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,heJton Chiropractic Center 1635 Olympic Hwy. N Shelton WA, 98584 Pb 360-426-8060 www. sheltonchiropractic, corn HOOD C['00IIAL AUTO SALES Special of the Week 2002 Mercedez AT, Steel Top Loaded $11,995 23800 Highway 3, Belfair 275-5075 Serving the community since 1990 New principal takes the helm at Pioneer By NATALIE JOHNSON Marty Brewer began his 23rd year in education yes- terday as the new Pioneer School District Superinten- dent. Brewer said Pioneer was the perfect fit for him. "I was really looking for the right opportunity to take that big step into the role of superintendent," he said. Brewer spent seven years of his career in education teaching and the last 15 as a building administrator. "I was looking for an ac- tive and involved communi- ty, a school board that had a good standing tradition of supporting student learn- ing ... I was looking for an involved, active staff, staff that were focused on doing some good things in educa- tion," he said. Brewer listed several goals for the school district including increased student achievement, improving transitions between grade levels at the school and increasing student enthu- siasm and involvement in school. After several failed lev- ies, the Pioneer School District still needs money Journe pnoto Dy Natahe Johnson Marty Brewer is the new superintendent for the Pioneer School Dis- trict. "1 was looking for an involved, active staff" to repair or replace leaky and outdated buildings and classrooms. Brewer men- tioned raising money and awareness for the school's needs as another goal. "We are currently in the planning stage and talking about what the next steps are, but a big expectation of myself is to be out ac- tively involved in the com- munity, to come in contact with those folks that may not have or have ever had students in our building," he said. "My community in- volvement I think is a big part of what we can do to start changing the culture around supporting a bond." Brewer also discussed plans to expand extracur- ricular activities through the help of parent volun- teers. "There are a number of folks in our community that have skills they would like to share with our students, and with the tightening of budgets and having to scale back our offerings it's great to have active leaders in our community that want to come out and teach their passion to our students," he said. Working with individual childrens' strengths and weaknesses, likes and dis- likes and passions for dif- ferent subjects will help the whole district. Brewer said.. He said that an educator's goal should be to find a way to connect a student to their studies. "When they have that connection and feel like they're connected to school, it opens up other doors," he said. All of these goals, Brewer said, work together to build a stronger system in the Pi- oneer School District. "Meaningful parental in- volvement will increase ac- ademic achievement of kids, when people feel valued and they're a part of the system, that changes their percep- tion of that system and it creates more ownership," he said. "We're going to work together to problem-solve the issues that we are ihced with." 00SsSSSSSsssSS00 Lose Weight FAS T with a six week supply of HCG Drops. Olympic Tan 422 N.1 t l Shelton 426-6565 $ Another brick in == e wall "Voted #1 by all of our customers as the best automotive repair shop in Western Washington." Pictured: Jason Banks, Dan Moldenhauer and Noel Longan, owner. D&L AUTOMOTIVE 2033 Olympic Highway North • Shelton 426-1467 THE IPTICAL SHOP of Wa, Inc. !iiiiiiiiiiiiii00i00ii0000iiiii00ii6iiiiiiiiii00ii00i00i00i6iiiiiiiiiiiiii!i!iii Page A-2 - Shelton-Mason county Journal -Thursday, September 8, Dr. Dolores Fraire Optometric Physician • Family eyecare • Treatment of eye disease • Surgical consultation and co-management • Contact lens exams Joan Zelasko Licensed Optician • Designer frame boutique • Advanced lens technology www.opticalshopofwa.com i il 2026 Olympic Hwy. N.  Shelt0n Jour/la photo D) Natalie Johnsol Construction crews at Mason General Hospital (MGtt) worked last Thursday and Friday to lift the walls of the new surgical wing in place. The hospital's "campus renewal project" is moving along right on schedule, with the surgical wing set to be "dried in" or roofed and sealed to the elements, by late fall, hospital administration staff said. The surgical wing's solid concrete walls accounted for 85 percent of the capacity of the crane construction crews used to set them in place, hospital director of plant operations Keith Geary said. Mason Transit plans route ,:."00anges for October By NATALIE JOHNSON The Mason Transit Authority (MTA) will vote onTuesday, Sept. 13, on several changes to its ten routes. "We're hoping that this will go into effect October 10," said MTA Adminis- trative Services Manager Kathy Cook. Among the proposed changes, Cook said, are two additional runs to Route 6, which goes from the Shelton Civic Center to Olympia. MTA also plans to eliminate the 12:05 p.m. and 4:05 p.m. runs on Route 10, and the 7:10 a.m. and 8:19 a.m. runs of Route 4, which will be re- placed with extra Dial-A-Ride service, Cook said. 2011 "It's just a different way of provid- ing service," she said. "By not adding routes we were able to save money." With the proposed changes, riders can only schedule Dial-A-Ride service pickups between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Currently, customers can schedule rides between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. "We do this every couple of years, reassess the routes," Cook said. "Some of this is based on ridership ... We try to figure out what is best for the com- munity's needs." Mason Transit has also recently secured grant funds allowing the or- ganization to keep all of its routes in service. The funds will also allow MTA to buy several new vehicles, Cook said. "We apply ibr these (grants) every opportunity we get," she said. "We've received funding to help sustain Dial- A-Ride, zone connection, regional ser- vice and routed service." With the funds, the MTA will also purchase new vehicles for its Dial-A- Ride service. MTA receives different grants each biennium. The newest grants will fund the authority until June 30, 2013. The Mason Transit Board will vote on the proposed route changes during its next joint meeting with the Ma- son County Transit Advisory Board (MCTAB) on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at the Port of Allyn.