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MAS SHELTON" ON COUNTY J OU RNAL i Thursday, July 12, 2007 121st Year -- Number 28 5 Sections -- 44 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents 00ounty suffering :00om record heat ELISSA SPEIGLE arn bans, fires and all sorts of hot: Anyone has been anywhere in the past few days s that there is nothing cool about the re- .setting temperatures that hallmarked day and Wednesday of this week. e high for Tuesday, June 10, as recorded m National Weather Service at Sanderson i, was 98 degrees; the previous record was grees. Wednesday, too, broke its previous d of 96 with recordings at 98 in the early noon. The scorching heat and zero precipi- a levels had everyone from fire chiefs to log- on guard against potential danger. trly Wednesday morning, Mason County Fire Craig Haugen implemented a total bum 'or Mason County that will last until Friday, ! 13. Under the current emergency bum ban conditions, no fires are permit2ed, including land- clearing fires, residential fires and campfires. The fire danger rating in Mason and nearby counties is high and the county is re- stricting the size and location of recreation- al campfires. Starting Friday at midnight, campfires are allowed if located on private land with the landowner's permission and if built in an approved manner. "BECAUSE OF THE high fire  and scar city ofresoum for King, Kitsap, Mason and Pierce, DNR and local fire jurisdicticrs have agreed to adopt extra fire safety measures," explained Neal Cox, fire operations speda with the Washingt merit of Natural Resources. Illustrating the danger level on Tuesday afternoon was a fire that destroyed one (Please turn to page 11.) ONLY CHARRED WOOD remains from a home on Stroud Road that burned Tuesday afternoon. No cause for the blaze in the Arcadia area had been identified as of Wednesday. A real drag? but apparently not objectionably so for this race-goer last weekend at Sanderson Field, site the first of two weekend affairs presented by the group that brought drag racing back to town summer after a 40-year absence. More than 20,000 paid to watch close to 600 cars make the quar- run this time, and promoters say they expect ]s many or more when the sport's really serious speed nkies join the fray for this weekend's 2007 Shelton .ale. More on page 22. i0000ve00eth ponders tFaq 'Korean model' EAN HANLON n Array guy remembered a ee from Shelton who built s for the babysitters of the than and who laid the founda- for SOme Elephant Huts dur- the Forgotten War, and now 4orm Eveleth's turn to conjure " he past. [Veleth is 74 now, and it's been a mb !time since he was discharged l IIIIIIIIIIIIIlUlUlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlUlilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll the inside ............ • ., ............ 32 Calendar ....... 31 ...................... • .... 37 , Dining ..... 31 Journal ................. 18 of Record ............. 30 ""*"*"**'*'*'.*...**.*.. 10 Letters ................. 4 "'"'"".......................... 21 ""'""'"'......................... 25 28 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlUlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlll IIIl!l!l!l!!lll!!lJ!l!l!l[ll]00 with honor from the Navy, but his memories of a war that has never had a peace have special mean- ing at a time when people in high places are talking about "a Korean model" for Iraq. As a veteran of the Korean War and the father-in-law of a colonel soon to be deployed to the battle zone, Eveleth is in a unique position to connect the dots that are separated by the width of Asia and a distance of half a century. This is not to say Eveleth holds out much hope that Korea will be much of a model for the people of Iraq. He thinks Operation Iraqi Freedom is a big mistake, a war we never should have started in a place uniquely unsuited to Ameri- can influence. "Everybody on our side of the line in Korea was on our side," he said. "We didn't have to worry about somebody stabbing us in the back or sabotaging our equip- ment. There are a lot of places in Iraq where our presence has been very successful and there are a lot of places like Baghdad where our presence has not been successful. I think we need to get out of there." HE SAYS THIS knowing full (Please turn to page 6.) Woman pleads guilty in theft of Hood Canal booster funds By MARY DUNCAN A former secretary at Hood Canal School charged with steal- ing several hundred dollars from one of the accounts of a volunteer group wept softly, dabbing her eyes with a tissue, as she changed her plea on July 6 in Mason Coun- ty Superior Court. Edie Joann Hicks, 30, of 280 North Mount Washington Drive, Hoodsport, pled guilty to theft in the second degree. She is sched- uled for sentencing on August 27. In her plea statement she wrote, "I stole money from the Hood Ca- nal School booster club in Febru- ary 2006. It was over $250 but less than $1,500." According to court documents, Hicks stole $700 from the "paver account" of Hood Canal School Community and Staff Association, which Hicks was overseeing when she was employed as a secretary at the school. The nonprofit group was selling brick paving stones to raise money to pay for new facili- ties being built at the school. Records from the group's ac- count at West Coast Bank in Hoodsport show two unauthorized checks were written and cashed by Hicks: one on February 22, 2006 for $200 and the other on February 23, 2006 for $500. The records also indicated an unauthorized deposit of $500 was made to the account on May 30, 2006. "The crime happened when Edie mistakenly deposited money incorrectly in her account. That was an accident," detbnse attorney Larry King said. "When she real- ized the mistake and didn't tell people about it, that's why she's here." "The defendant knowingly re- tained funds she initially depos- ited in her own account," Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz re- sponded. "You didn't immediately take those funds from the wrong place and put them back in the right place?" Judge Toni Sheldon in- quired. "It took a couple of months," Hicks responded. With an offender score of zero, the sentencing range is from zero to 60 days, with the state recom- mending a mid-range sentence, Judge Sheldon explained. Shelton historic district proposed An effort to create a historic district in downtown Shelton that was rejected nearly a decade ago is being revived and seeking com- munity support. At Monday afternoon's city commission meeting, Director of Community and Economic Devel- opment Steve Coins presented a request for a resolution from the Shelton City Commission to move ahead with the process. Moving ahead, in this case, would entail establishing a pro- cedure and guidelines for the his- toric district which, according to the proposed resolution, would describe an area in the downtown district. ALL THREE commissioners expressed concerns about the res- olution and said that while they were not opposed to the process, they want the input of landowners to be considered before a formal resolution is issued. Goins said the Shelton Historic Preservation Board will seek the input of affected landowners; he hopes to host a barbecue or simi- lar event to "on a more social level, talk about what the guidelines are." He added that the difference between this attempt and the (Please turn to page 7.) School foundation seeks support By MELISSA SPEIGLE When kindergartners at Mountain View Elementary learned about writers and illus- trators last school year, their studies took them out of the classroom. After reading stories by Eric Carle, a popular children's writer and illustrator, and trying their hands at their own illustrations, the students took to the road and traveled to the Tacoma Art Muse- um. There, they saw Carle's work first-hand and learned about the process he goes through when cre- ating a book. The trip was the first of several projects funded by the recently or- ganized Shelton Schools Founda- tion and is an example of the the type of enriching activities that often are unable to receive fund- ing from the school district. That's where Shelton Schools Foundation comes in. The fbundation is a nonprofit corporation led by a voluntary board of directors who aim to "sup- port teachers in the schools, and students, in ways that the school district is not able to do." That's according to foundation president Steve Whitehouse who said of the museum visit: "It impacted a lot of the kids. Some of the kids had not even seen a city before." THE PURPOSE of Shelton (Please turn to page 11.) They believe the hole thing By JEFF GREEN Call them the meteor guys. Shelton resident Joe D'Alelio and sidekick Gabe Mainwaring of Lacey believe they have discovered a meteorite impact crater in rural Montana. The)" made their find in early June when D'Alelio was on the Internet, using Google Earth in his efforts to locate fossil hunting grounds. He was scanning the satel- lite views of the Montana landscape and stumbled across what looked to be a meteorite crater. It was pretty apparent, D'Alelio said later. He turned to Mainwaring and asked, "Does that look like a meteor crater to you?" "Oh, yeah," Mainwaring re- plied. SO INSTEAD of hunting fos- sils, the pair set off for an area 96 (Please turn to page 10.) JOE D'ALELIO, on left, and his friend Gabe Mainwaring believe they have discovered a previously unknown mete- orite crater in rural Montana. MAS SHELTON" ON COUNTY J OU RNAL i Thursday, July 12, 2007 121st Year -- Number 28 5 Sections -- 44 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents 00ounty suffering :00om record heat ELISSA SPEIGLE arn bans, fires and all sorts of hot: Anyone has been anywhere in the past few days s that there is nothing cool about the re- .setting temperatures that hallmarked day and Wednesday of this week. e high for Tuesday, June 10, as recorded m National Weather Service at Sanderson i, was 98 degrees; the previous record was grees. Wednesday, too, broke its previous d of 96 with recordings at 98 in the early noon. The scorching heat and zero precipi- a levels had everyone from fire chiefs to log- on guard against potential danger. trly Wednesday morning, Mason County Fire Craig Haugen implemented a total bum 'or Mason County that will last until Friday, ! 13. Under the current emergency bum ban conditions, no fires are permit2ed, including land- clearing fires, residential fires and campfires. The fire danger rating in Mason and nearby counties is high and the county is re- stricting the size and location of recreation- al campfires. Starting Friday at midnight, campfires are allowed if located on private land with the landowner's permission and if built in an approved manner. "BECAUSE OF THE high fire  and scar city ofresoum for King, Kitsap, Mason and Pierce, DNR and local fire jurisdicticrs have agreed to adopt extra fire safety measures," explained Neal Cox, fire operations speda with the Washingt merit of Natural Resources. Illustrating the danger level on Tuesday afternoon was a fire that destroyed one (Please turn to page 11.) ONLY CHARRED WOOD remains from a home on Stroud Road that burned Tuesday afternoon. No cause for the blaze in the Arcadia area had been identified as of Wednesday. A real drag? but apparently not objectionably so for this race-goer last weekend at Sanderson Field, site the first of two weekend affairs presented by the group that brought drag racing back to town summer after a 40-year absence. More than 20,000 paid to watch close to 600 cars make the quar- run this time, and promoters say they expect ]s many or more when the sport's really serious speed nkies join the fray for this weekend's 2007 Shelton .ale. More on page 22. i0000ve00eth ponders tFaq 'Korean model' EAN HANLON n Array guy remembered a ee from Shelton who built s for the babysitters of the than and who laid the founda- for SOme Elephant Huts dur- the Forgotten War, and now 4orm Eveleth's turn to conjure " he past. [Veleth is 74 now, and it's been a mb !time since he was discharged l IIIIIIIIIIIIIlUlUlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlUlilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll the inside ............ • ., ............ 32 Calendar ....... 31 ...................... • .... 37 , Dining ..... 31 Journal ................. 18 of Record ............. 30 ""*"*"**'*'*'.*...**.*.. 10 Letters ................. 4 "'"'"".......................... 21 ""'""'"'......................... 25 28 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlUlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlll IIIl!l!l!l!!lll!!lJ!l!l!l[ll]00 with honor from the Navy, but his memories of a war that has never had a peace have special mean- ing at a time when people in high places are talking about "a Korean model" for Iraq. As a veteran of the Korean War and the father-in-law of a colonel soon to be deployed to the battle zone, Eveleth is in a unique position to connect the dots that are separated by the width of Asia and a distance of half a century. This is not to say Eveleth holds out much hope that Korea will be much of a model for the people of Iraq. He thinks Operation Iraqi Freedom is a big mistake, a war we never should have started in a place uniquely unsuited to Ameri- can influence. "Everybody on our side of the line in Korea was on our side," he said. "We didn't have to worry about somebody stabbing us in the back or sabotaging our equip- ment. There are a lot of places in Iraq where our presence has been very successful and there are a lot of places like Baghdad where our presence has not been successful. I think we need to get out of there." HE SAYS THIS knowing full (Please turn to page 6.) Woman pleads guilty in theft of Hood Canal booster funds By MARY DUNCAN A former secretary at Hood Canal School charged with steal- ing several hundred dollars from one of the accounts of a volunteer group wept softly, dabbing her eyes with a tissue, as she changed her plea on July 6 in Mason Coun- ty Superior Court. Edie Joann Hicks, 30, of 280 North Mount Washington Drive, Hoodsport, pled guilty to theft in the second degree. She is sched- uled for sentencing on August 27. In her plea statement she wrote, "I stole money from the Hood Ca- nal School booster club in Febru- ary 2006. It was over $250 but less than $1,500." According to court documents, Hicks stole $700 from the "paver account" of Hood Canal School Community and Staff Association, which Hicks was overseeing when she was employed as a secretary at the school. The nonprofit group was selling brick paving stones to raise money to pay for new facili- ties being built at the school. Records from the group's ac- count at West Coast Bank in Hoodsport show two unauthorized checks were written and cashed by Hicks: one on February 22, 2006 for $200 and the other on February 23, 2006 for $500. The records also indicated an unauthorized deposit of $500 was made to the account on May 30, 2006. "The crime happened when Edie mistakenly deposited money incorrectly in her account. That was an accident," detbnse attorney Larry King said. "When she real- ized the mistake and didn't tell people about it, that's why she's here." "The defendant knowingly re- tained funds she initially depos- ited in her own account," Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz re- sponded. "You didn't immediately take those funds from the wrong place and put them back in the right place?" Judge Toni Sheldon in- quired. "It took a couple of months," Hicks responded. With an offender score of zero, the sentencing range is from zero to 60 days, with the state recom- mending a mid-range sentence, Judge Sheldon explained. Shelton historic district proposed An effort to create a historic district in downtown Shelton that was rejected nearly a decade ago is being revived and seeking com- munity support. At Monday afternoon's city commission meeting, Director of Community and Economic Devel- opment Steve Coins presented a request for a resolution from the Shelton City Commission to move ahead with the process. Moving ahead, in this case, would entail establishing a pro- cedure and guidelines for the his- toric district which, according to the proposed resolution, would describe an area in the downtown district. ALL THREE commissioners expressed concerns about the res- olution and said that while they were not opposed to the process, they want the input of landowners to be considered before a formal resolution is issued. Goins said the Shelton Historic Preservation Board will seek the input of affected landowners; he hopes to host a barbecue or simi- lar event to "on a more social level, talk about what the guidelines are." He added that the difference between this attempt and the (Please turn to page 7.) School foundation seeks support By MELISSA SPEIGLE When kindergartners at Mountain View Elementary learned about writers and illus- trators last school year, their studies took them out of the classroom. After reading stories by Eric Carle, a popular children's writer and illustrator, and trying their hands at their own illustrations, the students took to the road and traveled to the Tacoma Art Muse- um. There, they saw Carle's work first-hand and learned about the process he goes through when cre- ating a book. The trip was the first of several projects funded by the recently or- ganized Shelton Schools Founda- tion and is an example of the the type of enriching activities that often are unable to receive fund- ing from the school district. That's where Shelton Schools Foundation comes in. The fbundation is a nonprofit corporation led by a voluntary board of directors who aim to "sup- port teachers in the schools, and students, in ways that the school district is not able to do." That's according to foundation president Steve Whitehouse who said of the museum visit: "It impacted a lot of the kids. Some of the kids had not even seen a city before." THE PURPOSE of Shelton (Please turn to page 11.) They believe the hole thing By JEFF GREEN Call them the meteor guys. Shelton resident Joe D'Alelio and sidekick Gabe Mainwaring of Lacey believe they have discovered a meteorite impact crater in rural Montana. The)" made their find in early June when D'Alelio was on the Internet, using Google Earth in his efforts to locate fossil hunting grounds. He was scanning the satel- lite views of the Montana landscape and stumbled across what looked to be a meteorite crater. It was pretty apparent, D'Alelio said later. He turned to Mainwaring and asked, "Does that look like a meteor crater to you?" "Oh, yeah," Mainwaring re- plied. SO INSTEAD of hunting fos- sils, the pair set off for an area 96 (Please turn to page 10.) JOE D'ALELIO, on left, and his friend Gabe Mainwaring believe they have discovered a previously unknown mete- orite crater in rural Montana.