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By LOU DONNELL
have been' awfully quiet 'around the Herald office ever since
Pastor Paul Christ, moved his family to
We haven't had to pound on the wall once to ask
the noise down a bit so we can concentrate on our jobs.
on their wall when some visitor to our office
me laughing too loudly. Or has come bounding in the
what's going on, afraid he'll miss out on something
;battle developed between the staff (Carol and me) of the
Lutheran pastor almost from the moment he moved the
the other half of our tiny building. And it never let
thinking up new ways to irritate him and he must have,
in no time at all he had gotten even and it was our turn
and in gales of laughter as we plotted, trying to
for ways to play a joke on him.
said more than "hello" to him when he first moved
he came up to us in the snack bar and said there was a
rack that he would like to buy but was afraid of what
It was entitled something like "how to keep both
mistress happy" and he explained that a minister who
at the same time he had was getting married and
send it as a gift at a shower that was being given for the
right away we found out he had a sense of humor.
it and as she paid for it she said, in an extra-loud
for me; it's for the new minister in town."
or so, being located next to a tavern, we come to work
SOmeone has left empty beer bottles on our doorstep,
Window sill. We got in the habit of placing them right
that when he came to work we could go out
since he was a minister, we felt, if he insisted on
job, that it really would be more discreet if he put his
rather than to fine them up outside the door;
think it created a very good image. If he came to work
the bottles were in front of our door and we got the
Carol was extremely busy, a woman came in to
with her. (She's chairman of the local school
typing my news and wasn't paying much attention
on me that she had completed her business and
and that Carol didn't know how to tell her tactfully
of things to do before our 5 p.m. deadline. I got
going next door to the Lutheran office. "Call
tell her to pretend you are an advertiser who
Pick up an ad right away so she can break up the
lie said and picked up the phone and dialed the Herald
had answered he changed his voice to a loud
is an obscene phone call" and panted heavily
could always count on him to do the unexpected so
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neat trick planned to play on Carol just before he left but
to it. When Carol had showed up with a small sports
earlier, he planned to have Buck s Towing come over
we were having coffee at the snack bar and drive past
would see her car being towed away. He didn't get
last trick played on him just before he left.
few days after Valentine's Day and Carol bought a
it "You know who" with a little note which PRINCESS CHERI YOEST of North Mason High School
know who" could be a secret girl friend. We put a curtsies before the queen as she makes her exit during the
"Lover's Nest Boulevard" in Bremerton, sprinkled coronation ceremony of the Queen's Banquet held last week
in Shelton. Queen Connie Tuson is from Shelton High
School.
'Cat in Hat'
program set
A musical program based on
the songbook, "The Cat In The
Hat," will be presented free to the
public by girls in the fourth and
fifth grades of Belfalr Elementary
School at 7:30 p.m. Apr. 18 in
the high school gym. Songs,
including some by a quartet and
others by a trio, skits and
audience participation will all be a
part of the program which the
girls have been rehearsing during
their lunch periods.
Teacher Donna Baker is
directing the program. Bonnie
Ruff will accompany the singers
on the piano.
Child Week observed
Pictures by local pre-schoolers
will be on display in the North
Mason Timberland Library and in
Belfair Post Office during the
week of Apr. 6 to 12, as part of
the local observance of "The
Week of the Young Child,"
sponsored nationally by the
National Association for the
Education of Young (~ildren.
The Kitsap chapter of the
national organization will mark
the event with bulletin boards
displaying children's art work
throughout Kitsap County as
well. Members of Belfair
Co-operative Pre-School have
made arrangements for the local
displays. Pamphlets on the rights
and needs of children will be
available.
Motto of the national gorup
is:
Every child has the right to:
• A healthy environment
• Satisfaction of basic
needs
• Continuous loving care
• Develop positive
attitudes about himself and others
• Acquire knowledge and
skills in order to become a
competent person.
PERMIT REQUESTED
A request has been received
by the Army Corps of Engineers
from Clarence Ramey of Seattle
to construct a bulkhead and fill
for private residence construction
on South Shore property west of
Twanoh State Park. Comments
from interested persons must be
received by the Corps by Apr. 28
to be considered before a decision
is made.
has not been determined and
cannot be established without a
detailed rate study; however,
formulas presently being used in
other communities compare the
commercial properties and their
water use to equivalent residential
accounts, i.e., each commercial
property is weighed as a
percentage of a residential
account based on water use and
contribution to the system. On
this basis, commercial
establishments are charged on the
basis of equivalent residential
accounts, i.e., in a 100 unit hotel,
the charge would be a maximum
of 100 times a single family
residence; i.e., at a $7 residential
account rate, the hotel would be
charged a maximum of $700 per
month. Most municipalities allow
a weighing factor to be used so
that the charge may be slightly
le~s because hotel units do not
provide as much water to the
system as single family residential
units. This type of judgment
decision is made only after a
detailed rate study.
Q.4. Some commcr,cial
properties at this time have been
asked to put in Iheir own syslems.
This committee would like in
and mailed it to Paiii; Wha't he didn't know was that we
what we were going to do so site wouldn't be
asked her to play the part of a suspicious and angry
so well that Paul really thought she didn't believe
he didn't have any idea who it was from. When we
noon that he was upset at Shirley's reaction, we felt
immediately that we had sent it and that she had
him. We told him we really hadn't planned on a
present.
ago we learned that Buck and Minda Church
to drive to Yellowstone to visit the Christs
office and said, "We really should send a present."
at two empty beer bottles on the outside window
S " ,h ,,
aid, 1 know just what to send. We put the
paper bag which we decorated with hand-drawn
Some ribbon I had in the desk and Carol took it
Isk the Churches to deliver it.
hes arrived back in Belfair and Buck brought
er bag with "Lou and Carol" written on it and said
a return gift. We asked if we should have the
Bangor come before we opened it, but finally
two small paper-towel-wrapped presents
one and l unwrapped the other. Inside were
mine was obviously decorated by 4-year-old
your beer, Carol" in white on it.
thinking, "My, wasn't that nice of him" after
we had sent him; l want you to know that my
"I'll bet it's raw." We shook them and, sure
s had not been boiled.
waiting for Buck to write and tell you how we
Were brought to us just before lunchtime to tempt
and had to redo half a day's work because
all over the papers on our desk; it didn't happen
You pretty well while you were here and,
Smarter than you give us credit for being.
present plan to include the North
Shore; however, there are a
number of constraints which are
existing which would have to be
determined and evaluated. First is
the certainty that such a study
would require an additional six
months before any results would
be forthcoming and if tied to this
study could effectively delay the
entire project from six months to
one year. We have contacted Mr.
Dave Heatherington, who
represents the EPA at the
Olympia office, and he has
suggested that we would be
unable to include the North Shore
as a part of the present study. He
advised that the North Shore
should be considered as an
rding the
for the
were
County
on
by the
n$~
for the
Study.
Was
be
for
•dated
to
Cash
Gray
Consultant
hired
develop
members- entirely separate study and
tee on analysis and as such we would
have to apply for federal grant
believe monies and repeat the same
;h Shore procedures as have been utilized
in the in the Facilities Plan for the
answers South Shore, i;e., governmental
agency reviews; approvals, etc. A
to further complication is the fact
include that Kitsap County is directly
the involved. Negotiations should be
air area? consummated with Kitsap County
s n o t to absorb some of the costs
' tend the before proceeding. I:inally, we
have been advised by the EPA
representative in Olympia that the
chances of receiving federal grant
money for a Facilities Plan for the
North Shore will not rate high on
the grants list until such time that
the South Shore moves forward.
The second part of question
number one concerns system
location. The Facility Plan for the
South Shore did address itself to
the possibility of locating a
system at Belfair. The same
negative result for the same
reasons could be expected to
occur in the North Shore study.
Q.2. In view of the fact
sizeable property owners would
have a weighted vote over the
small property owners, just how
many are we talking about?
Answer: A study is being
undertaken to determine the
number of large property owners
within the proposed ULID in
order to determine the
approximate number of property
owners who are involved.
Q.3. Just what would the
monthly rate charge be for the
commercial properties like hotels,
etc.? What would the formula be?
Answer: The monthly rate
charge for commercial properties
GRAPEVIEW'S PRINCESS, Patricia Johnson, took part in
the coronation ceremony at the Forest Festival Queen's
Banquet held Mar. 25 at Shelton High School.
win
Several students in the North
Mason School District were
named as winners in the Kitsap
County Science Fair. Entries were
judged according to grade levels
and, in some instances, by
category.
Winners included: Joe Grable,
first; Carrie Hite, second; Brita
Mathiasen, first; Terri Harmon,
third; James Cataldo, first; Larry
Gunselman, second; Paul
Andrews, first; Jim Marks,
second; Darren MacGeorge, first;
Bonnie Staley, third; Raymond
Russell, third; Susan Anderson,
first; and Jerry Parker, second.
TRUSTEES MEET EARLY
The Timberland Regional
Library board of trustees has
moved the date of its official
meeting to April 24. The meeting,
which is open to the public, will
be at the library system's service
center in Lacey at 7:30 p.m.
The board usually meets on
the third Thursday of each
montl~. However, because the
conference of the Washington
Library Association is scheduled
for that week, it was decided to
move the meeting one week
ahead.
THEFT REPORTED
A complaint was received in
the sheriff's office Mar. 29 of
paper vending machines in Belfair
broken into and money taken.
Whether children in the North
Mason School District receive the
same level of education offered
this year or whether cuts of up to
one-third of the teaching staff will
necessitate double-shifting, less
hours spent !n school, curtailment
of all or most extra-curricular
activities and loss of some
programs and subjects offered will
be decided by voters when they
go to the polls next Tuesday to
determine the fate of the school
district's special levy request. Cuts
totaling $427,125 will have to be
made from the preliminary
budget approved by the school
board, which was based on
maintaining the present level of
education plus an anticipated
cost-of-living ,increase for
employees and an inflationary
increase for supplies. Because
classrooms would not hold the
numbers of students which would
bo in some classes with less
teachers available, the
superintendent has announced
that he will recommend double
shifting if the levy fails and
almost one-third of the teachers
have to be cut from the staff.
The ballot on April 8 will ask
voters to approve or reject a
special one-year levy of $756,509
which, if approved, will be
collected on next year's property
tax. It is estimated that the
writing a firm total dollar amount
they' would contribute to the base
monies that need to be raised.
Answer: It is unlikely that
commercial properties will
guarantee a firm total dollar
amount they would contribute to
the .sewer system; however, the
commercial properties will be
approached and this subject
discussed, the results of which
will be transmitted to the
committee.
Q.5. The committee would
like to know other systems that
the engineering firm has installed,
also list monies that have been
funded toward this project to
date.
Answer: Item 5 questions the
number of systems that the
engineering firm, i.e., (;ray &
Osborne, Inc. P.S., has installed.
We have attached to this
correspondence a list of current
projects and clients which is
self-explanatory. We would be
pleased to provide such additional
information as may be desired
upon request. (Four pages of
namt~ of previous clients of the
company were sent by the firm to
answer the first point.)
Approximately $20,000 has
been funded toward this project
to date, as follows:
Mason County $ 2,080.00
State (DOE) 3,120.00
Federal (EPA) 15,600.00
$20,800.00
To date committee members
have received no further
information on questions 2 or 4.
Whether the study to determine
the number of owners of large
property or a discussion on the
financial contributions to be
expected from large commercial
enterprises have been undertaken
since October is unknown by
committee members.
PERMIT REQUEsTED
A request has been received
by the Army Corps of Engineers
from Mario Vincenzi of Seattle to
maintain existing work and
complete construction of
bulkhead and fill for recreational
purposes on North Shore
property approximately eight
miles from Belfair. Comments
from interested persons should be
in the Corps office by Apr. 28 for
consideration before a decision is
made.
PRINCESS DANA PETRICK of North Mason Upper
Elementary is seen as she participated in the coronation
ceremony of the Oueen's Banquet last week.
rmlnes
amount wo~ld be $1.42 per
thousand dollar evaluation above
what taxpayers in the district paid
this year for the school levy.
(Persons whose property is valued
at $30,000 will pay about $42.60
more next year for property taxes
than this year if the levy passes.)
Of the $756,509 appearing on
the ballot, $427,125 is needed for
the 1975-76 school year. Since, in
this district, a three-year average
shows that 56.46% of taxes due
are collected by June 30, date of
the end of the 1975-76 school
year, the district is obliged to ask
for the larger amount to be
assured of the $427,125 needed
for that school year. The district
can only use funds which already
have been collected, so only those
funds which are collected by June
30, 1976 will be available for the
1975-76 school year.
School levies are for one year
only and must be resubmitted
each year to the voters to make
levy funds available.
Next year's budget was based
on an estimated total valuation in
the school district of 89 million
dollars; 2% million of this amount
is property in the newly-annexed
Kitsap County area at Tiger,
Panther and Mission Lakes which
is now part of North Mason
School District. It also was
figured using $446 per pupil as
the estimated amount the school
district will receive from the state,
which now gets all school monies,
except special levy and bond
issues, which are included in local
property taxes. This year the state
guaranteed $394 per pupil but
$446 is the amount being
considered by legislators as next
year's figure. (Editor's note:
While the state may offer more
per pupil next year the changes
the legislature made in the
equalization formula take more
money paid by taxpayers in this
district for distribution
throughout the state so the
district ends up with less money
than before, thus a larger levy is
needed to keep the same level of
education.) If it turns out to be
less, the budget will have to be
cut to match the expected income
before final approval of the
1975-76 budget later this year. If
the amount turns out to be more,
the local school directors have
passed a motion saying that if any
substantial amount of money not
anticipated at the time the levy
amount was set should come
to the district, from the state or
other sources, it will be returned
to the taxpayers. This was done
two years ago when around
$80,000 was paid to the district
from forest funds, a completely
unexpected windfall. Taxpayers
benefitted by having to pay
almost $2 less per thousand
dollars of assessed valuation of
their property than they had
agreed to pay at the polls.
An inflationtionary factor has
been provided for in the amount
requested in the levy. When
determining the amount which
could be expected to be needed
to run the schools next year, the
figure approved for this year's
budget was used a~s the base; a
12.4% inflationary increase was
added to amounts budgeted for
materials and supplies; a 12.5%
salary cost of living increase was
added to amounts budgeted for
wages, (the exact amount teachers
will receive next year has not
been determined by the N.M.E.A.
and school board negotiators) and
from this total amount the board
cut $71,000. About half of this
had been budgeted for a new
school bus.
If the levy is passed, children
in the North Mason School
District schools will continue to
have the same number of teachers
if enrollment stays the same,
(however, enrollment continues
its gradual rise) and can expect
the same programs next year that
are in effect this year. If no levy
funds are available next year,
$427,125 will have to be cut from
the budget.
Since the largest expenditure
of the school district is for
salaries, it can be expected that
around 30 of the 106 employees
of the district will lose their jobs.
This will include teachers, teacher
aides, custodial help, secretarial
help and library personnel and the
school nurse. One school board
member has indicated he will give
serious consideration to cancelling
kindergarten if cuts have to be
made.
If the levy fails, official action
on which cuts, and who, will be
taken at the April 14 meeting of
the school board.
Airport manager
to speak at local
chamber meeting
William B. Childs, manager of
Kitsap Airport, will be guest
speaker at the Apr. 9 meeting of
Belfair Chamber of Commerce.
He will also show a short film
giving information on what it
means to a community to have an
airport located nearby. The
Kitsap Airport is located a few
miles north of Beifair on Highway
3 and growth of its industrial
building complex is expected to
affect the North Mason area.
The meeting is hehl at Beifair
Cafe beginning with dinner at
7:30 p.m. The public is welcome
to attend chamber meetings.