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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