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By NATALIE JOHNSON
City and Mason Coun-
ty Fire District 5 officials
came together with mem-
bers of the community Sat-
urday to dedicate the new-
ly renovated and expanded
Shelton Fire Station.
Fire District 5 Assistant
Chief and City Fire Mar-
shal Dave Salzer spoke
about not only the heroes
that inhabit the new build-
ing, but also the heroes
who made the renovation
of the fire station possible.
"My comments today
are about heroes," he said.
"I want you to meet two
people that I considered
heroes during the con-
struction of this glorious
new building - many of
you probably don't know
either of them."
First, Salzer spoke
about Curt Johnson, the
city's facilities mainte-
nance manager.
"Curt worked tirelessly
with the architects, engi-
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
City Fire Marshal and Mason County Fire
District 5 Assistant Chief Dave Salzer speaks
at the dedication ceremony for the city of
Shelton's renovated public safety building on
Saturday.
ricers, contractors and the
fire department staff to be
sure that all of the appro-
priate infrastructure was
installed in the building
... this building works for
us because of his efforts,"
he said.
The second hero Salzer
saluted was Gene Pinard,
who was the construction
manager for the project
with Jones and Roberts
Construction.
Salzer said that Pinard
was responsible for al-
lowing fire station opera-
tions to continue smoothly
throughout the renovatiom
"He was often the first
to arrive each day and the
last to leave," Salzer said.
Early in the expansion
project, the city mandated
that the original portion
of the building, built in
1932 and designed by Jo-
seph W. Wohleb, be saved
as much as possible.
"We thought long and
hard ... but what we re-
ally wanted to do is pere-
serve a functional part of
history," Mayor John Tar-
rant said.
The project, completed
with a new parking lot
this spring, included a
new apparatus bay and a
12,572-square foot addi-
tion to the original build-
ing which includes and
Emergency Operations
Center and conference fa-
cility; officer, volunteer,
training and watch offices;
workshop, decontamina-
tion and storage rooms;
kitchen and day room
and dining area; physical
training area; and sleep-
ing quarters with 19 beds.
Library
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across the nation are seeing."
According to Ross' report, in just
the first three months of this year
the library had circulated 80,716
books, admitted 66,164 people and
collected $6,005.12 in fines.
"That's 15 cents at a time," Ross
said.
That equates to 150 carts shelved
per month and about 907 visits per
day.
Ross also said that internet/PC
use amounted to 5,589 hours, mean-
ing that all available computers are
in use 62 percent of the time. Also,
the library's Facebook page received
251 "likes."
The library also employs 21 staff
members, she said.
"We are one of the top 50 employ-
ers in Mason County and that's very
exciting for us," Ross said.
Despite drops in funding, the li-
brary is getting more and more tech-
nologically advanced, particularly
through the library's e-book pro-
gram.
This is an area where all libraries
are seeing increased usage ... We of-
fer both audio and PDF books," she
said.
E-book checkouts started in Janu-
ary 2010, at 3,200 and this month
reached more than 6,000.
Ross also discussed TRL (Timber-
land Regional Library) Initiatives,
including Adult Winter Reading,
and Family Road Aloud, which en-
courage§ families to read together in
qO
every room of their house. The read
II'
aloud program had 337 participants.
The library is also expanding
community programs, which drew
797 participants in the first three
months of 2011.
Ongoing classes include computer
classes, PageTurners, outreach ac-
tivities, Junior PageTurners, Wii
Rock Wednesdays for teens and Sto-
rytime.
Ross said that efforts to secure
funds for a new carpet for library are
also in motion.
"I have secured $44,000 for the
purchase of the carpet," Ross said.
The project should cost about
$51,000 overall.
The Friends of the Shelton Tim-
berland Library have helped raise
$10,000 toward that goal, and also
raise funds to help other library pro-
grams endatigered bybudget cuts:
Rezone
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airport operations. The city
and Hall Equities commis-
sioned a noise study from
BRC Acoustics.
Representatives from the
sound consulting company
recently gave a presenta-
tion to the commission ar-
guing that according to FAA
guidelines, noise levels on
the Shelton Hills property
would be consistent with
normal neighborhoods, and
• would be compatible for
neighborhood residential
zoning.
In the following week,
the port and its supporters
argued that BRC Acoustics'
findings and FAA criteria
were not valid or accurate,
and that sound levels would
be too high for residential
development.
City staff took the oppor-
tunity to respond to com-
ments from last week's pub-
lic hearing during Monday
night's meeting.
"We received a fairly sub-
stantial amount of input
primarily from aviation in-
terests," City Planner Jason
Dose said.
Dose said that some of
the comments stated that
compatibility involved more
than noise. He responded
saying that the growth
board instructed the city
to look specifically at noise
compatibility.
He also said that some
comments suggested that
the airport would see take
otis and landings from Boe-
ing 737s in the future, and
that the sound data did not
account for that. Dose pre-
sented written testimony
from experts saying that
the airport's runway could
not handle the operational
weight of such a plane, and
that the port's comprehen-
sive plan did not provide for
such upgrades in the fore-
seeable future.
The BRC Acoustics study
relied heavily on the idea
that 65 DNL, a measure-
ment of sound, is the thresh-
old at which ambient noise
becomes annoying. Some
comments from port sup-
porters questioned whether
this was the appropriate
• measure.
"The port itself relies on
this metric for determining
compatibility," Dose said.
The city also receiced a
letter from the port encour-
aging the city to join them
in asking the Growth Man-
agement Hearings Noard to
extend the deadline for a de-
cision on the project to April
25 in order to give more
time for consultation with
the port and aviation inter-
ests, which the port argued
was inadequate.
"The city staff engaged
in extensive consultation
with the port ... before the
Growth Board the port ar-
gued that the city's consul-
tation was not meaningful
and the growth board re-
jected that argument," city
attorney Kathleen Haggard
said. "I see no reason to ex-
cept the port's attorney's
recommendation."
Commissioners Mike By-
rue and Dawn Pannell voted
2-0 to rezone the land from
commercial/industrial to
neighborhood residential.
Mayor John Tarrant was
absent for Monday's meet-
ing.
"I believe that Sanderson
Field will be just fine if the
Hall project moves forward.
If residential development
alone could shut down air-
ports then most of the air-
ports that I'm familiar with
would be gone," Pannell
said. "There have been air-
ports that have closed.., but
I would argue that perhaps
rather than residential en-
croachment those airports
should be looking at things
like poor management and
poor planning and finan-
cial concerns, an economic
downturn and dwindling
customer base when they
look at reasons for airports
closing."
0.2." "Dad sits at home all day while
I'm at work. I'm aft'aid that lie's just
't
wasting away. He can do the things
he used to do and his friends are gone,
but he'd never go to a nursing home.
What can I do?"
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