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ON STRE :T
What?
Innocent?
Editor, the Journal
In the matter of the
idiot who shot the brush
picker, I would like to
voice my opinion of this
sad state of affairs. When
I was five years old, I told
my father I wanted to take
his gun and go hunting.
He said if you want to take
a gun out of the house
you have to know how to
take care of it. So began
my education on guns and
their care.
He taught me how to
clean it and to handle it so
that I didn't hurt someone
with it. He taught me that
a gun is always loaded
and never to point it at
another person unless
you intended to kill them.
Obviously I was a little
small and young to go
hunting. But by the time I
was 12 or 14, I had taken
several deer and lots of
ducks and grouse. I am
76 now and I too know
what it is like to be shot
at in the woods. Also, I
had two hunting partners
get shot while hunting,
one in the arm the other
grazed across the neck. In
all those years of hunting,
I never shot at anything
until I had a clear view
of the animal. My opinion
is when that man left his
house the morning that
brush picker was shot he
left it with full intentions
of killing something.
Hence the charge should
have been murder one
- premeditated murder.
Furthermore, he should
have lost his second
amendment rights period.
What? Innocent? Is
there open season on
brush pickers now? Is it
okay to kill Guatemalans
or Mexicans because they
pick brush without hunter
orange on like one idiot
suggested? The court
was 100 percent wrong
on this one. How can
anyone respect the court
of law that lets one person
murder another without
repercussion?
Charles Anderson
Dayton
Good times
in
Editor, the Journal
The production, "Good
Timer" presented June 4
at the Shelton High School
auditorium by the Other
Guys Theater Company
during the Forest Festival
was a truly wonderful
show.
My wife and I would
like to sincerely thank
the Shelton Schools
Foundation, Joan Zook,
Patty Case, Green
Diamond, Norm Eveleth,
Len Hunter and all the
many other contributors
and sponsors who made it
possible.
What a relief to see
long overdue credit
given to those hardy
individuals who toiled in
the forest enabling this
community to develop and
prosper. It was high time
for this town's unique
heritage to be positively
highlighted after months
and months of negative
and denigrating rhetoric
on blog and editorial
pages vilifying our town's
founding citizens.
Hopefully this event
helped our young citizens
appreciate the true
history of Shelton. Thanks
again to all those caring
and responsible Mason
County citizens who made
this accurate portrayal
possible. It was exciting to
witness.
Jack Krause
Shelton
is your reaction to the not-guilty
verdict in the brush picker shooting case?
Jim Rogers
Barbara Herman Tricia Brown
"I'd say it's pretty hard to "I don't think that's right. I
look like you're a bear if think he's guilty. People see
you're a human." people in the woods."
Kelly Short
versus spin
Editor, the Journal
The Mason County
Journal's column entitled
Port Okays agreement
for 2011 fairgrounds in
the June 2 edition, said, Port to make contracts in
"The 2011 agreement coming years or to guage
follows the Port's standard whether the children
fairgrounds rental in the port district are
rate sheet." This is not helped are harmed if the
true. Nothing about the profit margins are secret?
financial aspect of the No other contractors
Mason Area Fair (not have a profit-sharing
the Mason County Fair) arrangement that serves
contract is standard Port to keep their books secret.
business and certainly not And why is the
a standard fairgrounds amount of profit being
rental rate sheet kept secret if this is, as
valuation, frequently stated, "for
The standard rental the kids?" For the kids,
rate sheet, if followed, frequently intoned by the
would have been Hansens,, appears to be
$15,463.50; pus utilities, a euphemism of for the
for 2011 and those sums money. The words are,
would have had to be paid this is for the kids, but
up front. Please be advised the actions are this is for
that this is following the money. Common sense
the standard rate sheet, dictates that when words
The Hansens' contract is and actions contradict
anything but this in all its themselves, to find the
particulars. To. reiterate: truth follow the actions,
the fee would have been not the words.
$25,463.50 plus utilities Further, the sources in
and the sums would have the article imply that there
had to be paid up front, is a Port investigation of
The Hansens are only the Hansens involvement
obligated to pay $1,200, with the fair. While it is
plus utilities. However, true that there has been
this obligation is mitigated a complaint involving
by the Port agreeing to another matter with the
give them as a sponsor Hansens, it I not true that
$5,000, which means the complaint was about
they are only obligated the fair. There could be a
to make a $3,800 profit, complaint about the fair,
This is different than but there was not.
the standard obligation It is neither true that
to pay $15,463.50. The the Port is doing an
difference between investigation nor that
the two obligations is the Port in particular is
$19,263.50 for running doing an investigation of
a three-day fair. That, the complaint. Rather, the
again, is not standard. Port's insurance company
And the Hansens' are not is doing an investigation
required to pay anything and it is not necessarily
until up to 15 days after an investigation of the
the area fair. Again, this complaint itself but
is not standard. None rather may in fact be
of the relevant facts are an investigation of the
standard, person who issued the
The Hansens' under complaint. The very people
the contract also will who are the subject of
pay up to an additional the complaint authorized
$10,703.50 in order the investigation by the
to keep the Port from insurance company. Do you
inspecting their books, think it was to investigate
This is characterized as them?
a 50-50 profit splitting This isn't about the fair.
arrangement. However, Making it about the fair is
a 50-50 profit sharing part of the ruse. Everyone
arrangement does not is in favor of the fair. No
usually have a maximum one, further, has an axe to
associated with it. grind against the Hansens.
Usually, on the contrary, The allegation, rather,
there is a minimum is about inappropriate use
guaranteed in lieu of of public assets (property,
the risk taken but no time, money) and the abuse
maximum. How is the of public trust as well as
"Brushpickers should know
when hunting season is and
they should wear an orange
vest. At the same time I
think there should be desig-
nated hunting areas - they
shouldn't be mixed."
"I think it's B.S."
power versus openness andissue about the fair, there would be effective the day
transparency that makes are issues beyond the fair. of their letter to me. In the
for good government. The But we'll save that forinterest of public relations
allegation is not about the another day. and goodwill, they reduced
Hansens, and their making Teresa Rebothe second charge by
it about them is a bit self- Wauna $1,000, which I appreciate.
centered. The allegations However, the bigger
are about your government issue here is that Medicare
and the favoritism shown Rising gets billed more than
the Hansens at the expense is reasonable and our
of good government. I Hospital Medicare costs keep going
would think that the up and up. If I had not
Hansens would be for this questioned the charge,
investigation to clear them the higher amount would
of the odor that surrounds Editor, the Journal continue to be paid by
recent dealings with the I recently had two Medicare. Regardless of
port. Why don't they open Magnetic Resonance the circumstances, we
the books if there is no Imaging procedures (MRIs) must all challenge charges
issue? Why don't they done at Mason General when they occur. I hope
make the whole process Hospital. When I received Mason General reviews
transparent if they are the bill from Mason their rates more frequently
truly trying to assist the General, I was shocked without community
community? The answer, at the charges. One wasmembers having to ask so
clearly, if there is not a $3,186.30 and the otherwe, the taxpayers, aren't
transparent process, is that was $3,436.70, more than paying too much for our
they are a business and are double what I previously medical care.
in the business of making paid at South Sound, People such as myself
a profit not the business of Radiology, which were in donate to Mason General
helping the P~t of Shelton the $1,200-$1,400 range, to help buy the equipment
citizens. South Sound Radiology we need locally. The
In conclusion, let's make estimated their currenthospital should properly
it perfectly clear that we cost would be $1,370 price services to encourage
all support the fair. We each. Northwest Hospital customers to shop locally.
support the Mason County estimated $1,400 each. I encourage everyone
Fair and maybe not the From where I live on the to review their medical
Mason Area Fair. Whose Canal, it takes me 1.5 bills and question any
fair is it? This is about hours to drive to Olympia. that seem out of line. I
protecting the fair and I chose Mason General also encourage people
protecting public funds and because it is closer and to make their concerns
other much larger issues I assumed prices were known to our elected
at hand. So, it is important competitive, representatives, Senators
to get the facts right and I questioned the charges Maria Cantwell and Patty
stop the spin. We also are and received a letter Murray and Congressman
not against the Hansens. from the Business Office Norm Dicks and ask them
We just want them treated Director at Mason General, to adjust the system to
the same as everyone else. who advised me they price require more frequent
The suggestion that they their services based inoversight to control costs.
are treated the same is part on the South Sound Paul Shoening
part of the spin, spin, spin area hospital market. They Lilliwaup
that has been going on for reviewed their pricing on
some time and needs to be the two services I had and
exposed, determined one needed
As much as the Hansens adjustment. Unfortunately
are trying to make this their price adjustment
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