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" "" PDC looking to fix law on 00UI00I4 leS 00eno000000e00ttan00 lying thrown out by court er • " and wife Karen of Everett and n w.ife Barbara e] -law Billie [ck and Michael Hunt- ley of Olympia, Tanya Graham most of her nin Shelton. :ghe was born 0-lIay 11, 1918 rl| West Stay- , , Oregon, to u rge F. and | babeth (Jack- a) Stoner. Herfatherand hs worked in u ing camps l her fam- returned to Vernis ti eltoa to be Skillman er to family lbers, living in what is now Own as the Walker Park area. L ing the Great Depression, she her family called many places e, traveling back and forth en Eastern and Western ,hiagton as they followed the "7t harvests. , it_er father and uncles movea , ir families to Arizona, where 9 Uncles worked in mines and !mlt Wood, while she, her mother I d sisters picked cotton to help F°Vide for their family. When the family returned to lrt, she attended Southside ool and Shelton Junior High, Ving after the eighth grade to rk as a live-in housekeeper and .Vide childcare for an affluent lton family. ,he married Thomas Leonard hnan Sr. on June 19, 1937 ;q Lthelton. They settled into a J  house on the shore of Lake pi, bella before moving into a ) le they built together above lid  lake. They were married 43 0 ars before Mr. Skillman died e L 1980. , .$Uer her husband's death, I.. Skillman lived with a sister her husband and they trav- l I. throughout the U.S. in a mo- i.hOrae and took several cruises li Alaska. f li$Ahe was a homemaker most o er life. When her children left !e, she pursued her dream of rki in the nursing field an IU led the staff at Fir Lane Health 1 Rehabilitation Center. She volunteered in the reading grara at Evergreen Elemen- ry School, at the Tollie informa- !1 booth and at the First Baptist ch where she helped put out Weekly bulletin and assisted the kitchen during dinners, ldings and funerals. Stlrviving are daughter Hazel lllmarth and husband John of talWater; sons Jerry Skillman of Livermore, California, Tiffney Olson of DuPont, Sharon Settle and Karen Visser of Union, Jodi Carlson of Palmer, Alaska, Jef- frey Skillman of Phoenix, Arizo- na, Troy Skillman of Everett and Shannon Skillman and Heather Nacht of Shelton; 14 great-grand- children, two great-great-grand- children and numerous nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her son Tom Skillman Jr. in 2007, twin sister Vires Height, sisters Frances Olson and Rosa- lie Lefebvre and grandson Jessie Visser. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 16, at Hope Chapel, 421 West E Street in Shelton. Pastor Ken Nielsen will officiate. Memorial donations may be made to the Mason County His- torical Society, P.O. Box 1366, Shelton. Arrangements are by McComb Funeral Home of Shelton. Avery Shoemate ' Avery E. Shoemate died of can- cer on Wednesday, November 7, at Saint Peter Hospital in Olympia. He was 69 and had lived in Union since 2006. He was born on September 26, 1938 in Woodland, California, to Avery and Eva (Commons) Shoe- mate. He married Barbara Stevens on July 1, 1998 in Saint Andrews, Scotland. Mr. Shoemate worked for Pa- cific Bell Telephone Company as a portfolio manager, retiring in 1996. He enjoyed golf and attended the First Baptist Church in Shel- ton. Surviving are wife Barbara Shoemate of Union; sons Robert Shoemate of California, Chris Morris of Oregon and Erin Morris of Boston, Massachusetts; mother Eva Kircher of Arizona; brother Charles Kircher of Arizona; sister Leotta Kircher of California; and tbur grandchildren. His son, Richard Shoemate, pre- ceded him in death in October. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 15, at the First Baptist Church in Shelton. Pastor Gary Schwarz will officiate. Arrangements are by McComb • Funeral Home in Shelton. 00}rive to keep local [oster children cozy coat and pajama drive' will fit foster children in Mason ty. Pae activity will run from 10 . to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Novem- '17, in the parking lot of Olsen raiture at 414 West Franklin 'et in downtown Shelton. Chil- of contributors will be treated mplimentary cookies, coffee, rn and balloons. L  e goal is to provide every fos-  Child in the county with a new 00reak dis .rupts Fater services A Water main at North 13th et and Northcliff Road broke around 3 p m. Wednesday, :lton Public Works Director Jay sor reported. s a result, water was sched- • fl to be offfor up to four hours to .f Terrace Heights and North-  residents, including those who oa Roy, James, Barnhard and  th streets while crews did nec- |ary repairs on the water main. Complete $595 360-705-2857 or 1-800-575-8823 24 hours 41Ways low cost with dignity 4ERICAN BURIAL & SV, RV00CWS pair of pajamas and a new coat for Christmas. All are welcome to stop by and bring a donation. These items are needed in all sizes for more than 200 boys boys and girls. Information regarding foster parenting and sponsoring a foster child for Christmas will also be available. More information is available by calling Jeanine Smith at 451- 6424. (Continued from page 3.) lenging the constitutionality of the law which authorized it. Her cause was taken up by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washing- ton, with attorney Venkat Bala- subramani arguing that the law infringed on Rickert's free-speech right and that political truth should be decided by voters and not the state. Judge Paula Casey found for the PDC in Thurston County Superior Court, but Rick- ert prevailed when she took her case to Division II of the Wash- ington Court of Appeals and when the Washington Supreme Court affirmed that ruling in a 5-4 deci- sion published on October 4. A dissenting opinion by Justice Barbara Madsen said the deci- sion "is an invitation to lie with impunity" that "advances the ef- forts of those who would turn po- litical campaigns into contests of the best stratagems of lies and deceit, to the end that honest dis- course and honest candidates are lost in the maelstrom." Writing for the majority, Justice James John- son made the point that under the law "a candidate is free to lie about himself, while an opponent will be sanctioned" and that this language "suggests that the inter- est proferred by the legislature "- protecting candidates (including themselves) - is the true interest behind this law, not protection of the electoral process." Johnson holds that in the heat of a political campaign a candidate's "factual blunder" is unlikely to escape the notice and correction by the oppo- sition. "IN OTHER WORDS, the best remedy for false or unpleas- ant speech is more speech, not less speech," Johnson wrote. "The importance of this constitutional principle is illustrated by the very real threats to liberty posed by al- lowing an unelected government censor like the PDC to act as an arbiter of truth." With three justices signing on to Johnson's written analysis of the case, Justice Gerry Alexander cast the deciding vote and invited more legal speech by writing a concur- ring opinion to the effect that the government may penalize "defam- Women helping women Cynthia Neilson accepts a $1,200 scholarship from the Shelton chapter of the International PEO Sisterhood. She has spent the past eight years in the Physical Ther- apy Department at Mason General Hospital. PEO is a philanthropic and educational organization founded on January 21, 1869 at Wesleyan College in Iowa with the purpose of bringing educational opportunities to women. Safety class helps older drivers A driver safety class for senior drivers will be offered on Thurs- day and Friday, December 6-7, at Mason General Hospital, 901 Mountain View Drive in Shel- ton. Eight hours of instruction will be given between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on those days. Participants must attend both days in order to receive a certifi- cate of completion, which may qualify them for a discount on Forest Funeral 0 REST Home "A reputation built on service" Prearrangement is the "best" thing yo.u can do for your k,0000ed ones Burial Cremation Ship outs We are full service and affordable Call on us today 360-427008044 313 West Railroad Avenue, Shelton, WA i nl i atory political speech" but that the law in question is faulty in that it also prohibits speech that is not defamato.ry. "In my opinion the majority goes too far in concluding that any government censorship of political speech would run afoul of the First Amendment to the Con- stitution," Alexander wrote. "The United States Supreme Court has ruled that defamation is not pro- tected by the First Amendment." Defamation is defined as an attack on a person's good name and reputation. In asking the Su- premes to take another look at the case, the PDC is looking for guid- ance in how that definition can be applied to attacks that are both false and unfair. While it might be false to proclaim that a convicted burglar was instead convicted of taking bribes, it might not be all that unfair if the proclaimer was merely confused about crimes starting with the letter b. A petition filed on behalf of the PDC on October 24 by Assistant Attorney General Linda Dalton states that prior rulings of the Washington Supreme Court have held that even if a state law is "substantially overbroad" the stat- ute will not be stricken from the code "unless the court is unable to place a sufficiently limiting con- struction upon the statute." With this in mind, the PDC is asking the court to define limits of the law "restricting its application to defamatory political speech that constitutes libel or defamation." ANDERSON OF. the PDC said the justices can reject the petition without comment or expand on the subject of defamatory politi- cal speech. Depending on how that goes, the Public Disclosure Com- mission still has the option of tak- ing its case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Rickert versus the PDC was the subject of comments at last week's meeting of the Mason County Com- mission by Louis Cofoni of Spencer Lake, who found the case to be un- settling. "What are we to tell our children?" he asked. "I wouldn't want to see young people who are getting to be voting age to figure it's okay to lie." State Senator Sheldon, who is also a county commissioner, did not attend the meeting. their auto-insurance premium. Those who attend will have a half-hour break at noon for lunch. Cost of the class is $10 per person, and preregistration is re- quired. To enroll, call 426-5239. Blooms By The Park Delivery to Mason and Thurston counties Weddings, funerals, • Unique holidays, fl bts or any • Garden occasion, decor • Live plants Open Mon.-Fri. 8am-6pm, Sat. 9am-3pm Vema Liles, Owner Your cal full-sertce floritt Located b X Kneeland Park at 421 S. 1st St., SheRon Amy W. Vandepitte Amy W. V.andepitte, 95, of Shelton, Washington, died Saturday, November 3, 2007. Amy was born February 14, 1912 in Vancouver, B. C. to Fred and Emma (Han- cock) Hartle. She grew up in Vancouver and graduated from high school there. In 1935, Amy married Leon J. Vandepitte in Vancouver. Leon died in December 1977. Amy was a tailor at Littlers and Drury the Tailor in Seattle. In 1959 they moved to Escondido, California. While there they owned their own tailor shop for several years. Amy moved to Olympia, Washington in 1995 and later to Shelton. In her later years she became an ac- complished oil painting artist. Survivors include her daughter, Donna Carnahan and husband David, Shelton; three grandchildren, Brent (Tammy) Camahan, Bakersfield, CA, John Carnahan, Olympia and Kathy (Randy) Drayer, Lake Havasu, AZ; a nephew, Ken (Marlene) Phillips, Nara- mata, B. C., Canada; also six great grandchildren, Lisa, Sarah, Kevin, Jason, Kimberly and Lindsay. Memorial donations may be made to Providence Sound ° Homecare and Hospice, 2146 W. Railroad Ave., Suite C, Shelton, WA 98584. The family would like to give a special thanks to the caregivers at Heatherwood Adult Family Home and Providence SoundHomecare and Hbspice for their kind and loving care. A private family service will be held at a later date. Please leave condolences online at; www.funcralalternatives. o_ Arrangements with Funeral Alternatives of Washington, (360) 753-1065. Paid Obituary Notice - i i i Thursday November 15, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 11 " "" PDC looking to fix law on 00UI00I4 leS 00eno000000e00ttan00 lying thrown out by court er • " and wife Karen of Everett and n w.ife Barbara e] -law Billie [ck and Michael Hunt- ley of Olympia, Tanya Graham most of her nin Shelton. :ghe was born 0-lIay 11, 1918 rl| West Stay- , , Oregon, to u rge F. and | babeth (Jack- a) Stoner. Herfatherand hs worked in u ing camps l her fam- returned to Vernis ti eltoa to be Skillman er to family lbers, living in what is now Own as the Walker Park area. L ing the Great Depression, she her family called many places e, traveling back and forth en Eastern and Western ,hiagton as they followed the "7t harvests. , it_er father and uncles movea , ir families to Arizona, where 9 Uncles worked in mines and !mlt Wood, while she, her mother I d sisters picked cotton to help F°Vide for their family. When the family returned to lrt, she attended Southside ool and Shelton Junior High, Ving after the eighth grade to rk as a live-in housekeeper and .Vide childcare for an affluent lton family. ,he married Thomas Leonard hnan Sr. on June 19, 1937 ;q Lthelton. They settled into a J  house on the shore of Lake pi, bella before moving into a ) le they built together above lid  lake. They were married 43 0 ars before Mr. Skillman died e L 1980. , .$Uer her husband's death, I.. Skillman lived with a sister her husband and they trav- l I. throughout the U.S. in a mo- i.hOrae and took several cruises li Alaska. f li$Ahe was a homemaker most o er life. When her children left !e, she pursued her dream of rki in the nursing field an IU led the staff at Fir Lane Health 1 Rehabilitation Center. She volunteered in the reading grara at Evergreen Elemen- ry School, at the Tollie informa- !1 booth and at the First Baptist ch where she helped put out Weekly bulletin and assisted the kitchen during dinners, ldings and funerals. Stlrviving are daughter Hazel lllmarth and husband John of talWater; sons Jerry Skillman of Livermore, California, Tiffney Olson of DuPont, Sharon Settle and Karen Visser of Union, Jodi Carlson of Palmer, Alaska, Jef- frey Skillman of Phoenix, Arizo- na, Troy Skillman of Everett and Shannon Skillman and Heather Nacht of Shelton; 14 great-grand- children, two great-great-grand- children and numerous nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her son Tom Skillman Jr. in 2007, twin sister Vires Height, sisters Frances Olson and Rosa- lie Lefebvre and grandson Jessie Visser. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 16, at Hope Chapel, 421 West E Street in Shelton. Pastor Ken Nielsen will officiate. Memorial donations may be made to the Mason County His- torical Society, P.O. Box 1366, Shelton. Arrangements are by McComb Funeral Home of Shelton. Avery Shoemate ' Avery E. Shoemate died of can- cer on Wednesday, November 7, at Saint Peter Hospital in Olympia. He was 69 and had lived in Union since 2006. He was born on September 26, 1938 in Woodland, California, to Avery and Eva (Commons) Shoe- mate. He married Barbara Stevens on July 1, 1998 in Saint Andrews, Scotland. Mr. Shoemate worked for Pa- cific Bell Telephone Company as a portfolio manager, retiring in 1996. He enjoyed golf and attended the First Baptist Church in Shel- ton. Surviving are wife Barbara Shoemate of Union; sons Robert Shoemate of California, Chris Morris of Oregon and Erin Morris of Boston, Massachusetts; mother Eva Kircher of Arizona; brother Charles Kircher of Arizona; sister Leotta Kircher of California; and tbur grandchildren. His son, Richard Shoemate, pre- ceded him in death in October. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 15, at the First Baptist Church in Shelton. Pastor Gary Schwarz will officiate. Arrangements are by McComb • Funeral Home in Shelton. 00}rive to keep local [oster children cozy coat and pajama drive' will fit foster children in Mason ty. Pae activity will run from 10 . to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Novem- '17, in the parking lot of Olsen raiture at 414 West Franklin 'et in downtown Shelton. Chil- of contributors will be treated mplimentary cookies, coffee, rn and balloons. L  e goal is to provide every fos-  Child in the county with a new 00reak dis .rupts Fater services A Water main at North 13th et and Northcliff Road broke around 3 p m. Wednesday, :lton Public Works Director Jay sor reported. s a result, water was sched- • fl to be offfor up to four hours to .f Terrace Heights and North-  residents, including those who oa Roy, James, Barnhard and  th streets while crews did nec- |ary repairs on the water main. Complete $595 360-705-2857 or 1-800-575-8823 24 hours 41Ways low cost with dignity 4ERICAN BURIAL & SV, RV00CWS pair of pajamas and a new coat for Christmas. All are welcome to stop by and bring a donation. These items are needed in all sizes for more than 200 boys boys and girls. Information regarding foster parenting and sponsoring a foster child for Christmas will also be available. More information is available by calling Jeanine Smith at 451- 6424. (Continued from page 3.) lenging the constitutionality of the law which authorized it. Her cause was taken up by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washing- ton, with attorney Venkat Bala- subramani arguing that the law infringed on Rickert's free-speech right and that political truth should be decided by voters and not the state. Judge Paula Casey found for the PDC in Thurston County Superior Court, but Rick- ert prevailed when she took her case to Division II of the Wash- ington Court of Appeals and when the Washington Supreme Court affirmed that ruling in a 5-4 deci- sion published on October 4. A dissenting opinion by Justice Barbara Madsen said the deci- sion "is an invitation to lie with impunity" that "advances the ef- forts of those who would turn po- litical campaigns into contests of the best stratagems of lies and deceit, to the end that honest dis- course and honest candidates are lost in the maelstrom." Writing for the majority, Justice James John- son made the point that under the law "a candidate is free to lie about himself, while an opponent will be sanctioned" and that this language "suggests that the inter- est proferred by the legislature "- protecting candidates (including themselves) - is the true interest behind this law, not protection of the electoral process." Johnson holds that in the heat of a political campaign a candidate's "factual blunder" is unlikely to escape the notice and correction by the oppo- sition. "IN OTHER WORDS, the best remedy for false or unpleas- ant speech is more speech, not less speech," Johnson wrote. "The importance of this constitutional principle is illustrated by the very real threats to liberty posed by al- lowing an unelected government censor like the PDC to act as an arbiter of truth." With three justices signing on to Johnson's written analysis of the case, Justice Gerry Alexander cast the deciding vote and invited more legal speech by writing a concur- ring opinion to the effect that the government may penalize "defam- Women helping women Cynthia Neilson accepts a $1,200 scholarship from the Shelton chapter of the International PEO Sisterhood. She has spent the past eight years in the Physical Ther- apy Department at Mason General Hospital. PEO is a philanthropic and educational organization founded on January 21, 1869 at Wesleyan College in Iowa with the purpose of bringing educational opportunities to women. Safety class helps older drivers A driver safety class for senior drivers will be offered on Thurs- day and Friday, December 6-7, at Mason General Hospital, 901 Mountain View Drive in Shel- ton. Eight hours of instruction will be given between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on those days. Participants must attend both days in order to receive a certifi- cate of completion, which may qualify them for a discount on Forest Funeral 0 REST Home "A reputation built on service" Prearrangement is the "best" thing yo.u can do for your k,0000ed ones Burial Cremation Ship outs We are full service and affordable Call on us today 360-427008044 313 West Railroad Avenue, Shelton, WA i nl i atory political speech" but that the law in question is faulty in that it also prohibits speech that is not defamato.ry. "In my opinion the majority goes too far in concluding that any government censorship of political speech would run afoul of the First Amendment to the Con- stitution," Alexander wrote. "The United States Supreme Court has ruled that defamation is not pro- tected by the First Amendment." Defamation is defined as an attack on a person's good name and reputation. In asking the Su- premes to take another look at the case, the PDC is looking for guid- ance in how that definition can be applied to attacks that are both false and unfair. While it might be false to proclaim that a convicted burglar was instead convicted of taking bribes, it might not be all that unfair if the proclaimer was merely confused about crimes starting with the letter b. A petition filed on behalf of the PDC on October 24 by Assistant Attorney General Linda Dalton states that prior rulings of the Washington Supreme Court have held that even if a state law is "substantially overbroad" the stat- ute will not be stricken from the code "unless the court is unable to place a sufficiently limiting con- struction upon the statute." With this in mind, the PDC is asking the court to define limits of the law "restricting its application to defamatory political speech that constitutes libel or defamation." ANDERSON OF. the PDC said the justices can reject the petition without comment or expand on the subject of defamatory politi- cal speech. Depending on how that goes, the Public Disclosure Com- mission still has the option of tak- ing its case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Rickert versus the PDC was the subject of comments at last week's meeting of the Mason County Com- mission by Louis Cofoni of Spencer Lake, who found the case to be un- settling. "What are we to tell our children?" he asked. "I wouldn't want to see young people who are getting to be voting age to figure it's okay to lie." State Senator Sheldon, who is also a county commissioner, did not attend the meeting. their auto-insurance premium. Those who attend will have a half-hour break at noon for lunch. Cost of the class is $10 per person, and preregistration is re- quired. To enroll, call 426-5239. Blooms By The Park Delivery to Mason and Thurston counties Weddings, funerals, • Unique holidays, fl bts or any • Garden occasion, decor • Live plants Open Mon.-Fri. 8am-6pm, Sat. 9am-3pm Vema Liles, Owner Your cal full-sertce floritt Located b X Kneeland Park at 421 S. 1st St., SheRon Amy W. Vandepitte Amy W. V.andepitte, 95, of Shelton, Washington, died Saturday, November 3, 2007. Amy was born February 14, 1912 in Vancouver, B. C. to Fred and Emma (Han- cock) Hartle. She grew up in Vancouver and graduated from high school there. In 1935, Amy married Leon J. Vandepitte in Vancouver. Leon died in December 1977. Amy was a tailor at Littlers and Drury the Tailor in Seattle. In 1959 they moved to Escondido, California. While there they owned their own tailor shop for several years. Amy moved to Olympia, Washington in 1995 and later to Shelton. In her later years she became an ac- complished oil painting artist. Survivors include her daughter, Donna Carnahan and husband David, Shelton; three grandchildren, Brent (Tammy) Camahan, Bakersfield, CA, John Carnahan, Olympia and Kathy (Randy) Drayer, Lake Havasu, AZ; a nephew, Ken (Marlene) Phillips, Nara- mata, B. C., Canada; also six great grandchildren, Lisa, Sarah, Kevin, Jason, Kimberly and Lindsay. Memorial donations may be made to Providence Sound ° Homecare and Hospice, 2146 W. Railroad Ave., Suite C, Shelton, WA 98584. The family would like to give a special thanks to the caregivers at Heatherwood Adult Family Home and Providence SoundHomecare and Hbspice for their kind and loving care. A private family service will be held at a later date. Please leave condolences online at; www.funcralalternatives. o_ Arrangements with Funeral Alternatives of Washington, (360) 753-1065. Paid Obituary Notice - i i i Thursday November 15, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 11