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Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 — Shelton-Mason County Journal Page A-7 or LEflERs, cént/hbéa fro} and integrity. It is the school board’s ub_ J ' responsibility to ensure that Apostle . _ keeps his word, to keep their word. Kidd 1 a b Too many issues are being swept R ‘ 0 under the rug. Is the school board e - e c 5’ 1e ‘ q u I o n S! I wittingly ignoring what happens ca? ‘ 7 under their noses? The community am}?! ‘ M r. o deserves transparency and account- bout , ability. " Editor, the Journal, £161 d ; On Oct. 2, the Shelton School ‘ Kim Goldsby tec_ 1 Board offered a community forum Shelton ces‘ of to the public. The Shelton—Mason County Journal, in a Sept. 24, page ’ and 1 article, announced Superintendent 1d Alex Apostle’s retirement. Tucked in of the article was the following: “People n s very are invited to ask questions of the superintendent during an open com- ' 7 SO munity forum on YouTube from 6 I t . to 7 pm. Tuesday. Comments and E di tor, the Journal, questions can be made by send-» a . . . One of the goals of the League u mg an email to commun1tyforum@ fW Vote . t r0 .d .ti_ sheltonschoolsnrg or by calling 253— gensilfiggools tilifngefi tglcaztman ' B?” l Mason webTV was nOt informed ballot. Therefore, we are er on disappointed that we could not pro- ceed with a planned Virtual town hall on climate change set for Oct. for the 35th Legislative District. As a nonpartisan organization, we cannot have candidate or town hall forums Apostle began the forum with this statement: “I know we have some competition with the presidential de- bate, but I didn’t want to change the date we have an open agenda, and we’re 0 en to an uestions or con- . . . cerns 0:) ideas thin:1 people may have. unless all candldates partwlpate (two were unavailable). I (faint And, oh, we can start with anything Does this matter? The league that you mlght want to aSk or com- believes it does because it speaks to WWW-“AS the fmmpreceded’ emanamacanbemaeimpa- has' broad bipartisan support from business and labor, public 35th District Position 2 ity, A postle asked whether he had people . . . . . . tant than electing leaders w1llmg to 0 a o ‘n o o giggggtipgglf-t Egg 1131315333313 latent“...oftheirconsatu- and private unions, and thousands of mdmduals [IKE YOU! e. A ostle a ain relayed (1W6 try t'o ents who are rightfully concerned v you p g ’ about climate change? '2 keep our open forum truly Opened Earlier this year, the LWVMC truly opened in terms of the . . .. . . a 1nv1ted Patti Case, Green Dlamond agenda. Is there an agenda for open ' . . Resource C0. and Bill Dewey Taylor . 7 y y llum ' mate Change Committee. Both these I I I C addressmg the quesnons emafled industries, the backbones of our in?” ApOStle afiswered’ “Excuse me? natural-resource-based economy in ' ‘ ' ’ ‘ . e A—7 Bgfiogfififi§2gfi£01ikf9ffigy Mason County, are planning for, and PAID FOR BY THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT DREW MAC EWEN ‘ therg are questio'ns in the Eligi’lbox ’ dealing with climate change issues. PO BOX 651 ’ UNION, WA 98592 . . Businesses throughout the world I was informed before the meeting . . that they will be addressed by per_ acknowledge the s1gn1ficant threat to s on a1 email not this evening That our environment and economy as the is your call.” The caller was upset. Earth 5 system warms‘ AS voters’ we Apostle responded a We,11 get to your are asking our elected officials what question mayam I ’guarantee that ” actlon they W111 take to mitigate the My email was not acknowlé dge d impacts of climate change. The best Who is responsible for changing tool we have rlght now 1s a timely the format? YouTube states that Elm/n halih— to istk tile ardt qufis' there are four reasons for disengage- Ions on e rea 1 y 0 c lma e c ange ment, (1) The Vi d e 0 owner selected and their bold action needed to ad- the setting to “Disable Comments”; dress the issue in 01.11: commgnities‘ <2 33d?) hitters;assists:2?“ or ou or your system a min— . . . . istrator have turned on Restricted 15:011. _ W111 It be fgurageous orJuSt Mode, an optional setting used to usmess as usua ' screen out potentially mature con- tent that you may prefer not to see or don’t want others using your de- vice to see. As Apostle prepared to close the . meeting, school board member Sall Brownfield interjected, “Dr. Apostle? I have a question. During the school board meeting we had a lot of public comment and at that time we didn’t answer questions because it wasn’t an open discussion during our meet- ing and so many, many times they were told that this was anopen fo- rum. And so, what I’m hearing now, it’s only an open forum for those people that can actually call on the phone? So, I’m still very much inter- ested in the issues people have that are writing emails. So privately they will be answered?'... Dr. Apostle then said,” Absolutely we can make that happen... if we don’t have an— swers, we’ll find the answers and res 0nd accordin l . But we will resgondj’ g y out, or rather have the choice of opt- This open forum community out- ing in? I would mt Opt in under any reach was censored. Often the calls, CircumStanceS and “mum rather 110‘? ‘ ‘ l ‘ ‘ ., " emailsand chats are critical of deci- be forced to “Opt 01m ‘ I l x - sions made by members of the board . and/or Apostle. During school board Eafon H N a" ’ A meetings the protocols do not allow Grapevlew ‘ _, g 5: _. , ural. Walshingtonian’s n A ‘ ho ‘Wi‘llfifightfor Sherri Dysart League of Women Voters Mason County, Shelton Editor, the Journal, ' Please vote “no” on R-90, “Com- prehensive Sex-Education, Grades . Kindergarten through 12th grade.” Voting “yes” will place your pub- lic school child’s mandatory sexual education directly in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris Reykdal, who is the author of Senate Bill 5395, mandating your child to receive curriculum from his office, designed by that office and ’ forcing the curriculum on all public schools in Washington. The parent, you, will have no say in the matter, nor will your local board of education. Would you rather opt your child open commentary. Apostle and the g V : mmmimmmtmalo school board are aware of the com— "m Paid for by: Friends Of Darcy Huffman munity outrage of his leadership 59‘? LETTERS’ page A‘s ” i ‘ PO BOX 357 Shelton WA 98584