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home,” Stein wrote.
He wrote that the county
would need a “robust increase
in testing, continued rapid
contact tracing and focused ,
quarantine and isolation
strategies.”
On Tuesday, Gov. Jay In-_
slee laid out his vision for
a safe return to public life
amid the coronavirus. In-
slee said it’s unlikely that
the state’s “stay home, stay
health” order _will be modi-
fied before May 4, when it
could be lifted.
“It will look more like a
turn of the dial than a flip of
the switch,” Inslee said in an
address. “We’re going to take
steps and then monitor to see
whether they work or if we
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Cases: County must increase testing, health Officer says
must continue to adapt.”
Stein wrote that restric-
tions would be lifted gradu-
ally, and recommended resi-
dents continue to work from
home if possible, practice
social distancing, wear cloth
face masks and wash their
hands. .
Stein wrote that many
residents have asked about
where residents who have
tested positive live in Mason
County. The county has not
released location data for 10-
cal confirmed coronavirus
cases.
“Confirmed positive cases
live in communities across
Mason County,” Stein wrote,
adding no more details. “There
may also be many uncon-
firmed cases who do not know
they are sick because they do
not have symptoms. Limiting
the places you go because you
think someone who is infected
has been there can give you~
a false sense of security from
the virus.”
For more information about
the coronavirus, call the coun-
ty Public Health hotline at
360-427-9670, ext. 599, or go
to www.doh.wa.gov or www.
cdc.gov.
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The Sargent Oyster House, built in 1947 and used until 1993 on North Bay,
is being restored on Port of Allyn property to create a museum. The top
half
has been secured, while the bottom 4 feet of the structure and the
floor‘are being replaced. Hera/d photo by Gordon Weeks
Oyster house: Workers rebuilding bottom half of building.
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remove the old launch ramp, and pay
for the design and construction of a
new platform, Coppola wrote.
Workers have secured the top half
of the building and are rebuilding the
bottom half of the structure, including
the 12-by—12-foot beams it sits upon,
and the 4-by—12-foot floors, which will
have concrete poured over them, Cop-
pola wrote.
' “Oyster processing requires a sig-
nificant amount of running water,
which is why concrete is poured over
the flooring of the building and the
wooden foundational structure it sits
on,” Coppola wrote. “Supporting the
weight of that concrete is also why
the wooden structure has to be so
substantial. To qualify for the histori-
cal grant .money, the building has to
be restored to be as authentic as pos-
sible.” ‘ ' i
For the past decade, the Port of Al-
lyn has worked with the North Bay
Historical Society to try to save the
oyster house. The state Department
of Archaeology and Historic Preserva-
tion declared that the building is one
of the few remaining oyster houses of
its kind on Puget Sound.
Property owner Humphrey Nelson
began farming oysters in 1927 at 940
E. North Bay Road. Clem and Dee
Sargent bought the land in 1947 and
constructed the building, which re—
mained in operation until 1993, when
the state Department of Fish and
Wildlife bought the land for future
shoreline mitigation.
The .department had planned to
demolish the building while improv-
ing the shoreline of North Bay at the
head of Case Inlet. The department
declared the building was an impedi-
ment to healthy fish and wildlife hab-
itat, with the risk of the crumbling
floor collapsing into the bay.
In October 2013, the Port of Allyn
‘ bought the building from thestate
and had it moved it to the port prop-
erty at 18560 state Route 3.
Coppola wrote that the port is
waiting on a geotechnical report to
be completed so the platform project
can move forward. The report will de-
termine the type, size, number and
depth of the pilings that will be need-
ed to support the platform, he wrote.
Once that’s completed, permits
from the Army Corps of Engineers
will be obtained, Coppola wrote. All
other required reports are completed,
he added.
Coppola wrote that the, port hopes
to receive the geotechnical report as
soon as possible “because we are up
against a fish window to work with-
in so we can remove the old launch
ramp. The actual work will only take
a couple of days, but we need all the
stars to align so we can get it done,
and drive the pilings. Otherwise,‘we
have to Wait for the next (fish win-
dow), which is about six months
away.”
Coppola praised the efforts of state
Rep. Dan Griffey, R-Allyn, and lob-
byist Gordon Thomas Honeywell in
helping secure the money to move the
project forward.
“We know there has been some op-
position from some members of the
public about the port hiring the lobby-
ists, but in our view, getting $218,000
with no matching requirements for a
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$25,000 investment is a pretty good
return on investment,” Coppola wrote.
“They were the ones doing all the leg
work and knocking on legislators’
doors at the Capitol. Their contacts
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made a huge difference and they are
already at work to secure the balance
of what we need for the completion
of the project, as well as working on
funding for some future projects.”