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iiendersonlndrug00.....00case: gets Canal group hears salmon issues
a year and a day from legal and tribal persp(00ctlves
It will take agency teamwork for entities that submit habitat- Swimming in Hood Canal re-
O. Henderson, 38, was
on Wednesday, Sep-
n Mason County Supe-
. to 366 days in prison
,lracy to manufacture
' le.
'sentence followed a guilty
by Deputy Prose-
inlay and defend:
Valley. Henderso
.end, Stefani Brock,
. March 5 in an in-
of illegal-drug activity
unit at the Jarrell's
adlady told police that
mt found materials
methamphetamine
moved into a place for-
ied by Henderson and
€ Were arrested when
ack to the marina to
r belongings.
not an active manufac-
He was helping
to move out," Valley
The original charge of posses-
sion of chemicals with intent to
manufacture methamphetamine
was reduced after negotiations
between Finlay and Valley.
Judge James Sawyer gave
Henderson 12 months of super-
vision after his release and or-
dered him to pay $484.80 in court
costs, $500 to the crime victims'
fund and a $4,000 drug fine.
Tip line alerts
law to violence
A new toll-free number at the
Shelton Police Department lets
people report school violence, or
threats of violence, to police with-
out being identified.
Shelton Police Chief S.R. John-
ston said callers will remain
anonymous. The number is 1-877-
379-SAFE (1-877-379-7233).
worked them, but among regular
folks the prostitutes were pretty
much accepted, if not openly em-
braced.
"I remember riding a train
during World War II between
Denver and San Francisco," says
Bob. "I struck up a conversation
out of Wyoming with a rancher,
and he had been reared on a
ranch in Eastern Nevada, I be-
lieve.
"And he was telling me how
when he reached adolescence his
father, who ran the ranch, in-
structed the foreman to take him
to a woman's house out on the
plains - the desert country - and
introduce him to his first sexual
experience. She was a prostitute,
but she lived by herself out there
and she serviced the cowboys.
"AND SO THIS fellow took
the kid, gave him five bucks and
told him to go in and get some -
what was it? It wasn't eggs. It
wasn't milk - something that he
was supposed to go in and ask
for. So he did."
Bob grins.
"And so she very soon set him
straight as to what he'd come in
for. And afterward he went out
there, and the guy was still wait-
ing on his horse for him to, uh,
complete the adventure.
"And he demanded, 'Well,
where's the eggs?' - or whatever
it was. And he said, 'They don't
have any. They cost twice as
much' - or something like that.
"But it was the same way in
early-day San Francisco. It
wasn't unusual for a father to
take a maturing son to a house of
ill fame, where he knew the mad-
am and would introduce the boy
to the madam and the madam
then would introduce him around
to the girls and ask which one he
might care to be with.
"Well, so various cultures han-
dle it differently..."
REGISTRATION
UNDERWAY
at
OLYMPIC COLLEGE SHELTON
Because
YOUR FUTURE
can't wait.
Credit Classes:
FALL QUARTER
September 27-December 17
e.d as a messenger for
as a young man
Bob, and the ex-
him more than
!0fthe things that I took 'a
of pride in," he
that I saw all aspects
cling the sordid side.
rally you'd be sum-
of ill repute.
reputed' best one was
the main post office,
kt Hotel. It was
ning house.
there one day
a telegram and what-
to deliver a boot to a
il, or whatever. And I
ng at the desk, waiting
tdara to complete the
n and make up her
SkY, ALL at once there
ie,°Pened above, and
ar the patter of bare
U.ses, an impish grin
g to get the better of
i _tae madam spoke to
n here.'
OUrse what it was was
aadY Was going to the
,_er Servicing a client.
"-tied I couldn't hear
tvas that?'"
;&ts, his grin now
-e throes of a thor-
arraing little laugh of
ee.
here!, ,, he repeats,
.'thing akin to a
Voice. "And I still
Played the dummy,
e laughs out loud.
l y she yanked me in-
s didn't observe this
[1..."
,LY, SAYS Bob, no-
'nOtwithstanding,
! of ill repute weren't
llied when it came
to it. Oh, the upper
lety indeed looked
Ose at those who
and a lot of citizen effort if
threatened salmon runs are to be
restored in Hood Canal, speakers
told those attending a Hood Ca-
nal Environmental Council pro-
gram in Belfair last Friday.
Master of ceremonies Gary
Cunningham, at the session in
the Mary E. Theler Community
Center, described the 30-year his-
tory of the Hood Canal Environ-
mental Council as a grassroots
citizens' effort to maintain the
quality of a fragile waterway.
He told listeners how the
group's first effort was successful
in establishing a degree of zoning
in Kitsap County, noting that the
catalyst was a small-lot develop-
ment proposed for Stavis Bay.
SALMON WAS the focus for
Friday's meeting. Michael Rossot-
to, a 1992 graduate of Stanford
Law School and an attorney with
the Washington Environmental
Council, talked to those gathered
about the major aspects of the
Endangered Species Act as it per-
tains to Hood Canal salmon. In-
terpreting the Endangered Spe-
cies Act, Rossotto said, is some-
thing of a cottage industry in it-
self.
He told the group that a key
portion of the act, Section 9, in-
volves the "take" of fish listed as
threatened or endangered.
"Take," he said, involves harass-
ment, harm or disruption of habi-
tat. Fresh-water fish and land
Michael Rossotto
mammals, he said, come under
the protection of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, while ana-
dromous fish like salmon, as well
as marine mammals, fall under
the jurisdiction of the National
Marine Fisheries Service. The
former group makes no distinc-
tion between threatened and en-
dangered species, but for salmon,
regulation of "take" applies only
to endangered species.
NMFS, he said, can regulate
the activities defined as "take"
but has not yet made any regula-
tions, deferring to the counties
and states involved.
Section 11 of the act, Rossotto
said, allows for citizens to sue for
its enforcement in cases where its
provisions are violated. He noted
Michael Pavel
that a 60-day notice of intent is
involved, and that governments
will often respond with enforce-
ment even without the suit pro-
ceeding further.
ANOTHER TOOL for activ-
ism, he told the group, is Section
7 of the act, which requires per-
mitting and funding entities to
ensure that projects are not
harmful to endangered or
threatened salmon populations.
The most publicized section of
the Endangered Species Act, Ros-
sotto said, is Section 4D, which
requires involved agencies to is-
sue rules to protect threatened
species.
The weakest aspect of the act,
he said, is Section 10, which al-
lows for incidental-take permits
conservation plans in the permit-
ting process. Unfortunately, he
said, the permits have a span of
50 years, so if they are based on
inaccurate science or prove inade-
quate, a great deal of damage to
critical habitat can be done.
The most important task at
hand, Rossotto said, is restoration
of habitat so that the trend of
threatened salmon to decline can
be reversed. He urged people to
walk streams, be observant, keep
accurate records of observations
and communicate with lawmak-
ers and other entities to avoid
further degradation of Hood Ca-
nal salmon habitat.
TURNING TO A cultural re-
sponse to salmon issues, the
group heard from Washington
State University Associate Pro-
fessor Michael Pavel, a member of
the Skokomish Tribe, who told
the audience how the salmon was
integral to his tribe's way of life,
both economically and spiritually.
His mother's people, Pavel
said, lived on Hood Canal for per-
haps 10,000 years, and their sto-
ries reached back to the receding
of the glaciers of the last ice age.
He set the scene for his remarks
by singing one of the Twana peo-
ple's historic songs, and from the
audience, his mother, Anne Pavel,
echoed the music.
"The relationship between
Hood Canal and my people has
gone on for millennia," he said.
"For us, this water is alive, and
has given us life."
cently, he said, he put himself in
the salmon's place and thought
how the fish would feel if the wa-
ter were polluted, their power di-
minished. But they have all but
disappeared through other caus-
es, he noted, jeopardizing a way
of life.
"OUR FUTURES are tied to
the environment," he observed.
Historically, he said, the Twana
people have involved themselves
with respect and reverence for
that environment, formed part-
nerships with it and with others
caring for it, and worked to be
good neighbors.
He described touring the Sko-
komish estuary with Tribal Natu-
ral Resources Director Jim Park,
who showed him a slough cleaned
out by the removal of a log jam at
an old bridge. "I saw fish there. !
saw life there," he said. In anoth-
er place, culverts were being re-
placed to make the stream flow
more natural and inhibit flooding,
which is destructive of salmon
habitat.
Pavel told his listeners the
trees, which hold the waters in
the soils against erosion and
flooding, "are teachers to us," and
said the tribe is interested in
partnerships that enhance salm-
on habitat throughout the Hood
Canal watershed. "If we pollute
our environment, if all the salmon
die," he said, "we may all die. And
if we are not the first, consider
how sad to be the last."
AT THE END of the presenta-
tions, in a question-and-answer
Fire districts 5, 3 agree on more
joint planning, response, training
session, both Pavel and Rossotto
noted that fishing has often been
treated as a scapegoat for the ef-
fect on salmon populations of hy-
droelectric generation.
"We've ratcheted down our
commercial, sport and tribal fish-
ery again and again," Rossotto
Mason County fire districts 3
and 5, in the course of joint plan-
ning, have agreed to a stronger
and more fully coordinated joint
response to emergencies in their
adjoining districts, say their
chiefs.
The two districts have agreed
to implement joint training of
firefighters and first responders,
say Fire District 5 Chief Richard
A. Knight and Fire District 3
Chief Mike Uglow.
In a press release issued last
Friday, the chiefs of the two fire
districts praised their two-year-
old first response agreement as
having "improved the emergency
response to residents in both
districts."
BOUNDARIES established
years back for the two districts
leave the Grapeview Fire District
3 landlocked by Fire District 5,
WhiCh' extends" north past Allyn
and south to the Shelton city lim-
its.
Residents in both districts
have benefited from faster re-
sponses and more personnel and
equipment within both districts,
the chiefs said in their press re-
lease. The automatic joint re-
sponse instituted in 1997 "has al-
Fire District 5 board
will meet at 7 tonight
Fire District 5 commissioners services levy on the November
will hold a meeting at 7:30 to- ballot.
night as a continuance of their The session will be held at Sta-
September 8 meeting to consider tion 53 on Mason-Benson Road.
putting an emergency medical
Hood Canal award
nominations due
The deadline for Hood Canal
Coordinating Council's 1999 En-
vironmental Achievement Awards
is close.
Award nominations in five cat-
egories, including individuals,
nonprofit organizations, industry
and business, public agency and
government, and students and
schools, are due by Wednesday,
September 22.
Forms and guidelines are
available from coordinator Donna
Simmons by phone at 877-5747 or
at dsimmons@hcte.eom via e-
mail. They are also available at
the Mason County Commission
office at 411 North Fifth Street,
the Skokomish Tribal Center and
at the Mason County-Washington
State University Cooperative Ex-
tension Office.
Completed forms and support-
ing materials should be sent to
HCCC Awards Program, P.O. Box
5002, Quilcene, 98376.
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ready proved beneficial in several
residential fires within the cen-
tral part of District 5," Knight
said. "District 3's quick response
with their water tender and crew
has provided us with additional
resources to quickly stop fires."
Uglow 'ii0ted "that the response
of extra personnel and equipment
from Fire District 5 during the
daytime hours as an example of
the benefits to Fire District 3.
The new agreement extends
the agreement for a much strong-
er and more fully coordinated
joint response in both districts,
and allows for "a full program of
joint training between the two
districts to ensure that personnel
will work together effectively at
emergency incidents," the two
chiefs said.
• STAFFS OF the two fire dis-
tricts, the chiefs said, will meet
on a monthly schedule "to contin-
ue to find ways to work together."
Both chiefs said their goal is to
provide quality service to the citi-
zens of the two fire districts in
the most efficient manner possi-
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said. "The fishermen have made
the biggest sacrifices of all."
Both speakers urged grass-
roots efforts to ensure that work-
able measures be taken to move
ahead with habitat restoration for
the salmon. Protecting salmon
habitat, they said, is one way to
keep Hood Canal the productive,
pure waterway it has been.
00,(ouy£ts
by gift & Leslee McComb
Thursday, September 16, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page
THE GOOD WITH THE BAD
If desperate times call for
desperate measures, shouldn't
happiness be recognized with
a measure of gratitude? There
seems to be such a high ex-
pectation of health and tran-
quility on the part of human
nature that we may tend to take
these things for granted when
they prevail. When things be-
gin to go awry, however, there
is no shortage of prayer with
the intention of putting things
right. The fact is, though, that
we should take the good with
the bad, and recognize them
in equal fashion. As Kahlil
Gibran once wrote: "You pray
in your distress and in your
need; would that you might
pray in the fullness of your joy
and in your days of abun-
dance."
It is never easy to accept the
loss of someone we love. The
experience can be made more
complicated by having to make
arrangements for a burial and
service. At McCOMB FU-
NERAL HOME, we offer pre-
arranged funerals so that you
can save your loved ones from
the burden of making these
decisions. At first it might seem
difficult to consider, be we con-
sider it a loving act for your
family's sake. For further infor-
mation, call us at 703 Railroad
Avenue West (426-4803). Grief
counseling is also available.
QUOTE: "Ordinarily when a
man in difficulty turns to prayer,
he has already tried every
other means of escape."
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IBm
iiendersonlndrug00.....00case: gets Canal group hears salmon issues
a year and a day from legal and tribal persp(00ctlves
It will take agency teamwork for entities that submit habitat- Swimming in Hood Canal re-
O. Henderson, 38, was
on Wednesday, Sep-
n Mason County Supe-
. to 366 days in prison
,lracy to manufacture
' le.
'sentence followed a guilty
by Deputy Prose-
inlay and defend:
Valley. Henderso
.end, Stefani Brock,
. March 5 in an in-
of illegal-drug activity
unit at the Jarrell's
adlady told police that
mt found materials
methamphetamine
moved into a place for-
ied by Henderson and
€ Were arrested when
ack to the marina to
r belongings.
not an active manufac-
He was helping
to move out," Valley
The original charge of posses-
sion of chemicals with intent to
manufacture methamphetamine
was reduced after negotiations
between Finlay and Valley.
Judge James Sawyer gave
Henderson 12 months of super-
vision after his release and or-
dered him to pay $484.80 in court
costs, $500 to the crime victims'
fund and a $4,000 drug fine.
Tip line alerts
law to violence
A new toll-free number at the
Shelton Police Department lets
people report school violence, or
threats of violence, to police with-
out being identified.
Shelton Police Chief S.R. John-
ston said callers will remain
anonymous. The number is 1-877-
379-SAFE (1-877-379-7233).
worked them, but among regular
folks the prostitutes were pretty
much accepted, if not openly em-
braced.
"I remember riding a train
during World War II between
Denver and San Francisco," says
Bob. "I struck up a conversation
out of Wyoming with a rancher,
and he had been reared on a
ranch in Eastern Nevada, I be-
lieve.
"And he was telling me how
when he reached adolescence his
father, who ran the ranch, in-
structed the foreman to take him
to a woman's house out on the
plains - the desert country - and
introduce him to his first sexual
experience. She was a prostitute,
but she lived by herself out there
and she serviced the cowboys.
"AND SO THIS fellow took
the kid, gave him five bucks and
told him to go in and get some -
what was it? It wasn't eggs. It
wasn't milk - something that he
was supposed to go in and ask
for. So he did."
Bob grins.
"And so she very soon set him
straight as to what he'd come in
for. And afterward he went out
there, and the guy was still wait-
ing on his horse for him to, uh,
complete the adventure.
"And he demanded, 'Well,
where's the eggs?' - or whatever
it was. And he said, 'They don't
have any. They cost twice as
much' - or something like that.
"But it was the same way in
early-day San Francisco. It
wasn't unusual for a father to
take a maturing son to a house of
ill fame, where he knew the mad-
am and would introduce the boy
to the madam and the madam
then would introduce him around
to the girls and ask which one he
might care to be with.
"Well, so various cultures han-
dle it differently..."
REGISTRATION
UNDERWAY
at
OLYMPIC COLLEGE SHELTON
Because
YOUR FUTURE
can't wait.
Credit Classes:
FALL QUARTER
September 27-December 17
e.d as a messenger for
as a young man
Bob, and the ex-
him more than
!0fthe things that I took 'a
of pride in," he
that I saw all aspects
cling the sordid side.
rally you'd be sum-
of ill repute.
reputed' best one was
the main post office,
kt Hotel. It was
ning house.
there one day
a telegram and what-
to deliver a boot to a
il, or whatever. And I
ng at the desk, waiting
tdara to complete the
n and make up her
SkY, ALL at once there
ie,°Pened above, and
ar the patter of bare
U.ses, an impish grin
g to get the better of
i _tae madam spoke to
n here.'
OUrse what it was was
aadY Was going to the
,_er Servicing a client.
"-tied I couldn't hear
tvas that?'"
;&ts, his grin now
-e throes of a thor-
arraing little laugh of
ee.
here!, ,, he repeats,
.'thing akin to a
Voice. "And I still
Played the dummy,
e laughs out loud.
l y she yanked me in-
s didn't observe this
[1..."
,LY, SAYS Bob, no-
'nOtwithstanding,
! of ill repute weren't
llied when it came
to it. Oh, the upper
lety indeed looked
Ose at those who
and a lot of citizen effort if
threatened salmon runs are to be
restored in Hood Canal, speakers
told those attending a Hood Ca-
nal Environmental Council pro-
gram in Belfair last Friday.
Master of ceremonies Gary
Cunningham, at the session in
the Mary E. Theler Community
Center, described the 30-year his-
tory of the Hood Canal Environ-
mental Council as a grassroots
citizens' effort to maintain the
quality of a fragile waterway.
He told listeners how the
group's first effort was successful
in establishing a degree of zoning
in Kitsap County, noting that the
catalyst was a small-lot develop-
ment proposed for Stavis Bay.
SALMON WAS the focus for
Friday's meeting. Michael Rossot-
to, a 1992 graduate of Stanford
Law School and an attorney with
the Washington Environmental
Council, talked to those gathered
about the major aspects of the
Endangered Species Act as it per-
tains to Hood Canal salmon. In-
terpreting the Endangered Spe-
cies Act, Rossotto said, is some-
thing of a cottage industry in it-
self.
He told the group that a key
portion of the act, Section 9, in-
volves the "take" of fish listed as
threatened or endangered.
"Take," he said, involves harass-
ment, harm or disruption of habi-
tat. Fresh-water fish and land
Michael Rossotto
mammals, he said, come under
the protection of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, while ana-
dromous fish like salmon, as well
as marine mammals, fall under
the jurisdiction of the National
Marine Fisheries Service. The
former group makes no distinc-
tion between threatened and en-
dangered species, but for salmon,
regulation of "take" applies only
to endangered species.
NMFS, he said, can regulate
the activities defined as "take"
but has not yet made any regula-
tions, deferring to the counties
and states involved.
Section 11 of the act, Rossotto
said, allows for citizens to sue for
its enforcement in cases where its
provisions are violated. He noted
Michael Pavel
that a 60-day notice of intent is
involved, and that governments
will often respond with enforce-
ment even without the suit pro-
ceeding further.
ANOTHER TOOL for activ-
ism, he told the group, is Section
7 of the act, which requires per-
mitting and funding entities to
ensure that projects are not
harmful to endangered or
threatened salmon populations.
The most publicized section of
the Endangered Species Act, Ros-
sotto said, is Section 4D, which
requires involved agencies to is-
sue rules to protect threatened
species.
The weakest aspect of the act,
he said, is Section 10, which al-
lows for incidental-take permits
conservation plans in the permit-
ting process. Unfortunately, he
said, the permits have a span of
50 years, so if they are based on
inaccurate science or prove inade-
quate, a great deal of damage to
critical habitat can be done.
The most important task at
hand, Rossotto said, is restoration
of habitat so that the trend of
threatened salmon to decline can
be reversed. He urged people to
walk streams, be observant, keep
accurate records of observations
and communicate with lawmak-
ers and other entities to avoid
further degradation of Hood Ca-
nal salmon habitat.
TURNING TO A cultural re-
sponse to salmon issues, the
group heard from Washington
State University Associate Pro-
fessor Michael Pavel, a member of
the Skokomish Tribe, who told
the audience how the salmon was
integral to his tribe's way of life,
both economically and spiritually.
His mother's people, Pavel
said, lived on Hood Canal for per-
haps 10,000 years, and their sto-
ries reached back to the receding
of the glaciers of the last ice age.
He set the scene for his remarks
by singing one of the Twana peo-
ple's historic songs, and from the
audience, his mother, Anne Pavel,
echoed the music.
"The relationship between
Hood Canal and my people has
gone on for millennia," he said.
"For us, this water is alive, and
has given us life."
cently, he said, he put himself in
the salmon's place and thought
how the fish would feel if the wa-
ter were polluted, their power di-
minished. But they have all but
disappeared through other caus-
es, he noted, jeopardizing a way
of life.
"OUR FUTURES are tied to
the environment," he observed.
Historically, he said, the Twana
people have involved themselves
with respect and reverence for
that environment, formed part-
nerships with it and with others
caring for it, and worked to be
good neighbors.
He described touring the Sko-
komish estuary with Tribal Natu-
ral Resources Director Jim Park,
who showed him a slough cleaned
out by the removal of a log jam at
an old bridge. "I saw fish there. !
saw life there," he said. In anoth-
er place, culverts were being re-
placed to make the stream flow
more natural and inhibit flooding,
which is destructive of salmon
habitat.
Pavel told his listeners the
trees, which hold the waters in
the soils against erosion and
flooding, "are teachers to us," and
said the tribe is interested in
partnerships that enhance salm-
on habitat throughout the Hood
Canal watershed. "If we pollute
our environment, if all the salmon
die," he said, "we may all die. And
if we are not the first, consider
how sad to be the last."
AT THE END of the presenta-
tions, in a question-and-answer
Fire districts 5, 3 agree on more
joint planning, response, training
session, both Pavel and Rossotto
noted that fishing has often been
treated as a scapegoat for the ef-
fect on salmon populations of hy-
droelectric generation.
"We've ratcheted down our
commercial, sport and tribal fish-
ery again and again," Rossotto
Mason County fire districts 3
and 5, in the course of joint plan-
ning, have agreed to a stronger
and more fully coordinated joint
response to emergencies in their
adjoining districts, say their
chiefs.
The two districts have agreed
to implement joint training of
firefighters and first responders,
say Fire District 5 Chief Richard
A. Knight and Fire District 3
Chief Mike Uglow.
In a press release issued last
Friday, the chiefs of the two fire
districts praised their two-year-
old first response agreement as
having "improved the emergency
response to residents in both
districts."
BOUNDARIES established
years back for the two districts
leave the Grapeview Fire District
3 landlocked by Fire District 5,
WhiCh' extends" north past Allyn
and south to the Shelton city lim-
its.
Residents in both districts
have benefited from faster re-
sponses and more personnel and
equipment within both districts,
the chiefs said in their press re-
lease. The automatic joint re-
sponse instituted in 1997 "has al-
Fire District 5 board
will meet at 7 tonight
Fire District 5 commissioners services levy on the November
will hold a meeting at 7:30 to- ballot.
night as a continuance of their The session will be held at Sta-
September 8 meeting to consider tion 53 on Mason-Benson Road.
putting an emergency medical
Hood Canal award
nominations due
The deadline for Hood Canal
Coordinating Council's 1999 En-
vironmental Achievement Awards
is close.
Award nominations in five cat-
egories, including individuals,
nonprofit organizations, industry
and business, public agency and
government, and students and
schools, are due by Wednesday,
September 22.
Forms and guidelines are
available from coordinator Donna
Simmons by phone at 877-5747 or
at dsimmons@hcte.eom via e-
mail. They are also available at
the Mason County Commission
office at 411 North Fifth Street,
the Skokomish Tribal Center and
at the Mason County-Washington
State University Cooperative Ex-
tension Office.
Completed forms and support-
ing materials should be sent to
HCCC Awards Program, P.O. Box
5002, Quilcene, 98376.
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ready proved beneficial in several
residential fires within the cen-
tral part of District 5," Knight
said. "District 3's quick response
with their water tender and crew
has provided us with additional
resources to quickly stop fires."
Uglow 'ii0ted "that the response
of extra personnel and equipment
from Fire District 5 during the
daytime hours as an example of
the benefits to Fire District 3.
The new agreement extends
the agreement for a much strong-
er and more fully coordinated
joint response in both districts,
and allows for "a full program of
joint training between the two
districts to ensure that personnel
will work together effectively at
emergency incidents," the two
chiefs said.
• STAFFS OF the two fire dis-
tricts, the chiefs said, will meet
on a monthly schedule "to contin-
ue to find ways to work together."
Both chiefs said their goal is to
provide quality service to the citi-
zens of the two fire districts in
the most efficient manner possi-
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said. "The fishermen have made
the biggest sacrifices of all."
Both speakers urged grass-
roots efforts to ensure that work-
able measures be taken to move
ahead with habitat restoration for
the salmon. Protecting salmon
habitat, they said, is one way to
keep Hood Canal the productive,
pure waterway it has been.
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by gift & Leslee McComb
Thursday, September 16, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page
THE GOOD WITH THE BAD
If desperate times call for
desperate measures, shouldn't
happiness be recognized with
a measure of gratitude? There
seems to be such a high ex-
pectation of health and tran-
quility on the part of human
nature that we may tend to take
these things for granted when
they prevail. When things be-
gin to go awry, however, there
is no shortage of prayer with
the intention of putting things
right. The fact is, though, that
we should take the good with
the bad, and recognize them
in equal fashion. As Kahlil
Gibran once wrote: "You pray
in your distress and in your
need; would that you might
pray in the fullness of your joy
and in your days of abun-
dance."
It is never easy to accept the
loss of someone we love. The
experience can be made more
complicated by having to make
arrangements for a burial and
service. At McCOMB FU-
NERAL HOME, we offer pre-
arranged funerals so that you
can save your loved ones from
the burden of making these
decisions. At first it might seem
difficult to consider, be we con-
sider it a loving act for your
family's sake. For further infor-
mation, call us at 703 Railroad
Avenue West (426-4803). Grief
counseling is also available.
QUOTE: "Ordinarily when a
man in difficulty turns to prayer,
he has already tried every
other means of escape."
Austin O'Malley
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