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NEW CLUB MEMS|R| t||| iNSTANTLY RECEIVt Fam un anned Saturday at Walker Park
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other activities are planned Another free, guided tour style steamed clams.
this Saturday, July 4, to called Honey, I Flushed Information booths will
celebrate Oakland Bay. the Kids! will be hosted by highlight the beach moni-
The free, fun-filled fam-
ily event will get everyone
outside to explore the won-
ders of Hammersley Inlet
as the low tide on July 4 re-
veals its underwater trea-
sures.
Terri King, Washington
Sea Grant outreach and ed-
ucation specialist, will lead
a tour starting at 11 a.m.
Saturday at Walker Park.
The tour, she said, will
open up an exciting world
of shore crabs, sea anemo-
nes, gunnels and other life
Shelton Sewage Treatment
Plant Manager John Ozga
at 10 a.m. sharp. The tour
will last about 45 minutes
and give visitors plenty of
time to head from the treat-
ment plant to Walker Park
for the beach walk and sea-
food frenzy.
From noon to 1 p.m. at
Walker Park, five-time Oys-
terFest shucking champion
Xinh Dwelley will teach
participants how to shuck
oysters, sharing a recipe
or two and a tasting of her
toring results, shellfish
grown in Oakland Bay as
well as activities and op-
portunities to improve wa-
ter quality.
For more information,
contact Washington Sea
Grant at 432-3054 or e-
mail wsgcanal@u.wash-
ington.edu.
Saturday's project has
been funded by the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency under an assistance
agreement to the Squaxin
Island Tribe.
Sheriff to use grant for laptops in patrol cars
The Mason County Sher-
iffs Office will use over
$77,000 in grant funds to
equip patrol vehicles with
laptop computers which will
increase efficiency and al-
low deputies to respond to
calls without broadcasting
through the dispatch sys-
tem.
The award of $77,445
from the Edward Byrne
Memorial Justice Assis-
tance Grant will be used
to purchase 12 mobile data
terminals (MDTs) and 15
software licenses along with
applicable hardware.
The uncertainty of the
current budget revenue
streams for the sheriffs of-
fice made a decision as to
the best use of these funds
difficult at best, according to
Sheriff Casey Salisbury. He
called the decision to use the
funds for the laptops "a solid
investment."
This purchase will not
provide every vehicle with
its own computer but most
vehicles will be outfitted
with the mounts so that
units may be transferred at
the end of a shift, Chief Dep-
uty Dean Byrd explained.
He said the prime consid-
eration of this use of funds
is the safety of county citi-
zens and sheriffs deputies.
The MDTs will be connect-
ed to the Spillman system,
which includes a computer
record of calls to the dis-
patch center and the com-
puter recordkeeping system
providing the capability of
instant access to state and
federal databases while in
the field to determine the
status of suspected persons
and vehicles.
Deputies will be able to
see the calls as they come
into the dispatch center and
allow deputies to respond
silently, Byrd said. "That
takes a lot of air traffic off
the (radio) frequency," he
added.
The computers will also
afford responses to be coor-
dinated with other deputies
and agencies without warn-
ing lawbreakers who moni-
tor police frequencies.
The county's dispatch
service, referred to as
MACECOM, is already ca-
pable of using this equip-
ment. The Squaxin Island
Tribe purchased the server
software that is required
to utilize the same devices.
Byrd said local law enforce-
ment agencies that are
partnering in this endeavor
need only to purchase unit
licenses and hardware to be
operational.
The Mason County Sher-
iffs Office Traffic Unit pur-
chased laptop computers as
part of the initial outfitting
of their vehicles. They are
seeking funding for the com-
munications software used
on the mobile data termi-
nals. The addition of the
grant-purchased equipment
in other patrol vehicles is
valuable in providing effec-
tive, efficient law enforce-
ment, according to Byrd.
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