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i! ¸, ,: ~r I £: '7 ¸¸¸ FOREST FESTIVAL COURT members pose at the close of coronation ceremonies last week at the high school. From left in front are Queen Hannah Kuhnau and "Paul Bunyan" Jacob Geist. In back are princess- es Jane'L Giles, Jessica Mabey, Gina Russo and Jennifer Sewell and "Smokey Bear" Steve Brown. Hannah reigns u, a Shelton High School ju- County Forest Festival's Queen of shares the spotlight with another Jake Geist, who was named Paul at Saturday evening's coronation festivi- also shared best-interview honors at 10 affair in the Shelton High School I1 reign over the Paul Bunyan Parade queen's float and the giant truckload of it the Forest Festival event in Shelton May 22, and they'll represent at festivals during the year. ueen is currently in Nicaragua, 1 she'll be on a mission trip to a church destroyed by Hurricane sh-dancing enthusiast, Kuhnau won at recent Pacific Northwest High- She's also a member of the Shelton dance team, executive representa- CA, a marketing club, and current governor for the Shelton- Division 38. the recipient of SHS's outstanding- award and enjoys wakeboarding and jazz lh will receive the $1,000 Duane and scholarship, as well as a host of ling her queen's portrait, roses, gift , Jewelry and hair styling. daughter of Keith and Patty Kuh- who scored a perfect "10" on the competition, is active at Shelton in basketball, where he was team and is involved with a host of volunteer COached kids in school and city basket- is a hike leader for Cub Scouts, With Shelton and Skookum Rotary ;h activities of the Mason County Shelter for the homeless, and has worked with the Washington State Department of Ecology during the summer for the past two years. He enjoys hiking and fishing and currently works with Wilson Construction. Jake will wear the official Forest Festival sus- penders handed down through generations of Paul Bunyans. He'll receive his own engraved hatchet, the first Paul Bunyan scholarship of $500 provided by Shelton Rotary, and several gift certificates. Jake's parents are Lee and Kathy Geist. THE COURT includes: • Gina Russo, first attendant, "Princess of Cedar." A Shelton High School 11th-grader, Gina also received a trophy for the best heritage act. She enjoys singing and is part of the All-North- west Choir. She's active with Honor Society and Leo Club. • Jessica Mabey, second attendant, "Princess of Spruce." A senior at SHS, Jessica is tennis team captain and is active with Girl Scouts, Key Club, 4-H and Mason County Youth Task Force. She is organist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. • Jane'L Giles, third attendant, "Princess of Douglas Fir." Jane'L is an Americorps volunteer and is active in DARE, Key Club, Leo Club, Hon- or Society and the Native American button blan- ket project. A senior at SHS, she is vice president of the Class of 1999. • Jennifer Sewell, fourth attendant and "Princess of Hemlock." Jennifer lettered in drama and received the school choir's "most in- spirational" award. She is active in Key Club, Thespian Club and 4-H and has turned out for track, swimming and weightlifting. • Steve Brown, this year's "Smokey Bear." An SHS junior, Steve is involved in county-level baseball and soccer, volunteers at Skookum Ro- tary's OysterFest and the DARE skating pro- gram and loves the outdoors, including hunting, woodcutting and snowboarding. Road lab found: al°f the Mason County ,. ooking for a local man -:o With an alle ed do- "earl g 1. It and a clandestine sought in meth case Gary Crane said discovered a lab raethamphetamine a report of a This followed a e at 2:33 a.m. on caller said an in- Was at the home of "The deputies learned from the injured woman that her boyfriend assaulted her while driving down the Cole Road," Crane wrote in a prepared statement. "She escaped from the car and found refuge at the Fawn Lake location." Deputies went to 2402 Cole Road, Shelton, in an attempt to contact the woman's boyfriend. There they found a laboratory they suspect was used to manu- facture methamphetamine, an il- legal drug, according to Crane. That's the same address depu- ties went to on March 21 after fire struck a trailer that con- tained a suspected meth lab. The injured woman's boyfriend is wanted for questioning in con- nection with allegations of as- sault and the manufacture of an illegal drug. "The investigation is continu- ing and no arrests have been made at this time," Crane wrote. There was no additional informa- tion available by press time Wednesday. Park project vandalized before it's even finished Vandalism visited Kneeland Park last week. Some person or persons smashed several glass block windows on the new rest- room building that's nearing com- pletion at the popular Shelton park. No damage estimate was given by Development Services Manag- er Gary Rhoades, but he told The Journal it will cost several thou- sand dollars to repair the dam- age. Rhoades, who reported on the incident to Shelton city commis- sioners at their meeting on Mon- day, was angry about the vandal- ism. "I have no tolerance for it whatsoever," he said. "Absolutely none." A few years ago, there was quite a community movement to improve the park, he said. A major volunteer effort was mounted to add a large play structure that would last for many years. Following that in- stallation, the city secured a grant from the Washington State Interagency Committee for Out- door Recreation to pay for a face- lift at the park, including the restroom building, picnic shelter, irrigation and other improve- ments. "To see that (project) almost finished," Rhoades said. "It makes you wonder, is this what's going to take place down there?" THE OLD restroom building, which was earlier torn down to make way for the new structure, suffered its share of vandalism, too. Rhoades said vandals ripped sinks off the wall and kicked doors in, among other things. The new building was designed to deter such acts of vandalism, but now Rhoades said city staff members are reassessing whether they're going to replace the glass blocks, which were added to let natural light into the building. "Nothing is vandal-proof," he said. "They're going to find a way." Rhoades called on community members to help by phoning the Shelton Police Department if they notice someone in the park after hours. Also, they should call the police if they know anything about the latest vandalism there. COMMISSIONER Janet Thornbrue expressed her disap- pointment with the window- breaking spree during Monday's meeting, and Commissioner John VANDALS SMASHED the glass in several block win- dows in the new Kneeland Park restrooms last week, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to a feature designed to let in natural light. Tarrant echoed her dismay. "It kind of took a little wind out of a beautiful project," he said. "It bothers me a lot because it really is a showpiece. It really did upset me." Tarrant called the park a "community-owned piece of prop- erty." The city commission and staff members are trying to pro- vide people with a very usable facility and safe place, he added. Bid to annex vetoed Thursday, April 15, lg, 113th Year- Number 15 5 Sections - 46 Pages 50 Cents Val VanCleave has dispatched plenty of 911 emergency calls in her years at Shelton Communica- tions, but nothing prepares a per- son for hearing her own address. When a neighbor called 911 early Tuesday evening to report that Valerie and AI VanCleave's house was fully involved in flames, it was Valerie who an- swered the call. Val's husband got on the line, but because his voice was elevat- ed by the stress of the situation she didn't recognize him at first, said Mike Akin, Shelton's director of communications and Val's boss. "Hen, our house is on fire and it's going to be a total loss," AI VanCleave said, Akin told The Journal. And, despite the enormi- ty of the moment, Val maintained her professional composure and dispatched Fire District 4 to her own home. "She did it and she did it exceptionally well," Akin said. "I'M REALLY MOVED," he added. "I'm so proud of the caliber of the people we've got here - and she typifies it." VanCleave's husband and their son Nathan, soon to be 7, escaped from the burning house barefoot and with the clothes on their backs, said a neighbor, Rob Aar- on. The VanCleaves' double-wide mobile home on Harmony Lane was a total loss, Aaron said Tues- day evening. Firefighters from Fire District 4 were joined by vol- unteers from Fire District 13 in the Cloquallum area, who re- sponded to a call for mutual aid. Mason County Fire Marshal Dave Salzer said the mobile home was fully engulfed by flames when firefighters arrived on the scene. The cause is under investi- gation, but Salzer said the fire was not a suspicious one. It is be- lieved to have started on a porch outside the home. VANCLEAVE, A veteran emergency dispatcher, dispatched Fire District 4 at 7:35 p.m. She stayed at her post for another 10 minutes until she was relieved. "We essentially had to push her out the door. She didn't want to leave the other dispatcher alone," Akin said. "She was going to stick around until her relief walked in through the door," Akin added. "She did not want to just arbitrarily leave her work station. That's very commendable." Aaron said the VanCleaves were able to go to the home of her parents, Frank and Marie Rains. Mr. Rains is a retired Shelton po- lice chief who preceded the cur- rent chief, S.R. "Johnny" John- ston. Folks who want to assist with clothing can contact Marilyn Aar- on at 426-4246 for sizes. Akin said incidents such as Tuesday evening's are a night- mare for public safety employees throughout the country. Ironical- ly, this is National Telecommuni- cations Week, which is designated to honor the workers behind the scenes who handle 911 emergency calls. Residents overwhelmingly pan idea of wolves in park By CAROLYN MADDUX Little Red Riding Hood ap- pears to have outvoted Kevin Costner. Olympic Peninsula residents who expressed their opinions in a recent Battelle study didn't want to dance with wolves, or walk with wolves, or howl with wolves in the woods whose wildlife many of them complained was already too depleted of shootable game. Wolf reintroduction got whomped by 66 percent of Mason County residents who showed up to vote with hand-held instru- ments at an electronic town meet- ing in January, according to the results publicized recently by the researchers who conducted the study. Elsewhere, the wolves made a worse showing: 71 per- cent of Hoquiam's respondents voted against reintroduction of wolves to the Olympic National Park, and 91 percent of those who showed up in Forks voted "no." "THE RESULTS of the inter- views and the town meetings make it clear that the wolf is a lightning rod for questions and fears about who makes political decisions and who has to live with them," wrote a quartet of re- searchers from Battelle Seattle Research Center, Elway Re- search, Incorporated of Seattle and Olympic Natural Resources Center. "What was most interesting about the study was not the out- come, but the way people feel about the way government deci- sions about natural resources are made," said John Calhoun of Olympic Natural Resources Cen- ter, a University of Washington facility in Forks. Calhoun worked with Todd Pe- terson and Brian Boyle of Battelle and Stuart Elway of Elway Re- search on the Olympic Peninsula public-opinion study. Last year, Congress allocated $350,000 to study the biological and ecological feasibility of rein- troducing the gray wolf (canis lu- te Olympic National Park. It appropriated $50,000 to the Olympic Natural Resources Cen- ter at the behest of Congressman Norm Dicks and Senator Slade Gorton to conduct studies of the impact of wolf reintroduction, in- cluding a public-involvement pro- tess. REINTRODUCING wolves a year earlier at Yellowstone Na- tional Park brought Congress' at- tention to the fact that the Olym- pic Peninsula once had an abun- dant native population of wolves, according to a summary of the re- cent review process, until the ear- ly 1930s. Then, aided by a bounty system that continued to 1929, the predators were determined to be extinct on the peninsula. An environmental organiza- tion, Defenders of Wildlife, ap- proached U.S. Representative Dicks with a request to consider reintroduction of wolves to the Olympic National Park. Congress charged Olympic Natural Re- sources Center (ONRC), a facility (Please turn to page 12.) Births .................................. 16 Classifieds .......................... 28 Community Calendar ........ 7 Crossword .......................... 32 Entertainment, Dining ... 26 Journal of Record ............ 19 Obituaries .......................... 16 Opinions, Letters ............... 4 Sports .................................. 20 Tides .................................... 16 Weather ............................... 17 On the inside IIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIlUlIIIIIIIMUMHIIIIII homes, Planning Director Paul Rogerson told The Journal. Concerns raised by Mayor Scott Hilburn about the effect of development on nearby Northcliff Road, which he said was in very poor shape, and an island of unin- corporated land that would be created by the proposed annexa- tion, prompted commissioners to vote unanimously to reject the no- tice. HILBURN SAID he was bothered by the idea of an island of unincorporated land surround- ed by the city. He cited a house fire a year or so ago in a similar unincorporated area on Mountain View. City firefighters responded, but because the area was not in the city, city fire hydrants had not been extended into the area and the house burned to the ground. Asking the petitioners to in- clude the unincorporated island in the annexation proposal would take care of both of those con- cerns, Hilburn said. That notice was just the open- ing round involving the proposed annexation. Proponents of the an- nexation, LANN Limited Liability Corporation, can come back and reapply for an annexation that in- cludes the unincorporated land, which includes some 80 acres and several property owners, Roger- son said. That would entail get- ting approval of 60 percent of the property owners based on the as- sessed value of the whole annexa- tion. If the parcel ultimately is an- nexed to the city, there is a poten- tial for 1,000 housing units if it is zoned "neighborhood residential," Rogerson told The Journal. If it is (Please turn to page 12.) Shelton city commissioners thisweekrejectedanoticeofin-Dispatcher takes c.all tention to commence annexation proceedings for a 280-acre parcel located cut of Olympic College on her home burning Hill neighborFiood. The parcel, currently timber- land, has the development poten- tial for between 1,000 and 3,000 i! ¸, ,: ~r I £: '7 ¸¸¸ FOREST FESTIVAL COURT members pose at the close of coronation ceremonies last week at the high school. From left in front are Queen Hannah Kuhnau and "Paul Bunyan" Jacob Geist. In back are princess- es Jane'L Giles, Jessica Mabey, Gina Russo and Jennifer Sewell and "Smokey Bear" Steve Brown. Hannah reigns u, a Shelton High School ju- County Forest Festival's Queen of shares the spotlight with another Jake Geist, who was named Paul at Saturday evening's coronation festivi- also shared best-interview honors at 10 affair in the Shelton High School I1 reign over the Paul Bunyan Parade queen's float and the giant truckload of it the Forest Festival event in Shelton May 22, and they'll represent at festivals during the year. ueen is currently in Nicaragua, 1 she'll be on a mission trip to a church destroyed by Hurricane sh-dancing enthusiast, Kuhnau won at recent Pacific Northwest High- She's also a member of the Shelton dance team, executive representa- CA, a marketing club, and current governor for the Shelton- Division 38. the recipient of SHS's outstanding- award and enjoys wakeboarding and jazz lh will receive the $1,000 Duane and scholarship, as well as a host of ling her queen's portrait, roses, gift , Jewelry and hair styling. daughter of Keith and Patty Kuh- who scored a perfect "10" on the competition, is active at Shelton in basketball, where he was team and is involved with a host of volunteer COached kids in school and city basket- is a hike leader for Cub Scouts, With Shelton and Skookum Rotary ;h activities of the Mason County Shelter for the homeless, and has worked with the Washington State Department of Ecology during the summer for the past two years. He enjoys hiking and fishing and currently works with Wilson Construction. Jake will wear the official Forest Festival sus- penders handed down through generations of Paul Bunyans. He'll receive his own engraved hatchet, the first Paul Bunyan scholarship of $500 provided by Shelton Rotary, and several gift certificates. Jake's parents are Lee and Kathy Geist. THE COURT includes: • Gina Russo, first attendant, "Princess of Cedar." A Shelton High School 11th-grader, Gina also received a trophy for the best heritage act. She enjoys singing and is part of the All-North- west Choir. She's active with Honor Society and Leo Club. • Jessica Mabey, second attendant, "Princess of Spruce." A senior at SHS, Jessica is tennis team captain and is active with Girl Scouts, Key Club, 4-H and Mason County Youth Task Force. She is organist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. • Jane'L Giles, third attendant, "Princess of Douglas Fir." Jane'L is an Americorps volunteer and is active in DARE, Key Club, Leo Club, Hon- or Society and the Native American button blan- ket project. A senior at SHS, she is vice president of the Class of 1999. • Jennifer Sewell, fourth attendant and "Princess of Hemlock." Jennifer lettered in drama and received the school choir's "most in- spirational" award. She is active in Key Club, Thespian Club and 4-H and has turned out for track, swimming and weightlifting. • Steve Brown, this year's "Smokey Bear." An SHS junior, Steve is involved in county-level baseball and soccer, volunteers at Skookum Ro- tary's OysterFest and the DARE skating pro- gram and loves the outdoors, including hunting, woodcutting and snowboarding. Road lab found: al°f the Mason County ,. ooking for a local man -:o With an alle ed do- "earl g 1. It and a clandestine sought in meth case Gary Crane said discovered a lab raethamphetamine a report of a This followed a e at 2:33 a.m. on caller said an in- Was at the home of "The deputies learned from the injured woman that her boyfriend assaulted her while driving down the Cole Road," Crane wrote in a prepared statement. "She escaped from the car and found refuge at the Fawn Lake location." Deputies went to 2402 Cole Road, Shelton, in an attempt to contact the woman's boyfriend. There they found a laboratory they suspect was used to manu- facture methamphetamine, an il- legal drug, according to Crane. That's the same address depu- ties went to on March 21 after fire struck a trailer that con- tained a suspected meth lab. The injured woman's boyfriend is wanted for questioning in con- nection with allegations of as- sault and the manufacture of an illegal drug. "The investigation is continu- ing and no arrests have been made at this time," Crane wrote. There was no additional informa- tion available by press time Wednesday. Park project vandalized before it's even finished Vandalism visited Kneeland Park last week. Some person or persons smashed several glass block windows on the new rest- room building that's nearing com- pletion at the popular Shelton park. No damage estimate was given by Development Services Manag- er Gary Rhoades, but he told The Journal it will cost several thou- sand dollars to repair the dam- age. Rhoades, who reported on the incident to Shelton city commis- sioners at their meeting on Mon- day, was angry about the vandal- ism. "I have no tolerance for it whatsoever," he said. "Absolutely none." A few years ago, there was quite a community movement to improve the park, he said. A major volunteer effort was mounted to add a large play structure that would last for many years. Following that in- stallation, the city secured a grant from the Washington State Interagency Committee for Out- door Recreation to pay for a face- lift at the park, including the restroom building, picnic shelter, irrigation and other improve- ments. "To see that (project) almost finished," Rhoades said. "It makes you wonder, is this what's going to take place down there?" THE OLD restroom building, which was earlier torn down to make way for the new structure, suffered its share of vandalism, too. Rhoades said vandals ripped sinks off the wall and kicked doors in, among other things. The new building was designed to deter such acts of vandalism, but now Rhoades said city staff members are reassessing whether they're going to replace the glass blocks, which were added to let natural light into the building. "Nothing is vandal-proof," he said. "They're going to find a way." Rhoades called on community members to help by phoning the Shelton Police Department if they notice someone in the park after hours. Also, they should call the police if they know anything about the latest vandalism there. COMMISSIONER Janet Thornbrue expressed her disap- pointment with the window- breaking spree during Monday's meeting, and Commissioner John VANDALS SMASHED the glass in several block win- dows in the new Kneeland Park restrooms last week, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to a feature designed to let in natural light. Tarrant echoed her dismay. "It kind of took a little wind out of a beautiful project," he said. "It bothers me a lot because it really is a showpiece. It really did upset me." Tarrant called the park a "community-owned piece of prop- erty." The city commission and staff members are trying to pro- vide people with a very usable facility and safe place, he added. Bid to annex vetoed Thursday, April 15, lg, 113th Year- Number 15 5 Sections - 46 Pages 50 Cents Val VanCleave has dispatched plenty of 911 emergency calls in her years at Shelton Communica- tions, but nothing prepares a per- son for hearing her own address. When a neighbor called 911 early Tuesday evening to report that Valerie and AI VanCleave's house was fully involved in flames, it was Valerie who an- swered the call. Val's husband got on the line, but because his voice was elevat- ed by the stress of the situation she didn't recognize him at first, said Mike Akin, Shelton's director of communications and Val's boss. "Hen, our house is on fire and it's going to be a total loss," AI VanCleave said, Akin told The Journal. And, despite the enormi- ty of the moment, Val maintained her professional composure and dispatched Fire District 4 to her own home. "She did it and she did it exceptionally well," Akin said. "I'M REALLY MOVED," he added. "I'm so proud of the caliber of the people we've got here - and she typifies it." VanCleave's husband and their son Nathan, soon to be 7, escaped from the burning house barefoot and with the clothes on their backs, said a neighbor, Rob Aar- on. The VanCleaves' double-wide mobile home on Harmony Lane was a total loss, Aaron said Tues- day evening. Firefighters from Fire District 4 were joined by vol- unteers from Fire District 13 in the Cloquallum area, who re- sponded to a call for mutual aid. Mason County Fire Marshal Dave Salzer said the mobile home was fully engulfed by flames when firefighters arrived on the scene. The cause is under investi- gation, but Salzer said the fire was not a suspicious one. It is be- lieved to have started on a porch outside the home. VANCLEAVE, A veteran emergency dispatcher, dispatched Fire District 4 at 7:35 p.m. She stayed at her post for another 10 minutes until she was relieved. "We essentially had to push her out the door. She didn't want to leave the other dispatcher alone," Akin said. "She was going to stick around until her relief walked in through the door," Akin added. "She did not want to just arbitrarily leave her work station. That's very commendable." Aaron said the VanCleaves were able to go to the home of her parents, Frank and Marie Rains. Mr. Rains is a retired Shelton po- lice chief who preceded the cur- rent chief, S.R. "Johnny" John- ston. Folks who want to assist with clothing can contact Marilyn Aar- on at 426-4246 for sizes. Akin said incidents such as Tuesday evening's are a night- mare for public safety employees throughout the country. Ironical- ly, this is National Telecommuni- cations Week, which is designated to honor the workers behind the scenes who handle 911 emergency calls. Residents overwhelmingly pan idea of wolves in park By CAROLYN MADDUX Little Red Riding Hood ap- pears to have outvoted Kevin Costner. Olympic Peninsula residents who expressed their opinions in a recent Battelle study didn't want to dance with wolves, or walk with wolves, or howl with wolves in the woods whose wildlife many of them complained was already too depleted of shootable game. Wolf reintroduction got whomped by 66 percent of Mason County residents who showed up to vote with hand-held instru- ments at an electronic town meet- ing in January, according to the results publicized recently by the researchers who conducted the study. Elsewhere, the wolves made a worse showing: 71 per- cent of Hoquiam's respondents voted against reintroduction of wolves to the Olympic National Park, and 91 percent of those who showed up in Forks voted "no." "THE RESULTS of the inter- views and the town meetings make it clear that the wolf is a lightning rod for questions and fears about who makes political decisions and who has to live with them," wrote a quartet of re- searchers from Battelle Seattle Research Center, Elway Re- search, Incorporated of Seattle and Olympic Natural Resources Center. "What was most interesting about the study was not the out- come, but the way people feel about the way government deci- sions about natural resources are made," said John Calhoun of Olympic Natural Resources Cen- ter, a University of Washington facility in Forks. Calhoun worked with Todd Pe- terson and Brian Boyle of Battelle and Stuart Elway of Elway Re- search on the Olympic Peninsula public-opinion study. Last year, Congress allocated $350,000 to study the biological and ecological feasibility of rein- troducing the gray wolf (canis lu- te Olympic National Park. It appropriated $50,000 to the Olympic Natural Resources Cen- ter at the behest of Congressman Norm Dicks and Senator Slade Gorton to conduct studies of the impact of wolf reintroduction, in- cluding a public-involvement pro- tess. REINTRODUCING wolves a year earlier at Yellowstone Na- tional Park brought Congress' at- tention to the fact that the Olym- pic Peninsula once had an abun- dant native population of wolves, according to a summary of the re- cent review process, until the ear- ly 1930s. Then, aided by a bounty system that continued to 1929, the predators were determined to be extinct on the peninsula. An environmental organiza- tion, Defenders of Wildlife, ap- proached U.S. Representative Dicks with a request to consider reintroduction of wolves to the Olympic National Park. Congress charged Olympic Natural Re- sources Center (ONRC), a facility (Please turn to page 12.) Births .................................. 16 Classifieds .......................... 28 Community Calendar ........ 7 Crossword .......................... 32 Entertainment, Dining ... 26 Journal of Record ............ 19 Obituaries .......................... 16 Opinions, Letters ............... 4 Sports .................................. 20 Tides .................................... 16 Weather ............................... 17 On the inside IIMIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIlUlIIMIMUMHIIIIII homes, Planning Director Paul Rogerson told The Journal. Concerns raised by Mayor Scott Hilburn about the effect of development on nearby Northcliff Road, which he said was in very poor shape, and an island of unin- corporated land that would be created by the proposed annexa- tion, prompted commissioners to vote unanimously to reject the no- tice. HILBURN SAID he was bothered by the idea of an island of unincorporated land surround- ed by the city. He cited a house fire a year or so ago in a similar unincorporated area on Mountain View. City firefighters responded, but because the area was not in the city, city fire hydrants had not been extended into the area and the house burned to the ground. Asking the petitioners to in- clude the unincorporated island in the annexation proposal would take care of both of those con- cerns, Hilburn said. That notice was just the open- ing round involving the proposed annexation. Proponents of the an- nexation, LANN Limited Liability Corporation, can come back and reapply for an annexation that in- cludes the unincorporated land, which includes some 80 acres and several property owners, Roger- son said. That would entail get- ting approval of 60 percent of the property owners based on the as- sessed value of the whole annexa- tion. If the parcel ultimately is an- nexed to the city, there is a poten- tial for 1,000 housing units if it is zoned "neighborhood residential," Rogerson told The Journal. If it is (Please turn to page 12.) Shelton city commissioners thisweekrejectedanoticeofin-Dispatcher takes c.all tention to commence annexation proceedings for a 280-acre parcel located cut of Olympic College on her home burning Hill neighborFiood. The parcel, currently timber- land, has the development poten- tial for between 1,000 and 3,000