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MAY BE YOUR ANSWER.... Get all your work done in one or two visits. The Smile Express . FREE Nitrous Always . Price First Sedation Visit for New Patients * new patients only Ralph Severson & Patricia Stevenson have been married for 50 years and are still going strong. The Seversons, formerly of Tacoma, are now living in Lilliwup. e By ARLA SHEPHARD Several candidates are promoting change within the board of Mason County Fire Dis- trict 3 in Grapeview, as two seats are up for election this season. Jeremy Seelig, 24, and Nancy Montgom- ery, 63, will be on the August 16 primary ballot for the six-year fire commissioner position No. 2 along with incumbent Start Catron, 82, who has served on the board for more than 20 years. "I've always been sup- portive of the fire district, but lately [the Grapeview Community Association Seelig has been] treated with a great deal of disrespect and disregard, I feel," said Montgomery, who has owned property in Grapeview since 1980 and lived here since 1996. "It's time for a change. Mr. Catron has been there for 20 years ... it's time for a woman to get in there and have a wom- an's perspective especially since we have a woman fire chief." Montgomery has worked in the insurance field for more than 30 years and has volunteered on planning commissions, Pa~ent Teacher Associa- tions, the Girl Scouts, the Montgomery Friends of the Library, a condominium association and has served every posi- tion on the Grapeview Community Associa- tion board in the last 15 years. She has five grandchildren and four chil- dren with her husband of 43 years. "My candidacy is really about returning openness and account- ability to the public and restoring a harmonious re- lationship between the fire district and the commu- nity association," she said. "I love the closeness of the community and how all the people are ready and will- ing to help people in time Catron of emergencies and not ... We want to have the best fire district we can have out there." Her opponent Jeremy Seeling has been a vol~r at the dis~ict for ed~0ut two years ~ ~ ~iv~'r~' ~evie~ for about six I .t with his wife and two daughters and was hired assecretarytotheFire Commissionersin 1988. Three years later, he was appointed to fill the term of a commissioner who left the district, and he has been in his position for 20 years. Catron, who was in the banking business for 25 years, is most proud of hiring a good fire chief in Patti Graeber, he said. "I remember that, that was an accom- plishment, but this is all a team effort," he said. "We're a gr6wing department; we re- cently completed our 10-year program for new vehicles and we did it in eight." Catron said he hopes to end the "little squabble" the district has with the Grape- view Community Association. "They seem to think they don't have to pay a maintenance fee, so I guess they really want the tax- payers to pay their mainte- nance," he said. In the two-year Com- missioner Position No. 3, incumbent Glenn Hoop- man, 57, will contend Hoopman against Mike Creighton, 64. Hoopman, a former paid and volunteer firefighter, was appointed a little more than a year ago in his position af- ter Commissioner Scott Barry moved out of the county. He has lived in Grapeview since 1994, when he left a firefighting job on Whidbey Island to work on cranes at the Bremerton shipyard. He retired in 2010. If Hoopman were elected, he would work on better communication with the Grape- view Community Association, of which he is a member. "I think there's a hidden agenda that I'd like to straighten out and I think we're go- ing to get to the end of it soon," Hoopman said. "I want to be more transparent with the community and with funding to be good stewards of the taxpayer money. My one goal was not to merger with anybody, we do quite well with [Chief Graeber] and the staff... 1 hate corruption and I'm an honest person." His opponent Mike Creighton has lived in Grapeview for four years and has served in many capacities in public service: as a school board member for nine years, a city council member in Bellevue for nine years, a board member at a food bank and Seafair and as the mayor of Bellevue for two years. ~I.~ncouraged.~o run years. ..... bysom folks here and I "I feel that Grapeview is a nice secluded ~ Crelghton just have a desire to give to area with a real tight community,Y he said. the community and to sort "i noticed some changes in the fire district of bring open public meet- lately and I just want to make sure that the ings to the community," he said. "I think we community as a whole gets taken care of and need to have a strong fire department that's that everything is done in the community's well-trained and -equipped, and we need to interest." have open public meetings where we discuss Seelig has served in the military with two everything in public and we need to have tours in Iraq and now works as an appren- some strong financial management." rice machinery mechanic at the Bremerton Creighton owned an insurance broker- shipyard. He has a wife and a six-month-old age firm, and his family has owned a home baby. in Mason County since 1968• He lives in the Stan Catron moved to Grapeview in 1969 area with his wife. Mt. 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