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Twinkle, twinkle, little- Okay, so maybe she&apos;s not quite there yet, but a star in the making makes the most of it all the same the other night as she and the rest of the pintsized wannabes who attended Shelton's Junior Cheer Camp this summer get their moment in the floodlight in Climber Stadium. [00lectric costs looking up v00hen leaves falling down Electricity providers are getting all bundled for winter's chill and the price shock it will bring them from the Bonneville Power Admin- istration. The last few meetings of the PUD 3 Commission have had much to do with the ebb and flow of green power and the green stuff' that pays for it. Jay Himlie, the power supply manager, got the power ball rolling last week with his lament about changes in the rate structure of the BPA, the fed- eral agency that provides almost all of the electric power consumed by customers of the public utility district. Armed with a graph compar- ing the rate structure of 2002 with the one in play today, he informed the commissioners that July was a breeze but the big chill is yet to come. Pleasant weather that was not too hot and not too cold com- bined with rates to make tbr a 20 percent dip in the cost of bring- ing more power to you. "Demand was down quite a bit, and cost was down even more," he said. But demand will rise both here and there once the weather takes a turn for the worse, and that brings with it the costly specter of "coinci- dent demand." That is an approach to the pricing of wholesale power provided by the BPA that raises the cost at those times of the year when all of its many customers are clamoring for juice at the same time. Under the old rate structure, one component of the price tended to shoot up in July and August. The new stixtcture has eliminated this bump, but the rates are high- er overall and highest of all in the last four months of the year. NOW COMES news that the BPA wants to eliminate "coinci- dent demand" and replace it with "ratcheted demand." Himlie did not explain this, but he makes it sound like ratcheted demand may be a new way of putting the screws to the PUD. "That's going to be a kind of double whammy on the de- mand charge next go-around," he said. PUD 3 could reduce the cost to consumers of ratcheting and coin- cidence by firing up its Olympic View Generating Plant, a gas- powered source of energy that has spent most of its days in mothballs because the power it produces costs more than that generated by the hydroelectric dams of the BPA. Himlie explained that the PUD doesn't learn about surges in coincident demand until after the clamor for power has come and gone. "We could buy a lot of gas and spend a lot of time and effort run- Self-proclaimed neo-Nazi guilty of assault in prison By MARY DUNCAN A 40-year-old man who says he is a nee-Nazi faces a manda- tory sentence on Monday of life in prison without the possibility of parole after he acquired his third strike when he changed his plea on September 7 in Mason County Superior Court. Christopher Charles Loy, an inmate at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, en- tered guilty pleas to an amended charge of assault in the first de- gree and to a charge of felony ha- rassment. Loy had been charged with rape in the second degree. First-degree assault and sec- ond-degree rape are considered strike offenses under the state's persistent-offender sentencing law which mandates a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of (Please turn to page 11.) ning the gas and find we missed the coincident peak," he told the commissioners at last week's meeting. That said, green power and greenbacks were the main topic of conversation at this week's meeting. Budget Officer Annette Creekpaum echoed Himlie's obser- vation that the lower costs of July will soon give way to the higher costs to come. "It will be going the other way in a few more months so we need to be enjoying this part of the year," she said. CREEKPAUM BRIEFED the board on budget bucks, and Com- missioner Bruce Jorgenson focused his attention on the spending for wholesale power generated by the Nine Canyon Wind Project. With the year only 66 percent behind us, the PUD has ah,eady spent 89 percent of the $240,000 budgeted for this expense. Creekpaum re- sponded that the wind power pur- chase planned when the budget was approved has been eclipsed by the wind power the PUI) has agreed to buy. "We signed up tbr more wind," Creekpaum said. Even with that, wind power ac- counts for 1.47 percent of the more than $14.4 million the PUD has spent this year on purchased pow- er through August 31. Jorgenson also makes the point that wind power accounts for less than 1.47 percent of power provided to Ma- son County by the PUD because "the wind power costs more than our BPA power." € 00ason at ¢ next Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, September 13, 2007 Goodnight Irenes! i Ken Vanl31usMrk'si got a A proposal to name a tribu- tary of the Union River after a couple of Irenes - one who wrote a book and the Irene she wrote about - will get a public hearing this month. Ken VanBuskirk, a mem- ber of the North Mason School Board in Belfair, submitted the request in January 2002 to the Washington State Board on Geographic Names. He wants to name the creek after Irene Davis, who wrote a history of the area, and Irene McKnight, who established a farm there during the Great Depression. Caleb Maki of the Washing- ton Department of Natural Re- sources said the board deferred action on the request at its meeting of March 8, 2002 be- cause of a rule which "requires that an individual be deceased for at least five years before the board will consider a commem- orative name." Irene Davis was born in Se- attle in 1919, graduating from South Kitsap High School in 1937. She and her husband Tom raised 10 children on her income as an office worker and his as a longtime employee of the Puget Sound Naval Ship- yard. Over the course of 20 years, she wrote The History of Belfair and the Tahuya Pen- insula, which covers the years 1880 to 1940 and has a 2001 copyright thanks to the Mason County Historial Society, which she served as curator and presi- dent. DAVIS DIED ON November 8, 2001 at the age of 83, and VanBuskirk renewed the re- quest he made in her memory on December 22, 2006 after noting that the five-year time frame for commemorative names had been met. Her book records that Irene McKnight moved to Belfair from Bremerton with her husband Claude in 1934 and they established a farm on 40 acres that had been part of the Thomas White homestead. "They chose this place be- cause Claude had always wanted to farm," Davis wrote. They secured water rights for the two creeks on their prop. erty in 1936. Davis wrote: "An irrigation pond was built with the use of a steam donkey to re- move large stumps." Mr. McKnight worked at the shipyard too, and after 33 years in the pipe shop he left the Na- vy's employ to devote all his en- ergies to the business of a full- time farmer. "They sold milk, corn, cucumbers, raspberries, beef and pork," Davis wrote. She reports that Mr. and Mrs. McKnight died in 1987 within THE RATES YOU WANT. THE NAMES YOU KNOW. 4.98% TO Is your money orking this hard? • t * " " • anety ot mtcrcst, l,aymcnts avadable • Investment-grade  raling by Standard & Poor's a n d/or M ood )'"s • (allable and m, tcalhd, l e issues available 1 Yields Io malurlty effective 09/10/07 sutjet:t tt)availability and price charqe. Yield aiKJ malkeI w:flue /tKly fhl(:ltJa[e I[ sold prior to maturity, arid t'le aI'Nour/I re('eivt:d l{(){ll [he sate ol tllebc securities may be [no(e than, less than or equal to the amount originally invested, Bond values may decline in a rising interest rate environment, Any bonds called prior to maturily may result i[I reinvestmcqlt risk for the bond owner, 2 Investment-gade bonds ae those witt a rating of AAA to BBB and/or Aaa to Baa, Contact your local Edward Jones finalicial advisor for more information about maturity dates and applicable call provisions, Call or visit your local financial advisor today. Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel Financial Advisors 821 West Railroad Avenue, Suite A, Shelton 426-0982 • 1-800-441-0982 Armin Baumgarlel Dan Baemgartel www.edwardjones.corn MorobeA SIPC .< for two weeks of one another, i age 89 and she at 91. VanBuskirk has inf0r ;I the board that support fo.' naming of Irene Creek haS l voiced by Gerald McKni Belfair, the son of Mrl andl McKnight, and Pam Me! who helped Irene Davis her book. Another mapped the stream tbrmation obtained global positioning system. VANBUSKIRK that the proposed Irene flows year-round Belfair Urban Growth but it doesn't have a as it feeds the McKni referred to in Davis' and passes through a before joining the Union To the west is Sand mentary School, to the a gravel pit and to the the Union River Mason County er Lynda Ring-Erickso_l endorsed the proposed n and informed the board pI'---o! on July 3. Board memberS!q to meet to discuss Irene ] and other proposals from 1 p.m. on September 21 in I 172 of the Washington De ment of Natural Reset" 1111 Washington Street Olympia. , Electricity b for thousand0000 it Approximately 5,800 cus II, of PUD 3 were affected by a  1 outage which occurred at ab0U a.m. on Tuesday. rb Power was restored witl e minutes. Those aflbcted bY ,t outage included customers i Agate, Harstine and Pickeri,..J01 cas and along a portion ofll Route 3.  Employees of the public i] are investigating the district of the outage. ,g o Hearing Tests Set For Senior Citizens Shelton FREE c1€ tronic hearing tests  be given TueSd 9/18/07 thru 9/21/07 from 9 to 4. The tests have b arranged for anyone '$ suspects they are losi their hearing. Such sons generally say can hear but can understand words. ing with the latest c° I puterized le i equipment will in wheiher you can helped. .,]. Everyone, espe]all , , O, II 1! those over 65, sn t have an electronic lad, ing test once a year. there is a hearing pl lem, a free electr0¢ hearing test may reV' that newly develOl methods of correct will help, even for tlt who have been told lot past that a hearing t would not help thena. 2020 Olympic Call For An Appointment qbdaY' I 800.313.670600 I ¢2007 HHM, In I Twinkle, twinkle, little- Okay, so maybe she's not quite there yet, but a star in the making makes the most of it all the same the other night as she and the rest of the pintsized wannabes who attended Shelton's Junior Cheer Camp this summer get their moment in the floodlight in Climber Stadium. [00lectric costs looking up v00hen leaves falling down Electricity providers are getting all bundled for winter's chill and the price shock it will bring them from the Bonneville Power Admin- istration. The last few meetings of the PUD 3 Commission have had much to do with the ebb and flow of green power and the green stuff' that pays for it. Jay Himlie, the power supply manager, got the power ball rolling last week with his lament about changes in the rate structure of the BPA, the fed- eral agency that provides almost all of the electric power consumed by customers of the public utility district. Armed with a graph compar- ing the rate structure of 2002 with the one in play today, he informed the commissioners that July was a breeze but the big chill is yet to come. Pleasant weather that was not too hot and not too cold com- bined with rates to make tbr a 20 percent dip in the cost of bring- ing more power to you. "Demand was down quite a bit, and cost was down even more," he said. But demand will rise both here and there once the weather takes a turn for the worse, and that brings with it the costly specter of "coinci- dent demand." That is an approach to the pricing of wholesale power provided by the BPA that raises the cost at those times of the year when all of its many customers are clamoring for juice at the same time. Under the old rate structure, one component of the price tended to shoot up in July and August. The new stixtcture has eliminated this bump, but the rates are high- er overall and highest of all in the last four months of the year. NOW COMES news that the BPA wants to eliminate "coinci- dent demand" and replace it with "ratcheted demand." Himlie did not explain this, but he makes it sound like ratcheted demand may be a new way of putting the screws to the PUD. "That's going to be a kind of double whammy on the de- mand charge next go-around," he said. PUD 3 could reduce the cost to consumers of ratcheting and coin- cidence by firing up its Olympic View Generating Plant, a gas- powered source of energy that has spent most of its days in mothballs because the power it produces costs more than that generated by the hydroelectric dams of the BPA. Himlie explained that the PUD doesn't learn about surges in coincident demand until after the clamor for power has come and gone. "We could buy a lot of gas and spend a lot of time and effort run- Self-proclaimed neo-Nazi guilty of assault in prison By MARY DUNCAN A 40-year-old man who says he is a nee-Nazi faces a manda- tory sentence on Monday of life in prison without the possibility of parole after he acquired his third strike when he changed his plea on September 7 in Mason County Superior Court. Christopher Charles Loy, an inmate at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, en- tered guilty pleas to an amended charge of assault in the first de- gree and to a charge of felony ha- rassment. Loy had been charged with rape in the second degree. First-degree assault and sec- ond-degree rape are considered strike offenses under the state's persistent-offender sentencing law which mandates a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of (Please turn to page 11.) ning the gas and find we missed the coincident peak," he told the commissioners at last week's meeting. That said, green power and greenbacks were the main topic of conversation at this week's meeting. Budget Officer Annette Creekpaum echoed Himlie's obser- vation that the lower costs of July will soon give way to the higher costs to come. "It will be going the other way in a few more months so we need to be enjoying this part of the year," she said. CREEKPAUM BRIEFED the board on budget bucks, and Com- missioner Bruce Jorgenson focused his attention on the spending for wholesale power generated by the Nine Canyon Wind Project. With the year only 66 percent behind us, the PUD has ah,eady spent 89 percent of the $240,000 budgeted for this expense. Creekpaum re- sponded that the wind power pur- chase planned when the budget was approved has been eclipsed by the wind power the PUI) has agreed to buy. "We signed up tbr more wind," Creekpaum said. Even with that, wind power ac- counts for 1.47 percent of the more than $14.4 million the PUD has spent this year on purchased pow- er through August 31. Jorgenson also makes the point that wind power accounts for less than 1.47 percent of power provided to Ma- son County by the PUD because "the wind power costs more than our BPA power." € 00ason at ¢ next Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, September 13, 2007 Goodnight Irenes! i Ken Vanl31usMrk'si got a A proposal to name a tribu- tary of the Union River after a couple of Irenes - one who wrote a book and the Irene she wrote about - will get a public hearing this month. Ken VanBuskirk, a mem- ber of the North Mason School Board in Belfair, submitted the request in January 2002 to the Washington State Board on Geographic Names. He wants to name the creek after Irene Davis, who wrote a history of the area, and Irene McKnight, who established a farm there during the Great Depression. Caleb Maki of the Washing- ton Department of Natural Re- sources said the board deferred action on the request at its meeting of March 8, 2002 be- cause of a rule which "requires that an individual be deceased for at least five years before the board will consider a commem- orative name." Irene Davis was born in Se- attle in 1919, graduating from South Kitsap High School in 1937. She and her husband Tom raised 10 children on her income as an office worker and his as a longtime employee of the Puget Sound Naval Ship- yard. Over the course of 20 years, she wrote The History of Belfair and the Tahuya Pen- insula, which covers the years 1880 to 1940 and has a 2001 copyright thanks to the Mason County Historial Society, which she served as curator and presi- dent. DAVIS DIED ON November 8, 2001 at the age of 83, and VanBuskirk renewed the re- quest he made in her memory on December 22, 2006 after noting that the five-year time frame for commemorative names had been met. Her book records that Irene McKnight moved to Belfair from Bremerton with her husband Claude in 1934 and they established a farm on 40 acres that had been part of the Thomas White homestead. "They chose this place be- cause Claude had always wanted to farm," Davis wrote. They secured water rights for the two creeks on their prop. erty in 1936. Davis wrote: "An irrigation pond was built with the use of a steam donkey to re- move large stumps." Mr. McKnight worked at the shipyard too, and after 33 years in the pipe shop he left the Na- vy's employ to devote all his en- ergies to the business of a full- time farmer. "They sold milk, corn, cucumbers, raspberries, beef and pork," Davis wrote. She reports that Mr. and Mrs. McKnight died in 1987 within THE RATES YOU WANT. THE NAMES YOU KNOW. 4.98% TO Is your money orking this hard? • t * " " • anety ot mtcrcst, l,aymcnts avadable • Investment-grade  raling by Standard & Poor's a n d/or Mood )'"s • (allable and m, tcalhd, l e issues available 1 Yields Io malurlty effective 09/10/07 sutjet:t tt)availability and price charqe. Yield aiKJ malkeI w:flue /tKly fhl(:ltJa[e I[ sold prior to maturity, arid t'le aI'Nour/I re('eivt:d l{(){ll [he sate ol tllebc securities may be [no(e than, less than or equal to the amount originally invested, Bond values may decline in a rising interest rate environment, Any bonds called prior to maturily may result i[I reinvestmcqlt risk for the bond owner, 2 Investment-gade bonds ae those witt a rating of AAA to BBB and/or Aaa to Baa, Contact your local Edward Jones finalicial advisor for more information about maturity dates and applicable call provisions, Call or visit your local financial advisor today. Armin Baumgartel Dan Baumgartel Financial Advisors 821 West Railroad Avenue, Suite A, Shelton 426-0982 • 1-800-441-0982 Armin Baumgarlel Dan Baemgartel www.edwardjones.corn MorobeA SIPC .< for two weeks of one another, i age 89 and she at 91. VanBuskirk has inf0r ;I the board that support fo.' naming of Irene Creek haS l voiced by Gerald McKni Belfair, the son of Mrl andl McKnight, and Pam Me! who helped Irene Davis her book. Another mapped the stream tbrmation obtained global positioning system. VANBUSKIRK that the proposed Irene flows year-round Belfair Urban Growth but it doesn't have a as it feeds the McKni referred to in Davis' and passes through a before joining the Union To the west is Sand mentary School, to the a gravel pit and to the the Union River Mason County er Lynda Ring-Erickso_l endorsed the proposed n and informed the board pI'---o! on July 3. Board memberS!q to meet to discuss Irene ] and other proposals from 1 p.m. on September 21 in I 172 of the Washington De ment of Natural Reset" 1111 Washington Street Olympia. , Electricity b for thousand0000 it Approximately 5,800 cus II, of PUD 3 were affected by a  1 outage which occurred at ab0U a.m. on Tuesday. rb Power was restored witl e minutes. Those aflbcted bY ,t outage included customers i Agate, Harstine and Pickeri,..J01 cas and along a portion ofll Route 3.  Employees of the public i] are investigating the district of the outage. ,g o Hearing Tests Set For Senior Citizens Shelton FREE c1€ tronic hearing tests  be given TueSd 9/18/07 thru 9/21/07 from 9 to 4. The tests have b arranged for anyone '$ suspects they are losi their hearing. Such sons generally say can hear but can understand words. ing with the latest c° I puterized le i equipment will in wheiher you can helped. .,]. Everyone, espe]all , , O, II 1! those over 65, sn t have an electronic lad, ing test once a year. there is a hearing pl lem, a free electr0¢ hearing test may reV' that newly develOl methods of correct will help, even for tlt who have been told lot past that a hearing t would not help thena. 2020 Olympic Call For An Appointment qbdaY' I 800.313.670600 I ¢2007 HHM, In I