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:.! :, ~j ~-:9, ~ •i¸: ! ,•~. / :,-,( -~ Thursday, July 21, 2011 Year 125 -- Week 9 -- X Sections --- XX Pages -- Published in Shelton, Washington -- $1 Sheriff se t ackin rs r objections By ARLA SHEPHARD missioners' 'disconnect' regarding the state has absolutely nothing to do with the sher- of the local business environment, I have ifFs office," said Commissioner Tim Shel- The Belfair sewer project is driving the decided to forgo this philanthropy at this don, whose district includes Belfair. Mason County SherifFs Office out of its time," Krueger wrote in a letter dated July Sheriff Casey Salisbury stressed that Belfair location due to a local property 14. "I believe that the current commission- the sherifFs office still has a positive owner's discontent with the way the proj- ers are detrimentally affecting Belfair, working relationship with the Krueger ect has been handled, the largest unincorporated UGA [Urban family and is working on trying to find Rick Krueger, who had an agreement Growth Area] in the county." other options for a location in the Belfair with the county to donate a parcel of his Several North Mason business owners area. land for the sheriffs office trailer free and groups have spoken out against the "The Krueger family has been nothing of charge, sent a 90-day notice to Sher- sewer project, which many feel will force but gracious to the sherifFs office," Salis- iff Casey Salisbury last week asking the businesses to close due to the proposed bury said. "The Krueger family and the county to vacate the property, connection charges and monthly rates, sherifFs office work really well together, "In light of the current Belfair Wastewa- "I think it's unfortunate that [Krueger] and there's no problem between us and ter mismanagement and the county corn- made this decision over this issue, which this has to do with some dissatisfaction with other county entities." John Keates, Mason County Parks, Fa- cilities and Trails director, is working on removing the trailer from its Belfair loca- tion. "I think it will probably go back to the [trailer] company," Salisbury said. "We've got some people in the community we're talking to, to keep us in the area ... We need to be responsible to respond to things up there, but the ultimate decision is up to the county." The sherifFs office has a small office at the Safeway in Belfair, where they may move some of their services, Salisbury said. . ..... Courtesy photo An Olympic Mountain Rescue Team included Terry Hiatt, Pete Ozimek, Tammi Wright, John Kaster and Kevin Swem (not pictured: Mike Baum) scheduled a training mission early this month to" rescue stranded dog Sasha on Mount Elinor. By NATALIE JOHNSON "We got a call out on Thursday night that the ranger informed them that they couldn't there was a potential for a, well, they were do "non-human" rescues. Losing a dog is many a pot lover's worst calling it a trainh~g mission for a dog rescue,~ Somehow, Wright said, the dog's family nightmare. What if your canine friend fell off said Tammi Wright. found Olympic Mountain Rescue. a cliff face right before your eyes? Wright is a member of the volunteer search "The state does not typically issue rais- On Wednesday, July 6on the still snowy and rescue group Olympic Mountain Rescue, sion numbers for non-human rescues ... but summit of bit. Elinor in the southern Olym- based out of Kitsap County. She also is the the volunteer organizations do trainings pic mountains, that very thing happened to a emergency management coordinator for Ma- and that's how we were able to get a mission couple mountain climbing with their Bernese son County. number as a training," she said. "We went out Mountain Dog, Sasha. Suddenly, Sasha saw a After frantically calling, for Sasha for two there to train, if we found the dog we found mountain goat and did what dogs do - chased hours, the dog's owners went to the nearest it - right off a ledge with a 150-foot drop. ranger station in Hoodsport, Wright said, but See Rescue on page A-7 Five candidates vie for mayor, commissioner positions at city By NATALIE JOHNSON ARer the November elec- tions the City of Shelton may be lei~ with two new commissioners. Both the Mayor, or Commissioner of Public Safety, and the Com- missioner of Finance posi- tions are up for election this year. Three candidates have 011111J!lJl tllJ!!l!l!lllll entered the race for I'm excited to take on the structure, like Shelton's cliffe Road with her hus- mayor including sitting challenge of a new leader- streets, and reinforcing band Ron and their three Commissioner of Public ship role." relationships with other dogs. Works Dawn Pannell, Pannell listed the local elected offidials and Local businessman Gary Cronce and Tracy city's accomplishmentsgroups, such as the Ma- Gary Cronce has also an- Moore. Mayor John Tar- during her time as corn- son County Commission. nounced his candidacy for rant declined to run for missioner as the comple- However her No. I goal the office of city Mayor. reelection this year. tion of $70 million of pub- is to find a stable funding "I'm running for mayor Pannell, who was elect- lic works projects includ- source for public safety of Shelton because I can ed to the city commission ing the newly completed within the City of Shel- bring a different perspec- in 2001, said that she de- Satellite Water Reclama- ton. tive to the city commis- cided to run for mayor in tion plant, the rebuild of "The grants are goingsion," he said. "Most poli- an effort to continue her Northcliffe Rd., the re- away and I don't wantticians have spent their work at the commission placement of sewer lines the public safety folks to entire careers listening in a new role. in three sewer basins,spend a majority of their to people tell them how "I thought continu- and the removal of sewer time looking for grants to build roads and create ity was important with pipes from Goldsborough rather than being on the jobs. In the private sector what we have planned," Creek. street," Pannell said. I have spent my whole she said. "We've accom- Pannell said that as PannelV~has lived in life building roads and plished a lot with public mayor she would focus Shelton for 30 years and works in my time and on repairing visible infra- currently lives on North- See Positions on page A-7 ions run iF ear=ng By ARLA SHEPHARD A four-hour public hearing on what the interim rates will be to connect into the Belfair sewer system conjured strong emotions on Tuesday in Shel- ton, as business owners and other North Mason community members continued to plea stmty neCtion charges. Prior to a county staff pre- sentation on the proposed interim rate ordinance, com- missioners made it clear that they were not ready to finalize a decision this week, and Com- missioner Tim Sheldon made comments that the sewer sys- tem would assist in the clean- up of pollution in Hood Canal and turn Belfair into a magnet of economic growth. "We as county commission- ers are mandated to provide those urban services to those areas" desig- nated as Ur- ban Growth Areas [UGAs] under" the Growth Man- agement Act, Sheldon said. "This is prob- ably the big- Dobey gest public works project we've under- taken in this county ... I think ultimately in the long-run, this will create jobs." Under the proposed interim rate ordinance, single-family households under Phase I of the project would pay $3,000 to connect to the system, while commercial businesses would pay more based on the num- of Equiv- alent Resi- dential Units or ERUs they are allocated. Moore The pro- posed inter- im rate or- dinance establishes one ERU at 135 gallons per day -- for some businesses in Belfair, that means paying more than $70,000 in connection fees alone. The charges for new devel- opers would rise to $5,000 per ERU from July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2012, then to $6,000 per ERU from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013, then to $7,200 per ERU from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014. The proposed ordinance also allows existing development located in Phase 2 of the proj- ect the opportunity to pay for one ERU charge of $3,000 in See Hearing on page A-7