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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 =~: {. ~i~ .4" &!. ........................ *~ ....... ~ .~::~., • " ' ~', Courtesy photo 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. @ • • a 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