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County to vote on lake management district
By NATALIE JOHNSON
n.atai.ie@n~asoncount),.c.om
Since 1998, residents of
Island Lake have worked
hard each year to eradicate
the noxious weed Eurasian
Milfoil from the shoreline of
the small lake.
"Like the weeds in your
garden, we also get weeds in
Island Lake," said lake rest-
dent Max Folsom.
On Tuesday, the Mason
County Commission agreed
to vote on a proposal to re-
new Mason County Lake
Management District 1
(LMD 1) at their next meet-
ing on April 17. The decision
continues a public hearing,
which began on Tuesday.
The county will continue
to accept comment on the
LMD until next Tuesday.
The LMD allows rest-
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dents of
Island
Lake to
tax them-
selves to
provide
funding to
eradicate
the weed.
Fifty-
Max five per-
Folsom cent of
waterfront
property
owners signed a petition to
create the district.
Island Lake residents
first voted to create LMD
1 in 1998 for a term of five
years.
"We've been able to use
those funds for 12 years,"
said Folsom, who also rep-
resents the lake district.
"That's why we're just now
getting around to doing it
again."
The Eurasian Milfoil
grows in shallow water
around the perimeter of Is-
land Lake. It is present in
many other lakes and rivers
in Washington state and ac-
cording to the Washington
State Department of Ecolo-
gy, is "the most problematic
plant in Washington."
The milfoil plants are
not native and started ap-
pearing in Washington in
the mid 1960s, according to
Ecology.
The plants form dense
Courtesy photo
Island Lake, seen in this aerial photograph, is infested with the noxious
weed Eurasian Milfoil, which the Washington State Department of
Ecology calls "the most problematic plant in Washington."
mats on the surface of the
Water, which affect boating,
fishing and swimming op-
portunities. The mats of rail-
foil plants can also harbor
mosquitoes and decrease a
lake's oxygen content and
crowd out native lake plant
species, according to Ecol-
ogy.
"It's present also in Ma-
son Lake and a good portion
However, in hot years,
the plants grow much fast-
er, and the LMD has to re-
sort to herbicides to kill the
plants.
"The chemical is expen-
sive. We don't really like to
put chemicals in the lake
anyway but this is £he issue
we have to deal with," Fol-
sam said.
The most effective meth-
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of other lakes in Washing- od, he said, is a pellet based
ton," Folsom said. herbicide that can be spread
In years with cool springs along the outer edges of the
and summers, the plants lake where the plants grow.
grow slower, and the LMD
can hire divers to pull the
weeds by hand. Using this
method, the divers can catch
fragments of the plants that
break off the main stem.
"Little fragments find a
home on the lakebed and
grow more plants," Folsom
said.
This herbicide kills the
plants in a week and breaks
down quickly, leaving the
water safe for swimming,
fishing an'dipets-
Resides of Island Lake
are asking the county com-
mission to renew the LMD
for ten years, in which it
could raise a total of approx-
imately $100,000 to fight
the noxious weed.
The LMD submitted a
proposed budget for the
district, which included
estimates for "Treatment
Years," in which the district
used herbicide, and "Moni-
toring Years," in which div-
ers pulled weeds by hand.
In a treatment year, the
cost to eradicate the plant
could be as high as $14,300,
which includes $3,600 for
professionals to apply the
herbicide, and more than
$9,000 for the herbicide --
Aquethol -- among other
expenses.
In a monitoring year,
however, the district may
spend only $1,000 for div-
ers.
"We are very frugal with
our money," Folsom said.
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STAFF REPORT
It's been 12 years for Vickie Gon-
zales but burnout has never been an
issue.
She's served as chairperson of Re-
lay for Life and as co-chair. Today
she heads up the Team Development
committee.
"I think I was placed on the earth
to do this," she said.
Gonzales said that everyone is
touched by cancer. When speaking
to a group she'll ask people who have
first-hand experience with the dis-
ease to stand. Then she'll ask those
who've experienced a parent with
cancer to stand. And those people
who've watched a brother or sister
battle the disease, or a friend. Soon,
everyone is standing.
"I have so many friends and fam-
ily members that have had this dis-
ease affect them. There have been so
many advancements in research it's
so good to be involved in Relay for
Life," she said.
As Team Development chair,
Gonzales works with four other
volunteers to recruit, mentor and
retain relay teams. On Thursday,
she and her committee were hit-
ting the pavement, rallying sup-
port for the upcoming relay, sched-
uled for Friday and Saturday June
23 and 24.
"It started in North Mason in 1999
and we moved into Shelton the fol-
lowing year. We still have the relay
in Belfair but at the end of the relay
year they combine the totals for the
county."
Last year, she said, the Shelton
Relay raised $118,000 to which
Belfair added another $85,000.
This year the goal in Shelton is
$122,000 and she hopes to sign up
50 teams.
"Right now we have about 35. The
relay just keeps growing and grow-
ing. When I first started, our goal
was $35,000 and we've increased the
number of teams every year, we've
increased the number of survivors
In
every year which is why we do this,"
she said.
While all of the money raised goes
to the American Cancer Society, that
money, she said, comes right back to
the community in the form of cancer
research funding, community educa-
tion and patient services and advo-
cacy.
In 2005, her own team experienced
a tragedy.
"My persona] connection here is
that we lost Sandy Latham to cancer.
The relay was a passion for all of us,
she was part of our relay and then
it became a personal passion that re-
ally hit home.
"It is a celebration of life and we
honor those that have passed and
those that have survived," Gon-
zales added, giving a shout-out to
this year's co-chairs, Dave and Toni
Hauge.
"They're doing a great job," she
said.
Shelton Relay for Life is one of
3,500 such events in the United
States and 12 other countries.
When you go
She calls it the biggest community
party that exists.
"And we're proud of it," Gonzales
said.
As Gonzales heads into the final
weeks of organization she said she
expects close to 200 cancer survi-
vors to be in attendance at this
year's relay.
Gonzales promised that Paul Bar-
ber will be on hand to D.J. the 24-
hour event, along with live music
from bands around the region who
donate their talents to liven the
pace.
Although she admits to staying
awake for the entire 24-hour relay,
it's not a requirement.
"No, no, no. People camp there. It's
a relay so people take shifts and walk
so someone on the track is walking
the whole 24 hours and the philoso-
phy is, cancer never sleeps so one
day a year we do this. Each team has
their own tent site which is usually
decorated to our theme." Gonzales
said.
The theme this year is Interna-
tional and the slogan is "around the
world for a cure." Prizes provide in-
centive for participating teams to
choose a country to honor and indi-
viduals often dress in costume.
"The survivor lap officially opens
the Relay for Life at 7 o'clock and ev-
eryone cheers for the survivors. The
teams take the next lap."
With rosters running from eight
to 15 people on a team the team lap
could bring about 500 people to the
track.
"And you don't have to be on a
team, people come out to walk with
the teams or to cheer on the survi-
vors and people come out to do fund-
raising," Gonzales explained.
The highlight of the event is the
Luminary at 10 p.m.
"It's a candlelight ceremony to
honor those for whom the cure did
not come soon enough. It's about an
hour and a half ceremony where we
turn off all the lights and we have
candles in bags and there are names
on the bags and then they read the
names of those people and it is a
fabulous ceremony it's just amaz-
ing, just amazing. It's somber but it
makes it all worth while," Gonzales
said.
Entertainment reigns 24 hours.
Square dancers and volunteers from
the Dance Shack are scheduIed to
perform along with kids entertain-
ment during the day on Saturday.
"We also have our Shelton High
School wood shop which builds a play
house to raffle off each year. Last
year it brought in about $1,500 dol-
lars," Gonzales said.
The Shelton Relay for Life will
take place at the Shelton High School
track.
"It's a year-round project, we take
a couple months off in the summer
but that's it," Gonzales added.
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