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BELFAIR HERALD
Serving Belfair -- Allyn m Grapeview -- Tahuya Mason Lake m South Shore Victor
Thursday, September 13, 2007 Section of The Shelton-Mason County Journal
arrison rep A closer look at the election:
be at the Ballot language could've
ber lunch played role in outcome
By KEVAN MOORE
Thomas Kruse, the vice presi-
of planning and business
for Harrison Medi-
Center, will be the featured
at the September lun-
of the North Mason Cham-
of Commerce.
will discuss the North
community's efforts to es-
Public Hospital District
and Harrison's offer to bring
urgent-care
to North Mason.
The Citizens Committee for
Establishment of Public Hos-
District 2 has collected the
petitions to put the de-
form the new district on
November ballot. If the mea-
ls approved in November,
Hospital District 2 will be
Kruse will give a presen-
that will include an update
planning of the clinic, in-
locations and ar-
renderings.
THE NORTH Mason Cham-
of Commerce holds a regular
luncheon meeting with
speaker on the fourth
of every month at
Community Center in
The Shop Local winner
each month is drawn and is
at these meeting. The
start at 11:30 a.m. and the
r concludes around
Lunch is $8 per person and
is invited.
other chamber news, Frank
Kenny, the local group's executive
director, was among the 72 par-
ticipants in the first-year class of
Academy, a professional develop-
ment program running in three-
year stints that was presented
by the Western Association of
Chamber Executives (WACE).
Academy is an interactive
three-day training program on
chamber management essentials
designed for today's chamber ex-
ecutives and staff professionals.
"ACADEMY WAS founded as
a program for a new era of cham-
ber management," said Dave
Kilby, president and chief execu-
tive officer of WACE. "We con-
gratulate all of the participants
in our first-year class and their
chambers for having the vision
to invest in professional develop-
ment."
The first-year Academy curric-
ulum included three-hour classes
on chamber trends and issues,
membership development and re-
tention, budgeting, legal issues,
volunteer development and mar-
keting and communications.
WACE is an association of
chamber of commerce executives
and staff professionals designed
to promote and enhance profes-
sional development. With over
800 members from 15 western
states, WACE is the largest state
or regional association of cham-
ber of commerce executives in the
United States.
tourney to
fit NMHS
Olympia Federal Savings and
Schwab Tire Center are pre-
a scramble golf tourna-
at Trophy Lake Golf and
Club on Sunday, Septem-
30, to benefit the North Mason
School Athletic Department.
supporters are invited
Participate in the exceptional
of golf in an effort to raise
to support all athletes and
provided at North Ma-
School.
event organizers
high-school stadium's sound
the stadium scoreboard
a remodel of' the press box.
ARE delighted to have
Federal Savings and Les
Tire Center as our major
for this event," said tour-
chairman Bob Patterson.
entry fee for the scramble
is $90 per player,
includes lunch, green fees
cart, tee prizes, competition
es and a raffle ticket.
according to Patter-
and the staff at Trophy Lake,
be a progressive scramble.
tournament committee has
obtained prizes from McLendon's
Hardware, Pizza Factory and oth-
er local businesses.
"The local business community
has been fantastic in their support
of this tournament," said Mark
Swofford, North Mason High
School's athletic director.
THERE WILL be prize draw-
ings and a little game of "Deal or
No Deal" at the awards ceremony
after the golf tournament.
"We will be putting a golf spin
on the deals, which should be fun
for everyone in attendance," Pat-
terson said.
Entry forms can be picked up
throughout Belfair at the follow-
ing locations: North Mason High
School annex, Olympia Federal
Savings, Les Schwab Tire Center,
Petersen Chiropractic and Pizza
Factory.
For more information or to reg-
ister, folks should contact Swof-
ford or Tracey Wardean at the
high school by calling 277-2163.
Registration and warm-up will
get under way at noon followed by
a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start. Awards
and prizes will be distributed in
the pavilion after the tournament.
the library:
ops will
with stories
North Mason residents will
a chance to learn how to tell
life stories during a special
series of events at the
r in Belfair.
Rebecca Horn will
residents through three
that show how to cre-
from memories of their
The workshops will be held
10 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays
18 and 25 and October
the North Mason Timberland
Library, located at 23081
Route 3 in Belfair.
monstrate
techniques and other
storytellers' methods for
recalling memories and creating
oral stories from those memories.
"We will explore why we tell
our stories, how to go about telling
those stories and how they fit into
the larger history of our times,"
said Horn. "The focus will be on
the spoken rather than the writ-
ten word, on strong images rather
than proper grammar. We will lift
the words off the page into our re-
tellings."
The workshops are free of charge
and attendance is limited. Those
that are interested in participating
should call the library in Belfair at
275-3232 for more information and
to register for the workshops.
What's in a name, anyway?
Well, when it comes to the lan-
guage contained in an election bal-
lot, it can mean the difference be-
tween winning and losing. It can
mean the difference between need-
ing just over 50 percent of the vote
(a simple majority) and needing just
over 60 percent of the vote (a super
majority).
It turns out that a levy and a levy
lid lift are two very different ani-
mals. The former needs a super ma-
jority and the latter needs a simple
majority.
The recent attempt by Fire Dis-
trict 2 to collect taxes for the next
six years earned 1,127 "yes" votes
(49.3 percent) and 1,159 "no" votes
(50.6 percent). Under that scenario,
there was not enough support to
constitute a simple majority, let
alone a super majority.
THE QUESTION now, though,
has become this: What exactly were
people voting for? And, beyond that,
could it have affected the way that a
person or persons voted?
Fire District 2 officials contend
that they submitted ballot language
to the county representing a levy
lid lift and that the county returned
and ran ballot language that repre-
sented an excess tax levy.
'lhe general appearance is that
the ballot measure was changed
from a lid lift to an excess levy," said
Fire District 2 Chief Beau Bakken.
"I want to be able to sit down and
work with the auditor's office and
Mason County to get a situation
that's agreeable to everybody."
Bakken and his board of fire
commissioners were set to meet on
Tuesday evening of this week to dis-
cuss the entire situation.
Mason County Auditor Karen
Herr says her office got the pro-
posed language from Fire District
2 and sent it to the Mason County
Prosecutor's Office for review. It
then came back with changes, be-
fore it was sent back to Fire District
2 for review.
HERR AND THE prosecutor's
office also looked at a Fire District 2
resolution in which the commission-
ers called for the election.
"In the resolution it never men-
tions anything about a,lid lift, so we
never imagined that was a possibili-
ty or that's what it was," Herr said.
Mason County Superintendent
of Elections Amber Cervantes, who
works out of the auditor's office, also
said that the county always viewed
the fire district's efforts as one of
running an excess tax levy. She says
the ballot language "would have the
effect of making (voters) believe it
was an excess levy," but also points
out that the phrase "in excess" came
from the district's original resolu-
tion.
The board of Mason Coun- For the purpose of expanding
ty Fire District No. 2 ad- firefighting service levels and
opted Resolution No. 232, continuing operations ibr fire
a proposition to maintain and emergency medical service
and expand firefighting and the Board of' Commissioners of
emergency medical services. Mason County Fire Protection
This proposition authorizes District 2 adopted Resolution
the District to levy excess No. 232 concerning a proposi-
taxes on all taxable prop- tion to restore its regular prop-
erty within the District at a erty tax levy to an amount not
rate not exceeding $1.32 per to exceed $1.32 per $1,000 of
$1,000 of assessed value for assessed valuation tbr collec-
collection in 2008 and would tion in 2008 and to authorize
authorize a growth factor setting a growth factor limited
limited to a maximum of 4% to a maximum of 4% per year
per year each of the follow- for each of the five succeeding
ing 5 years, years.
You be the judge:
Questions about ballot language have arisen follow-
ing the recent attempt by Fire District 2 to gain voter
support for a tax measure. At issue is whether or not
the district's intent to run a lid lift was changed and
whether that could have affected the outcome of the
election. The actual ballot language appears at left,
while the district's proposed language appears at
right. The key differences are emphasized.
District 2 for review prior to the
election. In a letter to Bakken, Herr
mentions the need to shorten the
ballot language, per state law, and
includes the revised version. But,
Bakken and his commissioners did
not pick up on the change. In fact,
Bakken sent an e-mail out to one of
his commissioners after receiving
the revised language that clearly
implies that he didn't pick up on the
change.
"Below is a change in ballot lan-
guage from the county auditor's
office as established by the county
prosecutor's office," Bakken wrote.
"As expected they have changed
some of our language on the ballot. I
personally don't have any heartache
over the changes. How about you?
Below, I have also put our original
ballot language for comparison."
ONE OF THE big questions
at this point is whether or not the
change could have affected the out-
come of the election.
Herr doesn't think so.
"I don't think (voters) would un-
derstand it," Herr said. "We're hav-
ing a tough time ourselves. There's
a fine line. I've never heard that, so
I don't know if that would make a
big difference to the voters."
Cobb and Cervantes simply are
not sure.
"Whether the language affected
anybody's vote, there's no way of
telling unless you go poll everybody
that voted," Cobb said.
Rotary has
will allow prospective hunters
to go afield, so long as they have
an experienced hunter by their
side."
Without a deferral, hunter-ed-
ucation training is required for all
first-time hunters in Washington
born after January 1, 1972. In a
typical year, more than 12,000
new hunters complete training in
hunter-education classes across
the state, Mikitik said.
Application forms for the new
deferral option are available on the
WDFW Web site at httpg/wdfw.
wa.gov or can be obtained by call-
ing the department's hunter-edu-
cation division at 360-902-8111.
A $20 application fee is required.
Completed applications should be
sent to: Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement
Program - Hunter Education Di-
vision, 600 Capitol Way North,
Olympia, WA 98501-1091.
Additional information on the
state's hunting, fishing and wild-
life viewing opportunities is avail-
able on the WDFW Web site men-
tioned above.
New hunters m. ay
get specml wmver
Part of the roughly one-and-a-
quarter-page resolution includes the
following sentence: "Such services
will necessitate the expenditure of
revenues for station construction,
maintenance, operations, equip-
ment and personnel in excess of
those which can be provided by the
District's regular tax revenue levied
at the current rate per $1,000 of as-
sessed valuation of taxable property
within the District."
THAT, CERVANTES says, is
where the notion of an excess levy,
not a lid lift, came from.
"In our minds it was an attempt
to clarify it, not change the intent,
because it was our understanding
that it was an excess levy," Cer-
vantes added.
Mason County's Chief Civil Dep-
uty Prosecutor Monty Cobb says
that the district's proposed ballot
language was changed for several
reasons.
"I pretty much rewrote the whole
thing because it was vague, too long
and it was biased," Cobb said. "If the
language I wrote in any way con-
fused anybody, that's never my in-
tent. My intent when I rewrite is to
comply with state requirements."
Cobb, though, also says that beth
versions, that proposed by the dis-
trict and his rewrite, represent a
levy lid lift.
"I GUESS IYI a little bit at a
loss," he said. "It's a non-issue in
that under either scenario they
didn't break 50 percent."
Cobb, Herr and Cervantes all
also point out that the revised bal-
lot language was sent back to Fire
The Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is now
accepting applications from be-
ginning hunters seeking to defer
state hunter-education require-
ments and hunt under the super-
vision of an experienced hunter.
The new deferral option, autho-
rized by the 2007 legislature, al-
lows hunters to qualify for a once-
in-a-lifetime, one-year deferral
of hunter-education classes and
hunt with an adult who has been
licensed to hunt in Washington
state for at least three years.
Beginning hunters who qualify
can use the one-time deferral op-
tion during the current licensing
season or in upcoming seasons,
said Mik Mikitik, the WDFW
hunter education coordinator.
The current licensing season runs
through April 30, 2008.
"Every year, we hear from be-
ginning hunters who just couldn't
attend classes, whether because
of military service, family obliga-
tions or some other reason," Miki-
tik said. "As in a number of other
states, the new deferral option
The North Mason Rotary has
installed its 2007-2008 board of di-
rectors.
The new board includes the fol-
lowing members: Chris Ladner
(president), Mike Boyle (past presi-
dent), Debbie Jacobs (president
elect), Lori Severson (treasurer),
Anne Armstrong (secretary), Mar-
gie Kaiser (membership chair),
Mark Christel (foundation chair),
Peggy Jensen (club service chair)
and Beth Ribli and Gary Podesta
(community service co-chairs).
Rotary is a global network of
community volunteers. Rotary
members are business and prots-
sional leaders who provide human-
itarian service, encourage high
ethical standards, and help build
goodwill and peace in the world.
Some 31,000 Rotary clubs in more
than 165 countries carry out service
projects in their local communities
and abroad to address such critical
issues as poverty, health, hunger,
illiteracy and the environment.
The North Mason Rotary Club
meets every Thursday at noon at
the Bistro in LakeLand Village in
Allyn. Those that would like more
information should call 277-3282.
new board
members
BELFAIR HERALD
Serving Belfair -- Allyn m Grapeview -- Tahuya Mason Lake m South Shore Victor
Thursday, September 13, 2007 Section of The Shelton-Mason County Journal
arrison rep A closer look at the election:
be at the Ballot language could've
ber lunch played role in outcome
By KEVAN MOORE
Thomas Kruse, the vice presi-
of planning and business
for Harrison Medi-
Center, will be the featured
at the September lun-
of the North Mason Cham-
of Commerce.
will discuss the North
community's efforts to es-
Public Hospital District
and Harrison's offer to bring
urgent-care
to North Mason.
The Citizens Committee for
Establishment of Public Hos-
District 2 has collected the
petitions to put the de-
form the new district on
November ballot. If the mea-
ls approved in November,
Hospital District 2 will be
Kruse will give a presen-
that will include an update
planning of the clinic, in-
locations and ar-
renderings.
THE NORTH Mason Cham-
of Commerce holds a regular
luncheon meeting with
speaker on the fourth
of every month at
Community Center in
The Shop Local winner
each month is drawn and is
at these meeting. The
start at 11:30 a.m. and the
r concludes around
Lunch is $8 per person and
is invited.
other chamber news, Frank
Kenny, the local group's executive
director, was among the 72 par-
ticipants in the first-year class of
Academy, a professional develop-
ment program running in three-
year stints that was presented
by the Western Association of
Chamber Executives (WACE).
Academy is an interactive
three-day training program on
chamber management essentials
designed for today's chamber ex-
ecutives and staff professionals.
"ACADEMY WAS founded as
a program for a new era of cham-
ber management," said Dave
Kilby, president and chief execu-
tive officer of WACE. "We con-
gratulate all of the participants
in our first-year class and their
chambers for having the vision
to invest in professional develop-
ment."
The first-year Academy curric-
ulum included three-hour classes
on chamber trends and issues,
membership development and re-
tention, budgeting, legal issues,
volunteer development and mar-
keting and communications.
WACE is an association of
chamber of commerce executives
and staff professionals designed
to promote and enhance profes-
sional development. With over
800 members from 15 western
states, WACE is the largest state
or regional association of cham-
ber of commerce executives in the
United States.
tourney to
fit NMHS
Olympia Federal Savings and
Schwab Tire Center are pre-
a scramble golf tourna-
at Trophy Lake Golf and
Club on Sunday, Septem-
30, to benefit the North Mason
School Athletic Department.
supporters are invited
Participate in the exceptional
of golf in an effort to raise
to support all athletes and
provided at North Ma-
School.
event organizers
high-school stadium's sound
the stadium scoreboard
a remodel of' the press box.
ARE delighted to have
Federal Savings and Les
Tire Center as our major
for this event," said tour-
chairman Bob Patterson.
entry fee for the scramble
is $90 per player,
includes lunch, green fees
cart, tee prizes, competition
es and a raffle ticket.
according to Patter-
and the staff at Trophy Lake,
be a progressive scramble.
tournament committee has
obtained prizes from McLendon's
Hardware, Pizza Factory and oth-
er local businesses.
"The local business community
has been fantastic in their support
of this tournament," said Mark
Swofford, North Mason High
School's athletic director.
THERE WILL be prize draw-
ings and a little game of "Deal or
No Deal" at the awards ceremony
after the golf tournament.
"We will be putting a golf spin
on the deals, which should be fun
for everyone in attendance," Pat-
terson said.
Entry forms can be picked up
throughout Belfair at the follow-
ing locations: North Mason High
School annex, Olympia Federal
Savings, Les Schwab Tire Center,
Petersen Chiropractic and Pizza
Factory.
For more information or to reg-
ister, folks should contact Swof-
ford or Tracey Wardean at the
high school by calling 277-2163.
Registration and warm-up will
get under way at noon followed by
a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start. Awards
and prizes will be distributed in
the pavilion after the tournament.
the library:
ops will
with stories
North Mason residents will
a chance to learn how to tell
life stories during a special
series of events at the
r in Belfair.
Rebecca Horn will
residents through three
that show how to cre-
from memories of their
The workshops will be held
10 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays
18 and 25 and October
the North Mason Timberland
Library, located at 23081
Route 3 in Belfair.
monstrate
techniques and other
storytellers' methods for
recalling memories and creating
oral stories from those memories.
"We will explore why we tell
our stories, how to go about telling
those stories and how they fit into
the larger history of our times,"
said Horn. "The focus will be on
the spoken rather than the writ-
ten word, on strong images rather
than proper grammar. We will lift
the words off the page into our re-
tellings."
The workshops are free of charge
and attendance is limited. Those
that are interested in participating
should call the library in Belfair at
275-3232 for more information and
to register for the workshops.
What's in a name, anyway?
Well, when it comes to the lan-
guage contained in an election bal-
lot, it can mean the difference be-
tween winning and losing. It can
mean the difference between need-
ing just over 50 percent of the vote
(a simple majority) and needing just
over 60 percent of the vote (a super
majority).
It turns out that a levy and a levy
lid lift are two very different ani-
mals. The former needs a super ma-
jority and the latter needs a simple
majority.
The recent attempt by Fire Dis-
trict 2 to collect taxes for the next
six years earned 1,127 "yes" votes
(49.3 percent) and 1,159 "no" votes
(50.6 percent). Under that scenario,
there was not enough support to
constitute a simple majority, let
alone a super majority.
THE QUESTION now, though,
has become this: What exactly were
people voting for? And, beyond that,
could it have affected the way that a
person or persons voted?
Fire District 2 officials contend
that they submitted ballot language
to the county representing a levy
lid lift and that the county returned
and ran ballot language that repre-
sented an excess tax levy.
'lhe general appearance is that
the ballot measure was changed
from a lid lift to an excess levy," said
Fire District 2 Chief Beau Bakken.
"I want to be able to sit down and
work with the auditor's office and
Mason County to get a situation
that's agreeable to everybody."
Bakken and his board of fire
commissioners were set to meet on
Tuesday evening of this week to dis-
cuss the entire situation.
Mason County Auditor Karen
Herr says her office got the pro-
posed language from Fire District
2 and sent it to the Mason County
Prosecutor's Office for review. It
then came back with changes, be-
fore it was sent back to Fire District
2 for review.
HERR AND THE prosecutor's
office also looked at a Fire District 2
resolution in which the commission-
ers called for the election.
"In the resolution it never men-
tions anything about a,lid lift, so we
never imagined that was a possibili-
ty or that's what it was," Herr said.
Mason County Superintendent
of Elections Amber Cervantes, who
works out of the auditor's office, also
said that the county always viewed
the fire district's efforts as one of
running an excess tax levy. She says
the ballot language "would have the
effect of making (voters) believe it
was an excess levy," but also points
out that the phrase "in excess" came
from the district's original resolu-
tion.
The board of Mason Coun- For the purpose of expanding
ty Fire District No. 2 ad- firefighting service levels and
opted Resolution No. 232, continuing operations ibr fire
a proposition to maintain and emergency medical service
and expand firefighting and the Board of' Commissioners of
emergency medical services. Mason County Fire Protection
This proposition authorizes District 2 adopted Resolution
the District to levy excess No. 232 concerning a proposi-
taxes on all taxable prop- tion to restore its regular prop-
erty within the District at a erty tax levy to an amount not
rate not exceeding $1.32 per to exceed $1.32 per $1,000 of
$1,000 of assessed value for assessed valuation tbr collec-
collection in 2008 and would tion in 2008 and to authorize
authorize a growth factor setting a growth factor limited
limited to a maximum of 4% to a maximum of 4% per year
per year each of the follow- for each of the five succeeding
ing 5 years, years.
You be the judge:
Questions about ballot language have arisen follow-
ing the recent attempt by Fire District 2 to gain voter
support for a tax measure. At issue is whether or not
the district's intent to run a lid lift was changed and
whether that could have affected the outcome of the
election. The actual ballot language appears at left,
while the district's proposed language appears at
right. The key differences are emphasized.
District 2 for review prior to the
election. In a letter to Bakken, Herr
mentions the need to shorten the
ballot language, per state law, and
includes the revised version. But,
Bakken and his commissioners did
not pick up on the change. In fact,
Bakken sent an e-mail out to one of
his commissioners after receiving
the revised language that clearly
implies that he didn't pick up on the
change.
"Below is a change in ballot lan-
guage from the county auditor's
office as established by the county
prosecutor's office," Bakken wrote.
"As expected they have changed
some of our language on the ballot. I
personally don't have any heartache
over the changes. How about you?
Below, I have also put our original
ballot language for comparison."
ONE OF THE big questions
at this point is whether or not the
change could have affected the out-
come of the election.
Herr doesn't think so.
"I don't think (voters) would un-
derstand it," Herr said. "We're hav-
ing a tough time ourselves. There's
a fine line. I've never heard that, so
I don't know if that would make a
big difference to the voters."
Cobb and Cervantes simply are
not sure.
"Whether the language affected
anybody's vote, there's no way of
telling unless you go poll everybody
that voted," Cobb said.
Rotary has
will allow prospective hunters
to go afield, so long as they have
an experienced hunter by their
side."
Without a deferral, hunter-ed-
ucation training is required for all
first-time hunters in Washington
born after January 1, 1972. In a
typical year, more than 12,000
new hunters complete training in
hunter-education classes across
the state, Mikitik said.
Application forms for the new
deferral option are available on the
WDFW Web site at httpg/wdfw.
wa.gov or can be obtained by call-
ing the department's hunter-edu-
cation division at 360-902-8111.
A $20 application fee is required.
Completed applications should be
sent to: Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement
Program - Hunter Education Di-
vision, 600 Capitol Way North,
Olympia, WA 98501-1091.
Additional information on the
state's hunting, fishing and wild-
life viewing opportunities is avail-
able on the WDFW Web site men-
tioned above.
New hunters m. ay
get specml wmver
Part of the roughly one-and-a-
quarter-page resolution includes the
following sentence: "Such services
will necessitate the expenditure of
revenues for station construction,
maintenance, operations, equip-
ment and personnel in excess of
those which can be provided by the
District's regular tax revenue levied
at the current rate per $1,000 of as-
sessed valuation of taxable property
within the District."
THAT, CERVANTES says, is
where the notion of an excess levy,
not a lid lift, came from.
"In our minds it was an attempt
to clarify it, not change the intent,
because it was our understanding
that it was an excess levy," Cer-
vantes added.
Mason County's Chief Civil Dep-
uty Prosecutor Monty Cobb says
that the district's proposed ballot
language was changed for several
reasons.
"I pretty much rewrote the whole
thing because it was vague, too long
and it was biased," Cobb said. "If the
language I wrote in any way con-
fused anybody, that's never my in-
tent. My intent when I rewrite is to
comply with state requirements."
Cobb, though, also says that beth
versions, that proposed by the dis-
trict and his rewrite, represent a
levy lid lift.
"I GUESS IYI a little bit at a
loss," he said. "It's a non-issue in
that under either scenario they
didn't break 50 percent."
Cobb, Herr and Cervantes all
also point out that the revised bal-
lot language was sent back to Fire
The Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is now
accepting applications from be-
ginning hunters seeking to defer
state hunter-education require-
ments and hunt under the super-
vision of an experienced hunter.
The new deferral option, autho-
rized by the 2007 legislature, al-
lows hunters to qualify for a once-
in-a-lifetime, one-year deferral
of hunter-education classes and
hunt with an adult who has been
licensed to hunt in Washington
state for at least three years.
Beginning hunters who qualify
can use the one-time deferral op-
tion during the current licensing
season or in upcoming seasons,
said Mik Mikitik, the WDFW
hunter education coordinator.
The current licensing season runs
through April 30, 2008.
"Every year, we hear from be-
ginning hunters who just couldn't
attend classes, whether because
of military service, family obliga-
tions or some other reason," Miki-
tik said. "As in a number of other
states, the new deferral option
The North Mason Rotary has
installed its 2007-2008 board of di-
rectors.
The new board includes the fol-
lowing members: Chris Ladner
(president), Mike Boyle (past presi-
dent), Debbie Jacobs (president
elect), Lori Severson (treasurer),
Anne Armstrong (secretary), Mar-
gie Kaiser (membership chair),
Mark Christel (foundation chair),
Peggy Jensen (club service chair)
and Beth Ribli and Gary Podesta
(community service co-chairs).
Rotary is a global network of
community volunteers. Rotary
members are business and prots-
sional leaders who provide human-
itarian service, encourage high
ethical standards, and help build
goodwill and peace in the world.
Some 31,000 Rotary clubs in more
than 165 countries carry out service
projects in their local communities
and abroad to address such critical
issues as poverty, health, hunger,
illiteracy and the environment.
The North Mason Rotary Club
meets every Thursday at noon at
the Bistro in LakeLand Village in
Allyn. Those that would like more
information should call 277-3282.
new board
members