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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
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the inside
............ • ., ............ 32
Calendar ....... 31
...................... • .... 37
, Dining ..... 31
Journal ................. 18
of Record ............. 30
""*"*"**'*'*'.*...**.*.. 10
Letters ................. 4
"'"'"".......................... 21
""'""'"'......................... 25
28
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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.