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Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Union resident David Snider, 55, survived being lost for more than
four days last week in the Olympic National Park with little food
and water and no cold-weather clothing.
Hiker
Continued from page A-1
four nights he spent in the park.
"I know the two nights (Tuesday
and Wednesday), I woke up with frozen
boots," he said.
While Snider was struggling to keep
warm Tuesday night on a ridge near Re-
flection Lake, his friends back in Union
were beginning to worry.
On Wednesday, Olympic National
Park and search and rescue personnel
were already out looking for him, after
his girlfriend reported him missing in the
park when he didn't return on time Tues-
day evening.
Snider said he spoke with park ranger
George Leite after he was rescued.
"He was the one in command of the
whole rescue operation," Snider said.
Leite searched through his car, still
parked at the North Fork Campground,
Snider said. to determine what the hiker
may have taken with him.
"Most of the things I really needed
were still in the car," he said. "I could
have lived for a few weeks off of what I
had in the car."
A total of 16 search and rescue work-
ers from King and Pierce counties, park
personnel and Olympic Mountain Rescue
continued their search Thursday.
Snider's friend and neighbor Dianna
Timm Dryden tried to help as well.
On Wednesday, Snider started walk-
ing down from the ridge to try to get to
a clearing. However, very steep terrain
and the loss of his glasses made moving
around very difficult.
"That's when I started hearing planes,"
he said. "The next afternoon I saw the
first helicopters. They couldn't see me. I
was sure they'd be able to see me. I was
waving my arms, waving my sticks."
Even more helicopters flew over Snid-
er's head on Friday, as he tried to get to
an open location where they could see
him. Snider didn't have any matches, and
couldn't light a fire to signal rescuers.
• However Friday night, a King County
rescue helicopter armed with FLIR ther-
mal imaging technology spotted Snider.
"They sent a helicopter Friday night
when it was dark. Then I realized I had
flashlights," Snider said. "They hovered
overhead for a while. I knew they knew
exactly where I was. The next morning I
woke up to the sound of (helicopter) rotors."
Snider's rescuers pulled him off the
mountain Saturday mormng. He was
treated and released later that day from
Grays Harbor Community Hospital.
"Many times I didn't think it was going
to have a happy ending," he said. "I was
hoping."
As soon as he has a new pair of glasses,
he plans to go hiking again and perhaps
write a short story about his experiences
in the park.
"The two biggest things I got out of it
"I went up there,,on Thursday to t r:f rz IS to exercise more caution.., and finding
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elp with my dog, she stud I V~e~fl:i,~gq~enI~gq~pl!thowmany people were
with David more than anybody so I~° ', pr~a.~t~ or-meditating or wi{a{zever for
thought I could help." me." he said.
Addiction
Continued from page A-1
that reflected why Searle had bothered to
come in the first place.
Herren was asked whether the town of
Shelton, and what he'd seen of it. seemed
any different than any other town he
knew of whose residents -- whose future
-- suffered from substance abuse.
Herren was, among many other things
on Tuesday, candid.
"No community is different anymore,"
Herren said.
Searle is a health teacher at Elma
High School and adviser for the school's
SADD chapter.
She listened as Herren told of taking
his first snort of cocaine as a freshman in
college. The act would lead. four months
later, to him getting expelled and escort-
ed offcampus. No more scholarship.
Searle listened as Herren was given as
many chances as one person can possibly
obtain. Each time, Herren and his addic-
tion found a way to spoil everyone's best
intentions.
It started. Herren later revealed, with
alcohol early in high school at the age of
14. Then a little marijuana.
In college, it began with cocaine from a
college roommate. Later, it was Oxycotin.
Then heroin.
Herren was asked if he felt marijuana
was a "gateway drug" to the harder, more
addictive and more dangerous narcotics.
"We all start sneaking around smoking
marijuana," Herren said.
No one, he said, starts with heroin.
That was good enough, and honest
enough, for Searle. During her five years
at Elma High, there have been numerous
substance abuse issues among students.
"It's time to take it seriously," Searle
said.
Mason County has experienced its own
share ef ssues and premature losses
-- due to drug addiction.
On March 29. 23-year-old Shelton
resident Shawn Joseph Morrow was
murdered during what he though was a
simple narcotics transaction..
Morrow, a former baseball standout,
was beaten to death with a metal baseball
bat. Two other Shelton men took the $45
that Morrow carried with him.
It's a loss that Oakland Bay Junior
High School Principal Bracken Budge
found senseless. Beginning in December
more than three months before Mor-
row's death -- Budge began working on
getting Herren to speak in Mason County.
During his eight years in Shelton, Budge
said he's seen Oxycotin and other drugs
halt the lives of promising young people.
It is difficult, Budge said. "to see them
not going anywhere, not being able to
shake it."
Olympic Middle School sixth-grader
Patrick O'Shell knows there is a drug
problem among his peers. It's something
he tries to avoid.
The drug-related problems at his school
'Tdnd of make me mad," O'Shell said.
"It's really frustrating."
Crash
Continued from page A-1
According to information provided in
a Mason County Sheriffs Office news
release, witness statements confirmed
Burke, 24. was the designated driver for
the evening.
Shortly after midnight, the group's vehicle
left the roadway on East Mikkelsen Road and
struck a tree. Dittmer. 38. was killed in the
crash and was pronounced dead at the scene
by Mason County Coroner Wes Stockwell.
Laney was airlifted to Harborview
Medical Center in Seattle for treatment
of injuries, which included a broken leg
and internal bleeding. Brown. 31, and.
Burke, 24, both were taken by ambulance
to Mason General Hospital for treatment
of leg and head injuries.
Stockwell said in a news release
that an autopsy on Dittmer's body is
planned.
Dittmer a lifelong Shelton resident,
worked as office manager for the Port of
Shelton and was a candidate for County
Commissioner in 2010.
Officials said Burke left Mason Gen-
eral Hospital but later turned himself in
to Mason County sheriffs deputies at the
county jail.
Burke is expected to appear before a Ma-
son County Superior Court judge this week.
Calls reported to Shelton
Police, Mason County Sher-
iffs Office and Tribal agen-
cies included:
Burglaries
At 6:16 p.m. on May 9, an
individual reported a bur-
glary on the 600 block of East
McMicken Road.
At 12:54 a.m. on May 10,
a woman reported someone
was in the house and took a
gun on the 200 block of East
Bertlesen Road.
At 5:07 a.m. on May 10,
an individual reported a bur-
glary on the 3800 block of
East Agate Road.
At 5:55 p.m. on May 11,
an individual reported a
burglary on the 600 block of
West Bulb Farm Road.
At 7:18 p.m. on May 12,
an individual reported a bur-
glary on the 4400 block of
East Mason Lake Drive.
At 5:21 p.m. on May 13,
an individual reported a bur-
glary on the 400 block of East
Ballantrae Drive.
At 9:11 p.m. on May 13,
an individual reported a bur-
glary on the 100 block of East
North Cove Road.
At 8:36 a.m. on May 13,
an individual reported a bur-
glary to the community cen-
ter on the 600 block of West
Franklin Street.
At 4:31 p.m. on May 14,
an individual reported a bur-
glary on the 1800 block of
Southeast Crescent Drive.
Assaults
At 6:35 p.m. on May 9, a
woman reported someone
was trying to kill her on the
1700 block of East Shelten
Springs Road.
At 7:28 p.m. on May 11, a
man reported an assault on
the 2900 block of East Harst-
ine Island Road.
At 6:27 a.m. on May 13. a
woman reported her ex is at
her residence threatening to
kill her and her boyfriend on
the 2200 block of Old Olym-
pic Highway.
Disturbances
At 1:04 p.m. on May 9, an
individual reported ten to
12 men yelling in a parking
lot on the 200 block of West
Franklin Street.
At 3:32 p.m. on May 9, an
individual reported a man
was trying to fight people in
a park on North Third Street.
At 7:11 p.m. on May 10,
a woman reported her uncle
shoved her and locked her
out of the house on the 400 Thefts
block of East Walnut Street. At 2 a.m. on May 9, an in-
At noon on May 11, a wom- dividual reported a shoplifter
an reported another woman on the 100 block of East Wal-
pulled a knife on her at Safe- lace Kneeland Boulevard.
way on the 600 block of West At 10:41 a.m. on May 9,
Franklin Street. an individual reported stolen
At 4:57 p.m. On May 11, exterior video cameras on the
a woman reported being as- 2300 block of Olympic High-
saulted by another woman way North.
on the corner of West Frank- At 10:41 a.m. on May 9, an
lin Street and North Third individual reported a stolen
Street. vehicle on the 200 block of
At 8:09 p.m. on May 12, West Harvard Avenue.
an individual reported a man At 4:35 p.m. on May 9, an
aggressively throwing things individual reported a stolen
on the 100 block of East Ta- blue 1994 Honda Accord on
huya Drive. Southeast Cole Road.
At 9:10 p.m. on May 12, a At 1:23 p.m. on May 10, an
man reported another man individual reported a shop-
stole money from him and lifter on the 600 block of West
stabbed him on the 500 block Franklin Street.
of Arcadia Avenue. The caller At 4:46 a.m. on May 11, an
declined medical aid. individual reported a 1998
At 2:27 a.m. on May 13, black Honda LS had been
an individual reported a fight stolen on the first block of
on the 2000 block of Adams North Potlatch Road.
Street. At 8:05 a.m. on May 12, a
At 2:09 p.m. on May 13, an man reported a theft on the
individual reported a woman 38400 block of North U.S.
was running around the lob- Highway 101 in Lilliwaup.
by of Mason General Hospital At 10:47 a.m. on May 12,
on the 900 block of Mountain an individual reported a sto-
View Drive with her pants off len motorcycle on the first
and causing problems, block of Northeast Lakeshore
At 3:16 p.m. on May 14, Drive.
an individual reported two At 8:41 a.m. on May 13,
girls choking each other and an individual reported a sto-
throwing knives at each oth- len quad on the 2700 block of
er on the 200 block of West East South Island Drive.
Franklin Street. At 10:39 a.m. on May 13,
an individual reported a sto-
Domestic Violence len vehicle on the 600 block of
At 9:21 p.m. on May 9, Magnolia Street.
a woman reported her boy- At 3:24 p.m. on May 14,
friend pulled her hair, choked an individual reported two
her in front of her kids and shoplifters on the 100 block
tried to break her hand on of East Wallace Kneeland
the 200 block of Turner Av- Boulevard.
enue.
At 11:27 p.m. on May 10, Misc.
an individual reported a At2:01p.m. onMayl2, an
woman outside screaming on individual reported watching
the first block of East Alder- a dog fall out of the back of a
ney Street in Union. red truck on Southeast Cole
At 1:15 a.m. on May 11, Road. The caller reportedly
an individual reported that a took the dog to the veterinar-
neighbor is "beating his wife Jan.
again," on the 300 block of At 2:31 p.m. on May 12, an
North Seventh Street. individual reported four juve-
At 6:07 p.m. on May 12, niles in the roadway playing
an individual reported a man and trying to get hit by cars
and woman in a physical al- on West Golden Pheasant
tercation on Beverly Boule- Road.
vard. At 7:05 p.m. on May 13,
At 1:29 p.m. on May 14, an individual reported a pos-
an individual reported hear- sible arson on the 200 block
ing a woman scream, "don't of East Inspiration Way.
touch me." on the 3000 block At 3:46 p.m. a woman
ofJohns Prairie Road. reported She visited her
At 9:36 p.m. on May 14, rental property on the 1200
an individual reported a man block of NorthcliffRoad and
beating his daughter'with a found the occupants were
belt on the 20 00 block of Hay growing marijuana in the
Street. garage.
.~enehraf~on the first round. The 9th Company, settled for third
Finance/593rd Specialplace after misspelling "me-
Continued from page A-1 Troops Battalion from Joint line."
Base Lewis McChord, spon- After a fierce battle with
in paragraphs, and recently sored by Seattle Shellfish The Noble Mason Orchard
read his first books in 30 was both the first team to Bees, sponsored by Taylor
years, spell and the first team to Shellfish Company -- the
Acosm has received her spellincorrectly, whenit mis- Garage Floor Gals -- spon-
GED and worked with Sound spelled "candelabra" as "can. sored by VanderWal's Ga-
Learningto speak English well. dleabra." rage and Olympic Panel
"I learned to communicate The KMAS Newsies also Products secured first place
at the doctor's appointments bowed out in the first round on "jabberwocky."
of my children," she said at after incorrectly spelling Klassell said the mood was
Friday's event."I got my GED "gorgeous" as "georgeous." light at Friday's event, but
and now I work with Sound After the first round, the people were serious about
Learning in childcare."words got harder and teams donating time and money to
All of this progress isfell faster. Teams exited the improve literacy.
made possible with money spelling bee due to words "I feel like people not only
raised through fundraisers like "gammopetalous," "ac- seemed to enjoy themselves
like Spellebration. quittal," "ergonomist," "peni- and seemed to have a good
Each team in the spell,tence" and "toroidal." time, I think people got into
ing bee had 30 seconds to Eventually, the field it ... as a fimdraiser," she
spell their word, pronounced was narrowed to only a few said. "There were more peo-
by Mike Barnard, with only teams. The South Puget ple that put money in dona-
a paper and pencil to help Sound Community Collegetionsjars. I think the spirit of
them. Spell Cats, sponsored by the it being a hm fundraiser was
Two teams went out in Green Diamond Resource really good."
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