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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