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Mason Transit delivering
Agency in for senior drivers
By Gordon Weeks
gordon@masoncounty. com
Last week, Mason Transit Authority delivered
244 Meals on Wheels to 16 homebound seniors in
Mason County.
The meals from Senior Services of South Sound
are delivered frozen, and are designed to last the
recipients two weeks. This week, MTA will deliver
more than 280 meals to another group of seniors, the
agency stated in a news release.
MTA will. continue to deliver meals every other
week until Senior Services of South Sound is able to
resume delivery.
To be eligible, recipients must live in Mason or
Thurston counties, be 60 or older, unable to cook, un-
able to leave home unassisted, or lack someone who
can cook for them.
Kathy Geist, MTA’s outreach/transit planner,
and MTA driver Dan Sharp delivered the first round
of meals.
“This is what community is about,” Geist stated
in the news release. “How lucky I am! Meals on
Wheels asked MTA for help, so I got to deliver over
200 meals on the first day and even more next week.
My dream job.” '
“I am proud of our team for stepping up to help
Senior Services during this time of need and thank-
ful we had the resources available,” MTA General
Manager Danette Brannin said in the news release.
“Kathy is perfect for accommodating this type of out-
reach.”
This week, Geist will help HUB Center for Se-
niors in Belfair deliver food to 63 seniors.
being elected in
2014. The district
covers all of Mason
County and parts of
Thurston and Kit-
sap counties.
In an email to
the Shelton-Mason
EyCAdam‘rRudnick
adam@masoncounty. com
Colton Myers, a 28—year-old Olym-
pia resident, announced Monday that
he would challenge incumbent Dan
Griffey for his 35th Legislative Dis-
trict spot.
Myers, a state health policy analyst County Journal,
who was born and raised in Kitsap Myers Myers wrote he
County, said in a news release that decided to run for
the district has been left behind and the Legislature
taken for granted because “we don’t
have effective leadership in Olympia
fighting for opportunity and invest-
ments here at home.”
Although candidates cannot file for
the election until next month, Myers
has registered with the state’s Public
Disclosure Commission.
Griffey, R-Allyn, has had the Posi-
tion 1 seat of the 35th District since
while pursuing his graduate studies.
Growing up, he said he felt like he
didn’t have a place in his community,
which had representatives who voted
against basic protections for LGBTQ+
individuals.
Myers wrote the driving factor to
return to the region and run for the
Legislature was hisfamily. They en»
couraged him to “live proudly and
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«an
Olympia man to challenge 35th District
pursue further education,” which are
not the same opportunities that exist
for other families in the district.
Myers wrote that his father is a
third-generation electrical worker.
'He wrote that he’ll promote econom-
ic development to bring more family
wage jobs to the district.
The 35th District is being left be-
hind other parts of the state, Myers
wrote. The average household income
remains well below the state average,
while joblessness remains well above
the state average, he wrote. Five of the
six public school districts rank in the
bottom half of the state, while three
rank in the bottom 10%, he wrote, add-
ing that health care delivery systems
remain siloed and strained.
“These are just a small sample of
the many ways in which our district
has been left behind,” Myers wrote.
.“Many of these outcomes have wors-
ened in recent years, and all of these
challenges existed prior to COVID-19,
but are certainly being exacerbated in
light of this pandemic.”
Myers wrote that coastal acidifi-
cation and inaction by elected rep-
Meal 0 Wheels
Kathy Geist, Mason
Transit Authority’s
; outreach/transit
»‘ planner, and MTA ,
drivers are delivering
hundreds of Meals
on Wheels to
homebound seniors
in Mason County,
and this week will
help HUB Center for
Seniors in Belfair
deliver food to 63
seniors. Courtesy
photo
incumbent
resentatives to acknowledge climate
change has affected local businesses.
He pointed to younger residents leav-
ing the district, a lack of broadband
internet, and the prevalence of behav- ,
ioral and substance use disorders as
other problems.
“We need a representative who will
work toward bringing needed resourc-
es to our district, so our families have
the opportunity to not just survive,
but thrive especially in the after-
math of the coronavirus,” he wrote.
Myers wrote that he’s not accept-
ing corporate» contributions to his
grassroots campaign.
“I will bring my passion, personal
experience, professional commitment
and my longstanding ties to this com-
munity to my policy in the Legisla-
ture,” he wrote. “It’s time to set aside
partisan differences, and work togeth-
er to leverage our shared values and
make lives better for our families.”
Candidates’ official filing week is
May 11 through 15. For more infor-
matiOn about the November general
election, go to www.masoncountyelec-
tions.us.
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