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Thursday, July 12, 2012 SIm'4.L T~ pm',l~S ~17 W COTA ST SHELTI~+ ~ 9t~4-2Z~3 Week 28 -- The Voice of Mason County since 1886 -- Published for Mason County and Estelle Foster of Belfair -- $1 Shelton resident, 34, held on $10K bail after structure fire By EMILY HANSON e~ilv@tna.~ottcounty,com A Shelton man is being held on $10.000 bail after being charged Monday in connection with a structure fire last weekend. Jason Falter, 34, was ar- rested on Saturday for first degree arson and first de- gree malicious mischief. According to police re- ports, Falter attempted to start a fire in the oven of his rental home. Nobody was hurt in the fire, but authori- ties said the blaze did more than $5.000 worth of dam- age to the home. At 5:14 a.m. on Saturday, Falter's neighbor, Dylinn Wentz, reported a fire at his home at 36 W. Wivell Road. Shelton. Mason County Fire Dis- trict 13 Chief Stan Lo- ertscher said when first re- sponders arrived, they saw smoke coming out of the back of the residence and See Fire on page A-8 Senior center asks PUD for lease Center can't work out purchase of downtown building By NATALIE JOHNSON natalie@rnasoncounty.com, Journa DnOIOS Dy Err ~ mansor The Bates sisters, 6-year-old Grace, left, and 8-year-old Faith, watch the fireworks show on Saturday at the 27th annual Celebrate Hoodsport. Celebrate Hoodsport draws thousands By EMILY HANSON ernily@masoncounty.com The 27th annual Celebrate Hoodsport was declared a success by multiple groups in- volved in the planning. "It went really well, everything worked out fine, the weather was great," said Frank Be- navente of the Hoodsport Community Events Association. "Everyone had a good time and was safe." The celebration had 45 vendors selling ev- erything from food to clothing to jewelry to custom-made wooden signs. Benavente said the vendor numberS were about average. Multiple fireworks blasts delighted the crowd at the Port of Hoodsport during the 27th annual Celebrate Hoodsport fireworks show. "We were shooting for more but that was a good number to have." he said. He estimated that roughly 6.000 people attended the celebration on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Despite the large number of peo- ple traveling through Hoodsport. Benavente See Hoodsport on page A-8 In 2011, when the Ma- son County PUD 3 began building its new complex on Johns Prairie Road. the utility vowed that it would not leave behind empty buildings downtown. In March of that year, the PUD signed an agree- ment with the Mason County Senior Activities Association (MSCAA) giv- ing the organization an op- tion to purchase the build- ings. On Tuesday, MSCAA Executive Director Terri Shaw addressed the PUD 3 commission during a pub- lic hearing on the future of the downtown buildings. She asked the commis- sion to consider leasing its downtown building to the senior organization while it raises money, to buy the building. "We think this strategi- cally is a way for us to get into the building sooner." Shaw said. When the PUD first gave the senior association the option to purchase the building in March 2011. the agreement terminated in April 2012 and required a $100 per month payment to continue the agreement. MSCAA had expressed an interest in purchasing the PUD buildings as early as September 2009. The PUD 3 commission later extended the option to purchase until July 2012 in order to give the MSCAA time to apply for a $1 mil- lion Community Develop- ment Block Grant (CDBG} from the United States De- partment of Housing and Urban Development. In February, the PUD 3 commission again extend- ed the option to purchase See Building on page A-7 By NATALIE JOHNSON natalieL~masoncounty.eom In 2009, Mason County broke its 50-year lease with 81111!!!1!!11!!1J!1!11112 el IOO comprom,se on a,rgrou the Port of Shelton for the fairgrounds. Since then, fair support- ers and the Port of Shelton have struggled to agree upon a course of action to take to deal with a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandate to revert the fairgrounds land back to airport use by Dec. 2013. The Port of Shelton com- Recently, two very dif- mission has discussed the ferent schools of thought merits of moving the fair- have surfaced. They were discussed again at the July 2 port commission meeting. "There's two sides to this issue and there's not concur- rence within the port," Com- missioner Jay Hupp said. grounds to comply with the mandate. On June 5, Hupp pro- posed the Sanderson Field Fairgrounds Future Use Plan. This plan proposes that the fairgrounds should re- main at its current location despite the FAA mandate. Under the plan, the port would remove or relocate buildings to mitigate FAA concerns. The plan also states that the port would "propose lease terms to ensure a fair return on private enter- prise use of the facility," and would "propose lease terms for the next five years that will guarantee use of the facilities through 2017 un- less overriding aviation de- velopment on the property See Fairgrounds on page A-7