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Earth Continued from page A-1 on display during the city's earth day walking tour. "Other than some of the con- crete structures, this will be a brand new plant," city engineer Mike Michael said. Among the upgrades are new headworks/influent structure - the part of the plant that first takes in raw sewage and screens out "grit," a new aeration system, improved dentrification, which maintains discharged levels of nitrogen and a third clarifier, which will remove more solids from the wastewater. The new construction also added effluent storage containers for use during slack tide. These will store treated wastewater un- til water levels in Hammersley Inlet will allow proper mixing of the effluent with the salt water in the inlet. An ultraviolet disinfection system will replace the current chlorination system, and there will be a larger laboratory facil- ity. Also, office space and control/ monitoring equipment will be re- located to a different part of the facility. Also, the city is adding new facilities, which will allow the plant to upgrade from creating Class B biosolids, to Class A bio- solids. Both forms can be used for fertilizer, but Class A is more versatile, and is in a pellet form, which is easier to handle. The overall focus of the city's Earth Day tour was on how the new plant will protect the envi- ronment, particularly in Ham- mersley Inlet. City, USDA and community representatives were confidant that the new invest- ment would provide for a health- ier Puget Sound in the future. "This investment is an invest- ment for the whole community," said Steve Bloomfield, represent- ing local shellfish growers. "We are logs and clams ... it's part oi  our heritage - it's something that we must protect into the future." Journal photo by Natalie Johnson Individual classrooms collect as many recyclables as they can at Oakland Bay Junior High, as part of their participation in the Department of Ecology's Washington Green School program. Green Continued from page A-1 From that day on, Wester- mann and her team began thinking of ways to reduce that waste. "We take and use what we have, where we are to take care of our recycling - we happen to have these containers and we've turned them into recycle bins," she said. "We use what we have to achieve our goals, which is to step up our recycling service." Since most schools are running on a shoestring budget in the current eco- nomic downturn, Wester- mann and her fellow green team members have had to improvise, and have either bought plastic garbage cans to collect recycling in the cafeteria, or used coffee cans or old plastic bins to collect food waste and other recy- clables. Westermann said that even before joining Ecol- ogy's program, students and staff at the school were con- corned about recycling "When I first came back to work I discovered that Ms. (Cherie) Longmire's class handled all of the re- cycling, 6f th P01 ean, the water bottles and recy- cling that comes out of the kitchen," she said. "They do it every week, so I thought, maybe we could do a better job recycling the other gar- bage." Above all other types of waste, Westermann said that schools, and particu- larly Oakland Bay Junior High, go through milk ear- tons and plastic water and pop bottles like crazy. To deal with the problem, she started adding more recy- cling bins throughout the school to encourage the sop- aration of recyclable waste from other garbage. In Westermann's pro- gram, milk cartons have their own bin. So do plastic bottles, paper scraps, card- board, and food waste. Some food waste even gets reused, she said. "We take the salad bar waste everyday and feed it to a worm bin, a w0ll a th0 waste from our foods class," she said. • / ] The worm bin, as well as another compost bin, are used as fertilizer for a horti- culture class. Westermann said that while the project sometimes feels like an uphill battle, like when she's sifting through garbage for recycla- bles, it has had a major posi- tive impact on the school. Since the program began, the school has been able to eliminate one of its full sized dumpsters that used to be filled every day. This equates to a third of the school's daily trash output and about $4,000 a year in garbage bills. Volunteers from the staff take all of the milk cartons, bottles, and paper to the re- cycling center themselves to save money. "It's not a lot when you're talking about the big pic- turo and how much garbage comes through, but it's a lot of trash,, Westermann said. BatteriesPlus. 4" Cop Continued from page A-1 at the courtroom and was directed by Judge George Steele to take Horn into custody for contempt of court. After being placed in handcuffs, Horn made several derogatory state- ments to the judge. Horn continued to yell profani- ties and was extremely agitated while being tak- en to a squad car. Once in the car, Horn asked what his bail would be and Officer Pat- ton informed him that there would be no bail because of a contempt cf court hold. "At that time, Horn slammed his head against the plastic pari- tion in the patrol vehicle with such force that I thought he had broke the plastic and was at risk of injuring himself," Officer Patton wrote in a prob- able cause statement. "He then slid sideways in the seat and started to kick the bars covering the rear side windows. While doing this, I told Horn to stop it or I would have to stop the vehicle. Horn's response was, 'I'll (exple- "As an officer, I took Horn's threat to kill me as a valid threat." tive removed) kill you.'" Officer Patton imme- diately advised dispatch that Horn was hitting his head and threatening to kill police officers. Officer Patton also requested as- sistance from other units. "Horn immediately stated in an apologetic tone, 'I didn't say that,'" Patton wrote in his prob- able cause statemtent. "As an officer, I took Horn's threat to kill me as a valid threat. Horn has an extensive criminal history including six felo- nies and several fourth- degree assault convic- tions." 4th Annua00 Shelton Hieh SchooIFFA Chapter at OakfandBay Jr, SchooIHorticdture Center Frida); April 29th Noon-6pm Saturdh); Apn'13Oth 9am-6pm 3und y, May 1st 11am-4pm Questions? Ca11426-7991 ext. 15605 5 th Annual May 6, 2011 Dentistry from the heart... ...to be held at the office of Dr. Richard C. Downing, D.D.S. 1626 Olympic Highway North, Shelton, WA Your Choice of One Free Procedure: WChoice #1 - Filling W Choice #2 - Extraction WChoice #3 - Full Mouth Cleaning Registration begins at 7:00 a.m. We will treat as many patients as possible in eight hours. Sea00! *Must be at least 18 years of age* 24151 HOOD CANAL Hwy. 101 N, • Hoodsport, WA 360-877-2066 Shelton-Mason County Journal -Thursday, April 28, 2011 - Page A-7