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By NATALIE JOl
The City of Sh
ton commissions 1:
week for what bot~
achievement for loc
Both commissioi
Prairie Water Agr~
day, and the port oi
PUD 3 also has a s
the commission wi
Tuesday, Oct. 25.
"It truly is a mJ
time coming," said I
rant.
Since 2009, the
extend city water
Prairie Road into
area. The water
Corone
announ
day, October
NSON
dton and
dd the
parties
s voted to
ement, the
Tuesday.
~y in the
ll not meet
lestone, it's
:ity has been
;wo miles
~he city's
ll serve port
r
ces
,2011
l ': :~.:~, the Johns Prairie Industri-
~ "~" al Park, including the new
:,,! i~!':~'
of Shel- :S:iiiii,' i, PUD a faciliV,
this As part of the agree-
a historic ~~~ ment, the port voted to
sign over a length of 16-
a John's inch pipe along Johns
on Mon- Prairie road to the city. On
County Tuesday; the port co~s, :
but sion also voted to sign over
until Jay the ownership of a length
Hupp of eight-inch pipe, which:
a long
John Tar-
extends from Capital Hill
John
Dobson
able to come to an agree-
ment.
'%Ve didn't want to make
this simple," Port Execu-
tive Director John Dobson
joked.
While the 75 acre-feet
of water per year that the
port will receive through
this agreement will not
solve all its water prob-
lems, it helps to correct a
water shortage on Johns
Road to the Mason County Prairie. For years the port
Recreation Area (MCRA) soccer and: softball has been restricted to how much water it can
to fields to the PUD, which is expected to ~ven,: get from its Wells out of concern for water
on Johns tually sign over ownership of that pipe tolthe levels and salmon habitat in Johns Creek•
growth city• : '~Where we!re at is a lot better than where
in While complicated, both parties have been we'Ve been in the past," said Port Commis-
sioner Jay Hupp.
Under the agreement, port tenants will
not be subject to any connection fees related
to the new city water lines.
The agreement does not only benefit the
port and PUD, city officials said on Monday.
"I think everyone has come out with some-
thing good," said City Administrator Dave
O'Leary. 'Tie~l pick up $2 to $3 million of
infrastructure."
The annual income to the city from wa-
ter sales to the port will likely total $40,000,
O'Leary said.
Both city and port officials called the
agreement a major accomplishment on the
part of the three entities involved, as well as
commending each other for working together
See Po~ on page A-7
Union
ca use o
death for
Lingle
By NATALIE JO[
Mason County
Wes Stockwell has
the cause of death
mer Mason Coun'
missioner Jerry Liv
According to the
office, Lingle mo~,
died from a "car
rhythmia as a con~
.of hypertensive c~
cular disease." The,
office classified the
natural
After Lingle d
[NSON
Coroner
released
for for-
,y Com-
gle.
;oroner's
t likely
]iac ar-
~equence
:oroner's
/leath as
led un-
expectedly in his l~ome on
August 19 at age~57, the
coroner s office initi.
sifted the cause of
inconclusive but did
pect foul play.
This conchisio~
after a pathologL,
ined Lingle's health
along with sample
sue, blood, urine m
ous samples take~
the autopsy.
City schedu
l earing to
address der
business lic
By NATALIE JOB
The City of Shelt
mission voted to sc]
public hearing Morn
17, to address an ap:
city decision to dem
hess license to Marl
medical marijuana
sary with one loc~
Belfair.
The hearing is sc
for 6 p.m on Mon&
21.
The application
viewed be several
partments and the
Police Departme~
denied• The owne:
appealed to City
Dave O'Leary, wt
agreed to approve s~
ets of the applicati~
business license in ~¢
"Parts of the bus
cense were denied m
were parts that wou
ably make their t
economically feasib]
city administrative
tant Vicki Look.
dlyclas-
]eath as
notsus-
comes
exam-
history,
of tis-
~d vitre-
during
|es
ied
ense
NSON
)n Com-
mdule a
ay, Oct.
~eal to a
• a busi-
Meds. a
dispen-
~tion in
heduled
~y, Nov.
~¢as re-
city de-
Shelton
s and
• then
Ianager
~o only
,me fac-
,n for a
helton.
ness li-
~d those
[d prob-
usiness
e," said
assis-
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ABOVE: Kaylie Case
struggles to lift the perfect
pumpkin.
RIGHT: Families walk
through the pumpkin patch
at Hunter Farms looking for
the perfect pumpkin.
Journal photos by Natalie Johnson
orange
Pumpkinfest
takes hold of
Hood Canal
By NATALIE JOHNSON
The Union Tourism As-
sociation's (UTA) Pumpkin-
lest has once again taken
- over Hood Canal, giving all
of Union a faint orange glow
from the numerous Hallow-
een and October related ac-
tivities to enjoy this month•
The star attraction of the
festival is without a doubt
Hunter Farms' pumpkin
patch and all of the family-
friendly farm fun that F~oes
along with it.
For 30 years, the pm p-
kin patch activities at Hm t-
er Farms have just ke~
growing and growing, J.R
Hunter said.
"It gets bigger, ii~'s always
growing. Last weekend was
probably the busiest week-
end.., we had 4,000 people
a day," he said on Monday•
Every year the farm goes
through hundreds upon
hundreds of bins of pump-
kins, he said.
While pumpkin seekers
can continue to come to the
farm every day until Hal-
loween, the weekends are
the most festive, and in-
clude vendors selling tasty
treats like hamburgers,
hot dogs and funnel cakes,
Hunter said.
The farm has more to of-
fer than just the pumpkins,
though, he said.
There is a hay maze
complete with tunnels and
slides and animals on dis-
play, including pigs, emus
and a reindeer•
Hunter said the pumpkin
patch and related activities
are always about fun, but
also attract people to Union
to see an increasmgly rare
example of a working family
farm.
"That's where we started
all of this," Hunter said. "My
dad's generation, there were
a lot of people that came
from the farm. My genera-
tion is more removed - we
have generations of people
who are so far removed from
the farm."
Today, the three genera-
tions of Hunters manning
the pumpkin patch activi-
ties get a kick out of watch-
ing the many kids in atten-
dance have fun.
In a little more than a
See Pumpkin on page A-7