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December 18, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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I WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND was enjoyed by many last Friday night when snow and ice hit the North Mason area. Probably more people did not enjoy the touch of winter; the many, many motorists whose cars slid and skidded into ditches on every roadway in the area. Cars in ditches were so numerous that the sheriff's office has no count but one motorist said he counted 14 cars in trouble in the stretch between Belfair and the Bear Creek Road. Another reported a 45-minute wait at the top of the hill on Highway 3 north of Belfair for traffic to clear before she could proceed. Cars abandoned in ditches along the hill leading to LakeLand Village were still there Saturday morning, possibly left by high school students headed for a tolD that night at the LakeLand Village clubhouse, a dance which was cancelled because of the dangerous road conditions. By LENNIA CATES -- CR 5-2245 Church in Tahuya at 7:30 p.m. and at St. Hugh's in Allyn at 9:30 p.m. Happy birthday wishes go this week to Ethel Richeson, Alice Hudson, John Pirtle and, just for kicks, yours truly. Comedian Pete Barbutti came up with the following. ON HOW QUEETS GOT ITS NAME: The Spanish explorers got into a fight with the Indians up there and the Spaniards were losing. So the captain turned to the others and said, "Let's call it Queets." Burrows makes All-State team By CASEY CAUGHIE Senior Ron Burrows was named to the first All-State Class A-B football team announced by the Washington State Sportswriters Association. The 5'9", 160-pound safety was slated on the defensive unit, dominated by State Champion Raymond which took four positions on the squad. Burrows helped lead North Mason through a Nisqually League championship and up to state semi-final playoffs where Raymond stopped the "Bulldog Machine." North Mason head football coach Phil Pugh was extremely pleased. "It's very exciting for us. He's an exceptional player who surely meets the requirements of an all-stater." SANTA CLAUSREMINDER Santa Claus will visit Belfair at the Belfair shopping center tomorrow night, Dec. 19, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. He will give candy canes to all the children who stop by to visit him during his short pre-Christmas stop, made available by Belfair Chamber of Commerce. Santa's grand entrance atop a fire engine with siren blowing and red lights flashing will be under the direction of the Belfair Fire Department. bells, jingle bells, jingle way - bet you thought I to finish that or come something more original. just into the spirit cards also brings day more into focus. One here with a nice letter Dolly Lusk who moved to live with her sister the the year. 30 years Dolly delivered tad packages all along the Shore here and she misses doing the same ~time of year. she retired a couple ago a party was given her at tirehall. Her many mail made sure the "money in full bloom before the was over and this past she picked the blossoms she and her sis took a trip to Wyoming and Dakota. left on the their last day east in Wyoming drove snow all day. In contrast, return it was 110 degrees days. ~fortunately, Dolly fell in a restaurant on the 26th betober and tore all the in her left leg and pelvic ~nd is still in a great deal of discomfort. I know all wish her well and if like to drop her a card the is 306 Croy Street, Kelso. hevins sakes don't forget -- it is 98626! Eve services will be at St. Nicholas Episcopal CONSTRUCTION of the new shopping center for Allyn is progressing, with much of the outside work completed. Workshop held to 'plan for planning' the future of North Mason ;chool District Twenty local people took part in a workshop held at LakeLand Village Clubhouse last Thursday and Friday to learn how to use a scientific approach in figuring out what is needed and, if not enough money is available for all needs, how to figure out which are the most needed. The two-day session was held at the request of Donald Burr, recently hired planner for the North Mason School District, who wants to involve members of the community as well as school personnel in a master planning program to be held after the first of the year. Burr, who was hired with Trident-related funds and additional money from the state to help North Mason prepare for the expected increase in enrollment from Trident, asked the school board to bring Dr. Fred J. Rhode to Belfair to conduct a "plan for planning" workshop as a first step in community involvement in providing new facilities to house the growing number of students in the district. It is planned that school personnel, students and community citizens will comprise a Master Planning Team which will meet seven times, starting approximately Jan. 6, with two meetings in January, February and March and one in April. There will be approximately 20 people on this team but another 30 or so people will be asked to serve on subcommittees working on four levels: facility planning, educational planning, area planning and comprehensive planning. A letter will be sent to everyone in the school district some time before Christmas by the superintendent of schools explaining the purpose and progress of the planning program. It is expected that a master plan, covering the top-rated priority needs of the district as determined by the master planning team, will be presented to the school board at the May meeting. It is anticipated that a bond issue will be put on the September ballot for funds to build the new facilities recommended in the plan. If successful it would enable the district to have additional room to house the growing number of students by the fall of 1978. At present every available room in the schools, plus the youth center, are in use and it has already been announced at a school board meeting that the board should plan on acquiring use of firehalls, grange hails, etc. for the 1976-77 school year to accommodate the expected increase in enrollment. Because of the present overcrowded situation and because the enrollment is predicted to keep increasing, the state will pay much of the building costs for new facilities if local voters pass a bond issue to pay part of the cost, according to Superintendent Norm Sanders, who has been in contact with state officials about the local problem of llick of space. Dr. Rhode came to Belfair from the White Bear Lake area public schools in Minnesota where he is the assistant school superintendent. Assessing needs is his specialty, having attended several training programs on the subject and picking out what he believes are the best points of each for his workshops. He has authored books on the subject and is in national demand as a speaker. Burr was so impressed with his work that he offered to pay for his services himself if the Tips given to save energy Following are a few more tips on ways to conserve energy (and keep electric bills down) submitted by the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service: USE COLD WATER when you run your garbage disposal. You'll save on electricity and even help get rid of the grease. Cold grease is solid and more easily ground up to wash away. START WITH hot tap water when you need water for boiling - for instant coffee, for instance. You'll save on electricity because most of the heating is already done. USE PLASTIC over your windows if you don't have storm windows - it'll keep you warmer. Use 6-rail polyethylene; attach to the outside or inside. On the outside use tacks and wooden slats to hold in place. Inside, use staples, tacks or masking tape. Roll the plastic edges over several times before fastening to get a good air-tight seal. USE ONLY ENOUGH water to create steam and stock sticking when you're boiling vegetables. They'll taste better, keep more of their vitamins. You'll save a little on energy. IF YOU STOP YOUR dishwasher at the beginning of the "dry" cycle and let the dishes air-dry, you'll save about ½ the energy it takes to run the dishwasher. RON BURROWS of NorthMason High School was named to the first All-State football team by the Washington State Sportswriters Association. GARDEN CLUB TO MEET Evergreen Garden Club will meet Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Cese Sandstrom on the Old Belfair Highway. Members are asked to bring all supplies necessary for making swags for the nursing home. School Christmas concert tonight Everyone in the community is invited to attend the annual Winter Christmas Concert to be held at the North Mason High School gym tonight, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. The musical program will be presented by the high school band, the stage band and the choir. The concert is free. "The music students have a really nice program planned," said Gordon Lent, music director, who added that he hoped a large crowd would turn out to enjoy it. Allyn church sets Christmas program Allyn Baptist Church will present a Christmas program at the Allyn School on Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. Musical numbers and readings will be offered by children, hymns will be sung by the choir and carols will be sung. Melba Hansen is in charge of the program. Refreshments will be served and everyone will receive a "goodie sack." The public is invited. Samples of speed painting, a technique done with acrylic paints, are on display at Belfair Post Office this month, along with other types of paintings. The artist, Arvilla Ohlde of South Shore, said it is a technique which "anyone can do;" one does not need to master the fine points of painting nor have any special artistic talent. Mrs. Ohlde has done watercolors and sketching most of her life and minored in art at Central Washington State College. She was employed at a senior citizen center in Bremerton about a year ago when one of the senior citizens who had learned the art of speed painting in Bellingham gave her a lesson. From then on she held classes at the center to pass on the speed painting technique which she says is "lots of fun." She said one can paint nature scenes quickly, even though one has never painted before. Mrs. Ohlde is the wife of the local wildlife agent, Dennis Ohldc. They have a four-monlh-ohl daughter, l.acy. school district could not afford to hire him for the two-day session, believing that the North Mason area would benefit so much from his needs assessment process. What the persons attending the workshop learned will be passed on to others joining the master planning team so that, hopefully, the right plan for this school district at this time will be forthcoming. Participating in the workshop were two high school students, two junior high students, six teachers (two from each of the high school, junior high and elementary), the three principals and school superint6ndent, one secretary in the school district and the director of accounting and one member of the community. It is anticipated that much of what is learned will be useful in future years by school personnel and community members in all types of planning in many areas. Principal Ken Anderson will serve as overall chairman of the planning program, including chairman of the master planning team. Two agencies interest North Mason School District has been contacted by the State Department of Natural Resources with an offer to exchange two pieces of property owned by the district in DeWatto for state-owned land, it was reported at last week's meeting of the school board. A preliminary attempt to exchange properties with the state so that the DeWatto property could be developed into mini-park sites by DNR had been made a couple of years ago but nothing had come of it. Within the past year the school district has been contacted by the Mason County Parks and Recreation Board with the idea of DR. FRED J. ROHDE (left) and Donald Burr spent time making some calculations during a lunch break of a workshop held at LakeLand Village Clubhouse last Thursday and Friday. Employees of the school district, students, a school board member and one citizen of the community attended the two-dayevent to learn the scientific approach to assessing needs and setting priorities. Knowledge gained will be used to help the school district make plans to meet the continuing growth of enrollment in already-overcrowded local schools. meeting he had attended regarding the proposed vocational skills center for Kitsap, North Mason and Peninsula school districts. He said administrators of the districts were going to meet to try to ~come up with an acceptable plan for funding by the individual school districts of the small portion not covered by state funds. He noted that there was some controversy on the subject, that a proposal that it be done based on total valuation of the school district would end up with North Mason getting the shaft since valuation of this district is so high compared, to the number of students. If enrollment at the skills center is based on total school enrollment North Mason would have fewer students participating but would be paying more per student. An alternative is to share expenses based on number of students to use the facility. About 80 percent of the project will be financed by state funds. It is estimated it will cost about 4½ million dollars to build and equip the center. In other board business members voted to notify N. M. E.A. that they were cancelling the present negotiation agreement due to a change in state law which will make it illegal after January 1. Future negotiations will have to be h andled through collective bargaining, a whole new bailgame, according to the new law. DOG FOUND A coon dog was reported found in the Bald Point area Dec. 13. HOLDING HER DAUGHTER, Lacy, is Arvilla Ohlde of South Shore whose paintings are on display during December in Belfair Post Office. exchanging properties with the county so that county parks could be developed on the two DeWatto sites. It was noted that the first thing to be done before any exchange could be accomplished with anyone was to get an accurate assessment of the value of the DeWatto property. The board decided it would be to the advantage of the taxpayers of the school district to make the best exchange deal possible so agreed to negotiate with both the state and the county to determine which property the school district would receive in exchange would be the better deal. Bill Everist and Ira Edwards were two local real estate men mentioned to be contacted to appraise the DeWatto properties. School board member Jerry Reid said he did not think anyone from his real estate office should be asked, to avoid a conflict of interests. Also at the December 8 meeting, Principai Art Davis reported that the new attendance policy at the high school seemed to be working well but recommended that the 60-day trial period be extended to the end of the school year before any permanent change in policy was made to allow time to work out any problems that might occur beyond the two-month trial period. The board voted to extend the trial period to next June. Principal Ken Anderson reported that the parent-teacher conferences for kindergarten through grade 6 had had 98 percent participation by parents with only eleven parents not responding. Board member Carol Wentlandt asked if some method of similar conferences for parents of students in grades 7 through 12 couldn't be worked out since she felt these parents are just as interested in learning first hand from teachers how their children are doing and where they need special help. It was noted that these students have up to five or six teachers per student which would be much more complicated but school administrators said they would consider it and see what kind of plan they could devise. Following a swearing-in ceremony of re-elected members Carol Wentlandt and Pat Ruff and new member Tony Hannah, the board was reorganized with Pat Ruff elected chairman, Jerry Reid, vice-chairman, Carol Wentlandt, legislative chairman and Tony Hannah, alternate legislative chairman. Chairman Ruff reported on a in DeWatto