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Belfair youth continues Dicks, Sheldon visit area
battle with leukemia (Continued from page l.) rest oftheworldhowtobring there, highway extensiontheme, Dicks
ByLINDA THOMSON
ge::e'year'old Christopher Sar-
eve L .m°m' Cathy, has done
s,,:f.a)ng she can to make her
.v, ,xe normal. That hasn't al-
ays been easy for her, because
• ,r 0hi • - .
Sea._ Y child has leukemla.
so::':a,from_ume sl her husband for
Whose . .he is a single morn
s0n Ch°n y job is caring for her
,.' ,,s and Cathy live in Bel-
lalr.
ts Was 71/2 when he was
He'd had asthma
and he had always
SOmewhat easily. Other-
as a pretty healthy lit-
ealthy, that is, until
t7.
'had made plans to go to a
[ game, then to Twanoh
ark that Saturday. But
roe up with a 104-degree
ne doctor thought it was
.and advised Cathy to
back Monday if he
i
¢ett, MOST ASSUREDLY was
m
muc. wor.
ii ''-iaoration.ble. He of his condition
i hadn't shaken the
d now he had pneumo-
hi'fi s Physician gave him anti-
kll . e h°ta, took X-rays, and for
Ir: son even he can't ex-
Itl ti_' an SOme blood tests, in-
iIU 'One for leukemia.
I] .Y Was called into another
IPl tt,_ .Where the doctor said "We
] ht.he has leukemia," and' ave
%ll£hil;ectins to Mary Bgge
to*[| Where e s Hospital in Tacoma,
'- I eat had set up an appoint-
drove them to Taco-
ridge was a mad
exclaimed. It
hundreds of nurses
her little boy, stick-
him, and taking blood.
traumatic," she con-
nally a doctor listened
ament about the refer-
suspicion that he
leukemia. "He does
said the doctor
is a scary word that
of the blood. Cathy
much about it then,
began that very
ad never cared to know
I had no reason to
earning about
Lid.
FOR A little over two
has gotten quite an
CATHY SARGENT is proud of her son Christopher, 9,
who is living with leukemia and awaiting a bone mar-
row transplant.
him in school at Belfair Elemen-
tary as much as he has been able
to be there. He missed the end of
his first-grade year, about half of
second grade, and a little less
than half of third grade. His
teacher, Dr. Gall Davis, has of-
fered to tutor Chris when he is
unable to be in school.
"HE LOVES SCHOOL," said
Chris's morn. "He's got an awe-
some brain!" He likes computers,
too, and his favorite games are
Deer Hunter and Virtual Pool.
The young patient's leukemia
went into remission, but in July
of this year, it relapsed. One of
the unusual side effects of his
chemo that proved exhausting to
mother and son were the drying
out of his eyes, necessitating eye
drops being administered every
three hours, around the clock to
prevent pain. Thankfully, that pe-
riod came to an end, and they did
their best to catch up on sleep!
Chemo is a combination of
drugs, worked out by a physician
for a specific patient. It is a pow-
erful arsenal aimed at a destruc-
tive disease, but it also takes out
some of the healthy cells during
this process. The side effects are
many, and they are unpleasant.
Sometimes there need to be ad-
justments. Cathy spoke of one
family in Greece!
Thanks to the generosity of a
church and his grandparents,
Chris and Cathy both had the op-
portunity to visit Anastosios and
to work in his family's olive
orchard there. "The boys could go
out until 10 or 11 at night, and
they were completely safe," Cathy
shared. They had a great time in
Greece, but Chris lost five pounds
while they were there.
There have been other special
trips and events. Chris and both
his parents enjoyed the Make-a-
Wish trip to Disney World in
Florida. The only thing he had
asked of the Make-a-Wish Foun-
dation was a magic eight ball, his
morn indicated, "which just shows
how unselfish he is."
ONCE CHRIS relapsed, the
medical people began talking
about the need of a bone marrow
transplant. Recently, Chris and
both his morn and his dad Ron
each gave a pint of blood for the
complex testing to see if either
parent may be a compatible
donor. There was some delay in
running the tests until Chris .was
again in remission, and strong
enough to give up that much
blood.
"Friends of Chris" is the name
of a bank account that has been
set up to collect money to buy
have to make sure that kids are
treated stringently if they are
caught with guns."
"Our local school personnel
need to keep their eyes wide
open," Dicks said. He also be-
lieves students are duty-bound to
turn in information about fellow
youth who have made threaten-
ing statements. "We also need to
be aware of any quasi-gang ele-
ment that may exist in our
schools," he concluded.
ANOTHER NATIONAL topic
of interest was the federal budget
surplus. "There was a $300 billion
deficit in 1993 when President
Clinton came in to office," Dicks
said. "Thanks to some tough deci-
sions, there is now a surplus." He
said he wants to see $2 trillion
stay in the Social Security fund,
and that he's concerned about un-
realistic budget caps.
But more than anything, he
stressed, "Instead of tax cuts,
which don't seem to benefit mid-
dle income people, we should re-
duce the debt of the United
States." Dicks said once that is
paid off, there will be an addition-
al savings of $285 billion in inter-
est per year. "That money could
be given to the military, schools,
and for infrastructure," he said. "I
am not against tax cuts," he was
quick to add, having voted for
those he found workable in the
past.
Representative Dicks is cur-
rently working on a patients' bill
of rights, which would allow pa-
tients to go to any emergency
room or specialist needed, and
also would empower doctors to
make the healthcare decisions for
their patients.
On the topic of health care, he
also pledged to intervene on be-
half of Belfair's Dr. Michael J.
Butler. The Doctors Clinic CEO
Linda Brown has made the deci-
sion to close the Belfair clinic,
moving Dr. Butler out of Mason
County, which has been labelled
"medically underserved," and
placing him in the Port Orchard
Doctors Clinic in October. Con-
gressman Dicks expressed his
concern for the health and safety
of North Mason residents.
DICKS IS PROUD of the
work that has gone on locally to
restore salmon runs. He specifi-
cally praised the Hood Canal
Salmon Enhancement Group's ef-
forts. "We're going to show the
on this disease that af-
child. Chris has acute
leukemia (ALL). His
around two small
in her purse
notes, including the
written and illustrated
that day Chris was
He scribbled down all
as he explained
begins with one
mutating, and how it
, OVer-crowding the nor-
cells.
notes also outlined
medicines he would
expected side-ef-
SUccess rates. As recent-
Years earlier, leukemia
a certain death
however, thanks
more powerful drugs,
a pretty good chance of
as done her best to
normal, and to help
different. That has
'ing her own head
for a year, after
type of steroid that "took his spir-
it away." Chris languished in bed,
didn't want to get up, and didn't
even want to live.
She recognized the timing of
this effect in him as drug-in-
duced, and saw to it that it was
changed to something different.
"And his spirits came back!" she
reported. Her upbeat, happy little
boy, who never feels sorry for
himself, had returned to her.
CATHY BELIEVES there is a
purpose for everything that hap-
pens. Along with the bad comes
the good. Among the good things
that have happened for Chris are
the camps he has been able to at-
tend.
Last summer, Chris went to
the American Cancer Society-
sponsored Camp Good Times on
Vashon Island. Later he and his
morn attended Camp Agape for ill
children and their families. It was
there that they met a 15-year-old
boy from Greece, in America visit-
ing his aunt and uncle. Anasto-
sios was at the camp because his
Chris a laptop computer. This
will enable him to keep up with
schoolwork and communicate via
e-mail during the year-long peri-
od he will have to stay out of
school following the transplant.
That account is at Peninsula
Community Federal Credit GMA workshops
Union. Donations may be taken
mailed to any branch of offered this month
or
PCFCU.
In Chris's honor, a special op-
portunity to donate blood and
pick up information about possi-
bly becoming a blood marrow
donor has been scheduled by the
Puget Sound Blood Center. That
event will be held at Fir Lane
Health and Rehabilitation in
Shelton, at 2430 North 13th
Street, on Tuesday, September 7,
10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 1:45 to 4
p.m.
Chris Sargent is in need of
folks in his community who are
willing to give up a few dollars, a
little blood, and maybe even some
bone marrow. Good thoughts and
prayers wouldn't hurt either.
The Mason County Depart-
ment of Community Development
is sponsoring a series of public
workshops around the county to
present and discuss proposed
changes to Mason County's com-
prehensive plan and development
regulations.
A 7 p.m. workshop will be held
on Thursday, September 9, at the
Theler Community Center in Bel-
fair .
The next day, Friday, Septem-
ber 10, a 4 p.m. workshop will be
held at the Port of Allyn.
For further information, con-
hair to cancer treat-
has also included keeping
aunt was on staff there. Chris's
friendship with the older youth
garnered an invitation to visit his '/ .,, €oIIfuIod
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Senator Sheldon and Represen-
tative Dicks jointly addressed
some topics. Both oppose Initia-
tive 695. Sheldon said, "This ini-
tiative is a reaction to peoples'
frustration with the state's high
motor vehicle excise tax, the next
to the highest in the United
States." Based on an unrealistic
vehicle value, not fair market val-
ue, the tax is unfair, Sheldon ac-
knowledged. "If the legislature
had been more flexible and sym-
pathetic to the public, they would
have reduced this a long time
ago."
Sheldon said that 1-695 would
not be good for local government.
The criminal justice programs
would especially suffer, he stated.
"The MVT should be reduced, but
saddling voters with every tax
and fee increase is not the way to
go." His example was that if the
camping fee in state parks were
proposed to be raised by $1, there
would need to be a vote of the
people to accomplish that.
"Representatives of the people
have been elected in our form of
government to vote on such
things," Sheldon stated. He said
this initiative was written from
the perspective that government
is not working, and that the legis-
lature needs to be overridden. "If
you don't like your representa-
tive, you can elect someone else,"
he advised.
DICKS ADDRESSED the to-
pic of 1-695 as well. "If 695
passes," he said, "it will hurt
many areas of service, including
transportation, public health and
law enforcement." His example
was if the fee to put a boat into
the water were increased, that
could not happen apart from a
vote of the people. "It's ridicu-
lous!" he said emphatically.
Both elected officials addressed
the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is-
sue. Sheldon did not expect pend-
ing law suits to be successful in
this case. "The project will contin-
ue," he prophesied. He regretted
the veto of Governor Locke taking
money out of the state budget for
the approaches to the bridge, and
is hopeful that the legislature will
restore funds for those as the
bridge project nears completion.
Dicks also sees the bridge as
essential to serving people in this
area, and is concerned about the
lengthy traffic jams that occur
whenever there is an accident
tact the Mason County Depart-
ment of Community Development
at 275-4467, ext. 282.
Dewatto Road to be
temporarily closed
Dewatto Road will be closed be-
ginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday,
September 7, through 5 p.m. on
Friday, September 10. The cul-
vert at mile post 2.2, Cady Lake
Creek crossing, will be replaced
in conjunction with a statewide
program for salmon enhance-
ment. This will open up hundreds
of acres of prime habitat for fu-
ture spawning beds, according to
Sharon Vaughan of the engineer-
ing department for Mason Coun-
ty.
"The ferry runs are really ma-.
rine highways," Sheldon stated.
He included Rich Passage in his
statement, and indicated the
state should pay fair market val-
ue for property there, where the
Bremerton-Seattle boats run, and
have been accused of doing water-
front property damage.
"THE POWERS OF eminent
domain exist for the good of the
people," he continued. He also in-
dicated that the Washington
State Department of Transporta-
tion perhaps should have done an
Environmental Impact Statement
prior to running the fast foot ferry
Chinook, the subject of the con-
troversy. An EIS was not legally
mandated, however. "This is a
matter of public access," Sheldon
said, "not merely private homes."
Dicks stated that the slowdown
in the foot ferries to Seattle needs
some kind of federal/state resolu-
tion. "Foot ferries are very im-
portant," he agreed. "We can find
a way to design these things to
make them work," he said. He
suggested the Army Corps of En-
gineers could run tests on the
designs, and that this must be a
team effort.
He mentioned an engineer he
believes could help resolve the is-
sue, given the cooperation (and
patience) of all parties to the cur-
rent dispute. He thinks ferry
boats should not be subjected to
the state Environmental Policy
Act. Otherwise, "will new air-
planes need an environmental im-
pact statement every time one is
built?" he asked.
"This bottleneck," said Shel-
don, "is throwing things off." He
reported that funding for six new
passenger ferries has already
been approved.
CONTINUING WITH the
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planning to take its buses onto
the ferry boat and drive into Seat-
tle, simplifying travel for pas-
sengers.
Sheldon spoke of the Belfair
Bypass project which is of special
interest here. tie said that
$594,000 has been included in the
transportation budget for prelimi-
nary engineering work on that
proposed road on the plateau
above and parallel to Highway 3.
This will be the first step in a
much larger project.
Sheldon cited the dramatic
changes that have occurred in
Belfair in the past few years, and
that the four-way traffic light
coming to Highway 3 with the
Belfair Safeway project will help
control traffic.
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Belfair youth continues Dicks, Sheldon visit area
battle with leukemia (Continued from page l.) rest oftheworldhowtobring there, highway extensiontheme, Dicks
BYLINDA THOMSON
ge::e'year'old Christopher Sar-
eve L .m°m' Cathy, has done
s,,:f,a)ng she can to make her
.v, ,re normal. That hasn't al-
ays been easy for her, because
• ,r 0hi • - .
Sea._ Y child has leukemla.
so::':a,from_ume sl her husband for
Whose . .he is a single morn
s0n Ch°n y job is caring for her
,.' ,,s and Cathy live in Bel-
lalr.
ts Was 71/2 when he was
He'd had asthma
and he had always
SOmewhat easily. Other-
as a pretty healthy lit-
ealthy, that is, until
t7.
'had made plans to go to a
[ game, then to Twanoh
ark that Saturday. But
roe up with a 104-degree
ne doctor thought it was
.and advised Cathy to
back Monday if he
¢ett,' MOST ASSUREDLY was
m
muc. worse
ii ''-iaoration.ble. He of his condition
i hadn't shaken the
d now he had pneumo-
hi'fi s Physician gave him anti-
kll . e h°ta, took X-rays, and for
Ir: son even he can't ex-
II tiJ an SOme blood tests, in-
m, 'One for leukemia.
[ .Y Was called into another
| th', .Where the doctor said "We
| h';'.he has leukemia," and' ave
%llhil;ectins to Mary BEige
"[| Where e s Hospital in Tacoma,
'- I] eat had set up an appoint-
drove them to Taco-
ridge was a mad
exclaimed. It
hundreds of nurses
her little boy, stick-
him, and taking blood.
traumatic," she con-
nally a doctor listened
ament about the refer-
suspicion that he
leukemia. "He does
said the doctor
is a scary word that
of the blood. Cathy
much about it then,
began that very
ad never cared to know
I had no reason to
earning about
ud.
FOR A little over two
has gotten quite an
CATHY SARGENT is proud of her son Christopher, 9,
who is living with leukemia and awaiting a bone mar-
row transplant.
him in school at Belfair Elemen-
tary as much as he has been able
to be there. He missed the end of
his first-grade year, about half of
second grade, and a little less
than half of third grade. His
teacher, Dr. Gall Davis, has of-
fered to tutor Chris when he is
unable to be in school.
"HE LOVES SCHOOL," said
Chris's morn. "He's got an awe-
some brain!" He likes computers,
too, and his favorite games are
Deer Hunter and Virtual Pool.
The young patient's leukemia
went into remission, but in July
of this year, it relapsed. One of
the unusual side effects of his
chemo that proved exhausting to
mother and son were the drying
out of his eyes, necessitating eye
drops being administered every
three hours, around the clock to
prevent pain. Thankfully, that pe-
riod came to an end, and they did
their best to catch up on sleep!
Chemo is a combination of
drugs, worked out by a physician
for a specific patient. It is a pow-
erful arsenal aimed at a destruc-
tive disease, but it also takes out
some of the healthy cells during
this process. The side effects are
many, and they are unpleasant.
Sometimes there need to be ad-
justments. Cathy spoke of one
family in Greece!
Thanks to the generosity of a
church and his grandparents,
Chris and Cathy both had the op-
portunity to visit Anastosios and
to work in his family's olive
orchard there. "The boys could go
out until 10 or 11 at night, and
they were completely safe," Cathy
shared. They had a great time in
Greece, but Chris lost five pounds
while they were there.
There have been other special
trips and events. Chris and both
his parents enjoyed the Make-a-
Wish trip to Disney World in
Florida. The only thing he had
asked of the Make-a-Wish Foun-
dation was a magic eight ball, his
morn indicated, "which just shows
how unselfish he is."
ONCE CHRIS relapsed, the
medical people began talking
about the need of a bone marrow
transplant. Recently, Chris and
both his morn and his dad Ran
each gave a pint of blood for the
complex testing to see if either
parent may be a compatible
donor. There was some delay in
running the tests until Chris.was
again in remission, and strong
enough to give up that much
blood.
"Friends of Chris" is the name
of a bank account that has been
set up to collect money to buy
have to make sure that kids are
treated stringently if they are
caught with guns."
"Our local school personnel
need to keep their eyes wide
open," Dicks said. He also be-
lieves students are duty-bound to
turn in information about fellow
youth who have made threaten-
ing statements. "We also need to
be aware of any quasi-gang ele-
ment that may exist in our
schools," he concluded.
ANOTHER NATIONAL topic
of interest was the federal budget
surplus. "There was a $300 billion
deficit in 1993 when President
Clinton came in to office," Dicks
said. "Thanks to some tough deci-
sions, there is now a surplus." He
said he wants to see $2 trillion
stay in the Social Security fund,
and that he's concerned about un-
realistic budget caps.
But more than anything, he
stressed, "Instead of tax cuts,
which don't seem to benefit mid-
dle income people, we should re-
duce the debt of the United
States." Dicks said once that is
paid off, there will be an addition-
al savings of $285 billion in inter-
est per year. "That money could
be given to the military, schools,
and for infrastructure," he said. "I
am not against tax cuts," he was
quick to add, having voted for
those he found workable in the
past.
Representative Dicks is cur-
rently working on a patients' bill
of rights, which would allow pa-
tients to go to any emergency
room or specialist needed, and
also would empower doctors to
make the healthcare decisions for
their patients.
On the topic of health care, he
also pledged to intervene on be-
half of Belfair's Dr. Michael J.
Butler. The Doctors Clinic CEO
Linda Brown has made the deci-
sion to close the Belfair clinic,
moving Dr. Butler out of Mason
County, which has been labelled
"medically underserved," and
placing him in the Port Orchard
Doctors Clinic in October. Con-
gressman Dicks expressed his
concern for the health and safety
of North Mason residents.
DICKS IS PROUD of the
work that has gone on locally to
restore salmon runs. He specifi-
cally praised the Hood Canal
Salmon Enhancement Group's ef-
forts. "We're going to show the
on this disease that af-
child. Chris has acute
leukemia (ALL). His
around two small
in her purse
notes, including the
written and illustrated
that day Chris was
He scribbled down all
as he explained
begins with one
mutating, and how it
, OVer-crowding the nor-
cells.
notes also outlined
medicines he would
expected side-ef-
SUccess rates. As recent-
Years earlier, leukemia
a certain death
however, thanks
more powerful drugs,
a pretty good chance of
as done her best to
normal, and to help
different. That has
'ing her own head
for a year, after
type of steroid that "took his spir-
it away." Chris languished in bed,
didn't want to get up, and didn't
even want to live.
She recognized the timing of
this effect in him as drug-in-
duced, and saw to it that it was
changed to something different.
"And his spirits came back!" she
reported. Her upbeat, happy little
boy, who never feels sorry for
himself, had returned to her.
CATHY BELIEVES there is a
purpose for everything that hap-
pens. Along with the bad comes
the good. Among the good things
that have happened for Chris are
the camps he has been able to at-
tend.
Last summer, Chris went to
the American Cancer Society-
sponsored Camp Good Times on
Vashon Island. Later he and his
morn attended Camp Agape for ill
children and their families. It was
there that they met a 15-year-old
boy from Greece, in America visit-
ing his aunt and uncle. Anasto-
ties was at the camp because his
Chris a laptop computer. This
will enable him to keep up with
schoolwork and communicate via
e-mail during the year-long peri-
od he will have to stay out of
school following the transplant.
That account is at Peninsula
Community Federal Credit GMA workshops
Union. Donations may be taken
mailed to any branch of offered this month
or
PCFCU.
In Chris's honor, a special op-
portunity to donate blood and
pick up information about possi-
bly becoming a blood marrow
donor has been scheduled by the
Puget Sound Blood Center. That
event will be held at Fir Lane
Health and Rehabilitation in
Shelton, at 2430 North 13th
Street, on Tuesday, September 7,
10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 1:45 to 4
p.m.
Chris Sargent is in need of
folks in his community who are
willing to give up a few dollars, a
little blood, and maybe even some
bone marrow. Good thoughts and
prayers wouldn't hurt either.
The Mason County Depart-
ment of Community Development
is sponsoring a series of public
workshops around the county to
present and discuss proposed
changes to Mason County's com-
prehensive plan and development
regulations.
A 7 p.m. workshop will be held
on Thursday, September 9, at the
Theler Community Center in Bel-
fair .
The next day, Friday, Septem-
ber 10, a 4 p.m. workshop will be
held at the Port of Allyn.
For further information, con-
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Senator Sheldon and Represen-
tative Dicks jointly addressed
some topics. Both oppose Initia-
tive 695. Sheldon said, "This ini-
tiative is a reaction to peoples'
frustration with the state's high
motor vehicle excise tax, the next
to the highest in the United
States." Based on an unrealistic
vehicle value, not fair market val-
ue, the tax is unfair, Sheldon ac-
knowledged. "If the legislature
had been more flexible and sym-
pathetic to the public, they would
have reduced this a long time
ago."
Sheldon said that 1-695 would
not be good for local government.
The criminal justice programs
would especially suffer, he stated.
"The MVT should be reduced, but
saddling voters with every tax
and fee increase is not the way to
go." His example was that if the
camping fee in state parks were
proposed to be raised by $1, there
would need to be a vote of the
people to accomplish that.
"Representatives of the people
have been elected in our form of
government to vote on such
things," Sheldon stated. He said
this initiative was written from
the perspective that government
is not working, and that the legis-
lature needs to be overridden. "If
you don't like your representa-
tive, you can elect someone else,"
he advised.
DICKS ADDRESSED the to-
pic of 1-695 as well. "If 695
passes," he said, "it will hurt
many areas of service, including
transportation, public health and
law enforcement." His example
was if the fee to put a boat into
the water were increased, that
could not happen apart from a
vote of the people. "It's ridicu-
lous!" he said emphatically.
Both elected officials addressed
the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is-
sue. Sheldon did not expect pend-
ing law suits to be successful in
this case. "The project will contin-
ue," he prophesied. He regretted
the veto of Governor Locke taking
money out of the state budget for
the approaches to the bridge, and
is hopeful that the legislature will
restore funds for those as the
bridge project nears completion.
Dicks also sees the bridge as
essential to serving people in this
area, and is concerned about the
lengthy traffic jams that occur
whenever there is an accident
tact the Mason County Depart-
ment of Community Development
at 275-4467, ext. 282.
Dewatto Road to be
temporarily closed
Dewatto Road will be closed be-
ginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday,
September 7, through 5 p.m. on
Friday, September 10. The cul-
vert at mile post 2.2, Cady Lake
Creek crossing, will be replaced
in conjunction with a statewide
program for salmon enhance-
ment. This will open up hundreds
of acres of prime habitat for fu-
ture spawning beds, according to
Sharon Vaughan of the engineer-
ing department for Mason Coun-
ty.
"The ferry runs are really ma-.
rine highways," Sheldon stated.
He included Rich Passage in his
statement, and indicated the
state should pay fair market val-
ue for property there, where the
Bremerton-Seattle boats run, and
have been accused of doing water-
front property damage.
"THE POWERS OF eminent
domain exist for the good of the
people," he continued. He also in-
dicated that the Washington
State Department of Transporta-
tion perhaps should have done an
Environmental Impact Statement
prior to running the fast foot ferry
Chinook, the subject of the con-
troversy. An EIS was not legally
mandated, however. "This is a
matter of public access," Sheldon
said, "not merely private homes."
Dicks stated that the slowdown
in the foot ferries to Seattle needs
some kind of federal/state resolu-
tion. "Foot ferries are very im-
portant," he agreed. "We can find
a way to design these things to
make them work," he said. He
suggested the Army Corps of En-
gineers could run tests on the
designs, and that this must be a
team effort.
He mentioned an engineer he
believes could help resolve the is-
sue, given the cooperation (and
patience) of all parties to the cur-
rent dispute. He thinks ferry
boats should not be subjected to
the state Environmental Policy
Act. Otherwise, "will new air-
planes need an environmental im-
pact statement every time one is
built?" he asked.
"This bottleneck," said Shel-
don, "is throwing things off." He
reported that funding for six new
passenger ferries has already
been approved.
CONTINUING WITH the
shared that Kitsap Transit is
planning to take its buses onto
the ferry boat and drive into Seat-
tle, simplifying travel for pas-
sengers.
Sheldon spoke of the Belfair
Bypass project which is of special
interest here. tie said that
$594,000 has been included in the
transportation budget for prelimi-
nary engineering work on that
proposed road on the plateau
above and parallel to Highway 3.
This will be the first step in a
much larger project.
Sheldon cited the dramatic
changes that have occurred in
Belfair in the past few years, and
that the four-way traffic light
coming to Highway 3 with the
Belfair Safeway project will help
control traffic.
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