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Week 49 -- The Voice of Mason County since 1886 -- Published for Mason County and Lynn Newman of Shelton --- $1
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2 men, l teen being held in connection Asaria J. Miller, in Olympia text messages, according to
on Thursday. a release from the sheriffs
with shooting death of Shelton woman The Des Moines Police office.
Department arrested anoth- Detectives with the sher-
er suspect, James R. Hart- iffs office allege that Antho-
By NATALIE JOHNSON ing death of Barbara Giles field, 18, in Des Moines on ny Miller gave James Hart-
na/atie@masoncounly.eom at her home offJensen Road Thursday. field, his daughter's boy-
on Nov. 21. According to authorities, friend, money to purchase a
The Mason County Sher- a child-custody dispute led gun before the murder.
Three people were iffs Office and personnel to "animosity" between An- According to authorities,
charged with first-degree from the Olympia Police De- thony Miller and Giles. Hartfield and Asaria Miller
murder in Mason County partment arrested Anthony Around Nov. 13, he and knocked on Giles' door in
Superior Court on Friday in R. Miller, 37, of Shelton and his daughter began plotting
connection with the shoot- his 16-year-old daughter, the murder through codedSee 5hooting on page A-7
approves
budget
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty.com
The Mason County Board
of Commissioners voted Mon-
day during a budget hearing
to approve a more than $25
million 2013 budget.
Commissioners Tim Shel-
don and Terri Jeffreys voted
for the budget, while board
Chair Lynda Ring Erickson
voted against the budget,
based on a request from Shel-
don to add about $22,000 in .........
commission benefits back
into the budget. The com-
mission had previously dis-
cussed dropping the benefits
to balance the shortfall.
The benefits were one of
several items considered as
cuts by the commission in
recent weeks, in order to
close what began as a $1.9
million shortfall.
The commission discussed
the vote during its regular
meeting on Tuesday morning.
See County on page A-7
No public
comment
for Shelton
'13 budget
By GORDON WEEKS
gordonC~asoncoun~.com
Not a single resident of-
fered an opinion Monday
night at the Shelton City
Commission's final public
hearing on the city's proposed
$56 million budget for 2013.
The preliminary budget
is $17 million less than the
city's 2012 budget, primarily
due to the completion of the
financing of the wastewa-
tor treatment plant upgrade
project in the 2012 budget.
Only one resident spoke at
the first public hearing on the
budget on Nov. 5. None of the
commissioners commented
on the budget Monday, oth-
er than Mayor Gary Cronce
thanking the city staff for its
hard work.
One of the city's challenges
assembling the budget is that
Mason County experienced
a 19 percent reduction in
See City on page A-7
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CROWDS GATHER FOR 'HOLIDAY MAGIC'
Santa and Mrs. Claus closed out the Shelton Christmas Parade riding on their sleigh, a Mason
11 engine.
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
County Fire District
Locals brave rainy conditions to see Santa, tree lighting
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty.corn
espite a weekend filled
with heavy rain, the new-
named Holiday Magic
Christmas celebration in Shel-
ton went off without a hitch last
weekend.
The event drew large crowds and packed
the streets for the Christmas tree lighting on
Friday, and Christmas Parade on Saturday,
said Kristmastown Kiwanis Treasurer Patti
Tupper.
In past years, the tree-lighting event, which
includes fire pits on Railroad Avenue, minia-
ture train rides for children and horse-drawn
wagon rides downtown, has been called "First
Friday," because it has always fallen on the
first Friday of December.
This year, the Friday before the first week-
end in December was Nov. 30, so the weekend-
Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
A large crowd braved torrential
rains Friday night to attend the
lighting of the Shelton Christmas
tree on Railroad Avenue. The event
was sponsored by the Shelton
Downtown Merchants Association
and Kristmas Town Kiwanis.
long event was renamed to Holiday Magic,
with Friday now called "Night of the Lights,"
Tupper said.
"It was pouring down rain, but we think we
had bigger crowds. The park was packed for
the tree lighting when Lt. Gov. Brad Owen lit
the tree," she said.
During the tree lighting, the Harstine Is-
land Community Choir performed, along with
students from Evergreen Elementary school,
Olympic Middle School, Bordeaux Elementa-
ry, Mountain View Elementary and the Pio-
neer School District.
The event was packed.
"You couldn't even get close," Tupper said.
"The merchants all raved about what a great
night it was for them. People seemed to be in
every store that was open."
On Saturday evening the rain let up, and
hundreds of people lined Railroad Avenue to
watch the Christmas Parade.
Fifty-three entrants were in the parade,
about the same number as in 2010 and 2011,
Tupper said.
"It was spectacular," she said. "The rain
stopped right before the parade and the streets
were just packed."
See Holiday on page A-8
surpasses S
STAFF REPORT The fund received two anony-Bob and Andrea Armanino con-
pt~masoncounly.com mous donations, for $50 and $100. tributed $250, Alvin and Shirley
Anonymous donors gave $200 Sechler gave $40 and Lois Om-
in memory of John, Fran and dahl gave $50.
The 66th annual 40 et 8/ Mike Luhm and EdJohnson, $30Steven and Cami Petersen
Shelton-Mason County Journal in memory of Betty Hickson and donated $200, John Krause and
Christmas basket program has $50 in memory of Allen, Wayne Elizabeth Frew gave $100, Rob-
raised $17,016 as of this week. and Tom Coleman. ert and Evelyn Trenkmann gave
mar
$250, and Larry and Tony Ste-
vens donated $100.
The fund also received contri-
butions from groups, including
$100 from the Old Farts Club and
$100 from Boy Scout Troop 126.
See Fund on page A-7