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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
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the inside
eee
tUaity Calendar ....... 40
Word ........................... 37
inment, Dining ..... 30
Journal ................. 18
'u of Record ............. 25
; .................................. 21
i,t .................................. "
,er .................................. 6
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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.