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EDITORIAL Changing for .... good of the community One month ago the Journal ran an editorial calling on the city officials of Shelton to do better in attracting businesses, producing new jobs and in fostering a business growth environment. During the last few weeks the city has rezoned 160 acres of land to encourage growth and new building and this week we run a story about another rezone downtown. The proposed rezone between the Mason County campus and the Sheltonville Historic District (see page 3) will hopefully encourage new growth. The confusion that results from myriad regulations, building codes and outdated ordinances that led a developer to call Shelton "one of the three toughest (cities) in the state to do business," is beginning to change. The city of Shelton is being proactive and trying to rebound from the recession by updating its zoning codes and fixing sewer issues. The Journal commends the city for taking these strides and hopes to see many more changes during the coming months. That said, members of the community need to remain active and attend public meetings that the city holds. Now that the Adage issue is gone, it is easy to return to passive engagement with local politics. It seems like the city is reinvigorated and looking to make positive change. Residents will have to stay involved, voice their opinions and make sure these changes are beneficial to our community. The city has scheduled a public meeting on the zoning amendment at 6 p.m. Monday. TO EDITOR Facts should What a never stand in the way of snappy retorts Editor, the Journal After reading the letter to the Mason County Jour- nal submitted by Dennis E. Frost, my first inclination is to congratulate him on the snappy acronym: CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything). I love it. Unfortunately it is not true, as many of us are up to our armpits in volunteer pro- grams, commissioner meet- ings, citizen committees and supporting job-creating proj- ects like the 160-acre rezone south of Sanderson Field. But, never mind facts should never stand in the way of snappy retorts. Still, I would like to correct a couple of Mr. Frost's assumptions. First, no one is advocating for the closure of Sanderaon Field; that's just a bit of poof Port Director John Dobson keeps spouting to keep local pilots up in arms. Trust me, deal- make downtown really ugly Editor, the Journal At present, Simpson Lumber and Olympic Pan- el provide quite a few jobs for our community. We ac- cept the negative aspects of their presence in Shel- ton, like the pollution for example, because of these jobs. Another way of de- scribing this relationship is "symbiosis" a relationship of mutual benefit. Imagine a Shelton in which Simpson and Olym- pic Panel exist, but some- how provide no jobs for lo- cal residents. With the noise, tons of pollutants and an appear- ance resembling a malig- nant tumor, how long do you think we would allow Simpson and Olympic Pan- el to operate here without providing any benefits to our community? One day? One week? Not Dennis, it ain't gonna hap- long to be sure. Why would pen; not now, not later. And we? no one wants it to haisn ........... Back in the real world, because the airport is a key we know why Simpson and component of any credible economic recovery plan. I've told Mr. Dobson this in no uncertain terms. But, hey, it appears he doesn't like the movie so he keeps yelling something about there being a fire in the theatre. Fact is, the worse enemy of uninterrupted airport op- erations may be John Dob- son, himself: by persistently alienating the public and fighting against jobs and us- ing "cry wolff scare tactics, it's only a matter of time be- fore he's up there in the wild blue yonder all alone, and then you have a real prob- lem. The second assumption is that the use of the phrase "old, white men" is somehow disrespectful; that seems to have struck a chord with Mr. Frost. But at 65 years of age, male, and white, I wasn't offended, and neither were any of my old, white, male friends. Fact is we all had a pretty good laugh about it. So toughen up, Dennis, haven't you ever been in the Service? I'm sure you've heard worse. This here is Timber country, not Disney Land; so hike up your skirt and stop searching under rocks for something that offends you.' Otherwise, not a bad let- ter; I liked it. Give me a call (Dobson has my phone num- ber) and I'll buy you a beer. Tom Davis Shelton friends are still here. Again, it's the jobs. Now, however, Simpson has given birth to another new child. This one is called the Solomon Renewable Energy Company. This new Companyls sole purpose is o build a new biomass incin- erator in downtown Shelton in order to sell electricity to the highest bidder. Simpson has publicly stated that this new incin- erator would bring two to three new jobs. You can be- lieve what you want about those numbers, but there is no doubt about this new incinerator producing tons and tons of pollutants to which thousands of our citi- zens would be exposed. With Simpson/Solomon's proposed second biomass incinerator, our previously mentioned fantasy would become our new reality. We would get the increased noise, tons of increased pol- lution and an even more ugly downtown. All of this would be ours with little or no benefit to our communi- ty. Solomon's relationship to the community would a parasitic one rather than symbiotic. What a deal. 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Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584. $37 per year for Mason County addresses, Published weeld b Shelton Mason Coun Journal, In¢ $51 per year in state of Washington but outside :! y y . - ty  . . _ : i; ::227 : ,  !ng i Mason County, $61 per year out of state. ;bone (80)426-442 .moy:com ..... ed d published by Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, Washington She/ton-Mason County Journal, Inc Page A-4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 28, 2011,2011 Rick Kennedy, publisher Newsroom: Jesse Mullen, editor Kevan Moore, news editor Advertising: Composing room: Dave Pierik, advertising manager William Adams, graphics Harvey Morris, ad representatrve Gaylene Wiseman, paginator Mat Taylor, ad representative Koleen Wood, classifieds/legals Dean Siemon, sports Front office: Becky Corr, typing Donna Kinnaird, bookkeeper Pressroom: Ada Shephard, North Mason, Margot Brand, circulation Kelly Riordan, production manager environment, reporter Natalie Cricket Carter, mailroom supervisor Travis Miller press operator Johnson, reporter