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Closure lian called the fence "kind of ugly, they have lookouts," he said.
but it sets its purpose." That" pur- Glen said the illegal and annoy-
Continued from page A-1 pose is to get ride of the feeling of ing activity at the park was perpetu-
"having company year-round," he ated by young gang members, while
on Oct. 30 by erecting the fence, and said. homeless persons "seem to respect it
then spend the next months restor- "This is a day park," he said. a little more."
ing the grass and native plants and '~/hen the sun goes down, there The park area is quiet now, but
installing a parking barrier estab- shouldn't be anyone here, and there "summer is when we'll be able to tell
lishing the park boundary, is." the story," he said. "That's when it's
" The Shelton City Commission Julian, who has lived in the house light out and people are out later."
passed the recommendation by a 3-0 for 10 years, remembers when local Glen "praised Ziegler as "very
vote at its Oct. 15 meeting. The park workers took pleasant lunch breaks cooperative, very nice, very help-
will tentatively reopen June 30. at the park. But in recent years, ful." While Ziegler's crew blew dead
The fence went up, and then youths have torn boards from his leaves out of the park, they did his
came the silence, fence to feed fires: yard as well, he said.
"It's been wonderful," said Jack- As for the fences coming down in Ziegler said his department
ie's husband, Glen Lautt. "It's been June, "I'm not hopeful ... I think the brought in some soil and planted
quiet." same thing will happen," he said. some grass seed.
"When you see people come down, The illegal activity will only be "We're giving it a little head start
it's neighbors," Jackie said. "It's discouraged by surveillance or con- before winter sets in ... We're work-
back to the way a neighborhoodstant patrols by Shelton police, Ju- ing to make it a more user-friendly
should be." lian said. amenity for the neighbors and resi-
On the other side of the park, Ju- "You can't catch them, because dents," he said.
Veterans ~r graduating college in
the 1950s.
Continued from page A-1 "I had gone to college and
at the time the economy was
The only World War II vet- bad -- I couldn't get a job,"
eran in attendance, Charlie she said. "I felt I loved my
Hallin, reminisced about his country and wanted to serve."
time as a machine gunner on Frank Oster, a veteran of the
a tank in Gen. George Patton's Marine Corps, has helped orga-
Third Army, and fishing on the nize the event all three years.
Elbe River with hand grenades. Veterans and their fami-
Some veterans talked lies were treated to a free
about serving their country hamburger or hotdog lunch,
-- others spoke of what the with apple or pumpkin pie
military did for them. for desert, through donations
"I learned to read and from several community or-
write in school and I got edu- ganizations, he said, such as
cated in the Army," said Bill the Shelton Bible Church,
Stevens, an Army veteran of the Shelton American Le-
the Korean War. gion, the Bible Chapel on the
Darlene Wolff joined theCanal, Hood Canal Kiwanis,
Air Force and served as a Hood Canal Lions, and Hood
communications specialist Canal Community Church.
Park be found, Hahn said. That
"handshake" deal for the
Continued frompageA-1 purchase hinges on the
parks commission receiving
the $2.5 million grant from the grant, he said.
the Washington Wildlife The amenities at the
and Recreation Program park will depend on its size,
next spring, it will purchase but the state is focused on
55 acres of tidelands at making its parks pay for
Fudge Point from the Trust themselves, Hahn said.
for Public Lands (TPL). "Self sufficiency has be-
That would lead to discus- come the buzzword," he
sions to purchase an addi- said.
tional 205 acres of adjoin- In March, more than 100
ing uplands property fromresidents attended a pre-
the Scott family, which sold sentation on the proposal.
the 55 acres to TPL. Many said they opposed a
The negotiations might new park.
also involve trading a por- Walt Hitchcock lives
tion of Harstine Island next to' the proposed state
State Park for upland prop- park site, and his family
erty at Fudge Point. The has resided at Fudge Point
eventual result could be since his great-grandpar-
public access to 3.2 miles of ents purchased property in
beach from the north tip of 1909. Between Hitchcock,
the Harstine Island proper- his brothers and uncle, they
ty, through the Scott prop- own about 25 to 28 acres at
erty and McMicken Island the point.
State Park, to the south tip Touring the beach with
of Fudge Point. a reporter, Hitchcock said
H a h n Hq'='sln, he initially
told about had res-
70 Kiwanis ervations
members
an
about a
represents state park
that the
goal is to oni~ortunitl/ next to his
provide pub- r'r" " "",/ p r o p e r t y,
lie access to be the best especially
toFudge when he
P o in t, state park the knew little
which offers about the
proposal.
spectacu- state owns,/t "I didn't
lar views
of Mount want idiots
Rainier, the Olympic Moun- from Seattle digging my
tains and Mount St. Hel-clams and suing me if they
ens. The park could include tripped on a barnacle," he
campsites, recreational said.
vehicle sites, cabins and a But Hitchcock said he
boat ramp. has changed his mind.
The state has been in- "What defines our heri-
terested in establishing a tage is what we leave to
state park at Fudge Point people, and open spaces
since the mid-1960s, butand parks are the most im-
never found a willing land portant," he said.
seller, Hahn said. The key Hitchcock said he be-
attractions are the quali- lieves other property own-
ties of the beach, and the ers will provide easements
available public access to it, for a state park.
he said. "I look at the park this
In August 2011, TPL of- way: if(people) have access
ficials asked the parks com- across our beaches, it gives
mission if it was interested us the largest amount of
in purchasing 55 acres be- beach access in the state ...
ing sold by the Scott ram- This represents an oppor-
ily at Fudge Point, Hahntunity to be the best state
said. Due to a possible park the state owns, their
foreclosure, the Scotts had flagship park," Hitchcock
30 days to sell the land be- said.
fore a public auction, which Some nearby residents
meant the state parks offi- fear any kind of change,
cials had only one month to but "it's going to happen, no
figure out if establishing a matter what," he said.
park on the property made Hahn said discussions
sense, he said. with landowners such as
Officials from TPL said Taylor Shellfish will not
they realized the parks begin until the grant is
,commission didn't have the awarded. If that happens,
money to buy the land, and the studies and public hear-
offered to purchase it as a ings will begin again, he
"bridge" until funds could said.
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
Walt Hitchcock's family has owned property at Fudge Point on Harstine Island since 1909, and
his land borders the proposed Fudge Point State Park. He supports creation of the park, which
could be triggered by a grant that allows the state to purchase 55 acres from the Trust for Public
Lands. "What defines our heritage is what we leave to people, and open spaces 'and parks are the
most important," he said.
This map shows proposed two phases that could establish a Fudge Point State
or 255 acres on Harstine Island.
Courtesy photo
Park of 55 acres,
-,--u~a~uana for "intoxication" is .5
nanograms per milliliter of
Continued from page A-1 THC in the drivers' blood,
Byrd said.
Mason County Prosecutor THC, tetrahydracan-
Mike Dorcy said the law is nabinol, is the psychoactive
not retroactive, meaning ingredient in marijuana.
previous convictions for However, marijuana
possession of marijuana remains detectable in a
will not be void, but said user's blood for days or
many current cases pend- weeks, which makes de-
ing trial or probation re- tecting intoxication more
view will likely be dropped, complicated than with al-
"Any district court case cohol, which remains in a
of possession by an adult users' system for hours.
is probably going to be dis- Dorcy said prosecut-
missed,'he said. ing DUI cases involving
The initiative also in- marijuana would probably
cludes language star- share some of the same
ing that a person could challenges as alcohol re-
be charged with a DUI if lated DUIs.
caught driving under the While authorities can
influence of marijuana, perform breath tests for
The threshold set forth alcohol intoxication, THC
concentration numbers legal, Dorcy said it is also
come from blood or urineunclear whether employers
samples, can still require drug tests
Although THC stays in for marijuana, and if they
the body longer than alco- could fire employees found
hol, Dorcy said much of it to use it.
may still metabolize before He said previous laws
a test could prove intoxica- making medical marijuana
tion to the level required legal do not have an affect
under the law. As in alco- on an employer's ability to
hol related DUIs, he said drug test or fire employees
prosecutors often rely on for marijuana use.
behavior, such as poor However the most prom-
driving or failing a field so- inent point of confusion,
briety test, in the prosecu- is that even though recre-
tion. ational marijuana use is
"There's other ways to now legal in the state, it is
show that someone is un- still an illegal drug accord-
der the influence or is be- ing to federal law.
ing affected by a drug," "We're still up against
Dorcy said. the issue of federal law,"
Despite the fact that Watson said. "We also have
the initiative makes rec- to see what the response
reational marijuana use from the Feds is."
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