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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Year 125 -- Week 14 -- 8 Sections -- 60 Pages -- Published in Shelton, Washln on --
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Births B-6
Community Calendar B-3
Entertainment/Dining B-3
Journal of Record A-6
Obituaries B-7
Opinions, Letters A-4
Sports C-1
Weather A-5
est
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Fiddler Sarah
Time Fiddlers
Comer performed last Saturday at the the Shelton Old
Festival. See page B:I for the story.
By NATALIE JOHNSON
After months of dispute over the city's
rezone of 160 acres one half-mile south of
Sanderson Field, or the Shelton Hills Prop-
erty, a resolution is finally in sight.
In April 2010, the Shelton city commis-
sion adopted an ordinance which updated
the city's comprehensive plan, and rezoned
160 acres one half mile south of the
airport from commercial/industrial to
neighborhood/residential.
Hall Equities, which owns the
Shelton Hills land, hopes to develop
the now vacant land into a residential
area.
The Port of Shelton appealed the
decision to the Western Washington
Growth Management Hearings board, say-
ing that the rezone created an incompatible
land use. The hearings board invalidated
the comprehensive plan update," based on
the conclusion that there was insufficient
evidence in the record explaining whether
airport operations would generate levels of
noise that would be considered 'incompat-
ible' with residential development of the
property," according to a brief to the com-
missioners from city planner Jason Dose.
Dose
Dose said that the sound analysis stud-
ies had previously been done on the Shel-
ton Hills land.
"We did a great deal of research on a staff
level looking at the WSDOT (Washington
State Department of Transportation) Avia-
tion information on airport compatibility,
other states' information, looking at master
plans including noise studies," Dose said.
"We basically came to the conclusion
that residential development is com-
pliant with all these regulations and
the limitations we found."
A new study, performed by BRC
Acoustics, shows that the land is in
fact suitable for residential develop-
ment, Dose said.
"We feel [the study] more than ad-
dresses the growth board's concerns,~ Dose
said
Dan Bruck, of BRC Acoustics, gave a
lengthy presentation to the commission
Monday detailing all of the work that
had been done to test noise levels around
Sanderson Field and the 160-acre parcel in
question.
Analysts performed long term studies of
See Rezone on page A-7
students
By NATALIE JOHNSON projects, with English and classes at the school are
Spanish translations, and taught solely in Spanish.
For many elementary presented them to the corn- "Our goal is for them to
school students, the sci- munity in their annual sci- be on grade level in both
ence fair is a rite of pas- ence fair on March 18. languages," he said.
sage. Young kids look up "This is our fifth yearUnlike in some science
to their older peers, and ... we started off our ever- fairs, Evergreen students
dedicated students vie for green science fair as a way completed their projects
the top prize for projects to practice for the Mason in class, with a teacher's
from a simple potato pew- County [science fair]," said Supervision and help. All
ered clock to a complicated fifth grade teacher and fair fourth and fifth grade
experiment, organizer Dr. Judy Ser-students completed
Few students, howev- rano. their own projects, while
er, have to complete their All students at Ever- kindergarten through
projects in two languages, green take classes in beth third graders did class
At Evergreen Elementary English and Spanish, said projects, and some third
in Shelton, students pro- Evergreen principal Dr.
duced bilingual science Steve Warner. All science See Fair on page A-7
CHOICE school eva 'uates
By KEVAN MOORE Dave Eklun~ said that
the note n~ade refer-
Shelton police are ences to "a I~omb threat
continuing to investi- and possibl~ shooting
gate a pair of back-to- on Thursda~ at Shelton
back bomb threats to High School.t
local high schools that The secdnd threat
were made on March 30 came the ne:
and 31. Thursday, 1~
The first threat, a male caller
typed note, was discov- CHOICE
ered by an employee of at around
Shelton's Fred Meyer made ~hreat
store while she was the school t]
leaving work. She con- school recep
tacted officers at the mediately c
Shelton Police Depart- and told
ment a short time later that she ha¢
at about 11:25 p.m. on ceiveda call t
Wednesday, March 30,. on.a pay. ph~
with the note she found Tes, there is
on the windshield of her When the
vehicle.
Shelton Police Chief See Bomb c
Thurston
sides with
.~ morning,
arch 31. A
contacted
gh School
a.m. and
s to bomb
mt day. A
;ionist im-
ailed 911
lispatchers
"Just re-
ore a male
,ne. saying,
a bomb.' ~
eceptionist
page A-7
Squaxin effO[ts
By ARIA SHEPHARD
front of lawyers with the'Squaxin Island
Ecology.
"We're elated that the court took a steI
Johns Creek," stated Andy Whitener,
natural res0urceszlirector, in a press rel~
our mission will not be accomplished ;
agencies take concrete acti0ns to incre~
flow and benefit salmon.
Ecology was not penalized, nor is the
The Squaxin Island Tribe has valid reasons to
ask the state to protect Johns Creek Ba~ in, ruled a
Thurston County Superior Court judge I mt week.
The tribe filed suit against the state I~ spartment
of Ecology last year asking the agency t) impose a
moratorium on allowing new exempt w slls in the
Johns Creek Basin -- the tribe believe s that the
more than 200 permit-exempt wells that ~xist there
negatively impact stream flows at Jo~ ns Creek,
hurting salmon.
The suit followed two petitions the tri )e submit-
ted in the last two years to Ecology askix ~g that the
agency stop water withdrawalS.
The state's inaction was "arbitrary ~ad capri-
cious," ruled Superior Court ,Judge Paul~ Casey in
Tribe and
quired to take action following the rulin8
See Squaxin o~
science ]
to protect
,he tribe's
~aae. =But
until state
se. stream
~gency re-
page A-7
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Evergreen student Haley Owen shows project.
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