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Olympics offer gold medal view
THE OLYMPICS LOOM above Highway 101 on a glo- casters predict there will be more such views
rious Sunday as spring seems to explode onto the through this weekend as sunshine continues and
scene in one day after months of rain. Weather fore- temperatures reach the 70s by Friday.
County commission roundup:
Accused of killing boyfriend:
Jones pleads not
guilty to murder
Elizabeth Jones, 37, of Shelton
pied not guilty Wednesday to
murdering her boyfriend at the
Mason County Shelter.
The plea followed a two-week
stay at Western State Hospital, a
medical facility in Tacoma for
people with mental illnesses. A
sanity commission there said she
was depressed and irritable but
found that she does not have any
psychosis that would make her
incompetent to stand trial for
murder in the second degree.
Defense attorney Robert Quil-
lian said the sanity commission
found that she had a long history
of abusive relationships. He said
the concepts of self-defense and
"the battered-woman syndrome"
would likely be an element of her
defense..
Jones is accused of stabbing
47-year-old Randy Freeman in
the chest following a bout of
heavy drinking at the shelter.
Jones and her 16-year-old son,
Jayson, were guests of the shelter
when Freeman was found
there late on the
March 25.
Freeman was killed
ter Jayson Jones
tacked in an
the Mason County
say he was beaten by
at a drinking party M , .
Sawyer scheduled an o(
hearing for May 6, pre.trl
May 26 and trial for thejUU
that begins June 7.
q'imberland sets meeting
on Internet access
By JEFF GREEN
Timberland Regional Library
Board of Directors will hold a
public meeting Tuesday evening
to discuss to library's policy about
access to the Internet.
That meeting will be from 6 to
8 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, at Tim-
berland's Service Center, 415 Air-
dustrial Way SW, Olympia.
A small group of Olympia-area
residents have raised concerns
County approves a preliminary phase
of 85-acre subdivision near Hoodsport
decided to return it to the county.
Judge Sheldon will miss two
months of work whe'n her infant
twin sons come home from the
hospital, she added.
BOLENDER SAID the board
appreciated the judge's generosi-
ty and her effort and initiative in
helping to ease budget demands
on the courts.
* Approved a professional ser-
vices contract with Theresa Bol-
ing, a dental hygienist, to
oversee the health department's
oral health program. Steve Kutz,
personal health services direc-
tor, noted a state Department of
Health grant, which funds for the
program, also stipulates that a
dental professional must oversee
the program. He said Boling was
manager for a similar program
in Grays Harbor County. The
contract runs from March 1 to
December 31 at a rate of $50 per
hour with the total not to exceed
$3,000.
* Scheduled a public hearing
for 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, May 11,
on the vacation of a portion of the
county right-of-way on North
Shore Road, as requested by Ed-
ward Triol of the Triol Family
Limited Partnership.
Authorized Gary Yando,
community development direc-
tor, to advertise for proposals to
harvest hay on four properties
which the county acquired
through the federal hazard miti-
gation grant buyout program in
the Skokomish Valley. The
fields are located at 140, 180, 241
and 421 East Bourgault Road. All
proposals must be received by
Yando no later than 5 p.m. Fri-
day, April 30.
HEARD FROM Yando that
people had signed up to arrange
for over 400 vehicles to deliver
refuse on "free dump day" at the
county solid-waste facility on
Eells Hill Road. The free day is
part of the county's spring clean-
up effort. "I think it's an exciting
program," he commented, add-
ing that he hoped the county could
sponsor another free day as a
part of a fall cleanup.
Approved the warranty deed
and real estate tax excise agree-
ment with Ray and Barbara
Kealy for the purchase of property
on West Skokomish Valley Road
as part of the federal hazard mit-
igation grant buyout program.
Proclaimed April 18 to 24 as
National County Government
Week.
Approved veterans' assis-
tance applications, as recom-
mended by the screening com-
mittee, for three individuals to-
taling $1,142.
ment conditional-use permit re-
quest by Tim Sheldon of Pot-
latch. Sheldon wants to excavate
former fill and, restore property
on two of four lots in Potlatch
Beach tracts, located on Potlatch
Lane toward Hood Canal from
Highway 101.
Bolender pointed out the origi-
nal application called for the re-
moval of 490 cubic yards but
noted that the request had been
revised to 320 cubic yards. He
worried "this is an effort to
squeeze into a small box" since
grading of less than 200 cubic
yards per lot is exempt from the
county's grading ordinance,
While he said he had no problem
with the concept of the proposal,
Bolender noted that he wanted to
ensure that the commission was
"not circumventing our own
rules."
Both commissioners asked for
verification from the contractor,
Ron Gold of R.G. Forestry Con-
sultant of Hoodsport, as to how
much fill would be removed from
each of the lots involved.
Approved a supplemental
appropriation to the budget of
$12,580 for the superior court.
Ione Siegler, budget director, told
the board the funds are a private
donation from Mason County
Superior Court Judge Toni Shel-
don for court commissioner ex-
penses during her absence.
Siegler explained that Judge
Sheldon is required by law to
take her salary but the judge has
City of Shelton
Comprehensive Plan
Amendments
The City is now accepting requests for
amendments to the 1995 City of Shelton
Comprehensive Plan. Amendments may be
made in the form of map changes and/or text
changes, and must be submitted by 5:00 p.m.,
April 30, 1998. A public hearing date for those
amendment requests will be set in May. Cover
sheets for amendment requests and a list of
required submissions is available at City of
Shelton, Development Services, 130 South 2nd
Street.
The Mason County commis-
sioners gave preliminary ap-
proval to an 85-acre subdivision
north of Hoodsport at their meet-
ing Tuesday.
"This is probably the last one
of these we'll see tbr awhile,"
Commissioner John Bolender
observed, retbrring to the stand-
still in development as the coun-
ty struggles with compliance
with the state Growth Manage-
ment Act. Rulings of invalidity
%r sections of the comprehensive
plan and development regula..
tions by the Western Washing-
ton Growth Management Hear-
ings Board have resulted in an
inability by the county to process
various permits.
But the large-lot permit re-
quest submitted by Sam Boling of
Brinnon predates any growth
management hearings board de-
cisions, Planner Pam Bennett-
Cumming explained in her staff
report. "This proposal was origi-
nally initiated in December of'
1995, prior to the adoption of the
1996 Mason County Comprehen-
sive Plan and development reg-
ulations," she said.
"THE APPLICANT has
worked with the various county
departments, other government
agencies and interested parties
in an attempt to craft a proposal
which will meet county stan-
dards, other agency concerns
and address the concerns of the
public," Bennett-Cumming wrote
in her staff report.
The board approved Boling's
request to develop 85 acres in
upland hills east of Holiday
Beach into 17 clustered lots, with
two tracts of open space totaling
38.28 acres.
The residential lots range in
size from 2.14 to 4,35 acres for a
total acreage of 45.5 acres, Ben-
nett-Cumming said. This con-
figuration would result in a
density of one dwelling unit per
five acres, she noted. The proper-
ty was logged in 1996.
Miller Creek, a stream identi-
fied by commenting agencies as
an important fish habitat re-
source, has been set aside as part
of the open space in perpetuity,
Bennett-Cumming explained.
The steep slope area is also a part
of the open space.
CHARLES MARLEY, Bol-
ing's brother-in-law and his
partner in American Develop-
ment, told the board they had
done "lots of analysis," like hir-
ing Allen L. Hart, engineering
geologist from Tacoma, to pre-
pare a geotechnical report. The
board included the report's rec-
ommendations as one of' the con-
ditions for the permit.
Marley noted they wanted to
protect the stream and the people
who live in Holiday Beach too,
adding that is why all the devel-
opment is on the hill. "I think
we've done a good job of making
sure everyone's protected - fish,
people and the land," he said.
IN OTHER business conduct-
ed without Commissioner Mary
Jo Cady, who was on a trip,
Bolender and Olsen:
Approved a grant agreement
with the Washington State De-
partment of Ecology (DOE) to
fund the treatment of Eurasian
miifoil at Mason Lake.
The three-year grant is for
$54,000 total with DOE providing
$47,250 and the recipient match
providing $6,750 in cash or in-
kind contributions, explained
Health Services Director Brad
Banner. He told the board a letter
from the Mason Lake Watermil-
foil Steering Committee indicat-
ed the committee had a cash bal-
ance of $5,283 with $1,500 in
pledges.
Banner noted the grant will be
"back dated" to January 1, 1999 so
the committee's work might be
reimbursed. "They've done a
tremendous amount of in-kind
work," he said.
"I'M VERY proud of the Mason
Lake residents for putting forth
the effort to achieve this grant,"
Olsen said.
Continued to 7:30 p.m. Tues-
day, April 27, a hearing on a
shoreline substantial-develop-
Chuck Ruhl
Insurance
10186 C',mmings l)rive
5dtc Woollcv, WA 98284
()[rice (360) 854-91,!3,3 Fax (.360) 854-0308.
Toll Free Pager 1-888-204-4939
Journal Thursday, A)ri115, 1999
Page 2 Shelton-Mason
For more information call the City of Shelton
Planning Department at 426-9731.
about access to pornographic ma-
terials through Internet comput-
ers at the library system's 27
branches. There currently is no
screening of Internet computers,
which provide open access to in-
formation, said Tina Roose, Tim-
berland's deputy director.
"It's a small number of people"
who are complaining, Roose told
The Journal. People using the In-
ternet through the library system
accumulate thousands of hours of
use, but the number of complaints
is small, she added.
THE MISSION of the region-
al library system is to provide
public access to a whole spectrum
of ideas, Roose said. "The Internet
is a whole new public forum that
we haven't had before. The courts
and legislatures around the coun-
try are wrestling with how to con-
trol this new medium of free
speech," she said.
Libraries across the country
are also wrestling with the issue.
"It's a classic democratic question:
What should people be allowed
access to and who decides what
will be allowed," Roose said.
One possible solution is com-
puter software that automatically
screens out photos of objection-
able material. Timberland library
computers currently have an op-
tional search engine that filters
out such material. Mike Potts,
reference library at
liam G. Reed
thinks patrons
have choices now to
sive Internet sites.
Shelton library
teach basic Internet
trons on Monday
evenings, Potts
the classes is to shoW
ulous tool the
ed.
STAFF
trons to return to
home page when they're
ing the Internet.
though, they leave
sites on the corn
when they leave,
"That's what sometim
alarm and questions
brary staff," Potts said.
Five of the library'S
lic-access comput
trons to access the
said that ever since
library set up its
couple of years ago an
Internet access, the
have gotten a lot of us
of five patrons who come
the computers want to
ternet, he said.
The library's
"privacy" screens tb
seen from the
helps to protect
inadvertently seeing
they might find offensive'
Nominations doe
for volunteer kids
Mason County is looking for
nominations for the fourth annual
Youth Volunteer Recognition
Awards celebration.
Any agency with young people
between 13 and 18 who volunteer
time and services can nominate
youngsters for this recognition,
says Carla Huyck of the Mason
County Health Department.
Nomination forms are avail-
able from Huyck
ty Building IV
dar streets, or noW:
call Maggie Roberts
Parenthood
or Kacie Sanborn at
ty Literacy,
Nominations
ted no later than
those nominated
ognized at the April 2
When Tax Day Ends, Let's
April 16&17
Show Starts at 9pm
Live Country Music, Classic Rock, and Oldies
A S N 0 .............. .....
Open Daily * interdumge Hwy 101/108 * Shelton * (360) 427-7711 * www.Uttle-creek.com
Check out our new hours: Suaday thru Wednelay loan, to 4am, Thursday thru Saturday 10am to 6am
Olympics offer gold medal view
THE OLYMPICS LOOM above Highway 101 on a glo- casters predict there will be more such views
rious Sunday as spring seems to explode onto the through this weekend as sunshine continues and
scene in one day after months of rain. Weather fore- temperatures reach the 70s by Friday.
County commission roundup:
Accused of killing boyfriend:
Jones pleads not
guilty to murder
Elizabeth Jones, 37, of Shelton
pied not guilty Wednesday to
murdering her boyfriend at the
Mason County Shelter.
The plea followed a two-week
stay at Western State Hospital, a
medical facility in Tacoma for
people with mental illnesses. A
sanity commission there said she
was depressed and irritable but
found that she does not have any
psychosis that would make her
incompetent to stand trial for
murder in the second degree.
Defense attorney Robert Quil-
lian said the sanity commission
found that she had a long history
of abusive relationships. He said
the concepts of self-defense and
"the battered-woman syndrome"
would likely be an element of her
defense..
Jones is accused of stabbing
47-year-old Randy Freeman in
the chest following a bout of
heavy drinking at the shelter.
Jones and her 16-year-old son,
Jayson, were guests of the shelter
when Freeman was found
there late on the
March 25.
Freeman was killed
ter Jayson Jones
tacked in an
the Mason County
say he was beaten by
at a drinking party M , .
Sawyer scheduled an o(
hearing for May 6, pre.trl
May 26 and trial for thejUU
that begins June 7.
q'imberland sets meeting
on Internet access
By JEFF GREEN
Timberland Regional Library
Board of Directors will hold a
public meeting Tuesday evening
to discuss to library's policy about
access to the Internet.
That meeting will be from 6 to
8 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, at Tim-
berland's Service Center, 415 Air-
dustrial Way SW, Olympia.
A small group of Olympia-area
residents have raised concerns
County approves a preliminary phase
of 85-acre subdivision near Hoodsport
decided to return it to the county.
Judge Sheldon will miss two
months of work whe'n her infant
twin sons come home from the
hospital, she added.
BOLENDER SAID the board
appreciated the judge's generosi-
ty and her effort and initiative in
helping to ease budget demands
on the courts.
* Approved a professional ser-
vices contract with Theresa Bol-
ing, a dental hygienist, to
oversee the health department's
oral health program. Steve Kutz,
personal health services direc-
tor, noted a state Department of
Health grant, which funds for the
program, also stipulates that a
dental professional must oversee
the program. He said Boling was
manager for a similar program
in Grays Harbor County. The
contract runs from March 1 to
December 31 at a rate of $50 per
hour with the total not to exceed
$3,000.
* Scheduled a public hearing
for 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, May 11,
on the vacation of a portion of the
county right-of-way on North
Shore Road, as requested by Ed-
ward Triol of the Triol Family
Limited Partnership.
Authorized Gary Yando,
community development direc-
tor, to advertise for proposals to
harvest hay on four properties
which the county acquired
through the federal hazard miti-
gation grant buyout program in
the Skokomish Valley. The
fields are located at 140, 180, 241
and 421 East Bourgault Road. All
proposals must be received by
Yando no later than 5 p.m. Fri-
day, April 30.
HEARD FROM Yando that
people had signed up to arrange
for over 400 vehicles to deliver
refuse on "free dump day" at the
county solid-waste facility on
Eells Hill Road. The free day is
part of the county's spring clean-
up effort. "I think it's an exciting
program," he commented, add-
ing that he hoped the county could
sponsor another free day as a
part of a fall cleanup.
Approved the warranty deed
and real estate tax excise agree-
ment with Ray and Barbara
Kealy for the purchase of property
on West Skokomish Valley Road
as part of the federal hazard mit-
igation grant buyout program.
Proclaimed April 18 to 24 as
National County Government
Week.
Approved veterans' assis-
tance applications, as recom-
mended by the screening com-
mittee, for three individuals to-
taling $1,142.
ment conditional-use permit re-
quest by Tim Sheldon of Pot-
latch. Sheldon wants to excavate
former fill and, restore property
on two of four lots in Potlatch
Beach tracts, located on Potlatch
Lane toward Hood Canal from
Highway 101.
Bolender pointed out the origi-
nal application called for the re-
moval of 490 cubic yards but
noted that the request had been
revised to 320 cubic yards. He
worried "this is an effort to
squeeze into a small box" since
grading of less than 200 cubic
yards per lot is exempt from the
county's grading ordinance,
While he said he had no problem
with the concept of the proposal,
Bolender noted that he wanted to
ensure that the commission was
"not circumventing our own
rules."
Both commissioners asked for
verification from the contractor,
Ron Gold of R.G. Forestry Con-
sultant of Hoodsport, as to how
much fill would be removed from
each of the lots involved.
Approved a supplemental
appropriation to the budget of
$12,580 for the superior court.
Ione Siegler, budget director, told
the board the funds are a private
donation from Mason County
Superior Court Judge Toni Shel-
don for court commissioner ex-
penses during her absence.
Siegler explained that Judge
Sheldon is required by law to
take her salary but the judge has
City of Shelton
Comprehensive Plan
Amendments
The City is now accepting requests for
amendments to the 1995 City of Shelton
Comprehensive Plan. Amendments may be
made in the form of map changes and/or text
changes, and must be submitted by 5:00 p.m.,
April 30, 1998. A public hearing date for those
amendment requests will be set in May. Cover
sheets for amendment requests and a list of
required submissions is available at City of
Shelton, Development Services, 130 South 2nd
Street.
The Mason County commis-
sioners gave preliminary ap-
proval to an 85-acre subdivision
north of Hoodsport at their meet-
ing Tuesday.
"This is probably the last one
of these we'll see tbr awhile,"
Commissioner John Bolender
observed, retbrring to the stand-
still in development as the coun-
ty struggles with compliance
with the state Growth Manage-
ment Act. Rulings of invalidity
%r sections of the comprehensive
plan and development regula..
tions by the Western Washing-
ton Growth Management Hear-
ings Board have resulted in an
inability by the county to process
various permits.
But the large-lot permit re-
quest submitted by Sam Boling of
Brinnon predates any growth
management hearings board de-
cisions, Planner Pam Bennett-
Cumming explained in her staff
report. "This proposal was origi-
nally initiated in December of'
1995, prior to the adoption of the
1996 Mason County Comprehen-
sive Plan and development reg-
ulations," she said.
"THE APPLICANT has
worked with the various county
departments, other government
agencies and interested parties
in an attempt to craft a proposal
which will meet county stan-
dards, other agency concerns
and address the concerns of the
public," Bennett-Cumming wrote
in her staff report.
The board approved Boling's
request to develop 85 acres in
upland hills east of Holiday
Beach into 17 clustered lots, with
two tracts of open space totaling
38.28 acres.
The residential lots range in
size from 2.14 to 4,35 acres for a
total acreage of 45.5 acres, Ben-
nett-Cumming said. This con-
figuration would result in a
density of one dwelling unit per
five acres, she noted. The proper-
ty was logged in 1996.
Miller Creek, a stream identi-
fied by commenting agencies as
an important fish habitat re-
source, has been set aside as part
of the open space in perpetuity,
Bennett-Cumming explained.
The steep slope area is also a part
of the open space.
CHARLES MARLEY, Bol-
ing's brother-in-law and his
partner in American Develop-
ment, told the board they had
done "lots of analysis," like hir-
ing Allen L. Hart, engineering
geologist from Tacoma, to pre-
pare a geotechnical report. The
board included the report's rec-
ommendations as one of' the con-
ditions for the permit.
Marley noted they wanted to
protect the stream and the people
who live in Holiday Beach too,
adding that is why all the devel-
opment is on the hill. "I think
we've done a good job of making
sure everyone's protected - fish,
people and the land," he said.
IN OTHER business conduct-
ed without Commissioner Mary
Jo Cady, who was on a trip,
Bolender and Olsen:
Approved a grant agreement
with the Washington State De-
partment of Ecology (DOE) to
fund the treatment of Eurasian
miifoil at Mason Lake.
The three-year grant is for
$54,000 total with DOE providing
$47,250 and the recipient match
providing $6,750 in cash or in-
kind contributions, explained
Health Services Director Brad
Banner. He told the board a letter
from the Mason Lake Watermil-
foil Steering Committee indicat-
ed the committee had a cash bal-
ance of $5,283 with $1,500 in
pledges.
Banner noted the grant will be
"back dated" to January 1, 1999 so
the committee's work might be
reimbursed. "They've done a
tremendous amount of in-kind
work," he said.
"I'M VERY proud of the Mason
Lake residents for putting forth
the effort to achieve this grant,"
Olsen said.
Continued to 7:30 p.m. Tues-
day, April 27, a hearing on a
shoreline substantial-develop-
Chuck Ruhl
Insurance
10186 C',mmings l)rive
5dtc Woollcv, WA 98284
()[rice (360) 854-91,!3,3 Fax (.360) 854-0308.
Toll Free Pager 1-888-204-4939
Journal Thursday, A)ri115, 1999
Page 2 Shelton-Mason
For more information call the City of Shelton
Planning Department at 426-9731.
about access to pornographic ma-
terials through Internet comput-
ers at the library system's 27
branches. There currently is no
screening of Internet computers,
which provide open access to in-
formation, said Tina Roose, Tim-
berland's deputy director.
"It's a small number of people"
who are complaining, Roose told
The Journal. People using the In-
ternet through the library system
accumulate thousands of hours of
use, but the number of complaints
is small, she added.
THE MISSION of the region-
al library system is to provide
public access to a whole spectrum
of ideas, Roose said. "The Internet
is a whole new public forum that
we haven't had before. The courts
and legislatures around the coun-
try are wrestling with how to con-
trol this new medium of free
speech," she said.
Libraries across the country
are also wrestling with the issue.
"It's a classic democratic question:
What should people be allowed
access to and who decides what
will be allowed," Roose said.
One possible solution is com-
puter software that automatically
screens out photos of objection-
able material. Timberland library
computers currently have an op-
tional search engine that filters
out such material. Mike Potts,
reference library at
liam G. Reed
thinks patrons
have choices now to
sive Internet sites.
Shelton library
teach basic Internet
trons on Monday
evenings, Potts
the classes is to shoW
ulous tool the
ed.
STAFF
trons to return to
home page when they're
ing the Internet.
though, they leave
sites on the corn
when they leave,
"That's what sometim
alarm and questions
brary staff," Potts said.
Five of the library'S
lic-access comput
trons to access the
said that ever since
library set up its
couple of years ago an
Internet access, the
have gotten a lot of us
of five patrons who come
the computers want to
ternet, he said.
The library's
"privacy" screens tb
seen from the
helps to protect
inadvertently seeing
they might find offensive'
Nominations doe
for volunteer kids
Mason County is looking for
nominations for the fourth annual
Youth Volunteer Recognition
Awards celebration.
Any agency with young people
between 13 and 18 who volunteer
time and services can nominate
youngsters for this recognition,
says Carla Huyck of the Mason
County Health Department.
Nomination forms are avail-
able from Huyck
ty Building IV
dar streets, or noW:
call Maggie Roberts
Parenthood
or Kacie Sanborn at
ty Literacy,
Nominations
ted no later than
those nominated
ognized at the April 2
When Tax Day Ends, Let's
April 16&17
Show Starts at 9pm
Live Country Music, Classic Rock, and Oldies
A S N 0 .............. .....
Open Daily * interdumge Hwy 101/108 * Shelton * (360) 427-7711 * www.Uttle-creek.com
Check out our new hours: Suaday thru Wednelay loan, to 4am, Thursday thru Saturday 10am to 6am