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Searcn continues for McCleary girl
By MARY DUNCAN and
GREG SKINNER
The multi-agency investi-
gation continues in the dis-
appearance of a 10-year-old
McCleary girl missing since
Friday night.
Lindsey Baum was re-
ported missing at 10:50 p.m.
June 26, according to Un-
dersheriff Rick Scott of the
Grays Harbor Sheriffs Of-
fice.
Baum has medium-
length brown hair and
brown eyes, is 4'9" tall and
weighs 80 pounds. She was
wearing a light-bluish gray
"hoodie" pullover, blue jeans
and black shoes.
Scott said the girl had
gone to a friend's house on
Maple Street, four blocks
OB[TUARY
K. Townsend
Longtime Shelton resi-
dent Kathleen L. (Glenn)
Townsend died of heart dis-
ease on Tuesday, June 9, in
Bothell. She was 87 years
old.
She
was born
on April
6, 1922 in
Seneca,
Nebraska,
to Jake
and Wil-
ma Glenn.
She
graduated
from Shel-
ton High
School in
1940. Kathleen
S h e Townsend
married
Gene Townsend in 1941 in
Shelton.
Mrs. Townsend was a
housewife. She enjoyed gar-
dening, knitting, traveling,
cards, hiking, fishing and
exploring.
Mrs. Townsend was pre-
ceded in death by husband
Gene, her parents and sister
Maxine.
She is survived by daugh-
ter Sharon Harms of Bothell;
son-in-law Larry Harms of
Bothell; son Bill Townsend
of Shelton; "daughter-in-law
Sherry Townsend of Shel-
ton; grandchildren Ken-
neth Townsend, Shelly Dyb,
Kara Rankin and Laura
Olson; and great-grandchil-
dren Aaron Carey, Jordan
Townsend and Kaylee Dyb.
A memorial service will
be held on a future date.
Burial will be in Shelton.
from her residence on Mom-
msen Road, to try to arrange
a sleepover with her friend.
When she failed to return
at 10 p.m. as expected, her
mother, Melissa Baum,
began to look for her and
called around to see if she
could locate her.
When her efforts failed,
she reported her daughter
missing to the McCleary Po-
lice Department and officers
also drove around the town
trying to locate the child,
Scott said.
The sheriffs office be-
came involved in the early
morning hours of Saturday
offering assistance to the lo-
cal police department, Scott
said. A search and rescue
operation began at daylight.
"The bulk of Saturday was
treated as a hasty search
and rescue operation. We
wanted to get as many boots
on the ground as possible,"
he explained. The girl could
have been lost or unable to
return home on her own.
McCleary resident Clay-
ton McCrary said he saw
Baum Friday night, before
she went missing, as he
walked through town with
his own family.
McCrary said person-
nel visited his home Satur-
day as they canvassed the
neighborhood. Search and
rescue people looked under
McCrary's house and in his
shed to see if Baum was
hiding or stuck. They were
thorough, he said.
"As the day went on we
were concerned she was
not missing voluntarily or
a runaway," Scott said. He
said investigators have not
ruled out that possibility
but it is "most probably not
the case." She left her cell
phone at home and had lim-
ited resources, he added.
On Saturday officers
stopped every car coming
through McCleary at the
intersection of Simpson and
Third streets to provide fli-
ers and talking to people
who may have been driv-
ing through on Friday night
about the time she was re-
ported missing, Scott said.
On Sunday, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation be-
came involved and the Cen-
Lindsey Baum
ter for Missing and Exploit-
ed Children sent representa-
tives from Oregon and Wyo-
ming. "They are involved
in a huge number of these
types of investigations. By
partnering with them we
get to pick the brains of
some of the best, most ex-
perienced law enforcement
in the nation," Scott said.
Other local and state agen-
cies are also involved in the
search. "There's literally a
task force of law enforce-
ment," he added.
The Mason County Sher-
iffs Office is in communica-
tion with the Grays Harbor
Sheriffs Office and Mc-
Cleary Police Department,
Chief Deputy Dean Byrd
said. As a precaution depu-
ties here are reviewing the
whereabouts of known sex
offenders registered in the
west end of the county "to
make sure they arc where
they say they are," he noted.
He said the MCSO pub-
lished a bulletin to the pa-
trol division.
The search continues
with teams focusing on the
area surrounding McCleary,
scouring the woods and old
logging roads. As the inves-
tigation wears on, Scott said,
officers might again stop
motorists passing through
town, distributing fliers and
seeking information.
Scott and an FBI super-
visor are heading up the in-
vestigation.
"We just want to bring
Lindsey homeii' Scott said.
Anyone with information
about the disappearance
can call a dedicated, toll-free
hotline at 1-866-915-8299.
Send your press releases to
pr@masoncounty.com
by 5pm on Fridays
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Tribe using tagging to increase clam numbers
EdwardJones
;[IMMER
By JEFF ECK
To help combat dwin-
dling clam populations
in the south Puget
Sound, a simple, inno-
vative technique is be-
ing used to track their
growth.
Squaxin Island tribe
biologists are attach-
ing tiny numbered red
tags to about 250 clams
spread over several
beaches in the area. The
effort will help deter-
mine clam growth rates
and patterns of spread.
Clam growth is typically
measured by randomly
surveying clams on a
beach, but that method
is not exact.
"We now can track the
growth and determine
how overall productiv-
ity changes in different
parts of a beach," said
Eric Sparkman, a shell-
fish biologist for the
tribe. "Simply know-
ing that we're looking
at the same clams each
time we survey gives us
a whole new level of un-
derstanding."
The handmade tags
are about the size of the
head of a pushpin and
are attached to the clam
with strong glue. The
technique was first de-
veloped by tribal shell-
fish technician Rona
Brown as a method to
track beach crab popula-
tions. Brown was look-
ing for a new way to
mark individual crabs
as they move across
the rocks and sand.
"The tags had to stay
attached even while
the crabs were scrap-
ing across rocks. With
clams, they can probably
stay attached for years,"
she said.
For the past several
years, the tribe has been
boosting clam popula-
tions as part of a plan to
benefit tribal, commer-
cial and sport shellfish
harvesters. The south-
ern Puget Sound's pro-
ductive shellfish beaches
are important to the in-
dustry and area culture.
Development and pol-
lution over the last cen-
tury have caused shell-
fish populations to di-
minish. Planting clams
will bring the numbers
.up. "Rather than de-
pending on the clams to
replenish themselves,
we're helping them
along," Sparkman said.
- Photo courtesy of Emmett O'Connell
Shellfish technician
Rona Brown arranges
tagged clams to weigh
and measure them as
part of a study of clam
growth in local waters.
Approximately 250
clams were tagged and
spread throughout
area beaches to track
overall growth.
In addition to increasing
the numbers, the plan will
help scientists better un-
derstand how clams thrive
in particular areas. "It
adds to the body of knowl-
edge of how manila clam
populations work," Spark-
man said. Because each
beach has different tidal
heights, it is important to
conduct the study in vari-
ous places.
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