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Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, July 20, 2023
Interesting items
E’RE NO. 51! In
2022, the number
of (police) officers
decreased by 70 to around
10,600 officers in Washing—
ton. The 4.4% drop brought
the staffing rate to 1.35 offi~
cers per 1,000 people, putting
Washington at the 51st low-
est rate among all U states
and Washington, D.C.. for the
13th year in a row, accord-
ing to Steven Strachan, with
the Washington Association
of" Sheriffs and Police (:Ihiels.
Nationally, the rate around
2.31 officers per 1,000 people.
w The Scuttle Times, July 10,
2023
AT’I‘EMP'I‘S TO REACH:
The vessel named ’l‘itan, on
an eight-day expedition to
View the wreckage ol‘the 'l‘i»
tariie. Was: reported overdue
Sunday in a remote area of
the Atlantic Ocean 900 miles
east olifape Cod, l‘vlass, the
IRS. (Joust Guard said Mona
day. OceanGate was found—
ed in 2009 by Seattle resident
USPS 492—800
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YOU'RE STILL ON THE
JOB, NEPOTISM, SNEAKY
BOARD APPOINTMENTS
’«2 SHELTON-MASON COUNTY
it
THESE .
TIMES
Stockton Rush, who is the
company’s CEO and founder
of ()ceanGate Foundation,
a marine technology non-
profit organization. Attempts
to reach Rush on Monday
weren’t successful. — The SU-
attle Times, June 19,
WHEN YOUR NAME IS
DESTINY: J udge John «I udge
of Idaho’s 2nd Judicial liis-
trict Court in Latah County,
who is overseeing the case,
scheduled a June 27 hearing:
to decide what the rlelhnse
AND ACCESS TO ALL
THOSE FUNDS.
AMAZING!
written for newspapers
will be allowed to review w
and also what it might not. ~—
Thc Idaho Statesman, June
1.8, 2023
SEEMS A BIT SEVERE:
Headline in The Washington
Post, April 14, 2023: Demo-
crats call for probe ofClar-
ence Thomas amid reports of
real estate deals with GOP
donor - The Washington
Post, April 14, 2028
MUSHROOM HUMOR:
Headline in The Seattle
Times, April 1, 2023: Psyche-
delic therapy bill may survive
session in altered state
A TOUGH ERA FOR
OWLS: From Mary Theler’s
diary, Aug. 29, 1940: “Charlie
lbund an owl on the road and
knocked it down and brought.
it. to the store and when they
came out to look at it, the
thing came out of the stupor
it. was in and so they had it in
a box For a day and then Em—
mett killed it and sent it to be
mounted.” — Shelton-Mason
County Journal, Sept. 6, 2018
HOW COULD THIS
HAPPEN IN AMERICA?
APNewsAlert HONOLULU
-~ Hawaii awards eight 1i-
censes for medical marijuana
dispensaries, but not to actor
Woody Harrelson. The As-
sociated Press, April 29, 2016
A PAID OBIT FOR A
JEWISH REDNECK: A
plus-sized Jewish lady red—
neck died in El Paso on
Saturday. Of itself'hardly
news, or good news if" you’re
the type that subscribes
to the notion that anybody
not named you dying in El
Paso, Texas is good news. In
which case have I got news
for you: the bawdy, fertile,
redheaded matriarch of a
sprawling Jewish»l\/lexican-
Redneck American Family
has kicked it. This was not
good news to Renay Man—
del Corren’s many surviving~
children, grandchildren and
‘4
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great—grandchildren, many
of whom she even knew and,
in her own way, loved. There
will be much mourning in the
many glamorous locales she
went bankrupt in: McKees—
port, PA, Renay’s birthplace
and where she first fell in
love with ham, and atheism;
Fayetteville and Kill Devil
Hills, NC, where Renay’s
dreams, credit rating and
marriage are all buried; and
of course Miami, FL, where
Renay’s parents, uncles,
aunts, and eternal hopes ‘of
all Miami Dolphins fans ev—
erywhere, are all buried pret-
ty deep. Renay was preceded
in death by Don Shula.
r. The Foyetteuil/e Observer,
Dec. 15, 2021
THEY SHOULD HAVE
FRIED THEM: Headline in
The Olympian, July ll), 2003:
Senate panel grills Franks,
Rumsfeld
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