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Tahuya slowly
(Continued from page 1.)
ing to get out one way or another,
Best added.
Initial damage reports were
submitted to the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency and
a team fl'om FEMA visited Ma-
son C, ounty on Tuesday to dis-
cuss damage to public roads and
thcilities, then discussed individ-
ual property damage on Wednes-
day.
In Shelton, the residents in
nine units at the Riverside Man-
(,:" Mobile Home Park at the end
of West Cota Street were forced
out of their homes aider a mud-
slide damaged one unit during
the storm. City officials subse-
quently determined the condi-
tion ofa slope on the south side
of the property posed significant
risk for additional slides.
Shelton City Engineer Mike
Michael told city commission-
ers during a special meeting on
Thursday there is a potential tbr
200 to 300 yards of material to
slide. "That slide could happen at
any time. It could be quick and
catastrophic," he added. Michael
and a geotechnical engineer in-
spected the hill.
"ALL YOU DID was a surface
h)ok," complained James Frank-
lin, one of" the mobile home park
residents affected by the finding
that the units are uninhabitable.
Franklin said it was not a mud-
slide, but debris that came down.
Law enfbrcement is stretched, he
said, adding, "Can you guarantee
my home won't be looted?"
Carol Dodge said she and her
husband moved into the mobile
tmme park two days before the
slide. Her husband is blind and
she said no one told him of the
slide or the evacuation order on
December 3. They were staying
at the Little Creek Casino Resort
since the slide. "We're kind of be-
tween a rock and a hard place,"
she said of their housing dilem-
ma.
"I have struggled over this de-
cision since Monday morning,"
Michael told the commissioners
and residents last Thursday. The
closure of the nine units was done
to protect people, he said. "I don't
want to see anyone get hurt."
Most of the residents chased
from their homes at the mobile
home park have tbund secondary
lodgings, Shelton Fire Chief Jim
Ghiglione told The Journal. One
thmily of tive was being put up
at a local motel paid for by Red
Cross vouchers.
THIS MONDAY evening,
Shelton city commissioners
passed a resolution accepting the
findings of the city's public works
director and building official re-
garding the potential landslide
danger at the mobile home park.
They will continue to have au-
thority to designate areas of the
mobile home park as unsuitable
for human habitation until the
slide danger has been mitigated,
the resolution said.
"City staff is directed to work
with the owners of the mobile
home park to ensure that the
owners develop a sufficient en-
gineering plan tbr stabilizing the
hillside in a timely manner," the
resolution said.
Flood relief supplies were be-
ing distributed at the Mason
County Fairgrounds and at the
Theler Center in Belfair. Mike
Rutter is in charge of the distri-
bution center at the fairgrounds
ahd a number of items are need-
ed there, including gallon bottles
of bleach, bottled water, canned
food, diapers and cleaning sup-
returning' to normal
plies, such as Spic-n-Span. Also,
additional volunteer help is need-
ed &om 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
An account has been set up at
Peninsula Credit Union to ac-
cept cash donations that will be
used to help flood victims in Ma-
son County. The account is called
"Flood Relief' and has been es-
tablished under the Saint Da-
vid's Episcopal Church account.
Peninsula Credit Union is locat-
ed at 521 West Railroad Avenue
in Shelton. The phone number is
426-1601.
IN A STORM-RELATED
matter, a contractor working on
mudslides was uninjured when
his rig crashed into another slide
last Friday evening 13 miles
north of Shelton on Highway
101, according to the Washington
State Patrol.
John W. Malidore, 61, of Ho-
quiam, was driving a 1996 Pe-
terbilt tractor with a 1995 trailer
and working as a subcontractor
removing debris from other mud-
slides in the area, Trooper C.F.
Magallon reported. Malidore at-
tempted to negotiate the mud-
slide in the Holiday Beach area
at Milepost 331 of Highway 101
and hit it instead. A tow truck
was able to get the tractor-trailer
upright.
The trooper identified the
cause of the crash, reported at
5:01 p.m. on December 12, as
speed too fast for conditions.
Highway 101 on Wednesday
remained closed north of Lil-
liwaup because of a large slide.
Several roads in Mason Coun-
ty also remained closed due to
storm-related damage, including
North Shore Road, Dewatto Road
and Webb Hill Road among oth-
ers.
STORM DAMAGE also
C ommittee urges makeover
for campus of Shelton High
(Continued from page 1.)
mends imilding new covered
1,20()-seat capacity bleachers for
visitors' seating at the stadium,
as well as adding a ticket booth,
concession stands, press box and
restrooms on the visitors' side.
Alley said the task force also rec-
ommends remodeling the existing
concession stands and restrooms
at the stadium.
As ibr Mountain View, Jim Ghi-
glione, task force chairman, said
several improvements are needed
at the school, including upgrading
the heating and ventilation sys-
tems, upgrading the restrooms,
adding windows, relocating the
administrative office, making a
new main entry on the west side
of the school and more. "It's time
to upgrade the facility," he said.
CHOICE Alternative School
Principal Gordy Hansen listed
several recommended improve-
ments at the school, including a
new heating, ventilation and air-
conditioning system, improving
the school's water system, remod-
eling the kitchen, improving the
lighting and sound system in the
auditorium, replacing the public
address system and providing a
science lab classroom.
Ghiglione said the recommen-
dations for the above four facilities
are all "do-able" at once. He said
he believes the school district has
bonding capacity to accommodate
all tbur projects. The school board
will have to put a bond package
together to take to the voters, he
added.
Other task force recommenda-
tions include improvements to the
Mason County Transportation Co-
operative, the district's Adminis-
trative Services Building and the
district's maintenance building.
The district needs to remodel
the garage and four service bays
at the transportation facility, in-
crease the bus parking area and
remodel the office, restrooms and
lunch room, Ghiglione said.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE
Services Building on South First
Street needs improvements to its
heating and ventilation systems,
while the maintenance building
at the former ITT Rayonier prop-
erty, needs a 3,000-square-foot
addition, remodel of its shop and
improvements to its lighting and
security systems, Ghiglione said.
The school board also may want
to consider relocating the trans-
portation cooperative and perhaps
"partnering" with another entity
such as Mason County Transit, he
said. If that happens, the district
could sell its maintenance build-
ing to help pay for a new trans-
portation facility, then move the
maintenance operations to the
location of the current transporta-
tion facilities across from Shelton
High, Ghiglione said.
Ghiglione said the task force
is proud of the district's main-
tenance and custodial staff and
what they've done at facilities in
the district.
"That's a lot to digest all at
once," Holly Sharpe, chairwoman
Story time is
is morning
of the school board, said of the re-
port. A written version of the re-
port will be produced later, which
the board can take to the commu-
nity, Superintendent Joan Zook
said, adding Tuesday's discussion
was the first of many to come on
the topic of school district facili-
ties.
IN A RELATED matter, the
board Tuesday approved placing
a $17.7-million, three-year main-
tenance-and-operation levy on the
February 19 ballot.
If approved by voters, the levy
would raise $5.7 million in 2009,
$5.9 million in 2010 and $6.1 mil-
lion in 2011. In February 2006,
Shelton voters approved the dis-
trict's current two-year, $9.5-mil-
lion levy, which expires at the end
of 2008. The proposed three-year
levy would replace the current
one.
Family Story Time will be held
from 10:30 to 11 o'clock this morn-
mg at the William G. Reed Library,
710 West Alder Street in Shelton.
There will be stories, rhymes,
songs and movement games for
children age 6 and under, but all
ages are welcome.
For more infbrmation, call 426-
1362.
We're Proud of You
Amy and Robin would like
to congratulate
Marlene
ccu on attaining
her broker's license
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Page 6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 13, 2007
tbrced closure of some recreation
areas including the Tahuya and
Hood Canal state forests to pro-
tect public safety, the Washing-
ton State Department of Natural
Resources reported. The closures
included the trail system, Rob-
bins Lake and Howell Lake day-
use areas, Aldrich Lake, Twin
Lakes, Kammenga and Spillman
campgrounds, Tahuya River
Horse Camp, Kammenga 4x4
Trail Entrance, Elfendahl Stag-
ing Trailhead and Camp Pond
and Mission Creek trailheads in
the Tahuya State Forest and the
Lilliwaup and Melbourne camp-
grounds in the Hood Canal State
Forest.
"For those affected property
owners, however, the storm's ef-
fects may have diminished the
market value of their property
due to storm damage, which may
or may not be recoverable," not-
ed a press release from Mason
County Assessor Dixie Smith.
Because Mason County
within an area declared a
ter by Governor Chris Gre
and if a taxpayer's
been reduced in value by
than 20 percent, the
office can give relief ira
taxes for the loss of
value of the damaged
the press release noted.
"In order tbr my office to
on the possible abatement
taxes on the 'damaged
we need the taxpayers to fill
the proper request tbrm.
form (Taxpayer's Claim tbr
duction of Assessments
Resulting t'rom I)estroyed
Personal Property or Loss
ue in a Declared Disaster
is available from the county
site, www.co.mason.wa.us,
call 427-9670, Extension
and we will mail it on rec
Smith noted. Taxpayers can
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Tahuya slowly
(Continued from page 1.)
ing to get out one way or another,
Best added.
Initial damage reports were
submitted to the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency and
a team fl'om FEMA visited Ma-
son C, ounty on Tuesday to dis-
cuss damage to public roads and
thcilities, then discussed individ-
ual property damage on Wednes-
day.
In Shelton, the residents in
nine units at the Riverside Man-
(,:" Mobile Home Park at the end
of West Cota Street were forced
out of their homes aider a mud-
slide damaged one unit during
the storm. City officials subse-
quently determined the condi-
tion ofa slope on the south side
of the property posed significant
risk for additional slides.
Shelton City Engineer Mike
Michael told city commission-
ers during a special meeting on
Thursday there is a potential tbr
200 to 300 yards of material to
slide. "That slide could happen at
any time. It could be quick and
catastrophic," he added. Michael
and a geotechnical engineer in-
spected the hill.
"ALL YOU DID was a surface
h)ok," complained James Frank-
lin, one of" the mobile home park
residents affected by the finding
that the units are uninhabitable.
Franklin said it was not a mud-
slide, but debris that came down.
Law enfbrcement is stretched, he
said, adding, "Can you guarantee
my home won't be looted?"
Carol Dodge said she and her
husband moved into the mobile
tmme park two days before the
slide. Her husband is blind and
she said no one told him of the
slide or the evacuation order on
December 3. They were staying
at the Little Creek Casino Resort
since the slide. "We're kind of be-
tween a rock and a hard place,"
she said of their housing dilem-
ma.
"I have struggled over this de-
cision since Monday morning,"
Michael told the commissioners
and residents last Thursday. The
closure of the nine units was done
to protect people, he said. "I don't
want to see anyone get hurt."
Most of the residents chased
from their homes at the mobile
home park have tbund secondary
lodgings, Shelton Fire Chief Jim
Ghiglione told The Journal. One
thmily of tive was being put up
at a local motel paid for by Red
Cross vouchers.
THIS MONDAY evening,
Shelton city commissioners
passed a resolution accepting the
findings of the city's public works
director and building official re-
garding the potential landslide
danger at the mobile home park.
They will continue to have au-
thority to designate areas of the
mobile home park as unsuitable
for human habitation until the
slide danger has been mitigated,
the resolution said.
"City staff is directed to work
with the owners of the mobile
home park to ensure that the
owners develop a sufficient en-
gineering plan tbr stabilizing the
hillside in a timely manner," the
resolution said.
Flood relief supplies were be-
ing distributed at the Mason
County Fairgrounds and at the
Theler Center in Belfair. Mike
Rutter is in charge of the distri-
bution center at the fairgrounds
ahd a number of items are need-
ed there, including gallon bottles
of bleach, bottled water, canned
food, diapers and cleaning sup-
returning' to normal
plies, such as Spic-n-Span. Also,
additional volunteer help is need-
ed &om 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
An account has been set up at
Peninsula Credit Union to ac-
cept cash donations that will be
used to help flood victims in Ma-
son County. The account is called
"Flood Relief' and has been es-
tablished under the Saint Da-
vid's Episcopal Church account.
Peninsula Credit Union is locat-
ed at 521 West Railroad Avenue
in Shelton. The phone number is
426-1601.
IN A STORM-RELATED
matter, a contractor working on
mudslides was uninjured when
his rig crashed into another slide
last Friday evening 13 miles
north of Shelton on Highway
101, according to the Washington
State Patrol.
John W. Malidore, 61, of Ho-
quiam, was driving a 1996 Pe-
terbilt tractor with a 1995 trailer
and working as a subcontractor
removing debris from other mud-
slides in the area, Trooper C.F.
Magallon reported. Malidore at-
tempted to negotiate the mud-
slide in the Holiday Beach area
at Milepost 331 of Highway 101
and hit it instead. A tow truck
was able to get the tractor-trailer
upright.
The trooper identified the
cause of the crash, reported at
5:01 p.m. on December 12, as
speed too fast for conditions.
Highway 101 on Wednesday
remained closed north of Lil-
liwaup because of a large slide.
Several roads in Mason Coun-
ty also remained closed due to
storm-related damage, including
North Shore Road, Dewatto Road
and Webb Hill Road among oth-
ers.
STORM DAMAGE also
C ommittee urges makeover
for campus of Shelton High
(Continued from page 1.)
mends imilding new covered
1,20()-seat capacity bleachers for
visitors' seating at the stadium,
as well as adding a ticket booth,
concession stands, press box and
restrooms on the visitors' side.
Alley said the task force also rec-
ommends remodeling the existing
concession stands and restrooms
at the stadium.
As ibr Mountain View, Jim Ghi-
glione, task force chairman, said
several improvements are needed
at the school, including upgrading
the heating and ventilation sys-
tems, upgrading the restrooms,
adding windows, relocating the
administrative office, making a
new main entry on the west side
of the school and more. "It's time
to upgrade the facility," he said.
CHOICE Alternative School
Principal Gordy Hansen listed
several recommended improve-
ments at the school, including a
new heating, ventilation and air-
conditioning system, improving
the school's water system, remod-
eling the kitchen, improving the
lighting and sound system in the
auditorium, replacing the public
address system and providing a
science lab classroom.
Ghiglione said the recommen-
dations for the above four facilities
are all "do-able" at once. He said
he believes the school district has
bonding capacity to accommodate
all tbur projects. The school board
will have to put a bond package
together to take to the voters, he
added.
Other task force recommenda-
tions include improvements to the
Mason County Transportation Co-
operative, the district's Adminis-
trative Services Building and the
district's maintenance building.
The district needs to remodel
the garage and four service bays
at the transportation facility, in-
crease the bus parking area and
remodel the office, restrooms and
lunch room, Ghiglione said.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE
Services Building on South First
Street needs improvements to its
heating and ventilation systems,
while the maintenance building
at the former ITT Rayonier prop-
erty, needs a 3,000-square-foot
addition, remodel of its shop and
improvements to its lighting and
security systems, Ghiglione said.
The school board also may want
to consider relocating the trans-
portation cooperative and perhaps
"partnering" with another entity
such as Mason County Transit, he
said. If that happens, the district
could sell its maintenance build-
ing to help pay for a new trans-
portation facility, then move the
maintenance operations to the
location of the current transporta-
tion facilities across from Shelton
High, Ghiglione said.
Ghiglione said the task force
is proud of the district's main-
tenance and custodial staff and
what they've done at facilities in
the district.
"That's a lot to digest all at
once," Holly Sharpe, chairwoman
Story time is
is morning
of the school board, said of the re-
port. A written version of the re-
port will be produced later, which
the board can take to the commu-
nity, Superintendent Joan Zook
said, adding Tuesday's discussion
was the first of many to come on
the topic of school district facili-
ties.
IN A RELATED matter, the
board Tuesday approved placing
a $17.7-million, three-year main-
tenance-and-operation levy on the
February 19 ballot.
If approved by voters, the levy
would raise $5.7 million in 2009,
$5.9 million in 2010 and $6.1 mil-
lion in 2011. In February 2006,
Shelton voters approved the dis-
trict's current two-year, $9.5-mil-
lion levy, which expires at the end
of 2008. The proposed three-year
levy would replace the current
one.
Family Story Time will be held
from 10:30 to 11 o'clock this morn-
mg at the William G. Reed Library,
710 West Alder Street in Shelton.
There will be stories, rhymes,
songs and movement games for
children age 6 and under, but all
ages are welcome.
For more infbrmation, call 426-
1362.
We're Proud of You
Amy and Robin would like
to congratulate
Marlene
ccu on attaining
her broker's license
Sh(' pas." 'std the test on the tirst try! Tr,:
I iwi:v(mt)
__..)7 AYLOR "D"
f t INSURANCE 104E. St.#1 Shelton, WA 98584
360-427-1989 • 360-426-5595
. SERVICES marlene;, marlenetaylorinsurance.com
Page 6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 13, 2007
tbrced closure of some recreation
areas including the Tahuya and
Hood Canal state forests to pro-
tect public safety, the Washing-
ton State Department of Natural
Resources reported. The closures
included the trail system, Rob-
bins Lake and Howell Lake day-
use areas, Aldrich Lake, Twin
Lakes, Kammenga and Spillman
campgrounds, Tahuya River
Horse Camp, Kammenga 4x4
Trail Entrance, Elfendahl Stag-
ing Trailhead and Camp Pond
and Mission Creek trailheads in
the Tahuya State Forest and the
Lilliwaup and Melbourne camp-
grounds in the Hood Canal State
Forest.
"For those affected property
owners, however, the storm's ef-
fects may have diminished the
market value of their property
due to storm damage, which may
or may not be recoverable," not-
ed a press release from Mason
County Assessor Dixie Smith.
Because Mason County
within an area declared a
ter by Governor Chris Gre
and if a taxpayer's
been reduced in value by
than 20 percent, the
office can give relief ira
taxes for the loss of
value of the damaged
the press release noted.
"In order tbr my office to
on the possible abatement
taxes on the 'damaged
we need the taxpayers to fill
the proper request tbrm.
form (Taxpayer's Claim tbr
duction of Assessments
Resulting t'rom I)estroyed
Personal Property or Loss
ue in a Declared Disaster
is available from the county
site, www.co.mason.wa.us,
call 427-9670, Extension
and we will mail it on rec
Smith noted. Taxpayers can
482-5269 from Elma and
4467 from Belfair or Allyn.
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Imaging
SILVERDALE
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BREMERTON
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PORT ORCHARD
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Appointments:
360-337-6500
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