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ORE ,97( COMP
GROSSFNBACNE#
BROS; IN("
1166 NE31ST AVE
PORILAND OR 97232
Community chips in
to start Wood house
working to build a
for the Wood family
the footings Tuesday
assist from Miles
of Rick and Paula
331 East Julian Road
area was destroyed
ruary 22 fire that
life of their young-
4-year-old Ivy.
work for and live
Fire District 5
to help the family
home. Paula Wood
firefighter for
5, and Rick Wood is a
lieutenant.
of District 5
's need about
to rebuild the house.
doesn't include the
volunteer labor or
ility that local busi-
contribute a roof and
7stem.
rE'RE LOOKING at
We really have, what
donated and what
Knight said.
Works are a dinner
to be held in May
garage sale planned for
8 at the former Na-
rd Armory in down-
Kni said that
pretty close to
d be enough to
we finish the house,"
not we'll have more
School raised $950
Project at a rummage
goods sale held last
and another $250 sell-
beer floats. Employees
Timber Compa-
over the week-
PEOPLE helped
Ld spread concrete for
provided by Miles
is putting togeth-
nteers to per-
tasks. He can be
at 275-6159 or 275-
lation can also
by calling Sandi
10.
said the volunteers
house will be finished
begins.
meantime, the Wood
MARK MOTTET of Fire District 5 shovels concrete
from a wheelbtrrow held by a worker from contrac-
tor K.C. Ellison this week as the foundation is laid
for a new house for Rick and Paula Wood. Their
Agate home was destroyed by fire last month, and
their community is helping them rebuild. In the
background is Strider Klussman of District 5.
family is living on Harstine Is-
land as the guests of a Seattle
attorney and awaiting the re-
turn of Melanie. Their 19-year-
old daughter is in Seattle's Har-
borview Medical Center recover-
ing from third-degree burns suf-
fered while trying to rescue Ivy
from the blaze.
Their 16-year-old daughter,
Melissa, and Melanie's 4-
month-old son, Gabriel, escaped
without any serious injuries.
Their parents were on the way
to work when the fire broke out
around 6:30 a.m.
Fire Marshal Dave Salzer
has concluded that the fire was
probably started by the wood-
stove.
,es to restore Northwest
runs undetermined
l°Unty residents and
waiting for the im-
of several in-
men species on the
list.
lesignation de-
16 for Puget
and Hood Canal
is "threatened"
Langered." No lin-
ens will apply to
activities in the
Species are listed as
said U.S. Department
Marine Fisheries
an Brian Gor-
remain to be
and state en-
to make their
salmon protection
of the federal
lg the next few
Marine Fisheries
West Coast
Puget Sound,
the Columbia and
rivers and Lake
and the
Upper Columbia
as endangered.
Endangered
said, a spe-
e extinct is
A spe-
endangered
future is
action is essen-
a valuable natural
of income and a
is so special
;," said
Commerce Secre-
Daley in an-
has direct-
al Oceanic and At-
to in-
devoted to the
Northwest and asked Congress
for $100 million to go directly to
state and local governments and
Indian tribes. The funds, he said,
will help defray "the costs of de-
veloping and implementing plans
to restore the fish to sustainable
populations and to protect and re-
store healthy streams and the
clean water upon which they -
and all of us - depend."
LISTINGS WILL become ef-
fective 60 days from March 16.
The endangered Upper Colum-
bia River chinook will receive au-
tomatic protections under the En-
dangered Species Act, and some
federal rules affecting activities
on federal lands or projects re-
quiring federal permits will go
into effect for the threatened spe-
cies.
On nonfederal lands, so-called
"4(d) rules," protective regula-
tions to be proposed later, will be
tailored to mesh with existing
conservation measures in the rel-
evant areas, according to federal
sources.
Tribal, state and local entities
will be involved in determining
those restrictions.
WHILE NOBODY was pre-
dicting what measures would be
imposed on landowners, agricul-
ture, municipalities, utilities and
other entities involved with the
lands and activities adjacent to
waters designated as affected by
the declarations, numerous enti-
ties were gearing up to deal with
the mandates to plan for protec-
tive measures.
Don Haring, regional technical
coordinator for the Washington
Conservation Commission, said
his agency will work with the fed-
eral fisheries department and
other state and local government
entities "at what rules or other
protective measures will get im-
posed.
"We have met with some of the
watershed experts throughout the
area," Haring said. The conserva-
tion commission will also work
with available studies and litera-
ture.
PRELIMINARY information,
he said, indicates that restoration
of fish runs will involve dealing
with:
• Fish-passage barriers such
as dams.
• In-stream alterations. "One
thing we lack in many streams,"
he instanced, "is a good comple-
ment of downed pieces of large
wood, typically a root ball with
trunk and associated log jams
that form much of the stability
and diversity needed in channels
if they're to produce salmon."
• Riparian habitat. "Large sec-
tions of streams have had ripar-
ian-zone vegetation removed," he
said, citing effects that include a
lack of downed woody debris, lack
of cover for fish, increased water
temperature and increased ero-
sion along streambeds.
• Runoff problems.
"Obviously," Haring explained,
"in some of the systems we have a
very large increase in the amount
of water coming in (during storm
events) due to runoff from devel-
opment."
• Marine water changes such
as bulkheads and constriction of
estuaries.
• Water quality. In Puget
Sound, Haring indicated, water-
quality issues are mainly asso-
ciated with nonpoint pollution
from agricultural animal access,
failed septic systems and road
runoff.
(A discussion of the local
decision-making process is
on page 2.)
SHS fumes over vandals'
damage to several lawns
By JEFF GREEN
A case of vandalism that re-
sulted in deep ruts and tire tracks
on several lawns at Shelton High
School last Friday night has
school officials and students fum-
ing.
"I came in this (Monday) morn-
ing and I was angry," said vice
principal Pat Ena. "We've worked
so hard the last four years to
make this a nice place for kids.
It's very upsetting."
A high-school custodian
phoned police at 10:29 p.m. Fri-
day to report a vehicle was driv-
ing on the lawns around the SHS
library. Minutes later, a Shelton
officer stopped a gray 1987 Nis-
san Pathfinder on Olympic High-.
way North at I Street because it
matched the description of the ve-
hicle seen at the high school, said
Shelton Police Lieutenant Ken
Dobie. There was dirt and sod on
the sport utility vehicle, he added.
The driver, 17, and a passeng-
er, 16, both Shelton males, were
taken into custody, then released
to their parents. Dobie said the
matter has been referred to juve-
nile authorities and the driver
faces possible charges of reckless
driving and malicious mischief in
connection with the incident.
"IT'S GOING TO be a very
expensive proposition to have
somebody pay for it," Ena said.
The school district will pay an in-
dependent contractor to come in
and assess the damage, then fix
it, he added.
Don Szolomayer, Shelton
School District's maintenance di-
rector, said the damage would
amount to at least $2,000 to
$3,000 because the area must be
filled in and re-sodded.
"That's real labor-intensive,"
Szolomayer said. "A lot of people
worked really hard to make that
campus look nicer."
"I think a lot of students are
very upset," Ena said. "Unnec-
essary. For what? This kind of
thing - there's just no reqson for
it."
CAMPUS LEADERS were
also outraged by the vandalism.
"First of all, I felt kind of hurt,"
said Aime Pierce, a senior and
president of the SHS Associated
Student Body. "Our ASB has
worked hard to make things nice
around the school. It's kind of like
a slap in the face, knowing that
not everybody is taking what
other people feel into considera-
tion. And that's really rude."
"I think that it's really disgust-
ing," said Gigi Van Aagten, a se-
nior and ASB secretary. "We walk
through this campus every day.
It's disgusting. We take pride in it
and they don't take it seriously,"
she said of the vandals.
Nobody is allowed even to walk
on the grass, Van Aagten said.
"we yell at them," she said of stu-
dents who notice other kids and
even faculty members crossing
the lawns.
"We want it to look nice. It's
pretty old as it is. They're making
it worse," said sophomore class
president Ryan Burleson. "I was
pretty mad."
"IT REALLY kind of dis-
turbed me," said junior class sec-
retary Nick Cronquist. "The cam-
pus has become beautiful. That
someone would destroy it, it
really kind of hurts. We are work-
ing hard to make this beautiful."
"This campus is right on the
verge of perfection," said Shelton
Police Officer Harry Heldreth,
who for the past two school years
has worked on the SHS campus.
"It's probably one of the safest
schools in the state," he added.
"We're pro-active, making sure
the kids in the community are
safe," Ena said.
"It could have been a lot
worse," said SHS Principal Mello-
dy Matthes. "Grass can be re-
placed. No buildings were dam-
aged; no one was hurt."
THE INCIDENT, the first
major case of vandalism at SHS
this school year, has made
Matthes realize the students have
a lot of pride in the campus, she
said. "A lesson was learned by all
of us. We care about Shelton High
School. I'm glad the kids care.
They're expressing that quite vo-
cally all over campus."
The ASB has spent $6,000 on
trash cans to alleviate a littering
problem at the school. Matthes
said that situation is improving
as a result. "I actually sense a lot
of pride in the school," she said.
LAWNS AT SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL were torn up by a vehicle that
plowed through the campus Friday night. Two youngsters were de-
tained as a result of the incident.
Thursday, March 25, 1999
113th Year - Number 12
4 Sections - 34 Pages 50 Cents
State begins to clear
one mudslide on 101
By JEFF GREEN
State highway workers began
trying to clear one lane of High-
way 101 on Tuesday afternoon at
the site of the huge mudslide a
mile north of Lilliwaup.
Geologists determined earlier
this week that the slide at Mile-
post 326, which has closed the
highway at that point since Feb-
ruary 24, had stabilized enough
to allow workers to begin remov-
ing debris.
"we're hoping one lane will be
open by the end of the week for
local access only," said Ann
Briggs, a spokeswoman with the
Washington State Department of
Transportation.
That should come as welcome
news to residents living on the
north side of the Lilliwaup slide
who have been forced to drive on
a lengthy U.S. Forest Service
road from Hamma Hamma to
Lake Cushman to bypass the
mudslide.
BUT FOUR MILES north of
the Lilliwaup slide, at Milepost
322 just south of Eldon, the news
was not as good. Briggs said a
large slide there, which has
blocked both lanes of Highway
i01, is still moving. The Depart-
ment of Transportation is work-
ing with a contractor to install
some drainage pipes into the hill-
side in order to lower the water
level and reduce slide movement,
Briggs said. And despite the re-
cent drier weather, water content
in the hillside has remained high,
causing continued movement.
Permanent repairs are esti-
mated at $8 to $10 million at each
of the two slide areas. Repair
work is expected to be done this
summer. The Department of
Transportation has started the
process for obtaining federal
emergency repair funds.
At the local level, the Mason
County Department of Emergen-
cy Management has moved its
communications trailer and Mass
Care Unit truck into place at the
Hoodsport Fire Hall to convert
the community meeting room
there into an emergency shelter if
needed. The truck contains a
kitchen unit, medical and other
supplies, a generator and other
things needed to establish a re-
mote-type of shelter, said Joe
Murray, director of the emergen-
cy management department.
In addition, Murray said his
department has contracted with
Mason County Medic One to pro-
vide a Sprint (single paramedic,
rapid intervention, non-transport)
unit at the Hamma Hamma fire
station located on the north side
of the Lilliwaup mudslide. Since :i
last Friday, a paramedic has been i
on duty there 24 hours a day and
in case of a medical emergency,
will treat sick or injured people
until a medical helicopter or am- i:':i
bulance arrives.
"WHILE WE appreciate the
efforts of the DOT and crews to
open the slide to one lane of traf-
fic and opening the bypass, that
does not meet the needs of all the ::
populace," Murray said. "A large
population of senior citizens :
(north of the Lilliwaup slide) have i
relied on Mason County Transit *
to get down to Shelton for shop-
ping and doctor's appointments:"
On Monday, the emergency
management department con-
tracted with Evergreen Transpor- i!
tation, a Shelton taxi company, to ii
pick up a woman north of the
slide and take her to a medical
(Please turn to page 12.)
Altercation not at shelter
The altercation that resulted in
charges against several individu-
als in Mason County Superior
Court wasn't at the Mason Coun-
ty Shelter, as was reported in last
week's Journal.
Shelter executive director Jack
Nevins noted that the incident oc-
curred at an apartment facility
next to, and owned by, Mason
County Shelter. Jessi Mason, one
of the defendants in the assault
case, was a tenant of the low-in-
come apartments the shelter op-
erates, Nevins said, but she was
already under a notice of violation
that had been served in early
February. "The eviction process
had been initiated," Nevins said
Friday.
Representatives of the shelter
were concerned that news of an
altercation at the shelter would
reflect poorly on their agency and
were quick to correct some of the
information in last week's story.
Officials in court proceedings
last week, which identified Ma-
son, Duane A. Brennan, Melissa
A. Rodgers, Clifton A. Parker and
Daniel L. Andrews as partici-
pants in a fracas in which 16-
year-old Jayson Jones was
knocked downstairs, indicated
that Mason, Brennan and Rodg-
ers lived at the shelter. Not so,
Nevins said last week. He ex-
plained that the shelter operates
a six-unit apartment building,
Shelton Creek Apartments, adja-
cent to the shelter facility. "It's
low-income housing and we pro-
vide case management," he said.
And while Mason was a tenant,
Nevins noted that she had been
sent a letter February 2 notifying
her that unless she rectified the
situation of other people living in
her apartment in violation of the
terms of her rental agreement, it
would be terminated.
The others weren't living there
"without knowledge of the man-
agement," as last week's story
stated, Nevins said. In fact, he
said, Brennan and Rodgers had
been seen on the premises multi-
ple times and it was on that ac-
count that eviction proceedings
had been initiated.
Although Richard Adamson,
attorney for the shelter, indicated
that the facility where Mason
lived was a wing for developmen-
tally disabled people, that isn't
quite the case, stated Nevins and
one of the other tenants of the
building. Many of the tenants are
developmentally disabled, Nevins
said. One who wasn't took irate
issue with the statement as well.
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ORE ,97( COMP
GROSSFNBACNE#
BROS; IN("
1166 NE31ST AVE
PORILAND OR 97232
Community chips in
to start Wood house
working to build a
for the Wood family
the footings Tuesday
assist from Miles
of Rick and Paula
331 East Julian Road
area was destroyed
ruary 22 fire that
life of their young-
4-year-old Ivy.
work for and live
Fire District 5
to help the family
home. Paula Wood
firefighter for
5, and Rick Wood is a
lieutenant.
of District 5
's need about
to rebuild the house.
doesn't include the
volunteer labor or
ility that local busi-
contribute a roof and
7stem.
rE'RE LOOKING at
We really have, what
donated and what
Knight said.
Works are a dinner
to be held in May
garage sale planned for
8 at the former Na-
rd Armory in down-
Kni said that
pretty close to
d be enough to
we finish the house,"
not we'll have more
School raised $950
Project at a rummage
goods sale held last
and another $250 sell-
beer floats. Employees
Timber Compa-
over the week-
PEOPLE helped
Ld spread concrete for
provided by Miles
is putting togeth-
nteers to per-
tasks. He can be
at 275-6159 or 275-
lation can also
by calling Sandi
10.
said the volunteers
house will be finished
begins.
meantime, the Wood
MARK MOTTET of Fire District 5 shovels concrete
from a wheelbtrrow held by a worker from contrac-
tor K.C. Ellison this week as the foundation is laid
for a new house for Rick and Paula Wood. Their
Agate home was destroyed by fire last month, and
their community is helping them rebuild. In the
background is Strider Klussman of District 5.
family is living on Harstine Is-
land as the guests of a Seattle
attorney and awaiting the re-
turn of Melanie. Their 19-year-
old daughter is in Seattle's Har-
borview Medical Center recover-
ing from third-degree burns suf-
fered while trying to rescue Ivy
from the blaze.
Their 16-year-old daughter,
Melissa, and Melanie's 4-
month-old son, Gabriel, escaped
without any serious injuries.
Their parents were on the way
to work when the fire broke out
around 6:30 a.m.
Fire Marshal Dave Salzer
has concluded that the fire was
probably started by the wood-
stove.
,es to restore Northwest
runs undetermined
l°Unty residents and
waiting for the im-
of several in-
men species on the
list.
lesignation de-
16 for Puget
and Hood Canal
is "threatened"
Langered." No lin-
ens will apply to
activities in the
Species are listed as
said U.S. Department
Marine Fisheries
an Brian Gor-
remain to be
and state en-
to make their
salmon protection
of the federal
lg the next few
Marine Fisheries
West Coast
Puget Sound,
the Columbia and
rivers and Lake
and the
Upper Columbia
as endangered.
Endangered
said, a spe-
e extinct is
A spe-
endangered
future is
action is essen-
a valuable natural
of income and a
is so special
;," said
Commerce Secre-
Daley in an-
has direct-
al Oceanic and At-
to in-
devoted to the
Northwest and asked Congress
for $100 million to go directly to
state and local governments and
Indian tribes. The funds, he said,
will help defray "the costs of de-
veloping and implementing plans
to restore the fish to sustainable
populations and to protect and re-
store healthy streams and the
clean water upon which they -
and all of us - depend."
LISTINGS WILL become ef-
fective 60 days from March 16.
The endangered Upper Colum-
bia River chinook will receive au-
tomatic protections under the En-
dangered Species Act, and some
federal rules affecting activities
on federal lands or projects re-
quiring federal permits will go
into effect for the threatened spe-
cies.
On nonfederal lands, so-called
"4(d) rules," protective regula-
tions to be proposed later, will be
tailored to mesh with existing
conservation measures in the rel-
evant areas, according to federal
sources.
Tribal, state and local entities
will be involved in determining
those restrictions.
WHILE NOBODY was pre-
dicting what measures would be
imposed on landowners, agricul-
ture, municipalities, utilities and
other entities involved with the
lands and activities adjacent to
waters designated as affected by
the declarations, numerous enti-
ties were gearing up to deal with
the mandates to plan for protec-
tive measures.
Don Haring, regional technical
coordinator for the Washington
Conservation Commission, said
his agency will work with the fed-
eral fisheries department and
other state and local government
entities "at what rules or other
protective measures will get im-
posed.
"We have met with some of the
watershed experts throughout the
area," Haring said. The conserva-
tion commission will also work
with available studies and litera-
ture.
PRELIMINARY information,
he said, indicates that restoration
of fish runs will involve dealing
with:
• Fish-passage barriers such
as dams.
• In-stream alterations. "One
thing we lack in many streams,"
he instanced, "is a good comple-
ment of downed pieces of large
wood, typically a root ball with
trunk and associated log jams
that form much of the stability
and diversity needed in channels
if they're to produce salmon."
• Riparian habitat. "Large sec-
tions of streams have had ripar-
ian-zone vegetation removed," he
said, citing effects that include a
lack of downed woody debris, lack
of cover for fish, increased water
temperature and increased ero-
sion along streambeds.
• Runoff problems.
"Obviously," Haring explained,
"in some of the systems we have a
very large increase in the amount
of water coming in (during storm
events) due to runoff from devel-
opment."
• Marine water changes such
as bulkheads and constriction of
estuaries.
• Water quality. In Puget
Sound, Haring indicated, water-
quality issues are mainly asso-
ciated with nonpoint pollution
from agricultural animal access,
failed septic systems and road
runoff.
(A discussion of the local
decision-making process is
on page 2.)
SHS fumes over vandals'
damage to several lawns
By JEFF GREEN
A case of vandalism that re-
sulted in deep ruts and tire tracks
on several lawns at Shelton High
School last Friday night has
school officials and students fum-
ing.
"I came in this (Monday) morn-
ing and I was angry," said vice
principal Pat Ena. "We've worked
so hard the last four years to
make this a nice place for kids.
It's very upsetting."
A high-school custodian
phoned police at 10:29 p.m. Fri-
day to report a vehicle was driv-
ing on the lawns around the SHS
library. Minutes later, a Shelton
officer stopped a gray 1987 Nis-
san Pathfinder on Olympic High-.
way North at I Street because it
matched the description of the ve-
hicle seen at the high school, said
Shelton Police Lieutenant Ken
Dobie. There was dirt and sod on
the sport utility vehicle, he added.
The driver, 17, and a passeng-
er, 16, both Shelton males, were
taken into custody, then released
to their parents. Dobie said the
matter has been referred to juve-
nile authorities and the driver
faces possible charges of reckless
driving and malicious mischief in
connection with the incident.
"IT'S GOING TO be a very
expensive proposition to have
somebody pay for it," Ena said.
The school district will pay an in-
dependent contractor to come in
and assess the damage, then fix
it, he added.
Don Szolomayer, Shelton
School District's maintenance di-
rector, said the damage would
amount to at least $2,000 to
$3,000 because the area must be
filled in and re-sodded.
"That's real labor-intensive,"
Szolomayer said. "A lot of people
worked really hard to make that
campus look nicer."
"I think a lot of students are
very upset," Ena said. "Unnec-
essary. For what? This kind of
thing - there's just no reqson for
it."
CAMPUS LEADERS were
also outraged by the vandalism.
"First of all, I felt kind of hurt,"
said Aime Pierce, a senior and
president of the SHS Associated
Student Body. "Our ASB has
worked hard to make things nice
around the school. It's kind of like
a slap in the face, knowing that
not everybody is taking what
other people feel into considera-
tion. And that's really rude."
"I think that it's really disgust-
ing," said Gigi Van Aagten, a se-
nior and ASB secretary. "We walk
through this campus every day.
It's disgusting. We take pride in it
and they don't take it seriously,"
she said of the vandals.
Nobody is allowed even to walk
on the grass, Van Aagten said.
"we yell at them," she said of stu-
dents who notice other kids and
even faculty members crossing
the lawns.
"We want it to look nice. It's
pretty old as it is. They're making
it worse," said sophomore class
president Ryan Burleson. "I was
pretty mad."
"IT REALLY kind of dis-
turbed me," said junior class sec-
retary Nick Cronquist. "The cam-
pus has become beautiful. That
someone would destroy it, it
really kind of hurts. We are work-
ing hard to make this beautiful."
"This campus is right on the
verge of perfection," said Shelton
Police Officer Harry Heldreth,
who for the past two school years
has worked on the SHS campus.
"It's probably one of the safest
schools in the state," he added.
"We're pro-active, making sure
the kids in the community are
safe," Ena said.
"It could have been a lot
worse," said SHS Principal Mello-
dy Matthes. "Grass can be re-
placed. No buildings were dam-
aged; no one was hurt."
THE INCIDENT, the first
major case of vandalism at SHS
this school year, has made
Matthes realize the students have
a lot of pride in the campus, she
said. "A lesson was learned by all
of us. We care about Shelton High
School. I'm glad the kids care.
They're expressing that quite vo-
cally all over campus."
The ASB has spent $6,000 on
trash cans to alleviate a littering
problem at the school. Matthes
said that situation is improving
as a result. "I actually sense a lot
of pride in the school," she said.
LAWNS AT SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL were torn up by a vehicle that
plowed through the campus Friday night. Two youngsters were de-
tained as a result of the incident.
Thursday, March 25, 1999
113th Year - Number 12
4 Sections - 34 Pages 50 Cents
State begins to clear
one mudslide on 101
By JEFF GREEN
State highway workers began
trying to clear one lane of High-
way 101 on Tuesday afternoon at
the site of the huge mudslide a
mile north of Lilliwaup.
Geologists determined earlier
this week that the slide at Mile-
post 326, which has closed the
highway at that point since Feb-
ruary 24, had stabilized enough
to allow workers to begin remov-
ing debris.
"we're hoping one lane will be
open by the end of the week for
local access only," said Ann
Briggs, a spokeswoman with the
Washington State Department of
Transportation.
That should come as welcome
news to residents living on the
north side of the Lilliwaup slide
who have been forced to drive on
a lengthy U.S. Forest Service
road from Hamma Hamma to
Lake Cushman to bypass the
mudslide.
BUT FOUR MILES north of
the Lilliwaup slide, at Milepost
322 just south of Eldon, the news
was not as good. Briggs said a
large slide there, which has
blocked both lanes of Highway
i01, is still moving. The Depart-
ment of Transportation is work-
ing with a contractor to install
some drainage pipes into the hill-
side in order to lower the water
level and reduce slide movement,
Briggs said. And despite the re-
cent drier weather, water content
in the hillside has remained high,
causing continued movement.
Permanent repairs are esti-
mated at $8 to $10 million at each
of the two slide areas. Repair
work is expected to be done this
summer. The Department of
Transportation has started the
process for obtaining federal
emergency repair funds.
At the local level, the Mason
County Department of Emergen-
cy Management has moved its
communications trailer and Mass
Care Unit truck into place at the
Hoodsport Fire Hall to convert
the community meeting room
there into an emergency shelter if
needed. The truck contains a
kitchen unit, medical and other
supplies, a generator and other
things needed to establish a re-
mote-type of shelter, said Joe
Murray, director of the emergen-
cy management department.
In addition, Murray said his
department has contracted with
Mason County Medic One to pro-
vide a Sprint (single paramedic,
rapid intervention, non-transport)
unit at the Hamma Hamma fire
station located on the north side
of the Lilliwaup mudslide. Since :i
last Friday, a paramedic has been i
on duty there 24 hours a day and
in case of a medical emergency,
will treat sick or injured people
until a medical helicopter or am- i:':i
bulance arrives.
"WHILE WE appreciate the
efforts of the DOT and crews to
open the slide to one lane of traf-
fic and opening the bypass, that
does not meet the needs of all the ::
populace," Murray said. "A large
population of senior citizens :
(north of the Lilliwaup slide) have i
relied on Mason County Transit *
to get down to Shelton for shop-
ping and doctor's appointments:"
On Monday, the emergency
management department con-
tracted with Evergreen Transpor- i!
tation, a Shelton taxi company, to ii
pick up a woman north of the
slide and take her to a medical
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Altercation not at shelter
The altercation that resulted in
charges against several individu-
als in Mason County Superior
Court wasn't at the Mason Coun-
ty Shelter, as was reported in last
week's Journal.
Shelter executive director Jack
Nevins noted that the incident oc-
curred at an apartment facility
next to, and owned by, Mason
County Shelter. Jessi Mason, one
of the defendants in the assault
case, was a tenant of the low-in-
come apartments the shelter op-
erates, Nevins said, but she was
already under a notice of violation
that had been served in early
February. "The eviction process
had been initiated," Nevins said
Friday.
Representatives of the shelter
were concerned that news of an
altercation at the shelter would
reflect poorly on their agency and
were quick to correct some of the
information in last week's story.
Officials in court proceedings
last week, which identified Ma-
son, Duane A. Brennan, Melissa
A. Rodgers, Clifton A. Parker and
Daniel L. Andrews as partici-
pants in a fracas in which 16-
year-old Jayson Jones was
knocked downstairs, indicated
that Mason, Brennan and Rodg-
ers lived at the shelter. Not so,
Nevins said last week. He ex-
plained that the shelter operates
a six-unit apartment building,
Shelton Creek Apartments, adja-
cent to the shelter facility. "It's
low-income housing and we pro-
vide case management," he said.
And while Mason was a tenant,
Nevins noted that she had been
sent a letter February 2 notifying
her that unless she rectified the
situation of other people living in
her apartment in violation of the
terms of her rental agreement, it
would be terminated.
The others weren't living there
"without knowledge of the man-
agement," as last week's story
stated, Nevins said. In fact, he
said, Brennan and Rodgers had
been seen on the premises multi-
ple times and it was on that ac-
count that eviction proceedings
had been initiated.
Although Richard Adamson,
attorney for the shelter, indicated
that the facility where Mason
lived was a wing for developmen-
tally disabled people, that isn't
quite the case, stated Nevins and
one of the other tenants of the
building. Many of the tenants are
developmentally disabled, Nevins
said. One who wasn't took irate
issue with the statement as well.
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