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FRIENDLY FLAGGERS working during the lengthy Northcliff Road Improvement Proj-
ect are Erma Stangland, left, and Pam Bryant.
Smooth sailing with these
folks flagging on Northcliff
By JEFF GREEN
Being a flagger can sometimes
be a lonely, monotonous and
hassle-filled job.
You're on your thet all day and
have to remain on alert. What's
more, motorists, used to their
freedom on the (:)pen road, can be
a crabby and cranky lot because
when you're a itagger, it's your
job to tell them when and where
they can proceed. Not everyone
appreciates that.
During the past five-plus
months, two women who work
as flaggers for B.C. Traffic, a
subcontracting firm on Shelton's
Northcliff Road Improvement
Project, have gotten to know the
residents and neighbors in the
Northclift' area through their
day-to-day interactions. They've
grown to like them, a lot.
"We've gotten to be friends
up here," Erma Stangland, traf-
fic control supervisor, said of
the residents. "They're the best.
We're going to miss them."
PAM BRYANT, a flagger from
Elma, agrees with Stangland.
"They're wonderful people," she
said. "l don't want to leave."
Shelton City Commissioner
Dawn Pannell and husband Ron
live on Northclifr Road and of-
fered the women coite and use
of their picnic table tbr lunch,
gestures much appreciated by
the women.
The Northcliff project is in its
final weeks. Crews are finishing
pouring portions of the new side-
walk, while others are waiting
fi)r a few days of dry weather so
they can apply a second layer of
asphalt to the roadway.
Northcliff remains closed to
through traffic, Bryant noted. A
ribbon-cutting ceremony mark-
ing the end of the lengthy project
has been set for 10 a.m. on Tues-
day, December 4, whether or not
that second layer of asphalt has
been applied by then.
Weather delays work but
road project almost done
The long-awaited application
of a second layer of asphalt pav-
ing on Northcliff Road will have
to wait a bit longer thanks to ca-
pricious fall weather.
The second layer of paving
on Northclifl' was scheduled for
this Tuesday morning, but wet
weather has postponed that for
the rest of this week due to the
long Thanksgiving weekend, said
Shelton Public Works Director
Jay Ebbeson.
Despite that setback in timing,
the city is going to proceed with a
ribbon-cutting ceremony marking
the end of the project. The event
will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday,
December 4, at the North 13th
Street end of Northcliff Road.
There will be coffee and hot choc-
olate and participants can walk
along the new sidewalk to gel: a
close-up view of the project. There
will also be a display on exhibit at
the Shelton Civic Center.
Last Friday, the city issued
a special notice to residents and
motorists who use local access on
Northcliff that Ace Paving was
slated to begin applying the final
layer of asphalt Tuesday morning
starting on the Terrace Boulevard
side of the road.
ONCE THE pavers cross Ter-
race Boulevard, Terrace View
Road and Poplar Street, no ve-
hicles other than emergency re-
sponse vehicles will be allowed to
cross the hot a sl:,halt.
The other l:mlf ot' Northcliff
Road was due to receive its fi-
nal layer of asphalt on Wednes-
day. Because new asphalt is very
sensitive, it may take four to six
hours to reopen the road once the
hot asphalt is applied, the city-is-
sued notice said.
Residents were told to make
arrangements to have their ve-
hicles accessible during the pav-
ing. They could park on Barnhard
or Eighth streets as foot traffic
would be allowed. Parking would
also be permitted at the bus pull-
out south of Terrace Boulevard
and on Terrace Boulevard itself.
School and transit buses would
have to be met on North 13th
Street during the paving. Only
foot traffic would be allowed
across the hot aphalt, the notice
said.
THERE WILL BE construc-
tion trucks and crews on-site dur-
ing the paving. Vehicles won't be
allowed to park on NorthcliffRoad
and any vehicle parked there will
be towed, the notice said.
Those warnings are now on hold
until at least next week, if not be-
yond. Ebbeson said the scheduled
paving is on a day-to-day basis
and crews need two consecutive
days of dry weather to complete
the work.
The Northcliff Road Improve-
ment Project includes improve-
ments along 4,000 linear feet
from North 13th Street to Poplar
Street. The work has included
construction of a sewer main, wa-
ter main, rdtaining walls, asphalt
paving, street lights, storm drain
piping, a sidewalk on the west side
of NorthcliffRoad and more, such
as widening of the roadway, a bus
pullout location along Northcliff
Road and other amenities.
The bid for the project was
awarded t°GaryMerlin°C°nstruc"
tion, Incorporated of Seattle for
$3,515,920.75. Of that, state fuel
tax funds will provide $2,399,934;
federal funds, $520,083; and city
funds, $595,903.
Ebbeson said last week that
the project was running a little
under budget.
Page 26 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, November 22, 2007
"THEY ARE SO happy with
this," Stangland said of the neigh-
borhood residents' reaction to the
project. "They have gone through
so much up here. The people are
so proud of this whole project."
"About 95 percent are tickled,"
Bryant added. "It was terrible
before. It's beautiful now. The
residents are so happy."
The flaggers try to tell all the
neighbors about the progress
of the project, keeping them in-
formed and letting them know
what's happening.
The Northcliff neighbors have
responded by accepting the flag-
gets and doing thoughtful little
touches to show their apprecia-
tion, like bringing them cookies,
donuts and cups of steaming cof-
te. Stangland and Bryant have
gotten to know the dogs in the
neighborhood and go out of their
way to make sure the straying
pooches get back to their homes
all right.
THEY EVEN had an encoun-
ter one hot day last summer with
a tipsy man who was driving his
car naked. "The police finally did
try to get him. They pursued him
on Highway 3. I don't know if
they got him," Bryant said.
"They've been terrific. We're
proud of the project. Merlino's
done a good job," Shelton Public
Works Director Jay Ebbeson said
of the two women and general
contractor Gary Merlino Con-
struction Company.
"The flaggers are the icing on
the cake."
Superior court
Family fr
lands stepd
in county j
Bail was set at $25,000 in the fourth-degree assault
case of a Shelton man who alleg-
edly pointed a handgun at his
stepson, fired in the air and then
discharged the gun again during a
struggle.
Glenn Curtis Sehreiber, 48,
of 350 SE Mell Road, Shelton, was
identified on Monday, November
19, in Mason County Superior
Court in an investigation of assault
in the first degree. He was arrested
around 10 p.m. on November 18 by
Deputy Jeff Rhoades of the Mason
County Sheriffs Office.
Joseph Benson-Schreiber report-
edly called 911 and said he'd been
shot at by his stepfather, Glenn
Schreiber. Benson-Schreiber said
he had gone to the place on Mell
Road to work in a home office with
his girlfriend, Michelle R. Hoonan,
and that he said he and his par-
ents are in business together. He
reportedly said his parents had
been gone for two days and when
they returned his mother, Vicki
Schreiber, was "paranoid" about
people spying on her by means of a
computer. Benson-Schreiber said
he had enough and was taking the
computer monitor out of the house
when his stepfather confronted
him with a pistol.
Benson-Schreiber said they
were face-to-face when Glenn
Schreiber pointed the gun to the
side and fired one round. He said
he tried to grab the gun from his
stepfather and during the struggle
another shot was fired. He said
Hoonan helped him get the gun
away and that when his stepfathe
charged at him he struck him in
the face with the butt of the pistol
and knocked him out. Benson-Sch-
reiber said he threw the gun into
the brush and went to a neighbor's
to call for help.
Judge James Sawyer told Sch-
reiber he does not qualify finan-
cially for court-appointed counsel
and would need to hire an attor-
ney. He set scheduled arraign-
ment for December 3 and ordered
Schreiber to have no contact with
his stepson or Hoonan, a potential
witness.
Also on Monday, November 19:
• Bud Wendall Church, 57, of
1111 East Picketing Road,Shel-
ton, was identified in an investiga-
tion of burglary in the first degree
and felony violation of a no-contact
order. He is suspected of domestic
violence against Lisa Milam.
Church was arrested on Novem-
ber 17 at the Pickering Road ad-
dress after Milam reported finding
him inside the trailer where she
resides. She said she was sleeping
and that he reportedly lifted her
up from the bed, causing brusing
on her arms. There is a court or-
der prohibiting contact between
the two which is valid until Au-
gust 2009, according to records on
file with the court clerk. The order
was issued as the result of a 2007
involving Milam.
Judge Sawyer appointed
Foley as defense
at $25,000 and
ment. for December 3. He
Church to have no
Mi.llam and said if he
he must provide an address
than the one on Pickering
• Janus Tuli Afo, 21,
North Fifth Street,
identified in an inve
unlawful possession of a
tion drug.
He was arrested
a.m. on November 17 by
Kelly LaFrance who was
ricers of the .Washington
ment of Corrections
find an individual at a
on Old Arcadia Road
lier Road. She said she
vehicle leaving the
stopped it and re
men get out of the vehicle
into the woods.
Afo was a passenger in
hicle driven by Dawn
When the deputy searched
LaFrance said, she found
like satchel around Afo's
which contained pills
hydrocodone, a narcotic
quires a prescription.
Judge Sawyer
as defense attorney, set
(Please turn to page
Young
in crash on
wet
Driver inexperience and
roadways resulted in a
crash Saturday morning
lips Lake Loop Road near
according
Patrol.
Martin A. Felix
of Shelton, was driving a
Mitsubishi south on Phillips:
Loop Road when he lost
wet pavement and struck a
on the driver's-side door,
Matt Wood reported. The
rotated counterclockwise
came to rest in the roadway.
Felix Manchado sustained
lacerations and was
to Mason General Hospital.
his passengers, 17-year-old
tian D. Aldrich of Shelton
taken to the hospital with
tions to his head. Wood
that another passenger, 1
old Christopher M. Brown
ton, was not injured.
Aldrich were wearing
while it is not known if Felix.
chado was wearing a
Wood identified the cause
crash, reported at 11"34
vember 17, as driver
and speed too fast for
PUB
H E R I F F Casey Salisbury ~
SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION AND WANTED BULLETIN
LEVEL 3 SEX OFFENDER WHEREABOWI UNKNOWN
If you have any information regarding current criminal activity of this or any other offender, please call 911.
For other information on sex offenders, http://so.co.mason.wa.us/
JOSHUA ADAM BRIGGS
WHITE MALE
DOB: 06/10/87
6' 00" - 200 LBS.
BROWN HAIR &
GREEN EYES
JOSHUAH BRIGGS was convicted of Rape of a Child I st Degree on 10/31/2000, Mason Count,
2. This conviction stems from BR1GGS at age 13, raping a 9 year old female that was known to him. When BRIGGS was
hbout this rape, he also admitted to sexually assaulting this same girl on another occasion. On 6/21/07 BRIGGS was
pied guilty to Failing to Register as a Sex Offender, Mason County Superior Court cause # 07-1-00298-7. This conviction stems
BRIGGS absconding from his registered address in Yakima County and living at an unregistered address in Mason County. His
is now raised from a level 1 to a level 3 only because he has again absconded from his registered address in Mason County
whereabouts are unknown. Due to these factors he is considered a HIGH RISK.
If you observe BRIGGS. do not a99roach him. but notify Law Enforcement immediately.
Joshuah Brlggs is assessed by Mason County Sheriff's Office as a Level 3 Sex Offender only because he has again absconded t
his registered address and his whereabouts are unknown. This is the highest level given to a Sex Offender, meaning that the
is at a HIGH RISK to re-offend due to him hiding from Law Enforcement.
BRIGGS HAS ABSCONDED FROM HIS REGISTERED ADDRESS AND HE IS WANTED
ARE
TN
Paid for by the Mason County Sheriffs Office
FRIENDLY FLAGGERS working during the lengthy Northcliff Road Improvement Proj-
ect are Erma Stangland, left, and Pam Bryant.
Smooth sailing with these
folks flagging on Northcliff
By JEFF GREEN
Being a flagger can sometimes
be a lonely, monotonous and
hassle-filled job.
You're on your thet all day and
have to remain on alert. What's
more, motorists, used to their
freedom on the (:)pen road, can be
a crabby and cranky lot because
when you're a itagger, it's your
job to tell them when and where
they can proceed. Not everyone
appreciates that.
During the past five-plus
months, two women who work
as flaggers for B.C. Traffic, a
subcontracting firm on Shelton's
Northcliff Road Improvement
Project, have gotten to know the
residents and neighbors in the
Northclift' area through their
day-to-day interactions. They've
grown to like them, a lot.
"We've gotten to be friends
up here," Erma Stangland, traf-
fic control supervisor, said of
the residents. "They're the best.
We're going to miss them."
PAM BRYANT, a flagger from
Elma, agrees with Stangland.
"They're wonderful people," she
said. "l don't want to leave."
Shelton City Commissioner
Dawn Pannell and husband Ron
live on Northclifr Road and of-
fered the women coite and use
of their picnic table tbr lunch,
gestures much appreciated by
the women.
The Northcliff project is in its
final weeks. Crews are finishing
pouring portions of the new side-
walk, while others are waiting
fi)r a few days of dry weather so
they can apply a second layer of
asphalt to the roadway.
Northcliff remains closed to
through traffic, Bryant noted. A
ribbon-cutting ceremony mark-
ing the end of the lengthy project
has been set for 10 a.m. on Tues-
day, December 4, whether or not
that second layer of asphalt has
been applied by then.
Weather delays work but
road project almost done
The long-awaited application
of a second layer of asphalt pav-
ing on Northcliff Road will have
to wait a bit longer thanks to ca-
pricious fall weather.
The second layer of paving
on Northclifl' was scheduled for
this Tuesday morning, but wet
weather has postponed that for
the rest of this week due to the
long Thanksgiving weekend, said
Shelton Public Works Director
Jay Ebbeson.
Despite that setback in timing,
the city is going to proceed with a
ribbon-cutting ceremony marking
the end of the project. The event
will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday,
December 4, at the North 13th
Street end of Northcliff Road.
There will be coffee and hot choc-
olate and participants can walk
along the new sidewalk to gel: a
close-up view of the project. There
will also be a display on exhibit at
the Shelton Civic Center.
Last Friday, the city issued
a special notice to residents and
motorists who use local access on
Northcliff that Ace Paving was
slated to begin applying the final
layer of asphalt Tuesday morning
starting on the Terrace Boulevard
side of the road.
ONCE THE pavers cross Ter-
race Boulevard, Terrace View
Road and Poplar Street, no ve-
hicles other than emergency re-
sponse vehicles will be allowed to
cross the hot a sl:,halt.
The other l:mlf ot' Northcliff
Road was due to receive its fi-
nal layer of asphalt on Wednes-
day. Because new asphalt is very
sensitive, it may take four to six
hours to reopen the road once the
hot asphalt is applied, the city-is-
sued notice said.
Residents were told to make
arrangements to have their ve-
hicles accessible during the pav-
ing. They could park on Barnhard
or Eighth streets as foot traffic
would be allowed. Parking would
also be permitted at the bus pull-
out south of Terrace Boulevard
and on Terrace Boulevard itself.
School and transit buses would
have to be met on North 13th
Street during the paving. Only
foot traffic would be allowed
across the hot aphalt, the notice
said.
THERE WILL BE construc-
tion trucks and crews on-site dur-
ing the paving. Vehicles won't be
allowed to park on NorthcliffRoad
and any vehicle parked there will
be towed, the notice said.
Those warnings are now on hold
until at least next week, if not be-
yond. Ebbeson said the scheduled
paving is on a day-to-day basis
and crews need two consecutive
days of dry weather to complete
the work.
The Northcliff Road Improve-
ment Project includes improve-
ments along 4,000 linear feet
from North 13th Street to Poplar
Street. The work has included
construction of a sewer main, wa-
ter main, rdtaining walls, asphalt
paving, street lights, storm drain
piping, a sidewalk on the west side
of NorthcliffRoad and more, such
as widening of the roadway, a bus
pullout location along Northcliff
Road and other amenities.
The bid for the project was
awarded t°GaryMerlin°C°nstruc"
tion, Incorporated of Seattle for
$3,515,920.75. Of that, state fuel
tax funds will provide $2,399,934;
federal funds, $520,083; and city
funds, $595,903.
Ebbeson said last week that
the project was running a little
under budget.
Page 26 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, November 22, 2007
"THEY ARE SO happy with
this," Stangland said of the neigh-
borhood residents' reaction to the
project. "They have gone through
so much up here. The people are
so proud of this whole project."
"About 95 percent are tickled,"
Bryant added. "It was terrible
before. It's beautiful now. The
residents are so happy."
The flaggers try to tell all the
neighbors about the progress
of the project, keeping them in-
formed and letting them know
what's happening.
The Northcliff neighbors have
responded by accepting the flag-
gets and doing thoughtful little
touches to show their apprecia-
tion, like bringing them cookies,
donuts and cups of steaming cof-
te. Stangland and Bryant have
gotten to know the dogs in the
neighborhood and go out of their
way to make sure the straying
pooches get back to their homes
all right.
THEY EVEN had an encoun-
ter one hot day last summer with
a tipsy man who was driving his
car naked. "The police finally did
try to get him. They pursued him
on Highway 3. I don't know if
they got him," Bryant said.
"They've been terrific. We're
proud of the project. Merlino's
done a good job," Shelton Public
Works Director Jay Ebbeson said
of the two women and general
contractor Gary Merlino Con-
struction Company.
"The flaggers are the icing on
the cake."
Superior court
Family fr
lands stepd
in county j
Bail was set at $25,000 in the fourth-degree assault
case of a Shelton man who alleg-
edly pointed a handgun at his
stepson, fired in the air and then
discharged the gun again during a
struggle.
Glenn Curtis Sehreiber, 48,
of 350 SE Mell Road, Shelton, was
identified on Monday, November
19, in Mason County Superior
Court in an investigation of assault
in the first degree. He was arrested
around 10 p.m. on November 18 by
Deputy Jeff Rhoades of the Mason
County Sheriffs Office.
Joseph Benson-Schreiber report-
edly called 911 and said he'd been
shot at by his stepfather, Glenn
Schreiber. Benson-Schreiber said
he had gone to the place on Mell
Road to work in a home office with
his girlfriend, Michelle R. Hoonan,
and that he said he and his par-
ents are in business together. He
reportedly said his parents had
been gone for two days and when
they returned his mother, Vicki
Schreiber, was "paranoid" about
people spying on her by means of a
computer. Benson-Schreiber said
he had enough and was taking the
computer monitor out of the house
when his stepfather confronted
him with a pistol.
Benson-Schreiber said they
were face-to-face when Glenn
Schreiber pointed the gun to the
side and fired one round. He said
he tried to grab the gun from his
stepfather and during the struggle
another shot was fired. He said
Hoonan helped him get the gun
away and that when his stepfathe
charged at him he struck him in
the face with the butt of the pistol
and knocked him out. Benson-Sch-
reiber said he threw the gun into
the brush and went to a neighbor's
to call for help.
Judge James Sawyer told Sch-
reiber he does not qualify finan-
cially for court-appointed counsel
and would need to hire an attor-
ney. He set scheduled arraign-
ment for December 3 and ordered
Schreiber to have no contact with
his stepson or Hoonan, a potential
witness.
Also on Monday, November 19:
• Bud Wendall Church, 57, of
1111 East Picketing Road,Shel-
ton, was identified in an investiga-
tion of burglary in the first degree
and felony violation of a no-contact
order. He is suspected of domestic
violence against Lisa Milam.
Church was arrested on Novem-
ber 17 at the Pickering Road ad-
dress after Milam reported finding
him inside the trailer where she
resides. She said she was sleeping
and that he reportedly lifted her
up from the bed, causing brusing
on her arms. There is a court or-
der prohibiting contact between
the two which is valid until Au-
gust 2009, according to records on
file with the court clerk. The order
was issued as the result of a 2007
involving Milam.
Judge Sawyer appointed
Foley as defense
at $25,000 and
ment. for December 3. He
Church to have no
Mi.llam and said if he
he must provide an address
than the one on Pickering
• Janus Tuli Afo, 21,
North Fifth Street,
identified in an inve
unlawful possession of a
tion drug.
He was arrested
a.m. on November 17 by
Kelly LaFrance who was
ricers of the .Washington
ment of Corrections
find an individual at a
on Old Arcadia Road
lier Road. She said she
vehicle leaving the
stopped it and re
men get out of the vehicle
into the woods.
Afo was a passenger in
hicle driven by Dawn
When the deputy searched
LaFrance said, she found
like satchel around Afo's
which contained pills
hydrocodone, a narcotic
quires a prescription.
Judge Sawyer
as defense attorney, set
(Please turn to page
Young
in crash on
wet
Driver inexperience and
roadways resulted in a
crash Saturday morning
lips Lake Loop Road near
according
Patrol.
Martin A. Felix
of Shelton, was driving a
Mitsubishi south on Phillips:
Loop Road when he lost
wet pavement and struck a
on the driver's-side door,
Matt Wood reported. The
rotated counterclockwise
came to rest in the roadway.
Felix Manchado sustained
lacerations and was
to Mason General Hospital.
his passengers, 17-year-old
tian D. Aldrich of Shelton
taken to the hospital with
tions to his head. Wood
that another passenger, 1
old Christopher M. Brown
ton, was not injured.
Aldrich were wearing
while it is not known if Felix.
chado was wearing a
Wood identified the cause
crash, reported at 11"34
vember 17, as driver
and speed too fast for
PUB
H E R I F F Casey Salisbury ~
SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION AND WANTED BULLETIN
LEVEL 3 SEX OFFENDER WHEREABOWI UNKNOWN
If you have any information regarding current criminal activity of this or any other offender, please call 911.
For other information on sex offenders, http://so.co.mason.wa.us/
JOSHUA ADAM BRIGGS
WHITE MALE
DOB: 06/10/87
6' 00" - 200 LBS.
BROWN HAIR &
GREEN EYES
JOSHUAH BRIGGS was convicted of Rape of a Child I st Degree on 10/31/2000, Mason Count,
2. This conviction stems from BR1GGS at age 13, raping a 9 year old female that was known to him. When BRIGGS was
hbout this rape, he also admitted to sexually assaulting this same girl on another occasion. On 6/21/07 BRIGGS was
pied guilty to Failing to Register as a Sex Offender, Mason County Superior Court cause # 07-1-00298-7. This conviction stems
BRIGGS absconding from his registered address in Yakima County and living at an unregistered address in Mason County. His
is now raised from a level 1 to a level 3 only because he has again absconded from his registered address in Mason County
whereabouts are unknown. Due to these factors he is considered a HIGH RISK.
If you observe BRIGGS. do not a99roach him. but notify Law Enforcement immediately.
Joshuah Brlggs is assessed by Mason County Sheriff's Office as a Level 3 Sex Offender only because he has again absconded t
his registered address and his whereabouts are unknown. This is the highest level given to a Sex Offender, meaning that the
is at a HIGH RISK to re-offend due to him hiding from Law Enforcement.
BRIGGS HAS ABSCONDED FROM HIS REGISTERED ADDRESS AND HE IS WANTED
ARE
TN
Paid for by the Mason County Sheriffs Office