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County goes slow on Septics
A final decision regarding Ma-
son County's On-Site Sewage
System Management Plan was
postponed until December 4 at
Tuesday's meeting of the Mason
County Commission.
State law required all counties
around Puget Sound to complete a
sewage management plan by July
1. Riding on approval of this plan
by the year's end is the county's
eligibility for $100,000 in fund-
ing from the Washington State
Department of Health, said Vicki
Kirkpatrick, director of Mason
County Public Health.
County commissioners opened
the issue to public comment dur-
ing their regular meeting on No-
vember 20. Steve Bloomfield, as
well as Bill Dewey of Taylor Shell-
fish, spoke at the meeting.
County count: 23 belt tickets
The results are in t¥om the re-
cent Nighttime Seatbelt Enforce-
ment Project conducted here and
statewide in late October and ear-
ly November.
Law enforcement made 40 con-
tacts with motorists in Mason
County and issued 23 citations for
seatbelt infractions as well as a
variety of other citations.
More than 50 law-enforcement
agencies and the Washington
State Patrol participated in the
patrols statewide, with the local
support of the Mason County DUI/
Traffic Safety Task Force. State-
wide, law-enforcement officers
made 7,517 contacts with motor-
ists and intercepted a large num-
ber of high-risk driving behaviors.
They found 3,948 seatbelt and
car-seat violations and made 72
drunk-driver arrests and 89 drug
arrests, including 11 for drug-im-
paired driving.
"The 'Click It or Ticket' seatbelt
patrols were directed to take place
at nighttime, after 7 p.m., because
the death rate is four times higher
at night than it is during fhe day,
in large part because of significant-
ly lower seatbelt use," said Lowell
Porter, director of the Washington
Traffic Safety Commission.
Advent brings hope
of promises to keep
(Continued from page 7.)
is not all sunny and pleasant.
The joys of Christmas past that
we remember have a tendency to
change, as our childhood dreams
become adult reality and the real-
ity of our lives falls far short of our
fbrmer expectations. This season is
sad for many, and the bright colors
and tbstive lights cannot outshine
the harshness of life.
This is why it is important tbr us
to understand the true meaning of
Christmas. Anna and Simeon un-
derstood. They both needed a Sav-
ior to rescue them out of long hard
lives. As the years of their lives
progressed one year at a time, they
needed to keep hope within them
that one day a joyous and happy
time would come. The very hope
they had waited for became reality
on the day they saw and held Je-
sus. The story of Simeon and Anna
shows us that the joy of Christmas
is not fbund in the gifts we give
or receive; the joy of Christmas is
fbund in God who came to bring joy
to a dark world. The prophet Isaiah
in telling us about Christmas said,
"The people who walked in dark-
ness have seen a great light; those
who dwelt in the land of the shad-
ow of death, upon them a light has
shined." (Isaiah 9:2)
The true meaning of Christmas
is that God came into this world
not because it was such a joyful,
wonderful place to visit, but be-
cause our world is full of sorrow
and suffering. God stepped into
humanity, taking our form, to save
us from sorrow, suffering, and sin.
He came to bring us joy and to set
us free from this world's suffering.
Simeon and Anna beheld the Christ
child, and because they trusted in
Him they were not disappointed.
After their death they were taken
to heaven because of the birth,
death and resur/'ection of Jesus.
In heaven people are living every
day and experiencing the real joy
of Christmas. In heaven our reality
will far exceed any anticipation of
what we might envision. Because
Simeon and Anna lived their lives
in patience and hope, waiting for
God to save them, they were taken
into God's house, a place filled with
joy, where they will live forever.
THIS YEAR I would encourage
you to live with the hope Christmas
has offered us. Christmas is the day
of salvation that was introduced
into our world 2000 years ago. God
wants us to know He loves us and
came into our world to take care of
us tbrever. He will give the gift of
salvation to anyone who asks, and
those who ask will receive the giI
of eternal life from Him. We are like
Anna and Simeon if we wait with
anticipation for Christmas, for the
coming of God who sets us free from
our sins and sorrows. True hope is
not in the gifts and presents found
in this life, but in what the Christ
child can change in us. He can give
people with no hope a reason to live
and continue to live.
We have just read about two
aged people who saw what they had
longed to see, and then died con-
tent. Their hope was not in physi-
cally getting to see a little baby;
their hope was in what this little
baby would accomplish. Jesus, the
little baby they held, opened the
doorway into heaven for them to
live with God. That doorway was
opened through the shed blood of
Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. That is
the joy of Christmas, one we can ex-
perience this Christmas season, as
we wait for our time when we will
be able to see Him in His glory.
If anyone reading this article
does not have a church to call
home, please make it your practice
to weekly attend one of the many
Bible teaching churches here in
Mason County. If what I have said
is hard to understand, please come
to church and learn more of the
good news of Christmas and God's
gift that was given to us. How are
you going to get to know about
the best person in the entire uni-
verse, if you don't attend one of His
churches and hear the words being
taught from His book, the Bible?
Harry Christensen is pastor of
Calvary Chapel of Shelton.
yREE
for an
Page 8 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, November 22, 2007
Bloomfield suggested letting
the Mason County Planning Advi-
sory Commission look at the plan
before adopting it, in order to ad-
dress a few lingering issues. Dew-
ey listed a number of concerns he
would still like addressed beibre
seeing the plan approved, though
he said he has not had the chance
to study it as much as he would
like.
Dewey commended the county
for developing the plan. "It's just a
great relief to see all the counties
going in that direction," he told
the commissioners.
Commissioner Lynda Ring-Er-
ickson said she still had questions
she would like answered
ing the plan before she
prepared to vote on it.
agreed to table its
the first week in
living document, so if we
today it doesn't mean
be able to work on it
Erickson said.
Latter-day Saints organize
community service proj
(Continued from page 7.) on meals to its welfare program. "Our mission in life, as
were happy to support them." "All about us there are many of the Lord Jesus Christ,
The congregation also spent a who are in need of help and who are a inission of saving. There
Saturday cleaning up trash at the
skate park on Wallace Kneeland
Boulevard in Shelton. People of
the Shelton Second Ward made 30
quilts in three months. Joan Wood-
ward organized the quilting project
and supervised the making of dolls,
stuffed toys and book bags filled
with school supplies, distributing
patterns to men of the ward who cut
out wooden cars and toys. Members
of the Spanish Branch of Shelton
made more than a hundred of the
wooden toys which will be distribut-
ed to children worldwide along with
school bags and other supplies.
A number of church members
were touched by recent media re-
ports regarding newborns dying
from hypothermia in Third World
countries, noting that some areas
are so impoverished that babies are
swaddled in newspapers. Groups
of teens and women of the Relief
Society of' the Latter-day Saints
throughout the Elma Stake got to-
gether and knitted hundreds of hats
for newborns and made baby quilts,
receiving blankets and burp cloths.
Other congregations in the Elma
Stake donated blood to the Puget
Sound Blood Center, made lap
quilts for residents of a retirement
home, raised money to buy school
supplies for children in need and
gave hats and scarves to homeless
people at the Union Gospel Mission
in Aberdeen.
THE CHURCH of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints organizes hu-
manitarian activities worldwide.
Between 1985 and 2006, the church
donated cash of more than $201
million and goods of more than
$705 million in disaster relief to 163
countries. Also known as Mormons,
the LDS dedicate 10 percent of their
income to worldwide operations of
the church, which requires mem-
bers to fast once a month and give
the money they would have spent
deserving of rescue," said Gordon homeless, the hungry,
B. ttinckley, president of the LDS. tute."
Christmas drive begins
(Continued from page 1.)
in memory of a loved one.
Persons who would like to re-
ceive a basket and/or toys can sign
up at the 40 et 8, 113 West Cota
Street, at the following times:
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on three Sat-
urdays, November 24, December 1
and December 8; and from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, November 27 and 28, and
Tuesday and Wednesday, Decem-
ber 4 and 5.
Toys for Kids, an organization
started by the Shelton Fire Depart-
ment and its supporters, will have
a toy shopping day on December
15. Food baskets will be distribut-
ed at the SOCK Commumty Cen-
ter, located in the old Shelton Ar-
mory at 601 West Franklin Street,
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday,
December 22, for those who have
registered in advance.
Persons signing up tbr toys and
baskets must provide photo iden-
tification for the adult picking up
the basket and identification for
the children participating in the
programs (such as birth certificate
or paperwork for state
A registration sheet and
is required when picking up
basket. Registration and
times for the toy program
provided to families who
in advance, and photo ID
quired at toy pickup. More
mation is available at the
during registration dates
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Household • Clothing • Sporting Goods • Tools • Toys & Much
BAIIEAINS EAJr, oR£
Mason Senio:
Donations accapted daily"
* Please call first for daily drop off hours
* Items must be CLEA/Vand in GOOD CONDITION
2505 Olympic Hwy N
Hours: Monday - Saturday 10-5 • Friday t
Gateway Shopping Center
SERVZtG MASON Country RSZDSrs N THE SAM WCAnON mR 19 rr.lms
Shelton Downtown Merchants
CHRISTMAS
sHOPPING
FESTIVAl-
• FOOD
• MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN SHELTON FRIDAY,
FRIDAY000000 DEC. 7 r"
UNTIL 8 P.M.
-*
5 GRAND PRIZES! SAT.,
UP TO DEC. 8 TM
• 25 Store and Restaurant Prizes
Kristmas Town Kiwanis
TREE LIGHTING
at the
POST OFFICE
6 P.M. FRIDAY
• Shelton Chamber Singers • Surprise Guest
• Hartine Island Choir * Musicians • Sing-a-long
• Bonfires on 2nd and Railroad • Caroling
• Kids' Marshmallow Roast & Cocoa
Your chamber sponsors December's 1st FRIDAY
Pick up details and game cards at these participating
We pank our sponsors
Olsen Furniture
Vander Wal's Garage
Vern's Restaurant
Olympic Gallery
Digital Printing
Shelton Floor Covering
Xinh's Clam & Oyster House
Michael D. Wittenberg, CPS, PS
Green Diamond Resource
KeyBank
Lumbermen's
Kristmas Town Kiwanis
Shelton-Mason County
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Insurance
County goes slow on Septics
A final decision regarding Ma-
son County's On-Site Sewage
System Management Plan was
postponed until December 4 at
Tuesday's meeting of the Mason
County Commission.
State law required all counties
around Puget Sound to complete a
sewage management plan by July
1. Riding on approval of this plan
by the year's end is the county's
eligibility for $100,000 in fund-
ing from the Washington State
Department of Health, said Vicki
Kirkpatrick, director of Mason
County Public Health.
County commissioners opened
the issue to public comment dur-
ing their regular meeting on No-
vember 20. Steve Bloomfield, as
well as Bill Dewey of Taylor Shell-
fish, spoke at the meeting.
County count: 23 belt tickets
The results are in t¥om the re-
cent Nighttime Seatbelt Enforce-
ment Project conducted here and
statewide in late October and ear-
ly November.
Law enforcement made 40 con-
tacts with motorists in Mason
County and issued 23 citations for
seatbelt infractions as well as a
variety of other citations.
More than 50 law-enforcement
agencies and the Washington
State Patrol participated in the
patrols statewide, with the local
support of the Mason County DUI/
Traffic Safety Task Force. State-
wide, law-enforcement officers
made 7,517 contacts with motor-
ists and intercepted a large num-
ber of high-risk driving behaviors.
They found 3,948 seatbelt and
car-seat violations and made 72
drunk-driver arrests and 89 drug
arrests, including 11 for drug-im-
paired driving.
"The 'Click It or Ticket' seatbelt
patrols were directed to take place
at nighttime, after 7 p.m., because
the death rate is four times higher
at night than it is during fhe day,
in large part because of significant-
ly lower seatbelt use," said Lowell
Porter, director of the Washington
Traffic Safety Commission.
Advent brings hope
of promises to keep
(Continued from page 7.)
is not all sunny and pleasant.
The joys of Christmas past that
we remember have a tendency to
change, as our childhood dreams
become adult reality and the real-
ity of our lives falls far short of our
fbrmer expectations. This season is
sad for many, and the bright colors
and tbstive lights cannot outshine
the harshness of life.
This is why it is important tbr us
to understand the true meaning of
Christmas. Anna and Simeon un-
derstood. They both needed a Sav-
ior to rescue them out of long hard
lives. As the years of their lives
progressed one year at a time, they
needed to keep hope within them
that one day a joyous and happy
time would come. The very hope
they had waited for became reality
on the day they saw and held Je-
sus. The story of Simeon and Anna
shows us that the joy of Christmas
is not fbund in the gifts we give
or receive; the joy of Christmas is
fbund in God who came to bring joy
to a dark world. The prophet Isaiah
in telling us about Christmas said,
"The people who walked in dark-
ness have seen a great light; those
who dwelt in the land of the shad-
ow of death, upon them a light has
shined." (Isaiah 9:2)
The true meaning of Christmas
is that God came into this world
not because it was such a joyful,
wonderful place to visit, but be-
cause our world is full of sorrow
and suffering. God stepped into
humanity, taking our form, to save
us from sorrow, suffering, and sin.
He came to bring us joy and to set
us free from this world's suffering.
Simeon and Anna beheld the Christ
child, and because they trusted in
Him they were not disappointed.
After their death they were taken
to heaven because of the birth,
death and resur/'ection of Jesus.
In heaven people are living every
day and experiencing the real joy
of Christmas. In heaven our reality
will far exceed any anticipation of
what we might envision. Because
Simeon and Anna lived their lives
in patience and hope, waiting for
God to save them, they were taken
into God's house, a place filled with
joy, where they will live forever.
THIS YEAR I would encourage
you to live with the hope Christmas
has offered us. Christmas is the day
of salvation that was introduced
into our world 2000 years ago. God
wants us to know He loves us and
came into our world to take care of
us tbrever. He will give the gift of
salvation to anyone who asks, and
those who ask will receive the giI
of eternal life from Him. We are like
Anna and Simeon if we wait with
anticipation for Christmas, for the
coming of God who sets us free from
our sins and sorrows. True hope is
not in the gifts and presents found
in this life, but in what the Christ
child can change in us. He can give
people with no hope a reason to live
and continue to live.
We have just read about two
aged people who saw what they had
longed to see, and then died con-
tent. Their hope was not in physi-
cally getting to see a little baby;
their hope was in what this little
baby would accomplish. Jesus, the
little baby they held, opened the
doorway into heaven for them to
live with God. That doorway was
opened through the shed blood of
Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. That is
the joy of Christmas, one we can ex-
perience this Christmas season, as
we wait for our time when we will
be able to see Him in His glory.
If anyone reading this article
does not have a church to call
home, please make it your practice
to weekly attend one of the many
Bible teaching churches here in
Mason County. If what I have said
is hard to understand, please come
to church and learn more of the
good news of Christmas and God's
gift that was given to us. How are
you going to get to know about
the best person in the entire uni-
verse, if you don't attend one of His
churches and hear the words being
taught from His book, the Bible?
Harry Christensen is pastor of
Calvary Chapel of Shelton.
yREE
for an
Page 8 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, November 22, 2007
Bloomfield suggested letting
the Mason County Planning Advi-
sory Commission look at the plan
before adopting it, in order to ad-
dress a few lingering issues. Dew-
ey listed a number of concerns he
would still like addressed beibre
seeing the plan approved, though
he said he has not had the chance
to study it as much as he would
like.
Dewey commended the county
for developing the plan. "It's just a
great relief to see all the counties
going in that direction," he told
the commissioners.
Commissioner Lynda Ring-Er-
ickson said she still had questions
she would like answered
ing the plan before she
prepared to vote on it.
agreed to table its
the first week in
living document, so if we
today it doesn't mean
be able to work on it
Erickson said.
Latter-day Saints organize
community service proj
(Continued from page 7.) on meals to its welfare program. "Our mission in life, as
were happy to support them." "All about us there are many of the Lord Jesus Christ,
The congregation also spent a who are in need of help and who are a inission of saving. There
Saturday cleaning up trash at the
skate park on Wallace Kneeland
Boulevard in Shelton. People of
the Shelton Second Ward made 30
quilts in three months. Joan Wood-
ward organized the quilting project
and supervised the making of dolls,
stuffed toys and book bags filled
with school supplies, distributing
patterns to men of the ward who cut
out wooden cars and toys. Members
of the Spanish Branch of Shelton
made more than a hundred of the
wooden toys which will be distribut-
ed to children worldwide along with
school bags and other supplies.
A number of church members
were touched by recent media re-
ports regarding newborns dying
from hypothermia in Third World
countries, noting that some areas
are so impoverished that babies are
swaddled in newspapers. Groups
of teens and women of the Relief
Society of' the Latter-day Saints
throughout the Elma Stake got to-
gether and knitted hundreds of hats
for newborns and made baby quilts,
receiving blankets and burp cloths.
Other congregations in the Elma
Stake donated blood to the Puget
Sound Blood Center, made lap
quilts for residents of a retirement
home, raised money to buy school
supplies for children in need and
gave hats and scarves to homeless
people at the Union Gospel Mission
in Aberdeen.
THE CHURCH of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints organizes hu-
manitarian activities worldwide.
Between 1985 and 2006, the church
donated cash of more than $201
million and goods of more than
$705 million in disaster relief to 163
countries. Also known as Mormons,
the LDS dedicate 10 percent of their
income to worldwide operations of
the church, which requires mem-
bers to fast once a month and give
the money they would have spent
deserving of rescue," said Gordon homeless, the hungry,
B. ttinckley, president of the LDS. tute."
Christmas drive begins
(Continued from page 1.)
in memory of a loved one.
Persons who would like to re-
ceive a basket and/or toys can sign
up at the 40 et 8, 113 West Cota
Street, at the following times:
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on three Sat-
urdays, November 24, December 1
and December 8; and from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, November 27 and 28, and
Tuesday and Wednesday, Decem-
ber 4 and 5.
Toys for Kids, an organization
started by the Shelton Fire Depart-
ment and its supporters, will have
a toy shopping day on December
15. Food baskets will be distribut-
ed at the SOCK Commumty Cen-
ter, located in the old Shelton Ar-
mory at 601 West Franklin Street,
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday,
December 22, for those who have
registered in advance.
Persons signing up tbr toys and
baskets must provide photo iden-
tification for the adult picking up
the basket and identification for
the children participating in the
programs (such as birth certificate
or paperwork for state
A registration sheet and
is required when picking up
basket. Registration and
times for the toy program
provided to families who
in advance, and photo ID
quired at toy pickup. More
mation is available at the
during registration dates
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Household • Clothing • Sporting Goods • Tools • Toys & Much
BAIIEAINS EAJr, oR£
Mason Senio:
Donations accapted daily"
* Please call first for daily drop off hours
* Items must be CLEA/Vand in GOOD CONDITION
2505 Olympic Hwy N
Hours: Monday - Saturday 10-5 • Friday t
Gateway Shopping Center
SERVZtG MASON Country RSZDSrs N THE SAM WCAnON mR 19 rr.lms
Shelton Downtown Merchants
CHRISTMAS
sHOPPING
FESTIVAl-
• FOOD
• MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN SHELTON FRIDAY,
FRIDAY000000 DEC. 7 r"
UNTIL 8 P.M.
-*
5 GRAND PRIZES! SAT.,
UP TO DEC. 8 TM
• 25 Store and Restaurant Prizes
Kristmas Town Kiwanis
TREE LIGHTING
at the
POST OFFICE
6 P.M. FRIDAY
• Shelton Chamber Singers • Surprise Guest
• Hartine Island Choir * Musicians • Sing-a-long
• Bonfires on 2nd and Railroad • Caroling
• Kids' Marshmallow Roast & Cocoa
Your chamber sponsors December's 1st FRIDAY
Pick up details and game cards at these participating
We pank our sponsors
Olsen Furniture
Vander Wal's Garage
Vern's Restaurant
Olympic Gallery
Digital Printing
Shelton Floor Covering
Xinh's Clam & Oyster House
Michael D. Wittenberg, CPS, PS
Green Diamond Resource
KeyBank
Lumbermen's
Kristmas Town Kiwanis
Shelton-Mason County
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Insurance