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SHELTON-MASON COUNTY
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016
The Voice of Mason County Since 1886 - Vol. 130i No, 44
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Nobody hurt in fire,
$3M in cedar saved
By MICHAEL HEINBACH
michael@masoncoun com
A fire early Monday morning de-
stroyed the main production struc-
ture at the Camco Inc. lumber mill
in the 6400 block of East Agate Road
in Shelton.
No injuries were reported, and de-
spite the total loss of the production
facility, a residence and warehouse
onsite went unharmed, nearby out-
door propane tanks were unaffected
and an estimated $3 million worth
of red cedar the mill produces on the
property was saved with the help of
firefighters from five Central Mason
Fire & EMS districts, North Mason
Regional Fire Authority, the Mason
County Sheriffs Office and workers
from Mason County PUD 3.
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
Community leaders from throughout Mason County lent a hand at the She#on-Mason County
Journal,s first-ever Reader's Night, held at Mountain View Elementary School in Shelton. Volunteers,
including Mason County Sheriff Casey Salisbury, and Journal staff were among those on hand to read
to students. For more photos of the event, see pages B-14 and B-15.
see FIRE, page A-22
Sheriff's office goes
over.needs for 2017
in lengthy presentation
By MICHAEL HEINBACH
rnichpel@masoncoun corn
The Mason County Sheriffs Office
has by far the largest budget of any
department within the county. So,
when Sheriff Casey Salisbury and
some of his staff presented their pre-
liminary budget requests for 2017 to
the Mason County commissioners
on Oct. 25, it was done a little dif-
ferently.
"I admit that the presentation
was very informative," said Terri
Jeffreys, Mason County commission
chairperson and District 3 commis-
sioner. "It gave us a clear under-
standing of what all of the different
programs and divisions actually do.
I would have preferred to have each
of those departments' presentation
include a rationalization for any
changes to the budget requests over
the previous year."
Members of the sheriffs office, in-
cluding • several division heads who
see SHERIFF, page A- 19
Principak Students, staff
feel 'pressure cooker effect"
By GORDON WEEKS
gordon@masoncoun com
At Mountain View Elementary
School, students undergo physical
therapy while lying on mats in hall-
w&ys lined with books, chairs and oth-
er supplies.
Teacher Joyce Norwood conducts
speech therapy with students in a for-
mer shower stall, which also serves as
her office.
More than half of the school's 619
students are housed in 11 portable
buildings, without bathrooms. There
are no covered walkways to block rain
when they walk to the main building,
which was built 61 years ago.
It's impossible to gather the entire
student body in the gym, which also
serves as the cafeteria for three shifts
of students.
"It's not just not ideal," said princi-
pal Jorge Nelson. "It's not humane to
have the kids cooped up the way they
are."
The school, which teaches students
in kindergarten through the fifth
grade, has veteran employees and a
great program, Nelson said.
"We've got all the staff," he said. "We
just need the four walls."
Students and their teachers will get
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
Mountain View Elementary principal Jorge Nelson on Tuesday sits with
students -- from left, Sam Parsons, Shyanne KJlmer, Aubrie Coots, Rylee
Swantak and Kyra Sturm -- in the gym. Students eat lunch in three shifts in
the gym because the room can only accommodate 200 kids at a time. Staff
then has seven minutes to prepare the room for physical education.
those new wails if voters pass a $64.7
million building bond on Feb. 14, 2017.
The building bond includes replacing
Mountain View Elementary, built in
1955, with a new 45,000-square-foot
structure that would cost $24.5 million.
Almost $30 million of the building
bond money is earmarked for Shelton
High School. That would allow the
campus to accommodate the district's
ninth-grade students, who currently
attend Oakland Bay Junior High.
All seven school buildings would re-
ceive improvements if the bond passes.
All the projects would be scheduled to
be completed by September 2019.
see SCHOOL, page A-23
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Shelton commissioners
mull $48.6M budget
Page A-2
Advocate reaching out to
teens about abuse
Page A-8
Mary M. Knight football
squad drops game
Page B-1