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JOURNALOFRECORD 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 h " • V " ~ ' 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." "Ask us about the _. AARP" Auto Insurance ~i~i~:~,~ ~2 ~i~ !!:ii i:~ ! :i i ii i i~ i ::i:~ !~:i ~::::i~;!:!i:i~:: ii% .... 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