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i • SHELTON- 000000MASON COUNTY 15, 2007 121st Year -- Number 46 JOURNAL 5 Sections -- 44 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents Fantasy turns reality e delight of Shelton's Kippy yuletide fund-raiser Wednesday morning n) Dalton (near) and a couple in The Pavilion at Sentry Park. A fashion- other luncheon-goers, ....... the show-a_way. n General Hospital Foundation to a series of attractions there running off its 12th annual Fantasy Forest through Saturday. Lto studio will leave Railroad i 00refront but stay in business Tennefoss Photogra- Studio in 1990 from its founder 'ch was known as Dean s Dean Palmer, states that the digi. Ltatil 1990, will be closing tal photography revolution has Ea'Oad Avenue storefront at significantly impacted his opera- F of November. L¢Onpany will remain in offering its full comple- |¢f services, but significant in the photography in- [have made it impractical the space it has occupied 0.  Tennefoss, who along 00hool GREEN )n School District is pro- a three-year, $17.7-million Ince-and-operation levy aing February 19 ballot. n School Board members de at their next meeting, ed for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, • er 27, whether to submit to voters. ding to figures presented ilillllllllilllllilllllllllillUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the inside  eee tUaity Calendar ....... 40 Word ........................... 37 inment, Dining ..... 30  Journal ................. 18 'u of Record ............. 25 ; .................................. 21 i,t .................................. " ,er .................................. 6 IIIIIIIlIlIlIIIlIIIlIlIIlIIlIIIIIIlIlIIlIlIllUlUIIlll Ii!!!l!!lllljl!!l!l!lllll00 tions. He says that his high-school senior portrait volume, a main- stay of most portrait studios, has shrunk by 75 percent in the last two years. "I thought I had done some- thing wrong," he says. "I figured that my advertising wasn't hit- ting the mark, but after reading press reports in other markets, I realized that I was caught up in both the digital whirlwind and the new economic reality. There was a mystery to film and processing, and most people needed profes- sionals to take or at least process their pictures." Tennefoss believes that many kids nowadays are taking each other's yearbook photos with digi- tal cameras or their parents are doing it. He also thinks that the accessibility of imaging technol- ogy in recent years has spawned an attitude of "I'll do it myself; (Please turn to page 8.) levy eyed for February Tuesday evening by school district administrators, the levy would raise $5.7 million in 2009, $5.9 million in 2010 and $6.1 million in 2011. In February 2006, Shelton vot- ers approved the district's current two-year, $9.5-million levy, which expires at the end of 2008. The proposed three-year levy would re- place the current one. THE PROJECTED levy rate fol the proposed levy is $3.37 per $1,00C of assessed valuation in each of the three years. That rate is lower than the current levy rate of $3.86 per $1,000 this year and a projected rate of $3.89 per $1,000 in 2008. However, the quadrant of Ma- son County that includes the (Please turn to page 8.) No First- at- Franklin soil cleanup for now By JEFF GREEN The City of Shelton for now is not going to do a full-scale cleanup of a contaminated soil site at First and Franklin streets, city commis- sioners learned Tuesday. City Engineer Mike Michael told the commissioners the clean- up project would need to be funded through the city's General Fund and Street Fund, but there isn't enough money in the funds for the work. The cleanup work could cost up- wards of $500,000, Public Works Director Jay Ebbeson told The Journal. Last week, city officials said the cleanup work would force closure of the First and Franklin intersec- tion for two weeks or more. But now, officials plan to move for- ward with a partial cleanup there as the contractor on the Basin 2 sewer project will proceed with the planned digging of trenches for sewer pipe. MICHAEL SAID he is expect- ing a revised quote from a Seattle cleanup firm, NRC Environmental Services, for removing and dispos- ing of dirt from the sewer pipe trenches. (Please turn to page 7.) I'Aecdon counts continue: One-vote race at Southside They're holding their breath in the Southside School District where Nicole Cougher clings to a one-vote lead over incumbent school board member Don Rob- bins. After additional votes were tal- lied last Friday morning, Cough- er's 18-vote advantage on election night shrank to just a single vote. She leads Robbins by 270 votes to 269. That may change today, when some 58 additional votes are slated to be counted at 9:30 a.m. At least one of those ballots comes from a voter in the Southside district. Interestingly, there were three write-in votes cast in the Cougher- Robbins race, which may be head- ed toward an automatic recount. Also, there were 184 "under votes" in the race, meaning that 184 voters chose not to vote for either Cougher or Robbins, opt- ing instead to leave their ballots blank. If the race ends in a tie, the result will be decided by the toss of a coin with the candidate who was listed first on the ballot, which was Robbins, making a call of "heads" or "tails." Last week's general election will be certified at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27. If there is a manda- tory recount in the Cougher-Rob- bins race, it will occur after that date. Other than the Southside cliff- hanger, none of the contested races in Mason County narrowed. In the City of Shelton, incumbent Mayor John Tarrant stretched his lead over challenger Gary Cronce to 103 votes, while incumbent Com- missioner Mike Byrne now leads Chase Gallagher by 48 votes. As of Wednesday, 18,365 out of 30,116 registered voters in Mason County voted, which is a turnout of 60.9 percent. A roundup of contested races and ballot measures is on page 28 of this week's Journal. (2ouple requesting 1"eturn of marijuana By JEFF GREEN Police are calling it a small mar- ijuana growing operation, but the residents of a Shelton apartment raided recently maintain the pot officers seized was for medicinal purposes. Kim Morris appeared before the $1Telton City Commission Monday afternoon saying Shelton police came to the Fairmount Avenue apartment she and husband Alex- ander Morris occupy on Thursday, November 8, and that officers im- properly took his medicinal mari- juana, which she said had been prescribed for him. Alexander has been a medicinal marijuana patient since May 2005 and had suffered headaches and nausea since being in a coma earli- er that year, she said. He had been seen in a hospital emergency room several times for the headaches and nausea and she took him to the emergency room the day after the police raid. Her husband has not received his medicine back from the police, she said, adding the police are not obeying the amended laws of the state. KRISTIE CHOATE, who with (Please turn to page 8.) A record of service Veteran Marv Anstey of Shelton is escorted from Memorial Hall by his son, Tim. Following them are others who attended this year's 11/11 Breakfast on Veterans' Day. There's more on page 12. i • SHELTON- 000000MASON COUNTY 15, 2007 121st Year -- Number 46 JOURNAL 5 Sections -- 44 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents Fantasy turns reality e delight of Shelton's Kippy yuletide fund-raiser Wednesday morning n) Dalton (near) and a couple in The Pavilion at Sentry Park. A fashion- other luncheon-goers, ....... the show-a_way. n General Hospital Foundation to a series of attractions there running off its 12th annual Fantasy Forest through Saturday. Lto studio will leave Railroad i 00refront but stay in business Tennefoss Photogra- Studio in 1990 from its founder 'ch was known as Dean s Dean Palmer, states that the digi. Ltatil 1990, will be closing tal photography revolution has Ea'Oad Avenue storefront at significantly impacted his opera- F of November. L¢Onpany will remain in offering its full comple- |¢f services, but significant in the photography in- [have made it impractical the space it has occupied 0.  Tennefoss, who along 00hool GREEN )n School District is pro- a three-year, $17.7-million Ince-and-operation levy aing February 19 ballot. n School Board members de at their next meeting, ed for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, • er 27, whether to submit to voters. ding to figures presented ilillllllllilllllilllllllllillUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the inside  eee tUaity Calendar ....... 40 Word ........................... 37 inment, Dining ..... 30  Journal ................. 18 'u of Record ............. 25 ; .................................. 21 i,t .................................. " ,er .................................. 6 IIIIIIIlIlIlIIIlIIIlIlIIlIIlIIIIIIlIlIIlIlIllUlUIIlll Ii!!!l!!lllljl!!l!l!lllll00 tions. He says that his high-school senior portrait volume, a main- stay of most portrait studios, has shrunk by 75 percent in the last two years. "I thought I had done some- thing wrong," he says. "I figured that my advertising wasn't hit- ting the mark, but after reading press reports in other markets, I realized that I was caught up in both the digital whirlwind and the new economic reality. There was a mystery to film and processing, and most people needed profes- sionals to take or at least process their pictures." Tennefoss believes that many kids nowadays are taking each other's yearbook photos with digi- tal cameras or their parents are doing it. He also thinks that the accessibility of imaging technol- ogy in recent years has spawned an attitude of "I'll do it myself; (Please turn to page 8.) levy eyed for February Tuesday evening by school district administrators, the levy would raise $5.7 million in 2009, $5.9 million in 2010 and $6.1 million in 2011. In February 2006, Shelton vot- ers approved the district's current two-year, $9.5-million levy, which expires at the end of 2008. The proposed three-year levy would re- place the current one. THE PROJECTED levy rate fol the proposed levy is $3.37 per $1,00C of assessed valuation in each of the three years. That rate is lower than the current levy rate of $3.86 per $1,000 this year and a projected rate of $3.89 per $1,000 in 2008. However, the quadrant of Ma- son County that includes the (Please turn to page 8.) No First- at- Franklin soil cleanup for now By JEFF GREEN The City of Shelton for now is not going to do a full-scale cleanup of a contaminated soil site at First and Franklin streets, city commis- sioners learned Tuesday. City Engineer Mike Michael told the commissioners the clean- up project would need to be funded through the city's General Fund and Street Fund, but there isn't enough money in the funds for the work. The cleanup work could cost up- wards of $500,000, Public Works Director Jay Ebbeson told The Journal. Last week, city officials said the cleanup work would force closure of the First and Franklin intersec- tion for two weeks or more. But now, officials plan to move for- ward with a partial cleanup there as the contractor on the Basin 2 sewer project will proceed with the planned digging of trenches for sewer pipe. MICHAEL SAID he is expect- ing a revised quote from a Seattle cleanup firm, NRC Environmental Services, for removing and dispos- ing of dirt from the sewer pipe trenches. (Please turn to page 7.) I'Aecdon counts continue: One-vote race at Southside They're holding their breath in the Southside School District where Nicole Cougher clings to a one-vote lead over incumbent school board member Don Rob- bins. After additional votes were tal- lied last Friday morning, Cough- er's 18-vote advantage on election night shrank to just a single vote. She leads Robbins by 270 votes to 269. That may change today, when some 58 additional votes are slated to be counted at 9:30 a.m. At least one of those ballots comes from a voter in the Southside district. Interestingly, there were three write-in votes cast in the Cougher- Robbins race, which may be head- ed toward an automatic recount. Also, there were 184 "under votes" in the race, meaning that 184 voters chose not to vote for either Cougher or Robbins, opt- ing instead to leave their ballots blank. If the race ends in a tie, the result will be decided by the toss of a coin with the candidate who was listed first on the ballot, which was Robbins, making a call of "heads" or "tails." Last week's general election will be certified at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27. If there is a manda- tory recount in the Cougher-Rob- bins race, it will occur after that date. Other than the Southside cliff- hanger, none of the contested races in Mason County narrowed. In the City of Shelton, incumbent Mayor John Tarrant stretched his lead over challenger Gary Cronce to 103 votes, while incumbent Com- missioner Mike Byrne now leads Chase Gallagher by 48 votes. As of Wednesday, 18,365 out of 30,116 registered voters in Mason County voted, which is a turnout of 60.9 percent. A roundup of contested races and ballot measures is on page 28 of this week's Journal. (2ouple requesting 1"eturn of marijuana By JEFF GREEN Police are calling it a small mar- ijuana growing operation, but the residents of a Shelton apartment raided recently maintain the pot officers seized was for medicinal purposes. Kim Morris appeared before the $1Telton City Commission Monday afternoon saying Shelton police came to the Fairmount Avenue apartment she and husband Alex- ander Morris occupy on Thursday, November 8, and that officers im- properly took his medicinal mari- juana, which she said had been prescribed for him. Alexander has been a medicinal marijuana patient since May 2005 and had suffered headaches and nausea since being in a coma earli- er that year, she said. He had been seen in a hospital emergency room several times for the headaches and nausea and she took him to the emergency room the day after the police raid. Her husband has not received his medicine back from the police, she said, adding the police are not obeying the amended laws of the state. KRISTIE CHOATE, who with (Please turn to page 8.) A record of service Veteran Marv Anstey of Shelton is escorted from Memorial Hall by his son, Tim. Following them are others who attended this year's 11/11 Breakfast on Veterans' Day. There's more on page 12.