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untY JOURNAL
Thursday, December 27, 2007 121st Year m Number 52 5 Sections -- 38 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents
Classical carols
The Chamber Singers of Shelton High School bring
the spirit of the season to Shelton United Methodist
Church at the last of the Soup and Sound events hosted
by the congregation in the weeks before Christmas.
There's more on page 8.
FF{ains also (.tevastate
00orest Serx00.tce roads
For more than two weeks, U.S.
Forest Service crews have been
clearing, repairing and opening
roads wracked by the big storm
early this month.
Those crews have been find-
ing more and more landslides or
washouts as they progress along
major travel routes, Forest Ser-
vice officials said.
The early December storm left
hundreds of miles of roads and
trails inaccessible and damaged
major campgrounds, administra-
tive sites, bridges and special-use
facilities throughout the national
forest.
After making emergency re-
pairs and clearing debris from the
first 11 miles of Forest Road 25
near Hoodsport, crews from the
Hood Canal District found a mas-
sive landslide of several thousand
cubic yards that covered the road
with as much as 15 feet of debris.
The damaged and clogged culvert
and debris over the road will take
weeks, if not months, to repair,
the Forest Service reported.
BUT AS CREWS fix what
roads and bridges they can, they're
confronting more and more storm
damage. Much of the emergency
repair work they're doing now is
temporary and the roads will have
to wait until spring for needed cul-
verts, fill, riprap or for the large
earth-moving equipment needed
to move large amounts of debris
from road surfaces.
"The snow level is low and most
of the roads have compact snow
or ice," Art Gibson, road mainte-
nance engineer for the national
forest, said last week. "It is impos-
sible to see washouts and estimate
the amount of debris over roads
when they're buried by two feet
of snow. The snow is preventing
crews from accessing roads above
2,000 feet in elevation."
One contractor with crews is
opening culverts and installing
culverts on Forest Road 25 in the
Hamma Hamma area, and replac-
ing washed out riprap at bridge
abutments on the Hamma Ham-
ma Bridge and Jefferson Creek
Bridge over the 2480 Road.
Crews are working one site at a
time as weather permits, Gibson
said. The storm's wind and rain
affected different areas of the for-
est with varying intensities.
(Please turn to page 6.)
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the inside
Classifieds ........................... 28
Community Calendar ....... 16
Crossword ........................... 31
Entertainment, Dining ..... 26
Health Journal ................... 7
Journal of Record ............. 23
Obituaries ........................... 10
Opinions, Letters ................. 4
Sports ................................... 19
Tides ..................................... 23
Weather ................................ 12
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County hikes city's
jail costs 20 percent
The cost of housing Shelton
prisoners in the Mason County
Jail and in a jail in Wapato will
increase starting with the new
year.
Shelton city commissioners at
their meeting Monday morning
heard from Shelby Conklin, ad-
ministrator of the Shelton Mu-
nicipal Court, that the cost of
jailing a prisoner from Shelton
in the Mason County Jail will
increase from $62 a day in 2007
to $74.53 a day in 2008, an in-
. crease of 20.2 percent.
Meanwhile, the cost of hous-
ing a Shelton prisoner in jail
in the City of Wapato is rising
from $40 a day in 2007 to $45 a
day in 2008, an increase of 12.5
percent. Shelton has annual
contracts with both Wapato and
Mason County to house prison-
ers sentenced to jail terms by
the Shelton Municipal Court.
The flat monthly rate for city
prisoners in the Mason Coun-
ty Jail will be $18,297.12 per
month, Conklin wrote in a brief-
ing memo to the commission-
ers. Due to the above increases,
she requested an additional
$30,000, which she noted has
been funded in the city's 2008
budget. The commissioners are
set to approve the matter at
their meeting scheduled for 10
a.m. on Monday, December 31,
in the Shelton Civic Center, 525
West Cota Street.
In other action Monday, the
commissioners passed an ordi-
nance approving the annexation
to the city of a parcel at Madi-
son and G streets. The property
is currently undeveloped and
measures slightly over half an
acre.
Woman hurt when auto hits
Shelton school bus head-on
A 22-year-old Shelton woman
is in satisfactory condition at Har-
borview Medical Center in Seattle
a week after crashing her vehicle
head-on with a Shelton School
District bus on West Cloquallum
Road.
Krista Lee Wiley was airlifted
to Harborview on December 20
after injuries sustained in the
crash reported at 8:51 a.m. about
five miles west of Shelton. Trooper
Maurice Bauer of the Washington
State Patrol reported that no one
on the school bus was injured and
that includes the driver, 62-year-
old Carole Susan Poole, of Shel-
ton.
Wiley was driving a 1991 Toyo-
ta sedan eastbound on Cloquallum
Road and crossed the centerlJne on
a curve and struck the 1984 Ford
van school bus head-on in /he
westbound lane, Bauer reported.
The cause of the crash remains
under investigation by the state
patrol.
College students help design
rejuvenation at Foothills Park
Mason County Parks and Trails
Department has collaborated with
Western Washington University's
park design class to get a fresh
perspective and innovative ideas
for its reju;enat{6"oT-'{]iiS ....
Park.
In August, Mason County Parks
and Trails Director John Keates
contacted Jim Moore, an associate
professor of physical education,
health and recreation, about utiliz-
ing the park design class to design
project plans for Foothills Park on
the west side of Hood Canal.
"John graduated from the Rec-
reation Program in the early 1980s
and has had an excellent parks
and recreation career," Moore
said. "He has kept in touch over
the years and is a good friend to
Western and the Recreation Pro-
gram."
Moore said Keates liked his ex-
perience at Western and feels con-
nected to it. "That is really amaz-
ing because it has been 25 years
since he was a student," he added.
KEATES SAID he thought the
project would be a good opportu-
nity to collaborate with WWU
and would provide students with
an opportunity t ° generate ideas
that could potentially be imple-
mented.
"Experiential education is a
great way to get students in-
volved," Moore said. "It's a tech-
nique that isn't used as commonly
as it should be."
Keates visited the class in Oc-
tober and presented them with
the design guidelines. At the
same time, he said, he didn't want
these guidelines to limit the stu-
dents' creativity.
"I was very impressed. They
spent a lot of time and effort gen-
erating ideas, and I thought that
really showed in the final presen-
tations," Keates said. "I was hop-
ing for some creativity and that
goal was achieved; the students
came up with ideas that nobody
else had thought of."
THE STUDENT proposals
will be shared with Mason County
residents during public meetings
to discuss plans for park renova-
tions. Keates said he thinks com-
ponents from each of the propos-
als will be combined to create a
final park design.
"The students really liked hav-
ing a project that was more than a
created scenario and appreciated
that their creativity was invited,"
Moore said. "Some students de-
signed the park to remain in its
natural vegetative state with hik-
ing trails; others incorporated
more active sport areas. They all
designed the park to meet the
needs of the community but used
the big-picture information differ-
ently."
Moore said the students could
know the final outcome of the
proposals early in 2008. The new
ideas presented by the Western
students have generated public
interest in the parks, which will
make it easier to get funding for
the project, Keates said.
VETERANS, SCOUTS and volunteers stand by 700-plus baskets of food for the needy Saturday morning.
Large donation sends it over the top:
Christmas Fund fills 745 baskets
A generous woman walked into the
Journal office last Friday and made a
$1,500 anonymous donation to the Jour-
nal-40 et 8 Christmas Fund that sent the
fund over the top of its $25,000 goal.
The fund was about $3,000 short of its
mark last week, but thanks to that person
and several last-minute donations, the
total of the 61st annual Christmas Fund
this week exceeded its goal.
By Wednesday, the fund had reached
$26,444. Veterans of the 40 et 8 filled 745
food baskets for the needy last Saturday
morning.
Final contributions to the Christ-
mas Fund were: anonymous, $100; Jack
Brown, $20; Roslynne and David Reed,
$200; Kristmastown Kiwanis, $500; Saint
Edward's Catholic Church, $500; anony-
mous, $100; in memory of Dinah Allison,
$50; anonymous, $20; anonymous, $250;
John and Pam Harrell, $100; and Arnold
and Smith Insurance, $100.
Other contributions included Gumby
and Pokey, $50; anonymous, $20; anony-
mous, $1,500; Lois Van Slyke, $50; Rich-
ard and Carol McInelly, $100; anonymous,
$50; Josh and Levi Myer, $50; anonymous,
$200; and Ray and Mildred Stevens,
$10o.
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untY JOURNAL
Thursday, December 27, 2007 121st Year m Number 52 5 Sections -- 38 Pages Published in Shelton, Washington 75 cents
Classical carols
The Chamber Singers of Shelton High School bring
the spirit of the season to Shelton United Methodist
Church at the last of the Soup and Sound events hosted
by the congregation in the weeks before Christmas.
There's more on page 8.
FF{ains also (.tevastate
00orest Serx00.tce roads
For more than two weeks, U.S.
Forest Service crews have been
clearing, repairing and opening
roads wracked by the big storm
early this month.
Those crews have been find-
ing more and more landslides or
washouts as they progress along
major travel routes, Forest Ser-
vice officials said.
The early December storm left
hundreds of miles of roads and
trails inaccessible and damaged
major campgrounds, administra-
tive sites, bridges and special-use
facilities throughout the national
forest.
After making emergency re-
pairs and clearing debris from the
first 11 miles of Forest Road 25
near Hoodsport, crews from the
Hood Canal District found a mas-
sive landslide of several thousand
cubic yards that covered the road
with as much as 15 feet of debris.
The damaged and clogged culvert
and debris over the road will take
weeks, if not months, to repair,
the Forest Service reported.
BUT AS CREWS fix what
roads and bridges they can, they're
confronting more and more storm
damage. Much of the emergency
repair work they're doing now is
temporary and the roads will have
to wait until spring for needed cul-
verts, fill, riprap or for the large
earth-moving equipment needed
to move large amounts of debris
from road surfaces.
"The snow level is low and most
of the roads have compact snow
or ice," Art Gibson, road mainte-
nance engineer for the national
forest, said last week. "It is impos-
sible to see washouts and estimate
the amount of debris over roads
when they're buried by two feet
of snow. The snow is preventing
crews from accessing roads above
2,000 feet in elevation."
One contractor with crews is
opening culverts and installing
culverts on Forest Road 25 in the
Hamma Hamma area, and replac-
ing washed out riprap at bridge
abutments on the Hamma Ham-
ma Bridge and Jefferson Creek
Bridge over the 2480 Road.
Crews are working one site at a
time as weather permits, Gibson
said. The storm's wind and rain
affected different areas of the for-
est with varying intensities.
(Please turn to page 6.)
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the inside
Classifieds ........................... 28
Community Calendar ....... 16
Crossword ........................... 31
Entertainment, Dining ..... 26
Health Journal ................... 7
Journal of Record ............. 23
Obituaries ........................... 10
Opinions, Letters ................. 4
Sports ................................... 19
Tides ..................................... 23
Weather ................................ 12
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County hikes city's
jail costs 20 percent
The cost of housing Shelton
prisoners in the Mason County
Jail and in a jail in Wapato will
increase starting with the new
year.
Shelton city commissioners at
their meeting Monday morning
heard from Shelby Conklin, ad-
ministrator of the Shelton Mu-
nicipal Court, that the cost of
jailing a prisoner from Shelton
in the Mason County Jail will
increase from $62 a day in 2007
to $74.53 a day in 2008, an in-
. crease of 20.2 percent.
Meanwhile, the cost of hous-
ing a Shelton prisoner in jail
in the City of Wapato is rising
from $40 a day in 2007 to $45 a
day in 2008, an increase of 12.5
percent. Shelton has annual
contracts with both Wapato and
Mason County to house prison-
ers sentenced to jail terms by
the Shelton Municipal Court.
The flat monthly rate for city
prisoners in the Mason Coun-
ty Jail will be $18,297.12 per
month, Conklin wrote in a brief-
ing memo to the commission-
ers. Due to the above increases,
she requested an additional
$30,000, which she noted has
been funded in the city's 2008
budget. The commissioners are
set to approve the matter at
their meeting scheduled for 10
a.m. on Monday, December 31,
in the Shelton Civic Center, 525
West Cota Street.
In other action Monday, the
commissioners passed an ordi-
nance approving the annexation
to the city of a parcel at Madi-
son and G streets. The property
is currently undeveloped and
measures slightly over half an
acre.
Woman hurt when auto hits
Shelton school bus head-on
A 22-year-old Shelton woman
is in satisfactory condition at Har-
borview Medical Center in Seattle
a week after crashing her vehicle
head-on with a Shelton School
District bus on West Cloquallum
Road.
Krista Lee Wiley was airlifted
to Harborview on December 20
after injuries sustained in the
crash reported at 8:51 a.m. about
five miles west of Shelton. Trooper
Maurice Bauer of the Washington
State Patrol reported that no one
on the school bus was injured and
that includes the driver, 62-year-
old Carole Susan Poole, of Shel-
ton.
Wiley was driving a 1991 Toyo-
ta sedan eastbound on Cloquallum
Road and crossed the centerlJne on
a curve and struck the 1984 Ford
van school bus head-on in /he
westbound lane, Bauer reported.
The cause of the crash remains
under investigation by the state
patrol.
College students help design
rejuvenation at Foothills Park
Mason County Parks and Trails
Department has collaborated with
Western Washington University's
park design class to get a fresh
perspective and innovative ideas
for its reju;enat{6"oT-'{]iiS ....
Park.
In August, Mason County Parks
and Trails Director John Keates
contacted Jim Moore, an associate
professor of physical education,
health and recreation, about utiliz-
ing the park design class to design
project plans for Foothills Park on
the west side of Hood Canal.
"John graduated from the Rec-
reation Program in the early 1980s
and has had an excellent parks
and recreation career," Moore
said. "He has kept in touch over
the years and is a good friend to
Western and the Recreation Pro-
gram."
Moore said Keates liked his ex-
perience at Western and feels con-
nected to it. "That is really amaz-
ing because it has been 25 years
since he was a student," he added.
KEATES SAID he thought the
project would be a good opportu-
nity to collaborate with WWU
and would provide students with
an opportunity t ° generate ideas
that could potentially be imple-
mented.
"Experiential education is a
great way to get students in-
volved," Moore said. "It's a tech-
nique that isn't used as commonly
as it should be."
Keates visited the class in Oc-
tober and presented them with
the design guidelines. At the
same time, he said, he didn't want
these guidelines to limit the stu-
dents' creativity.
"I was very impressed. They
spent a lot of time and effort gen-
erating ideas, and I thought that
really showed in the final presen-
tations," Keates said. "I was hop-
ing for some creativity and that
goal was achieved; the students
came up with ideas that nobody
else had thought of."
THE STUDENT proposals
will be shared with Mason County
residents during public meetings
to discuss plans for park renova-
tions. Keates said he thinks com-
ponents from each of the propos-
als will be combined to create a
final park design.
"The students really liked hav-
ing a project that was more than a
created scenario and appreciated
that their creativity was invited,"
Moore said. "Some students de-
signed the park to remain in its
natural vegetative state with hik-
ing trails; others incorporated
more active sport areas. They all
designed the park to meet the
needs of the community but used
the big-picture information differ-
ently."
Moore said the students could
know the final outcome of the
proposals early in 2008. The new
ideas presented by the Western
students have generated public
interest in the parks, which will
make it easier to get funding for
the project, Keates said.
VETERANS, SCOUTS and volunteers stand by 700-plus baskets of food for the needy Saturday morning.
Large donation sends it over the top:
Christmas Fund fills 745 baskets
A generous woman walked into the
Journal office last Friday and made a
$1,500 anonymous donation to the Jour-
nal-40 et 8 Christmas Fund that sent the
fund over the top of its $25,000 goal.
The fund was about $3,000 short of its
mark last week, but thanks to that person
and several last-minute donations, the
total of the 61st annual Christmas Fund
this week exceeded its goal.
By Wednesday, the fund had reached
$26,444. Veterans of the 40 et 8 filled 745
food baskets for the needy last Saturday
morning.
Final contributions to the Christ-
mas Fund were: anonymous, $100; Jack
Brown, $20; Roslynne and David Reed,
$200; Kristmastown Kiwanis, $500; Saint
Edward's Catholic Church, $500; anony-
mous, $100; in memory of Dinah Allison,
$50; anonymous, $20; anonymous, $250;
John and Pam Harrell, $100; and Arnold
and Smith Insurance, $100.
Other contributions included Gumby
and Pokey, $50; anonymous, $20; anony-
mous, $1,500; Lois Van Slyke, $50; Rich-
ard and Carol McInelly, $100; anonymous,
$50; Josh and Levi Myer, $50; anonymous,
$200; and Ray and Mildred Stevens,
$10o.