yando and Bob
Fink, county planner, in resolv-
ing specific comprehensive plan
and development regulations is-
sues identified by the Western
Washington Growth Manage-
ment Hearings Board as non-
compliant or invalid according
to the GMA.
ON JANUARY 14, the hear-
ings board issued findings of in-
validity, partial compliance,
continued noncompliance and
continued invalidity in the
county's revised plan and land-
use regulations, Yando reported.
The county has 180 days from the
date of the order to respond to
those findings on the amended
plan adopted last August.
"In order for us to move for-
ward in the effort to fix the cur-
rent problems, as they are identi-
fied in the growth board's deci-
sions, the department of commu-
nity development feels that we
need to seek consultant assis-
tance," Yando stated. "This is
due to the fact that we are cur-
rently in the process of working
on issues that affect our resource
ordinance."
The Interim Resource Ordi-
nance is designed to protect criti-
cal areas such as agricultural
resource lands, aquifer recharge
areas, frequently flooded lands,
forestlands and fish and wild-
life habitat during the growth
planning process.
For the advisor position, the
county is looking for a firm or
individual with "extensive ex-
pertise" in growth-management
issues and hearings board deci-
sions who can help assess what
actions are required to bring the
county plan into compliance with
the GMA and make recom-
mendations on various courses
of actions which the county could
pursue, Yando noted.
FOR THE PLANNER posi-
tion, Yando continued, the coun-
ty is seeking a firm or individu-
al with previous GMA experience
who "can quickly collaborate to
define work products and move
to produce them."
Hiring from the small works
roster is acceptable when the
costs are between $2,500 and
$25,000, Yando said. After con-
tacting three or four firms by
telephone, he added, "I'll come
back to the board and see where
we're going."
Thursday, March 18, 1999
113th Year - Number 11
5 Sections - 42 Pages SO Cents
Kneeland land reported
bought for $7.7 million
The sale of the Kneeland prop-
erty located west .f I!ghway 101
and south of theort $," Shelton
was completed on Monday, ac-
cording to the owner's family, but
details were sketchy at press time
Wednesday.
Don Kneeland of Olympia,
nephew of John Kneeland who is
the general partner of Goose Lake
Enterprises, a family limited
partnership, confirmed that the
property consisting of some 722-
plus acres sold for $7.75-million.
The new owner of the property
is Shelton 101 Limited Liability
Corporation, Kneeland said.
Rumors of the sale had been
swirling about Shelton for
months. More details about it will
appear in The Journal next week.
Another
By JEFF GREEN
Who said things couldn't get
worse along rain-soaked Highway
101?
Now a mudslide four miles
north of the large slide blocking
Highway 101 near Lilliwaup is
becoming active and moving to-
ward the highway near Jorsted
Creek, according to a spokesman
for the Washington State Depart-
ment of Transportation.
An earlier slide at Milepost 322
slide threatens
101
just south of Jorsted Creek has
reduced traffic to one lane for lo-
cal access only. But last weekend
a large mass of material started
oozing toward the highway at the
rate of five feet a day and has the
potential to be as big as the slide
at Milepost 326 a mile north of
Lilliwaup, said Don Whitehouse,
assistant regional administrator
for operations for the DOT.
"I was up there on Monday and
you can still hear the trees
breaking," Whitehouse told The
Journal about the slide area near
Jorsted Creek. Tuesday a contrac-
tor began removing downed trees
there via a helicopter.
WHITEHOUSE SAID the
contractor would try Wednesday
to begin removing "danger trees"
from the large slide just nbrth of
Lilliwaup. So-called danger trees
are ary that have been disturbed
(Please turn to page 2.)
ay for Life lets Hupp Man hurt in clash at shelter
wctory over cancer Five people are being investi- never has been an authorized res- and broke the door down, police
gated for assault in the first de- ident of the Mason County Shel- said. The five defendants then
gree after they were arrested in ter," Adamson told the court, punched and kicked Jones before
Hupp heads out
of Relay for Life
be marking the
of her bout with
says, "I can use
motivate, prom-
SOmething we need
Hupp maintains,
off some of the
accompany the
"It's not so scary
deal with it." Her
ou deal with it in
chronicling her
the disease.
STEP was diag-
of a lump in
way back in
not a real surprise;
of fibrocystic dis-
ady undergone
There
about it.
iopsy June 13,
Her husband,
his mother in the
her son-in-
took her to
Hospital where
the'
wait for a call,"
"we had a deal
on Thursday,
the conver-
U the office, and he
good news and bad
was that a
cyst he tested was okay. The bad
news was that the lump in my
breast was malignant.
"I knew," she reflected, "that
he to give me the news
on the phone. But I had told him,
'I want to know everything right
up front.' So the question was
what were we going to do, and he
outlined the options."
THE HARDEST thing she
had to cope with, she said, was
telling Jay and their two daugh-
ters. She had an hour before Jay
picked her up. The first thing she
did, she says, was pray. "I said,
'Okay, Blessed Mother, if I've
ever needed your help, I need it
now.' And the peace I received
was incredible."
Her husband's reaction?
"Frustration and anger," she said,
but he knew that wasn't helpful.
So he matched my responses; all
the way through, he went with
my reactions."
Telling daughters Tammy Put-
vin and Kelley Hupp was tough,
but at least they were together, in
Nevada at a reunion of Adak,
Alaska, schoolmates. It was a
happy circumstance that Tammy,
newly married, and Kelley, at-
tending school in Hawaii, were in
the same place. "It would .have
been worse," she said, "if Kelley
were in Hawaii by herself."
On June 17, Dr. Ogle intro-
duced Diana to Dr. Ann Murphy,
a Bremerton oncologist. Surgery
was set for the following Wednes-
day. Plans were set as firmly as
they could be without knowing
turn to 9.)
connection with an incident in
which a man was allegedly kicked
down the stairs of the Mason
County Shelter and hit in the face
with a two-by-four.
Jayson Jones, 16, was taken to
Mason General Hospital with bro-
ken bones in his face. He was
treated there and released to the
custody of his parents, according
to the Shelton Police Department.
Five people are scheduled for
arraignment on March 25 in con-
nection with the events of last
Saturday. Two of them were ap-
parently living at the homeless
shelter without the knowledge of
the management. Judge James
Sawyer found probable cause for
the arrest of:
• Daniel Lee Andrews, 21,
of 415 South 14th Street, Shelton.
Sawyer appointed Ron Sergi to be
his attorney and set bail at
$25,000. Andrews also faces alle-
gations that he violated the condi-
tions of his release in a drug pos-
session case.
* Jessi Mason, 20, of 208
North First Street, Shelton. She
has been living at the shelter
since 1996. Attorney Rich Adam-
son has been asked to begin evic-
tion proceedings against her.
Sawyer appointed Jeanette
Boothe to be her attorney and set
bail at $10,000 cash or bond.
* Duane Arthur Brennan,
18, of Shelton. He says he has
been living at the shelter. "He
Sawyer appointed Ann Stenberg
to be his attorney and set bail at
$25,000.
• Clifton Allen Parker, 18,
of 1014 Wilson Street, Olympia.
Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold
Schuetz told the court he has
several prior convictions. Sawyer
appointed Richard Woodrow to be
his attorney and set a cash-only
bail of $25,000.
• Meliasa A. Rodgers, 20, of
Shelton. She too gave the shelter
as her home address but Adam-
son said she's not authorized to
live there either. "That's where I
was staying. That's where I was
living with Jessi," Rodgers said.
Sawyer appointed Charles Lane
to be her attorney and set bail at
$15,000.
"All five subjects involved were
underage and had been drinking,"
Schuetz said. Judge Sawyer, how-
ever, did not find probable cause
for their arrest on charges of be-
ing minors in possession of alco-
hol.
The trouble happened last Sat-
urday night at a party in Mason's
apartment at the shelter, accord-
ing to the report of Detective Jer-
ry Lingle of the Shelton Police
Department. Jones went into the
bathroom with a female and
locked the door, according to the
statement of probable cause.
The others mistakenly thought
the female was being attacked
the three men dragged him out
into the hall and threw him down
the stairs, court papers allege. Po-
lice are investigating allegations
that he was hit in the face with
an eight-foot two-by-four.
Supervisors of the shelter are
now trying to have Mason evict-
ed. The incident occurred in a
wing set aside for developmental-
ly disabled people. "It is a view of
the shelter that this action placed
those developmentally disabled
tenants in great jeopardy," Adam-
son said.
Judge Sawyer told four of the
defendants to stay away from the
shelter, as well as from each
other. He can't tell Mason to stay
away because she currently has a
lease for her apartment there.
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Clauifleds ......................... 27
Community Calendar ....... 7
Crosaword ......................... 32
Entertainment, Dining... 26
Journal of Health ............ 14
Journal of Record ........... 16
Obituaries ................... 17, 18
Opinions, Letters ............... 4
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Court rules
in favor of
state board
Mason County has challenged
the Western Washington Growth
Management Hearings Board
rulings on its 1996 Comprehen-
sive Plan all the way to the
Washington State Court of Ap-
peals, but without success.
In a ruling issued March 5 the
Court of Appeals upheld the find-
ings of the hearings board
against each of the county's ar-
guments.
The appellate court ruled that
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Dick Taylor
Taylor
to head
chamber
Shelton resident Dick Taylor
has been named the new execu-
tive director of the Shelton-Mason
County Chamber of Commerce.
Taylor, 57, a former U.S. Navy
commander, was hired last Fri-
day from among three finalists for
the job. He started working half
days at the chamber on Monday.
He currently is executive officer
of the Home Builders Association
of Mason County, a half-time po-
sition, and will start working full
time at the chamber on April 1.
He said his main objective at
the chamber is to create an at-
mosphere to attract business and
industry to the local community.
He'll also work to attract mem-
bers to the chamber and retain
their membership.
"I want to build a rapport with
all the other agencies, like the
Economic Development Council of
Mason County and Olde Towne
Shelton Association, that have a
common goal," Taylor told The
Journal. 'rhe goals are similar,
"You've got to have a synergy
between the organizations that
are working together to improve
our community."
Taylor is a former head of se-
curity at Bangor Submarine Base
in Kitsap County. In addition to
his work with the Home Builders
Association, Taylor also serves as
a study skills paraprofessional at
Shelton High School, working
with young people.
A native of Martinez, Califor-
nia, he retired from the Navy in
1993 after spending 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 member
of both the Washington State Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars and Ameri-
can Legion Post 31, Shelton. He
and his wife, Marlene, have four
grown children and five grand-
children.
He's familiar to thousands of
locals as the Republican who
wore out lots of shoe leather while
running unsuccessfully for the
Washington State Senate in 1997
and for the House in 1998. He lost
to Tim Sheldon the first time and
Bill Eickmeyer the second.