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217 W COTA ST
SHB.TON, (~ %584~3
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012
Week 38 ~ The Voice of Mason County since 1886 ~- Published for Mason County and Rob Garner of Shelto
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Shelton City Commission seeks more input on issue i regular meeting to hear tool
ments.
By GORDON WEEKS
missioners say theyreceivedlittlefeed, safe and sane" fireworks wi
,, Maxine Johnston, who ha
g°rdon@-maso:tcountv•com back on the proposed ban. Currently• mother for 30 years at 524 S. Fi:
........ -------~_.L~2 fireworks are only allowed within city
limits.on the Fourth &July• said banning the sale of firewo~/
The Shelton City Commission onBut five residents stepped to the o- one week during the entire year i
Monday postponed a decision on ban- dium at Monday's meetin ....P no sense at all." The city wiP
ning the sale and use of fireworks after melr opposition to the proposed*ban, with the mo ..... ~:oT2.],.g
~v exvress much greater challen~,~ ~',~,,~
vendors said a ban would rob them of which has been enacted in the cities of " ~ vuwerrul tirework
sales and simply send their/customers
to First Nations reservations for more L2:tY and Olym_pia. Instead of pass- chased on the reservations, she s
., "It.is ~fficult to control'peopl
potent explosives, g ne proposed ordinance on its sec- eoraung Independence Day, th~
Before Monda-'s .... ond reading, the commission decided
y meeung, the corn- to postpone the decision until its Oct.
See Fireworks on pag
@
@
Equal parts work,
play for She/ton
marchingband .....
By EMILY HANSON
emit:~:masoncou nty•cont
When Sabrina McGlothlin
was in grade school, she real-
ized what she wanted to do.
"I saw a marching band
perform and said I wanted
to do it," said McGlothlin,
now a senior at Shelton High
School. My morn said pick
EDUCATION FOCUS
Good
!
bad trend,
for county
home sale:
By GORDON WEEKS
,g~°rdo~t@rr~,a.oneoun~y t'o~l~
Real estate research
Glenn Crellin last week to
Mason Counw Realtors tht
he has seen the light.
"It's the light at the en
of the tunnel "th-
• . , ~ associat
chrector for research for t_h,
University of Washington
Runstad Center for Rea
Estate Studies told the au
dience Sept. 13 in a PUE
District 3 meeting room in
Shelton ,,¢1~ .....
• • ~,.~.,,m~) sales are
increasing, prices are in-
creasing, negative equity is
declining, all good Signs "
• He added, "But m "~
• the
hght at the end of the tun
nel a train?"
months of 2012, compared
an instrument' and I pointed to the same period in 2011.
Sales on the least expen-
at the person directing the si~e homes rose 12 percent
band and said 'I w---" - during the same period,
atlb O0
that.'" n .... while sales of homes in the
$250,000-$350,000 range
cove, ~belton senior drum m "or ~o~ ~o,o increased by 70 percent.
As the seni - band duri • • as Sabrina M • p ~ ~ ......
or drum major &the " ' • ng ~t$ halft me . cGlothhn lead •
era marchin b a ....... H~ghchmb- e ghth, a _ show on Frida . Be ___ s the marchrn The median closing price for
that goal _ an ...... ~,u~nlln nas achieved mare .gr der Madaly..nne Baker plas t~ low, Oakland Bay dunior Hi g home sales in Union/South.
hm b Y e I g
..... " g and ~:haIftime show. xy ophone during the Shelton shore increased 14 percent
~ne arum major conducts the entire band," for the first six months of
she sa~d. "The drum maior uo~n .... education.
and airect the arm,, w~ ~-~' ~,u, play a drum "Then ~- ......... " 2012 compared to the first
~_,~^,,. _ J .-.,.-vamns. _ -, , ~uveruuy 111 ~et o ;~ ..... half of 2011.
• ~v~c~,u~mm has been in l~o.,a. _.._ . school,' she s ' " o -, a,,u a~ a hlgn
m sixth grade and -~ .... ~"~ ~ace sac was a livin )" rod. If not, I wan~ to perform (for The bleaker figures in-
. ~ons warn me SH . ,g
~ng band, she is also the ...... S march McGlothlin i,~ .... elude a 35 percent foreelo-
washington All ~* ..... dr,,~ _major oI the 54 ...... 7 "~. ~,*~-person Dart Of" fh,, sure rate in Mason County
Thou~.~. 1._ "o?a~e ~v~arching Band. _~- ~w,~ua marcning band, under *'~-~ ~" --.~"" overall, and an extremely
dir~* ~s*.~ ~er pr:mary job with Shelton i.~ t, o~ ~nelton Band Director Ro-~ ,:~_v _a~recuon high 46 percent in the city
~ n~r.reHow musicians, MeOlot~d:_ - " we're a pretty bala .... ~-- ~neia.
mac play the flute a rl fh, --: - -,m can said "W ,,~vu oancl, Breakfield of Shelton. The median
the ob " . n ..... latCcalo. She la . • e have 10 flutes and cla sales price tbr a house in
_ o.e m the wind ensemble na ;~--P ys e~ght trum eta, 1 _ ,~nets, 10 sax,
or sax m the jazz band a ..... ars~ ten-and eight ~Polor'~10a~W bras~, eight percussion Hoodsport/Potlatch/Cush_
" ' maBa. dropped 22 percent,
Though the marching band is a volunteer and 'nC!oquallum/Dayton/
I hke how you can crea~e a family within band and Breakfield stresses it is not t .
the band with something as simple as s ~wauoc~: plunged 35 percent.
she said. ound of the music,,ro ........ he core . , And those 44 Mason
v ~*am a: ~helton, he said it's ~fhmg?' _ because there are five bands, six $250,000 to $350,000 the
of hMeUrS~Cfhat~ab:en~ such an inspirational part the more public face of what the music pro- you count the pit for the spring musical.'
gram does• County homes that sold for
~vict~lOthlin wants to e rn a
bachelor's degree in performance and ~usic "We always get a chuckl Breakfleld said• first six months of 2012,
asks, 'Can you get the band ~oph:~or~ams:Onee
compared to only 26 be-
, See Band on page A-6 tween January and July
20117
• Some were waterfront
............ -~ homes at $500,000 now sell.
Level 3 sex offender moves to Agate hborh dle is now the top range,
STAFF REPORT Justin ~C Shrum O ing at $350,000 ... the mid,,
prr&masoncount .co ~ " . has moved 19 " ~ ..... g ' od said]ocalWindermereReal
- ......... ua~y,eom to th~ 1800 block of E. A a 97 m^Fre~,u, CahL l-le was fo • .. Estate Broker Andy Conk-
Road. g te .convmted of unlawful sexual m;n~m¢m°ral purposes stem-
nn, who also presented sta-
The Mason County ~- ..... m, 31, ~s described as . _ w~th a minor, he . _L~ent when tistics and analysis to the
iWs O a ~ ~',=~-having brown h ' ~ stemmm~ from an i " was 25, and contacted Realtors.
ffic_ has anne mr and e e~ nc~dent un an
uncea and is , ,, Y , that occurre dercover detec" •
that level 3 sex ^w^-#^.- . 5 4 and weighs ln~ , = ,,, d when he was ~ two posing A bright spot for home-
, ,mvnuw- pounds. ~ ~--, ~o. rne victim 11 , ...... ~-~a_a 13-year-old girl buyers is that Mason Coun.
Shrllm recently moved toat the time, claimed t'h'einte;u in it:. conti,n.ued commu,mcat_ ty is still an affordable place
UII~IIII]IIIIII|I|I||||||||H Mason county and is re_. .. ^~ course was consensual. *;~ge ~hthe.undercoveraetec_ t~ to buy a house compared to
to re ster qmr=u tie was also , aau mmkin the
ga as a sex convicted m g officer
llll l l,,llllllllllllllll/ offender 2006 in Thu~s~on Cou~n! ~" was in fact a 1~ yeat~ eld -rl saue?°nndlng counties. The
" 63 .001:11... 2, ...... His first n,~es- periorCourtofthr .... ~y~u: sent photographs ot"hiL~; ~ _ eman home price w
~ee wrrenoer on page A-6 Shrum 1 . - as
.c ....... *on was in c . . e~ ~oua~s or ...... $ 56,200 during the second
ommumcatmn with a minor t: ..... Justin quarter of 2012, compared
See Housing on page A-6
Crellen has been analyz-
!ng'W__ashington home sales
aata tbr 20 years, and he of-
fered encouraging and dis-
couraging statistics state-
wide and in Mason County
at the gathering of the Ma-
son County Association of
Realtors.
• ~ The good news in Mason
bounty is that the numb
el ^~_,., er of
osvu nouse sales increased
slightly during the first six