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THE SUN was just burning through the fog as Ted Powers,
10, of Twanoh Falls ran to the school bus stop recently.
While enroute, he was spotted by a neighbor's dog which
decided to tag along.
FD to get paramedics
has taken a The tough paramedic's course Although the training
its ,wilt last nine months to a year, received by these personnel will
care. and each student is expected to enable the fire district to provide
are receive 2,500 to 3,000 hours of a superior emergency medical life
training at training, Knight said. support to its residents, it will
Inity College The training will include not replace the basic life support
lectures and clinical and field personnel, first aiders and EMT's,
Knight, experience. Successful who presently operate the
Was cautious completion of the training will system, Knight said.
of the qualify a paramedic to evaluate a "These personnel will
"We don't patient's condition and make a continue to be the primary
that we're field diagnosis of his problem, backbone of District Fives
full blown In a limited sense, the medical program," he added.
Five," paramedics will be practicing
only three of medicine, said Knight. The paramedics will provide
365 days Approximately 150 people an additional level of care
a rotating, within District Five will receive between the first response EMT
if we improved patient care by the level care and the admission to
People," he time the paramedics are in full the hospital when mid-level care
operation in 1979, he said. is needed, he explained.
r Participating in the
paramedic's program, besides
re lucky are: Bonnie Ells, a
clerk/dispatcher for the district;
and Gary Faucett, a volunteer
fire fighter/EMT and relief
bee dispatcher for the district.
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retreat
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"Most
been
running
dealt
and
order to avoid you, said Dugger.
Again, he said, "The last
thing I want a person to do is
run."
A person couldn't outrun a
black bear anyway, he said.
If a person is attacked by a
bear, Dugger said he should lie
face down on the ground spread
eagle and place his hands behind
his head, fingers interlocking.
People have survived the
attack of a grizzly bear by doing
this, he said.
An attack is usually
motivated by fear, and getting
on the ground removes the
threat, he said.
Black bears, however, are
docile animals and the chances
of being attacked are pretty slim,
he indicated. Even the myth
about a bear with cubs being an
instant killer is greatly
exaggerated, according to
Dugger.
"Normally, she will try and
get her cubs out of there," he
said.
Dugger only gets about 40
bear reports a year, and very few
of them are from Mason County.
(Please tum to 'page four.)
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In
MEETING POSTPONED
The Port of Dewatto
commissioner's meeting
scheduled for October 3 was
postponed until October 31, said
Port Manager Virgil Timmerman.
Belfair may be without a
doctor until next June or July.
This is the word from Bob
Pinckney, manager of the
Doctor's Clinic in Bremerton.
Shortly after the death July
26 of Dr. Amaly Frese-Mathis,
the town's physician for 17
years, the Doctor's Clinic
expressed an interest in this area.
"We were looking at buying
some property, leasing or buying
the Belfair Clinic (where Dr.
Frese had her practice) and
possibly staffing 'it with our own
people," Pinckney said during a
telephone interview last
Thursday.
But the Doctor's Clinic just
couldn't afford it, he said. The
clinic is in the midst of a
building program which will
include the hiring of eight more
doctors.
Right now Pinckney is
looking for five doctors, three
for the clinic and two for
Belfair. Doctors usually aren't
available, however, until June or
July when they finish their
residency programs, he
explained.
Originally the plan was to
have doctors from the Bremerton
Clinic fill in at Belfair until a
resident doctor could be found.
However, "our doctors are so
busy that they couldn't take a
day off," he said.
Staffing a clinic with a
physician's assistant, which is
done in a lot of rural areas, was
also discussed, but "until we get
a doctor, we didn't feel we could
do anything like that," he said.
The clinic has even backed
off from purchasing property
"'because we felt we couldn't tie
up our money for seven to eight
months until we found a
doctor," Pinckney said.
Ads, stressing the natural
beauty of this area and the
opportunity for outdoor
activities, have been placed in a
number of trade journals as well
as with a placement office to get
Thursday, October 12, ! 978
some applicants.
Pinckney was confident that
the Doctor's Clinic, which has 16
doctors, could find a doctor for
this area, especially because of
the support the clinic "couid "
provide a satellite office.
The doctor wouldn't have to
be on call all the time - the
clinic could fill in, he could take
vacations, and he would have
quick access to consultation and
hospital services.
Generally, the disadvantage
of a small town practice is that
the doctor could never get away,
said Pinckney. An association
with the Doctor's Clinic would
eliminate that drawback.
When a general practitioner is
found, he would be paid a salary
by the clinic for one year, said
Pinckney. Then he would
become a partner in'the Doctor's
Clinic.
Although two doctors are
being sought for Belfair,
Pinckney said the chances of
Section of the Shelton-Mason County Journal
Tri-Lakes Improvement
club activated Sunday
residents of the Tri-Lakes area
have reactivated the Mission,
Tiger and Panther Lakes
By ELENORA FEDENK
In an effort to halt unwanted
development of lake property,
Water district to discuss loan
The pipe, which will take the
place of a storage tank, will stick
out of the ground and provide
gravity feed, he said.
Now water is pumped
through the system by a pressure
tank, "which is too small," he
said.
If HUD approves the loan,
the water district may not be
home free. The price of some
property to be included in the
purchase of the water system
hasn't been decided yet, and
Tietge is sure it will be higher
than estimated.
Mason County Water District
No. 2 was formed about two
years ago for the expressed
purpose of buying and
maintaining the privately owned
Trail's End Lake water system.
The water district
commissioners applied for a
$168,000 HUD grant in May to
buy the system, but there has
been no word from the federal
agency as to whether it has been
approved or not.
Tonight the commissioners
will meet at James TietgCs
home, Star Route 1, Box 869, to
discuss what steps, if any, should
be taken to follow up on the
application.
The meeting, which was
postponed from October 5, is
open to the public. It's the first
meeting of the water district
since the beginning of summer.
Tietge, president of the
district, said there are only 26 to
27 permanent residents at the
lake, but there are 76 homes and
360 lots.
The present water system, he
said, "is fine for domestic use,
but we have to think about the
future and about the buildings."
To provide adequate storage
for future development and fire
protection, the commissioners
plan to install a 150,000-gallon
standing pipe once the system is
purchased, Tietge said.
Port of Allyn buys
land, water system
finding both of them at the same
time aren't too good. "We'll
probably start with one, and
then getting the second would be
easier," he said.
Eventually the Belfair clinic
would have specialists visit from
the main office once a week or
so, Pinckney said. For example,
a pediatrician might come down
once a week.
But that's in the future. First
a doctor has to be found, then a
clinic has to be purchased.
Soon a 2¼-acre piece of land
adjacent to the Allyn dock will
belong to the Port of Allyn.
The property, owned by the
Kirk Co., went into escrow
September 12. That marked the
close of a two-year effort to
obtain the land by the Port of
Allyn.
The commissioners expected
to take title of the land before
their board meeting October 4.
However, it didn't arrive, but
Commissioner Leo Livingston
didn't seem too worried about it.
The land will be developed
into a parking lot and a park-like
area, said Livingston. Eventually
there will be a picnic table and
green grass on part of the site.
Acquisition of the land will
provide sorely needed parking
for those who use the deck, he
said. Now people have to park
LEO PETERSON of Allyn has maintained this dirt road for years. Recently
he found out the county owned the road and his house was on their
'easement.
on the street.
The $70,000 price tag on the
land probably represents "the
most expensive purchase of
property the port has ever
made," said Livingston.
Because the port has spent
most of its money to get the
site, development of the land
will have to be done in degrees,
he said.
Right now, the property is
"a terrible mess," Livingston
said.
At one time Kirk Co. had
some rental property there, but
now all that is left are concrete
foundations, he explained. If
that isn't enough, there are some
old auto bodies, blackberry vines
and running springs that will
have to be dealt with.
"We will have to graduall.y
conquer the wilderness there,"
said Livingston.
Included in the purchase
price was a well that serves seven
to eight customers, he said.
That's a bonus that pleases the
commissioners because now they
will be able to have running
water at the dock.
But there is one problem
with the well system, explained;
Livingston. "`we don't know
where the water lines are."
Improvement Club. :
The reorganization meeting,
held Sunday at the Belfair
Firehall, was attended by a
number of people from other
lakes and nearby cities. :
The goal of the club is to
protect the three lakes from
erosion that could be caused by
land development, the organizers
say. :
The need for the
improvement club is emphasized
by a current advertisement in a
Bremerton paper for 25 acres of
lake frontage on Mission Lakes,
and a September 1 ad for a large
piece of property on Panther
Lake.
Also, Tiger Lake residents are
in the process of requesting
controls be placed on the size of
lots in an I l-acre development
on that lake.
Otto Irrgang, a retired
geologist and resident of Tiger
Lake, drew a comparison
between Tiger and Long lakes in
Kitsap County..
"The current problems of
weed growth and pollution of
Long Lake through housing
development and lack of control
can be compared to the future
of Tiger Lake if the
Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) control is not adopted by
the Mason County Planning
Commission," he said. :
A major point is that the
"Tiger Lake Terrdce Tracts''
housing development on Tiger
Lake by the A.R.,.B. Investors
Corporation of Pleasanton,
California would allow so many
lots averaged 3.5 per acre that,
"the populaUon density would
be overwhdming," said lrrgang.
The fight is not to stop sales,
but to have control of the
population growth with about
one lot per acre, the organizers
say. The total of a warm
weekend of residents with
visiting rdatives could equal at
least 400 people on the smaller
size lots.
The community lot on the
water's edge would be simply
another public access to the lake.
The paved road there would be
completely open to public me,
with no guards, no gates and no
control, they say.
lrrgang, a former president of
the lakes improvement dub,
noted that the larger Long Lake,
through the years, had changed
from a depth of 35 feet to 12
feet because of erosion caused
by housing devdopment.
"The key issue of the whole
is whether the proposal will
result in a significant adverse
impact upon the quality of the
environment,' he said: "The
issue is that an EIS should be
required by the planning agency
and James E. Connolly, Mason
regional planning director."
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A public hinting to discuss
the Tiger Lake Terrace Tracls,
requested by residents of that
lake, has been set for 7 p.m.
November 2 at the Beifatr
Firehsil.
County commissioners
changed the location and the time
of the hearing Monday at the
request of Tiger Lake residents.
Originally the meeting was to
be held at the county courthouse
October 16. The change was made
to give more residents a chance to
attend.
Officers-elect are Doug
Smith, president and Loretta
Hedge, vice president. Both are
residents of Tiger Lake. Sandy
Burrough of Panther Lake was
elected secretary-treasurer.
An amendment was proposed
to change the office of
secretary-treasurer to two
separate offices for a better
working arrangement.
Prior to the election, funds
to support the current expenses
of an attorney and informative
newsletter had been made to
Bonnie Davies of Tiger Lake.
Dues for membership in the
Mizen, Tiger and Panther Lakes
Improvement Club have been set
at $5 per year.
Donations and further
contributions for a lawyer and
(Pleme turn to page four.)
County asked to vacate road
The county commissioners
are holding a public heating
October 16 to discuss vacating a
road in Allyn, but Leo Peterson,
who requested the road change,
will not attend.
He's going to a reunion in
North Dakota of his National
Guard Unit that was activated
after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Besides, says Peterson, whose
brown tennis shoes strike a
contrast to his farmers garb of
blue jeans, red suspenders, and
flannel shirt, "I've already told
them my side of the story."
And a potent story it is. If
the county doesn't give up half
its right-of-way on Wheelright
Street, Peterson stands to lose a
flower garden, some trees, and
most importantly, part of his
house.
Petcrson swears that he
didn't mean to build on the
county's right-of-way. As a
matter of fact, he didn't know
the dirt road that he maintained
for the past 26 years even
bdonged to them until a few
weeks ago.
That's when he noticed some
county workers putting stakes on
the side ofthe road and on what
he thought was his property.
After talking to the
workmen, Peterson found out
that the county had a 60-foot
easement. Quickly he called the
courthouse to explain his
dilemma.
"I had it surveyed before I
built," the perplexed Peterson
told county officials.
"i could've built farther back
on the property," he said during
an interview at his modest
rambler he and his wife Franny
built. But according to the
survey done in the early 50s, the
house was in a good spot.
The errors in Peterson's
survey wouldn't have been
known yet if it wasn't for the
owners of Lynnwood Center
who want to pave Wheelright
Street. They own a four-plex
across from Peterson's property.
It was their survey last
summer that shows Peterson's
property extends to the middle
of the county easement.
Aside from the problem over
the boundaries of the county's
easement, Peterson is happy the
street will be paved, lie's tired of
maintaining it. "If you dig down
three feet or so, you'd probably
find oyster shells I put there 20
years ago," he says.
Peterson is confident that the
county will not destroy his
house by extending a road.
Especially since the road
doesn't go anywhere. If it ever is
extended, it probably won't go
much beyond his garden, he
says.