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MASON COUNTY, THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 2020
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Auditor
praises staff
for success
By Jostin Johnson
just/n@masoncounty. com
Even before the coronavirus pandemic upend-
ed nearly every aspect of American life, the 2020
general election promised to be different.
“For election administrators, presidential elec-
tions are like the Summer Olympics for track
athletes or swimmers,” Mason County Auditor
Paddy McGuire wrote in an email to the Shelton-
Mason County Journal on Monday afternoon.
“It’s ‘what we work toward for four years. And
then you add on top of that all that went into
2020 and it was a year like no other.”
In Mason County, more than 37,000 people
voted for a turnout of about 83.4 percent as of the
last public count on Nov. 4. Those numbers won’t
become official until the votes are canvassed and
then certified on Nov. 24. As of Nov. 11, only 75
ballots remain to be counted, according to the au-
' ditor’s website.
“This is by far the most votes ever cast in an
election in Mason County,” McGuire wrote. “We
don’t have a final turnout number. Turnout in
2008 was 87.4 percent, but that was 28,698 votes.
We’re at 37,311 votes cast now.”
The Nov. 3 general election was the fifth elec-
tion that McGuire and his staff have run during
2020”, and, despite the challenges presented by
the pandemic in a presidential election., he said
he feels good about what his office accomplished.
“I haVe the best staff in the World. They worked
tirelessly, with endless patience, serving Mason
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by Gordon Weeks
Where the fish are
Richard Henry, a member of Skokomish Indian Tribe, paddles back to his
fishing line Tuesday after-
noon outside Lilliwaup. Journal photo by Lloyd Mullen
COVID cases surging across state
the state had hit that mark since
summer.
Dr. Daniel Stein, health officer
kbox/eltner@masoncountycom for Mason County Public Health,
The state Department of
Health announced 1,77 i new CO-
VID-19. cases Saturday, after an-
nouncing 1,000 new cases in a day
the previous week, the first time
‘ on Oct. 30, the department
shared a report. detailing ,how
COVID—19 is intensifying across
the state, and on Nov. 4, the state
broke another record, with 1,454
reported that the county is see-
ing a rise in CO’V’ID cases along
with the state, and suggested that
an increasing number of young
dy is really. the heart, soul
Mendy Harlow is the executive director of the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement
Group in
Belfair. A native of Oregon and Arizona, she joined the nonprofit group in
2003. Journal photo
cases in a day. see COVID, page A42
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Gus Johnson, Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group prefect manager
Director finds
home at Center
By Gordon Weeks
gordon@masoncounty. com
3‘ s an avid hiker, skier, rock climber and horseback
rider, Mendy Harlow chose to major in environmen-
tal law when she enrolled at the University of Ari-
zona.
Her career epiphany came quickly: “If I was an attorney,
I’d be stuck inside all the time,” she recalled.
“I quickly determined that policy was where I would be
the happieSt,” she said. “I wanted to be on the ground.”
That ground includes the estuary where the Union
River meets Hood Canal on Roessel Road in Belfair, where
Harlow is the executive director of the Hood Canal Salmon
Enhancement Group. She’s worked for the nonprofit organi-
zation for 18 years.
Harlow was born in Sacramento, California. When she
was 4 years old, her family moved to, Lakeview in south-
central Oregon. Her father worked as a rangeland manager
for the federal Bureau of Land Management; her mother
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' ' . INSIDE TODAY
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