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' Sipitonitiaaonitonntg ileum B 86 S-12 [ina mullillllillidiibiimi[h"limit![pmillluulii WmCAR RT LOT C 005 SMALL TOWN PAPERS Since 1886 - Vol. 134, No. 33 MASON COUNTY, THURSDAY, AUG. 13, 2020 $1.50 927 W RAlLROAD AVE SHELTQN WA, 98584 3847 Deputies surViVe By Isabella Breda lsabel/a@masoncountycom A Mason County sheriff deputy is expected to make a full recovery after sustaining a se- vere head injury while trying to recover partial remains of a body in the canyon near High Steel Bridge around 1 p.m. Aug. 6. We sent guys on a mission to see if they could locate missing persons, Chief Ryan Spurling said. While coming out of the canyon, one of my deputies was on a rope ascending, and the rope forced a rock to break loose and hit him in the head. ' Another deputy was able to catch the uncon- scious deputy before he fell into the South Fork of the Skokomish River, Spurling said. The deputy sustained ve broken facial bones including injuries to the orbital bone, cheek and jaw, a broken leg and a severe concussion. The deputy was wearing a helmet when the injury oc curred. g ' The second deputy sustained soft tissue inju- ries, including muscle strains and sprains, Spurl ing said. According to the Mason County emergency communications call detail, the deputy who sus- tained a head injury fell about 15 feet down the canyon before he was caught. L High Steel Bridge is 420 feet above the South Fork of the Skokomish River and is recognized as the tallest bridge in Washington. The steep can- yon below is composed of eroding sedimentary rocks. We re doing our own investigation to see if anything was missed or overlooked, Spurling see INJURIES, page A-16 Splashing at the Jawslyn Cruz, 4, cools off in her mother s inner tube Monday afternoon at Lake Devereaux. Tem- peratures are forecase to hit the 805 this weekend. Journal photo by Isabella Breda By Gordon Weeks gordon@masoncounty. com The Mason County Fire Protection District No. 16 levy passed by a mere 22 votes. The measure on the Aug. 4 primary election bal 1' lot was only leading by one vote after the rst ballot count at 8 p.m. By the Aug. 6 second count, that lead had wid- . ened with 607 voting yes, and 586 voting no. On the third and nal count Friday afternoon, the measure had 611 yes votes and 589 no votes for 50.92 percent. Mason County Fire District 16, part of West Ma- son Fire District, will receive 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed home property value to pay for emergency services. ' The three other re protection measures passed with comfortable margins. The ballot to merge Mason County Fire Protec- tion District No. 1 and Mason County Fire Protec- tion District No. 18 received 80.22 percent. The emergency medical services levy for Mason County Fire District No. 4 received 58.13 percent. North Mason Regional Fire Authority s emergency medi- cal services levy passed with 70.63 percent. Voter turnout was 57.92 percent, with 24,211 Mason County residents casting votes. see V01:E, page A-16 Mystery unearthed at Shelton High Many theories about origins of mangled. metal , By Gordon Weeks gordon@masoncounly.com Is the mangled metal re- cently unearthed from under the Shelton High School foot- ball eld swamp ller, part of a time capsule, a student prank, or race car chunks from a long-gone wrecking yard? A Shelton mystery that stretches back ve- decades was brought to light July 14 at the Shelton School Board s regular board meeting. Jeff Feeney of KMB Architects, the district s project manag- er, was giving anupdate on the district s building bond projects. He mentioned that workers constructing the new football eld had unearthed~ parts of a barely recognizable vehicle. Feeney showed seven pho- tos, including the metal being exhumed and placed in a pile. One photo shows the vehicle s speedometer, which looks like it s melted. Now you can put that mys- tery to bed, Feeney told the school board. Well, not exactly. No one so far can determine the make or the model of the vehicle. And the mystery remains: how did it get there? . When I arrived here in the district, in 2016, there were countless old tales and myths about when the high school started dirt work back in the 1968 to 69 time frame that they had a lot of swamp to ll in and bring up to grade for the new campus, Robert Herron, the Shelton School District director of facilities and maintenance, wrote in an email to the Shelton Mason County Journal. Supposedly, according to the legends re- layed to me, it was request- ed of the community to help bring items to back ll the swamp. Those legends talked about all kinds of household items that were discarded in the ll. Most notably of the ru- mors that I heard was an old car actually disposed of in the swamp to help the cause. Herron continued: Inever put any credence in the ru- mors because no one knew of them rsthand. Everyone i talked to said, My friend s dad always said this and I heard back in high school that. People love to talk about it. Every Shelton long-timer that was associated with the high school in any way either as a student, faculty, tradesmen over the age of 50 seem to have their own version of what was buried under the high school. see MYSTERY, page A 1 5 . I Shelton School District Wendy s coming Sweetwater Park project ,sets 2020-21 budget to Shelton? underway in Bevlfair 8 5 6 3 0 01 1 1 Page A-2 Page A-6 Page A 25