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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,
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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
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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