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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 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