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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Year 125 -- Week 18 -- 8 Sections -- 56 Pages -- Published in Shelton,Washington -- $1
By KEVAN MOORE take center in Shelton. south of State Route 102 andfenders by that time. The proposed er's physical and mental health
The Shelton site is one of three northeast of the existing Washing- 1,024-bed center would be about is assessed, security and manage-
The Washington State Depart-finalists for the new intake center ton State Correctional Center. 356,000 square feet in size and re- ment needs are evaluated and
ment of Corrections will hold a and separate hearings were sched- Officials say that the proposed quire a staff of some 500 people, long-term placement is deter-
public hearing at 6 p.m. on Fri- uled earlier this week in Thurston Westside Prison Reception Center The reception center would be mined. Officials said that process
day, May 6, at the Mason County and Kitsap counties, needs to be operational by 2016 the first place offenders go after typically takes four to six weeks
Public Works office to get feedback The Shelton site consists of an because population forescasts in- sentencing, before an offender is transferred
about locating a new statewide in- area of approximately 50 acres dicate a bed shortage for male of- Once at the center, an offend- to another facility.
helton
grad
named
chamber
director
By NATALIE JOHNSON
This week the Shelton-
Mason County Chamber of
Commerce named Heidi Mc-
Cutcheon as its new execu-
tive director.
McCutchoon has worked
as member services director
for the chamber since 2010.
~We found the best candi-
date within (the chamber),"
chamber president Patti
Case said.
McCutcbeon said that
her first goal would be to
make her own +worklosd..
more manageab!e. . . ~
"My first goal is to
mln 0~[~
manager
so I have
some-
body
holding
down
the fort,"
she said.
"I'm the
McCuteheon only per-
son fltll
time in the office right now.
I'm wearing all the hats all
the time;
When the chamber began
its search for a new execu-
tive director after Terri Jef-
fries resigned in January,
McCutcheon assumed many
of the duties of the executive
director.
"She more than proved
herself during that time,~
Case said.
McCutcheon graduated
from Shelton High School in
1996, then went on to earn
a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Business ~tion
from Concordia University
in 2002. She moved track to
Shelton with her htmbaud in
2009.
"She is well known in the
community and she knows
See Chamber on pa6e A-7
Births B-6
Community Calendar. B.3 :
Entertainment/Dining B-3
Journal of Record A,6
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Fifth-graders Kayla Murdock, left, and Carrington Waylett use a meter face to learn about decimals. Mason County
I and 8 donated meter faces to the Shelton School District to help with its fourth and fifth grade math curriculum.
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By NATALIE JOHNSON instructional facilitator for the While the course is called "The having the real model," she said.
school, talked to a friend from Mystery of the Meter," students "Having an actual meter ... makes
The constant cry of math stu-PUD 1. are not in training to become mini this task a little easier, more un-
dents from elementary school "I was explaining to him thatmeter-readers, Ranney said. derstandable.~
through high school is, "when are we're doing this math unit on the "The idea is really to help them Although the school got the me-
we ever going to use this?~ meters, and he said 'well wehave understand place value a little bet- ters aRer most fourth and fifth
Mason County PUDs 1 and 3 old meters that we ,don't use any- ter, it's not about reading a meter, grade classes had completed much
have teamed up with the Shelton more, would that help if you guys it's a tool," he said. of the curriculum, teachers say
School district to give fourth and had those?" she said. The curriculum asks studentsthat it made a difference.
fitth graders an answer to that After a short time, both PUDs I to read meters when some of the While the students diligently
question, and 3 had donated enough of the dials are covered, and includes worked on their lessons, they oc-
"Any time you can tie math tosmall meter facings for every stu- games that teach students about casionally struggled with the con-
the real world you're going to have dent at the,school to have one, as how many kilowatt hours certain cepts.
a real advantage," said Scott Ran- well as students in other schools in appliances use. All of these tasks "It's really complicated," fifth
hey, a fourth grade teacher at the district. The PUDs also donat- give students a context for using grader Kayla Murdock said.
Mountainview Elementary. ed 50 actual meters to the school, decimals in the real world, White- Ranney said that many kids
When students were having The curriculum is designed tohouse said. had an "a-ha moment,~ when they
trouble with a unit on decimals teach math using real world situ- "It's really the difference be- first got the PUDs meters.
that used a power meter as anations and problems, Whitehouse tween teaching an abstract con-
example, Mary Whitehouse, an said. cept on paper and then actually See PUD on page A-7
Kids go back to the forest
Forest Festival
Field Day teaches
kids about Mason
Cour.ty history
By NA'EALIE JOHNSON
Foremt Festival Field Day
brought hundreds of fLffh
Obituaries:, !B 7 graders together last Thurs-
Opinions, Letters A-4 clay to hearn about the forest,
Sports C-1 ....... and theiir roots.
,:,:"/~/;~. ~:, . ~'.,., ~o~,,+~ ~he iidea is to connect kids
Green ond employee Brian to the fo)rest ... and see the for-
llll|lliiggi[ ~0, supervises students as they est heriltage in our communi-
~II ~llli~~+~;~,,:~,~.~:-,;~l~-.;.~..~a.+. ~.fo~try ~]s at the ty," Green Diamond Public Af-
81111W~~~;'++~~~On. ': ": ........ fairs Mvmager Patti Case said.
The annual event is orga- to learn about forestry."
nized by the Mason Conserva- The more than 300 fiftl
tion District and sponsored by graders at the event each wevt
the Green Diamond Resouce to five different stations toad~
Company and is hosted by ing them about forestry. The
the Panhandle 4-H camp near field day had ten educational
Matlock. stations in all, teaching top
Case said that her own ics like logging, forest histou,
experiences growing up and making paper, native plants of
going to school in Shelton in- northwest forests, riparian ar-
fiuenced her decision to first eas, reforestation, salmon, for-
create the first Forest Festi- est economy, forest products
val Field day about a decade and wildlife.
ago. In one station, students
"When I was a kid here in learned how paper is made
Shelton all the fiRh and sixth from wood ptflp, and even
graders learned about for- made.scraps o£their own pa-
estry,~ she said. "As Public per using old copies of the
Affairs Manager at Simpson, Journal
I saw that we weren't doing
that+' and I wanted to get kids See Forest on page A-7