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continued from page 7 County resident a century ago and COVID brought her back. J accard was staying at her longtime summer house on the shores of Harstine Island when the pandemic struck. The fourth of five children, J accard was born Sept. 17, 1923, in Shelton General Hospital. Her father was a truck farmer who had migrated from Kansas. “We were poor as church mice, but we weren’t poor in the neighborhood,” J accard said, pointing out the family had both running water and electricity before any of the neighbors. The prop- erty had four creeks, with the outhouse on top of one of them. “We never had a smelly outhouse,” she said. J accard attended Grant School from the first through the eight gn‘ades. graduated from Shelton High School in 1941. During World War II, Jaccard worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton. She shook hands with President Franklin Roosevelt when he toured the facilities. She then en— rolled at Washington State University (then Washington State College) and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Jaccard had met her husband, Gil— bert, at a picnic in her late teens. “We were outdoor people ~ we skied a lot.” They wed in 1949 and had four kids. The family lived in downtown Se— attle, then moved to Bellevue. Gilbert worked at Boeing. One day, Gilbert dropped dead at her feet, J accard recalled. “That left me alone with four little kids and I hadn’t worked in 15 years,” she said. Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 — Shelton-Mason County Journal Page 9 100 years: IacCard will celebrate 100th birthday at home they drove around Europe and camped in a canvas tent, living on bread and cheese. Jaccard began her 30-year teaching career instructing kindergartners, first graders and special needs students in Bellevue. And she traveled the world, at a time when it wasn’t easy to visit places like the Congo or Estonia. J accard said her adventures, stud- ies and projects overseas allowed her to meet so many people face to face. “She has the unique ability to make friends around the world." said her son Walter. “It can be scaly and sad and things you are heartbreaking,” she said of her visit to the Congo. “There‘s people who sit beside you and plead for help.” In Botswana, she and the other fe— male passengers asked the bus driver to pull over so they could urinate. When all of them were squatting next to the Smith said her final overseas excur— sion to Vietnam and Cambodia was the only time she stayed in first-class hotels. The family bought the Harstine Is— land property in 1963, before a road to the site existed. , “This was a summer place. I didn’t intend to live here." Three years ago, “I came down for the weekend, then COVID hit, so I stayed.” She still owns 24/; acres on Lake Sammamish near Bellevue. These days, Jaccard walks every day, swims in the Sound, and reads adventure novels and nonfiction books. On her bilthday Sunday, some other children will be with her to celebrate. Next week comes the rest of the clan, from as far away as New York and Florida. Every adult in the family has earned at least a bachelor’s degree, she said. And her advice after a century of One year, there were 15 students. She J accard packed up her children and bus, the driver playfully drove away. life? “Believe in yourself.” Water: City comprehensive plan finds ‘deficient’ storage continued from page pool as it evaporates. “So I’m feeling the pain as well, and so are my neighbors, and I hear about it a lot,” he said. People who choose to build homes in the city will ease some of the financial burden, Onisko said. City staff does a great job at securing grants, he said. Council member Deidre Peterson lives in a home that has been in her family for four generations. “We almost didn’t buy it because we didn’t want to pay the city’s rates, but when it came down to it, looking at where we are today, this is the respon— sible choice for long-term growth, because if we don’t do it, we’re looking at more debt service, were look— ing at taking more money out of the general fund, and it will affect other services,” she said. Peterson thanked the consulting firm and city staff for producing a workable solution. “This is a best-case scenario for a worst-case sce- nario,” she said. During public comments, Mike Olsen, who served on the three—member Shelton City Commission be- fore it became the seven—member city Council, said he is proud the council hired a consultant, and then followed its recommendation. He said he played a large role in a rate increase he believed cost him an election. The city is making “a simple business decision” based on facts, while others are fueled only by “emo— tion” on such matters, Olson said. “It‘s going to hurt everyone, no question about it, and like you just said, you want it to grow, you’ve got to have the means to grow, you need to have this eases res: THE done,” he said. As of 2020, the city‘s water system has about 3,700 connections. The city’s water distribution system consists of almost 66 miles of water main, three wells, five reservoirs and four booster pump stations. The city is divided into five pressure zones: Angelside, Capitol Hill, High School, Mountain View and Upper Mountain View. The city‘s updated water comprehensive plan found the city’s water storage “deficient under all planning years.” It recommends the city study and improve the Angelside Reservoir pump station, con- struct a new reservoir in Upper Mountain View near the city’s well No. 1, build a new reservoir in An— gelside, take the Capitol Hill Reservoir offline, and ’ create a new reservoir in Upper Mountain View in Shelton Hills, with the developer paying that cost. is; was CULT # Satu rday OCTOBER 14 D0067“! Show 8"" fjauRCHAs ,..’r;mtmcssax’ , as NO*RESORT.. .mmscmm com ‘: interim: MORATTH, unease 3f Must be :21 are older to attend. Aft-sates are {that 5% Fingers 'Ciub for More entails