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CREWS USING HEAVY EQUIPMENT clear a mudslide from Highway
101 just north of Lilliwaup. Though this news was good for those liv-
ing along the west side of Hood Canal, there was bad news four miles
north, where another slide blocking the road continues to move.
City commission mulls
flooring for civic center
Shelton city commissioners
this week opted for a vinyl floor
covering instead of' carpeting tbr
the open public space inside the
Shelton Civic Center.
City Administrator Mike Mc-
Carty reported that an informal
survey of other institutions with
public meeting rooms showed
most favored vinyl over carpeting
as the floor covering of choice.
The three small meeting rooms
inside the civic center will be car-
peted to reduce noise, the com-
missioners decided.
It will cost about 25 percent
less to cover the open public space
with vinyl tile than to carpet it,
architect Len Williams said. Com-
missioners have yet to make a fi-
nal choice about the color of the
vinyl floor covering and the colors
of some other amenities inside
the civic center. Williams will be
back next Monday to discuss
those
In other city business, commis-
sioners:
• APPOINTED Seattle attor-
ney Phil Olbrechts to a one-year
term as the city's hearings exam-
iner tbr planning issues. Ol-
brechts has nine-and-a-half years
of experience in land-use and mu-
nicipal court law practice. Cur-
rently he serves as city attorney
for Gold Bar and prosecuting at-
torney tbr Woodinville and Carna-
tion. Next fall he will teach a
planning class at the University
of Washington.
Last week commissioners voted
to remove Hearings Examiner
Tom Mark, who moved to Wash-
Girl, 16,
injured in
car crash
A 16-year-old Shelton girl was
injured last Thursday night when
the car she was in crashed near
the intersection of Arcadia and
Jones roads in Sheltan.
Karen Pursey was taken to
Mason General Hospital with a
broken femur, according to the
Washington State Patrol. Richard
R. Mounts, 18, of Shelton, the
driver of the 1984 Nissan 300 ZX,
received a citation for driving
with wheels off the roadway. He
was tested and cleared for alco-
hol, according to the state patrol.
The incident happened shortly
after 9:30 p.m., according to WSP
Trooper Tim Baker. He said the
Mounts vehicle was westbound on
Arcadia Road when it went into a
ditch as it approached a curve to
the right. Pursey was injured
when the vehicle hit a culvert.
Pam Martin, administrative
assistant at Mason General Hos-
pital, said Pursey was admitted
to the hospital on March 18 and
released on March 21.
ington, D.C., but never resigned
from the post. Tom Bjorgen, a
land-use attorney, was appointed
as hearings examiner pro tern.
• Heard a presentation about
restorative justice from Mason
County Probation Director Harris
Haertel and Restorative Justice
Planner Linda Bondurant. Re-
storative justice seeks to reduce
the amount of recidivism, or re-
peat offenses, by involving com-
munity members in the criminal
justice system in a meaningful
way, Haertel said. Mason Coun-
ty's program has eight volunteers
who have had nine hours apiece
of classroom training and have
visited local courts for three
hours.
The volunteers sit as a board
and meet with traffic and first-
time, minor-crime offenders who
have been sentenced by district or
municipal court judges to partici-
pate. Board members discuss
with the offender the nature of
the offense and its consequences.
Then they discuss proposed sanc-
tions with the offender and a set
of actions is agreed on.
"It's that peer involvement that
makes a meaningful difference,"
Haertel said. Accountability is
part of the system, but revenge
isn't, Bondurant added. Until
meeting with the board, the of.
fender often doesn't realize the af-
fect of his offense on the commu-
nity, she said.
The board, which includes a
Mason County deputy sheriff and
a social worker and retired teach- :
ers, corporate managers, college
administrator and auto dealer,
held its first panel March 8.
Three board members met with
two offenders and recommended
sentencing options to Mason
County District Court.
* AUTHORIZED Develop-
ment Services Manager Gary
Rhoades to call for bids for a 20-
year-old progressive cavity-
pumping unit at the city's waste-
water treatment plant. Rhoades
said two of three original pump-
ing units at the treatment plant
have been replaced.
Bids for the replacement
pumping unit will be opened at 10
a.m. Friday, April 16. Rhoades
said the city budgeted $13,500 for
the pumping unit this year.
State works to clc',ar slide,
start local traffic moving
(Continued from page 1.)
appointment in Shelton, and to
transport some high-school stu-
dents, who also live north of the
slide, from Hood Canal School to
Shelton High School.
The Forest Service bypass road
which connects with Highway 101
at Jorsted Creek has also present-
ed some problems. As of last Fri-
day, motorists, including a state
emergency management liaison,
reported six flat tires. Murray
said the sharp gravel and rocks
on the bypass road have been slic-
ing tires.
Meanwhile, a proposal to es-
tablish temporary ferry service
between Triton Cove State Park
and Hoodsport continues to be in-
vestigated. "We're still looking
into that," Murray said. "The
county (commission) feels it's an
alternative we should be looking
at."
PEOPLE WHO would use the
passenger-only ferry would be
able to connect with buses from
Jefferson Transit at Triton Cove
State Park to the north of the
slides and Mason County Transit
at Hoodsport to the south.
"There is precedent fi)r it in the
state," Murray said of temporary
ferry service. Several years back,
when part of the Hood Canal
Bridge sank, the state established
ferry.service there, he said. And
ferry service was also set up in
Parents of seniors
still tatdng names
for post-grad party
The Parents for the Class of
1999 are still accepting the names
of Shelton High School seniors
who would like to attend the
graduation party on June 10.
And they're still holding fund-
raising events. A car wash will be
held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur-
day, March 27, at Graden's Chev-
ron on Wallace Kneeland Boule-
vard.
The parents' group has an-
nounced that students will be
loaded onto private buses shortly
after the graduation reception at
Saint Martin's College and taken
to Sports World in Federal Way
fbr a night of food, fun and enter-
tainment. There will be bowling,
dancing, walleyball, a casino, ar-
cade games and more. The cost is
$100 per student, which covers
everything the graduates will
need for the night.
If you are a senior who would
like to add your name to the at-
tendance list, the parents' group
requests, call Sharon Kingery at
426-3622, Kristie Armstrong at
426-8065 or Dana Dederick at
426-8441, or send your payment
payable to the SHS Class of 1999
in care of Sharon Kingery, P.O.
Box 585, Shelton 98584-0585. The
student's name should be noted
on the payment.
The parents' group will hold a
party-planning meeting from 7 to
9 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at
Godfather's Pizza in Shelton.
John Davis Tax Service
John M. Davis, Enrolled Agent
Member of NAEA
2019 Callanan treet
Shelton--426-9648
Specializing in Federal Income Tax
Returns for Individuals, Estates,
Trusts and Small Businesses,
By appointment.
Page 12 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 25, 1999
Ferry County in Eastern Wash-
ington to accommodate people
stranded by flooding.
Mason County commissioners
are hoping to have a meeting
within a week with local, state
and federal officials to discuss
funding the ferry service, Murray
said. Thirty-Fifth District State
Representative Kathy Haigh of
Shelton is working with DOT offi-
cials to secure ferry service for
the Hood Canal residents affected
by the mudslides.
"Early estimates to run a ferry
would cost $450,000 if needed for
up to six months," Haigh said. "I
will be out driving the roads to
verify again the need for this fer-
ry service."
LAST WEEKEND, said
Ayock Beach resident Vondean
Thompson, folks who live in the
area between the Lilliwaup slide
and the ones near Eldon were
forced to use a series of private
roads and logging trails to go
north. "We went up on Sunday,"
she said of the slide areas just
north of Ayock Beach.
"There are serious problems
there," she said. "There's a tree
coming down, and it's carrying a
lot with it. It's about in the mid-
dle of the roadway by now, and
there's a hump in the road. Peo-
ple were getting stuck."
Residents bounded by the
slides "feel like they're in prison,"
she said. "It's frightening, espe-
cially for the old people."
"I don't see any way out," said
Thompson. She was speaking fig-
uratively as she discussed the dif-
ficulties of attempting some sort
of ferry service from the area
where residents face the possibili-
ty of being cut off to the north and
the south, but she laughed as she
recognized the literal truth of her
statement.
"That's all we can do
sometimes," she mused. "Laugh
hysterically."
LAST WEEK'S meeting in
Brinnon, she said, was reassuring
to residents. Students were as-
sured by Hood Canal and Shelton
superintendents that every effort
would be made to get them to
school, she said, and emergency
management officials from the
county and state assured resi-
dents that emergency vehicles
would be able to reach them.
Residents were glad to hear
that the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency has set up
ter for people who are
the slides can go fol
Thurston County, but
close enough for folks|
halfway up the Hood
Shore. "We hope FEMA
up something in Brinn0n,
said.
As for the route tha!
north, she said it orll
across the road from
through private land
marked for developme.
eventually connects w
Harems Hamma Ridge
development and links
way 101 north of the three
"But it's getting
up too," she said.
bad washboard effect
that traffic.
"I'm grateful," she add
private property owners
lowed people access."
She was pleased wit
cessibility of state De
Transportation people,
"Your Spa Repair Specialists"
427-0886
Rock On Down The Highway
With Chev
CavalieF Coupe
().9:!: or * 1,500
BlazeF 4-I)oor
2.91!:': or * 1,()00
Malibu ®
2.9:1: or $750
S -10"
0.9?: or * 1,000
LAOsWO O% i
-, Sl,50 0
• • APR
Financing Cash Back
t)r morn &-tails, cfll 14]0(09:S0-24.38 or visit www.cxml.
FmawAng available d,ugh GMAC. lsmgth of finm:e ccmtract is limited. (;MAC: must appn,ve. Other rates availabk a.s gth ,,f c,,ntrac't i!.¢tJ
rfmancial I itKmma a'tconsunrgt)st 5 ,alfinm.m C ,hBa Snau'tl.zaaJKinmtBu n l Mu.sttas"
"' par'lX y. ' " " .:r" " g, :' d<," • • .' y lay,,,r )t'c(n)UK:t,
delivery tn st¢ ")ck by 3/31/99..See y(,ttr p,wtlcipating dealer for qdiik:atk)n details. ©1999 C;M Corp. Buckle up, AJr'r'a! I,'
KEVIN JOHN
LARRY
71
years
of serving
Mason County
BOB
JEFF
14 MK.JI,
M
CREWS USING HEAVY EQUIPMENT clear a mudslide from Highway
101 just north of Lilliwaup. Though this news was good for those liv-
ing along the west side of Hood Canal, there was bad news four miles
north, where another slide blocking the road continues to move.
City commission mulls
flooring for civic center
Shelton city commissioners
this week opted for a vinyl floor
covering instead of' carpeting tbr
the open public space inside the
Shelton Civic Center.
City Administrator Mike Mc-
Carty reported that an informal
survey of other institutions with
public meeting rooms showed
most favored vinyl over carpeting
as the floor covering of choice.
The three small meeting rooms
inside the civic center will be car-
peted to reduce noise, the com-
missioners decided.
It will cost about 25 percent
less to cover the open public space
with vinyl tile than to carpet it,
architect Len Williams said. Com-
missioners have yet to make a fi-
nal choice about the color of the
vinyl floor covering and the colors
of some other amenities inside
the civic center. Williams will be
back next Monday to discuss
those
In other city business, commis-
sioners:
• APPOINTED Seattle attor-
ney Phil Olbrechts to a one-year
term as the city's hearings exam-
iner tbr planning issues. Ol-
brechts has nine-and-a-half years
of experience in land-use and mu-
nicipal court law practice. Cur-
rently he serves as city attorney
for Gold Bar and prosecuting at-
torney tbr Woodinville and Carna-
tion. Next fall he will teach a
planning class at the University
of Washington.
Last week commissioners voted
to remove Hearings Examiner
Tom Mark, who moved to Wash-
Girl, 16,
injured in
car crash
A 16-year-old Shelton girl was
injured last Thursday night when
the car she was in crashed near
the intersection of Arcadia and
Jones roads in Sheltan.
Karen Pursey was taken to
Mason General Hospital with a
broken femur, according to the
Washington State Patrol. Richard
R. Mounts, 18, of Shelton, the
driver of the 1984 Nissan 300 ZX,
received a citation for driving
with wheels off the roadway. He
was tested and cleared for alco-
hol, according to the state patrol.
The incident happened shortly
after 9:30 p.m., according to WSP
Trooper Tim Baker. He said the
Mounts vehicle was westbound on
Arcadia Road when it went into a
ditch as it approached a curve to
the right. Pursey was injured
when the vehicle hit a culvert.
Pam Martin, administrative
assistant at Mason General Hos-
pital, said Pursey was admitted
to the hospital on March 18 and
released on March 21.
ington, D.C., but never resigned
from the post. Tom Bjorgen, a
land-use attorney, was appointed
as hearings examiner pro tern.
• Heard a presentation about
restorative justice from Mason
County Probation Director Harris
Haertel and Restorative Justice
Planner Linda Bondurant. Re-
storative justice seeks to reduce
the amount of recidivism, or re-
peat offenses, by involving com-
munity members in the criminal
justice system in a meaningful
way, Haertel said. Mason Coun-
ty's program has eight volunteers
who have had nine hours apiece
of classroom training and have
visited local courts for three
hours.
The volunteers sit as a board
and meet with traffic and first-
time, minor-crime offenders who
have been sentenced by district or
municipal court judges to partici-
pate. Board members discuss
with the offender the nature of
the offense and its consequences.
Then they discuss proposed sanc-
tions with the offender and a set
of actions is agreed on.
"It's that peer involvement that
makes a meaningful difference,"
Haertel said. Accountability is
part of the system, but revenge
isn't, Bondurant added. Until
meeting with the board, the of.
fender often doesn't realize the af-
fect of his offense on the commu-
nity, she said.
The board, which includes a
Mason County deputy sheriff and
a social worker and retired teach- :
ers, corporate managers, college
administrator and auto dealer,
held its first panel March 8.
Three board members met with
two offenders and recommended
sentencing options to Mason
County District Court.
* AUTHORIZED Develop-
ment Services Manager Gary
Rhoades to call for bids for a 20-
year-old progressive cavity-
pumping unit at the city's waste-
water treatment plant. Rhoades
said two of three original pump-
ing units at the treatment plant
have been replaced.
Bids for the replacement
pumping unit will be opened at 10
a.m. Friday, April 16. Rhoades
said the city budgeted $13,500 for
the pumping unit this year.
State works to clc',ar slide,
start local traffic moving
(Continued from page 1.)
appointment in Shelton, and to
transport some high-school stu-
dents, who also live north of the
slide, from Hood Canal School to
Shelton High School.
The Forest Service bypass road
which connects with Highway 101
at Jorsted Creek has also present-
ed some problems. As of last Fri-
day, motorists, including a state
emergency management liaison,
reported six flat tires. Murray
said the sharp gravel and rocks
on the bypass road have been slic-
ing tires.
Meanwhile, a proposal to es-
tablish temporary ferry service
between Triton Cove State Park
and Hoodsport continues to be in-
vestigated. "We're still looking
into that," Murray said. "The
county (commission) feels it's an
alternative we should be looking
at."
PEOPLE WHO would use the
passenger-only ferry would be
able to connect with buses from
Jefferson Transit at Triton Cove
State Park to the north of the
slides and Mason County Transit
at Hoodsport to the south.
"There is precedent fi)r it in the
state," Murray said of temporary
ferry service. Several years back,
when part of the Hood Canal
Bridge sank, the state established
ferry.service there, he said. And
ferry service was also set up in
Parents of seniors
still tatdng names
for post-grad party
The Parents for the Class of
1999 are still accepting the names
of Shelton High School seniors
who would like to attend the
graduation party on June 10.
And they're still holding fund-
raising events. A car wash will be
held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur-
day, March 27, at Graden's Chev-
ron on Wallace Kneeland Boule-
vard.
The parents' group has an-
nounced that students will be
loaded onto private buses shortly
after the graduation reception at
Saint Martin's College and taken
to Sports World in Federal Way
fbr a night of food, fun and enter-
tainment. There will be bowling,
dancing, walleyball, a casino, ar-
cade games and more. The cost is
$100 per student, which covers
everything the graduates will
need for the night.
If you are a senior who would
like to add your name to the at-
tendance list, the parents' group
requests, call Sharon Kingery at
426-3622, Kristie Armstrong at
426-8065 or Dana Dederick at
426-8441, or send your payment
payable to the SHS Class of 1999
in care of Sharon Kingery, P.O.
Box 585, Shelton 98584-0585. The
student's name should be noted
on the payment.
The parents' group will hold a
party-planning meeting from 7 to
9 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at
Godfather's Pizza in Shelton.
John Davis Tax Service
John M. Davis, Enrolled Agent
Member of NAEA
2019 Callanan treet
Shelton--426-9648
Specializing in Federal Income Tax
Returns for Individuals, Estates,
Trusts and Small Businesses,
By appointment.
Page 12 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 25, 1999
Ferry County in Eastern Wash-
ington to accommodate people
stranded by flooding.
Mason County commissioners
are hoping to have a meeting
within a week with local, state
and federal officials to discuss
funding the ferry service, Murray
said. Thirty-Fifth District State
Representative Kathy Haigh of
Shelton is working with DOT offi-
cials to secure ferry service for
the Hood Canal residents affected
by the mudslides.
"Early estimates to run a ferry
would cost $450,000 if needed for
up to six months," Haigh said. "I
will be out driving the roads to
verify again the need for this fer-
ry service."
LAST WEEKEND, said
Ayock Beach resident Vondean
Thompson, folks who live in the
area between the Lilliwaup slide
and the ones near Eldon were
forced to use a series of private
roads and logging trails to go
north. "We went up on Sunday,"
she said of the slide areas just
north of Ayock Beach.
"There are serious problems
there," she said. "There's a tree
coming down, and it's carrying a
lot with it. It's about in the mid-
dle of the roadway by now, and
there's a hump in the road. Peo-
ple were getting stuck."
Residents bounded by the
slides "feel like they're in prison,"
she said. "It's frightening, espe-
cially for the old people."
"I don't see any way out," said
Thompson. She was speaking fig-
uratively as she discussed the dif-
ficulties of attempting some sort
of ferry service from the area
where residents face the possibili-
ty of being cut off to the north and
the south, but she laughed as she
recognized the literal truth of her
statement.
"That's all we can do
sometimes," she mused. "Laugh
hysterically."
LAST WEEK'S meeting in
Brinnon, she said, was reassuring
to residents. Students were as-
sured by Hood Canal and Shelton
superintendents that every effort
would be made to get them to
school, she said, and emergency
management officials from the
county and state assured resi-
dents that emergency vehicles
would be able to reach them.
Residents were glad to hear
that the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency has set up
ter for people who are
the slides can go fol
Thurston County, but
close enough for folks|
halfway up the Hood
Shore. "We hope FEMA
up something in Brinn0n,
said.
As for the route tha!
north, she said it orll
across the road from
through private land
marked for developme.
eventually connects w
Harems Hamma Ridge
development and links
way 101 north of the three
"But it's getting
up too," she said.
bad washboard effect
that traffic.
"I'm grateful," she add
private property owners
lowed people access."
She was pleased wit
cessibility of state De
Transportation people,
"Your Spa Repair Specialists"
427-0886
Rock On Down The Highway
With Chev
CavalieF Coupe
().9:!: or * 1,500
BlazeF 4-I)oor
2.91!:': or * 1,()00
Malibu ®
2.9:1: or $750
S -10"
0.9?: or * 1,000
LAOsWO O% i
-, Sl,50 0
• • APR
Financing Cash Back
t)r morn &-tails, cfll 14]0(09:S0-24.38 or visit www.cxml.
FmawAng available d,ugh GMAC. lsmgth of finm:e ccmtract is limited. (;MAC: must appn,ve. Other rates availabk a.s gth ,,f c,,ntrac't i!.¢tJ
rfmancial I itKmma a'tconsunrgt)st 5 ,alfinm.m C ,hBa Snau'tl.zaaJKinmtBu n l Mu.sttas"
"' par'lX y. ' " " .:r" " g, :' d<," • • .' y lay,,,r )t'c(n)UK:t,
delivery tn st¢ ")ck by 3/31/99..See y(,ttr p,wtlcipating dealer for qdiik:atk)n details. ©1999 C;M Corp. Buckle up, AJr'r'a! I,'
KEVIN JOHN
LARRY
71
years
of serving
Mason County
BOB
JEFF
14 MK.JI,
M