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Belfair -- Allyn -- Grapeview -- Tahuya -- Mason Lake -- South Shore -- Victor I COunty struggles th comp plan STEDMAN COUnty officials have Several workshops the County during the seeking public in- changes to the COmprehensive plan and five workshops alternative ways Western Wash- Management invalidity claims COUnty's comprehen- the board remand- e plan back for further re- Dn. of the workshops, the coun- on the matter, we need to find plan that's support- citizens and county a plan that falls ards of the requirements." of the coun- plan that's by the Hearings following: forecast and alloca- center growth, Uses and densities es, Evans, a senior David Evans and Incorporated, is consultant. She the reasons why Ma- needs to bring its plan into corn- is a great deal of for the county," only will it allow kits to be issued and opment to fully comprehensive result in a lot of coming to Mason for clean water she cited. two population Presented to atten- only one The com- an high series calls COunty residents Lat would include asing units, with proposal that Was the medium all for 25,344 new That plan pre- new units tobe per house. and their con- three options growth (based on All three options called for ur- ban growth in Shelton at 6,640 new residents with Belfair adding 3,548 new residents by 2014. Where most citizens objected was the suggested Fully Contained Community (FCC), which was set at 4,000 in two options and 8,000 in the other. According to McCormick, a Fully Contained Community was created by the Growth Manage- ment Act to accommodate new communities like Snoqualmie Ridge, where the community lit- erally sprang up in the middle of nowhere. STATE SENATOR Tim Shel- don totally disagreed with the en- tire FCC concept for Mason Coun- ty. "I was driving back from East- ern Washington recently and I stopped by Snoqualmie Ridge," said Sheldon. "There are millions of dollars worth of houses and in- frastructure in that community. And I can't conceive of anything like this happening in Mason County." Though the county has a long way to go on the topic of compre- hensive plan validity, the com- pliance effort has a schedule for meeting that goal. As a follow-up to the five public meetings, county officials have set the following schedule: • October 11: bj'iefing with the planning commission. • OCTOBER 25: meet with elected officials. • November 8: planning commis- sion workshop. • November 15: tentative League of Women Voters-chambers of commerce sponsored countywide workshop. * December: planning commis- sion meeting and public hearing on. draft plan and development regulations. The planning com- mission makes a recommenda- tion. No date set. • JANUARY 2000: board of commissioners will hold a mini- workshop on draft plan and de- velopment regulations. No date set. • Also, the board of commission- ers will hold a public workshop. No date set. • February 2000: No dates have been set for another board of com- missioners public hearing, work session with the board of commis- sioners, or a board of commission- ers vote. • March 2000: The Mason Coun- ty Comprehensive Plan will be re- submitted to the Western Wash- ington Growth Management Hearings Board for approval. "s gets laptop Sar- and an en- thank for it. "Friends of been set up at Federal closed, its Elementary leukemia, and foa desire for a lap- r the time when he has a bone marrow transplant. He will use it to do schoolwork and to keep in touch with friends by e-mail. "We are so thankful that our community is so generous," said his morn, Cathy. "This has been so wonderful. Words cannot ex- press how we truly feel inside. We are overwhelmed with the kind- ness of others." Starting kindergarten Richard and Pamela Buckner accompanied their only child, Ricky, to school on his first day. The Bel- fair Elementary student is in the morning class taught by Mrs. Marilyn Champa. "I'm really happy for him. I just wish I could stay and play with him all day," said his proud father. Mom, meanwhile, video camera in hand, was carefully timing her tears for the trip home. Clinic to close By LINDA THOMSON Dr. Michael J. Butler, THE Belfair doctor for most of his 20 years in North Mason, has re- signed himself to moving his practice out of North Mason and to Port Orchard. Clinic adminis- trators have set Thursday, Sep- tember 30, as the last day for ser- vice in the Belfair Doctors Clinic. Dr. Butler will see patients in the Port Orchard clinic beginning Monday, October 4. "I've looked into all these other options," Butler said, "and I just can't do it. The obvious choice would be to go into practice by myself. But I can't do that and have a satisfactory family life, tOO." The family practice/geriatrics specialist has had many discus- sions with his wife Lisa about the various alternate routes. But his own decision has been the family- honoring choice. His stepchildren have just a few years left at home, and he knows it is vital to be present and to support them in their activities. "I made that mis- take early on," he stated openly, "of spending too much time on medicine and not enough on fami- ly." He has vowed not to repeat the error. BUTLER'S ENTIRE practice has been at the clinic in Belfair. Because of the corporate struc- ture, he has not had to concern himself with the finances, in- surance, or finding someone to fill in or be on call for him when he's not able to be there. Lab work and referrals have been simpli- fied by the 48-physician complex, as well. Setting up such a structure would cost him time. That time would mean either a reduction in patients he could serve, or a loss of family contact time. Neither are acceptable to him. But moving the practice from Belfair to Port Orchard is not something he looks forward to, he has indicated. He is saddened over professionally leaving the North Mason community, and knowing some patients will not be able to travel to the Kitsap Coun- ty location for their doctoring needs. In addition to the doctor, the clinic also employs a nurse, a lab/x-ray person, a patient service representative, and a half-time medical records person. Those four people not only have to deal with leaving the clients they have come to know and care about, but some may be without jobs, de- pending upon seniority within the clinic structure. They, like Butler, are also having to explain the ad- ministrative decision of CEO Linda Brown to patient after pa- tient, day after day. IT IS TAKING its emotional toll on the employees. They are seeing those they serve react with grief in its vario:s manifesta- tions. Several patients have at- tempted to intervene on behalf of the doctor and their access to medical care in their own commu- nity. Hopes of having an effect on the decision-makers in Bremerton have turned to a sorrowful reali- zation of the reality of the move. Meanwhile, the staff is left try- ing to put on happy faces and be verbally supportive of the move that they believe in their hearts is wrong. WASL is new standard for testing students By LINDA THOMSON The Washington Assessment of Student Learning, or WASL (pro- nounced "wassle'), will be con- ducted annually on fourth-, sev- enth- and tenth-graders through- out the state. The fourth-grade groups have had test results for three years now, the seventh for two, and 1999 is the first year that tenth-grade results have been released. The tests were phased in, one age group per year, beginning with the younger students. The WASL should now be given each year to each of the three grades of students. "The tests do not have consequences for individual stu- dents," said Dr. Marie Pickel, North Mason's superintendent. "What they do is assess the dis- trict for the percentage meeting or not meeting mastery." She also stated that there are no conse- quences for school districts, eith- er, at least not at this time. By next year, when the spring 2000 scores are released, the first follow-up of the 1997 fourth-grade group will be possible, when those students are tested as seventh- graders. Of course there are a number of families moving in and out of the area each year, so even following one group does not mean the same exact students are being tested. MEANWHILE, scores for the various groups may be compared with caution. The 1997, 1998 and 1999 fourth-graders were, of course, different students each year. Nevertheless, the North Mason School District fourth- graders' reading scores have gone from 57.6 percent to 66 percent to 68.9 percent over the past three years. Those percentages represent the number of fourth-graders (more than 95 percent of them were tested) who met the stan- dard, or showed work at their re- spective grade level. "There is no question in our minds," said Dr. Debbie Wing, assistant superin- tendent, "that reading is the foun- dation to success in all subject areas, and that without that foun- dation, students are literally crippled." Wing described the "significant focus" that the school district con- tinues to have on reading, for both staff training and curricu- lum development, at all grade lev- els. Teachers have also been working hard to organize their teaching with a clear focus on the Washington State Essential Aca- demic Learning Requirements (EALRs), Wing indicated. The state has had all school districts study their 1997 and 1998 results for fourth-grade reading, and then set goals to re- duce the number of students not meeting standard by at least 25 percent over the next three years. THOSE MEETING the state standard in the fourth-grade reading tests at Grapeview were 15.8 percent, 37.5 percent, then 64.3 percent over the past three years. "It appears that we are get- ting better in our teaching," said Jim Snyder, Grapeview superin- tendent/principal, with caution, "but you can't compare classes. Each class has its own personali- ty." Snyder also explained that, un- like other standardized tests, very few students are exempted. In other words, all GSD students participated, including special ed- ucation students. Those absent took the tests on make-up days. Numbers of Grapeview students in the fourth grade who were test- ed each of the past three years were 19, 16, and 28. With such small numbers, even just a few can show a change in the percent- ages, Snyder said. Seventh-graders at North Ma- son's Hawkins Middle School showed 44.4 percent meeting the standard for reading in 1998, dropping to 38.6 percent in 1999. The percentage of students tested each year were 98.9, then 93.5. Grapeview's seventh-graders' reading scores dropped from 47.6 percent to 40 percent from 1998 to 1999, with all students (21 and 26) taking the tests. "WE DIDN'T do as well as what we had hoped for in our sev- enth-grade scores," said Snyder. "The middle-school teachers had a momentary concern the day the scores came out, and then they immediately began preparations for a team effort to approach the new class of seventh-grade stu- dents." The 1999 tenth-grade reading score showed 42.1 percent of NMSD students meeting the state standard. In mathematics, the NMSD fourth-graders' scores have gone from 22 percent to 29.7 percent to 43.5 percent of students who were on grade level. "While far from where we want them to be," said Wing, "the curriculum and changes teachers are making at the elementary level are paying off in results. Everyday Math is an expensive but effective, con- sumable curriculum." At Grapeview, the fourth-grad- ers who made the standard went from 5.3 percent to zero percent to 35.7 percent. Snyder was quick to point out that a numerical score of 400 had been set for "standard." The majority of his students in 1999 had scores above 350, he said, yet coming close to the standard is still reported as not making it. MATH SCORES for seventh- graders at NMHS were 12.9 per- cent meeting the standard in 1998, then 22.4 percent. "They were extremely poor, made a sig- nificant increase, but are still horrible," Wing commented about the scores at the August school board meeting. She explained that math is more than mere computation. Kids are tested on algebra and ge- ometry concepts, possibilities and measurements. In addition to do- ing the arithmetic, students need to know why, and to be able to demonstrate that knowledge. "The tests are rigorous, as we believe they should be," said Wing. "North Mason endorses these higher standards." Math scores at GSD for sev- enth-graders was 38.1 percent in 1998, dropping to only 8 percent meeting the state standard in 1999. TENTH-GRADERS at NM, with 89.1 percent of the students taking the test, showed only 27.1 percent of them making the stan- dard in 1999. Scores were also released on the skill of listening, but the writ- ing scores for all school districts are being recalculated by the state, and will be shared at a lat- er date. Snyder said, "Judging a school or a teacher on one set of scores is not realistic." Wing concluded, "The world has changed, the rules have changed and our schools must rise to meet new challenges:'The essential academic learning re- quirements, the new state tests and the information derived from these tests represent a solid start and a starting point. We will get better and our kids will learn more - student by student, school by school, year by year.  WASL Results: % of students who met or exceeded standards 1997 1998 1999 1999 State Avg. NMSD Grade 4 Mathematics 22% 29.7% 43.5% 37.3% Reading 57.6% 66% 68.9% 59.1% Writing 48.6% 28.9% NA Listening ' 71.2% 74.8% 78% 71.1% NMSD Grade 7 Mathematics 12.9% 22.4% 24.2% Reading 44.4% 38.6% 40.8% Writing 33.1% NA Listening 88.2% 85.6% 87.2% NMSD Grade 10 Mathematics 27.1% 33.0% Reading 42.1% 51.4% Writing NA Listening 72.4% 72.6% Grapeview Grade 4 Mathematics 5.3% 0% 35.7% 37.3% Reading 15.8% 37.5% 64.3% 59.1% Listening 57.9% 62.5% 78.6% 71.1% Grapeview Grade 7 Mathematics 38.1% 8% 24.2% Reading 47.6% 40% 40.8% Listening 90.5% 96% 87.2% Power outage Sunday -,,,,,,,h'"' benefits scouts nouncedMas°nthatC°untYa powerPUD 3 hasoutagean.is affected.Six hours. Ten customers will be --¢Jommumry calendar available scheduled for Sunday, September The Belfair Cooperative Pre- schoolers' families were the pre- program for years. 1786 will hold either the 5 p.m. or 7 p.m. seat- 19, which will affect customers at The purpose of this outage is to school has sold a Community dominant listings in the calendar, The co,op first started, accord- td Magic Show ing. Mail a check to Girl Scout the intersection of Highway 3 and upgrade PUD 3 facilities so the Birthday Calendar each year for and they would stage a photo to ing to Logan, when former BCBC 2, at Theler Troop 1786, P.O. Box 1972, Bel- Clifton Lane in Belfair. Washington Department of the past 11 years. The millennial go on the top: in a hay wagon, on pastor, Wendell Harder, request- fair, 98528, or call Carol at 275- The outage will begin at 10 Transportation can install a stop- edition, thought teacher Karen a farm, with a fire truck, and last ed that Olympic College bring its are suggested for 9547, or Tricia at 372-2630. p.m. and last for approximately light at this intersection. Logan, should be special, year, at the Theler gate. program to Belfair in the 1960s to The calendar has been an an- For the 2000 calendar. Logan fill the need for greater parenting show Saturday at Two Bears nual project of the preschool. For envisions amuchlarger group skills. Logan has taught the $5, a person may pre-purchase a photo. They are inviting all form- group for 20 years, and Jeanne calendar and submit names on er members of the Belfair Co-op Orchard taught both before and certain dates for birthdays and Preschool class to come back for a with her, she indicated. and reception will artists during the show. hansen, Webb Hammond, Judith works depicting wildlife, land- anniversaries of family members, large group photo. Rex-Zane Ru- Some families are into the sec- September Well over a dozen artists will Ann, Arlene Egan, Megan Drew, scapes, Native American themes, All names will be printed, and the dee of Hudson Photography is end generation of co-op preschool and Gal- be participating in the event, all Darrell Durbin and Dave Sharer, plus iron work, flintknapping, calendar arrives, giving one spe- scheduled, once again, to take the members, and the teacher looks End Drive, from Mason and surrounding plus several others. Media repre- turquoise jewelry and much more. cial dates for their own family, picture. On Sunday, October 17, forward to this reunion gathering. will be from counties, according to Roger Gil- sented will be oil, watercolor, pen- Custom matting and framing will and for others in the community, at 1 p.m., the preschoolers and People should bring their $5 and with a recep- liam, owner of the new gallery, cil, textile, basket, multi-media also be available, as well. Hence the name: Commu- graduates of all ages will gather be prepared to fill out the paper- 3 p.m. There The show will include North and more. For more information, contact nity Birthday Calendar! at Belfair Community Baptist work which will be available that by several Mason artists Gilliam, Carol Jo- Those who attend will see Gilliam at (360) 277-0423. In past years, usually the pre- Church, which has housed the day. Belfair -- Allyn -- Grapeview -- Tahuya -- Mason Lake -- South Shore -- Victor I COunty struggles th comp plan STEDMAN COUnty officials have Several workshops the County during the seeking public in- changes to the COmprehensive plan and five workshops alternative ways Western Wash- Management invalidity claims COUnty's comprehen- the board remand- e plan back for further re- Dn. of the workshops, the coun- on the matter, we need to find plan that's support- citizens and county a plan that falls ards of the requirements." of the coun- plan that's by the Hearings following: forecast and alloca- center growth, Uses and densities es, Evans, a senior David Evans and Incorporated, is consultant. She the reasons why Ma- needs to bring its plan into corn- is a great deal of for the county," only will it allow kits to be issued and opment to fully comprehensive result in a lot of coming to Mason for clean water she cited. two population Presented to atten- only one The com- an high series calls COunty residents Lat would include asing units, with proposal that Was the medium all for 25,344 new That plan pre- new units tobe per house. and their con- three options growth (based on All three options called for ur- ban growth in Shelton at 6,640 new residents with Belfair adding 3,548 new residents by 2014. Where most citizens objected was the suggested Fully Contained Community (FCC), which was set at 4,000 in two options and 8,000 in the other. According to McCormick, a Fully Contained Community was created by the Growth Manage- ment Act to accommodate new communities like Snoqualmie Ridge, where the community lit- erally sprang up in the middle of nowhere. STATE SENATOR Tim Shel- don totally disagreed with the en- tire FCC concept for Mason Coun- ty. "I was driving back from East- ern Washington recently and I stopped by Snoqualmie Ridge," said Sheldon. "There are millions of dollars worth of houses and in- frastructure in that community. And I can't conceive of anything like this happening in Mason County." Though the county has a long way to go on the topic of compre- hensive plan validity, the com- pliance effort has a schedule for meeting that goal. As a follow-up to the five public meetings, county officials have set the following schedule: • October 11: bj'iefing with the planning commission. • OCTOBER 25: meet with elected officials. • November 8: planning commis- sion workshop. • November 15: tentative League of Women Voters-chambers of commerce sponsored countywide workshop. * December: planning commis- sion meeting and public hearing on. draft plan and development regulations. The planning com- mission makes a recommenda- tion. No date set. • JANUARY 2000: board of commissioners will hold a mini- workshop on draft plan and de- velopment regulations. No date set. • Also, the board of commission- ers will hold a public workshop. No date set. • February 2000: No dates have been set for another board of com- missioners public hearing, work session with the board of commis- sioners, or a board of commission- ers vote. • March 2000: The Mason Coun- ty Comprehensive Plan will be re- submitted to the Western Wash- ington Growth Management Hearings Board for approval. "s gets laptop Sar- and an en- thank for it. "Friends of been set up at Federal closed, its Elementary leukemia, and foa desire for a lap- r the time when he has a bone marrow transplant. He will use it to do schoolwork and to keep in touch with friends by e-mail. "We are so thankful that our community is so generous," said his morn, Cathy. "This has been so wonderful. Words cannot ex- press how we truly feel inside. We are overwhelmed with the kind- ness of others." Starting kindergarten Richard and Pamela Buckner accompanied their only child, Ricky, to school on his first day. The Bel- fair Elementary student is in the morning class taught by Mrs. Marilyn Champa. "I'm really happy for him. I just wish I could stay and play with him all day," said his proud father. Mom, meanwhile, video camera in hand, was carefully timing her tears for the trip home. Clinic to close By LINDA THOMSON Dr. Michael J. Butler, THE Belfair doctor for most of his 20 years in North Mason, has re- signed himself to moving his practice out of North Mason and to Port Orchard. Clinic adminis- trators have set Thursday, Sep- tember 30, as the last day for ser- vice in the Belfair Doctors Clinic. Dr. Butler will see patients in the Port Orchard clinic beginning Monday, October 4. "I've looked into all these other options," Butler said, "and I just can't do it. The obvious choice would be to go into practice by myself. But I can't do that and have a satisfactory family life, tOO." The family practice/geriatrics specialist has had many discus- sions with his wife Lisa about the various alternate routes. But his own decision has been the family- honoring choice. His stepchildren have just a few years left at home, and he knows it is vital to be present and to support them in their activities. "I made that mis- take early on," he stated openly, "of spending too much time on medicine and not enough on fami- ly." He has vowed not to repeat the error. BUTLER'S ENTIRE practice has been at the clinic in Belfair. Because of the corporate struc- ture, he has not had to concern himself with the finances, in- surance, or finding someone to fill in or be on call for him when he's not able to be there. Lab work and referrals have been simpli- fied by the 48-physician complex, as well. Setting up such a structure would cost him time. That time would mean either a reduction in patients he could serve, or a loss of family contact time. Neither are acceptable to him. But moving the practice from Belfair to Port Orchard is not something he looks forward to, he has indicated. He is saddened over professionally leaving the North Mason community, and knowing some patients will not be able to travel to the Kitsap Coun- ty location for their doctoring needs. In addition to the doctor, the clinic also employs a nurse, a lab/x-ray person, a patient service representative, and a half-time medical records person. Those four people not only have to deal with leaving the clients they have come to know and care about, but some may be without jobs, de- pending upon seniority within the clinic structure. They, like Butler, are also having to explain the ad- ministrative decision of CEO Linda Brown to patient after pa- tient, day after day. IT IS TAKING its emotional toll on the employees. They are seeing those they serve react with grief in its vario:s manifesta- tions. Several patients have at- tempted to intervene on behalf of the doctor and their access to medical care in their own commu- nity. Hopes of having an effect on the decision-makers in Bremerton have turned to a sorrowful reali- zation of the reality of the move. Meanwhile, the staff is left try- ing to put on happy faces and be verbally supportive of the move that they believe in their hearts is wrong. WASL is new standard for testing students By LINDA THOMSON The Washington Assessment of Student Learning, or WASL (pro- nounced "wassle'), will be con- ducted annually on fourth-, sev- enth- and tenth-graders through- out the state. The fourth-grade groups have had test results for three years now, the seventh for two, and 1999 is the first year that tenth-grade results have been released. The tests were phased in, one age group per year, beginning with the younger students. The WASL should now be given each year to each of the three grades of students. "The tests do not have consequences for individual stu- dents," said Dr. Marie Pickel, North Mason's superintendent. "What they do is assess the dis- trict for the percentage meeting or not meeting mastery." She also stated that there are no conse- quences for school districts, eith- er, at least not at this time. By next year, when the spring 2000 scores are released, the first follow-up of the 1997 fourth-grade group will be possible, when those students are tested as seventh- graders. Of course there are a number of families moving in and out of the area each year, so even following one group does not mean the same exact students are being tested. MEANWHILE, scores for the various groups may be compared with caution. The 1997, 1998 and 1999 fourth-graders were, of course, different students each year. Nevertheless, the North Mason School District fourth- graders' reading scores have gone from 57.6 percent to 66 percent to 68.9 percent over the past three years. Those percentages represent the number of fourth-graders (more than 95 percent of them were tested) who met the stan- dard, or showed work at their re- spective grade level. "There is no question in our minds," said Dr. Debbie Wing, assistant superin- tendent, "that reading is the foun- dation to success in all subject areas, and that without that foun- dation, students are literally crippled." Wing described the "significant focus" that the school district con- tinues to have on reading, for both staff training and curricu- lum development, at all grade lev- els. Teachers have also been working hard to organize their teaching with a clear focus on the Washington State Essential Aca- demic Learning Requirements (EALRs), Wing indicated. The state has had all school districts study their 1997 and 1998 results for fourth-grade reading, and then set goals to re- duce the number of students not meeting standard by at least 25 percent over the next three years. THOSE MEETING the state standard in the fourth-grade reading tests at Grapeview were 15.8 percent, 37.5 percent, then 64.3 percent over the past three years. "It appears that we are get- ting better in our teaching," said Jim Snyder, Grapeview superin- tendent/principal, with caution, "but you can't compare classes. Each class has its own personali- ty." Snyder also explained that, un- like other standardized tests, very few students are exempted. In other words, all GSD students participated, including special ed- ucation students. Those absent took the tests on make-up days. Numbers of Grapeview students in the fourth grade who were test- ed each of the past three years were 19, 16, and 28. With such small numbers, even just a few can show a change in the percent- ages, Snyder said. Seventh-graders at North Ma- son's Hawkins Middle School showed 44.4 percent meeting the standard for reading in 1998, dropping to 38.6 percent in 1999. The percentage of students tested each year were 98.9, then 93.5. Grapeview's seventh-graders' reading scores dropped from 47.6 percent to 40 percent from 1998 to 1999, with all students (21 and 26) taking the tests. "WE DIDN'T do as well as what we had hoped for in our sev- enth-grade scores," said Snyder. "The middle-school teachers had a momentary concern the day the scores came out, and then they immediately began preparations for a team effort to approach the new class of seventh-grade stu- dents." The 1999 tenth-grade reading score showed 42.1 percent of NMSD students meeting the state standard. In mathematics, the NMSD fourth-graders' scores have gone from 22 percent to 29.7 percent to 43.5 percent of students who were on grade level. "While far from where we want them to be," said Wing, "the curriculum and changes teachers are making at the elementary level are paying off in results. Everyday Math is an expensive but effective, con- sumable curriculum." At Grapeview, the fourth-grad- ers who made the standard went from 5.3 percent to zero percent to 35.7 percent. Snyder was quick to point out that a numerical score of 400 had been set for "standard." The majority of his students in 1999 had scores above 350, he said, yet coming close to the standard is still reported as not making it. MATH SCORES for seventh- graders at NMHS were 12.9 per- cent meeting the standard in 1998, then 22.4 percent. "They were extremely poor, made a sig- nificant increase, but are still horrible," Wing commented about the scores at the August school board meeting. She explained that math is more than mere computation. Kids are tested on algebra and ge- ometry concepts, possibilities and measurements. In addition to do- ing the arithmetic, students need to know why, and to be able to demonstrate that knowledge. "The tests are rigorous, as we believe they should be," said Wing. "North Mason endorses these higher standards." Math scores at GSD for sev- enth-graders was 38.1 percent in 1998, dropping to only 8 percent meeting the state standard in 1999. TENTH-GRADERS at NM, with 89.1 percent of the students taking the test, showed only 27.1 percent of them making the stan- dard in 1999. Scores were also released on the skill of listening, but the writ- ing scores for all school districts are being recalculated by the state, and will be shared at a lat- er date. Snyder said, "Judging a school or a teacher on one set of scores is not realistic." Wing concluded, "The world has changed, the rules have changed and our schools must rise to meet new challenges:'The essential academic learning re- quirements, the new state tests and the information derived from these tests represent a solid start and a starting point. We will get better and our kids will learn more - student by student, school by school, year by year.  WASL Results: % of students who met or exceeded standards 1997 1998 1999 1999 State Avg. NMSD Grade 4 Mathematics 22% 29.7% 43.5% 37.3% Reading 57.6% 66% 68.9% 59.1% Writing 48.6% 28.9% NA Listening ' 71.2% 74.8% 78% 71.1% NMSD Grade 7 Mathematics 12.9% 22.4% 24.2% Reading 44.4% 38.6% 40.8% Writing 33.1% NA Listening 88.2% 85.6% 87.2% NMSD Grade 10 Mathematics 27.1% 33.0% Reading 42.1% 51.4% Writing NA Listening 72.4% 72.6% Grapeview Grade 4 Mathematics 5.3% 0% 35.7% 37.3% Reading 15.8% 37.5% 64.3% 59.1% Listening 57.9% 62.5% 78.6% 71.1% Grapeview Grade 7 Mathematics 38.1% 8% 24.2% Reading 47.6% 40% 40.8% Listening 90.5% 96% 87.2% Power outage Sunday -,,,,,,,h'"' benefits scouts nouncedMas°nthatC°untYa powerPUD 3 hasoutagean.is affected.Six hours. Ten customers will be --¢Jommumry calendar available scheduled for Sunday, September The Belfair Cooperative Pre- schoolers' families were the pre- program for years. 1786 will hold either the 5 p.m. or 7 p.m. seat- 19, which will affect customers at The purpose of this outage is to school has sold a Community dominant listings in the calendar, The co,op first started, accord- td Magic Show ing. Mail a check to Girl Scout the intersection of Highway 3 and upgrade PUD 3 facilities so the Birthday Calendar each year for and they would stage a photo to ing to Logan, when former BCBC 2, at Theler Troop 1786, P.O. Box 1972, Bel- Clifton Lane in Belfair. Washington Department of the past 11 years. The millennial go on the top: in a hay wagon, on pastor, Wendell Harder, request- fair, 98528, or call Carol at 275- The outage will begin at 10 Transportation can install a stop- edition, thought teacher Karen a farm, with a fire truck, and last ed that Olympic College bring its are suggested for 9547, or Tricia at 372-2630. p.m. and last for approximately light at this intersection. Logan, should be special, year, at the Theler gate. program to Belfair in the 1960s to The calendar has been an an- For the 2000 calendar. Logan fill the need for greater parenting show Saturday at Two Bears nual project of the preschool. For envisions amuchlarger group skills. Logan has taught the $5, a person may pre-purchase a photo. They are inviting all form- group for 20 years, and Jeanne calendar and submit names on er members of the Belfair Co-op Orchard taught both before and certain dates for birthdays and Preschool class to come back for a with her, she indicated. and reception will artists during the show. hansen, Webb Hammond, Judith works depicting wildlife, land- anniversaries of family members, large group photo. Rex-Zane Ru- Some families are into the sec- September Well over a dozen artists will Ann, Arlene Egan, Megan Drew, scapes, Native American themes, All names will be printed, and the dee of Hudson Photography is end generation of co-op preschool and Gal- be participating in the event, all Darrell Durbin and Dave Sharer, plus iron work, flintknapping, calendar arrives, giving one spe- scheduled, once again, to take the members, and the teacher looks End Drive, from Mason and surrounding plus several others. Media repre- turquoise jewelry and much more. cial dates for their own family, picture. On Sunday, October 17, forward to this reunion gathering. will be from counties, according to Roger Gil- sented will be oil, watercolor, pen- Custom matting and framing will and for others in the community, at 1 p.m., the preschoolers and People should bring their $5 and with a recep- liam, owner of the new gallery, cil, textile, basket, multi-media also be available, as well. Hence the name: Commu- graduates of all ages will gather be prepared to fill out the paper- 3 p.m. There The show will include North and more. For more information, contact nity Birthday Calendar! at Belfair Community Baptist work which will be available that by several Mason artists Gilliam, Carol Jo- Those who attend will see Gilliam at (360) 277-0423. In past years, usually the pre- Church, which has housed the day.