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News germinate, he said, in 2004
when County Commissioner
Continued from page A-1 Tim Sheldon made a
recruitingcall on his
first thought is let's go to the business.
newspaper.' It's not ~let'sgo to "There was no pressure,
the radio station' or 'let's go to he just said q~here are great
the tv station,~ Jeflko opined, things about this market,~
"The reason this is Jeflko recalled. After some
important work is because research he found those
these pages, from thousands promises to be true.
of newspapers across the"This area has super speed
United States, chronicle the fiber optics - maybe the fastest
lives of people and the events in Washington and almost
in their communities," he impossible to get in Seattle.
added. It is autonomous as it was
Jefl~o's business may built by the P.U.D. 3 those
be new to town but by his people are out of this world.
admission he grew up loving They've got the leading edge,
the area. the most top of the line in
"Our Dad had property in, information technology. We
the Skoke Valley and he'd are superwired for network
bring us here as children so with Cat Six - which is about
I always wanted to live here," 1,000 times faster than what
Jeflko said. most people consider a high
That seed began to speed capability of five to
Rezone
Continued from page A-1
ambient noise in the area, sched-
uled plane flyovers to test noise
levels, and forecasted possible
future noise from the airport in-
qluding what Bruck called "very
unlikely" worst-case scenarios
for noise.
Bruck said that according to
Federal Aviation Administra-
tion (FAA) criteria for land use
compatibility, residential en-
vironments can have up to 65
DNL (a measurement of sound)
at any time, before the noise be-
comes bothersome to residents.
Even in the unlikely worst-
case sound scenario Bruck and
his colleagues tested, sound lev-
els within the development only
reached a maximum of 58 DNL,
he said.
In a more realistic scenario,
Bruck said that only a small por-
tion of the development would
have 55 DNL, while the rest
would have significantly less
noise contamination from the
airport .......
,.]~yuck: said ,that: 5~ DNL is
more or less average for a neigh-
borhood.
"The measured sound levels
are in the same range as a Shel-
ton neighborhood," Bruck said.
According to Bruck, because
of the nature of the DNL mea-
surement, to the human ear, 55
DNL is about half as loud as 65
DNL.
In light of the recent findings,
Dose said that city staff was in
favor of officially rezoning the
160-acre Shelton Hills property
to neighborhood/residential.
The city commission has
scheduled a public hearing on
the topic during next Monday's
regular commission meeting.
much needed remodel, both"While I w
inside and out, and it's a three copies of c
newspaper oriented business started thinking
so we couldn't be happier," we could scan th
Mullen said. The rest, both
Growth is inevitable, and literally s
Jeflko said. Another history.
new business model, "When I firs
administering a nationalhere it was for tl
contest platform for environments
.s making
erything I
I wonder if
~se things?"
iguratively
,eaking, is
came out
Le stunning
you find
15 megabytes per second,"
Jeflko said.
"I feel like (Journal
the process of going from a
SmallTownPapers customer
to landlord when Jeflko
journalism awards, has everywhere i~ Mason
completely consumed one County. Then IIdiscuvered
of his employee's time. In Shelton is a ~reat town
addition Jeflko is working to locate a I technology
on the creation of a news business," he beamed.
service that serves small Paul Jeffko,t president
weekly newspapers, of SmaUTownP~pers, Inc.
' Even the digitallives in Mas~ County.
owner) Tom Mullen's
encouragement and offer of
office space ultimately led to
STP moving here to Shelton,
it really get me motivated
to make a decision to do it,"
Jeflko added.
Mullen commented on
agreed to move into the
building that once housed
the Journal's editorial
department and fittingly, its
morgue:
"Paul's business has hired
three Shelten people. He
gave our tired, old building a
archiving, which began in His website
1999, continues to grow. smalltownpa
Jeflko has worked for and where readers
with newspapers most of his and search old
life. He was making copies the Shelton-Ma
one day for the Quad City Journal and
Herald when the idea came of other
to him: newspapers.
Fair
Continued from page A-1
grade students did individual
projects as well, Serrano said.
Fifth-grader Ashleigh Adams
wondered one day why city crews
spread salt on icy roads, so for her
project, she studied the freezing
point of water.
"I learned that the salt mol-
ecules and the water molecules
worked together - the salt makes
the water not freeze," she said.
Although Adams will soon
graduate from Evergreen, she
said that she wants to continue
doing the Mason County Science
Fair.
"Next year I want to do the
same project but different," she
said. "I want to test it with sand."
Fifth-grader Abraham Corona
did a project on acid, and clean-
ing pennies, he said.
"It was really cool, my hypoth-
esis was right ... I thought the
white vinegar would clean better
- I thought apple cider vinegar is
more for cooking," he said.
Evergreen brought in about 13
judges from around the commu-
nity to judge the 130 exhibits, but
Serrano and Warner said that the
judging is not designed to create
CourteW photo
Evergreen
student Spencer
Simpson proudly
displays part of
his project at the
school science
fair.
competition.
Judges used a grading rubric
to hand out blue ribbons for first
place, red for second, and a third
place and honorable mention
prize. Students did not compete
against each other, they said.
Anyone who met the proper crite-
ria could win a blue ribbon.
"We don't want to set it up as a
competition," Serrano said.
Serrano said tha
point of the fair is
the kids to learn by
said that Evergreez
seen concrete result
couraging kids to do
the science fair.
"When they take
exam, they do so z
because they've had
on experience and
ally worked througk
tific method," Serran¢
learn both content
method."
While the state
standardized tests
a child's learning, S
that projects like t~
science fair truly sh,
ability.
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is the real test," Shq
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editions of
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staff has
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lg, but this
said. "You
everything
:iplinary."
Bomb walk-throughs by officers
throughout the day. In ad-
Continued from page A-1 ditio~m~ school resource
. , l : ..... Offi~Salso stationed on
asked if the bomb was camptm throughout the
"Here at the school?" the day.
male caller said, "Yes, at Chief Eklund said this
the school." week that the investiga-
The school was. then tion into the threats is
evacuated while staff and ongoing and that detec-
police searched the build- tives have not turned up
ing. Chief Eklund said any promising leads or
that nothing suspicious supects.
turned up in a half-hour "No, we don't have any
canvassing and that regu- yet,~ Eklund said. %Ye're
lar classes resumed. An hoping for something to
officer and a patrol car crop up at the schools,
were then stationed in where we usually get good
front of the school for the information, but the stu-
remainder of the day. dents are out this whole
Eklund said that ex- week and we didn't hear
tra patrols were also anything last Thursday
made at SHS along with or Friday."
Excellence dose home is.not the only ,
reason to vi tMGH arge clinic, because:
here, you truly are treated like family.
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Continued from page A.I
Representatives with the Water
Resources program at the southwest
office of Ecology in Lacey could not be
reached as of deadline Tuesday.
The state set minimum flows re-
quirements in 1984; since then more
than 200 permit-exempt wells have
emerged in the Johns Creek Basin.
State law allows the owners of those
wells to withdraw water without a per-
mit, up to 5,000 gallons a day.
"Every year since record keeping be-
gan in the 1950s, Johns Creek has had
less and less water, and in every one
of those years, more wells have been
drilled in the basin," Whitener said.
=While we seek cooperation first in all
of our natural resources management
efforts, there are times when we must
CHANNEI-B IN H
Photo courtesy of Joe Puh
Chum salmon spawn,
John's Creek.
go to court to protect our
treaty rights."
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