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Thursday, AprU28, 2011 Year 12 -- Week 17 -- 8 Sections -- 96 Pages -- Published in Shelton, Washington $1
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Racing to find the eggs
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Children race to collect plastic Easter eggs in a hunt organized by the Christian community Saturday. The event, held at Oakland Bay Junior High
School also included music and other Easter themed activities.
Judge denies
motion to dismiss
manslaughter charges
By KEVAN MOORE flcieny of evidence.
Mason County Superior
Court Judge Amber Finlay
has rejected a motion to
dismiss second-degree man-
slaughter charges against
a Shelton man accused of
shooting a brushpicker.
Carlos Pablo Carrillo, 25,
was shot to death on the
morning of September 29,
2010 while gathering salal
about 50 yards off the Cali-
fornia Road.
Gerald Wayne Aldrich,
39, showed uplater that af-
ternoon at the Mason Coun-
ty Sheriffs Office with his
Remington Model 7400-.30-
6 semiautomatic rifle and
said he had been hunting
black bear along the Cali-
fornia Road.
Aldrich told police that
he saw a "black thing" that
"looked like a bear" so he
"shot."
The state claims that Al-
drich killed Cam)llo through
criminal negligence, If found
guilty of the manslaughter
charge, prosecutors say that
Aldrich likely faces a prison
term of 21 to 27 months,
with another three years
added on to that due to the
firearm enhancement.
Shelton attorney Jea-
nette Boothe is representing
Aldrich and originally filed
he r motion for dismissal
late last month for an insuf-
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"There is simply no evi-
dence in this case to support
a reasonable and logical
inference that Mr. Aldrich
acted in a manner which
showed i of awareness
of
a risk that a
wrongful act might occur
and that lack of awareness
constituted a gross devia-
tion from reasonable care
which resulted in the death
of Mr. Carrillo," Booths
wrote.
Booths argued that Car-
rillo and another brushpick-
er at the scene were wearing
dark clothing so as not to be
spotted.
"A careful analysis of
the fa.cts of case leads
a reasonable person to be-
lieve that the victim and his
fellow brush pickers were
intentionally attempting
to conceal themselves from
detection, therefore, plac-
ing themselves in a danger-
ous positidla to be accidently
(sic) killed,? Booths wrote.
. went on to,argtm
that acc0-rding to a report
written by Mason County
Sheriff's Office Detective
Jack Gardner, an ICE agent
"confirmed that the victim
was not in this country le-
gally and was working with-
out a permit. The victim's
behavior in attempting to
conceal himself from detec-
tion is consistent with an
individual who is knowingly
hiding from the law."
Mason County Prosecu-
tor Mike Dorcy argued that
the "mdisputed facts" pre-
sented 'by Booths are, in
fact, in dispute and need to
be heard by a jury.
"Because the question
at issue in this case is, by
definition, a question of fact
that ties .Within the'prov-
ince of the jury, and because
Sports C-1 there is a dispute between
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criminal negligence, the de-
A cleaner Earth Day
City gives tour
of upgraaea
Wastewater
Treatment Plant
By NATALIE JOHNSON
This Earth Day, city officials gath-
ered with US Department of Agricul-
ture (USDA) representatives and
community members to celebrate the
success achieved in just five years, in
completely revamping it's sewer and
wastewater system.
"It was five years ago in 2006 that
we came together on earth day and
received a huge check from USDA,"
City Commissioner Dawn Pannell
said. "Who would have thought that
five years later we'd be here again
celebrating with USDA?
Most of the city's sewer proj-
ects, including extensive tpgrades
to the wastewater treatment plant
(WWTP), have come from funding
from USDA Rural Development
funds.
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
City engineer Mike Michael led a tour of the city's
improvements to its wastewater treatment plant on Friday.
"It's a work in progress, a labor of
love and has yielded great results so
far," said USDA representative Pe-
ter McMillin.
McMillin said the project is about
67 percent done. The improvements
to the WWTP will be completed next
year.
About 20 people embarked on a
tour of the city's wastewater projects
on a bus loaned from Mason Transit.
First, the tour drove by the Knee-
land Park pump station, which was
completed last summer. Then the
tour went through the city's sewer
basin five rehabilitation area. Ba-
sin five will be the object of the city's
next wastewater project.
Next, riders stepped offthe bus for
the star attraction of the day, a walk-
ing tour of new construction at the
city's wastewater treatment plant.
The wastewater treatment plant,
which last saw significant construc-
tion in the 1970s, has a long list of
improvements, most of which were
See Earth on page A-7
Oakland Bay Junior High
striving to be greener
By NATALIE JOHNSON
With help from the Washington
State Department of Ecology, Oak-
land Bay Junior High School has
embarked on a program to go green,
reduce its waste and sav,e about
$4,000 a year.
The Washington Green School
program is an online program which
encourages schools to leave pro-"
grams that increase energy efficien-
cy and recycling and improve water
and air quality.
Schools, like Oakland Bay Junior
High can sign up for the program
and work to get certified as a Wash-
ington Green School.
.-:::, The Green Team," consisting of
staff and students passionalte about
the program, at the junior ]high de-
cided to focus on increasimg recy-
clilg, head custodian Darleen Wes-
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Darleen Westermann shows
off a recycling bin full of milk
cartons, collected in only a
few school days.
termann said.
pgram started with an au-
dit that showed the school just how
much waste it produces every day.
See Green on page A-7
Man gets 22
months for
threatening
to kill cop
By KEVAN MOORE
A Shelton man will spend
22 months in prison for threat-
ening to kill a police officer.
Ian A. Horn, 29, of the 900
block of Fairmount Ave. pled
guilty to felony harassment
(with a threat to kill) on April
5. He was sentenced Monday,
April 25.
Horn was arrested Febru-
ary 16 after an officer was dis-
patched to Shelton Municipal
Court at about 11:45 a.m.
Officer Dan Patton arrived
See Cop on page A-7