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Mother drivin_______gg _arreste______dd: hurt in roll-over A young Shelton boy received onto its top, Washington State troopers for vehicular assault and serious injuries in a one-car crash the evening of Friday, October 8, on State Route 3 between Shelton and the Bayshore area. Michael Louderback, age 2, suffered a skull fracture and ruptured spleen after the north- bound car in which he was riding went off the road to the right, struck a phone pole and rolled Patrol troopers reported. He was taken to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center in Tacoma and listed in stable to satisfactory condition Wednesday morning. A hospital spokesman said the boy was continuing to improve each day. The driver of the 1989 Mercury Cougar, Denise D. Louderback, 35, of Shelton, was arrested by released. She suffered a broken nose, bumps and bruises and was treated and released at Mason General Hospital. Troopers sus- pect she was driving under the in- fluence of drugs, and a suspected illegal substance was found in the car, Sergeant Wes Stockwell said. The car was totaled. Both oc- cupants were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash. Oil slick on 101 puzzles WSP By JEFF GREEN It may have been cool Tuesday night, but it wasn't that cold. The reason northbound lanes on High- way 101 were sanded through much of Mason County wasn't ice, but gasoline or diesel oil that pre- sumably leaked from a vehicle. A thin coating of fuel left an in- termittent 18-mile-long trail from Mud Bay to Lilliwaup, Washing- ton State Patrol troopers reported a little after 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. "It was like a film, similar to the (season's) first rain with oil coming up from the road," said Trooper Tim Baker. The roadway was slippery, but it wasn't like driving on ice, he added. "Normal driving on the road wasn't bad at all." The fuel was mostly on the in- side lane along the divided high- way, Baker said. "Just about every off-ramp was slippery, too," he told The Journal. "You'd feel it if you put on your brakes. • Be- tween Brockdale Road and the Twin Totems store at Valley Cen- ter, no fuel was noticed. One car spun out on the Shel- ton-Matlock Road off-ramp, but there were neither injuries nor damage, the trooper said. Crews from the Washington State De- partment of Transportation sand- ed the roadway, which should have taken care of the problem, he added. Troopers could not locate any vehicle that caused the mess. Baker said a trooper driving south from Port Angeles yester- day morning didn't see any acci- dents or disabled vehicles, he said. Kerr and Taylor vying for post on city commlssion By JEFF GREEN Dick Taylor and Carolyn Kerr are vying tbr a seat on the Shel- ton City Commission and st) far, theirs has been a low-key race. Neither plans to spend money on yard signs, but both say they'll advertise and ring local doorbells. Taylor outpolled Kerr by less than 100 votes, 545 to 459, in the September 14 primary. Kelly Buechel placed third with 365 votes. The winner of the Taylor- Kerr race in the November 2 gen- eral election will replace current Commissioner of Finance John Warrant; wl-m t running unop- posed fiw nlayor Taylor, the executive director of the Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, touts his management experience and "people skills." Kerr, meanwhile, cites her experience working in various bookkeeping, accounting and supervisory positions, as well as related financial accounting duties. "The position is a management/ policy-making position. It's not a technical job," Taylor said. It re- quires a person who can lead, manage and look at the big pic- ture, he said, adding, "I've spent my whole adult life doing that." "I DON'T THINK it's issues so much," Kerr said of the differ- ences between herself and Taylor. She has 25 years of varied experi- ence living and working in Shel- ton, including experience in local governmental accounting. "I could go in, if I had to, and do any job in that office," she said of the city's finance department. She also said she can dedicate as much time as necessary to do the job as a commissioner because she isn't working. Taylor, while retired after a 34- year career in the Navy, is work- ing full time at the chamber. "I've kept going on. I haven't sat down and retired," he said. Since leav- ing the Navy, he has earned a real estate license, including com- pletion of a management course, and a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and international studies from the University of Washing- ton. "I am a professional manager and I've done it for a number of years," he said. "I've worked with people of all ethnicities and many Carolyn Kerr nationalities and levels of socie- ty." BOTH WERE ASKED what they want to get accomplished as a commissioner. Kerr wants to find ways to in- crease revenues for the city with- out increasing taxes. "And then go the other step in saying to de- crease expenses without decreas- ing services or lowering them," she said. Kerr worries that be- cause of taxes and utility fees, af- fordable housing isn't available for senior citizens and young peo- ple. The city, she said, has to in- crease revenue without increas- ing taxes or it has to decrease the expenses without losing services. "I just think everything' comes down to that," she added. "Quit spending money that we don't have." Taylor said the first thing he thinks the city needs to do is fin- ish the second phase of the down- town sewer project. "We've got to get that done. It's started, but we have to continue on and finish it," he said. Next, the city has to look at roads and street maintenance and preservation. It must figure out how to pay for that and set up a priority list and work down it. He'd also like to strengthen the community cohesiveness and syn- ergy, and get the community to work together. Dick Taylor AS FOR RESIDENTIAL growth in Shelton, Taylor said the city is one of two areas in Ma- son County where growth is really allowed under the Growth Management Act. "We have to work at that. We need to do it, but we need to ,do it responsibly," he said. "We can't just stack things in. We have to go by our codes and regulations. I think we need to build Shelton and we need to do it with residential and commercial growth." Kerr wants Shelton to stay like it is and keep its small-town flavor. "I think I would like to keep the population explosion down as much as possible," she said. She'd like to see the city grow slowly. Her vision for the city in the future includes bringing in enough outside business interests to try and revitalize more of the downtown area. She hopes more businesses can come in to create more interest downtown. She wants more diversity in the types of businesses that locate down- town, including a major retailer. Taylor said he feels Shelton is right on the edge of exploding into "really good things." He said he's seeing a vitality starting to take place in the business community. People are looking forward to opening or expanding businesses. Railroad Avenue is looking good, as is the rest of the city, he said. Little Creek Rock Quarry FRIENDLY & EFFICIENT SERVICE Serving Mason, Grays Harbor & Thurston Counties 432-8330 littlecreekquarry.uswestdex.com UARRY • Crushed Black Rock • Pit Run • Topsoil • Culverts • WA State Spec Rip Rap • Landscaping Rock Open Mon-Sat 7-4:30 Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, October 14, 1999 Little .cttange seen in county's new fistl, vildli fe regulations Cady's commentS HE SAID .... s are about outside intluen= dis" "ver real " However,. he =.,a. Y • " 'ha that v,,, agreed with her cl, _r said ers are "a take." 15°!.eDored the re uirements are "no hsck q , • U a take than a bmldmg_ of the is," and show "wise ust: Ie s ace and environmen' ' P - - sonae entV predicted, in fact, tlaaL ...... the re tllfltl°" ties would find g ,ill be too lax. "I believe we  the h llen ed b citizens '",.o c a g y ,.^th 0tw' community and one or u,lender tribes in the countY, ''- By MARY DUNCAN Mason County commission- ers, in a rare 2-1 vote Tuesday, approved amendments to the fish and wildlife regulations in the Mason County Resource Ordi- nance that are designed to protect habitat. The commissioners did not change any of the buffer require- ments or other related issues. The establishment of buffer widths for streams and other pro- tections for habitat is required to bring the resource ordinance into compliance with the state Growth Management Act and to resolve Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board issues in rulings of non- compliance, Community Devel- opment Director Gary Yando told the board. A draft of the regulations has ben in the works for a year. Workshops and hearings were held culminating in a new draft in June. The proposal set widths for buffers for fish-bearing riv- ers and streams, Type 1, 2 and 3, at 100 feet and buffers for small- er or Type 4 streams at 75 feet Commtssloners meet their constituents The following commis- sioner meetings, all open to the public, provide residents with an opportunity to talk with their elected county representatives about the future of Mason County. Commissioner John Bolender Thursday, October 21 7-9 p.m., Grapeview Fire Station, 4350 Grapeview Loop Road. Thursday, October 28 4-6 p.m.,Port of Allyn of- rice, 18560 East State Route 3 Commissioner Cindy Olsen Thursday, October 21 1-3 p.m., Hoodsport li- brary, 40 North Schoolhouse Hill Road, and for intermittent or Type 5 streams at 50 feet. AT A 51/2 hour public hearing ment for my own reasons," she July 13, testimony ranged from said. "We've been told to use the opinions that buffers are the un- best available science but found constitutional taking of private science all over the spectrum, property to statements urging Cady commented, contending widths to 250 feet on fishbearing that buffer requirements were st'reams after Hood Canal sum- mer chum and Puget Sound chi- nook were listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. All the latest draft does change is the definition of a dangerous tree. The ordinance now sets a requirement that a tree designat- ed as dangerous be within the tree's length of a structure, in- stead of the earlier tree-length- and-one-half requirement. "Clearly there is a balancing of interests here," Yando report- ed, "and hazardous trees need to be addressed, but the possibility of a hazard cannot be allowed to circumvent the protection to the resource." MOST OF THE other changes were matters of language rather than content, Yando added. Commissioner Mary Jo Cady voted no and refused to sign the document's findings of fact. "I am not able to vote for this docu- being forced on the county "without consideration of com- mon sense or history." She characterized the hear- ings board findings of noncom- pliance as "another hit on rural counties." The county is being "blackmailed by an unbalanced board anointed by the governor acting as co-managers for the county," she charged. THROUGHOUT the process of creating the fish and wildlife protection regulations, Cady said, there had been a lot of dis- cussion of "takes." Buffers, she contended, are "a taking from WorkSource helping find jobs and workers WorkSource Mason County en- compasses numerous agencies and services for job-seekers and those looking for employees. It's at 2505 Olympic Highway North in Shelton. the people." The regulations add another layer of permits and in- spections, thereby conflicting with the affordable-hous.ing goal of the growth act, she said. Commissmner John Bolender said it is the responsibility of pol- icymakers to find compromise and move public policy forward. He agreed the body of science un- derlying the issues is a diverse one. The findings of fact sup- porting the regulations are "based on credible evidence," he commented. Buffers in county regulations are in line with the forest and fish agreement reached in the state legislature, Bolender con- tinued, and are consistent with what other policymakers are set- ting, he added. "Most people will be able to work with and live with regulations," he said. predicted. Commissioner CindYer OrlSe; ' said the buffers and ou, re wa to addreSSPr¢ latmns a a Y _,;,€ the tection of resourceS, nos et r v ons are a comP r°m t p o isi . _^,,ai0 o tween land use and Pr,u[ads resources. "We are all v" of the land," she said. We don't just sell bonds, we create them. At l';dward Jones, we d,, more than buihl sccurily. Wc Imihl lasting relationships. The way wc see it, helping you phm your I'uturc is never just aboul recommending inw,slmcntS" It's about knowing you and understanding your {h'cams. Call or stop by todaY. Armin Baumgartei .' ' Investment Revresentative,_ ' suite/ 821 West Railroad Avenue, Shelton ^ 426-0982 * 1.800-441"= www.edward jo Member SlPC Edward JoneS' Armin Baumgartel Serving Individual Investors Since1871 2000 Ford Explorer XLS 4x4 3,900 Plus tax and license. Not a 1999 model but a new 2000 model. Factory order and you pick the color. 426-5585 AUTO CENTER, INC. FORD : MERCURY DODGE CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH FORD TRUCKS : JEEP DODGE TRUCKS CHRYSLER 5 STAR CUSTOMER FIVE STAR SATISFACTION AWARD! - ' I      We are thtoO?:Y:ve:/ersitn:hc: ,gfW:artiPu?et Sound ¢I;T J In Goldsborough Business Park, Railroad Avenue and U.S. 101 Interchange. Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-7:00 P'¢' Saturday 8 a.rn.-6 p.m. Sunday 12 noon-5 p.m. Parts and Service open Monday-Saturday. l l i Mother drivin_______gg _arreste______dd: hurt in roll-over A young Shelton boy received onto its top, Washington State troopers for vehicular assault and serious injuries in a one-car crash the evening of Friday, October 8, on State Route 3 between Shelton and the Bayshore area. Michael Louderback, age 2, suffered a skull fracture and ruptured spleen after the north- bound car in which he was riding went off the road to the right, struck a phone pole and rolled Patrol troopers reported. He was taken to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center in Tacoma and listed in stable to satisfactory condition Wednesday morning. A hospital spokesman said the boy was continuing to improve each day. The driver of the 1989 Mercury Cougar, Denise D. Louderback, 35, of Shelton, was arrested by released. She suffered a broken nose, bumps and bruises and was treated and released at Mason General Hospital. Troopers sus- pect she was driving under the in- fluence of drugs, and a suspected illegal substance was found in the car, Sergeant Wes Stockwell said. The car was totaled. Both oc- cupants were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash. Oil slick on 101 puzzles WSP By JEFF GREEN It may have been cool Tuesday night, but it wasn't that cold. The reason northbound lanes on High- way 101 were sanded through much of Mason County wasn't ice, but gasoline or diesel oil that pre- sumably leaked from a vehicle. A thin coating of fuel left an in- termittent 18-mile-long trail from Mud Bay to Lilliwaup, Washing- ton State Patrol troopers reported a little after 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. "It was like a film, similar to the (season's) first rain with oil coming up from the road," said Trooper Tim Baker. The roadway was slippery, but it wasn't like driving on ice, he added. "Normal driving on the road wasn't bad at all." The fuel was mostly on the in- side lane along the divided high- way, Baker said. "Just about every off-ramp was slippery, too," he told The Journal. "You'd feel it if you put on your brakes. • Be- tween Brockdale Road and the Twin Totems store at Valley Cen- ter, no fuel was noticed. One car spun out on the Shel- ton-Matlock Road off-ramp, but there were neither injuries nor damage, the trooper said. Crews from the Washington State De- partment of Transportation sand- ed the roadway, which should have taken care of the problem, he added. Troopers could not locate any vehicle that caused the mess. Baker said a trooper driving south from Port Angeles yester- day morning didn't see any acci- dents or disabled vehicles, he said. Kerr and Taylor vying for post on city commission By JEFF GREEN Dick Taylor and Carolyn Kerr are vying tbr a seat on the Shel- ton City Commission and st) far, theirs has been a low-key race. Neither plans to spend money on yard signs, but both say they'll advertise and ring local doorbells. Taylor outpolled Kerr by less than 100 votes, 545 to 459, in the September 14 primary. Kelly Buechel placed third with 365 votes. The winner of the Taylor- Kerr race in the November 2 gen- eral election will replace current Commissioner of Finance John Warrant; wl-m t running unop- posed fiw nlayor Taylor, the executive director of the Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, touts his management experience and "people skills." Kerr, meanwhile, cites her experience working in various bookkeeping, accounting and supervisory positions, as well as related financial accounting duties. "The position is a management/ policy-making position. It's not a technical job," Taylor said. It re- quires a person who can lead, manage and look at the big pic- ture, he said, adding, "I've spent my whole adult life doing that." "I DON'T THINK it's issues so much," Kerr said of the differ- ences between herself and Taylor. She has 25 years of varied experi- ence living and working in Shel- ton, including experience in local governmental accounting. "I could go in, if I had to, and do any job in that office," she said of the city's finance department. She also said she can dedicate as much time as necessary to do the job as a commissioner because she isn't working. Taylor, while retired after a 34- year career in the Navy, is work- ing full time at the chamber. "I've kept going on. I haven't sat down and retired," he said. Since leav- ing the Navy, he has earned a real estate license, including com- pletion of a management course, and a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and international studies from the University of Washing- ton. "I am a professional manager and I've done it for a number of years," he said. "I've worked with people of all ethnicities and many Carolyn Kerr nationalities and levels of socie- ty." BOTH WERE ASKED what they want to get accomplished as a commissioner. Kerr wants to find ways to in- crease revenues for the city with- out increasing taxes. "And then go the other step in saying to de- crease expenses without decreas- ing services or lowering them," she said. Kerr worries that be- cause of taxes and utility fees, af- fordable housing isn't available for senior citizens and young peo- ple. The city, she said, has to in- crease revenue without increas- ing taxes or it has to decrease the expenses without losing services. "I just think everything' comes down to that," she added. "Quit spending money that we don't have." Taylor said the first thing he thinks the city needs to do is fin- ish the second phase of the down- town sewer project. "We've got to get that done. It's started, but we have to continue on and finish it," he said. Next, the city has to look at roads and street maintenance and preservation. It must figure out how to pay for that and set up a priority list and work down it. He'd also like to strengthen the community cohesiveness and syn- ergy, and get the community to work together. Dick Taylor AS FOR RESIDENTIAL growth in Shelton, Taylor said the city is one of two areas in Ma- son County where growth is really allowed under the Growth Management Act. "We have to work at that. We need to do it, but we need to ,do it responsibly," he said. "We can't just stack things in. We have to go by our codes and regulations. I think we need to build Shelton and we need to do it with residential and commercial growth." Kerr wants Shelton to stay like it is and keep its small-town flavor. "I think I would like to keep the population explosion down as much as possible," she said. She'd like to see the city grow slowly. Her vision for the city in the future includes bringing in enough outside business interests to try and revitalize more of the downtown area. She hopes more businesses can come in to create more interest downtown. She wants more diversity in the types of businesses that locate down- town, including a major retailer. Taylor said he feels Shelton is right on the edge of exploding into "really good things." He said he's seeing a vitality starting to take place in the business community. People are looking forward to opening or expanding businesses. Railroad Avenue is looking good, as is the rest of the city, he said. Little Creek Rock Quarry FRIENDLY & EFFICIENT SERVICE Serving Mason, Grays Harbor & Thurston Counties 432-8330 littlecreekquarry.uswestdex.com UARRY • Crushed Black Rock • Pit Run • Topsoil • Culverts • WA State Spec Rip Rap • Landscaping Rock Open Mon-Sat 7-4:30 Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, October 14, 1999 Little .cttange seen in county's new fistl, vildli fe regulations Cady's commentS HE SAID .... s are about outside intluen= dis" "ver real " However,. he =.,a. Y • " 'ha that v,,, agreed with her cl, _r said ers are "a take." 15°!.eDored the re uirements are "no hsck q , • U a take than a bmldmg_ of the is," and show "wise ust: Ie s ace and environmen' ' P - - sonae entV predicted, in fact, tlaaL ...... the re tllfltl°" ties would find g ,ill be too lax. "I believe we  the h llen ed b citizens '",.o c a g y ,.^th 0tw' community and one or u,lender tribes in the countY, ''- By MARY DUNCAN Mason County commission- ers, in a rare 2-1 vote Tuesday, approved amendments to the fish and wildlife regulations in the Mason County Resource Ordi- nance that are designed to protect habitat. The commissioners did not change any of the buffer require- ments or other related issues. The establishment of buffer widths for streams and other pro- tections for habitat is required to bring the resource ordinance into compliance with the state Growth Management Act and to resolve Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board issues in rulings of non- compliance, Community Devel- opment Director Gary Yando told the board. A draft of the regulations has ben in the works for a year. Workshops and hearings were held culminating in a new draft in June. The proposal set widths for buffers for fish-bearing riv- ers and streams, Type 1, 2 and 3, at 100 feet and buffers for small- er or Type 4 streams at 75 feet Comnnssloners meet their constituents The following commis- sioner meetings, all open to the public, provide residents with an opportunity to talk with their elected county representatives about the future of Mason County. Commissioner John Bolender Thursday, October 21 7-9 p.m., Grapeview Fire Station, 4350 Grapeview Loop Road. Thursday, October 28 4-6 p.m.,Port of Allyn of- rice, 18560 East State Route 3 Commissioner Cindy Olsen Thursday, October 21 1-3 p.m., Hoodsport li- brary, 40 North Schoolhouse Hill Road, and for intermittent or Type 5 streams at 50 feet. AT A 51/2 hour public hearing ment for my own reasons," she July 13, testimony ranged from said. "We've been told to use the opinions that buffers are the un- best available science but found constitutional taking of private science all over the spectrum, property to statements urging Cady commented, contending widths to 250 feet on fishbearing that buffer requirements were st'reams after Hood Canal sum- mer chum and Puget Sound chi- nook were listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. All the latest draft does change is the definition of a dangerous tree. The ordinance now sets a requirement that a tree designat- ed as dangerous be within the tree's length of a structure, in- stead of the earlier tree-length- and-one-half requirement. "Clearly there is a balancing of interests here," Yando report- ed, "and hazardous trees need to be addressed, but the possibility of a hazard cannot be allowed to circumvent the protection to the resource." MOST OF THE other changes were matters of language rather than content, Yando added. Commissioner Mary Jo Cady voted no and refused to sign the document's findings of fact. "I am not able to vote for this docu- being forced on the county "without consideration of com- mon sense or history." She characterized the hear- ings board findings of noncom- pliance as "another hit on rural counties." The county is being "blackmailed by an unbalanced board anointed by the governor acting as co-managers for the county," she charged. THROUGHOUT the process of creating the fish and wildlife protection regulations, Cady said, there had been a lot of dis- cussion of "takes." Buffers, she contended, are "a taking from WorkSource helping find jobs and workers WorkSource Mason County en- compasses numerous agencies and services for job-seekers and those looking for employees. It's at 2505 Olympic Highway North in Shelton. the people." The regulations add another layer of permits and in- spections, thereby conflicting with the affordable-hous.ing goal of the growth act, she said. Commissmner John Bolender said it is the responsibility of pol- icymakers to find compromise and move public policy forward. He agreed the body of science un- derlying the issues is a diverse one. The findings of fact sup- porting the regulations are "based on credible evidence," he commented. Buffers in county regulations are in line with the forest and fish agreement reached in the state legislature, Bolender con- tinued, and are consistent with what other policymakers are set- ting, he added. "Most people will be able to work with and live with regulations," he said. predicted. Commissioner CindYer OrlSe; ' said the buffers and ou, re wa to addreSSPr¢ latmns a a Y _,;,€ the tection of resourceS, nos et r v ons are a comP r°m t p o isi . _^,,ai0 o tween land use and Pr,u[ads resources. "We are all v" of the land," she said. We don't just sell bonds, we create them. At l';dward Jones, we d,, more than buihl sccurily. Wc Imihl lasting relationships. The way wc see it, helping you phm your I'uturc is never just aboul recommending inw,slmcntS" It's about knowing you and understanding your {h'cams. Call or stop by todaY. Armin Baumgartei .' ' Investment Revresentative,_ ' suite/ 821 West Railroad Avenue, Shelton ^ 426-0982 * 1.800-441"= www.edward jo Member SlPC Edward JoneS' Armin Baumgartel Serving Individual Investors Since1871 2000 Ford Explorer XLS 4x4 3,900 Plus tax and license. Not a 1999 model but a new 2000 model. Factory order and you pick the color. 426-5585 AUTO CENTER, INC. FORD : MERCURY DODGE CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH FORD TRUCKS : JEEP DODGE TRUCKS CHRYSLER 5 STAR CUSTOMER FIVE STAR SATISFACTION AWARD! - ' I      We are thtoO?:Y:ve:/ersitn:hc: ,gfW:artiPu?et Sound ¢I;T J In Goldsborough Business Park, Railroad Avenue and U.S. 101 Interchange. Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-7:00 P'¢' Saturday 8 a.rn.-6 p.m. Sunday 12 noon-5 p.m. Parts and Service open Monday-Saturday. l l i