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Artist Valley designs
TrUmped-uP,t job t°, +s no co winning MGH poster
quiet up till now. barring him from approaching
speak up and say from
,rsonal observation
of the county com-
trumped_up job of
property on
la 1997 my son Guy
me and asked,
Come out and give
of the job the
Gold) is doing out
did. I have been
t member of the Op-
for 52 years
about rigging and
because Ive done
at that Mickey
did and told Guy,
Over half of the cable
and not
didn't they dig a
anchor that mess
put the cable
ing tree for an
eventually kill
will pull it up. I told
will never hold,
talk about sub-
Work. That's an under-
With SOme of the peo-
in the Skok Valley
why Mr.
work on the riv-
out that Mr. Gold
°mmissioner Mary
and Commissioner
r's brother working
to say more?
U.S. Army Corps
nd the hydrologist
Tribe called
ard Work, they said a
say (I quote
Parsons are
COOperate with us."
tracks they are
All Guy wanted is
to come in and
.not SOme county en-
who is not a
I don't think he
knows if the river is
north, south or east or
they do now in con-
they are
If they con-
'Property, they can do it
the three stooges.
to me are a bunch of
any county staff working within
the river's banks.
I went to the trial and was
wondering why the public works
department sent one man (Rich
Geiger), not two to do surveying
or measuring by himself on a riv-
er bank that is very dangerous.
I'll tell you what I think. Rich
Geiger went upstream to Guy's
neighbor and came on down to
Guy's (that's where the job is) and
Guy said Geiger was on his prop-
erty without his permission. Geig-
er in court said he wasn't on
Guy's property. So as far as I'm
concerned, it's a case of "he said,
she said" and never should have
gone to court. It was a waste of
taxpayers' money and a trumped-
up job.
When they say something is
rotten in Denmark, I think they
also should say it is rotten in the
county commissioners' chambers.
I forgot to mention that Guy
has also received phone calls that
said, 'Your house can burn real
good" and "You have a beautiful
little daughter." Now that is very,
very sick. I know there are sickos
in" and out of governments.
I'm writing this letter just to
let the public know what is going
on, that they don't or can't print
in The Journal or maybe they
don't know.
But you know who the real cul-
prit is, it's Simpson Logging Com-
pany, U.S. Forest Service and the
county. In the last 50 years the
gravel has been coming down
from the clearcutting and the
roads they put in and don't main-
tain and it has built up so high,
some of the river bars are as high
or higher than the farm land and
full of stumps, logs, etc. which
end up in the canal, causing a
safety hazard for boaters.
Now one neighbor is fighting
the other neighbor with all the
lies going on. What I would like to
see happen is for" all of them to
get together and get a class-action
suit against all three of the cul-
prits.
The river has been studied
enough; it is time for action.
J:L. (Joe) Parsons Jr.
Shelton
Mason General Hospital Foun-
dation has announced the winner
of its 1999 Fantasy Forest poster
contest.
William R. (Bill) Valley, whose
Shelton roots are a lifetime deep,
won the contest with a color pho-
tograph of Christmas ornaments
and decorations displayed on a
bed of evergreens.
His creation, said Fantasy For-
est co-chairperson Nancy Truck-
sess, best depicted the 1999 Fan-
tasy Forest theme "Holiday
Magic." Trucksess shares the
chairmanship of this year's Fan- :
tasy Forest gala with Graham
Thomas of the hospital's develop-
ment office.
Bill Valley's work was selected :
from several entries by other .....
county artists. The photograph
will serve as the backdrop for the
posters and cover art for the hos-
pital foundation's annual fund-
raising series of gala events that
will run from November 18 to 20
this year. "They absolutely trans-
form the hospital," commented
Karen Burger, publicist for Fan-
tasy Forest.
The three-day run of events in-
cludes children's activities, auc-
tions and celebrations featuring
holiday cuisine.
The proceeds benefit new
equipment at Mason General
Hospital, North Mason Medical
Clinic and Oakland Bay Pedia-
trics.
Valley's design won't be con-
fined to paper, either. A local jew-
eler has translated his design into
a pin in the shape of a holiday
bough ornamented with jewels. A
limited issue of signed and
numbered prints will also be
made.
ARTIST BILL VALLEY holds the Christmas-tree-orna.
mented format he designed for this year's Fantasy
Forest posters. Admiring the design are (left) Fantasy
Forest co-chairperson Nancy Trucksess and Karen
Burger, the event's publicist.
State shuffleboard
event set for S0000eltc,n
Hordes of highly competitive
shuffleboard players from across
Washington State are poised to
descend on Shelton in a little
more than a month.
times involved. "I have seen it as
much as $5,000," Hohn said of the
prize money. "Will it be that
high? I don't know. It depends on
how many show up." The prize
"People like to come to Shelton
because there's a lot of things to
do," she said.
COMPETITION IN the state
championship tournament will
vhy was it Mr. The Fir Cone Tavern in down- money comes from entry fees. start at 7 p.m. Friday, November
the motion town Shelton will be the site of Teams will pay $100 for the right 5. Hohn figures the final game
the property and this year s Washington State to compete. The competition is won't be completed until early on
serious stuff indeed.
d the motion and Shuffleboard Championship. Up- Shuffleboard has long been a the morning of Monday, Novem-
.hat'indy is' Olsen)olsen s' wentdm_, wardSare expected°f 120 competitorSto take part,°r mOresaid staple of taverns, along with pool berlast 8.fijrThat'Sas longbecaUSeas sixgameShours,Canhe
' tables and pinball games. Sur- said. There will be singles and
n t she make the CotaMel Hohn,street tavern.°Wner Hohn°f thesaidWestto prisingly, a good 30 percent, and doubles competition, including
r Wants that prop- _ , ..... __ his knowledge the event, sched- probably 40 percent, of the,people brackets for intermediate and
they buy all of it What s ne expresuu uled for the weekend of November who play shuffleboard don t even pro-le_v, el players as well as a
ould sell all at fair used to describe jake 5-7, is a first for Shelton. drink, Hohn said. women s bracket.
The game also transcends so- Hohn said he's still in the mid-
*ecause it s no good brakes? Back in the 1960s, the state cial barriers. "We have business dle of planning for the big event.
t!e else if they don't championship for the popular tav- owners, corporate executives; we
he river. Air on the side of caution, ern game used to be held in the have bums," Hohn said. "The in- [rophies are being ordered and
rence to the coun- Kelso-Longview area and drew teresting thing is, they're all will be awarded to the top two
thousands of teams, Hohn told friends• We ve got a couple of re- places in all divisions.
nty extends its The Journal. Butthepopularity tired copswhoplay, asamatter OldeTowneSheltonAssocia-
• of that event waned and it was offhct." tion Director Debbie Webber
" eventually canceled• In the past The Fir Cone is home to two or broke the news about the event
four to five years, shuffleboard three shuffleboard tournaments a this week. She was excited by the
Servancy listing enthusiasts havebeenworkingtO year, said Hohn's wife, Jeanette. prospects ofseveralhundredvisi-
revive the state championship. Those events draw people from as tors coming to the old town, she
Totten Skookum HIGH STAKES are some- far away as Canada and Oregon. said.
9
County commis-
a public hearing
their August
extend the conser-
ation for Totten
inlets for
prehensive plan, he said. The
designation will be effective un-
til August 26, 2000.
Diane Cooper, representing
Taylor Shellfish Farms, spoke
in support of the extension. She
said the company has signifi-
cant clam resources in the area
which could be threatened by in-
tensive or increased develop-
ment. It's a special area which
requires unique and special con-
sideration consistent with the
Shoreline Master Program,
Cooper noted. She was the only
person to testify at the hearing.
REGISTRATION
UNDERWAY
ot
OLYMPIC COLLEGE SHELTON
Because
YOUR FUTURE
can't wait.
Credit Classes:
FALL QUARTER
September 27-December 17
CA NO
ItAVA
designation
for eight six-
and one 12-
March 1993,
Allan Borden
extension is
a review of the
ne Master Pro-
and found
the county's corn-
Ka00aoke
Great Prizes !or pros and amateurs,
) Frlda
Doors open at 7:30pm
$5 admission includes
one:S5 i
Celebrity judges will award prizes based on talent,
appearance, stage presence, and audience response.
1!
HOG FEED
HIGHLAND HOG
ill I l II I fill I l III l|ll.l-Ul
50 Ibs
3.99
:T
105171
FALL
TRUE
VALUES
ROLLED RATION
t04497
50 Ibs+
4.39
PURINA PET FOODS
DOG FOOD
PRIDE
40 lb. bag
®
18% prolein
yoUR
CHOICE
8.49
CAT FOOD
DEALER'S PRIDE
N
l)liA I.I!II'S
lq{IDl00
20 Ib bog
BIRD FOOD
Bonus bag -
buy
20 Ibs+,
get 5 Ibs.
FREEI
25 Ib,
bag
3.99
WOODSTOVE
PELLETS
Highesl quoli b,
wood pellels
Minimum 50 bag purchase+
SUPER -' ING ALFRED 7
wm'r,mzER I [DAFFODILS /
I | : - +" " ' ] Flower
": " .' " .; Pure
/ /• v tot/ .;'] wi)h
--- ]" orange
/12.00o/ :::+1
I I / LARGE I
Rich U
ll:,do,, L CUP i
FALL GARDEN SHADE TREE
MUMS CLEARANCE
136
30% OFF
25%
OFF
ANY
WEBER
BBQ
THREE DAYS ONLY
FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
First & Mill, Shelton
426-4373 or 426-2411
Monday-Saturday 7:30-7
Sunday 9-6
Thursday, September 23, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 5
Artist Valley designs
TrUmped-uP,t job t°, +s no co winning MGH poster
quiet up till now. barring him from approaching
speak up and say from
,rsonal observation
of the county com-
trumped_up job of
property on
la 1997 my son Guy
me and asked,
Come out and give
of the job the
Gold) is doing out
did. I have been
t member of the Op-
for 52 years
about rigging and
because Ive done
at that Mickey
did and told Guy,
Over half of the cable
and not
didn't they dig a
anchor that mess
put the cable
ing tree for an
eventually kill
will pull it up. I told
will never hold,
talk about sub-
Work. That's an under-
With SOme of the peo-
in the Skok Valley
why Mr.
work on the riv-
out that Mr. Gold
°mmissioner Mary
and Commissioner
r's brother working
to say more?
U.S. Army Corps
nd the hydrologist
Tribe called
ard Work, they said a
say (I quote
Parsons are
COOperate with us."
tracks they are
All Guy wanted is
to come in and
.not SOme county en-
who is not a
I don't think he
knows if the river is
north, south or east or
they do now in con-
they are
If they con-
'Property, they can do it
the three stooges.
to me are a bunch of
any county staff working within
the river's banks.
I went to the trial and was
wondering why the public works
department sent one man (Rich
Geiger), not two to do surveying
or measuring by himself on a riv-
er bank that is very dangerous.
I'll tell you what I think. Rich
Geiger went upstream to Guy's
neighbor and came on down to
Guy's (that's where the job is) and
Guy said Geiger was on his prop-
erty without his permission. Geig-
er in court said he wasn't on
Guy's property. So as far as I'm
concerned, it's a case of "he said,
she said" and never should have
gone to court. It was a waste of
taxpayers' money and a trumped-
up job.
When they say something is
rotten in Denmark, I think they
also should say it is rotten in the
county commissioners' chambers.
I forgot to mention that Guy
has also received phone calls that
said, 'Your house can burn real
good" and "You have a beautiful
little daughter." Now that is very,
very sick. I know there are sickos
in" and out of governments.
I'm writing this letter just to
let the public know what is going
on, that they don't or can't print
in The Journal or maybe they
don't know.
But you know who the real cul-
prit is, it's Simpson Logging Com-
pany, U.S. Forest Service and the
county. In the last 50 years the
gravel has been coming down
from the clearcutting and the
roads they put in and don't main-
tain and it has built up so high,
some of the river bars are as high
or higher than the farm land and
full of stumps, logs, etc. which
end up in the canal, causing a
safety hazard for boaters.
Now one neighbor is fighting
the other neighbor with all the
lies going on. What I would like to
see happen is for" all of them to
get together and get a class-action
suit against all three of the cul-
prits.
The river has been studied
enough; it is time for action.
J:L. (Joe) Parsons Jr.
Shelton
Mason General Hospital Foun-
dation has announced the winner
of its 1999 Fantasy Forest poster
contest.
William R. (Bill) Valley, whose
Shelton roots are a lifetime deep,
won the contest with a color pho-
tograph of Christmas ornaments
and decorations displayed on a
bed of evergreens.
His creation, said Fantasy For-
est co-chairperson Nancy Truck-
sess, best depicted the 1999 Fan-
tasy Forest theme "Holiday
Magic." Trucksess shares the
chairmanship of this year's Fan- :
tasy Forest gala with Graham
Thomas of the hospital's develop-
ment office.
Bill Valley's work was selected :
from several entries by other .....
county artists. The photograph
will serve as the backdrop for the
posters and cover art for the hos-
pital foundation's annual fund-
raising series of gala events that
will run from November 18 to 20
this year. "They absolutely trans-
form the hospital," commented
Karen Burger, publicist for Fan-
tasy Forest.
The three-day run of events in-
cludes children's activities, auc-
tions and celebrations featuring
holiday cuisine.
The proceeds benefit new
equipment at Mason General
Hospital, North Mason Medical
Clinic and Oakland Bay Pedia-
trics.
Valley's design won't be con-
fined to paper, either. A local jew-
eler has translated his design into
a pin in the shape of a holiday
bough ornamented with jewels. A
limited issue of signed and
numbered prints will also be
made.
ARTIST BILL VALLEY holds the Christmas-tree-orna.
mented format he designed for this year's Fantasy
Forest posters. Admiring the design are (left) Fantasy
Forest co-chairperson Nancy Trucksess and Karen
Burger, the event's publicist.
State shuffleboard
event set for S0000eltc,n
Hordes of highly competitive
shuffleboard players from across
Washington State are poised to
descend on Shelton in a little
more than a month.
times involved. "I have seen it as
much as $5,000," Hohn said of the
prize money. "Will it be that
high? I don't know. It depends on
how many show up." The prize
"People like to come to Shelton
because there's a lot of things to
do," she said.
COMPETITION IN the state
championship tournament will
vhy was it Mr. The Fir Cone Tavern in down- money comes from entry fees. start at 7 p.m. Friday, November
the motion town Shelton will be the site of Teams will pay $100 for the right 5. Hohn figures the final game
the property and this year s Washington State to compete. The competition is won't be completed until early on
serious stuff indeed.
d the motion and Shuffleboard Championship. Up- Shuffleboard has long been a the morning of Monday, Novem-
.hat'indy is' Olsen)olsen s' wentdm_, wardSare expected°f 120 competitorSto take part,°r mOresaid staple of taverns, along with pool berlast 8.fijrThat'Sas longbecaUSeas sixgameShours,Canhe
' tables and pinball games. Sur- said. There will be singles and
n t she make the CotaMel Hohn,street tavern.°Wner Hohn°f thesaidWestto prisingly, a good 30 percent, and doubles competition, including
r Wants that prop- _ , ..... __ his knowledge the event, sched- probably 40 percent, of the,people brackets for intermediate and
they buy all of it What s ne expresuu uled for the weekend of November who play shuffleboard don t even pro-le_v, el players as well as a
ould sell all at fair used to describe jake 5-7, is a first for Shelton. drink, Hohn said. women s bracket.
The game also transcends so- Hohn said he's still in the mid-
*ecause it s no good brakes? Back in the 1960s, the state cial barriers. "We have business dle of planning for the big event.
t!e else if they don't championship for the popular tav- owners, corporate executives; we
he river. Air on the side of caution, ern game used to be held in the have bums," Hohn said. "The in- [rophies are being ordered and
rence to the coun- Kelso-Longview area and drew teresting thing is, they're all will be awarded to the top two
thousands of teams, Hohn told friends• We ve got a couple of re- places in all divisions.
nty extends its The Journal. Butthepopularity tired copswhoplay, asamatter OldeTowneSheltonAssocia-
• of that event waned and it was offhct." tion Director Debbie Webber
" eventually canceled• In the past The Fir Cone is home to two or broke the news about the event
four to five years, shuffleboard three shuffleboard tournaments a this week. She was excited by the
Servancy listing enthusiasts havebeenworkingtO year, said Hohn's wife, Jeanette. prospects ofseveralhundredvisi-
revive the state championship. Those events draw people from as tors coming to the old town, she
Totten Skookum HIGH STAKES are some- far away as Canada and Oregon. said.
9
County commis-
a public hearing
their August
extend the conser-
ation for Totten
inlets for
prehensive plan, he said. The
designation will be effective un-
til August 26, 2000.
Diane Cooper, representing
Taylor Shellfish Farms, spoke
in support of the extension. She
said the company has signifi-
cant clam resources in the area
which could be threatened by in-
tensive or increased develop-
ment. It's a special area which
requires unique and special con-
sideration consistent with the
Shoreline Master Program,
Cooper noted. She was the only
person to testify at the hearing.
REGISTRATION
UNDERWAY
ot
OLYMPIC COLLEGE SHELTON
Because
YOUR FUTURE
can't wait.
Credit Classes:
FALL QUARTER
September 27-December 17
CA NO
ItAVA
designation
for eight six-
and one 12-
March 1993,
Allan Borden
extension is
a review of the
ne Master Pro-
and found
the county's corn-
Ka00aoke
Great Prizes !or pros and amateurs,
) Frlda
Doors open at 7:30pm
$5 admission includes
one:S5 i
Celebrity judges will award prizes based on talent,
appearance, stage presence, and audience response.
1!
HOG FEED
HIGHLAND HOG
ill I l II I fill I l III l|ll.l-Ul
50 Ibs
3.99
:T
105171
FALL
TRUE
VALUES
ROLLED RATION
t04497
50 Ibs+
4.39
PURINA PET FOODS
DOG FOOD
PRIDE
40 lb. bag
®
18% prolein
yoUR
CHOICE
8.49
CAT FOOD
DEALER'S PRIDE
N
l)liA I.I!II'S
lq{IDl00
20 Ib bog
BIRD FOOD
Bonus bag -
buy
20 Ibs+,
get 5 Ibs.
FREEI
25 Ib,
bag
3.99
WOODSTOVE
PELLETS
Highesl quoli b,
wood pellels
Minimum 50 bag purchase+
SUPER -' ING ALFRED 7
wm'r,mzER I [DAFFODILS /
I | : - +" " ' ] Flower
": " .' " .; Pure
/ /• v tot/ .;'] wi)h
--- ]" orange
/12.00o/ :::+1
I I / LARGE I
Rich U
ll:,do,, L CUP i
FALL GARDEN SHADE TREE
MUMS CLEARANCE
136
30% OFF
25%
OFF
ANY
WEBER
BBQ
THREE DAYS ONLY
FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
First & Mill, Shelton
426-4373 or 426-2411
Monday-Saturday 7:30-7
Sunday 9-6
Thursday, September 23, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 5