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HARVEY HAZEN, Southside superintendent, and fifth-graders Dustin
Rasmussen, left, and Lyndsey Wallace huddle beside the statue of
Buddy, a neighborhood pooch who adopted the rural school.
thside youngsters
t a wood-beBuddy
GREEN
lost its Buddy
SUmmer break.
, a golden retriever who
the years adopted the
a pal who hung out
played baseball
and mooched their
ke off every morning
ame at 4 or 5 o'clock at
Dan Radcliffe, whose
Buddy and raised
a pup. The Radcliffes
a field from the court-
virtually the school
iy knew him," Rad-
Journal. "It was
during the summers
all the kids."
TOUGH on the kids
dogs, as author Rud-
noted, gnaw their
hearts.
e and infirmities
With Buddy. Over-
the young-
hes, Buddy,
or 14 years old, also
ra arthritis and
side.
hardest thing a
must do is to decide
for the pet's suffer-
Radcliffe came to
that decision-making point this
year. And so this summer, Buddy
was put to sleep.
Looking back, Southside
Superintendent Harvey Hazen re-
alized Buddy was struggling. "He
was not feeling good at the end of
the school year. He was crabby,"
Hazen said.
Aside from his habit of barking
at delivery trucks, Buddy was an
incredibly gentle dog, he said.
The kids would take the time to
talk to him out on the play-
ground.
HAZEN KNEW that word of
Buddy's death would be a crush-
ing blow to the young students.
And so, over the summer, he ar-
ranged for woodcarvers in Allyn
to create a cedar statue of the
school's mascot. The carvers used
a photo of Buddy that by coinci-
dence appeared on the front page
of the Southside annual last
spring.
On Friday, Hazen picked up
the statue and brought it to the
school.
On Monday this week, when
school started, Hazen announced
at an assembly that Buddy had
died. "There were a lot of tears
shed," he said. "Even some of the
teachers had wet eyes."
And while Buddy may be gone,
he certainly won't be forgotten.
"I've been here since kindergarten
so I've known Buddy a long time,"
said Lyndsey Wallace, a fifth-
grader. "I used to pet him and
give him water."
Hazen also made a special an-
nouncement during the assembly.
From now on, Buddy's statue will
be a symbol for the school. Each
week, a class will earn the right
to have the statue sit outside
their classroom door. "I think the
kids are really motivated," Hazen
said. And at the end of the school
year, there will be a special
award for the class that wins the
most Buddy Awards during the
school year.
THIS WEEK, the handsome
statue stands guard outside the
school library. It has already gen-
erated a bit of magic.
"I was pretty amazed this
morning," Hazen said on Tues-
day. "Three or four little girls
were standing around (the
statue). One petted his head and
they were talking to him."
Radcliffe attended the assem-
bly and said the statue and award
were exceptional things for the
school to do to honor Buddy's
memory.
"Everybody loved him. He was
a good dog," he said.
Bay sewers near
for pollution-
Bay and Case
step closer to re-
on County commis-
their intent
for both the
ase Inlet Sewer Col-
n and the related
plant to one
meeting Tues-
said they
ard the contract for
system to low
Marine of Bremer-
of $7,775,225.45.
during the
ers' meet-
Construction's
low bid at
But during the
Director of
Gary
Yando said, he found a $150,000
error in the Pape & Sons bid
which dropped it to third place.
The commissioners also ac-
knowledged their intent to accept
Triton's $5.15-million bid for the
sewage treatment plant or "water
reclamation facility."
Before final acceptance of the
bids, the project must be reviewed
by the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture's Rural Devel°pment'Ru"
ral Utilities Services, the commis-
sioners noted.
In related action, the commis-
sioners authorized Yando and the
department of community devel-
opment to proceed with the pur-
chase of a site for the water recla-
mation facility. Yando, in a memo
to the commission, identified the
prospective site as 35 acres of
property located a mile and a half
west of Allyn, which would be
purchased from the Washington
Department of Natural Resources
for $173,400.
The land will be purchased by
Mason County, but the county
will use grant and loan funding
provided by the Washington State
Department of Ecology, Yando
noted in his memo.
The facility to be located there,
Yando indicated, will include a
headworks structure, odor-control
facilities, batch-reactor units, two
effluent filters, a facility for ultra-
violet disinfection, a plant drain
pump station, bypass and wet-
weather storage ponds, an opera-
tional building, an equipment
building and site improvements.
The North Bay-Case Inlet Water
Reclamation Facility, Yando add-
ed, will be designed to treat just
under a third of a million gallons
a day.
Shelton scholars score
above average on SATs
By JEFF GREEN
Students at Shelton High
School have continued their
knack for scoring high on nation-
al tests for college-bound seniors
In just-released Scholastic Ap-
titude Test scores, which showed
Washington State students were
the best in the nation, the mean
score of 90 Shelton students tak-
ing the test last school year ex-
ceeded comparable scores of stu-
dents at both the state and na-
tional levels.
The news was welcome indeed
to Joan Zook, Shelton School Dis-
trict's director of assessment, in-
struction and curriculum. Last
week Zook had the task of report-
ing the district's Washington As-
sessment of Student Learning
test scores to the Shelton School
Board. While those scores showed
slight improvements in some
areas, board members were dis-
appointed in them. (A correction
in scores reported last week ap-
pears on page 2.)
"We're right in there with the
state. Nationally, we stack up
very well," Zook said of the SAT
scores. "Our top students are very
competitive."
THE SHELTON students who
took the tests last school year
averaged scores of 527 in math
and 526 on the verbal part of the
test, both out of a possible 800.
State averages were 526 in math
and 525 on the verbal, while na-
tionwide the average scores were
511 in math and 505 on the ver-
bal component.
A year ago the mean scores of
Shelton students taking the SAT
also exceeded state and national
averages. The Shelton students'
mean score in math was 512,
while the national mean score
was 511 and the state score was
523. Their score for verbal was
528, compared to the national
score of 505 and state score of
523.
Students take the national test
in the fall of their senior year in
high school, Zook said.
Most colleges require students
to take the SAT test as an en-
trance requirement. Consequent-
ly, she said, more high-school stu-
dents take that test than they do
the American College Test (the
ACT), which is required by some
colleges.
DURING THE 1998-1999
school year the average ACT
score of 17 Shelton college-prep
students was higher than both
the national and state average
scores. The composite average
test score of Shelton's college-prep
students was 24.2, compared to a
national average of 22.0 and a
state average of 23.4.
The average score last school
year of an additional 39 Shelton
students who took the ACT, but
who had not completed the col-
lege prep curriculum, was 20.5.
That score topped the national
average of 19.4 but trailed the
state average of 21.5.
Shotgun
fired on
Mt. View
Four people face assault charg-
es after a "long-standing feud"
erupted into violence in the park-
ing lot of an apartment building
on Mountain View in Shelton last
week.
The feud is between friends
and members of the Powell family
and another man who clashed in
front of 1125 North 13th Street at
about 8 p.m. on Friday, according
to police.
Detective Rocky Pfitzer of the
Shelton Police Department is in-
vestigating allegations that one
man got his jaw broken with a
pipe wielded by 22-year-old Y0-
landa Christine Burney of 2100
Alabama Street, Bellingham,
while another was injured i the
shoulder by a shotgun per
shots wera fired . a F
THE IDENTITY of the vic-
tims was not available ' although
they are the subjects of no-contact
orders issued Monday in Mason
County Superior Court by Judge
Toni Sheldon.
Burney, the mother of two, is
also accused of firing a shotgun
after one of the victims allegedly
tried to run Reggie Powell off the
road as part of an ongoing dis-
pute. Sheldon found probable
cause for Burney's arrest on
charges of assault in the first de-
gree with a firearm and assault in
the second degree.
The judge set Burney's bail at
$10,000 at the request of Deputy
Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz.
"These people came here looking
for an altercation," Schuetz said.
Burney asked for a lower
amount, citing her good record as
the employee of a shop in Bel-
lingham. "I've received awards for
customer service, for dealing with
people and friendliness," she said.
ARRAIGNMENT FOR Bur-
ney and three others was sched-
uled for September 9. Her hus-
band, Reggie Powell and another
member of the Powell family were
also scheduled for arraignment on
that date.
"They went there with a shot-
gun and a pipe as weapons and
then began to act in an assaultive
manner," Schuetz told the court.
Other defendants charged after
the brouhaha include:
• William Nathaniel Powell,
21, of 940 Fairmount Avenue,
Shelton. Sheldon appointed Ron
Sergi to be his attorney and found
probable cause for his arrest in an
investigation of assault in the
first degree with a weapon and
assault in the second degree. Bail
was set at $7,500.
• Reggie Nathaniel Powell, 18,
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On the inside
Births ..................................... 14
Classifieds ............................ 25
Community Calendar .......... 7
Crossword ............................ 29
Entertainment, Dining ..... 24
Health Journal .................... 14
Journal of Record .............. 16
Obituaries ............................ I0
Opinions, Letters .................. 4
Sports .................................... 19
Tides ...................................... 30
Weather ................ . ............... .17
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Thursday, September 2, 1999
113th Year - Number 35 4 Sections . 36 Pages
50 Cents
Teens held in burglaries
of North Mason schools
Mason County sheriffs depu-
ties executed warrants on the
homes of three Belfair teenagers
in the early morning hours Tues-
day, seeking evidence in the re-
cent burglaries of three buildings
in the North Mason School Dis-
trict.
The deputies acted after inter-
viewing a person who claimed to
be involved in the burglaries. The
three subjects of the subsequent
search warrants all live with
their parents, according to Under-
sheriff Gary Crane.
Two juveniles were taken into
custody Wednesday morning.
Crane said deputies expect to
make two more arrests within the
next several days. One of the per-
sons of interest in the case is an
adult, he said.
"We recovered some items last
night," Sheriff Steve Whybark
said on Wednesday. "But not the
computer equipment. We did find
some electronic scales and other
items."
Detectives hope to recover
more property Within a few days.
"We found some of the stolen
items in their hands," Whybark
said Wednesday. "So we know the
computers are Out there." .
The schools had been burglar:
ized during the weekend of Au-
gust 21-22. Taken were several
new computers that were still in
boxes and a large amount of elec-
trical equipment.
Assistant Superintendent Deb-
bie Wing said the district lost
$10,000 to $20,000 worth of com-
puter equipment in burglaries at
Belfair Elementary School, Haw-
kins Middle School and Sand Hill
Elementary School.
Some of the equipment was
used in technology infusion proj-
ects thanks to a grant from Mi-
crosoft billionaire Bill Gatcs.
School officials said at least four
newly purchased computers, some
of them still in their boxes, were,
taken from Sand Hill School.
Computer equipment, batteries
and keys were taken from Belfair
Elementary, A classroom door
was broken at Hawkins and items
were rifled through.
Vote by
Three candidates are vying in
the September 14 primary elec-
tion for a seat on the Shelton City
Commission.
Dick Taylor, Carolyn Kerr and
Kelly Buechel seek a four-year
term as commissioner of finance.
The top two advance to the No-
vember 2 general election ballot.
mail under way
The winner will replace cur-
rent Commissioner John Tarrant,
who is unopposed for mayor. Tar-
rant will succeed Scott Hilburn,
who is stepping down at year's
end after a single term as mayor.
Ballots have already gone out
to the 3,825 registered voters in
Shelton in an all-mail primary,
and ballots started coming back
to the county elections depart-
ment earlier this week.
Interviews with the three city
candidates are on page 12, and
statements from Fire District 9
candidates are on page 13. Mary
M. Knight School Board candi-
dates will appear next week.
SHS names vice principal
Yakima native Ed Stewart is
the new vice principal at Shelton
High School this fall.
Stewart, who has taught at
SHS since 1995, replaces Pat
Ena. Ena left the district to take
a job in Prosser.
The new administrator gradu-
ated from Yakima's Eisenhower
High School, then earned an asso-
ciate's degree at Edmonds Com-
munity College. He graduated
from Saint Martin's College in
Lacey in 1995 with a bachelor's
degree in history and social stud-
ies.
Last year was a busy one for
Stewart. He taught a full load of
classes, including the high
school's leadership class, and was
Associated Student Body advisor
and activities director at SHS. "I
wouldn't trade it for anything," he
said. "It was long, long hours but
very valuable experience."
HE DIDN'T start out in edu-
cation, though. "My background
is in business," Stewart told The
Journal. He worked as a retail
outlet manager and became a
troubleshooter. That is, when a
store needed an interim manager,
he was the one who came in and
took over the operations.
"I got really good at managing
businesses, working with person-
nel and the public," he said. "It
was never enough. For me, my
personal fit, it just got old.
Stewart knew he needed a
change, but to what? He took a
battery of vocational and aptitude
Ed Stewart
tests to try to find out. The tests
told him one of the vocations that
he was suited for was athletic
coach. That struck a familiar
chord. To him, being a coach
meant lso being a teacher and
teachers were a major influence
in his life.
When he was young, he played
football and baseball, continuing
to participate in those two sports
through high school. Stewart was
16 when his father died. He said
he went through a rebellious peri-
od when school wasn't important,
but three men, teachers and ad-
ministrators, refused to give up
on him. They stepped up to the
plate and were there for him
when he needed them.
THOSE MEMORIES helped
to lead him back into education,
Stewart said. He finished commu-
nity college, then Saint Martin's.
Eventually, he earned master's
degrees in professional develop-
ment and education administra.
tion through Heritage College.
He did his student teaching at
SHS during the 1995-1996 school
year, working under Jack Stark,
who was a teacher and head
coach of the Highclimbers' foot-
ball team. The next year, Stewart
worked as a substitute in the
Shelton School District. A staff
member left and he filled in on a
long-term basis. The following
year, he taught social studies full
time.
Now 37, he said he feels lucky
to be a vice principal. There were
a number of candidates for the
job. "I'm excited to be in this posi-
tion, excited to be in the school
district," he said. He said he
brings with him a sense of sports-
manship and fair play.
Stewart and his wife, Tami,
have a son, Chad, age 2Y2 and are
expecting a second child in
March. In his time away from his
job, he said he likes doing things
that involve his family, and espe-
cially likes going to fun things for
kids. He said he's itching to take
his son to a ball game at Safeco
Field. He also enjoys family reun-
ions.
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HARVEY HAZEN, Southside superintendent, and fifth-graders Dustin
Rasmussen, left, and Lyndsey Wallace huddle beside the statue of
Buddy, a neighborhood pooch who adopted the rural school.
thside youngsters
t a wood-beBuddy
GREEN
lost its Buddy
SUmmer break.
, a golden retriever who
the years adopted the
a pal who hung out
played baseball
and mooched their
ke off every morning
ame at 4 or 5 o'clock at
Dan Radcliffe, whose
Buddy and raised
a pup. The Radcliffes
a field from the court-
virtually the school
iy knew him," Rad-
Journal. "It was
during the summers
all the kids."
TOUGH on the kids
dogs, as author Rud-
noted, gnaw their
hearts.
e and infirmities
With Buddy. Over-
the young-
hes, Buddy,
or 14 years old, also
ra arthritis and
side.
hardest thing a
must do is to decide
for the pet's suffer-
Radcliffe came to
that decision-making point this
year. And so this summer, Buddy
was put to sleep.
Looking back, Southside
Superintendent Harvey Hazen re-
alized Buddy was struggling. "He
was not feeling good at the end of
the school year. He was crabby,"
Hazen said.
Aside from his habit of barking
at delivery trucks, Buddy was an
incredibly gentle dog, he said.
The kids would take the time to
talk to him out on the play-
ground.
HAZEN KNEW that word of
Buddy's death would be a crush-
ing blow to the young students.
And so, over the summer, he ar-
ranged for woodcarvers in Allyn
to create a cedar statue of the
school's mascot. The carvers used
a photo of Buddy that by coinci-
dence appeared on the front page
of the Southside annual last
spring.
On Friday, Hazen picked up
the statue and brought it to the
school.
On Monday this week, when
school started, Hazen announced
at an assembly that Buddy had
died. "There were a lot of tears
shed," he said. "Even some of the
teachers had wet eyes."
And while Buddy may be gone,
he certainly won't be forgotten.
"I've been here since kindergarten
so I've known Buddy a long time,"
said Lyndsey Wallace, a fifth-
grader. "I used to pet him and
give him water."
Hazen also made a special an-
nouncement during the assembly.
From now on, Buddy's statue will
be a symbol for the school. Each
week, a class will earn the right
to have the statue sit outside
their classroom door. "I think the
kids are really motivated," Hazen
said. And at the end of the school
year, there will be a special
award for the class that wins the
most Buddy Awards during the
school year.
THIS WEEK, the handsome
statue stands guard outside the
school library. It has already gen-
erated a bit of magic.
"I was pretty amazed this
morning," Hazen said on Tues-
day. "Three or four little girls
were standing around (the
statue). One petted his head and
they were talking to him."
Radcliffe attended the assem-
bly and said the statue and award
were exceptional things for the
school to do to honor Buddy's
memory.
"Everybody loved him. He was
a good dog," he said.
Bay sewers near
for pollution-
Bay and Case
step closer to re-
on County commis-
their intent
for both the
ase Inlet Sewer Col-
n and the related
plant to one
meeting Tues-
said they
ard the contract for
system to low
Marine of Bremer-
of $7,775,225.45.
during the
ers' meet-
Construction's
low bid at
But during the
Director of
Gary
Yando said, he found a $150,000
error in the Pape & Sons bid
which dropped it to third place.
The commissioners also ac-
knowledged their intent to accept
Triton's $5.15-million bid for the
sewage treatment plant or "water
reclamation facility."
Before final acceptance of the
bids, the project must be reviewed
by the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture's Rural Devel°pment'Ru"
ral Utilities Services, the commis-
sioners noted.
In related action, the commis-
sioners authorized Yando and the
department of community devel-
opment to proceed with the pur-
chase of a site for the water recla-
mation facility. Yando, in a memo
to the commission, identified the
prospective site as 35 acres of
property located a mile and a half
west of Allyn, which would be
purchased from the Washington
Department of Natural Resources
for $173,400.
The land will be purchased by
Mason County, but the county
will use grant and loan funding
provided by the Washington State
Department of Ecology, Yando
noted in his memo.
The facility to be located there,
Yando indicated, will include a
headworks structure, odor-control
facilities, batch-reactor units, two
effluent filters, a facility for ultra-
violet disinfection, a plant drain
pump station, bypass and wet-
weather storage ponds, an opera-
tional building, an equipment
building and site improvements.
The North Bay-Case Inlet Water
Reclamation Facility, Yando add-
ed, will be designed to treat just
under a third of a million gallons
a day.
Shelton scholars score
above average on SATs
By JEFF GREEN
Students at Shelton High
School have continued their
knack for scoring high on nation-
al tests for college-bound seniors
In just-released Scholastic Ap-
titude Test scores, which showed
Washington State students were
the best in the nation, the mean
score of 90 Shelton students tak-
ing the test last school year ex-
ceeded comparable scores of stu-
dents at both the state and na-
tional levels.
The news was welcome indeed
to Joan Zook, Shelton School Dis-
trict's director of assessment, in-
struction and curriculum. Last
week Zook had the task of report-
ing the district's Washington As-
sessment of Student Learning
test scores to the Shelton School
Board. While those scores showed
slight improvements in some
areas, board members were dis-
appointed in them. (A correction
in scores reported last week ap-
pears on page 2.)
"We're right in there with the
state. Nationally, we stack up
very well," Zook said of the SAT
scores. "Our top students are very
competitive."
THE SHELTON students who
took the tests last school year
averaged scores of 527 in math
and 526 on the verbal part of the
test, both out of a possible 800.
State averages were 526 in math
and 525 on the verbal, while na-
tionwide the average scores were
511 in math and 505 on the ver-
bal component.
A year ago the mean scores of
Shelton students taking the SAT
also exceeded state and national
averages. The Shelton students'
mean score in math was 512,
while the national mean score
was 511 and the state score was
523. Their score for verbal was
528, compared to the national
score of 505 and state score of
523.
Students take the national test
in the fall of their senior year in
high school, Zook said.
Most colleges require students
to take the SAT test as an en-
trance requirement. Consequent-
ly, she said, more high-school stu-
dents take that test than they do
the American College Test (the
ACT), which is required by some
colleges.
DURING THE 1998-1999
school year the average ACT
score of 17 Shelton college-prep
students was higher than both
the national and state average
scores. The composite average
test score of Shelton's college-prep
students was 24.2, compared to a
national average of 22.0 and a
state average of 23.4.
The average score last school
year of an additional 39 Shelton
students who took the ACT, but
who had not completed the col-
lege prep curriculum, was 20.5.
That score topped the national
average of 19.4 but trailed the
state average of 21.5.
Shotgun
fired on
Mt. View
Four people face assault charg-
es after a "long-standing feud"
erupted into violence in the park-
ing lot of an apartment building
on Mountain View in Shelton last
week.
The feud is between friends
and members of the Powell family
and another man who clashed in
front of 1125 North 13th Street at
about 8 p.m. on Friday, according
to police.
Detective Rocky Pfitzer of the
Shelton Police Department is in-
vestigating allegations that one
man got his jaw broken with a
pipe wielded by 22-year-old Y0-
landa Christine Burney of 2100
Alabama Street, Bellingham,
while another was injured i the
shoulder by a shotgun per
shots wera fired . a F
THE IDENTITY of the vic-
tims was not available ' although
they are the subjects of no-contact
orders issued Monday in Mason
County Superior Court by Judge
Toni Sheldon.
Burney, the mother of two, is
also accused of firing a shotgun
after one of the victims allegedly
tried to run Reggie Powell off the
road as part of an ongoing dis-
pute. Sheldon found probable
cause for Burney's arrest on
charges of assault in the first de-
gree with a firearm and assault in
the second degree.
The judge set Burney's bail at
$10,000 at the request of Deputy
Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz.
"These people came here looking
for an altercation," Schuetz said.
Burney asked for a lower
amount, citing her good record as
the employee of a shop in Bel-
lingham. "I've received awards for
customer service, for dealing with
people and friendliness," she said.
ARRAIGNMENT FOR Bur-
ney and three others was sched-
uled for September 9. Her hus-
band, Reggie Powell and another
member of the Powell family were
also scheduled for arraignment on
that date.
"They went there with a shot-
gun and a pipe as weapons and
then began to act in an assaultive
manner," Schuetz told the court.
Other defendants charged after
the brouhaha include:
• William Nathaniel Powell,
21, of 940 Fairmount Avenue,
Shelton. Sheldon appointed Ron
Sergi to be his attorney and found
probable cause for his arrest in an
investigation of assault in the
first degree with a weapon and
assault in the second degree. Bail
was set at $7,500.
• Reggie Nathaniel Powell, 18,
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On the inside
Births ..................................... 14
Classifieds ............................ 25
Community Calendar .......... 7
Crossword ............................ 29
Entertainment, Dining ..... 24
Health Journal .................... 14
Journal of Record .............. 16
Obituaries ............................ I0
Opinions, Letters .................. 4
Sports .................................... 19
Tides ...................................... 30
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Thursday, September 2, 1999
113th Year - Number 35 4 Sections . 36 Pages
50 Cents
Teens held in burglaries
of North Mason schools
Mason County sheriffs depu-
ties executed warrants on the
homes of three Belfair teenagers
in the early morning hours Tues-
day, seeking evidence in the re-
cent burglaries of three buildings
in the North Mason School Dis-
trict.
The deputies acted after inter-
viewing a person who claimed to
be involved in the burglaries. The
three subjects of the subsequent
search warrants all live with
their parents, according to Under-
sheriff Gary Crane.
Two juveniles were taken into
custody Wednesday morning.
Crane said deputies expect to
make two more arrests within the
next several days. One of the per-
sons of interest in the case is an
adult, he said.
"We recovered some items last
night," Sheriff Steve Whybark
said on Wednesday. "But not the
computer equipment. We did find
some electronic scales and other
items."
Detectives hope to recover
more property Within a few days.
"We found some of the stolen
items in their hands," Whybark
said Wednesday. "So we know the
computers are Out there." .
The schools had been burglar:
ized during the weekend of Au-
gust 21-22. Taken were several
new computers that were still in
boxes and a large amount of elec-
trical equipment.
Assistant Superintendent Deb-
bie Wing said the district lost
$10,000 to $20,000 worth of com-
puter equipment in burglaries at
Belfair Elementary School, Haw-
kins Middle School and Sand Hill
Elementary School.
Some of the equipment was
used in technology infusion proj-
ects thanks to a grant from Mi-
crosoft billionaire Bill Gatcs.
School officials said at least four
newly purchased computers, some
of them still in their boxes, were,
taken from Sand Hill School.
Computer equipment, batteries
and keys were taken from Belfair
Elementary, A classroom door
was broken at Hawkins and items
were rifled through.
Vote by
Three candidates are vying in
the September 14 primary elec-
tion for a seat on the Shelton City
Commission.
Dick Taylor, Carolyn Kerr and
Kelly Buechel seek a four-year
term as commissioner of finance.
The top two advance to the No-
vember 2 general election ballot.
mail under way
The winner will replace cur-
rent Commissioner John Tarrant,
who is unopposed for mayor. Tar-
rant will succeed Scott Hilburn,
who is stepping down at year's
end after a single term as mayor.
Ballots have already gone out
to the 3,825 registered voters in
Shelton in an all-mail primary,
and ballots started coming back
to the county elections depart-
ment earlier this week.
Interviews with the three city
candidates are on page 12, and
statements from Fire District 9
candidates are on page 13. Mary
M. Knight School Board candi-
dates will appear next week.
SHS names vice principal
Yakima native Ed Stewart is
the new vice principal at Shelton
High School this fall.
Stewart, who has taught at
SHS since 1995, replaces Pat
Ena. Ena left the district to take
a job in Prosser.
The new administrator gradu-
ated from Yakima's Eisenhower
High School, then earned an asso-
ciate's degree at Edmonds Com-
munity College. He graduated
from Saint Martin's College in
Lacey in 1995 with a bachelor's
degree in history and social stud-
ies.
Last year was a busy one for
Stewart. He taught a full load of
classes, including the high
school's leadership class, and was
Associated Student Body advisor
and activities director at SHS. "I
wouldn't trade it for anything," he
said. "It was long, long hours but
very valuable experience."
HE DIDN'T start out in edu-
cation, though. "My background
is in business," Stewart told The
Journal. He worked as a retail
outlet manager and became a
troubleshooter. That is, when a
store needed an interim manager,
he was the one who came in and
took over the operations.
"I got really good at managing
businesses, working with person-
nel and the public," he said. "It
was never enough. For me, my
personal fit, it just got old.
Stewart knew he needed a
change, but to what? He took a
battery of vocational and aptitude
Ed Stewart
tests to try to find out. The tests
told him one of the vocations that
he was suited for was athletic
coach. That struck a familiar
chord. To him, being a coach
meant lso being a teacher and
teachers were a major influence
in his life.
When he was young, he played
football and baseball, continuing
to participate in those two sports
through high school. Stewart was
16 when his father died. He said
he went through a rebellious peri-
od when school wasn't important,
but three men, teachers and ad-
ministrators, refused to give up
on him. They stepped up to the
plate and were there for him
when he needed them.
THOSE MEMORIES helped
to lead him back into education,
Stewart said. He finished commu-
nity college, then Saint Martin's.
Eventually, he earned master's
degrees in professional develop-
ment and education administra.
tion through Heritage College.
He did his student teaching at
SHS during the 1995-1996 school
year, working under Jack Stark,
who was a teacher and head
coach of the Highclimbers' foot-
ball team. The next year, Stewart
worked as a substitute in the
Shelton School District. A staff
member left and he filled in on a
long-term basis. The following
year, he taught social studies full
time.
Now 37, he said he feels lucky
to be a vice principal. There were
a number of candidates for the
job. "I'm excited to be in this posi-
tion, excited to be in the school
district," he said. He said he
brings with him a sense of sports-
manship and fair play.
Stewart and his wife, Tami,
have a son, Chad, age 2Y2 and are
expecting a second child in
March. In his time away from his
job, he said he likes doing things
that involve his family, and espe-
cially likes going to fun things for
kids. He said he's itching to take
his son to a ball game at Safeco
Field. He also enjoys family reun-
ions.