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Thursday, Nov. 30. 2023
By Gordon Weeks
gordon @masoncounty com
' inh Dwelley was a cooking leg-
8 end, a champion oyster shuck—
,r, a philanthropist, and in her
own words, “Julia Child in Shelton.”
Her radiant smile is the image that
lingers.
The native of South Vietnam who
created exquisite cuisine in Xinh’s
Clam & Oyster House in downtown
Shelton and authored two cookbooks
died Nov. 17 at age 72. Her life will
be celebrated at a memorial service
at 3:30 pm. Dec. 12 at the Skookum
Event Center at the Little Creek Ca-
sino Resort in Shelton.
The Shelton-Mason County Jour- A
no] asked the members of the Face-
book sites Shelton Talks, Mason
County News and Well, You Might
be From Shelton If to share their
memories of Xinh.
“She was very kind and had a
heart of gold,” wrote Samantha
Allen—Johns. “To those who knew
Xinh know she was very blunt and
hilarious! It didn’t matter who was
around, if she has something to say,
she said it! She has a way of showing
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Xinh Dwelley competes in the oyster shucking contest at OysterFest. From
1989 to 1992, she won
exquisite cuisine
the West Coast Oyster Shucking Championship. Courtesy photos
City pagsses$44M 2024 budget
By Gordon Weeks
gordon @masoncounty com
The Shelton City Council passed a $44-mil-
lion budget for 2024.
The council voted unanimously for the bud-
get at its Nov. 21 meeting. The state requires
the city’s budget to be complete by the end of
the year.
The budget is an increase of $3.1 million,
8%, from the revised 2023 budget. The budget
also includes a general fund allocation of $15.5
million, a $326,349 increase from the 2023 gen—
eral fund budget.
The expenditures in the 2024 budget in-
clude$15,565 in the general fund, $1,886,758
in the street fund, $832,000 for the Trans-
portation Benefit District, $23,000 for gen—
eral resources, $97,248 for the tourism fund,
$180,100 for the bond fund, $1,797,500 for
the capital improvement fund, $4,345,082 for
the water fund, $7,936,156 for the sewer fund,
$176,438 for the solid waste fund, $2,154,207
for the storm drainage fund, $1,07 9,500 for the
water capital fund, $6,510,500 for the sewer
capital fund, $395,000 for the storm drainage
capital fund, $160,350 for the payroll benefits
fund, $572,481 for the equipment rental fund,
$80,600 for the firefighter’s pension fund and
$24,000 for the library endowment fund. The
real estate excise taxes in the capital resources
funds are $192,570.
According to the city’s budget overview, the
city established the Financial Sustainability
Task Force earlier this year. That group’s rec—
ommendations to the city included reductions
in pregrams, service delivery and city property
ownership, increasing revenue for community
investment and “placing a strong focus in how
to grow the population.”
see BUDGET,
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Examiner lets Taylor
use black oyster bags
By June Williams
june@masoncounty.com
Taylor Shellfish will not
have to use costly blue or
green oyster bags but will
still need third-party mon—
itoring for environmen-
tal impacts of its proposed
floating oyster bag farm in
Oakland Bay, the Mason
County hearing examiner
ruled Nov. 21, revising an
original decision.
The seafood company ob-
jected to requirements that
the black color of the oyster
bags be replaced with blue
or green and that it pay for
a monitoring plan prepared
by a third—party expert and
filed a motion for reconsid-
eration after the project was
approved Oct. 9.
“The condition requir-
ing green bags has been
eliminated. The color of the
bags (at least green/blue as
opposed to black) does not
make enough of a difference
to aesthetic impacts to be
validly regulated,” Hearing
Examiner Phil Olbrechts
wrote in the reconsideration
C see EXAMINER, page 7
Port of Allyn sets meeting
to discuss water system
Christmastown Parade
and Festival of the Firs
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