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This precocious little miss, Sabrina Woodford, 9, was one of the hundreds of Youngsters who dressed up for the Halloween Carnival held at the Belfair Elementary School last week. More faces can be found on page four. anything Family the attorney Clinic 10 aCCept or refuse its released I Jto wreck L, 39, of from the Medical after she an previous head and a collision by a Port south 13.m. neset for clinic offer to buy the property. : described as "an adequate offer." Dick .Angle, the real estate agent representing the Shelton physicians, spelled those terms out in a letter he mailed November 2 to William Garland, attorney for Dr. Frese's estate. The Shelton doctors had offered $85,000 for a 175 by 200-foot parcel, including the clinic building, which Angle Election results Due to the early press deadline for the Herald, we are unable to give you the unofficial election results for the Allyn Fire Department levy and Grapeview School bond issue. Please see the front page of the Journal for this information. try again You don't again," is a is taking to an a shoreline a cabin on Canal near and he was the county times. r's request, request felt the boaid was denying him his right to build on his property. However, after a lengthy ' discussion, the commissioners turned him down. Still not detered, Kargianis asked the board for more time to consider the application and for the opportunity to put in writing some thoughts that he had not been able to find time to discuss with them. The' commissioners agreed to hear him again next Monday, November 13, A parcel, 250 by 350 feet, was appraised for Angle at $67,500. That also included the clinic without equipment, he said. Angle said that if his letter didn't bring any results, the Shelton doctors are probably going to drop their plans of setting up an. office in Belfair. The attorney has until tomorrow to answer Angle's letter. Dogs given Captain, a part Belgian shepherd and part German shepherd owned by Mrs. Joyce Norman of Belfair and Bear, a part Husky and part Saint Bernard puppy owned by Ms. Peggy McCaslin of Bremerton, were honored as semi-finalists in the 25th annual Ken-L Ration Dog Herd of the Year awards program. The award was announced in New York City. Captain and Bear combined to keep the women's two-year-old nephew safe and warm when he was lost on a snow-covered mountainside for two days and one night last December. The boy, David Goodrich, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Goodrich, also of Bremerton, had spent the Christmas holidays with the family in Belfair. While his mother was packing the car to go home, David wandered off Kelly Smith, a sophomore studying chemical engineering at Washington State University, has been awarded the John and Helen Sutherland Scholarship in the amount of $250. The Sutherland scholarship is presented annually to an outstanding student majoring in chemical engineering at wsu. Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Stanley Smith of Grapeview. He graduated from Shelton High School: Improvement seen in education Although it took him a month to pour over new regulations, develop studies, and finally draft an application for school funds, Norm Sanders, North Mason School superintendent, is, frankly, quite pleased with the basic education actpassed by the state legislature earlier this year. He can see beyond the morass of regulations, that have shook school districts throughout the state right down to their kindergartens, and pick out the goal of the new law - better education. ,. Wedded to the education act is the vow of I00 percent funding for school districts. Such funding will not only kick school districts off the levy treadmill, it will free school administrators from the worry of keeping their schools solvent. "School administrators spent a lot of time in the past coming up with funds," said Sanders. "You're always worried about revenue to support the school." Moving closer to home, he said that superintendents used to be educational leaders. But in the late 60s, that role began to change. Gradually, superintendents began to "spend that the state legislature should provide 100 percent funding for schools. Moreover, the district said it was illegal for schools to rely on special levies for basic education. , The legislature was taken to court over these two points, and the school district won. Naturally, the legislature appealed, and after the issue bounced from one court to the next, the supreme court finally got a hold of it. A few weeks ago, it upheld the lower court's decision by a marked 6-3 majority. The legislature was given until July I, 1979 to provide 100 percent funding for all schools. So the legislature decided that if it had to fund basic education, "it was going to define it," said Sanders. From the conception of that idea, the basic education act was born. Although the legislature has a few years to fulfill its half of the bargain, schools had to get cracking on theirs right away to qualify for 85 percent funding in the 1978-79 school year. Conforming to the education act includes such things as meeting requirements for total program hours for grades K-12, and allowing a predetermined amount of teacher contact time. It appears that North Mason cleared this first hurdle, but it probably nicked the bar on the way. For example, the education act requires 2,700 hours of classes for grades first through third. North Mason has 2,715 hours. Grades ninth through 12 didn't even have breathing room, Compliance requirements were 4,320 hours, exactly what the school district offered. The application of entitlement for basic education funding includes a checklist of 36 areas of compliance. North Mason meets all but three. The first deviation is for a program of guidance, counseling and testing services. "There is testing on all levels but only guidance and counseling provided in grade levels 7-12," Sanders explained in a letter to the superintendent of public instruction. The second deviation is for a learning resources program. "We are only utilizing a ½-time equivalent librarian for grades K-12 this current year to oversee our district's learning resource program," he explained in the letter. "Our goal is to establish and maintain 1½ or two full-time equivalent librarians for the district as soon as possible." Finally, North Mason doesn't meet the requirements for (Please turn to page two.) Thursday, November 9, 1978 Section of the Shelton-Mason County Journal the majority of their time justifying issues." On the other hand, with full funding, superintendents will "be allowed to get back to the job they're meant to do - "providing educational services for kids," Sanders said. Getting the administrators back to their proper jobs is not the only benefit of the new law, however. Sanders says the educational act will also standardize the requirements for graduation in the state of Washington. "Some kid moving from school district to school district can expect the same type of requirements and programs," he said. "That's seen as a real bonus for our mobile society. "Typically one-third of our kids are moving in and moving out (of the district) all the time," Sanders said. Eventually, he even sees the new law standardizing requirements for teacher[, and even affecting salary schedules. Although the new law promises the sweet smell of roses, there are thorns in the bouquet. And the biggest sticker As attached to the choicest bloom - funding. To understand this, perhaps it's best to review how the 100 percent funding and the education act came about in the first place. It all started when the Seattle school district decided award some two-and-0ne-half miles into the forest. Fortunately, Captain and Bear stayed by his side. The boy was found 31 hours later by an army helicopter search crew on their last flight before dark. When he was rescued, David was suffering from a mild case of hypothermia, or subnormal body temperature, due to exposure to subfreezing temperatures. Because the two dogs had kept the boy warm, he quickly recovered. For their heroism, Captain and Bear will be awarded bronze medals and Ken-L Ration Dog Hero Certificates of Merit. The Ken-L Ration Dog Hero of 1978 is Chester, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gary Homme of Livingston, Montana. Chester saved five-year-old Kenny Homme from drowning in a surging creek last spring. J No mail delivery Saturday There will be no mail delivery Saturday because of Veterans' Day. The Belfair and Grapeview post offices will be open from 9 a.m. dntil 9 p.m. dnd 9 a.m. until 7 p.m., Tespectively, so people can still get to their boxes. : The Allyn and Tahuya post offices will be locked, however. Tiger Lake tract discussed The fate of the water tower at the Tiger Lake Terrace Tracts, located on a scenic body of water in the northeast corner of Mason County, will not be known for another two weeks. Ironically, no one objects to the construction of the tower which As the heart of a system that will supply water to 20 or so lots - depending on final health department approval - that remain to be developed on the 1 l-acre tract. At a public hearing November 2,. held to discuss the development and the tower, county commissioners said they favored a centralized water system - made possible by the storage tank - which is far better than individual wells serving each lot. Concurring with this view were officials from the county health and planning departments. Even the 56 or so members of the Tri-Lakes Improvement Club that attended the meeting, and who collectively oppose the development, admitted that construction of the tower wasn't their primary concern. They are, however, "concerned about pollution (of Tiger Lake) caused by uncontrolled development," said Jed Turner, one of the improvement club's spokesmen. On the other hand, the storage tank is the key to their objections over the development. If the developer didn't need a building permit to construct the tower, the county would be powerless to delay the development. The real fray between the Tri.lakes Club and the county, &ide from the development even being there, is over an environmental impact statement (EIS) and a preliminary declaration of non-significance. Residents maintain that the environmental check list filed by the developer on which the declaration of non-siguifieance is based, is in error. They have even submitted their own checklist along with a request that an EIS be filed. ' "You've got to consider the full project that the water tower will permit," Turner told the commissioners. : James Connolly, county planning director, who recommended the letter be filed, said that nothing would be gained from an EIS. It would only be "a writing of what we heard tonight." Once an EIS was done, it would still be up to the commissioners to approve or disapprove the construction of the tower, he said, Normally a preliminary letter of non-significance would be handled by Connolly's department, but in his particular case its issuance was taken over by the commissioners because of the public sentiment involved. The commissioners not only agreed to a public hearing on the matter, they even changed the time and place from the Shelton courthouse last month to the Belfair Flrehall last Thursday. Connolly, the first county official to speak at the ,meetinl, said he was caught between two polarized positions - the Tri-Lakes Club and the developer - and "maybe we can't find an answer." He explained that the "proposed declaration of non-significance" is in accordance with the state environmental policy act. It's an evaluation of the environmental checklist completed by the developer, and it says that this particular project will not affect the environment. The proposed declaration was passed to other agencies that may be concerned with issuing permits for the water tower and only a few responded, he said during an interview Monday. "Ted" Wilkens, a sanitarian with the county health department, said that each lot will be approved for a septic system on an individual basis, and he assured the audience that he would inspect each lot during the worst part of the year. When asked how he would judge a lot during the summer, Wilkens said he would rely on his experience and knowledge of soils and vegetation. At the time the preliminary plat was filed in 1968, Wilkens said the health department issued a preliminary judgment on the lots but that didn't prevent the health department from disapproving a lot "forever and a day." One person said that it appeared that anyone could build on a lot at the whim of a county official. : Wilkens took exception to this. "Whim is not part of my character," he said. "I consider myself a professional, and we are bound by regulations. "I think you can be assured that if we approve a site, it's not on a whim but based on the best judgment and understanding of the property," he said. Wilkens also assured the audience that all the lots are potential building sites as well as potential non-building sites° "I will be certain to observe them in the worst possible conditions, and I'll score it on my memory so 1 won't forget next summer," he wittily assured the audience. When questioned about what waste facilities will be put on the one waterfront lot that will serve the development, Wilkens said, "Let's just wait and see what is proposed. If nothing is proposed, naturally it's possible the health department will step in and tell them something must be done. Probably that's the way it will happen," he said. : "We don't want to get involved after the fact," retorted one lake resident. There is BILL HERDMAN $R. was the original agent to handle the Tiger Lake Terrace Tracts when it was platted 10 years agol He was at the public hearing last week to discuss the development. already one problem with the state community beach, and residents are not happy about having another one, he said. Connolly interjected that the community waterfront lot is for limited use; non-residents can be kept out if the residents of the development police it. That comment was greeted with a round of laughter. He also suggested that trespassers could be kept out by verbal persuasion or maybe by putting up a locked gate. "The lot will be public access in no time," was the wry comment of one member of the audience. • John Buckwaiden, deputy prosecuting attorney, explained the county's problem in dealing with the development. Since it was platted 10 years ago, the owners could sue if the county tried to prevent its future development now, he said, Then Loretta Hedges, one of the key organizers in the Tri-Lakes Club, asked if the board was just talking about the water tower or about the whole development. ' "To be perfectly honest, I don't know what I'm talking about," said Buckwalden. "I don't know what the question is here," he added. "It's about the entire development!" someone offered. Buckwalden countered, "That development has been open and it's going to remain open. You can't disapprove it just by the fact you don't want people there." ' He also suggested that the people protesting the development should get a lawyer. (The Tfi-Lakes Club has hired a lawyer, but he was unable to attend the hearing because of illness.) Otto lrrang, an engineer and geologist, then offered a "relevant point." Since his property is one of the closest to the development's well, he has been "quite concerned" that the well might not be able to produce enough water. There has never been a proper draw-down test of the well, and since the soil is glacial 11, "you can't tell if one aquifer is connected to another." ' Wilkens explained what tests (Please turn to page six.) Correspondent sought for paper The North Bay Current is the title of a new Herald column that will report the flow of activities in the Grapeview, Allyn and Victor areas. It's modeled after the other columns in the paper - Tahuya Talk, South Shore Canal Life, etcetera. The new feature will be included in the Herald as soon as we select a columnist. If you're interested in meeting new people, keeping up on community activities, and slaving over a column every week, call the Herald, 275-6680, any weekday between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.