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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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