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Neatherlin, Sheldon trade barbs over sewer funds County to apply for $1.5M Belfair sewer grant

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com

Journal photo by Gordon Weeks

Volunteers and Taylor Shellfish employees last Friday unload huge cedar logs onto the island in the middle of Island Lake. The logs, gravel and 900 new plants and trees will restore the shrinking island.

Raising a sinking island Island Lake residents team up to restore eroding sanctuary

By GORDON WEEKS gordon@masoncounty.com

see SEWER, page A-20

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or decades, a tiny circle of trees in the middle of Island Lake has been a “Huckleberry Finn”-like sanctuary for local youths.

“All the kids who grew up here camped out there, hung out out there,” said longtime lake resident Jef Conklin. “It’s where you went to get away from your parents.”

Island Lake resident Max Folsom first set foot on the island in 1962.

“It was a nice place to come out and sit in the grass,” recalls Folsom, who bought a house on the lake eight years ago.

But residents of the 109-acre lake north of downtown Shelton have watched the island shrink.

Waves have eaten away the dirt and gravel shorelines.

“It’s eroded badly over the years. … It’s a combination of weather, but primarily from the advent of wakeboarding,” Conklin said. “They throw huge waves.”

During the winter, only a small stretch of grass rises above

What began as a simple meeting of the Mason County Commissioners turned into more spirited debate over the future of the Belfair sewer project.

The second of nine items on Tuesday’s meeting action agenda — intended for approval in a vote covering each Sheldon of the items — asked the board to approve authorizing a grant submission to the state Department of Ecology for design the of Phase 2 of the Belfair waste collection system. Any item on the meeting’s action agenda can be removed and considered as a sepNeatherlin arate item by request of a citizen or commissioner. That consideration was requested

by Belfair resident Ken VanBuskirk, and after a heated back-and-forth between

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Photo courtesy of Jef Conklin

Island Lake residents remember when the island was covered with trees. But waves have eroded the shores and toppled many of the trees. the water line.

“I’ve never met anyone on the lake who didn’t say, ‘When are we going to do something about the island?’ “ Folsom said.

That time is now.

Undoubtedly, homeowners on the lake today are using telescopes and binoculars to watch an amazing transformation that began last Friday.

Working from a 50-foot barge, volunteers are adding huge cedar logs, root wads and gravel to elevate the island. They will

then introduce 900 plants and trees, including red osier dogwood, Oregon ash, Sitka and Pacific willow.

No government money is paying for the monumental project.

The island’s revival is propelled entirely by donations of money, time and materials.

Taylor Shellfish donated the use of the barge and employees.

SCJ Alliance contributed the engineering time and construction see ISLAND, page A-21

Debate over taxes, representation for proposed park district

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com Just what exactly would a Metropolitan Parks District (MPD) in Mason County pay for, and who would make those decisions, are at the heart of a debate ramping up this election season.

Proponents for the creation of the MPD, which if approved by a simple majority vote Nov. 8 would collect property taxes to pay for county parks, say it would protect water quality, spur additional tourism dollars within the local economy and help money earmarked for parks and trails to be used for their intended purpose, as opposed to being spent on other community priorities, such as law enforcement and public safety. see PARK DISTRICT, page A-17

INSIDE TODAY District outlines cost of proposed school bond Page A-7

Fire district moves ahead with building design plan Page A-27

Highclimbers football stumbles against Peninsula Page B-1

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ELECTION 2016

Shutty: Economy, unemployment biggest issues facing commission

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com

look forward to continuing my work here.”

Shutty is a public inforEditor’s note: This is the mation officer for the state of third in a four-part series that Washington’s House of Reprewill feature each of the four sentatives, and also serves on the county’s Planning candidates running Advisory Commission. for two open positions In addition, he’s been on the Mason County vice chairman of the Board of CommissionNorth Mason Chamers on November’s balber of Commerce’s lot. This week’s progovernment affairs file is on Kevin Shutcommittee. ty, who is running A resident of Union, against Roslynne Reed Shutty says his exfor the District 2 seat. perience working in Shutty Olympia has given Kevin Shutty and him a how-to guide — his family have called Mason County home for a little over and sometimes a how-not-to five years. But good luck try- guide — on effectively working ing to convince the Pennsylva- within the confines of a govnia native, proud Penn State ernment entity.

“My day job, I work in the graduate and Republican candidate for the District 2 seat Legislature, so I have an unon the board of county com- derstanding of how governmissioners that his status as ment should function,” he said. a relative Mason County new- “Olympia isn’t always the best comer is a reason he shouldn’t example, but when it comes to being able to work inside a be elected in November.

“You don’t need to have government, I have experience been here forever in order to doing that as well.”

It should come as no surlove your community and to want to serve your commu- prise that Shutty thinks the nity,” Shutty said. “I think to economy and unemployment put some sort of time require- are the biggest issues facing ment on that might exclude the county commission during some people who could do a lot the upcoming term. And Shutof really positive things for our ty isn’t shy about outlining community. I’m just happy to some ways to address those be a small part of that and I concerns.

“I think there are a couple of things we need to really seriously look at implementing here in the county level in order to get some economic growth,” he said. “One is that we need to have a comprehensive plan that tackles the issues of permitting and regulations, that does it in a fair and flexible way, so that people know what they can expect.

They need to have a county government that’s operating efficiently, so that they know they’re going to get a good response from the county. In the two years I’ve worked on the planning commission, I’ve worked towards that. They’re just now getting into the comprehensive plan update and there’s a lot of work ahead, so we really need to take that head on.

“Second, is that we need to address training and educational opportunities here in the county. I think we do that by building up partnerships with Olympic College, South Puget Sound College, trade unions, small businesses and get our school districts involved to continue to build on that, so that people without work or are underemployed have the skills that they need to compete in the economy.

“Finally, I think we need to be aggressive in recruit-

ing new employers to Mason County. Those are the kinds of steps we need to take in order to get our unemployment level back to being competitive in our region.”

One of the ways Shutty hopes to spur economic growth in the county begins with assisting existing local businesses.

“I think first and foremost, we have to be an advocate for the businesses we already have,” he said. “We have to make sure that we’re taking care of the people who are working here already in Mason County. We have to make sure that they have what they need to continue, to not just maintain, but to grow and thrive.”

Shutty is running as a Republican against Roslynne Reed, a Democrat, for the District 2 seat being vacated by outgoing commissioner Tim Sheldon, who is stepping down after serving on the commission since 2005. Though Shutty takes pride in his party affiliation, there are some ways he toes the party’s line, and ways in which he differs.

“I’m a Republican and a proud Republican, but just like in a family, there’s always going to be areas where you don’t see eye to eye with your family,” said Shutty. “There are issues that I’m probably a

little bit more moderate on. I think in those areas, especially living out on the canal, issues with climate change and ocean acidification and things that so closely affect our shellfish and aquaculture industry. …

I think in some of those areas I’m probably a little bit more moderate than my party and I’m happy to be that way.

“At the same time, I’m fiscally conservative. I think that government should live within its means. I’m pro-Second Amendment because I think people should have the right to own firearms and defend themselves and protect their families. So in some core issues, I’m certainly in lockstep with my party.”

Shutty believes that with his help, Mason County can thrive in the near future.

“I think that we’re poised right now in Mason County to take the next step forward and build a county that people are flocking to for opportunity,” said Shutty. “So, I recognize that as commissioner, I’m going to be a part of that, but a very small part of that. And that’s because there are so many people here so invested in doing the right things for Mason County. I’m just happy to able to call Mason County home and to be a part of that.”

Chalk one up for the dog Shelton resident Coramae Fellis, 5, attempts to complete her chalk drawing on Saturday at the Shelton Farmers Market, but Max the dog insists on being in the center of the creative energy. This was the last weekly market of the season — it will reopen in May on Third Street between Franklin and Cedar streets.

Journal photo by Gordon Weeks

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OPINION

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KOMEN COMMENT

JOURNAL EDITORIAL

Repairs breathe new life into island A baseball legend named ‘Vean’ played with the Babe I

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hey named him Sylveanus did not appear in the 1915 and Augustus Gregg when he 1916 World Series games for the was born in 1885 in ChehaRed Sox. lis. Why he was tabbed with such In 1917, he was sent to the a lofty monicker is unknown. minor league Providential Grays But Sylveanus soon was shortof the International League, but ened to “Vean,” and with that unhe was quickly back in the majors usual nickname Vean Gregg lived when he won 21 games. He made a storied baseball career.

25 starts for the Philadelphia He was there with Babe Ruth Athletics, then returned to the when the Boston Red Sox PCL from 1922 to 1924, won the World Series in the latter year with both 1915 and 1916. And Seattle. In 1925, Gregg he earned his place in was back to the Big the record books when in Show, appearing in 26 three consecutive years games with the Washhe pitched 20-win seaington Senators. He was sons.

40 years old. His playing So why isn’t Vean days ended in 1927 with Gregg in baseball’s Hall a third stint in the PCL.

By JOHN of Fame? He should be, We were reminded of right alongside the Babe. KOMEN Vean Gregg in a letter With his record — and from his daughter-inespecially with a name like Syllaw. “He always had a sore arm,” veanus Augustus — he deserves said Patricia I. Gregg of Mason to be enshrined in Cooperstown, Lake. She pointed to his listing in New York.

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not when There’s a photograph in Lawthe healthy lefthander struck out rence S. Ritter’s “The Glory of 367 batters in 395 innings for the Their Times,” his classic study Portland Beavers. of the early days of baseball. It “He also played in the Timber shows the 1915 Boston Red Sox League in Hoquiam,” she says. posing in spring training at Hot And, she adds, “He bought the litSprings, Arkansas. tle Hoquiam cove on Mason Lake There’s 19-year-old Babe Ruth and offered them to his friends for among the 25 men in the photo. sale. Most of the properties still And standing at the far right in are family owned.” his uniform, baseball cap pushed Vean Gregg, born April 13, back on his head, making way 1885, in Chehalis, died July 29, for a shock of dark hair on his 1964, in Aberdeen. Later, Patricia forehead, is Vean Gregg. On his Gregg says, “There was some efleft knee rests his left hand — his fort to get him into the Hall (of pitching hand.

Fame), but nothing happened.” In His left arm propelled the lad 2004, he was named to the Pacific on a stellar professional baseball Coast League Hall of Fame. career that began in 1909 with Immortality of a sort came to Spokane of the Northwestern Gregg when Shoeless Joe Jackson League. In 1910, he won 32 named him to his 1945 all-time games, including 14 shutouts, American League All Star Team. for the Portland Beavers of the He was in good company with Pacific Coast League. The Cleveall-time greats Walter Johnson, land Naps bought his contract for Cobb, Babe Ruth, George Sisler $4,000 and two players. and Tris Speaker.

As a rookie with Cleveland in 1911, he had a 23-7 record and an n John Komen, who lives on amazing 1.80 ERA (earned run Mason Lake, was for 40 years a reporter and editor, Seattle televiaverage). In both 1912 and 1913 Gregg posted 20-13 records. During sion news anchorman and executive, national TV network news the 1913 campaign, he struck out correspondent, producer, columTy Cobb three times in one game.

In July 1914, with a 9-3 record, nist, editorial writer and commenthe Naps traded Gregg to the Bos- tator. His column, Komen Comton Red Sox. Arm troubles began ment, appears each week in the catching up with him, and Gregg Shelton-Mason County Journal.

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time there.

Now, volunteers are planting 900 plants and trees, hauling in huge cedar logs and gravel to elevate the island.

They are shaping the future of the island by hand.

Their hope is that the island, which may be renamed Smith Island, will provide a new safe haven for local kids brave enough to swim to it from the shore.

Bill Smith originally purchased the island in April 1955. He turned over the land to the Island Lake Foundation in March 2011, just nine months before he died.

With but one caveat — that the island should be named after him.

Even though Smith won’t be around to see the

transformation, this story looks to have a happy ending.

We’re glad to see a group of locals reinvest in their backyard — literally, in this case. These organizers have gotten approval from all the necessary agencies to make this project a success. In addition to giving future generations a beautiful place to explore, they’re also giving fish and other creatures of the lake a safe place to call home.

We hope their action inspires other likeminded individuals to brainstorm community projects.

Mason County loves to give back. When there’s an opportunity, volunteers always make it happen, regardless of the required costs or hard work.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Schools play important role Editor, the Journal Recently, my wife and I were eating at Roost-

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sland Lake’s isle will rise again.

Not literally, but close to it.

Homeowners and volunteers hold a special place in their hearts for the tiny island in the center of the Mason County lake and are working to keep that island intact.

The private island north of downtown Shelton protrudes from the 109-acre lake. For decades, it has been a “hideout” for children who live near the lake. Teenagers go to hang out. Children explore it.

But throughout the years, waves from wakeboarding boats have taken their toll. The island has started to shrink. That phenomenon has prompted action by the men and women who grew up idling

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ers. We overheard one person excited because their house had gained in value. On the radio we heard that sales tax revenue had increased in the city and county. The port announced The Tractor

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Building permits had increased in the city and a five-member form of government would likely bring more progress.

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LETTERS cont. from page A-4 The Shelton School Board unanimously approved a replacement levy and a bond issue, which would improve learning and teaching while providing opportunities to advance the community. Schools are an economic engine in a community of quality growth.

Perspective will determine focus. Yes, you will most likely be paying a small amount more in property taxes. On the other hand, property values will rise in a community with strong schools and community pride. Look beyond yourself to what a community can do together. It is a matter of perspective how you will focus, so get out and visit the schools and listen to informed people.

We need to look beyond our circumstances to community opportunities. Schools are huge connection points in a community. Many already know the excellent leadership of the superintendent and school board. The improved learning and graduation emphasis is ongoing. Discover what we have already in our schools because it builds power — power to address problems and realize dreams together as connected citizens.

Challenging, I think so. We need broad participation and your “yes” vote. There is no one who is not needed. Shelton now, Shelton proud. A community of productive people.

Jim Smith Shelton

Make sure you know the rules on the field Editor, the Journal I see where it’s OK for our overpaid football players to disrespect the American flag, while others stand in solidarity with who, I do not know? But don’t pray on the football field because that gets you fired.

Linda Bruns Belfair

Some school bond highlights Editor, the Journal On Feb. 14, voters within the Shelton School District will have an opportunity to support the Shelton School Board’s request for approval of a construction bond issue. If approved, the measure would fund construction projects and much-needed improvements at all Shelton schools, including: Shelton High School n 26 new classrooms (including four new labs) to accommodate the migration of ninth-grade students from Oakland Bay Junior High n An auxiliary gymnasium just west of the swimming pool n Facilities upgrades necessary to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) n Technology and safety upgrades n Roof and window replacements n Stadium track and light-

ing improvements n Swimming pool improvements Mountain View Elementary n A new 45,000-square-foot school (with technology and safety upgrades) n Modernization of the Octagonal Building (preschool) n New play fields A number of improvements are also planned for CHOICE High School, Oakland Bay Junior High, Olympic Middle School, Evergreen Elementary, Bordeaux Elementary and the district’s transportation and maintenance facility.

The bulk of the bond proceeds will be earmarked for the replacement of Mountain View Elementary and the addition of classrooms to accommodate ninth-grade students (high school freshmen) at Shelton High School.

Mountain View is overcrowded and operates in an outdated facility. A new building will improve the learning environment by alleviating overcrowding and providing state-of-the art facilities that will include technology and safety improvements.

Our freshmen students are currently among a very small percentage of freshmen in the state that do not attend school on a high school campus with their sophomore, junior and senior counterparts. Expanding Shelton High School to accommodate the freshmen will enable these students to better prepare themselves for life after high school, because they will benefit from an increased understanding of the importance of achievement at the ninthgrade level. Under the current model, many ninth-grade students do not realize that their grades are considered by colleges and trade schools during the application process. The campus will also receive other much-needed technology and safety improvements.

The remainder of the bond proceeds will allow for technology and safety improvements across the entire district, along with needed improvements to the swimming pool.

Passage of the bond issue is an important investment, not only in the futures of our currently enrolled students, but in our future students and in the future of the greater Shelton community.

Great schools are comprised of outstanding, dedicated staff and top-notch facilities that provide a quality learning environment. The best universities, hospitals and corporate entities are all housed in state-of-the art facilities. Our K-12 facilities in Shelton are no less important.

Great schools also create a higher quality of life for the communities they serve, attracting additional business investment and the resulting economic activity.

So many positive trends are already occurring in the community, including the “Shelton to the Top” movement to remove litter from our streets, the Shelton Visioning Project to improve downtown Shelton and Graduation Matters Shelton, to name just a few. Your vote in support of the Shelton schools bond issue is yet another step in this direction.

Please vote yes on Feb. 14.

Don Winslow Shelton

More support for upcoming school bond Editor, the Journal I had lived in Shelton for less than 10 years when a prominent individual in the community advised me that if I wanted my young children to receive excellent educations, I should enroll them in “XYZ” School District. Having grown up in a much smaller town than Shelton, I still remember my unspoken reaction: If there are problems with the schools here, we have an obligation to improve them, not ignore them.

Not long after that conversation, I became a parent member of Shelton School District’s first technology committee. A few years later, when I returned to teaching, I joined the staff at Shelton High School.

The following are just a few of many examples of the physical shortcomings of the existing SHS campus that I experienced or observed during my years there.

I was a traveling teacher because of the shortage of classrooms. I had to move entire classes for their final exams because my room was 55 degrees. I have tried to teach when the classroom temperature exceeded 90 degrees.

I have seen 1,200 students try to use plumbing and sidewalks on a campus built to accommodate 800 students. I have walked with them through the pouring rain and other inclement weather to get to and from our portable classroom.

Over the years, I have also witnessed the transition of technology from mimeographed copies to document cameras, smart boards and classroom sets of tablets and laptops.

These advances allow students instantaneous access to a world of knowledge much larger than the limited number of often outdated textbooks available to them. Unfortunately, this 21st century technology is currently operating on a 20th century infrastructure. That means outages, slowdowns and other disruptions to instruction and learning.

Through all the facility and technology struggles, two things cannot be ignored.

Shelton has had and continues to have an amazing group of staff members who are dedicated to providing all children with the best education possible. Secondly, our children (and they are all ours because collectively they are our future) are flexible and resilient.

Regardless, an amazing staff and resilient children can only accomplish so much without changes that create improved learning environments. It is our responsibility as a community to help provide the support needed to allow them to become the best they can be.

On Feb. 14, we have a chance to put action behind the thought I had all those years ago that we have an obligation to improve identified problems in our schools, not ignore them. In the next few months, please take the time to learn about the upcoming bond and levy election. Take the opportunity to attend a public forum, read a fact sheet about the proposal, take a

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scheduled tour of schools to see problems and plans firsthand, and/or talk with staff members or members of the Citizens for Shelton Schools committee. If you have questions, ask. If you have a passion for education, get involved.

By now, you have probably surmised that both of my children were educated in the Shelton School District. From their first day of kindergarten until their graduation from Shelton High School they experienced quality education and support which has helped foster their success. Please join me in supporting improved educational environments that optimize teaching and learning by voting to support Shelton schools this February.

Leah Clarke Shelton

Pogo was correct about the enemy Editor, the Journal The current news is really disturbing. I’m not sure which upsets me more, the bombings and shootings or the character assassinations taking place as a form of campaigning.

The Bible, Trump’s favorite book (see, even I am attempting to assassinate a “character”), contains a couple of points I will refer to. It says something about creating man in His image. Consider this, of all the creatures God placed on this marvelous result of evolution, Earth, man is the only creature that constantly, by need or greed, threatens to destroy it before God gets to fulfill His promise to use fire. You know, Thessalonians says something about “no more water, next time fire.” How about, “No more water, next time man?”

Pogo figured it out a long time ago with “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Charles Winne Hoodsport

Neatherlin’s dedication sets him apart Editor, the Journal We’re voting to re-elect Commissioner Randy Neatherlin. He’s a dedicated law-andorder public servant endorsed

by Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike.

Without increasing taxes, the sheriff’s budget was prioritized and increased a whopping 44 percent.

Now there are eight new deputies, six new corrections officers, a jail remodel with 24 new beds, 44 new vehicles, a new evidence facility, a new North Mason precinct, increased deputy/command staff salaries, a new marine officer and a third patrol boat. A new superior court judge was also hired and is now on the bench.

It’s hard to imagine the sheriff could ask for anything more.

Keep county jobs secure.

Keep county government open and transparent. Keep strong relationships among county elected officials and staff.

Keep the law-and-order

CLARIFICATION A story on former Journal reporter Jeff Green’s kidney transplant in the Sept. 22 issue contained two errors. Both of Green’s kidneys were failing; his dialysis treatments were not at Mason General Hospital, but at Fresenius Kidney Care. The Journal regrets the errors. commissioner whose leadership and experience has really mattered.

Bob and Jerri Harris Belfair

McIntosh will put county back on track Editor, the Journal With the widening project on state Route 3 coming to a close, Belfair will be going through some growing pains.

Whether you want more growth or whether you don’t, the most important point is making sure there are public meetings and communication between decision makers and the public that are fully vetted.

With canceled north end meetings, because there is nothing to talk about, I don’t feel confident that the current Mason County Commission will include all of us in that discussion. Every different stakeholder should be at those meetings.

Every different opinion should be listened to. There should be several meetings, some during the evenings and some during the day. Some on the weekends and some during the middle of the week. A balanced committee should be picked. By balanced, I mean not the same people who currently sit on these north-end committees. A committee comprised of all of us should have several public meetings at different times so we can all attend.

I don’t feel confident that the current commission will do this fairly. I am not comfortable with the choices they have made over the last four years. Since we are now at a fork in the road, I think a positive change is in order. I will be voting for Kelley McIntosh this November. Kelley’s widescope perspective, experience and education is what I want in a commissioner to lead this county into some positive changes ... changes we all want and are all happy to live with.

I know Kelley will be fair. Her campaign has been funded by us, the regular people of this county, not special interest groups. She will work with everyone, making sure every voice is heard and every person knows their vote counts.

Your vote matters now more than any time in this county. I encourage you to attend the upcoming debates over the next five weeks. Be informed. Thank you, Kelley McIntosh, for running for county commissioner. We are lucky to have someone with your education and public experience run for public office.

Bill Green Allyn see LETTERS, page A-6

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LETTERS cont. from page A-5

Some details on parks proposal Editor, the Journal I did not expect scare tactics concerning families, kids and recreation. The idea of creating a Metropolitan Parks District (MPD) didn’t happen overnight. It took five years to get it to this point. Two years working with Trust for Public Lands and a countywide survey before allowing a ballot measure.

Nineteen MPDs operate statewide under RCW 35.61.

Yes, there is a tax levy, but the assessed value of 20 cents per thousand equals $20 per $100,000, or about $30 to $40 dollars for the average home in Mason County. That’s less than $4 a month. Any increase asked by the MPD must be approved by citizen vote. MPD funding will be exclusively for parks, trails and recreational opportunities, and cannot be diverted by the Board of County Commissioners.

Park budgets are continually reduced. REET 2 funding, once for parks, now pays for the Belfair sewage treatment plant. Unpleasant, but a fact.

This year, the county will pay $740,000 for interest, with increases each coming year.

The current budget is bare bone operating levels with no allowance for future projects or unforeseen maintenance.

So, why not just use a levy for future park projects?

This is a terrible approach, as the entire cost is on the taxpayers. New MPD levy funds will match state and federal grants. The cost to the taxpayer is reduced by 75 percent or more. Did you know that with $37 million of state RCO grant money available this year, the county is not writing a single grant to take advantage of match funding for new trails, boat ramps or youth athletic fields? Name one single multiuse path in Mason County?

It’s zero. I say, why not trails for everyone?

Another scare tactic is that an MPD is a land grab. Hardly. It may be possible in the future to transfer properties to the MPD, but that could only happen after negotiations with the county commissioners, several public meetings and inter-local agreements between the county and the MPD, operating in accordance with the RCWs. We currently have two Realtors and a former sand-andgravel operator as county commissioners. Your candidates running for the new park commissioner positions include an attorney; an auditor and accountant; an emergency manager with a master’s degree; one has a master’s degree in forestry; another has 35 years’ experience in county government and helped write the county parks’ first comprehensive plan; one is a manger for the Capital State Forest and the list goes on. These are the skills and experience needed to lead our new MPD. Oh, and there is no salary. RCW 35.61.150 allows a $90 stipend for meeting expenses.

Current employees will not lose jobs with a new MPD. If anything, the MPD will create

new jobs because all the new positions will be advertised and applied for. All positions are governed by state and federal laws, as well as RCW 35.61.150.

The bottom line is we do not need to reinvent the wheel. The county parks budget has been reduced by 60 percent during the past five years and if you want soccer fields in Belfair, a regional trail system, ballfields for our kids, protection of salmon habitat, ATV and equestrian opportunities, additional water access for boaters and kayaking, any new recreational opportunities that provides economic growth to Mason County, then voting yes on Prop. 1 is your one best chance. If Mason County is the “gateway” to the Olympics, let’s replace the hinges on that gate and open up a new era of opportunity. To get the facts, please visit: VoteforParks.org and please vote yes on Prop. 1.

Neal Winders Shelton

Vote no on proposed Prop. 1 Editor, the Journal I will be voting no on Mason County Proposition 1 Metropolitan Park District for the following reasons: New tax, duplicate bureaucracy, broad powers.

Prop. 1 will create a duplicate, unnecessary, expensive level of government and bureaucracy. This new taxing district (all of taxable Mason County property excluding the City of Shelton) will force Mason County property owners to pay an additional total $1,261,744.14 in taxes per year based on 20 cents per $1,000 of taxable property in Mason County for duplicate services. This new taxing district is not a part of the existing Mason County Parks, Trails and Facilities Department, nor an extension of current taxes. It will be a new additional tax. On July 19, 2016, the advocates in favor of placing Prop. 1 on the ballot gave the argument in their briefing materials that “by creating a park district with its own dedicated funding, other general funds currently used for parks can be spent on important priorities, such as public safety and law enforcement.” The new park tax district will not be advocating a reduction in general Mason County property taxes that currently pay for the existing parks department. This new taxing district will have the ability to increase tax levies to 75 cents per $1,000 valuation or $4,731,540.52 per year.

Where are specifics about effects?

Specifics and details concerning the implementation and outcome of Prop. 1 are missing. There are no written or voiced plans merging the new tax District with the Mason County government and how it would affect current parks and employees.

Evidently such discussions cannot take place between the county and a nonexistent entity (county commission-

ers meeting, July 19, 2016 YouTube video). Is it possible that the lack of information is intentional? Prop. 1 supporters submitted a report titled “Initial Support for a Metropolitan Park District Formation Measure.” One of the report’s conclusions was “Avoiding opposition is key, as after opposition arguments, support drops to the threshold for passage.” This conclusion indicates that the more voters know about this measure, the less they will support it.

This is too much money and power to give to a new taxing entity without knowing the full details and effects of this measure.

Why no petition to place on ballot?

Advocates asked the county commissioners to place this tax proposition on the ballot.

This is an option requiring only two yes votes rather than the more populist method of a petition, which would require the signatures of 15 percent of the registered voters within the proposed taxing district. A petition would have required the proponents to educate the voters in the proposed taxing district and would have created discussion about the specific effects of the proposition.

Speed of process There has been scant time for voters to research and receive answers to questions about this proposition — no time for any information placement in a voters’ pamphlet about Prop. 1 or about any of the candidates for the new commissioner positions.

Legally, there are no hearing requirements, no Feasibility and Cost Studies requirements, and no SEPA requirements. This Metropolitan Park District Proposition has been fast tracked, before the voters who will pay for the district, have been properly informed.

Please vote no on Prop. 1.

Merrisue Steinman Grapeview

What are the costs of Prop. 1?

Editor, the Journal Prop. 1 asks us to vote for two things — one is a property tax and the other is creation of a Metropolitan Park District (MPD). The MPD is the expensive part. Here’s why.

We’ll start by looking at MPD taxing authority. State law RCW 35.61 defines the situations and limits for an MPD to ask voters to approve taxes or issue debt. (I call this an “ask.”) State law also grants an MPD limited power to raise taxes or incur debt with a simple vote of the commissioners. (I call this a “take.”)

The City of Shelton chose not to be part of the new MPD. So, MPD taxing authority would be based on the assessed value of property in unincorporated Mason County.

At the July 19 county commissioners meeting, county staff reported that the assessed value of unincorporated Mason County is $6.4 billion. Knowing this, we can calculate the amount of new taxes the park commissioners will be authorized to collect if

we pass Prop. 1 in November.

Remember that property tax on the ballot? “... 20 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.”

That translates to $20 for a home assessed at $100,000.

This was an “ask.” It works out to $1.27 million in year one. But what about year two and beyond? It turns out $20 per $100,000 assessment is a starting point, not a limit.

RCW 35.61.210 “specifically authorizes” a metropolitan park district to collect property tax up to $75 per $100,000 assessment. This is a “take” because it requires only a vote of the park commissioners. This is authority to collect property taxes up to $4.7 million a year — 3.75 times higher than the initial $20 per $100,000 cited on the ballot. The same statute also authorizes the MPD board to call special elections to “ask” voters if they approve even higher taxes.

And then there’s debt.

RCW 35.61.100 tells us the “indebtedness limit — without popular vote” is up to “one quarter of 1 percent” of assessed value. So on top of the property taxes, the MPD board could vote to create up to $1.6 million of public debt.

With voter approval, that number could rise to $15.9 million. (RCW 35.61.110) Now let’s turn to the spending side.

Since there’s no budget, we don’t know what the MPD will do with our money. We do know it will have power to hire an expensive new executive director, park police and other staff. They’ll need a headquarters and equipment.

Park commissioners’ annual stipends have been raised to $10,944 each and are due to be raised again in 2018 (See WSR 13-12-078.) That’s before they start buying and developing land.

So we don’t know the exact amount they’ll spend, though we can see it will be expensive and that it is virtually all a duplication of the county parks department. At the July 19 county commissioner meeting, Commissioner Neatherlin made it clear that the county will continue to have a parks department. That’s not going away. We’ll just be paying twice for the same services.

Two county parks authorities, with two agendas, both with county-wide taxing authority.

If citizens create an MPD and then decide that was a mistake, it will be too late.

Once we create the MPD, we citizens cannot “un-create” it.

Only the MPD board members/commissioners have the power to dissolve the MPD (RCW 35.61.310).

Prop. 1 is a blank check. It is not just a parks levy — it’s a new government agency.

Vote no on Prop. 1.

Barb Parsloe Shelton

A Trump presidency can happen Editor, the Journal I say if anyone but Trump is elected we are in serious trouble.

I have been reading so many nasty notes during the

past weeks in the Journal.

Trump wants to strengthen the military, Social Security and health care. The Republican party is not advocating hate and fear, but safety.

However, Hillary and the Democratic Party are trying their best to create a socialist/ communist country by feeding on the fears of the people.

Trump is not a buffoon, a liar, a racist, a misogynist nor someone who is inept. The Democratic candidate, on the other hand, is all of the above.

The current Democratic party is not the party of our parents. The Democratic party has been taken over by the extreme left: Racists, bigots, men haters, anti-Christians, anarchists and communists.

I have discussions with a friend who says Trump hates women. That is just not so.

Trump does dislike a few liberal, left-wing women who hate America. He is a very successful businessman. He is a great admirer of women, evidenced by the fact that he has many in leadership positions in his companies and campaign. He pays them the same as the men.

Trump wants to make this country great again. I want to live in a country where every life matters. A country where borders are secure. A country where police can do their jobs and not be arrested if they do. I want a strong capitalist country again, not the fascist/ socialist country the Republican and Democratic elites have turned this one into. We need to be viewed as a powerful nation again.

Some people want to have every person make the same amount of money, but increased levels of education, experience and responsibility should get more money. It makes me so mad when the “let’s pay everyone a minimum of $15 per hour” came in to play. This just destroys small businesses. We do not want big businesses to continue to leave the country. With them go our jobs. Trump, on the other hand, wants to bring jobs back into the United States.

He wants “We The People” to mean something. He talks about building a wall. We need to curb illegal immigration and once again monitor all who do enter to avoid terrorists and third-world diseases entering here. We need to take care of our own for a change. Unchecked illegal immigration just keeps the middle income and low-income paychecks low.

Trump believes in our right to own and bear private firearms. Do your homework: Hillary does not. The U.S. counties which are the safest are the ones that have the highest percentage of citizens with a concealed carry permit.

I don’t see the current people in any office, in either party, in Washington, D.C., that are doing such a great job. We need someone who has a true desire to make things better. We need someone who does not owe any political debts to anyone.

There are people that say if Trump is elected they will leave this country.

I saw goodbye and good luck.

Nila LeGault Shelton

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District bond’s proposed price tag: $1.81 per $1,000 Shelton officials formulating figures for February vote

By GORDON WEEKS gordon@masoncounty.com

Photo illustration courtesy of Shelton School District

A concept drawing for a new Mountain View Elementary School, which would cost $24.5 million of the $64.7 million building bond voters will face on Feb. 14, 2017. The new building could be built behind the current structure, which the district could keep, Superintendent Alex Apostle said at Thursday’s forum. “We’re not sure what we’ll do with it,” he said. enter their sophomore year already up to five credits behind, he said.

The change will allow a more focused approach to education and help raise test scores, said Apostle, who added, “We are a lot better than our test scores indicate.”

Conference space in the new building at the front of the high school is among the proposed additions. The campus lacks places where students, teachers and parents can converse, Apostle said.

The price tag of $29 million “is a small price to pay” for much-needed improvements at the high school, the superintendent said. Some districts are paying $100 million to build new high schools, he said.

Shelton High School is one of the few in the state without two gyms, he said.

Apostle also talked about the district’s replacement levy. The current levy expires on Dec. 31, 2017, and the replacement levy would begin the following day.

The replacement levy provides almost 19 percent of the district’s total budget, said Brenda Trogstad, the district’s executive director of finances.

If passed, the replacement levy would collect $7,330,000 in 2018, 2019

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ninth-graders. Adding the ninth-graders in a few years, along with any population growth, might change the school from a 3A to 4A, Apostle said.

Apostle also announced that the district this week is scheduled to hire a new director of safety and security.

“We want to be preemptive,” he said.

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and 2020. The collection rates would be $4.38 per $1,000 assessed value in 2018, $4.34 in 2019 and $4.29 in 2020.

A forum attendee asked if adding the ninth-graders to the high school would change what teams the high school students play.

The high school has about 990 students, and the district has about 350

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If the Shelton School District’s $64.7 million building bond passes in February, the owner of a $200,000 house within the district will pay about $360 a year.

That’s the preliminary figure announced last Thursday at a district forum at Olympic Middle School.

District officials will meet with bond counsel on Oct. 3 to determine the exact number, Superintendent Alex Apostle told an audience of about 50 people in the school’s commons.

If the bond passes on Feb. 14, homeowners will pay $1.81 per $1,000 of assessed property value.

Two weeks ago, the Shelton School Board unanimously placed the building bond and a $7.3 million replacement levy on that ballot.

The building bond includes replacing Mountain View Elementary, built in 1955, with a new 45,000-squarefoot structure. Almost $30 million of the money is earmarked for the high school, and would allow the campus to accommodate ninth-grade students, who currently attend Oakland Bay Junior High.

If the building bond passes, Shelton High School would get a new 41,850-square-foot entrance building in front of the school with 26 classrooms; an auxiliary gym; new administration and conference space; relocation of the tennis courts; replacement of the MiniDome flooring; technology and safety upgrades; and other improvements.

All seven school buildings would receive improvements if the bond passes.

All the projects would be scheduled to be completed by September 2019.

The bond eliminates the need to enlarge the three elementary schools, Apostle said.

“Our elementaries are all over 500 (students), and one is over 600,” he said.

In Washington, 98 percent of ninthgraders attend high schools, Apostle said.

With the conversion to a four-year high school, the students in the Pioneer and Hood Canal school districts would transition directly into the high school instead of spending one year at Oakland Bay Junior High, Apostle said.

Many ninth-graders don’t recognize how important the year is for them as they begin accumulating credits toward graduation, Apostle said. Some of them

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Burglaries, theft prompt action by Shelton homeowner

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com

Journal photo by Michael Heinbach

The entrance to Community Lifeline of Mason County in Shelton displays rules and regulations for using the nonprofits services. legal drug use, loitering and verbal threats by people using the shelter’s services near its downtown locale, the former St. David of Wales Episcopal Church.

“We are all neighbors

here and this is an issue for all of us to talk about,” Weza said. “So we’d like to start the conversation here today. I’d like everyone to be heard and see what we can do as neighbors to work to-

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“Although legally, (the shelter’s) responsibility ends at the sidewalk, morally I believe the shelter is responsible for a certain amount of this because of the services they provide,” Whittaker said. “It goes with their services, and it’s no reflection on Barb (Weza); she’s doing a fantastic job. But these people are violent and we need to always remember that.

It’s not just some drunk doing whatever. Most of these people are quite violent.”

Weza and her staff at Community Lifeline are no strangers to Whittaker’s concerns.

“Almost two weeks ago, Mr. Whittaker came to me out of frustration and I heard that frustration,” Weza said.

“And I have to say that we have shared some of that over the summer and the last few months because there has been some new activity happening around the neighborhood that we have had to tighten our reins a bit. This last year, we installed security cameras in our building. We have also taken other security measures and we are working on that currently with the PUD to install extra security

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Though the discussion lasted for nearly two hours, it left Whittaker wanting more action. The longtime shelter neighbor, who claims to have been repeatedly victimized by trespassers, thieves and property damages, left unsatisfied.

“First of all, they were great. Everybody that was there was just great,” he said. “But I’m kind of disappointed, actually, that there was no real action that came out of there. We should start actually sitting down with everybody and systematically going through the problem.”

This issue is far from a new one, according to Whittaker, who first brought it to the attention of city and shelter representatives in 2010, when his garage was first burglarized and the shelter was being run

by St. David’s. Though there was a similar meeting six years ago to discuss the concerns raised by Whittaker and his neighbors, he said the troubles near his

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A Shelton man is tired of ongoing vandalism and theft at his home next door to a service organization that assists homeless residents. He said he’s been burglarized seven times in the last three weeks, and now he’s trying to take action.

Thirteen community leaders, neighbors, representatives of the Shelton Police department and downtown Shelton business representatives met with staff members of Community Lifeline of Mason County the morning of Sept. 22 in an open forum to discuss issues involving crime in the area around the nonprofit homeless service organization’s location at 218 N. Third St. in Shelton.

Attendees of the invitation-only summit included Shelton Police Chief Darrin Moody, County Commissioner Randy Neatherlin, City Commissioner Tracy Moore, City Planner Jason Dose, Community Lifeline executive director Barbra Weza, and Community Lifeline neighbor, Rod Whittaker. The forum focused on trying to find ways to curb increasing reports of theft, vandalism, il-

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Whittaker has gone so far as to make a donation to Community Lifeline in order for it to purchase and install additional security cameras.

“Security cameras absolutely help,” he said.

“It’s the cheapest thing we can do to provide the most security in the area.”

Moody presented meeting attendees with a plan to take the first steps in increasing the safety concerns around the shelter.

“I’m going to get with Barb and another party and we’re going to review what we call crime prevention environmental design,” Moody said.

“He’ll come out, walk through and do an inspection. He’ll give you some lighting ideas, tree trimming, bush trimming. … whatever we can do to make it less appealing to the bad and more appealing to the good.”

Afterward, Whittaker left hoping for more tangible evidence that the shelter and law enforcement are working towards a solution.

“I think we need to form some type of a committee or have some type of follow-up meetings on this and see if we can’t set some precedents for other communities,” he said. “And we need to reach out to other communities that are having the same types of problems. They might have something that could help us and we might have something that could help them.

It’s a nationwide problem, but it’s increased here because of the facilities.”

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Preparing refuge from the cold weather

By GORDON WEEKS gordon@masoncounty.com The first time the wind-chill factor drops below 35 degrees, the green sign will be placed outside the Community Lifeline of Mason County Cold Weather Shelter in downtown Shelton.

The Shelton-based nonprofit group — a collection of 16 churches and 17 businesses and civic organizations — offers a warm and safe haven at the shelter at 218 N. Third St. The shelter is opened to the homeless between Nov. 1 and April 30, on nights forecast for a wind-chill factor of 35 degrees or lower.

On cold nights, the shelter opens at 8 p.m.; the lights go out and the doors are locked at 10 p.m. Anyone who comes in after 10 p.m. must be brought in by police or medics.

Last winter was fairly warm, but the shelter still filled a total of 3,500 beds during the season, said Barbra Weza, executive director and homeless advocate for Community Lifeline.

Females used to make up 25 percent to 33 percent of the clients, but last year, about half the clients were women, Weza said. Although the youngest woman was 19, most of them were between the ages of 45 and 63 — too young to qualify for senior citizen benefits, but suffering from disabilities and unable to work, she said.

Many clients are “under-employed,” and an increasing number are suffering from mental health and addiction issues, Weza said.

This is the first cold-weather season that Community Lifeline owns the building. The group purchased the building in June for $200,000, Weza said.

The group recently installed security cameras inside the building and security alarms on doors, Weza said.

The group plans to remodel the sleeping area for women, she said.

At the cold-weather shelter, the men sleep downstairs, the women upstairs, many on mattresses donated by

Journal photo by Gordon Weeks

Barbra Weza, executive director and homeless advocate for Community Lifeline of Mason County, said half of the clients who used the group’s cold weather shelter last season were women. The shelter at 218 N. Third St. in downtown Shelton is open between Nov. 1 and April 30, on nights forecast for a wind-chill factor of 35 degrees or lower. the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton. Two employees are hired for the night, one male, one female.

Staff members patrol the building hourly, and outside every two hours.

All patrons sign in, and are given copies of the rules. No one who is sick is allowed, because the shelter does not have a quarantine area. Sex, drugs, fighting, alcohol and weapons are not allowed on the premises.

Patrons are offered coffee, tea, hot chocolate and snacks. They can also get a towel, soap and shampoo, and spend

up to 15 minutes in the shower.

Patrons are supplied with a sleeping mat and bedding, and are expected to fold up the bedding and put the mat away in the morning. They are required to be up at 7 a.m., and out the door by 8 a.m.

Along with donations, Community Lifeline also seeks bathroom supplies

for its shower ministry. Anyone who needs a shower can stop by the shelter between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every weekday except Thursday in any weather conditions.

Community Lifeline also welcomes donations of blankets, white cotton socks, phone and laundry cards, hats and gloves, Weza said.

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A 1993 GMC Sierra suffered extensive front-end damage after colliding with a school bus Tuesday morning on Olympic Highway South in Shelton.

Truck rear-ends school bus The commute to school was an eventful one for approximately 50 students riding on a Mason County Transportation Cooperative bus when a pickup truck rear-ended the bus Tuesday morning in the 1300 block of Olympic Highway South in Shelton.

No injuries were reported due to the collision, which occurred around 7:15 a.m. Traffic was slowed briefly while police officers and sheriff’s deputies tended to the scene.

The bus, filled to near capacity with students traveling to Olympic Middle School, Oakland Bay Junior High School and Shelton High School, slowed for traf-

fic heading northbound. A 1993 GMC Sierra towing a boat, driven by Arnuflo Torres of Shelton, failed to slow down appropriately, according to a Shelton Police Department report issued by officer Justin Fry, and collided into the back end of the school bus. Neither Torres nor his two passengers were injured, though the GMC, registered to Jesus Torres, suffered extensive front-end damage.

Damage to the bus was minimal.

Officers on the scene suggested slippery road conditions may have contributed to the accident. As of press time, no charges against either Arnuflo Torres or Julie Hart, the driver of the school bus, had been filed and no other information was made available to the Journal.

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MGH lab director placed on paid leave after arrest

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com The director of laboratory operations at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics has been placed on paid administrative leave following his arrest Sept. 10 in an online sexual predator sting that led to the arrest of 22 people, according to MGH & FC public information officer Shelly Dunnington.

Nathan B. Wiggs, a 45-year-old Lacey resident, was charged with first-degree

attempted rape of a child after he was arrested for allegedly arranging to meet an 11-year-old girl for sex. When Wiggs was apprehended, police found several condoms on the front seat of his vehicle.

Wiggs has no prior criminal history and his bail was set at $50,000.

“Upon learning of his arrest, we placed (Wiggs) on administrative leave while there’s an ongoing investigation being conducted by Mason General,” Dunnington said. “That’s our standard practice.”

According to what appears to be his resume posting online at Indeed.com, Wiggs has been at his current position at the hospital since December 2015 and manages its critical access laboratory and 10 licensed testing locations. Wiggs previously worked as a systems technical manager at the Tri Cities Laboratory in Kennewick.

He’s currently a Ph.D. resident in healthcare administration with the University of Phoenix.

The sting that landed

Wiggs in hot water, known as “Operation Nanny Net,” was conducted from Sept. 7 to Sept. 18 in a collaborative effort by 16 law enforcement entities, including the Washington State Patrol’s Missing and Exploited Children’s Task Force (MECTF); the FBI; and the Olympia, Tumwater, Lacey and Shelton police departments.

According to WSP Lt. Michael Eggleston, commander of the MECTF, his agency either responded to or posted an ad online similar to

ones found in the personals section of websites such as Craigslist.

It then used online, text or phone messaging to lure potential predators into meeting underage children for the purpose of a sexual encounter. Many of the arrests were made at the Breckenridge Heights apartments in Tumwater.

Of the six operations of its kind, Eggleston said this particular sting was easily the most successful in terms of arrests made.

PUD 3 customers to receive rate hike beginning Oct. 1

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com Mason County PUD 3 customers will see an increase in utility rates beginning Oct. 1 due to higher wholesale energy costs being charged to PUD 3 by the Bonneville Power Administration.

In this second phase of PUD 3’s response to an increase in costs by the BPA, PUD 3 customers will see the price per kilowatt-hour climb from $0.0699 to $0.727 and the system charge increase by $0.10 a day to $1.10. As a result, the average increase in PUD 3 residential customer power bills should be around 5.5 percent, which is around an extra $6 a month for a typical customer, according a news release issued by PUD 3 on Tuesday.

The BPA recently made three hikes in its wholesale rates to utility providers such as PUD 3. Prior to raising rates 7 percent last year, the federal power-marketing agency increased rates by 9 percent in 2013 and 7.8 percent in 2011. Since 2008, the BPA’s wholesale energy prices have risen by 29 percent.

According to Joel Myer, PUD 3’s public information and government relations manager, the utility’s

customers have been well notified of the coming rate increase.

“Since we began the first phase last October, we’ve been using our newsletter and website to try and make it really clear to our customers that this rate hike was coming this October,” Myer said. “We do, however, have to keep an eye on the future as the BPA is in the midst of another (rate increase) next fiscal year.”

Myer said that nearly all of the electricity sold to PUD 3 customers comes via the BPA, a nonprofit federal marketing administration based in the Pacific Northwest. The BPA is self-funding and markets wholesale electrical power from 31 federal hydroelectric projects in the Northwest, a nonfederal nuclear power plant and several small nonfederal power plants.

“Our prices to customers are the result of two components, one of which we can control, and the other, which we can’t,” Myer said. “We can control

our local costs and have done a good job of keeping those costs from increasing. We have very little control over what our utility providers charge us for the energy we sell.”

The local price increase stems from an increase in price the BPA charges for energy and the price to transmit it. In determining its wholesale power bills, the BPA charges utility entities with a greater percentage of residential customers a higher rate than other public power companies with more commercial customers, increasing costs for utilities such as PUD 1 and PUD 3.

Myer said PUD 3 remains active in doing what it can to keep the power it provides as affordable as possible.

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Trimester schedule at high school, junior high?

By GORDON WEEKS gordon@masoncounty.com The Shelton School District is considering moving from a semester schedule to a trimester schedule at Shelton High School and Oakland Bay Junior High next fall.

At the Shelton School Board meeting on Tuesday evening, Shelton High School Principal Jennifer Deyette said the change to trimesters would allow some “wiggle room” as students work to meet the new state requirement for 24 credits to graduate.

Under the proposal, students have the possibility of earning 30 credits from ninth grade through their senior year if they don’t fail any classes, Deyette said.

Under the trimester schedule, students would attend five periods each of the three trimesters. The length of the classes would expand from 55 minutes to 75 minutes.

District officials began studying the proposal this summer, Deyette said.

With the change to trimesters, the school can add more class offerings by “revising the catalog,” Deyette told the board members. For example, students would be able to earn three full years of a foreign language in two years, she said.

The students in the class of 2021 — this year’s eighth-graders — are the first required to earn 24 credits to graduate, up from 22, Deyette said.

Asked about the possible

Journal photo by Gordon Weeks

Shelton High School sophomore Quinn Lacy on Tuesday walks across the campus. The Shelton School District is considering moving from a semester schedule to a trimester schedule at the high school and Oakland Bay Junior High next fall. impact on CHOICE High School, Deyette pointed out the alternative school is on a different schedule. Some CHOICE students come up to Shelton High School for swimming classes and to perform with the band, she said.

Deyette added that she and

CHOICE Principal Stacey Anderson are meeting frequently to talk about programs their students can do together.

School board member Keri Davidson said expanding the class offerings sounds exciting.

“I have a 7-year-old daughter who wants to take Japa-

nese,” she said.

School Board President Sally Brownfield said the change to trimesters could expand opportunities for internships and time spent at district academies that are being established.

“This system can be more engaging to students and staff

members,” she said.

School board member Sandy Tarzwell asked if the change would affect the district’s budget.

“No, because we’d be serving the same number of students, just in another way,” Deyette said.

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Westernthemed bingo/ karaoke party coming up Break out those cowboy hats and blow the dust off your boots, because Western is the costume theme at the monthly bingo/karaoke party Friday evening at the Mason County Senior Activity Center at the Pavilion, 190 W. Sentry Drive.

The doors open at 6 p.m., and the early bird karaoke begins at 6:45 p.m. Attendees must be at least 21 years old.

Admission is $10.

Attendees can ask candidates questions in small, informal groups seated at tables. The group will spell out the rules, and League members will serve as timekeepers and moderators at each table while the candidates rotate among tables.

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On Sept. 20, the Shelton Rotary Club and Shelton Skookum Rotary Club welcomed more than 80 new educators to Mason County at a dinner at the Pavilion at Sentry Park in Shelton. Each educator from the Shelton, Pioneer, Hood Canal and Southside school districts and Mason County Christian School was introduced. The two Rotary clubs host the event each fall.

Data/tech workshops Hear tales offered by of logging WSU Extension camp life at Washington State University Mason County Extension presentation is offering workshops to help improve computer and data research skills.

The workshops are from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Salmon Center in Belfair, and from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 11 at Mason General Hospital in Shelton.

For more information, call 427-9670, ext. 685.

John Drebick of the Sons and Daughters of Mason County Pioneers will talk about growing up in Camp 3, Camp 5 and Camp Grisdale logging camps at noon Oct. 5 at the Shelton Elks Lodge, 741 SE Craig Road.

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tend. For more information, call Annette McGee at 4262120.

Speed date candidates at League forum The Mason County League of Women Voters will offer the chance to “Speed Date a Candidate” at a forum from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Mason PUD 3 building, 2621 E. Johns Prairie Road, Shelton.

Republican Women host speaker Max Nelson of the Freedom Foundation will talk about state initiative No. 1501 at a meeting of the Republican Women of Mason County at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 7 at the Royal Buffet, 2517 Olympic Highway N., Shelton. A buffet lunch is available for $12.

Old-time tunes at church concert Wanted: fundraiser Singers for Shelton Presbyterian Church will present a fundfreedom raiser concert of music from the 1940s and 1950s at 7 p.m. concert Oct. 5 at the church at 1439

Shelton Springs Road.

Admission is free, and donations will be collected to pay for food for children in need and their families through the Backpack Ministries Program.

The performers will include A Capella Belles, Rachelle Anderson, Eileen Bailey, Isaiah Brooks, Neil Burkel, Pastor Jeff Bursch, Susan Casey, Glen Fourre, Paula Johnson, Jim McElroy and Jean Williams. The songs will include “Feeling Good,” “Cold Cold Heart,” “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” “Mood Indigo,” “Cool Water,” “Secret Love,” “16 Tons” and “I’ll Fly Away.”

Singers are invited to lend their voices to the seventh annual Songs of Freedom Concert to honor American veterans Nov. 10 at Shelton United Methodist Church, 1900 King St. Rehearsals are 1 to 4 p.m. some Saturdays. Singers are asked to attend at least two rehearsals. There are no auditions and no charge; all teenage and adult singers are welcome. Music is provided at the rehearsals.

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K9 Jano helps nab burglary suspects

County debunks E. coli rumor

Founding member of HCSEG dies

Two suspected burglars were apprehended by Mason County Sheriff’s Office deputies with the help of K9 unit Jano and deputy handler Nathan Birklid in the early morning hours of Sept. 23.

Deputies were called to a residence on Wood Lane northeast of Shelton at 4:30 a.m. last Friday for a report of a burglary occurring at the house.

The suspected intruders fled once sheriff’s office deputies arrived. Following several warnings issued by deputies, Jano, a German shepherd, apprehended a 35-year-old female suspect and held her by the arm until a deputy took her into custody. Jano then located a 45-year-old man and held him by the arm before a deputy took him into custody.

Jano also helped deputies locate several items suspected to be related to the alleged theft.

Both suspects were booked into Mason County Jail on burglary charges after being treated at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics.

A baggie containing a white crystalline substance was found on the male during a search and he received an additional charge of possession

Mason County community services director Dave Windom issued a news release Tuesday afternoon, clarifying a rumor spreading on social media of a widespread E. coli outbreak in Mason County’s water supply.

According to the release, E. coli was detected in the Queen Anne Water Works LLC, a 14-connection water system off North Shore in the Belfair area, on Sept. 16. According to Windom, there is no known risk of an E. coli outbreak elsewhere within the county.

Windom’s release said the system manager is “working through the disinfection process and will be retesting to make sure there is no longer E. coli in the water.”

Residents connected to that system have been advised to boil their water or use bottled water, and once samples return to normal, the status on the Washington State Department of Health Recent Drinking Water Alerts web page will be changed to “safe to use.”

The Department of Health’s announcement can be found at doh.wa.gov/ CommunityandEnvironment/ DrinkingWater/Alerts/ RecentAlerts.

Al Adams, founding member and director emeritus of the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, died at the age of 87 on Sept. 25, according to a new release issued Monday by the group.

Before retiring from dentistry, the Port Angeles native helped develop a residential salmon hatchery in the 1970s, revitalizing the coho salmon population and serving as an innovative method of recovering salmon populations. Upon retirement, Adams moved to Hood Canal in 1990 and helped found the HCSEG, serving first as a board member before becoming its first paid executive director for five years. After stepping down, Adams presided over the HCSEG board of directors, totaling over 20 years of service to the organization. For his efforts, Adams was inducted into the Wild Salmon Hall of Fame in 2010.

“Al was the grandfather of the grassroots movement toward salmon habitat restoration and education in Hood Canal,” HCSEG executive director Mendy Harlow said in the release. “He was a visionary and inspired so many people to see the bigger picture and fight for the preservation

Photo courtesy of the Mason County Sheriff’s Office

K9 unit Jano and deputy handler Nathan Birklid recently apprehended two burglary suspects. of a controlled substance.

K9 Maki tracks down alleged felon A suspect with a no-bail felony warrant, who had escaped from the custody of Skokomish Tribal Police, apprehended by Mason County Sheriff’s K9 unit Maki, a German shepherd, and deputy handler Joel Nault.

The suspect had fled on foot into a heavily wooded area before being detained by Maki after an approximate quartermile trek.

of wild salmon runs throughout our region.”

Funeral arrangements for Adams had not been made as of press time.

Community meets to discuss opiates Over 100 professionals, community leaders, former drug addicts and concerned citizens met Sept. 21 at Shelton High School in hopes of finding solutions to Mason County’s opiate epidemic.

Keynote speaker Molly Carney, executive director of the Evergreen Treatment Center, pushed for treatment with the help of drugs such as methadone and suboxone. Dee Cole Depo, whose daughter died from drug use earlier in the year, and recovering drug addict, alcoholic and Shelton native Abe Gardner told of their experiences.

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Dump truck rollover halts traffic on 101 A dump truck driven by a 24-year-old Lakewood man overturned at the intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and West Dayton Airport Road late Monday morning, blocking traffic for 3 ½ hours.

According to a Washington State Patrol report, the man was driving a 1999 Peterbilt truck and towing a 1990 Sturdy brand transfer trailer filled with gravel. Driving north-

bound on Highway 101, the driver tried to turn westbound onto West Dayton Airport Road, but took the turn too fast and both the truck and its trailer rolled, dumping the gravel onto the roadway.

The cause of the incident remains under investigation.

Collision on SR 3 lands man in hospital A two-vehicle, head-on collision on state Route 3 on Sept. 24, approximately 4 miles north of Shelton, led to a 25-year-old Lacey man being

airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

The man, driving a 1999 Honda Civic, was traveling northbound at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday and drifted into the southbound lane. His vehicle struck a southbound 2007 GMC Acadia, driven by a 36-year-old Puyallup woman with two children passengers under the age of 10. Both cars came to rest in the roadway, which blocked traffic for about three hours. Occupants of the GMC were uninjured.

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n 1937, in the midst of the Great wagon’ looked like a difficult obstacle Depression, Mason County Sheriff to clear, but by biding his time, keeping Gerald E. Byrne was on a mission his eyes open and grasping opportunito improve the efficiency of his ties at the right time the wagon department. His first step was was acquired, at an extremely to hire an office secretary, Miss reasonable figure. A Buick seBernice Sowers. One of her jobs dan of the early 1930s was left would be to keep complete finto the county in payment of a gerprint records of prisoners condebt. Sheriff Byrne saw in it just fined in the local jail, as well as a By JAN the car he was looking for. He photograph file. persuaded Dave Johns, Shelton PARKER Sheriff Byrne had also acAuto Body builder, to revamp quired a short-wave receiving radio, but the sedan and make a patrol wagon out he hoped to improve communications of it for $300. And there he had the car further by acquiring a radio system that the county couldn’t afford to purchase would include broadcasting equipment new, yet which all agreed was a needed at the sheriff’s office and receiving sets part of the law enforcement equipment in patrol vehicles. This would enable of Mason County. The ‘black maria’ is the main office to stay in constant touch equipped with first aid sets, a stretcher with officers in the field and also allow and a fire extinguisher. It will be very the local office to be in close contact with useful for mass transportation of prisonfederal and state authorities. Just how ers, such as the gang of drunks arrested this improvement was to be financed at the Allyn dance Saturday night, or in remained to be seen, but the sheriff had carrying persons injured in traffic accialready proved his ingenuity in that dents to the hospital.”

To raise money for new side arms, area with the acquisition of the departoffice equipment, and first aid supplies ment’s new “paddy wagon.” for the paddy wagon, Sheriff Byrne According to the Feb. 25, 1937, Shelplanned a Peace Officers’ Ball to be held ton-Mason County Journal, “The ‘paddy

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The dance was a success. “In the neighborhood of 250 couples came to enjoy the dancing and to see Sheriff Gerald E. Byrne and his deputies in their natty, new blue uniforms.”

(The following week, members of Shelton’s Young Men’s Business Club, deciding the city police force should not be outshone by the sheriff’s department, took on a project to supply new uniforms for at least two of the city’s four police officers.)

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Here’s how much a county parks district could cost

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com The measure to create a Metropolitan Mason County Parks District received approval to appear on November’s general election ballot by at 2-to-1 vote by Mason County Commissioners in July.

But in doing so, the measure, now known to Mason County voters as Proposition 1, met with little fanfare and has apparently led to voter confusion. Should residents create a metropolitan parks district in unincorporated Mason County?

The issue sitting before voters is whether to create a

five-member committee of atlarge commissioners, elected by voters to six-year terms, that will support, manage and create parks, trails and recreation with the hopes of providing additional access to rivers, beaches and shorelines within unincorporated Mason County. The metropolitan parks district (MPD) would be funded in its infancy by a general property tax of $0.20 per $1,000 of assessed property value to residents of unincorporated Mason County (anywhere in the county outside Shelton city limits). For example, a property owner with $100,000 of assessed property value would be taxed an additional $20 a

year to fund the proposed park district.

Should the MPD be approved by voters in the Nov. 8 general election by a simple majority vote, its commissioners could vote to authorize it to collect property tax of up to $75 per $100,000 of property-value assessment, which is 3.75 times greater than the original property tax, according to opponents of the measure.

Currently, Washington is home to 19 different metropolitan parks districts, housed in both cities such as Shelton and in unincorporated areas, such as the Peninsula MPD in Pierce County. The Shelton MPD was created in 2010 after

voters narrowly passed it by a vote of 823 to 765 (51.8 to 48.2 percent).

Prop. 1 was pushed to a vote by the county board of commissioners by Mason County Friends of the Parks, a fivemember nonprofit advisory board, and a professional advisory board. In going before the county commissioners to receive ballot-measure approval on July 19, Friends of the Parks issued an informational packet that outlined arguments both in favor and against the creation of the MPD, as well as the findings of a countywide voter survey conducted April 6-10 by public opinion research and strategy

company Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates.

The survey, conducted via telephone interviews with more than 300 voters likely to cast ballots in November’s election, concluded that 55 percent of those polled would approve the measure. Prop.

1’s approval rating was 59 percent within the city of Shelton, as opposed to 55 percent in unincorporated Mason County. Fifty percent of voters would be more likely to vote in favor of creation of the MPD if it would merge with the Shelton MPD to create a single countywide parks district, according to the study.

Park district: Power of proposal ‘not well-understood’ continued from page A-1 Collected property taxes would come from owners of unincorporated Mason County properties.

But why should voters approve a tax to fund a countywide metropolitan parks district when there’s already a Mason County facilities, parks and trails department?

“We have a parks, trails and facilities department already,” said Monte Ritter, president of Friends of the Parks and a candidate for parks commissioner No. 4, should the ballot measure be approved. “But because facilities are involved, the money there can be diverted from parks and trails to maintenance and upkeep or paying for facilities, like the Belfair sewer project or the jail or county government buildings. What we are attempting to do with Prop. 1, it will create a designated funding source that goes directly from our pockets into our parks, not for funding other agencies.”

Ritter pointed to the fact that Mason County’s current parks department had an annual budget of $1.2 million in 2008, but that has now shrunk to approximately $500,000, with much of that money being earmarked to projects that fall under the blanket of facilities, not parks and trails.

But concerned Grapeview resident Merrisue Steinman said there’s no reason to place a tax on her and her neighbors to create an additional government entity when there’s already a county parks department.

“It’s a duplication of an existing, functioning government body in our county,” Steinman said. “This proposition and

the group promoting it is expecting citizens to absorb a new tax to fund an additional layer of bureaucracy.”

Arguments against the creation of the MPD outlined in the packet handed to county commissioners July 19 included the additional tax burden, a lack of trust that MPD would appropriately spend money it receives, and that the county is faced with higher priorities than parks and trails. The measure could would create competing interests for county funds.

Steinman went even further in her reasons for voting against Prop. 1.

“There are no specific results being put forward on what happens if it is approved, other than the cost,” Steinman said. “There are no written or voiced plans on how it affects voters once the parks district is created.”

According to the Friends of the Parks website, the group hopes the MPD will help create a Belfair-to-Shelton bicycle and hiking trail, a Vance Creek Bridge trail and bungee-jumping facility, additional trails at Coulter Creek Park in Belfair and Allyn, mountain bike trails at Wildwood Park in Victor and a multiuse path would run from the Shelton waterfront to the Mill 5 site.

Tim Sheldon, the lone county commissioner to vote against putting Prop. 1 on the ballot, expressed additional concerns with the measure, including a rush to be presented to county commissioners.

“I don’t think there’s been a lot of discussion about putting it on the ballot and there are a lot of ramifications unknown or that are obscure to the voter,” Sheldon said. “For example, the people running for parks commissioners, they

don’t represent a specific area, so that power they’ll have won’t be geographically distributed evenly.

“Also, the power of a parks district is not well-understood by the public. For example, they have the power of condemnation and property tax, which is ongoing and can be raised by the parks district commissioners. They also have the power to borrow money and put the county into further debt.”

Ritter says voters will have the right to determine how geographic areas of unincorporated Mason County will be represented as the six-year terms of parks commissioners will be staggered in order to allow for fresh voices to serve the MPD every two years.

“By the very nature of a metropolitan parks district, we’ve made it so voters have the chance to make a change in the

commission every two years,” he said.

“If at some point a certain area believes it needs more representation they have the opportunity to install new members every two years. By nature, it’s set up to facilitate the entire county and the growth projected in the community in the coming years.”

Arvilla Ohlde, associate director of Friends of Parks and a candidate for parks commissioner No. 1, is confident the pros for creating a MPD far outweigh the cons.

“It’s a social issue, as well as an economic and health issue for Mason County,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to make access to outdoor activities more of a priority than it has been in the past.

For years, we haven’t been able to put an emphasis on it, but with a parks district in place, we can.”

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Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Martin will celebrate their 70th anniversary from 2 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2016, at an open house in the Christmas Village Club House in Shelton.

The event is being held in their honor by their children: Joyce Martin Bowyer, Bruce (Sherry) Martin, Doris Martin Ahrens, and Brian (Kathy) Martin.

Also in attendance will be two of their three grandchildren: Melisa (Doris’) and Evan (Bruce’s). Grandson James Michael, and great-grandchildren Jillian and Aiden Ahrens, are unable to attend.

The former Gloria Hansen grew up in Ballard, the daughter of Ike and Edith (Giles) Hansen, and younger sister to Peggy (Hansen) Heindselman (deceased). Upon graduating from Ballard High School (Class of ’44), Gloria held a job working at the Halibut Liver Oil Producers. She was introduced to Victor on a blind date during his enlistment in the Navy while stationed in Bremerton. While his tour would see him travel out of the area, they stayed

in contact through letters. Upon exiting from the Navy in his home of San Diego, the draw to come back to the Pacific Northwest and to Gloria inspired him to borrow his brother’s car and make the journey back to Seattle. They were engaged on May 23, 1946, and married Oct. 11, 1946.

Victor was born in the rural community of St. Louis to Richard and Frances (Van Doren) Martin. During the dust bowl era of the 1930s, the family traveled out west, finally settling in Grand Junction, Colorado. After their eldest son enlisted in the Navy, the family resettled in San Diego. Victor joined the Navy at the age of 17 as a radio serviceman. Shortly after his marriage to Gloria, Victor joined the Seattle Fire Department, where he retired as a captain after 26 years.

Gloria and Victor made their first home in Ballard, retired to Lynnwood and later traveled to Peoria, Arizona, where they had a winter residency for 20-plus years. They currently reside in their home in Christmas Village.

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They met while both were students at Washington State University.

Their life together has taken them from the Palouse to Okinawa, Germany and other parts of America.

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Sewer: Grant funding the center of Tuesday’s discussion continued from page A-1 commissioners Tim Sheldon and Randy Neatherlin. The entire action agenda was eventually approved by a 2-to-1 vote with Neatherlin and commissioner Terri Jeffreys in favor and Sheldon against it.

According to Mason County Public Works director Jerry Hauth, the $1.5 million in grant money being sought from the Department of Ecology must be applied for by Oct. 21. Without a grant application, a grant to help fund a second part of the sewer plan would not be available again for two years, Hauth said.

The argument for the commission to support the grant application was immediately met with skepticism by Sheldon, who voiced his disapproval for sinking funds into expanding a troubled sewer system, which would service the remainder of Belfair’s Ur-

ban Growth Area (UGA).

“I’d like to see us wait until after the election again, to have the public weigh in on this,” Sheldon said. “Maybe it takes an advisory vote. I know it would take some public meetings, some workshops, but an advisory vote asking the people if should we be applying for $1.5 million in beginning a project (that costs) upwards of $10 million when we are really having difficulty paying for the project as it’s been implemented with Phase 1.

“I’m not going to vote for it, but I’d really like to see us have some public hearings and get some public input before we commit even to a grant of $1.5 million.”

Neatherlin, arguing in favor of applying for the Department of Ecology grant, said the county commissioners, before he was elected to the board, made commitments to go forward with a second phase of

the project in receiving grant money to enact Phase 1.

Should construction of the second phase of the sewer system be tabled, the county would be responsible for returning grant money already collected to complete the original phase of the project, Neatherlin said.

“We’re still backed up with the idea that we have to fulfill obligations of the commission that signed those loans and took those grants, telling them that we would do this,” Neatherlin said. “We’re talking again about the approval to send forward a grant. The law that the (previous county commission) put in place said we’re supposed to be moving forward with this project. I hope that we find a way where we don’t have to, but currently we do.

“I would love to find a way to take all this debt off of Mason County and not force anybody to be hooked up to

that system ever again, but I can’t.”

Neatherlin went further, placing blame for the debt incurred on the county by the Belfair sewer project on the county commission that ruled prior to Neatherlin’s election to the board, which included Sheldon.

“You and the other commissioners entered into this agreement, took all that money, because we needed all that grant money before, which was wonderful and I appreciate it, but with that came strings,” Neatherlin told Sheldon. “And the strings said that we would have that sewer. If we do not, we have to start paying back that grant money because of stuff we didn’t do. That becomes a loan and with that comes a high percentage rate. How can this county survive that?”

Jeffreys weighed in on why she intended to vote in favor of applying for further grant money.

“I believe we need to expand the system into areas that are zoned for development and be able to accommodate the growth that was expected and the growth that we need,” she said. “Add to that the fact that we won’t have another opportunity to apply for these funds for two more years. We don’t have two more years to wait.”

Following more discussion prior to the vote to approve the measure, Neatherlin and Sheldon once more voiced conflicting opinions.

“I wish that we didn’t have to extend the system,” Neatherlin said. “I wish I didn’t have to ask for this, an application to go for grant money, not to do anything more than that. And Commissioner Sheldon, I wish you had never put us in this position.”

“And I resent you saying that,” Sheldon replied. “It takes two votes to do something on a commission.”

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Island: Volunteers helping transport logs to ‘Smith Island’ design, and Manke Lumber gave them the logs. Mason County Commissioner Tim Sheldon donated gravel. Lake residents handed over money.

A year after the island gets a facelift, it might receive an official name: Smith Island.

Island Lake resident Bill Smith bought the island in April 1955.

Conklin, who grew up on the lake and then returned as an adult, said he offered to buy the island from Smith for years. So did Folsom.

For the project, the Island Lake Foundation secured permits from the Army Corps of Engineers, the Mason County Planning Department and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. The restoration is expected to be completed in October.

On Friday, the volunteers and two Taylor Shellfish employees transported the huge logs to the island to build a foundation at the landing. One of the Taylor Shellfish employees was Zack Crow, whose family has been a presence on the island for six decades

“I’d say, ‘You wanna sell it?

I got a dollar for it!’ ” Folsom recalled with a laugh. But one day, Smith told him, “You’ve got to get serious because I won’t be around much longer.”

Smith offered to donate the island to the community — if the island would be named after him. The land was turned over to the new Island Lake Foundation in March 2011; Smith died nine months later.

According to state naming laws, the name Smith Island can be made official five years after his death.

— his grandparents owned a house there, and that’s where his father grew up.

Crow recalls swimming to the island for the first time at age 13, a rite of passage for local kids.

“It slowly started sinking over the years,” he said. “It was green — and more alive.”

On the island, Folsom pointed out the spot where kids swung from a rope into the water.

“Now the rope swing is gone, and the log is in the water, and (the shore) is being severely undercut,” he said.

No track equipment or tires are allowed on any part of the island. Folsom pulled on a rope to keep the barge near shore as the logs were maneuvered onto the beach.

“These cedar logs won’t rot for 70 or 80 years,” Folsom said.

Conklin said he wants generations of kids to enjoy the island, just as he had.

“It all means something to all of us,” he said. “It was the place to hang out and smoke cigarettes. … When our parents couldn’t find us, they knew where we were.”

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Tanya Winslow holds onto her son Orion Sept. 22 at North Mason High School while watching a Hawkins Middle School football game.

HARSTINE ISLAND NEWS

Everybody slow down — school buses, kids are on the roads

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ray, low-filtering mist wanis, where every Wedneslingered in the firs and day I laugh and work on wormaples, and drifted thy causes for the kids with across North Island Drive as my older friends.

I was driving to the Kiwanis meeting the other morning.

MARK YOU CALENDARS Somehow that soft, FOR FALL airy moisture makes FESTIVAL the world quieter – unThe Fall Festival til, cresting a hill, there (taking the place of is the yellow school the Apple Squeeze) bus, red lights flashing will be from 10 a.m. from eight different to 2 p.m. on Oct. 8 at lights and fluorescent the community clubtape reflecting my house on Harstine lights. A big red sign Island. Attractions

By MIKE pops out and signals will include apple CALLAGHAN stop and I do. Children nachos on the front with boundless energy porch; free pumpkins spring aboard the bus. Their and a decorating contest, felt smiling joy reflects that compens provided; Old Time Fidmon desire to learn about a dlers on the stage; and chili new, wide-open world where dogs and homemade baked great adventures await them. goods for sale in the kitchen, And I wait, and as I do, I along with coffee, tea and hot wonder how people can speed apple cider. There will also be around past these fully lit a leather tooling demonstrabuses and endanger these tion inside, plus local farmers enthusiastic kids. The stop and artisans displaying their sign goes down and off we wares at the final outdoor go. At the first pullout, the farmers market of the season. school bus pulls over and lets me pass and I’m the only car COMMUNITY CLUB behind the bus – now that’s POTLUCK SCHEDULED nice. I rolled my window On Oct. 14, Harstine Isdown and waved. Part of me landers are invited to come wanted to be on that bus together to enjoy a potluck laughing with friends – but dinner with the Harstine then, I was on my way to KiIsland Community Club pro-

viding the brats, sauerkraut and drinks (dishes and place settings will also be provided). The event is the community club’s opportunity to recognize several individuals who have made significant contributions to the island, including citizen of the year and honored citizens, and to thank the community as a whole for their support of the hall, which is now 102 years old.

The event is for Harstine Island Community Club members and their invited guests. It starts at 6 p.m. If previous years are any indication, we can expect a large turnout, so arrive early. Remember, this is a potluck, so bring your favorite dish. Any questions can be directed to Jim and Jan Irving or Gary and Rose Benz.

KEEP OUR ROADS CLEAN One more reminder about Pioneer Kiwanis Club trying to keep our roadways clean. It is hoped that drivers will keep their trash in their cars and deposit it in the garbage when they are home or at the gas station. It is hoped that everyone will pitch in to help keep the natural look of

the roadways leading in and off the island and not a garbage heap look – so, please keep it clean.

CHECK OUT THE SCHOOL’S PROGRESS Here is a fun link. The new Pioneer School is in full building mode. Check out http://216.235.109.137, a video link for the on-site webcam at the school. If you have a problem getting on, try again in a few minutes as only 20 can be on at once. This link will bring you a live-action look and over the next couple of months you can watch all the action as this exciting new phase of our local educational program takes shape.

DISHWASHER GETTING FIXED Last week, I mentioned about the broken dishwasher – well, it is about to be fixed.

Rose spent a couple days calling around for replacements and found a good deal. She arranged to have it shipped and it arrived last Friday, and was slated to be installed over the weekend by a licensed electrician. The cost for these things is not cheap. The old dish machine (for commercial washers they call them dish

machines, not dishwashers) was 30 years old and parts were impossible to find. The new one is costing the community club $3,400 plus installation. This is an unexpected expense, so at the next couple of community club meetings they will be asking for donations to help defray the cost.

CONCERT CANCELED, BUT ANOTHER SCHEDULED Elizabeth Berndt and Susanne Montgomery had planned a concert with University of Washington Chamber Singers for Oct. 15, but it has been canceled. Dr. Boers has an engagement that prevents his retreat with UW Chamber Singers. The choir will now offer a vocal concert at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 at the Harstine Island Community Hall. Donations received from the Oct. 2 performance will be divided between the community hall and the choir. Songs from performers and composers such as Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Faure, Streisand, Wilson and Kern will be featured. n Mike Callaghan can be reached at sobadog@msn.com

CALENDAR THURSDAY TOPS WA 1188 Shelton meets 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Shelton Christian Church, 115 W. Arcadia Ave. For more information, call Ruth at 438-0870, or TOPS at 1-800-932-8677.

Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

Family storytime will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Hoodsport Timberland Library, 40 N. Schoolhouse Hill Road, Hoodsport. Music, movement and books will be available for the whole family. All ages welcome; children must be accompanied by participating adult.

Free. For more information, call 877-9339.

Sound Learning intake and information sessions for fall quarter adult education programs will take place at Sound Learning, 133 W. Railroad Ave. For more information or for appointments, call 426-9733 or email staff@ soundlearning.co.

FRIDAY Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

MONDAY Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Shelton No. 1402, a weight-loss support group for men and women, meets at 9 a.m. at Harstine Island Community Hall, 3371 E. Harstine Island Road N. Group meets every Monday. For more information,

call Karen at 426-3884.

Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

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TUESDAY Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

OCT. 6 Providence Sound Home Care provides free blood pressure checks from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton every first and third Thursday.

WEDNESDAY Walmart Vision Center provides eyeglass cleaning and adjustment from 11 a.m. to noon at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton.

The Retired Public Employees Chapter 24 of Mason County meets the first Thursday of every month at Pine Tree Restaurant at First and Railroad Avenue in Shelton at 11:30 a.m.

Hoodsport creative writing group meets at 10 a.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, at the Hoodsport Library. Share your writing and hear others’ fiction, non-fiction, short stories, novels, poems. All ages and levels of experience welcome. For more information, write infinitybeach@yahoo.com, or text 425-647-0358.

Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

Family storytime will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Shelton Timberland Library, 710 W. Alder St. For more information,

John Drebick of Drebick Investment Co. will be the guest speaker for the Sons and Daughters of Mason County Pioneers at noon at the Shelton Elks Lodge, 741 SE Craig Road, Shelton. The public is invited.

Drebick will speak about growing up in old Camp 3, Camp 5 and Camp Grisdale logging camps. For more information, call 426-2120.

TOPS WA 1188 Shelton meets 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Shelton Christian Church, 115 W. Arcadia Ave. For more information, call Ruth at 438-0870, or TOPS at 1-800-932-8677.

Hoodsport Timberland Library presents Timberland Reads Together Book Discussion: The Boys in the Boat from 2 to 3 p.m. for adults at the library, 40 N. Schoolhouse Hill Road, Hoodsport. For more information, call 877-9339.

Shelton Timberland Library presents Science Girls! from 4 to 5 p.m. for girls ages 8-12 at the library, 710 W. Alder St. For more information, call 4261362.

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Family storytime will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Hoodsport Timberland Library, 40 N. Schoolhouse Hill Road, Hoodsport. Music, movement and books will be available for the whole family. All ages welcome; children must be accompanied by participating adult.

Free. For more information, call 877-9339.

OCT. 7 Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

The Friends of the North Mason Timberland Library will have a book sale from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 7 and 8 at the library, 23081 state Route 3, Belfair. A members-only presale will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 6. For more information, call 275-3232.

OCT. 8 North Mason Timberland Library presents Family Movie Matinee from 2 to 5 p.m. at the library, 23081 state Route 3, Belfair. For more information, call 275-3232.

Learn how to program and play with Ozobots, small robots for children, at 3 p.m. at the Shelton Timberland Library, 710 W. Alder St. Free. For more information, call 426-1362.

Mason County Search & Rescue Training Academy will be available for volunteers at 8 a.m. at the search and rescue building, located on the corner of First and Grove streets in Shelton. Free. For more information or to download an application, go to www.masoncountysar.org, or call 427-4013.

The MCCA’s first concert of the 2016-17 season will be Kubecca, a couple whose program includes classical, jazz, country,

pop and Broadway show tunes at 7 p.m. at the Shelton High School Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are $30. For more information on the performances including dates and times, call 426-1842 or go to www.mccca. com.

OCT. 10 Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Shelton No. 1402, a weight-loss support group for men and women, meets at 9 a.m. at Harstine Island Community Hall, 3371 E. Harstine Island Road N. Group meets every Monday. For more information, call Karen at 426-3884.

Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change).

Friday meals are $3 per person.

OCT. 11 The Parkinson’s Support Group will meet from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. at Alpine Apartments, 900 Alpine Way in Shelton. The meetings are free and you are invited to attend. For more information, call Kathy Burbidge at 426-2600.

Senior Services for South Sound Senior Nutrition serving time is from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday at the Mason County Senior Activities Center at 190 W. Sentry Drive in Shelton. There is a suggested donation of $3 to $6 for those 60 and older. For those under 60 years of age, the cost is currently $6.60 (price subject to change). Friday meals are $3 per person.

Shelton Timberland Library presents “Going for the Gold” from 6 to 8 p.m. for adults at the library, 710 W. Alder St. Popcorn provided for the movie.

For more information, call 4261362. n To submit a calendar item, email news@masoncounty.com

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William Ross Morris, 77, a resident of Shelton, died Sept. 17, 2016, in Olympia. Arrangements are by Forest Funeral Homes & Cemetery.

Avey Timothy, 56, a resident of Potlatch, died Sept. 17, 2016, in Olympia. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory.

George O. Darkenwald, 77, a resident of Olympia, died Sept. 18, 2016, in Seattle. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory.

Roger Driscoll Erickson, 68, a resident of Olympia, died Sept. 24, 2016, in Seattle.

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Mildred E. Scott, 92, a resident of Shelton, died Sept. 24, 2016, in Shelton. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory.

Mary Moran, 73, a resident of Olympia, died Sept. 26, 2016, in Olympia. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory.

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Betty L. Wood, 85, former longtime resident of Longview, peacefully passed away on Saturday September 24th in her home in Vancouver, Washington surrounded by her family.

Betty was born on May 7, 1931 in North Dakota. In 1954, Betty moved to Longview and married Charles ‘Fred’ Wood on January 18, 1955. She was a bookkeeper. Betty and Fred moved to Benson Lake

in Grapeview, Washington in 1995 upon retirement. Betty is survived by her 3 children, Gayle Fletcher (Mike), Bruce Wood, Janelle Mader (Robert), 7 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren, Dorothy Fornshell (sister), Leo & Tom Fornshell (brothers) and numerous nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life is planned for Thursday, September 29th from 2:00-4:00 pm at 4 Mulberry Court (a private residence) in Longview, Washington.

In lieu of flowers, Betty’s wishes were that any memorial contributions be made to the charity of your choice.

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GUEST COLUMN

It’s a new day and the future is bright at Shelton schools

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very now and then, we belief that we can do great are presented with an things and that our kids opportunity to step out deserve the very best. The of the shadows and response to this call take hold of a bright futo action has been ture that once seemed embraced across the evasive. Today is that district. There is new day for Shelton schools. hope in the future.

With the start of a This hope and excitenew school year and ment has extended to under the guidance of not only the staff, but Alex Apostle, there is a to the parents and positive energy within By JACQUIE students as well. The Shelton schools that is MacALEVY proof is a renewed contagious. community interest Apostle has been in helping students with Shelton schools for just become the best they can be.

Parents have welcomed over a year and in that time the new attitude and atmohe has, in a sense, been able sphere with open arms. They to wipe away the gray clouds are participating in a wide and uncertainty of the past variety of activities that supto breathe new life into our port students and education. schools. He leads with the

The community is responding to the new atmosphere as well. Graduation Matters Shelton has sprung forth in the past year to encourage and support students toward high school graduation and beyond. Apostle is paving the way for partnerships to be formed for the benefit of students. Community members, organizations and businesses are all stepping forward to support the youth in our schools.

The stated goal of Shelton schools is to bring every student to graduation, giving them a firm foundation for their future and in turn for our community. Apostle has implemented a monthly community forum where he

sits down with community members and parents to share what is happening within the schools, as well as discuss concerns. It is his belief that schools should be trustworthy and transparent. These forums have been well-received and wellattended.

It is a new day in Shelton, and giving our students a 21st century education is paramount to their success in the world we live in. Our educators are continuing to be innovative in the ways they are helping students find success they can build their future on. If you would like to join the excitement, volunteers and Parent Student Teacher Organization members are

always welcome, so come join the excitement and be a part of the great things that are happening. Our children are the future of our community and the future is bright and full of hope in Shelton schools. The only thing that can hold us back is ourselves, but from what I have seen in and out of the schools, we are a strong, compassionate, generous community that is capable of great things. It is time now to step up, build on the groundwork that has been laid through the years and tell the world how great we really are. n Jacquie MacAlevy can be reached at jmacalevy@ sheltonschools.org

MOVING MASON FORWARD

How housing fits into the equation for Mason County families

Like the spokes on a wheel keep the wheel balanced and sturdy so it can move forward, housing does the same for us all. I’ve taken for granted the fact that I’ve never had to worry about where I was going to live.

the big red clothing donation boxes to stay warm and dry. Can you imagine climbing into one of those boxes to sleep? Thankfully that person is doing well, has a full-time job and isn’t using drugs and alcohol. But for every happy ending, there are many more of our residents who are struggling with the fact that they are homeless and many have substance abuse and mental health issues as well.

Mason County has a housing

coalition that meets monthly. I go to the meetings and listen to how much it has accomplished, yet it knows there are still so many unmet needs that it must try to fill. If you’re interested in getting involved or would like more information, please send me an email at movingmasonforward@gmail.com. n Jeanne Rehwaldt is executive director of Mason Matters

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know two people who have reof Moving Mason Forward. Everyone cently moved to Mason County to needs a place to live, but for someone begin new jobs. One, a single man with a mental health condition, the from across the country, is looking basic necessity of a stable home can for a house to rent with a couple of be hard to come by. The lack of safe bedrooms (for when the grandchildren and affordable housing is one of the visit). most powerful barriers to recovery.

He isn’t looking for anything When this basic need isn’t fancy and has set his upper met, people cycle in and out limit at $1,000 a month. He of homelessness, jails, shelwas surprised at how few housters and hospitals. Having a es are on the market, and when safe, appropriate place to live he finds one he has to pay $40 can provide stability to allow each time he turns in his applipeople to achieve their goals. cation. If someone else gets the According to NAMI (National house, he has just lost $40 and Alliance on Mental Illness) the search begins again. many people with a serious As far as I know, he is still By JEANNE mental illness live on Supplelooking for a place to rent. He REHWALDT mental Security Income was lucky enough to attend a (SSI), which averages just 18 church in town that was recompercent of the median income mended to him by some co-workers. and can make finding an affordable When he was asked about housing, he home nearly impossible. said he was staying at a local motel. It They may run into housing issues was his lucky day because fellow paafter being discharged from an inrishioners offered their home to him, patient care unit or jail and find that where he is staying until he locates a they have no home to return to. Even place to call his own. if they haven’t been hospitalized or The second person, a man with a incarcerated, finding an affordable family, came from across the state home can be difficult. Finding stable, and was looking to purchase a place safe and affordable housing can help that came with some land, a shop, them on their journey to recovery and and a place where his mother-in-law prevent hospitalizations, homelesscould continue to live with the famness and involvement in the criminal ily comfortably. He was frustrated justice system. because when he found something Like the spokes on a wheel keep suitable, it was snatched up before the wheel balanced and sturdy so it he could get in an offer. He has been can move forward, housing does the looking for months, and just finally same for us all. I’ve taken for granted put in an offer that has been acthe fact that I’ve never had to worry cepted. about where I was going to live. I’ve What these two stories have in com- never had to sleep in a car or tent bemon is the fact that there is a housing cause I had no place to go. But many shortage in Mason County. You may Mason County residents live like have wondered why housing is one of that and just try to get by each day. the priority areas identified as part I know someone who would sleep in

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NORTH MASON BRIEFS

NMR gathering supplies for packs for homeless North Mason Resources is in search of supplies for its homeless services camping supply packs.

The nonprofit organization regularly gives out the packs to help people who don’t have a stable housing situation.

The organization is especially in need of toiletry items, washcloths and towels for the packs, as well as singleserving, nonperishable snacks.

North Mason Resources does not need any more clothing or toilet paper currently, executive director Theresa Scott said.

Items can be delivered to North Mason Resources at 140 NE state Route 300.

The tour will feature gardens in the Mason Lake, Allyn and Belfair areas.

Homeowners who want to showcase their gardens can contact Norma Borden at masonmastergardener@gmail. com before Oct. 4. Use the word “tour” as the subject line.

Master Gardeners in search of North Mason gardens

Candidates debate to take place today

The Mason County Master Gardeners are in search of gardens to showcase during its 2017 Garden Tour.

Local candidates for election are scheduled to debate from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. today at the HUB Center for Seniors, 111 NE Old Belfair Highway.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

Those scheduled to debate are: Republican Dan Griffey and Democrat Irene Bowling for a State Representative position; Republican Drew MacEwen and Democrat Craig Patti for a State Representative position; Randy Neatherlin, who does not identify with a party, and Independent Kelley McIntosh for a Mason County Commissioner position; and Republican Kevin Shutty and Democrat Roslynne Reed for a Mason County Commissioner position.

Time permitting, audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions of the candidates. n Compiled by reporter Brianna Loper

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The Best of Belfair

Ballot Deadline Monday, October 10th We Value Your Opinions!

To encourage & acknowledge excellence in Mason County, the Journal presents this ballot to determine what you, our readers, consider to be the Best of Belfair. Simply write in your choices for the categories listed on this page. Then, in about a month, see who wins our elections in our annual special section, The Best of Belfair.

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Belfair

Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016

Serving the communities of Belfair, Allyn, Grapeview, Tahuya, Mason Lake, South Shore and Victor

Reflecting on summer

Grapeview OKs budget for 2017 A new grant will help the Port of Grapeview next year

By BRIANNA LOPER brianna@masoncounty.com Port of Grapeview commissioners last week passed a more than $60,000 budget for next year.

All three commissioners voted to approve the budget during the port’s monthly meeting Sept. 20. A preliminary budget was presented during the August meeting.

The $67,681 budget is made up of a beginning fund, an operation fund, capital construction budget and expenses.

The port will have $21,346 in the beginning fund, money that is carried over from the current year. That fund includes $2,646 in the operating investment

Herald photo by Brianna Loper

Campers enjoy the last rays of warmth before sunset Sept. 15 at Belfair State Park.

see BUDGET, page A-29

Fire authority moves ahead with Tahuya firehouse designs The North Mason Regional Fire Authority presented a draft of the building’s floorplan

By BRIANNA LOPER brianna@masoncounty.com Plans for a new Tahuya fire station are moving forward, after the North Mason Regional Fire Authority unveiled its first draft of the new facility earlier this month.

During an open house Sept.

13, the fire authority answered questions for about 30 Tahuya residents who took in plans for the fire station, said chief Beau Bakken.

“People seemed to be excited that work was actually happening,” he said. “People liked what they saw.”

In August, the fire authority demolished the former Tahuya store, a building that sat empty for decades on North Shore Road and eventually fell into disrepair, to make way for a new fire station for the area.

The fire authority hired TCA Planning and Design, a Kirkland-based firm, to design the approximately 8,000-square-foot building.

Plans on display at the event included an elevation map, which showcased the exterior outline, as well as a floor plan and site layout.

Bakken was careful to say the designs are just a draft — the fire authority is still wait-

ing to hear back from a land survey taken in August that will finalize the layout. After the fire authority receives the results of the survey — which will include items such as boundary lines, slope and water run-off — the design company can finalize the layout of the building and begin working on the layout of the exterior.

“We found out aesthetic appeal is very important to the

“I’m excited to truly have a functioning fire department for that community and the firefighters. What’s out there right now is not really functioning the way it should.”

people in the community,” Bakken said, adding that several people commented on the bland external design. “We just wanted to show people the outline of the building, so the outside might look a little hideous right now. It’s not actually going to look like that.”

The project is slated to cost between $1.5 million and $1.7 million.

“That might seem like a large number for someone building a house, but it’s a very small number when building a fire house,” Bakken said.

Bakken said the fire authority had about $1.1 million in its capital reserves. Most of the money has come from “unanticipated revenue,” such as timber money from the state

Beau Bakken, North Mason Regional Fire Authority chief

see TAHUYA, page A-29

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Join us on Thursday, September 29, for a Candidates’ Debate moderated by Joel Myer, Mason County PUD #3, and ’s a welcome by Kris Klusman, Chairman of the Chamber’s Government Affairs Committee. Location: Faith In Action’s HUB Center for Seniors, 111 NE Old Belfair Highway. Doors open at 6pm; debate begins at 6:30pm.

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MARY’S MEMOIRS

A Bremerton fortune teller predicts the Theler’s future The opening of huntSaturday, October 1, ing season is Mary’s 1938 focus, and the town’s A busy day and I was too. Theler Store emup at the store all day ployees all wear red and when the Eddy’s shirts on opening day, came we decided to go which Mary feels goes out so early that it is well. Mary meets Sam in better if I stay at their Olympia, retrieving him place now so I’m all from the final leg of his ready and waiting. Saw journey back from San quite a few hunters out Francisco, and hears all today and wonder how about his trip. Mary also all of them are going heads the other directo get a deer. The Wiltion, going shopping in liams went east of the Seattle to buy fabric for mountains to hunt. I some new fall clothes, hope they get something and has her fortune told when they go so far to in Bremerton. What does hunt. Sam brought home the future hold? Read a pair of Myrtlewood on! candlesticks and they — are very pretty. They Thursday, September just match my table. At 29, 1938 the store we all wore Today was Thursday red shirts today and and we had a big truck everyone noticed it and load in and we I’ll bet that is got most of it one thing that on the shelves the Popes can’t and I made all copy us on for the signs. In they’ll have to the evening wait until next instead of goyear to do it. ing to school, The red shirts I went to see looked very Dorthy Eddy nice, if I do say and we plan to so. The post

By SEYTA go out huntoffice report SELTER ing together is all ready to Sunday. I came send save for home early and got some a few details that only work done. I guess it take a few minutes. I’m was a good thing I did glad that is done. Took not go to school for we in quite a few box rents were very busy for about today. Have a letter an hour after Lee left. from Annie and John got one of those letters from Friday, September 30, Sam that was all printed 1938 and did he get mad! So A fairly busy day for did I, for that matter. the W.P.A. got their There is to be a miscelchecks and that made a laneous shower on Mrs. lot of extra business. We Johnnie Beard next Friare all tired when Friday day and I’m wondering is over. About six Sam what to get. called up from Kelso Sunday, October 2, and said to meet him in 1938 Olympia at eight o’clock Today we got up at and I made the trip from four o’clock and ate a here in just one hour big breakfast and then and ten minutes. Sam told me all about his trip went up to the old Maine Camp and we all stayed in the car on the way there until about noon, home and it was quite when we decided then interesting. I saw the it was no use. We saw Rhodes for a minute as only a lot of other disapwe changed cars. Home pointed hunters. From early and read a while there we went to the and then to bed. canyons below the road

and then over by Fern Lake and hunted around there and then home to Eddy’s and ate supper. A fine day but no luck. We had all the hunting that we wanted and all were tired at night. It rained in the morning and Dorthy and I sat under a little tree and almost went to sleep.

Monday, October 3, 1938 Today I sent off my report and got all of the odd jobs done. Carl Ainsworth came over and the warehouse was so clean that it hurt and he saw the big deer that Rudy and the gang got on Sunday. It weighed two hundred and eighteen pounds.

Tuesday, October 4, 1938 This was a fine day and I went to town and got several things. Last night I went to Seattle and John and Annie met me at the boat and we all went home together.

We got to bed late as per usual. So of course in the morning, we did not get up so early as I had planned. Anyway, I got the material for three skirts and three glasses and one rust dress and some things for some showers. In the evening I went to Bremerton and Sam met me. To bed late and very tired.

Wednesday, October 5, 1938 A fine day and I went to Bremerton in the afternoon and got my shoes and the wool for my suit. Mrs. Ramone Brown went with me.

Now Ruth can knit all she wants to for it is a three-piece suit and it will take quite a long time. Had my fortune told and the woman said that we would change our business next year and that we would have a son. Wouldn’t that be strange? I sent my dress form to Annie and the

Photo courtesy of Seyta Selter

The first page of the pre-printed letter Mary (and also John) received from Sam, which is an advertisement for Hotel Del Monte in Del Monte, California. Found in Mary Theler’s diary, at the Mason County Historical Society. material for a dress she is making for me. Also I sent the pictures and a can of those colored pears.

— I had a vivid picture in mind of Mary and Dorthy Eddy, sleepy, waiting out the rain under a little tree on their unsuccessful hunt this Sunday. I imagine the two of them, great friends, talking quietly, their voices drowned out by the beating rain.

Were they candidly reflecting about their lives, and their futures? Were they lulled by the rain to have a sleepy heart-

to-heart about whether Mary would ever have kids? Did they talk about all the things they do day to day to keep their husbands’ and families’ lives running smoothly?

I’ll never know. But it’s pleasant to imagine them talking about life’s secrets and questions in the rain, and then wonder if this quiet conversation popped into Mary’s mind later.

When she walked by the sign in a Bremerton shop window advertising, “learn your fortune” or “see into your future,” was it this pondering chat with Dorthy that

prompted her to walk through the door? I’m just speculating, of course, but I love these quiet imagined moments that I get to share with Mary as I go through her diary.

— Seyta Selter is a life-long lover of Hood Canal and resides in Union. She is a visiting professor at The Evergreen State College, as well as a passionate amateur genealogist, archivist, and family historian.

She can be emailed at marythelersmemoirs@ gmail.com.

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Tahuya: Current firehouse was built in 1967, poses risks continued from page A-27 Department of Natural Resources and payment for sending employees to fight wildfires.

Bakken added that the fire authority plans to buckle down with its budget at the start of the next year to save more money for the project.

“I’m excited to truly have a functioning fire department for that community and the firefighters,” Bakken said.

“What’s out there right now is not really functioning the way it should.”

The current Tahuya firehouse, located next door to the store, was built in 1967, and is the oldest building under North Mason Regional Fire Authority’s jurisdiction. The building is in desperate need of updating to fulfill health codes necessary for a firehouse.

The facility is not able to house fire fighters overnight and poses some heath risks for those working close to the bay where fire engines are kept.

Instead, the fire authority is looking into turning the current firehouse into a community event center, or available for a club to lease or take over; the building will not be demolished.

The fire authority bought the former Tahuya store facility in 2003. The building sat unused as anything more than storage until 2014, when the

Rendering courtesy of the North Mason Regional Fire Authority

A draft rendering by TCA Planning and Design shows the floor plan, top right, elevation, bottom right, and the property layout, left, of the new Tahuya Fire Station, which will be built by the North Mason Regional Fire Authority.

Tahuya-based Mason County Fire District 8 merged with Fire District 2 in Belfair to create the North Mason Regional Fire Authority. By that time,

the problems had worsened to include a deteriorating roof and derelict plumbing.

The former store building was constructed in 1969.

After a community meeting in 2015, Bakken said residents were interested in tearing the store down to make way for a new firehouse.

The fire authority will continue to update the community on the project; Bakken said no date has been set for the next public meeting.

Budget: New RCO grant changes way port does budget continued from page A-27 count and $18,700 in the general cash account.

The operation fund will have $25,544, which is mostly generated through general property taxes and forest excise tax.

Expenses total $37,959, and include items such as: $6,951 in salaries to port employees; $1,203 in personnel benefits, such as Social Security tax contributions; $600 in supplies; and $27,205 in services and charges, which includes legal fees, travel and lodging for commissioners, port property maintenance and secretary services.

The total expenses budget for 2017 is estimated to be $37,959, leaving $8,931 in operating reserves.

The budget also includes a $58,750 capital construction fund, with $36,470

in the beginning fund and $20,000 in a miscellaneous fund.

The commissioners made one change to the preliminary budget, after learning they received a state grant three weeks ago.

The preliminary budget listed $56,470 in the beginning investment for the capital construction fund; commissioners decided to move $20,000 to a miscellaneous fund during the port meeting.

“It will make it easier to move money around when construction hopefully starts next year,” commissioner Glenn Carlson told the audience.

The port was selected to receive a $528,279 grant from the Washington Recreation and Conservation Office, or RCO, earlier this year after being told last fall the RCO had denied the port’s 2014 grant request.

The port plans to use the money to repair and realign a cracking concrete port-owned boat ramp, as well as add a permanent restroom facility at the launch site.

The grant stipulates the port must supply about 25 percent of the project total, or about $176,000, which can come from various sources, including the Port of Grapeview, in kind architectural and engineering donations, and local shellfish companies.

Carlson said the port has already received verbal confirmation of $70,000 in-kind donations from an architect and $70,000 from local shellfish compa-

nies who use the boat launch for commercial fishing.

The port will have to find a way to come up with the remaining amount, about $36,000.

Carlson said the port did not have any specifics on how it planned to fund the project.

“We’ve had this grant in our pocket for just about three weeks or so, so it’s a big thing to get hit with,” he said, adding that the port is grateful for the money nonetheless.

Some of the commissioners mentioned adding a levy to the February 2017 ballot to help fund the project.

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Habitat’s message: Come and get it

By TOM MULLEN tom@masoncounty.com

Herald photos by Tom Mullen

Store manager George Aaro pushes an appliance into a display space at the Belfair Habitat for Humanity.

ally for building homes in developing nations, but here in Mason County, its local charter builds local homes: Home No. 27 begins construction next year.

And while its two stores serve to turn over items

Jezirae Schnirch and Nate Zimbeck load out lumber donated by Tim Keifer (shown in background) at his home near Hood Canal. “They’re a good group,” he said of the people at Habitat. “They do a lot of good work, which adds a lot of useful things to the community that would otherwise go to waste.”

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large and small, an outreach program, known as A Brush with Kindness, coordinates volunteers willing to repair local homes and provide homeowners with necessary construction, such as a wheelchair ramps to their front door.

“We build a lot of ramps,” the program’s coordinator Deanna Frost told the Herald. “It’s about home preservation, an activity of supporting people and helping them remain in their homes.”

“No. 1, you have to be a homeowner,” Crow said.

“Our volunteers do such things as shoring up some stairs, fixing rotting stairs; sometimes they replace window panes, change locks, fix gates. It’s kind of smaller in scope; the majority of the work is on the outside of the house.”

Crow said he’d like potential benefactors to know they don’t have to bring items into Habitat’s stores.

The organization will come out to pick up items.

“We really believe one of the greatest assets we have is that we pick things up. We hear from so many people, ‘We didn’t know you picked up.’ When you get to be 70 or 80, you don’t want to move furniture and when you’re retired, sometimes you just want to get rid of it. Sometimes you don’t want to have the hassle of a garage sale,” Crow said. “We survive basically on donations from the public and businesses in the neighborhood and all proceeds go to building affordable homes.”

He noted too that the clientele of the stores he oversees in Belfair and Shelton tend to have different tastes.

“But the gentlemen that have worked here for quite a few years, they can look at an item and say, if we move that to Belfair, it will sell right away. And they’re right. They move things back and forth when they see the opportunity,” Crow said.

People interested in donating items, or time, can call either store.

“Habitat for Humanity of Mason County partners with our community to help provide hope for those in need by building and maintaining quality affordable home ownership,” Crow said. “Our stores in Belfair and Shelton help support our mission of providing low-cost home ownership and home preservation services to those in need here in Mason County. We appreciate the incredible support of our community from donations at our stores, to people volunteering their precious time to help in our stores, construction projects, committees and outreach events. Habitat stores help reduce waste to our landfill and provide low-cost home repair materials, up-cycling opportunities, low-cost furniture and appliance options for our community.”

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Some weird and wonderful things come through these doors.

“We’ve had motor homes, cars and a horse trailer come in here one time. I think that was an accident,” said George Aaro, manager of the Habitat for Humanity of Mason County’s Belfair store, who oversees the items donated for resale.

“We get utility trailers, golf carts and riding mowers,” Habitat Executive Director Marty Crow added.

It strikes Aaro as strange, he noted, that when people donate items such as old tools and antiques, they don’t necessarily serve their original purpose when a buyer takes them home. He’s seen molding planers from the 1930s go out the doors of his store.

“People find a lot of value in displaying old hand tools,” he suggested.

It’s part of the life cycle of tired items that Crow calls “up-cycling.”

At their simplest, Habitat for Humanity’s stores in Shelton and Belfair are keeping things out of the landfills. But the organization allows new life, sometimes a better life, to breathe into once unwanted items.

“People use our supplies and materials to up-cycle,” Crow said. “For example, when somebody takes an old table and changes its feel, maybe they put some tile on it or paint it.”

Crow said what he loves most about this work is the support he sees from donors and volunteers.

“Some people say, ‘I don’t want to swing a hammer,’ but we need help with social media, office work, all the way to store support, (such as) cleaning, doing pickups, on top of all that is the construction effort,” Crow said.

Habitat for Humanity is best known internation-

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GUEST COLUMN

Union River salmon numbers are surging under collaboration

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volunteers monitor an adult he Hood Canal Salmon fish trap on the Union River Enhancement Group’s 24 hours a day, seven days a (HCSEG) Union River week, while collectSummer Chum Proing critically imporgram is having a bantant data. Working ner year. in pairs, volunteers With a few weeks identify the species still remaining in the and gender of each annual project, some fish before removing 3,200 fish have already the adult fish from been counted in the the trap and placUnion River, marking ing them safely upan 11-year high. This

By KEVAN stream. year’s count is already MOORE This collaborative nearly three times project works to relarger than last year’s, when some 1,232 salmon were build threatened Hood Canal summer chum populations in counted.

Each year, the program the Union and Tahuya rivers. runs Aug. 15 to Oct. 15 and When the project first began

17 years ago, HCSEG worked with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to rebuild the Union River summer chum population. That run became healthy enough by 2003 that the returning adults were used as a donor stock to rebuild runs on the Tahuya River, where summer chum had been classified as “recently extinct.” Supplementation continued through 2014, and both rivers have seen over 1,000 salmon return annually on average.

Summer chum salmon in Hood Canal and the Strait of Juan de Fuca were listed as threatened under the U.S. En-

dangered Species Act in 1999.

HCSEG’s work with WDFW to supplement the Union River summer chum run began in 2000 as part of the Summer Chum Salmon Conservation Initiative, prepared by WDFW and the Point No Point Treaty Tribes.

This year’s fish count by HCSEG and its volunteers is the highest it has been since 2005 when 5,976 fish passed through the Union River trap.

The all-time high during the project period was the year before that, when a whopping 11,916 fish were counted in 2004. Those numbers and this year’s large return are even

more astonishing when one considers that available data indicates that 100 or less fish were returning to the Union River in the mid ‘70s and just 42 fish were counted in 1982.

The folks at HCSEG are always looking for volunteers for this and many other projects and activities. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Seth Elsen at (360) 275-3575, ext. 12, or email seth@pnwsalmoncenter.org. n Kevan Moore is the community organizer for the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group. He can be reached at kevan@pnwsalmoncenter.org.

Everyone’s favorite class AT LEFT: Madalyn Smith takes her turn on the monkey bars earlier this week during recess at Belfair Elementary School.

BELOW: Solomone Nuku pauses while upside down, making easy work of the hoops. ABOVE MIDDLE: Sebastiana Gaspar Diego, Madlynn Daignault, Byrlie Biehl and Xerxes Blacksmith-Meyers negotiate a laddered balance beam, perhaps not meant for four at a time.

BELOW MIDDLE: Aleiah Sciarni gets air while jumping rope. BELOW LEFT: That first reach for a monkey bar is the toughest as Byrlie Biehl ventures across the jungle gym.

Herald photos by Tom Mullen

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Alex Mitchel, right, and Brianna Meyer learn the proper technique for retiring a flag at day’s end at Belfair Elementary School.

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“What the expectations look like in the cafeteria might be different from what they look like on the playground,” he said. “In the cafeteria, being respectful might look like standing in line with your hands to yourself. It might mean that when you are at the food bar, you take only what you’re going to eat. You don’t leave a mess, you walk to your seat, and you talk with a level two voice.”

The PBIS model, he said, is led by assistant principal Jason Swaser, and his committee meets regularly to assess progress and make adjustments.

“Part of this is to think strategically about how we can implement

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school-wide expectations and we have three; to be respectful, to solve problems; and to make good decisions,” said principal Dan King in an interview with the Herald.

The official title is

And while interventions play a crucial part in the new approach, rewards for individual and class achievements also play a role.

“We’ll also know it’s successful when we start seeing more students being recognized for positive behavior,” King added. “We’re recognizing kids; our goal is to give a student at least four positive acknowledgements for each correction, each time we have to correct them or address any misbehavior.”

The staff, he said, is taking a proactive approach in trying to identify areas where students aren’t as successful as they might be and thereby provide the students with the tools they need to succeed.

The positive acknowledgements are called “PAWSitives,” a nod to the school’s mascot, the bobcat.

“When we notice kids are showing respect, making good decisions or solving problems, they get a positive. The teacher might have a class goal so it becomes a collective effort, but we also keep a tub here and we regularly pull from that and reward the kids publicly,” he said.

King said that by the end of this school year he hopes to be able to look at the referral and suspension data and see a positive change.

“That we’ll see a dramatic drop and a shift in the culture and climate of the school,” he said, adding, “all the students and all the staff and all the visitors will see more positive workplaces.”

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SPORTS

Peninsula trounces Shelton in home league opener

By ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ alexandria@masoncounty.com The Shelton Highclimbers football team’s problems started early.

On the team’s second play from scrimmage, quarterback Tyler Giraldes fumbled the ball and the Peninsula High School Seahawks recovered it. Two drives later, Giraldes was intercepted.

On Sept. 23, the Climbers failed to capitalize on multiple penalties against the Seahawks, as Peninsula rolled over Shelton 42-0.

“Peninsula is a really good team,” Shelton coach Matt Hinkle said. “We had opportunities. We

played well at times, but we can’t take it away from them. They outplayed us on offense. Defensively, they made stops. We had good things going the first three games of the season, and we couldn’t punch it in offensively. Credit to Peninsula, they played us hard.”

Shelton falls to 1-1 in the South Sound Conference and 2-2 overall.

It was the Climbers’ first conference loss this year and first home conference game. For Peninsula, the victory kept them 2-0 in conference, 4-0 overall and atop the league standings.

Heading into the locker room, Peninsula had a modest 14-0

lead over Shelton. But in the second half, the Seahawks’ offense clicked.

Peninsula opened the third quarter with a 32-yard pass touchdown from junior quarterback Burke Griffin. With 2 1/2 minutes left on the clock in the quarter, senior running back Blake Cantu pushed into the end zone for a 1-yard touchdown. It was Cantu’s second of the night.

In the final seconds of the quarter, Griffin threw another long pass, 55 yards, to senior Evan Johnson for the Seahawks’ third see FOOTBALL, page B-8

Journal photo by Alexandria Valdez

Shelton High school football players run out at the start of their Sept. 23 game against Peninsula.

Sequim Wolves triumphant over Bulldogs North Mason squad hunting for first league win of the season

By ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ alexandria@masoncounty.com

When he’s not swinging a racket, Manke is jamming on his guitars or drums. He has four guitars: his Gibson, a Fender, a Yamaha bass and an acoustic guitar. Manke’s favorite music to play is old-school punk rock.

The junior’s favorite kind of

North Mason’s volleyball team was on the cusp of its first victory. But the Bulldogs floundered last week against league opponent Sequim High School. Even with a solid start to the third set, North Mason couldn’t push over the edge.

The Bulldogs fizzled, as Sequim beat North Mason 25-17, 25-10, 26-24 on Sept.

20.

Sequim is one of the toughest teams in the league, said Bulldogs coach Kanoe Lily, so she’s glad her squad pushed back.

“We’re glad we were able Rock to fight hard and play the system we’ve been working on all along this whole season so far,” Lily said.

“They just came back a little bit stronger, and we just couldn’t execute on things. But that’s just OK because we’re taking more risks, playing more competitive and we know it will put us over the top in the end.”

North Mason is still searching for that elusive first win this season. The Bulldogs haven’t won a match since a 3-0 victory last September against Port Townsend. Its previous 2A Olympic League victory came in its final home match in 2014 against Port Angeles High School at the end of its season.

During the third and final set of the match,

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see VOLLEYBALL, page B-8

Journal photo by Alexandria Valdez

North Mason High School junior Blake Manke is a tennis player and enjoys playing guitar.

Manke is in his third year of playing for the team.

Shredding it on the court North Mason junior rocks out when he’s not returning serves

By ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ alexandria@masoncounty.com

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wo of Blake Manke’s favorite things are tennis and music, and both of them go hand-in-hand for the North Mason High School junior. His favorite guitar is a white electric Gibson SG and his favorite racket is blue with green strings. Both of Manke’s

loves keep him busy.

“The music I listen to and tennis, they’re both fun,” Manke said. “Music really gets me in the mood for wanting to play a sport. I’ll listen to a bunch of good music and I’ll want to go let it all out.”

In his third year of competing for the Bulldogs, Manke has become one of the lynchpins of the tennis team.

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ON THE ROAD

Bad day in Badlands: Healing a wounded heart In under two hours, I’m there. A roadside overview knocks my socks off. I scurry down a small trail and sit at the very edge of the Badlands, a massive sunken rift devoid of greenery.

It doesn’t have the depth of the Grand Canyon, but it has the scale –– a huge, adobe sandbox stretching to the horizon, full of minichannels, weird peaks and twisting canyons; everything molded from clumping dust. The rain cuts deep ravines through powdered rock; every ridge is accordionedged and impossible to climb. The ridges look like old steam radiators, that’s how serrated they

It doesn’t have the depth of the Grand Canyon, but it has the scale — a huge, adobe sandbox stretching to the horizon, full of mini-channels, weird peaks and twisting canyons; everything molded from clumping dust. The rain cuts deep ravines through powdered rock; every ridge is accordionedged and impossible to climb.

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Strangely beautiful, starkly freakish, these ragged peaks mark the border where the Badlands end. Behind them, a massive maze of dead-end canyons. are.

An old Sioux in a pickup stops to ask my name and where I’m from. It’s so blindingly bright I have to shield my eyes with my hand to speak with him. His skin is leathery and he wears a big straw cowboy hat bearing a turquoise and silver medallion.

I point to the rock chaos of the Badlands and ask him if he knows anyone who can hunt or survive in such a maze.

“No, no one likes that place,” he says. “Last year two girls got lost down there. White girls.

Foolish,” he shakes his head. “They had a cellphone. They got out OK.” We chat for another moment, then he touches his hat and climbs in his truck. He guns the engine, heading north, a Merle Haggard song trailing out the win-

dows.

I break off, taking backroads along the southernmost border of the Badlands (location of this week’s photo).

In another hour I reach Wounded Knee, the site of the 1890 massacre of 300 men, women and children by soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Calvary.

The Seventh was the same outfit that had been under Colonel Custer’s command in 1876, when they were sorely defeated by Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

LAST STAND I park to read the historic marker and walk around the battle site.

There is only a large wooden sign, heavy with words on both sides, to commemorate the Wounded Knee Massacre.

MCSA

This Week AT THE RANGE

Non-Members Welcome Memberships Available

September 30, Friday 6:00 P.M. Gallery Bullseye: .22 lr Pistol Target Shooting. You will be firing 10 rounds on each of 6 targets from 50 feet with one hand. From novice to experts welcome. $3.00 for members and $5.00 for non-members.

October 1, Saturday Come see us at our popular Airpistol Booth at Oysterfest! Our Airpistol Booth proceeds are used for charitable giving projects, such as our NJROTC and Shelton High School shooting teams.

October 2, Sunday 9:00 A.M. USPSA Match: National shooting discipline, fast paced defensive style, situational course of fire. Multiple stages, 9mm or larger. Runs into the afternoon. See masoncountysa. com for more information.

October 2, Sunday Oysterfest: Don’t forget, you can try shooting an air pistol at our Airgun Booth at Oysterfest!

October 4, Tuesday 5:30 P.M. Practical Pistol Fun Match: a stationary position, timed and scored event with various situational defense style challenges, including from standing, sitting or kneeling. Props for cover/concealment may be used. Firearm requirement is a .38 special, 9mm and/or larger pistol. This discipline requires drawing from a holster. Full equipment list can be found at www.masoncountysa.com.

Members shoot for $6.00, non-members $8.00, and juniors shoot for a $1 when accompanied by a parent or guardian.

COMING SOON: Beginning in October, Tuesday night at MCSA will now feature more variety with Practical Pistol, Action Pistol League, Concealed Carry and 2 Gun matches on a revolving schedule. Stay tuned for more details!

Upcoming weekend class: October 29, Saturday 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. Phase 2 Basic Pistol Course Practical instruction. Sign up on our website for Phase 2. Phase 1 must be completed on line and a course completion number provided to participate in Phase 2. Go to https:// onlinetraining.nra.org to register for Phase 1.

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wake to find my pilI pull my shoe on the other. low hardened by I’m in a small grove frost. I had slept of healthy pine. As I on the ground, no tent, stir, three whiteand my breath tailed deer turned to ice watch cautiously crystals by the from a low ridge sub-zero temperabout 200 feet atures at 3,800 away. Mom feet in the Black guards while her Hills. A frosty young keep eatcrust glistens ing, noses down along the folds in the yellow of the red wool

By MARK grass. blanket I had thrown over my WOYTOWICH BADLANDS sleeping bag for SAGA extra warmth.

This ends up being Not my first time to the saddest day on my sleep under the stars, trip so far. I break camp, but my first to wake to a frozen campsite. I like it. grab a quick coffee in Custer, and then head The hard part: holdsoutheast to the Bading one foot steady on lands. the frozen ground while

Small houses tuck into the distant dry hills on all sides. Old barns and fences indicate farming, but the ground looks uniformly brown.

Across the highway on a lone, elevated knob sits a cemetery.

Down a short draw sit tribal souvenir stands, made of wooden posts with thatched branches and leaves for roofs.

They resemble burial grounds.

Here I meet Cathy, an old, kind-faced Oglala Sioux, who is the only one there. She gives me a word tour of the battle, which took place right behind her in the freezing cold of Dec. 29, 1890.

She points to the cemetery on the hill across the street.

“They had their Hotchkiss guns up there that shot into our teepees,” Cathy says. “Four of them. Later, that is where they buried all the victims. One grave.

More soldiers were killed by their own fire than by Indians.”

I want to read and see more, but the place is sadly undernourished for a national monument. It is on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the eighth-largest in the nation, greater in size than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

But the monument is so far from everything.

The cemetery, too, is incomplete, the headstone to the fallen offering no solace, no closure.

I admit I came to atone. Fool that I am.

What I witness, however, is a wound still open.

I feel helpless and it haunts me all that day and the next, as I drive through the vast, empty Sandhills away from Pine Ridge, down into Nebraska. n Mark Woytowich is a writer, photographer and video producer who lives in Potlatch.

He can be reached at Woytowichdesign.com.

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SCOREBOARD Football Shelton Sept. 23 — Peninsula 42, Shelton 0 SHS… 0 0 0 0 PHS... 7 7 20 8 SHS Passing: 127 yds Rushing: 55 yds PHS Passing: 132 yds Rushing: 387 yds SHS: T. Giraldes, 15-for-30 for 127 yards; K. Kimball, 8 receptions for 53 yards; T. Toney, 3 receptions for 57 yards, 8 tackles; I. Stewart, 10 carries for 24 yards; C. Hall, 6 carries for 19 yards; G. Lacy, 7 tackles; D. Paul, 5 tackles North Mason Sept. 23 — North Mason 6, Port Angeles 0 NMHS Passing: 11 yds Rushing: 213 yds NMHS: A. Schooler, 2-for2 for 11 yards; G. Borah, 23 carries for 122 yards, 5 tackles; M. Nanez, 7 carries for 30 yards; T. Thomas, 14 carries for 60 yards, 4 tackles; T. Mullins, 45yard punt, 54-yard punt Mary M. Knight Sept. 23 — MMK 42, Rainier Christian 42 MMK Passing: 178 yds Rushing: 157 yds MMK: Q. Narrance, 4.5 tackles, 6 sacks, 1-for-6

for 18 yards, 12 carries for 15 yards; A. Fries, 4 carries for 52 yards, 4 receptions for 99 yards, 2 touchdowns, 8 tackles; Z. Thompson, 5-for-13 for 120 yards, 3 touchdowns, 5 tackles, 2 sacks, 3 fumble recoveries, 7 carries for 43 yards; J. Shaw, 2-for-3 for 40 yards, 2 touchdowns, 1 reception for 33 yards, 9 tackles; I. Frost, 3 receptions for 46 yards, 2 touchdowns, 2 fumble recoveries, 12.5 tackles; S. Newman, 4 tackles; C. Ruthruff, 8 tackles

Cross-Country Shelton Sept. 21 Boys Team Scores: 1, Gig Harbor, 15; 2, Shelton, 50 Results: 9, Cameron MacAlevy, 17:55.85; 10, Brock Knowles, 18:17.72; 18, Brody Knowles, 19:22.84; 21, Aaron Boothe, 19:56.72; 22, Sirius James, 19:56.96; 23, William Cochron, 20:13.53; 29, Ryan Wiles, 21:00.64 Girls Team Scores: 1, Shelton, 29; 2, Gig Harbor, 30 Results: 1, Anika Parker, 20:55.47; 2, Laynie MacAlevy, 21:12.00; 3, Grayson Atkinson, 21:59.83; 13, Cordi Atkinson, 28:02.02; 14, Bailee Smith, 33:39.73 North Mason Sept. 21 Boys Team Scores: 1, Kingston, 19; 2, Port Angeles, 36; 3,

THURSDAY Shelton girls varsity swimming vs. Capital, 3:30 p.m.

Shelton girls varsity volleyball at North Thurston, 7:15 p.m.

Shelton girls soccer vs.

North Thurston, 7 p.m.

North Mason girls varsity soccer vs. Port Angeles, 6:45 p.m.

North Mason girls varsity volleyball vs. Port Angeles, 6:15 p.m.

FRIDAY Shelton varsity football vs.

North Mason, 75 Results: 13, Ryan Grogan, 19:34.23; 14, Austin Williams, 19:50.50; 15, Troy McCormick, 20:03.12; 16, Anton Baur, 20:11.31; 17, Ryan McGanney, 20:12.64; 20, Gabe Navarrow, 21:17.49; 21, Gabe Morton, 21:30.37 Girls Team Scores: 1, Port Angeles, 20; 2, Kingston, 44; 3, North Mason, 65 Results: 6, Savannah Knutson, 22:34.81; 12, Olivia Kauahi, 24.53.59; 13, Hailey Simonson, 24:58.58; 17, Pearl Pulley, 26:13.85; 19, Ashley Jackson, 26:19.00; 22, Felicia Abad, 28:11.57; 23, Harmony Meeker, 28.11.98

Boys Tennis Shelton Sept. 16 — Shelton 3, Central Kitsap 2 No. 1 singles: Matej Kunak (CK) def. Caleb Heckert (S) 6-1, 6-0 No. 2 singles: Warren Coons (CK) def. Reason Hernandez 6-5, 7-5 No. 1 doubles: Jamin Perry and Jonah Perry (S) def. Dylan Hayes and Fred Buckson 6-2, 7-6, (7-5) No. 2 doubles: Ethan Pentony and Kobe Bogh (S) def. Thomas Wilson and Travis Bouck 6-0, 6-0 No. 3 doubles: Cody Simon and Tyson Miller (S) def. Carson Wiler and Justin Balding (CK), 6-5, 7-5

Volleyball

Timberline, 7 p.m.

Shelton boys varsity tennis at Capital, 3:30 p.m.

North Mason varsity football vs. Olympic, 7 p.m.

North Mason boys varsity tennis at Sequim, 4 p.m.

SATURDAY Mary M. Knight varsity football vs. Naselle, 1 p.m.

TCYFL Warriors vs. Climbers Red, MIN Division at 10:15 a.m., Chehalis High School TCYFL Climbers Red vs.

JR Cats BK, MJV Division at 11:30 a.m., Chehalis High School

Shelton Sept. 20 — Capital def.

Shelton 22-25, 25-13, 2521, 25-15 SHS: M. Rodius, 2 aces, 16 digs, 28-30 serve receiving; A. Eleton, 5 kills, 1 block; P. Johnson, 5 kills, 3 blocks; T. Benedict, 11 kills, 16 digs; K. Paller, 5 kills, 2 aces, 1 block; B. Allen, 10 digs, 29 assists Sept. 22 — Central Kitsap def. Shelton 2520, 25-21, 26-24 SHS: M. Rodius, 1 ace, 17 digs, 19-22 serve receiving; A. Eleton, 2 blocks; P. Johnson, 2 blocks; T. Benedict, 9 kills, 15 digs, 14-14 serve receiving; B. Allen, 1 ace, 16 digs, 23 assists; K. Paller, 6 kills, 3 blocks; E. Johnson, 2 aces, 9 digs North Mason Sept. 20 — Sequim def.

North Mason 25-17, 2510, 26-24 NMHS: J. Rock, 2 aces, 3 kills, 4 digs; T. Johnson, 2 aces, 3 kills, 1 dig; S. Ferrell, 1 ace, 2 kills, 6 assists, 8 digs Sept. 22 — Coupeville def. North Mason 25-22, 20-25, 25-18, 22-25, 15-5 NMHS: N. Kallinen, 8 kills, 3 digs; L. Campbell, 4 aces, 2 kills, 1 block, 23 assists, 6 digs; S. Garrett, 3 aces, 5 kills, 10 digs; A. Lundberg, 3 aces, 6 kills, 1 block, 2 digs

Swimming Shelton Sept. 22 — Peninsula 147, Shelton 30 Results:

CALENDAR

TCYFL Hawks vs. Climbers White, MIN Division at 1:15 p.m., Longmire TCYFL Bears BK vs.

Climbers, SJV Division at 3 p.m., Ingersoll Stadium, Olympia TCYFL Climbers vs.

Rams, MV Division at 4:30 p.m., South Side Stadium, Tumwater TCYFL Climbers White vs.

Sentinels, SV Division at 6 p.m., Ingersoll Stadium, Olympia TCYFL Climbers Red vs.

Cougars, SV Division at 7:30 p.m., Ingersoll Stadium,

200-yard medley relay: 3, 2:43.63 200-yard freestyle: 4, Chloe Ponce, 3:15.52; 5, Kaytlin Walters, 3:23.40 200-yard individual medley: 3, Hannah Oliver, 3:15.78; 5, Carolynn Clarey, 3:38.555 50-yard freestyle: 4, Morgan Leach, 33.23; 5, Becky Gonella, 33.92; 6, Breanna Apple, 35.32 100-yard freestyle: 4, Becky Gonella, 1:18.82; 5, Morgan Leach, 1:21.67; 6, Carolynn Clarey, 1:24.33 500-yard freestyle: 4, Chloe Ponce, 6:58.46; 5, Kaytlin Walters, 7:09.95 200-yard freestyle relay: 4, 2:35.25 100-yard backstroke: 4, Breanna Apple, 1:47.80; 5, Ruth Moran, 2:29.75 100-yard breaststroke: 1, Hannah Oliver, 1:33.01; 5, Kira Greer, 2:15.39 400-yard freestyle relay: 3, 5:26.04; 5, 7:05.38

Soccer Shelton Sept. 20 — Central Kitsap 6, Shelton 0 Sept. 22 — Timberline 6, Shelton 2 Sept. 24 — Tumwater 10, Shelton 1 Goals: Ariana Dose, 1 North Mason Sept. 20 — Sequim 2, North Mason 1 Sept. 22 — ­ Coupeville 4, North Mason 1 Goals: Lacey Stark, 1

Olympia MONDAY North Mason boys varsity tennis vs. Kingston, 4 p.m.

TUESDAY Shelton boys varsity tennis at North Thurston, 3:30 p.m.

Shelton girls varsity volleyball vs. Yelm, 7:15 p.m.

Shelton girls varsity soccer at Gig Harbor, 6 p.m.

North Mason girls varsity soccer at Kingston, 6:45 p.m.

North Mason girls varsity volleyball at Kingston, 6:15 p.m.

Golf Lake Limerick Ladies Golf Sept. 14 and 21 — Fall Classic (2 Day Low Net Total) 18-Hole Overall Low Net Winner: Sharon Corrigan, 139 Flight 1: 1, Kerry Torkelson, 150; 2, Cindy Gainey, 151 Flight 2: 1, Ann Johnson, 148; 2, Brenda Asselstine, 150 Flight 3: 1, Diane Pollard, 151; 2, Bonnie Morrow, 152 Birdies: Cindy Gainey, No. 8 Kerry Chip-Ins: Torkelson, No. 12; Ann Johnson, No. 7 and 9; Elen Gaschet de L’isle, No. 5 Sept. 19 — Low Net 9-Hole Flight 1: 1, Debbie Rechnitz, Kay Moore, 36; 2, Renie Dyson, 45 Low Net of the Day: Kay Moore and Debbie Rechnitz Lake Cushman Ladies Golf Sept. 20 Division 1: 1, Evie Campbell; 2, Judy Burke; 3, Christal Nelson Division 2: 1, Barbara Perkins; 2, Darlene Holzapfel; 3, Evelyn Larsen Closest to Pin: Karolyn Jackson and Christal Nelson Club Champion: Gloria Carlson President’s Cup: Darlene Holzapfel Most Improved: Christal Nelson

Mary M. Knight girls varsity volleyball at Wishkah, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Shelton boys and girls varsity cross-country at The Narrows Twilight, 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Bowl at Lincoln High School North Mason boys varsity tennis vs. Olympic, 4 p.m.

North Mason boys and girls varsity cross-country at Bainbridge, 3:45 p.m. at Battlepoint Park, Bainbridge Island

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SPORTS BRIEFS

North Mason Wall of Honor

Shelton Parks and Rec schedule

The North Mason Bulldog Boosters are hosting their second annual Wall of Honor celebration from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 8.

Tickets are $30 per person, and can be purchased by mailing a check to Bulldog Boosters, 150 E. North Mason School Road, Belfair, WA 98528. A tour of the new high school building will begin at 5 p.m. The banquet and ceremony will follow at 6 p.m.

There are eight honorees this year. They are Mark Flatau, Harlan Olson, Laura Boad, Gil Meier, Don Dillenberg, Tom Johnson, Jerry Riggs and Milo Smith.

Anyone with questions can call 277-2163.

The Shelton Parks and Recreation Department released its fall and winter programs schedule. Preregistration is required for all programs and minimum participation numbers must be met for programs to run.

Programs include a Shelton Youth Basketball league, a junior spirit winter cheerleading class, the Kidz Love Soccer program and the Emerald Flying Dragons KiMudo school. Adult programs include drop-in pickleball, gentle/adaptive yoga, T’ai chi and drop-in basketball.

For more information, contact the Shelton Parks and Recreation Department, 525 W. Cota St. n Compiled by sports reporter Alexandria Valdez.

SOUTH SOUND CONFERENCE ROUNDUP

Highclimbers dive into league meet The Peninsula High School Seahawks rolled over the Shelton Highclimbers girls swim team Sept. 22 in a 14730 victory.

Junior Hannah Oliver won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 33.01 seconds. The time qualified for the West Central District III 3A championship meet in October. Oliver also placed third in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 3:15.76.

Other top-three finishes for Shelton included the 200-yard medley relay team, which finished third with a time of 2:43.63. The 400-yard freestyle relay team also finished third with a time of 5:26.04.

Shelton’s next meet is 3:30 p.m. today at home against league opponent Capital High School.

Tennis draws three different results Shelton’s boys tennis team played three matches last

week with three different results.

In a Sept. 20 league matchup, the Climbers rolled over Timberline High School 4-1. The next day in a nonleague match, Shelton and Aberdeen High School tied 3-3. Finally, on Sept. 22 the Peninsula Seahawks beat the Highclimbers 3-2.

The Highclimbers’ next match is 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Capital High School.

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As of Tuesday, Shelton’s two loses dropped it to 1-4 in the SSC and 1-4 overall.

The Highclimbers’ next match is 7:15 tonight at North Thurston High School.

Highclimbers soccer hunting for first victory Journal file photo by Alexandria Valdez

On Sept. 21, the Shelton High School boys and girls cross-country teams competed in a meet against Gig Harbor High School. Shelton’s boys finished second to Gig Harbor with 50 points and the girls beat the Tide with 29 points.

A trio of Shelton senior girls swept the top three spots. Anika Parker finished first overall with a time of 20 minutes, 55.47 seconds.

Laynie MacAlevy came in second in 21:12:00 and Grayson Atkinson rounded out the top three with a 21:59.83.

On the boys’ side, freshman Cameron MacAlevy was the highest finisher in ninth

Shelton High School junior Hannah Oliver listens to her coach during a preseason practice in August. Oliver qualified for the West Central District III 3A Championships meet in the 100-yard breaststroke last week. with a time of 17:55.85. Behind him was freshman Brock Knowles in 10th with a time of 18:17.72.

Shelton’s next meet is 7 p.m. Oct. 5 at The Narrows Twilight meet at the Lincoln Bowl at Lincoln High School in Tacoma.

SHS drops two league matches Shelton’s girls volley-

ball team floundered on the court last week as the squad dropped two South Sound Conference matches.

The Capital Cougars beat the Highclimbers Sept. 20 in four sets, 22-25, 25-13, 25-21, 25-15. Junior Taylor Benedict had 11 kills and 16 digs.

Sophomore libero Myah Rodius was 26-for-28 on serves received, had 16 digs and two service aces.

On Sept. 22, Central Kitsap shut out Shelton 25-20, 25-21, 26-24. Senior Adrianna Eleton had two blocks and three kills.

Junior setter Becca Allen had 16 digs, 23 assists and one

The Shelton High School girls soccer team is still looking for its first win after dropping three matches last week.

On Sept. 20, South Sound Conference opponent Central Kitsap shut out the Highclimbers 6-0.

Two days later, league opponent Timberline High School beat the Climbers 6-2.

Saturday in a non-league match, Tumwater High School beat Shelton 10-1. Senior Ariana Dose scored the Highclimbers’ only goal.

As of Tuesday, the losses leave Shelton winless so far this season.

Shelton’s next match is 7 tonight at home against the North Thurston Rams. n Compiled by sports reporter Alexandria Valdez.

OLYMPIC LEAGUE ROUNDUP

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Last week, the North Mason Bulldogs boys tennis team dropped two Olympic League matches.

On Sept. 19, Bremerton High School beat the Bulldogs 5-2. North Mason’s wins came at the No. 3 singles spot from Gus Sandquist, who won his match 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. The Bulldogs’ second win came at the No. 1 doubles slot of Ethan Six and Blake Manke who won 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

North Mason was shut out Sept. 21 in its match against North Kitsap. The Bulldogs’ Sept. 23 match against Port Angeles was postponed.

As of Tuesday, the Bulldogs are 1-5 in league and 1-5 overall. North Mason’s next match is 4 p.m. tomorrow at Sequim High School.

and the girls finished third with 65 points.

The Bulldogs’ highest placer was sophomore Savannah Knutson, who finished sixth. She ran in 22 minutes, 34.81 seconds. Following Knutson was sophomore Olivia Kauahi in 12th with a time of 24:53.59 and junior Hailey Simonson in 13th with a time of 24:58.58.

On the boys’ side, senior Ryan Grogan finished 13th with a time of 19:34.23. Following right behind Grogan was junior Austin Williams in 14th with a time of 19:50.50 and then sophomore Troy McCormick finished 15th with a time of 20:03.12.

North Mason’s next meet is 2:45 p.m. Saturday at the Nike 10th annual Twilight Invitational at Cedarcrest Golf Course in Marysville.

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THE RED ZONE WEEK 4 — MASON COUNTY PREP FOOTBALL

By ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ alexandria@masoncounty.com BULLDOGS NOTCH FIRST WIN OF SEASON North Mason’s football team can make a check in the “W” column after defeating Port Angeles High School 6-0 on Sept. 22.

“It was a struggle,” Bulldogs coach Phil Pugh said. “The first half we moved the ball quite efficiently. In the second half we kind of got shut down, we didn’t move the ball like we should have. As zero points would indicate, we played really good defense the whole game.”

Junior Garret Borah scored the team’s lone touchdown in the second quarter on a 3-yard rush.

The North Mason passing game was nonexistent as sophomore quarterback Anthony Schooler had two passes for 11 yards. The Bulldogs’ attack was better, as the team rushed for 213 total yards.

Senior Garrett Borah led the efforts for 23 carries for 122 yards.

Sophomore running back Mario Nanez added 30 rushing yards on seven carries and Tyler Thomas chipped in 14 carries for 60 yards.

North Mason’s win puts them 1-1 in the 2A Olympic League. Overall, the Bulldogs are 1-3.

The highlight play of the game came from freshman wingback Reese Smelcer.

“They completed a pass around our 5-yard line late in the game,” Pugh said. “Reese Smelcer stripped their receiver of the ball and the ball went into the end zone. We recovered it in the end zone for a touchback.”

North Mason’s next game is 7 p.m. tomorrow at home against the Olympic High School Trojans. Olympic is 1-1 in league with a 2-2 overall record.

Offensive Player of the Game: Junior Garret Borah. “He played both quarterback and fullback. He did a good job at both.”

Defensive Player of the Game: Senior Nico Ramirez. “He was a stalwart and just played great.”

Journal photo by Alexandria Valdez

North Mason High School freshman Reese Smelcer lines up Sept. 16 on the line of scrimmage during a game against Kingston High School.

MARY M. KNIGHT GAME ENDS IN TIE The Mary M. Knight Owls football team’s odd season continued Sept. 22 as the Knight Owls game against Rainier Christian High School ended in a 42-42 tie.

“Both coaches after the fourth quarter decided to call it a tie because there were lots of injuries on both sides,” Knight Owls coach Mike Bateman said.

“It’s a non-league game, so it was just better that way.”

Bateman said it was a tight one during one of the Knight Owls’ rare Friday night games.

During the first half, the Knight Owls scoped out Rainier. At the half, the Knight Owls trailed Rainier by six points. In the second half, the Owls pushed back.

In the second half, the Knight Owls scored 26 points. The final 2 1/2 min-

utes proved costly for the Knight Owls. Sophomore quarterback Zack Thompson was pulled from the game after taking a hard tackle, junior Ian Frost left the game and Bateman pulled sophomore Austin Fries despite his stellar performance. Bateman said Branden Oglesby left the game after a hit in the neck.

“We were rolling, but I’m not going to play an injured player just because,” Bateman said. “We had to pull them out and then they tied the game with nine seconds to go. We stopped them on a two-point conversion.”

There are 20 players on the team, including one eighth-grader.

Thompson was 5-for-13 passing for 120 yards, had a touchdown and added five tackles on defense. Senior Quentin Narrance had six sacks on defense and 12 carries for 15 yards on offense. Fries led the team with four

carries for 52 yards and four receptions for 99 yards. He had two touchdowns.

The Knight Owls’ next game is 1 p.m.

Saturday against the Naselle Comets.

Bateman said the Comets have a new quarterback and he expects the ball to be thrown a lot.

Offensive Player of the Game: Sophomore Austin Fries. “He was eating that guy up until he got hurt. They couldn’t stop him and for some reason they didn’t put another guy on him.”

Defensive Player of the Game: Bateman was impressed with everyone who played on defense. “It was an allaround good game. Ian always stands out, but Mr. (Branden) Ogelsby was doing great plays. Cole (Ruthruff) was outstanding in that game. Everyone just played great.”

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME

Sports and the arts share similar lessons and qualities

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here is a story floating around shaped who I am today, theater also my family that makes me blush played an important role in my life. and I refute it every time it gets It’s one thing to swim 100 yards of brought up. My favorite mufreestyle in under 1 minute, sical is “The Sound of Music” but it’s another thing comand growing up I watched it pletely to stand in front of a religiously. To this day, I can room of 100 people and perstill sing every song backform for them. I was never wards and forwards. top dog in the theater world Anyway, in the movie, at my school, but I learned Julie Andrews’ character, numerous lessons.

Maria, gets married to CapOne of the biggest ones tain Von Trapp, portrayed by By ALEXANDRIA is being able to talk in front Christopher Plummer. The of people. You might be surVALDEZ family rumor is during this prised that as a journalist, I part, I would throw a blanget nervous talking to people, ket over my head and parade around but theater was the first activity that the house during the wedding scene. pushed me out of my comfort zone.

There is no video or photographic When you’re in a show you’re not talkevidence, but my mother and granding to just a room full of strangers, mother stand by it. you’re also being someone who you’re The point is, the arts also played not. a critical part in my life, specifically It’s also a challenge to remember theater. In high school, my school in lines, where to move on the stage and Colorado was known as an arts magthe emotional drain you have. But net school. So we had some fantastic standing on a stage is a completely productions of “Little Shop of Horunique feeling that can’t be replicated rors”, “Seussical”, “Children of Eden” on any field or court. For a few minand “The Wizard of Oz”. utes, you feel on top of the world.

While being involved in sports These challenges and emotions can

If you think about it, sports and the arts are not that different. You spend numerous hours honing your craft, pulling your hair out when you can’t reach perfection and getting a thrill when you stand on stage and perform. also be found in sports. Whatever you play on is a stage, whether it’s a court, field or pool. As athletes we have to remember movements or plays, have to react and are emotional.

So it was a pleasure when I met Blake Manke from North Mason High School. While I was not blessed in the music-playing department, Manke owns four guitars and can play the drums. His favorite band is The Ramones.

When I talked with Manke about music, his face lit up. Yes, tennis and sports are fun, but the arts fulfill a different desire in someone’s life.

Manke knows his instruments inside and out and loves to spend time with them.

If you think about it, sports and the arts are not that different. You spend numerous hours honing your craft, pulling your hair out when you can’t reach perfection and getting a thrill when you stand on stage and perform.

Sports are art and art is a sport. n Alexandria Valdez is the sports reporter for the Shelton-Mason County Journal. She can be reached at 4264412 or at alexandria@masoncounty. com

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NMHS North Mason High School’s

Wall of Honor Journal photo by Brianna Loper

Laura Boad is a member of the North Mason School Board.

Courtesy photo

Gil Meier was a custodian for the North Mason School District.

Bulldog Boosters honor behind-the-scenes personnel

By ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ alexandria@masoncounty.com

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or the second year, the Bulldog Boosters will honor various staff and community members who have played a role in Bulldog athletics. The wall of honorees with pictures and names is located across from the trophy cases by the gymnasium.

These members held a variety of positions ranging from administrative roles, school board leaders or teachers. This first installment highlights two of the eight honorees. Check back next week for more honorees.

The unofficial superintendent of Belfair There is one particular story that pops into Charlotte Meier’s mind about her husband, Gil. It has nothing to do with the high school sports or activities, which were Gil’s passion.

“One of the teachers asked their classroom who they thought the superintendent of the school district was,” Charlotte said. “Most of them said Gil. We got a good giggle from that.”

This is just one fond memory Charlotte recalls about her husband, Gil, a custodian for the North Mason School District and a behind-the-scenes sports enthusiast.

Gil died in December, but he began his life in the Pacific Northwest when he was 9. His

family moved from Minnesota to Oregon and that’s where Gil called home for years. He was brought to North Mason when one of his daughters moved to the area, and he married Charlotte in 1981.

He spent 15 years working for the North Mason School District and 10 years at North Mason High School. Charlotte said her husband knew who everyone was and the students loved him. He officially retired in 1996, but always lent a helping hand.

During the sports season, Gil did everything.

“He would line the fields, get the soccer nets in place and the markers on the football field,” Charlotte said. “He helped supervise and was there in case anything needed to be done. He made sure things were locked up and he was always the last one to leave the fields.”

Anytime the couple went out, Charlotte said they always ran into current and former students.

She said the kids would run up to him, give him a hug and told him they never forgot him.

When Charlotte got the call from North Mason athletic director Mark Swofford about Gil being recognized on the Wall of Honor, Charlotte was thrilled.

“I was very happy and impressed,” she said. “I knew Gil would have just loved it. He deserved to be recognized.”

From the band to the sidelines Laura Boad laughed when she recalled her band uniform from North Mason High School. As a clarinet player, Boad said the uniforms were “not cool.” The girls’ attire included a blue sweater and white pleated skirt.

To this day, Boad said she won’t wear a pleated skirt, but she fondly recalls what it was like to be a band member under the Friday night lights.

“I remember we felt like we were part of the show,” Boad said.

“We weren’t the spectator, and we had a job to do. It was a team thing as well as the team out on the field.

We were the team on the stands and you had the same feeling.”

Boad, who graduated from North Mason High School in 1966 before Title IX changed the landscape for girls in sports, found different ways to get involved with sports during her time in Belfair.

When she was in high school, Boad said girls didn’t have a lot of choices for competitive sports.

Boad chose to follow her passion for music during high school.

Today, she appreciates what

North Mason High School athletic director Mark Swofford has done to promote girls sports.

“I think a lot of girls are just intimidated because you have really athletic kids and maybe not so athletic kids,” she said. “But I think it can grow in everyone. It doesn’t have to be just naturally talented students.”

Boad got her first taste of sports through her children. She spent years traveling to soccer and softball games, and even tried her own hand at coaching. Before her children entered high school, she coached them in soccer and softball.

Away from the field, Boad was the human resources coordinator and executive assistant to the superintendent. She worked for the North Mason district from 1987 to 2007 and retired after 20 years.

Nine years ago, Boad ran for the school board and has been a member ever since.

When Boad got the phone call from Swofford telling her she was going to be recognized on the North Mason Wall of Honor, she was humbled and flattered.

“I never thought that would be something that happened to me,” Boad said. “I’m a private person and I don’t like to talk about myself. What I do for the students and the kids and the community — I feel like they deserve a shot at something really good.”

Although Boad never played sports herself, if she could go back to coaching she would do it in a heartbeat.

“I learned that the most important thing is communication,” she said. “You need to communicate expectations to the kids and parents as well as just being a really good listener.”

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Football: Shelton can’t capitalize on Seahawks penalties continued from page B-1

touchdown of the quarter. Peninsula scored its final touchdown of the game in the fourth quarter with a 40-yard run from junior wide receiver Alex Beloate.

“It’s interesting, we tell our kids all the time the score doesn’t reflect who we are as a team,” Seahawks coach Ross Filkins said. “I think the scoreboard was misleading here because Shelton is a very good team. We didn’t execute very well, and the penalties are really frustrating.”

The Seahawks’ penalties added up quickly and were varied. Peninsula was called eight times for penalties, including calls of helmet-to-helmet contact, illegal procedure and roughing the punter.

Shelton’s own problems piled up early in the game. In the first half, Giraldes was intercepted three times and Shelton had five turnovers. One of these turnovers was a fumble on the kick return at the start of the third quarter.

“We definitely could have done better,” Shelton senior tackle Dillion Payment said.

“It was a little out of focus. It was like one bad play and we just needed to let it go.”

Giraldes was 15-for-30 passing for 127 yards. Senior

Journal photo by Shawna Whelan

Shelton High School senior Taylor Toney, center, gets wrapped up in a Peninsula Seahawks tackle Sept. 23 during a game at Shelton. The Seahawks beat Shelton 42-0. wide receiver Kyle Kimball grabbed eight receptions for 53 yards and senior Taylor Toney nabbed three of his own receptions for 57 yards.

Junior running back Isaiah Stewart had 10 carries for 24 yards.

During the first half, Shelton quelled Peninsula. Junior strong safety Evan Rhodes intercepted the Seahawks on their second series of the game at Shelton’s own 35-yard line. But the Climbers failed to capitalize on Rhodes’ play

as Giraldes and the offensive waned on its drive down the field.

Peninsula scored its first touchdown of the game when Cantu broke through for a 80yard rushing touchdown in the first quarter. Senior running

back Kenny Easton followed up Cantu with his own 87-yard rushing score in the second quarter.

The Seahawks passed for 132 yards, but netted 387 rushing yards. Shelton had 127 passing yards and 55 yards rushing.

Climbers senior running back Willy Ruiz was on the sidelines during Friday’s game. Hinkle said Ruiz was out with an injury. In Shelton’s first three games, Ruiz had 27 total carries for 165 yards.

On Shelton’s defense, Toney led the team with eight tackles. Seniors Gable Lacy added seven and Dylan Paul added five apiece.

At 7 p.m. tomorrow, the Climbers face the Timberline High School Blazers at Highclimber Stadium. The Blazers are also undefeated in the South Sound Conference after breezing past Capital and Central Kitsap high schools.

Last Friday’s contest was a wakeup call to Shelton.

“I think Peninsula is the top team in the league,” Hinkle said. “I thought we played well at times and I thought we didn’t play well at times. We’ll be excited to see how the kids respond next week. We’ve got some ones now that we can mix it up well with.”

Volleyball: Bulldogs can’t force fourth set against Wolves continued from page B-1 the Bulldogs didn’t take advantage of the Wolves’ errors.

North Mason scored the first four points of the match as Sequim hit balls into the net, double hit on balls and hit balls out of bounds. The Bulldogs pulled ahead 7-2, their biggest cushion of the set.

Sequim evened up the set as the Bulldogs spiked the ball out of bounds. The two teams continued to battle back-andforth and the Bulldogs remained in front. North looked as if it would force a fourth set, which would have been the third time that had happened in a row for the squad.

But momentum tipped in favor of the Wolves, which tied up the set for the fourth time at 2424. Sequim put the set away after it scored two points on a kill after North Mason double hit.

The victory was Sequim’s second league victory.

“Our girls actually played pretty well,” coach Jennie

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North Mason High School senior Shawna Ferrell serves during a Sept. 20 match against Sequim High School. The Bulldogs lost in three sets to the Wolves.

Webber said. “We had some pretty tough serving. I think that’s one thing that kind of helped us dominate the match, we just had some good serving.

We also had some pretty good swings at the ball, so that’s what helped us tonight.”

Bulldogs senior outside hitter Jenna Rock led the team

with two aces, three kills and four digs. Senior setter Shawna Ferrell had one ace, two kills, six assists and eight digs.

The flow of the game was like a roller coaster ride for the Bulldogs.

“We did well in the first half of the first set and then we went into a dip, which went

onto the second half unfortunately,” Rock said. “While we were in the huddle we agreed as a team we should get pumped up and get our energy back. That helped a lot in the third set and it worked.”

Sequim senior middle hitter Ella Christiansen had seven aces, three kills and was 20-for-23 serving. Senior setter Sydney Balken added five aces, nine assists and five digs.

In the first set, North Mason held steady with Sequim. Both teams were tied up three times during the early points, but the Wolves slowly pulled away as they scored several points on tipped-in balls. During the second set, Sequim shut down North Mason as it limited the Bulldogs to 10 points.

North Mason’s defense showed glimmers throughout the match. Middle blocker Terri Johnson had three kills during the match and junior Astrid Lundberg had a block in the third set that staved off a Sequim point.

“We’ve been working really hard on our defense and making sure we do not let the ball come over the net,” Lily said.

“If it does, we’re trying really hard not to let it hit the floor.

We’re doing a good job.”

The Bulldogs also lost their Sept. 22 match to Coupeville High School. Coupeville won the match 25-22, 20-25, 2518, 22-25, 15-5. Lundberg had three aces, one block, two digs and six kills.

Even though Lundberg lost on her birthday, Sept. 22, she said the team should leave the court with their heads held high.

“I think we did really well against a team that did really good,” Lundberg said. “So I think we should be really proud of ourselves for even getting 24-26. That’s a crazy accomplishment. If we just utilize the same skills in games against Bremerton or Olympic, I think we can do well.”

North Mason’s next match is 6:15 tonight at home against the Port Angeles Roughriders.

Manke: Student gets musical inspiration from Ramones continued from page B-1 music is loud, upbeat and fast. He said the band that first drew him into music was The Ramones. Manke said his favorite song to play is a Ramones tune called “Wart Hog.” “They stood out,” Manke said. “They were fast-paced, loud and fun. Exciting. It makes you want to dance or something. It’s upbeat music.”

Manke’s athletic career began on the baseball diamond. He played the sport for 10 years, but looked for a change when he entered high school.

Since tennis was similar to baseball, Manke said he wanted to give it a

try.

Tennis introduced itself to Manke, he said. He didn’t pick up a tennis racket until summer 2013. A friend of Manke’s convinced him to try out, and he felt a connection.

Of course, there were some stumbling blocks in the beginning.

“I got a little frustrated,” Manke said. “I still liked it, but sometimes if I messed up I’d get frustrated in myself.

Just like hitting the ball into the net or hitting the ball incorrectly so it flew out of the court.”

Bulldogs coach Brian Barker said so far this season Manke has excelled on the court. One of his best

strengths is his developed stroke, Barker said.

“Yesterday he hit the ball quite long a bit, but I think that’s going to help him a lot,” Barker said. “He’s developed a really good stroke over the last year.”

Barker said Manke’s best asset to the team is his kindness.

“He cares about everybody and he’s really nice,” Barker said. “He would do whatever. He’s the guy that you call at four in the morning when you’re broken down.”

Manke has spent his tennis career playing doubles. He’s played at varsity doubles and singles. The junior nabbed No. 3 singles 6-2, 6-2 win Sept. 16 in a

6-1 team victory over Chimacum High School.

His favorite part of doubles is playing with his buddies and the thrilling rallies. Manke said he loves long rallies because they keep him engaged in the game and on his toes. The biggest challenge in doubles is communication, he said.

As the season progresses for the Bulldogs, Manke hopes to improve on the court and continue growing his love for tennis.

“For tennis I want to have better strokes and better hitting,” he said.

“I want to improve my technique as well.”

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together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 12/01/15, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute. The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the Property on October 28, 2016.

The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 10/17/16 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 10/17/16 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 10/17/16 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Rachel Johnson 1425 Center Street Shelton, WA 98584 Charles R. Johnson aka Charlie Johnson 1425 Center Street Shelton, WA 98584 Rachel Johnson 717 Roy Blvd. Shelton, WA 98584 Charles R. Johnson aka Charlie Johnson 717 Roy Blvd. Shelton, WA 98584 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 05/18/16, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 05/18/16 Grantor and Borrower were personally served

with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee, whose name and address are set forth below, will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www. northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference. You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USAForeclosure.com. Date Executed: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee Authorized Signature 13555 SE 36th St. Suite 100 Bellevue, WA 98006 Contact: Nanci Lambert (425) 5861900. Johnson, Rachel and Charles R. (TS# 8041.20068) 1002.287060-File No. 8966 September 29, October 20 2t

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PUBLIC NOTICE PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR PIERCE COUNTY Estate of DENNIS R. LONG, Deceased. Probate No. 16-4-01551-7 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets. Date of First Publication: September 22, 2016 Personal Representative: CHERI C. ROLLINS Attorney for the Personal Representative: Timothy E. Williams Address for mailing or service 5302 Pacific Avenue Tacoma, WA 98408 8965 September 22, 29, October 6 3t

PUBLIC NOTICE File No.: Trustee: 7023.116229 Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. Grantors: Keith E. Ratcliffe and Susan E. Ratcliffe, husband and wife Grantee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ref to DOT Auditor File No.: 1949591 Tax Parcel ID No.: 31908-32-00010 Abbreviated Legal: RESULTING PARCEL 5 OF BLA NO. 09-31, REC. 1947104, Mason County, WA Notice of Trustee’s Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home.

See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663).

Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/ homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_ foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287. Web site: http://www. hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webLi stAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=d fc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: Toll-free: 1-800-6064819. Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear.

I. On October 7, 2016, at 10:00 AM. inside the main lobby of the Mason County Courthouse, Corner of 4th St. and Alder St. in the City of Shelton, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee (subject to any conditions imposed by the Trustee) will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described real property “Property”, situated in the County(ies) of MASON, State of Washington: A tract of land in the Northwest quarter (NW 1/4) of the Southwest quarter (SW 1/4), and in the Northeast quarter (NE 1/4) of the Southwest quarter (SW 1/4), all in Section Eight (8), Township Nineteen (19) North, Range Three (3) West, W.M., particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the East line of said Northwest quarter (NW 1/4) of the Southwest quarter (SW 1/4) and the Southerly line of that certain easement described in Deed recorded October 21, 1965, Auditor’s File No. 214647; thence South 01 degrees 40’45” East, along the East line of said Northwest quarter (NW 1/4) of the Southwest quarter (SW 1/4), 60.34 feet to the Northwest corner of Lot One (1) of Short Subdivision No. 3011 Revised, recorded November 2, 2007, in Volume 3 of Short Plats, Page 209, Auditor’s File No. 1930527; thence South 88 degrees 59’23” East, along the North line of said Lot One (1), 21.57 feet to a point on an “existing” fence line, as it existed September 29, 2009; thence South 02 degrees 54’57” East, along said fence line, 170.39 feet to a fence corner; thence North 87 degrees 36’00” West, along said fence line, 25.29 feet to a point on the West line of said Lot One (1); thence North 88 degrees 00’39” West, along said fence, 174.53 feet to a fence corner; thence North 03

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degrees 03’58” West, along said fence line, 169.05 feet, to a point on the Southerly line of that certain easement described in Deed recorded October 21, 1965, Auditor’s File No. 214647; thence Northeasterly, along said Southerly line, 186 feet, more or less to the Point of Beginning. Said land being also known and described as the Resulting Parcel 5 of Boundary Line Adjustment No. 09-31, recorded September 29, 2009, Auditor’s File No. 1947104.

Portion of Parcel Nos. 31908 32 00010, 31908 31 90041 and 31908 32 00040 Together with a non-exclusive easement for road purposes, 60 feet in width, “as the same is now constructed and in use and an extension of same”, as granted in Instrument recorded October 21, 1965, Auditor’s File No. 214647. Together with a nonexclusive easement for road purposes only, 60 feet in width, as same is now constructed and in use”, as described in Instrument recorded under Auditor’s File No. 260542, and as granted in Instrument recorded under Auditor’s File No. 262451. Together with a perpetual, non-exclusive easement for road and utility purposes, 40 feet in width, as granted in Instrument recorded May 20, 1975, Auditor’s File No. 300357. Together with the right to take and remove water for domestic purposes and livestock from a well, and an easement from said well for a water pipeline, as granted in Instrument recorded June 14, 1971, Auditor’s File No. 260542. Commonly known as: 500 Southeast Brewer Road Shelton, WA 98584-7751 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/18/09, recorded on 11/24/09, under Auditor’s File No. 1949591, records of MASON County, Washington, from Keith E. Ratcliffe and Susan E. Ratcliffe, husband and wife, as Grantor, to Mason County Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation “Obligation” in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as designated nominee for Primelending, a Plainscapital Company, beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Primelending, A Plainscapital Company, its successors and assigns to Wells Fargo Bank, NA, under an Assignment/Successive Assignments recorded under Auditor’s File No. 2002929. *The Tax Parcel ID number and Abbreviated Legal Description are provided solely to comply with the recording statutes and are not intended to supplement, amend or supersede the Property’s full legal description provided herein. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the Obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s or Borrower’s default on the Obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Amount due to reinstate as of 06/02/2016. If reinstating after this date, please contact NWTS for the exact reinstatement amount. Monthly Payments $9,305.10 Late Charges $137.59 Lender’s Fees & Costs $0.00 Total Arrearage $9,442.69 Trustee’s Expenses (Itemization) Trustee’s Fee $810.00 Title Report $728.71 Statutory Mailings $33.48 Recording Costs $18.00 Postings $80.00 Sale Costs $0.00 Total Costs $1,670.19 Total Amount Due: $11,112.88 Other known defaults as follows: IV. The sum owing on the Obligation is: Principal Balance of $172,899.45, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument evidencing the Obligation from 11/01/15, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Obligation, and as are provided by statute. V. The Property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the Obligation as provided by statute.

The sale will be made without representation or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, encumbrances or condition of the Property on October 7, 2016. The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 09/26/16 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 09/26/16 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 09/26/16 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME AND ADDRESS Keith E. Ratcliffe 500 Southeast Brewer Road Shelton, WA 98584-7751 Susan E. Ratcliffe 500 South-

east Brewer Road Shelton, WA 98584-7751 Keith E. Ratcliffe PO Box 626 Olympia, WA 98507 Susan E. Ratcliffe PO Box 626 Olympia, WA 98507 Keith E. Ratcliffe 500 Southeast Brewer Shelton, WA 98584 Susan E. Ratcliffe 500 Southeast Brewer Shelton, WA 98584 by both first class and certified mail, return receipt requested on 04/27/16, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 04/27/16 Grantor and Borrower were personally served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee, whose name and address are set forth below, will provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all costs and trustee’s fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the Property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee. com and are incorporated by this reference. You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USA-Foreclosure.com.

Date Executed: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee Authorized Signature 13555 SE 36th St. Suite 100 Bellevue, WA 98006 Contact: Vonnie McElligott (425) 586-1900. Ratcliffe, Keith E. and Susan E. (TS# 7023.116229) 1002.286750-File No. 8924 September 8, 29 2t

time before the 17th day of October, 2016, (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in Paragraph III is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after the 17th day of October, 2016, (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: 111 East Heron Cove, Shelton, WA 98584, and 420 W Smith Apt. #309, Kent, WA 98032 by both first class and certified mail on the 21st day of March, 2016, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were served on the 21st day of April, 2016, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 6l.24. l30. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s Sale. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. DATED this 28th day of July, 2016.

Thomas A. Cowan Successor Trustee Cowan Moore Billetdeaux Law Firm, PLLC 3250 Port of Benton Blvd., Suite B Richland, WA 99354 Phone:509-943-2676 8967 September 29, October 20 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to R.C.W. 6l.24 et. seq. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned trustee will on the 28th day of October, 2016, at the hour of 10:00 AM at the main entrance of the Mason County Courthouse located at Fourth & Alder Streets in the City of Shelton located at Mason County, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in Shelton, the County of Mason, State of Washington, to wit: LEGAL/ TAX PARCEL NO. 32309 34 00010 and 32309 43 70090 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated March 21, 2012, recorded under Auditor’s File No. 1986943, records of Mason County, Washington, from Alfonso Tavaglione as Grantor, to Land Title Company of Kitsap County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Clay O’Laughlin and Kristin O’Laughlin, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by Alfonso Tavaglione, under an Assignment recorded under Auditor’s File No. 1986943. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.

III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: Monthly Payment. Three monthly payments of $1,230.81 each May 2016 through July 2016 for total of $3692.43 Late Charges. Four late charges of $61.54_for each monthly payment not made within five days of its due date $184.62 Default Interest Interest increase to 18% on unpai Principal or 11% more than the Note rate $4566.51 TOTAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS AND LATE CHARGES $8443.56 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $185,000.00, together with interest as in the note or other instrument secured from the 21st day of March, 2012, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on the 28th day of October, 2016. The default(s) referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by the 17th day of October, 2016, (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any

PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR THE COUNTY OF MASON U.S. BANK N.A., AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE J.P. MORGAN ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-S1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF RICK ZEHNER AKA RICKIE ALLEN FULLBRIGHT ZEHNER, DECEASED; ROXANNE ZEHNER; JACKIE ZEHNER; GINGER ZEHNER; DAVID ZEHNER; U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST; OCCUPANTS OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY; ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS OR PARTIES CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN Defendants. Case No.: 15-2-00535-2 To: UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF RICK ZEHNER AKA RICKIE ALLEN FULLBRIGHT ZEHNER, DECEASED; JACKIE ZEHNER; OCCUPANTS OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY; ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS OR PARTIES CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO THE SAID DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 15th day of September, 2016, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff, U.S. BANK N.A., AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE J.P. MORGAN ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-S1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff, McCarthy & Holthus, LLP at the office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The basis for the complaint is a foreclosure of the property commonly known as 2170 East State Route 3, Shelton, WA 98584, Mason County, Washington as a result of a default under the terms of the note and deed of trust. DATED: September 9, 2016 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP Joseph T. McCormick [ ] Wendy Walter, WSBA No. 33809 [ ] Annette Cook, WSBA No. 31450 [ ] Christopher Luhrs, WSBA No. 43175 [ ] Joseph T. McCormick III, WSBA No. 48883 108 1st Avenue South, Ste. 300 Seattle, WA 9810 Attorneys for Plaintiff 8949 September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20 6t

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF ELECTION NOVEMBER 8, 2016 GENERAL ELECTION Notice of November 8, 2016 General Election Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 a countywide General Election will be conducted entirely by mail. Ballots will be mailed the week of October 18, 2016 to all active voters in Mason County.

The following partisan and nonpartisan offices and local measures will appear on the General Election. State Measures: Initiative to the People Initiative Measure No. 1433 Initiative Measure No. 1464 Initiative Measure No. 1491 Initiative Measure No. 1501 Initiative to the Legislature Initiative Measure No. 732 Initiative Measure No. 735 Advisory Vote Advisory Vote No. 14, House Bill 2768 Advisory Vote No. 15, Second Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2778 Proposed Amendment to the State Constitution Senate Joint Resolution No. 8210 Federal: U.S. President / Vice President United States Senator Congressional District No. 6, U.S. Representative Congressional District No. 10, U.S. Representative State: Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State State Treasurer State Auditor Attorney General Commission of Public Lands Superintendent of Public Instruction Insurance Commissioner Legislative District 35, State Representative Position 1 Legislative District 35, State Representative

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Position 2 County: Mason County Commissioner District 1 Mason County Commissioner District 2 Mason County Proposition No. 1, Metropolitan Park District Mason County Metropolitan Park District, Commissioner Position 1 Mason County Metropolitan Park District, Commissioner Position 2 Mason County Metropolitan Park District, Commissioner Position 3 Mason County Metropolitan Park District, Commissioner Position 4 Mason County Metropolitan Park District, Commissioner Position 5 Judicial: Supreme Court Justice, Position 1 Supreme Court Justice, Position 5 Supreme Court Justice, Position 6 Mason County Superior Court Judge, Position 1 Mason County Superior Court Judge, Position 2 Mason County Superior Court Judge, Position 3 Local: Fire Protection District No. 13, Proposition for Property Tax Levy Lid Lift Public Utility District No. 1, Commissioner District 1 Public Utility District No. 3, Commissioner District 1 Voter Registration Information and Deadlines For persons already registered in Washington, all voter registration applications, transfers from another county, changes of address within Mason County and other registration updates must be submitted by Monday, October 10, 2016 to be effective for the November 8, 2016 General Election. Submit changes online at: www. myvote.wa.gov, or by mail send to PO Box 400 Shelton, WA 98584 - must be postmarked by Monday, October 10, 2016. Voter registration applications can also be delivered to the Mason County Auditor’s Office no later than 4:30 p.m., Monday, October 10, 2016 to be eligible for the

November 8, 2016 General Election. Persons not already registered in Washington State may register in-person no later than Monday, October 31, 2016 at the Mason County Auditor’s Office, Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Voting Center The Auditor’s Office, located at 411 N Fifth Street, Shelton, WA 98584 is a voting center for the complete voting period of October 19 – November 8, 2016. If you need a replacement ballot, visit www.myvote.wa.gov to access your ballot online. You can also obtain a replacement ballot at the Mason County Auditor’s Office, or by calling (360) 427-9670 ext. 470, (360) 275-4255 ext. 470. To obtain more detailed information regarding this election, go to the Mason County Auditor’s website at www.co.mason.wa.us/elections. Notice of Accessibility Accessible voting equipment is available at the Mason County Auditor’s Office, October 19 – November 8, 2016, during regular business hours. On Election Day, it is available 8:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. The voting equipment is available to any voter who wishes to use it, but the equipment has special features to allow voters with disabilities to vote independently. For information regarding assistance with voter registration, voting, or accessibility issues, please contact the Elections Department at (360) 427-9670 ext. 470 or at elections@ co.mason.wa.us. Notice of Drop Box Locations Mason County votes entirely by mail and regular polling places will not be open. Return postage is required to return a voted ballot and must be postmarked by the day of the election. However, no postage is required if you deposit your ballot in an open ballot drop box before 8:00 p.m. on Election Night. A list of all ballot drop boxes will be included with your ballot material. No The Mason County Canvassing Board is scheduled to hold public meetings on: November 28, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Reviewing any Ballots referred by the County Auditor November 29, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

Certifying the November 8, 2016 General Election Results Released November 8, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. Election Day – Ballot Tabulation November 9 – November 23, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. Counting of Additional Ballots as necessary November

28, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. Final Count Bill To: Mason County Elections Department PO Box 400, Shelton, WA 98584 8964 September 29 1t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE In Re the Estate of: PATRICIA A. BYE, Deceased. NO. 16-4-00905-3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below have been appointed and have qualified as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the deceased must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative, or the attorneys of record, at the address stated below a copy of the claim and by filing the original of the claim with the Clerk of the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of : 1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or 2) four months after the date of the first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets. David S. Wakefield, Personal Representative of the estate of Patricia A. Bye, Deceased Marc H. Cochran, WSBA #9235 Of Morton McGoldrick P.S. 820 “A” Street, Suite 600 Tacoma, Washington 98402 Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives DATE OF FILING: 6-29-16 DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: 9-22-2016 8961 September 22, 29, October 6 3t

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PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS SERVED BY PUBLICATION Superior Court of Washington, County of Mason. In re: Petitioner Nolon Ray Chambers and Respondent Dina Sue Chambers NO. 16 3 00292 4 To Dina Sue Chambers. The other party has asked the court to end your marriage or domestic partnership, Order the division of property and debts. You must respond in writing if you want the court to consider your side. Deadline!

Your response must be filed and served within 60 days of the date this summons is published.

If you do not file and serve your Response or a Notice of Appearance by the deadline: No one has to notify you about other hearings in this case and The court may approve the requests in the Petition without hearing your side (called a default judgment). Follow these steps: 1. Read the Petition and any other documents that were filed at court with this Summons. Those documents explain what the other party is asking for.

2. Fill out a Response on this form: FL Divorce 211, Response to Petition about a Marriage. You can get the Response form and other forms you need at: The Washington State Courts’ website: www.courts.wa.gov/forms. The Administrative Office of the Courts - Call 360-705-5328. Washington LawHelp: www. washingtonlawhelp.org, or The Superior Court Clerk’s office or county law library (for a fee.) 3. Serve (give) a copy of your Response to the person who filed this Summons at the address below, and to any other parties. You may use certified mail with return receipt requested. For more information on how to serve, read Superior Court Civil Rule 5. 4. File your original Response with the court clerk at this address: Mason County Superior Court P.O. Box 340/419 N. 4th Shelton WA 98584. 5. Lawyer not required: It is a good idea to talk to a lawyer, but you may file and serve your Response without one. Person filing this Summons or his/ her lawyer fills out below: Nolan R. Chambers 9/14/2016. I agree to accept legal papers for this case at the following address: 90 E. Evergreen Dr. Tahuya WA 98588. If this address changes before the case ends, you must notify all parties and the court in writing. You may use the Notice of Address Change for (FL All Family 120). You must also update your Confidential Information Form (FL All Family 001) if this case involves parentage or child support. This Summons is issued according to Rule 4.1 of the Superior Court Civil Rules of the State of Washington.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SHERIFF’S PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR THE COUNTY OF MASON LAKELAND VILLAGE COMMUNITY CLUB, a Washington not-for-profit corporation Plaintiff, vs. LOT TWO, PLAT OF LAKELAND VILLAGE NO. 2, VOLUME 6 OF PLATS, PAGES 150-151, RECORDS OF MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON; SETH LINDGREN AND JACOB LINDGREN, HEIRS OF DONALD LINDGREN; DEBRA LINDGREN, a widowed woman; STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, a Washington State Department; MASON COUNTY UTILITIES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT, a Division of the Mason County Public Works Department, Mason County, Washington; the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; and OCCUPANTS Defendant. Case No.: 16 2 376 5 TO: DEBRA LINDGREN; JACOB LINDGREN; SETH LINDGREN The Superior Court of Mason County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of Mason County to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the above-entitled action. If developed, the property address is: 51 East Marine View Drive, Allyn WA 98524 The sale of the above-described property is to take place: Time: 10:00 am Date: Friday, October 14, 2016 Place: Main Entrance of Mason County Courthouse, 419 N Fourth Street The judgment debtor can avoid the sale by paying the judgment amount of $20,466.11, together with interest, costs, and fees, before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the sheriff at the address stated below: SHERIFF CASEY SALISBURY MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON By: Angel Evans, Authorized Deputy PO Box 1037, Shelton, Washington 98584 (360)4279670 8956 September 15, 22, 29, October 6 4t

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF SHELTON—PUBLIC WORKS INVITATIONS TO SUBMIT STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS CONCRETE SERVICES POOL September 2016 The City of Shelton hereby solicits Statements of Qualification for the 2016-2017 Concrete Services Pool. SCOPE OF WORK: Contractors shall complete sidewalk construction demolition and rebuilds on an asneeded basis. Each job will not exceed $20,000 per project. The complete RFQ can be downloaded from: http://www.ci.shelton.wa.us, on the Public Works page. Contracts shall be negotiated in accordance with RCW 39.80 and the

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City’s selection procedures. The City is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all qualified small and disadvantaged owned consulting firms to respond. Proposals are due to the City Public Works Office prior to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, October 14, 2016.

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Mason County Courthouse, 419 N. 4th Street (4th & Alder), Shelton, WA 98584, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, the undersigned Trustee, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, in the form of cash, or cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of Mason, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT TWENTY (20), BLOCK `A`, REPLAT OF A PORTION OF BAYVIEW HOME TRACTS, VOLUME 4 OF PLATS, PAGE 44, RECORDS OF MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON. APN: 32020-54-05020 More commonly known as 1438 DEARBORN AVENUE, SHELTON, WA 98584 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated as of March 28, 2011, executed by LINDA W BROWN, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as Trustor(s), to secure obligations in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”), as designated nominee for GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, Beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, recorded March 31, 2011 as Instrument No. 1972203 and the beneficial interest was assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and recorded July 12, 2012 as Instrument Number 1992137 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Mason County, Washington. II. No action commenced by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., the current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrowers’ or Grantors’ default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. Current Beneficiary: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Contact Phone No: 800-669-6607 Address: 7105 Corporate Drive, Building C, Plano, TX 75024 III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: FAILURE TO PAY WHEN DUE THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS WHICH ARE NOW IN ARREARS: DELINQUENT PAYMENT INFORMATION From May 1, 2012 To May 25, 2016 Number of Payments 3 $698.57 12 $708.74 12 $809.01 4 $728.65 8 $745.71 10 $719.16 Total $36,380.59 LATE CHARGE INFORMATION May 1, 2012 May 25, 2016 $148.54 $148.54 PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION Note Dated: March 28, 2011 Note Amount: $88,498.00 Interest Paid To: April 1, 2012 Next Due Date: May 1, 2012 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $87,094.28, together with interest as provided in the Note or other instrument secured, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on October 7, 2016. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by September 26, 2016, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustees’ fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the current Beneficiary, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): ADDRESS LINDA W BROWN 1438 DEARBORN AVENUE, SHELTON, WA 98584 LINDA W BROWN PO Box 13398, Olympia, WA 98508 LINDA W BROWN PO BOX 29233, SANTA FE, NM 87592 UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF LINDA W BROWN 1438 DEARBORN AVENUE, SHELTON, WA 98584 UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF LINDA W BROWN PO Box 13398, Olympia, WA 98508 UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF LINDA W BROWN PO BOX 29233, SANTA FE, NM 87592 by both first class and certified mail on October 26, 2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.

VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to

those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustees’ Sale. X. If the Borrower received a letter under RCW 61.24.031: THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you might eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you.

If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: (877) 8944663 or (800) 606-4819 Website: www.wshfc. org The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: (800) 5694287 Website: www.hud.gov The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: (800) 606-4819 Website: www.homeownership.wa.gov NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060; Dated: May 25, 2016 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as Duly Appointed Successor Trustee By: Jessica Cimarusti, Authorized Signatory MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps 500 Union Street, Suite 620 Seattle, WA 98101 Toll Free Number: (844) 367-8456 TDD: (800) 833-6388 For Reinstatement/Pay Off Quotes, contact MTC Financial Inc. DBA Trustee Corps TRUSTEE’S SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.Auction.com. Order No. WA15-001899-3, Pub Dates 09/08/2016, 09/29/2016 8939 September 8, 29 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING In re the Estate of RONALD MITSUO SHINODA, Deceased. No. 16-4-05101-1 SEA NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) The administrator/personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the administrator/personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (a) Thirty days after the administrator/personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim will be forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets. Date of First Publication: September 15, 2016.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR THE COUNTY OF MASON THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-5 Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF LEONARDO F. CHAVEZ SR., DECEASED; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF ANDREA M. CHAVEZ, DECEASED; LEONARD CHAVEZ JR.; JAMES PATRICK CHAVEZ; ADAM CHAVEZ; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III; UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY; ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS OR PARTIES CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN, Defendants.

Case No.: 16-2-00398-6 To: UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF LEONARDO F. CHAVEZ SR., DECEASED; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF ANDREA M. CHAVEZ, DECEASED; UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS OF THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY; ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS OR PARTIES CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO THE SAID DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 15th day of September, 2016, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-5, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff, McCarthy & Holthus, LLP at the office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The basis for the complaint is a foreclosure of the property commonly known as 820 South 8th Street, Shelton, WA 98584, Mason County, Washington as a result of a default under the terms of the note and deed of trust. DATED: September 9, 2016 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP Joseph T. McCormick [ ] Wendy Walter, WSBA No. 33809 [ ] Annette Cook, WSBA No. 31450 [ ] Christopher Luhrs, WSBA No. 43175 [x] Joseph T. McCormick III, WSBA No. 4888 108 1st Avenue South, Ste. 300 Seattle, WA 98104 Attorneys for Plaintiff 8950 September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20 6t

PUBLIC NOTICE TS No WA08001720-15-1 APN 32020-5405020 TO No 8585297 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 7, 2016, 10:00 AM, Main Entrance,

PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR MASON COUNTY MICHAEL F. ROBERTS & M. SHERILL ROBERTS, husband and wife; KIM H. ROBERTS, a single individual, JO ROBINSON, a married person as her sole and separate property, and SHARON L. MORRIS, a married person ) NO. as her sole and separate property, Plaintiffs, ROBERT CARROLL, a married individual in his separate capacity, unknown heirs of JAS D. ESARY & JANE DOE ESARY, ALPHEUS BYERS & JANE DOE BYERS, VIOLA J. AUGIR & JOHN DOE AUGIR, ELLEN BYERS and JOHN DOE BYERS, and all other persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described in the complaint herein, Defendants. The State of Washington to the said unknown heirs of JAS D. ESARY, JANE DOE ESARY, ALPHEUS BYERS, JAND DOE BYERS, VIOLA J. AUGIR, JOHN DOE AUGIR, ELLEN BYERS and JOHN DOE BYERS: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 25th day of August, 2016, and defend the above-entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the Complaint of the plaintiffs MICHAEL F. ROBERTS & SHERILL ROBERTS, husband and wife; KIM H. ROBERTS, a single individual, JO ROBINSON, a married person in her separate capacity and SHARON L. MORRIS, a married person in her separate capacity, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiffs at their office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The action seeks to quiet title to the following real property: “Hotel Reserve” in the First Addition to Lilliwaup Falls, Volume 2 of Plats, Page 15, records of Mason County, Washington, being also described of record as “the Hotel Reserve in the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 30, Township 23 North, Range 3 West, W.M.”, excepting therefrom the right-of-way for U.S. Highway 101. DATED this day of 2016 Whitehouse & Nichols, LLP, Attorneys JULIE NICHOLS, WSBA No. 37685 PO Box 1273, Shelton, WA 98584 Physical: 601 W. Railroad Ave., Suite 300 8915 August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 6t

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Adopt-A-Pet 360-432-3091 thedoghouse5@hotmail.com Adoptapet-WA.org Catholic Community Services 327-2230 Communication Support Team (CST) Team is made up of licensed HAM Radio operators and others interested in assisting your County during disasters - man-made or natural incidents. You do not need to be a licensed radio operator to help. Meetings: 3:00pm on the last Tuesday of the month at the Public Works Facility, 100 West Public Works Drive. Background check required. Call Mason County Emergency Management at 360-427-7535 for more information.

Community Lifeline Barbra Weza, Executive Director 360-462-4439 or 360-490-3430 Volunteer opportunities for Board of Directors, grant writing, receptionist, filing, data entry, resource navigators, mentors, community meals, landscape maintenance and lawn care, blanket and towel washers, fundraising, event planning, carpet cleaning, painting.

Community Youth Services 360-943-0780 Crisis Clinic of Mason and Thurston Counties Courtney Ingwaldson 360-586-2888, ext 110 courtney@crisis-clinic.org Next training begins in April.

Hood Canal Food Bank Kathy Roberson, Director 360-877-9958 Need volunteers to help load and unload food.

Days vary.

Faith in Action FaithinAction@wavecable.com 360-275-0535 Grapeview School District 360-426-4921 Habitat for Humanity of Mason County Volunteer Coordinator – Kathleen Hunter kathleenh@habitatmasonwa.org 360-426-8134 extension 204 We need both teams and individuals for house construction and related activities.

Habitatmasonwa.org Harmony Hill Retreat Center Lisa Monnerjahn, Program Associate 360-898-2363, ext. 12 lmonnerjahn@harmonyhill.org We currently have volunteer opportunities in our office, during special events, special projects and a Community Garden day the third Saturday of each month.

We are seeking volunteers to assist visitors to Mason County and specifically the Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park in Hoodsport.

The Saints Pantry Food Bank Steve Russell, Director 360-427-8847

KAOS Radio kaosradio.org/volunteer-opportunities/

Senior Services for South Sound 360-586-6181, ext 128

Love, Inc. 360-462-LOVE Loveinc.office@hcc.net Love INC of Mason County has volunteer opportunities in the downtown Shelton Clearinghouse answering phones and basic office procedures. There are also opportunities to assist in the following areas: furniture, medical equipment, Jobs for Life Program, grant writing, and fundraising events. Our mission is to mobilize the churches to transform lives with a hand-up not a hand out. We do not discriminate in any way due to gender, race, sexual preference, or religion.

Shelton Friends of the Library Eileen Oberg, President 360-426-1318 The Friends are volunteers who support our local library community. While we are a branch of Timberland Regional Library (TRL), there are many important programs and services we offer to the Shelton community that are not covered by TRL’s budget. We provide funding through our book sales and other fund raising activities. We fund the Summer Reading Program, Library Outreach Programs, and many activities for youth and adults in Shelton. Please join us; we always can use more willing hands!

Mary M. Knight School District 350-427-6767 marymknight.com

Shelton School District 360-462-2237

Mason County Historical Society Kristin Fabry 360-426-1020 Mchsdirector2015@gmail.com We are looking for volunteers to help at the museum with a variety of projects having to do with our museum operations and special events.

360-426-6767 Mason County Forest Festival masoncountyforestfestival.org/volunteer/ Mason County Juvenile Court/Probation Services James W. Madsen 360-427-9670 ext 332 Mason County Senior Activities Center 360-426-7374 Mason County Sheriff ’s Department http://so.co.mason.wa.us/index.php?volunteers Mason General Hospital Tenielle Masteller, Director of Volunteer Services 360-427-3621 Mason General Hospital Foundation 360-427-3623 Mason Transit Authority Volunteer drivers needed.

Haly Wooten 360-432-5723 Nifty Thrifty Thrift Store Patricia Vernie, Store Director 360-427-0858 We need volunteers for the following: cashiers, donation cleaners, sales floor straightening and dressing room attendants. We also need part time office help that’s computer literate.

North Mason School District 360-277-2112

Hood Canal School District 360-877-5463

Pioneer School District 360-426-9115

Hoodsport Visitor Information Center Mark Franklin 360-877-2021

Red Cross 360-352-8575

Sound Learning 360-426-9733 We are seeking volunteers to help fill the following needs: classroom assistants, English-math-reading tutors, ESOL tutors, basic computer tutors and light office help.

Sunrise Equine Rescue Janean or Brooke 360-275-2960 We currently have volunteer opportunities in our office, during special events, special projects and a Community Garden day the third Saturday of each month, hard worker, experience with horses a plus but not required, able to clean stalls, pastures push a full wheel barrow, clean and fill waters. In any weather.

Treasures Thrift Store & Book Store 305 W Railroad Ave, Shelton WA 98584 360-427-3858 Help support quality health care through Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics. Volunteers are needed in both stores to sort merchandise, stock shelves, do window displays and assist customers.

Varied shifts are available.

Turning Pointe Domestic Violence Service Judy Mayo-Velasco, Volunteer Program Coordinator 360-426-1216 jmayovelasco@qwestoffice.net Need volunteers to assist with childcare while our clients attend groups; need volunteers to teach weekly classes; need volunteers to work individually or as part of a team to support annual golf tournament and annual purse auction fundraisers.

The United Way of Mason County 360-426-4999 The Volunteer Center 360-741-2622 www.volunteer.ws To list your organization, please contact Linda Frizzell at 360-426-4412 or linda@masoncounty.com

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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE MASON COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Maintenance Services for Individual Sewer Grinder Pumps Submittal Date: October 28, 2016 Mason County is currently requesting proposals for Grinder Pump Maintenance Services of the grinder pumps within the North Bay and Belfair sewer collection systems. This will be a competitive negotiation process. The County reserves the right to reject all bids and issue another Request for Proposal (RFP). This RFP does not commit Mason County to reimburse vendors for proposal submission costs. The cost and the need for timely repairs are important considerations in the process of selecting a Contractor, but not the only considerations. Other factors include: responsiveness to the RFP qualifications, track record of successes at other municipalities, identification and understanding of the County’s requirements as embodied within this RFP, and experience and qualifications of key personnel. The Contractor shall provide all tool, equipment, materials, parts, assemblies The Request for Proposals is made available as follows: Free-of-charge access to the

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Request for Proposals is provided to Vendors by going to www.bxwa.com and clicking on “Posted Projects”, “Public Works”, and “Mason County”.

This online plan room provides Bidders with fully usable online documents with the ability to: download, view, print, order full/partial plan sets from numerous reprographic sources, and a free online digitizer/take-off tool. It is recommended that Bidders “Register” in order to receive automatic e-mail notification of future addenda and to place themselves on the “Self-Registered Bidders List”. Bidders that do not register will not be automatically notified of addenda and will need to periodically check the on-line plan room for addenda issued on this project. Contact Builders Exchange of Washington at (425) 258-1303 should you require assistance with access or registration. Mason County, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that

it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. Questions regarding the RFP shall be sent via email to jhauth@ co.mason.wa.us. The Mason County contact will also receive written requests for clarification and/ or interpretation for this Request for Proposal up to seven (7) business days prior to the due date.

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Evalina Kenaday. If there are questions about the proposed amendments, please contact Frank Pinter at 427-9670 ext.530. If special accommodations are needed, contact the Commissioners’ office, 427-9670, Ext. 419. DATED this 27 day of September 2016. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS J. Almanzor, Clerk of the Board 8980 September 29, October 6 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Mason County Commissioners will hold a public hearing in Mason County Building I, Commission Chambers, 411 North Fifth Street, Shelton, WA 98584 on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.

SAID HEARING will be to take public comment on sale of surplus property to consider the sale of real property located at 180 E Peebles Court, Shelton, WA for the price of $5,000 to Craig and

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Mason Transit Authority will hold public hearings to receive comments on the proposed 2017 Budget on: Thursday, October 13, 2016, 4:30 pm at its Administrative Offices, Johns Prairie Conference Room, 790 East Johns Prairie Road, Shelton, and Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:30 pm at the Transit-Community Center Conference Room, 601 West Franklin Street, Shelton. Final comments and adoption of the 2017 Budget will be held at the Mason Transit Authority regular Board meeting on Tuesday, November 15, 2016, at 4:00 pm at the Transit-Community Center Conference Room.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference: Kelly L Warner II and Rosemarie M Warner, 46755241 Reference No(s) of Documents Assigned or Released: 1940215 Document Title: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Grantor: Weinstein & Riley, P.S. Grantee: Kelly L Warner, II and Rosemarie M Warner, Husband and Wife Abbreviated Legal Description as Follows: LOT 20, HIGHLAND ESTATES NO.2 Assessor’s Property Tax Parcel/Account No(s): 3-19-05-51-00020 WE ARE A DEBT COLLECTOR. THIS COMMUNICATION IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Weinstein and Riley, P.S. will on October 7, 2016 at 10:00 AM at the main entrance of the Mason County Courthouse located at Fourth & Alder Streets in the City of Shelton located at Mason County, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in Mason County, State of Washington, to-wit; LOT 23, HIGHLANDS WEST, DIVISION NO.1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN VOLUME 12 OF PLATS, PAGE 65, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WASHINGTON. which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated May 20, 2009, recorded May 27, 2009, under Recorder’s/Auditor’s File Number 1940215 records of Mason County, Washington, from Kelly L Warner, II and Rosemarie M Warner, Husband and Wife, as Grantor, to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. is a separate corporation that is acting solely as a nominee for Ward Lending Group, LLC and its successors and assigns as Beneficiary. Nationstar Mortgage LLC is now the beneficiary of the deed of trust. Said Deed of Trust was assigned on to NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, by an instrument recorded under Auditor’s File No. 2036303, on February 12, 2015. The sale will be made without any warranty concerning the title to, or the condition of the property. II No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: i) Failure to pay the following amounts, now in arrears: Amount due to reinstate by May 31, 2016 Monthly Payments: Delinquent Monthly Payments Due From 09/01/2014 through 05/30/2016 21 payment(s) at $764.54 Total: $16,055.3 Late Charges: Total: Accrued Late Charges: $626.40 Taxes Advanced: Property Inspection: BPO: Recoverable Balance: $3,058.6 Appraisal Cost: TOTAL DEFAULT: $19,740.34 IV The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is $93,008.89, together with interest from August 2014 as provided in the note or other instrument, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on October 7, 2016. The payments, late charges, or other defaults must be cured by September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date) the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, or other defaults, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be with cashier’s or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI A written notice of default was transmitted by the beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): See ‘Mailing List’ attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. by both first-class and certified mail on January 27, 2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served on January 27, 2015, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII The Trustee whose name and address are set forth will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time

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prior to the sale. VIII The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX Anyone having objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objection if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130.

Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale, the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. If the Trustee’s Sale is set aside for any reason, the submitted bid will be forthwith returned without interest and the bidder will have no right to purchase the property. Recovery of the bid amount without interest constitutes the limit of the bidder’s recourse against the Trustee and/or the Beneficiary. XI NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS AND PARTIES WHO ARE GUARANTORS OF THE OBLIGATIONS SECURED BY THIS DEED OF TRUST: (1) The Guarantor may be liable for a deficiency judgment to the extent the sale price obtained at the Trustee’s Sale is less than the debt secured by the Deed of Trust; (2) The Guarantor has the same rights to reinstate the debt, cure the default, or repay the debt as is given to the grantor in order to avoid the trustee’s sale; (3) The Guarantor will have no right to redeem the property after the Trustee’s Sale; (4) Subject to such longer periods as are provided in the Washington Deed of Trust Act, Chapter 61.24 RCW, any action brought to enforce a guaranty must be commenced within one year after the Trustee’s Sale, or the last Trustee’s Sale under any deed of trust granted to secure the same debt; and (5) In any action for a deficiency, the Guarantor will have the right to establish the fair value of the property as of the date of the Trustee’s Sale, less prior liens and encumbrances, and to limit its liability for a deficiency to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale price paid at the Trustee’s Sale, plus interest and costs. XII NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: (1-877-894-4663 Website: http://www. wshfc.org/buyers/counseling.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: (1-800-569-4287) Website: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index. cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&fi lterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: (1-800606-4819) Website: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear DATED: September , 2016 WEINSTEIN & RILEY, P.S. Successor Trustee By: Daniel Ross, Director 2001 Western Avenue Suite 400 Seattle, WA 98121 206-269-3490 State of Washington County of King ) On this day of September 2016, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Daniel Ross., to me known to be an Officer of , the corporation that executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and on oath states that they are authorized to execute the said instrument. WITNESS my hand and official seal hereto affixed the day and year first above written. _ Name: Roger Shadduck NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of Washington at: Thurston My Appt.

Exp.:04/18/2018 ‘Mailing List’ Kelly L Warner II 31 SE Valley Lane Shelton, WA 98584 Kelly L Warner II 31 SE Valley Ln Shelton, WA 98584 Rosemarie M Warner 31 SE Valley Lane Shelton, WA 98584 Rosemarie M Warner 31 SE Valley Ln Shelton, WA 98584 8935 September 8, 29 2t

vs. No. 145-01854 William Martens, Defendant.

The State of Washington to the said William Martens: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the . 1st day of October, 2016, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff Joann Loos, and serve a copy of your answer upon the plaintiff Joann Loos at her address below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This is a complaint to recover delinquent loan and unpaid rent. This summons is issued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and CRLJ4(e) of the state of Washington. Joann Loos Plaintiff. 3006 230th Lane SE #X103, Sammamish, County of King, Washington 98075.

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vances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address( es ): NAME RANDAL HOWARD AND CHRISTINE HOWARD, HUSBAND AND WIFE ADDRESS 14243 W CLOQUALLUM RD, ELMA, WA 98541 by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. These requirements were completed as of 5/13/2016 . VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.

VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20 th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20 th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi. wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm . The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index. cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&fi lterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear . If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: 6/23/2016 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, as Trustee By: Tricia Willis, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202 Seattle, WA 98104 (866) 925-0241 Sale Line: Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA15-664065-SW IDSPub #0109702 9/29/2016 10/20/2016 8775 September 29, October 20 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE In the district court of the State of Washington for the county of King Joann Loos, Plaintiff,

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.

TS No.: WA-15-664065-SW APN No.: 51916-7590011 Title Order No.: 150073716-WA-MSO Deed of Trust Grantor(s): CHRISTINE HOWARD, RANDAL HOWARD Deed of Trust Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK Deed of Trust Instrument/ Reference No.: 1877740 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the undersigned Trustee, will on 10/28/2016 , at 10:00 AM at the main entrance to the Mason County Courthouse, 419 N 4th, Shelton, WA sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of MASON, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT ONE (1) OF SHORT SUBDIVISION NO. 2464, RECORDED JULY 29, 1994, AUDITOR’S FILE NO. 592499, AND BEING A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (NW 1/4) OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (SW 1/4) OF SECTION SIXTEEN (16), TOWNSHIP NINETEEN (19) NORTH, RANGE FIVE (5) WEST, W.M. PARCEL NO. 519167590011 TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO AN EASEMENT FOR ROAD PURPOSES, 60 FEET IN WIDTH, AS SHOWN ON SURVEY RECORDED IN VOLUME 8 OF SURVEYS, PAGES 14 AND 15, AUDITOR’S FILE NO. 388920. More commonly known as: 14243 W CLOQUALLUM RD, ELMA, WA 98541 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 9/8/2006, recorded 9/13/2006, under 1877740 records of MASON County, Washington , from RANDAL HOWARD AND CHRISTINE HOWARD, HUSBAND AND WIFE , as Grantor(s), to MASON COUNTY TITLE , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK , as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was subsequently assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee for the holders of the First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF17 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FF17 under and assignment recorded under Auditors File Number xxxxxx Proceeding with bene dec LAA - Unable to obtain AOM II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/ Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $59,467.58 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $223,564.41 , together with interest as provided in the Note from 11/1/2013 on, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 10/28/2016 . The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 10/17/2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 10/17/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 10/17/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and ad-

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.

TS No.: WA-14-613862-TC APN No.: 319103100050 Title Order No.: 140040665-WAMSO Deed of Trust Grantor(s): AMY L JOHNSON-CARPENTER, DAVID J. CARPENTER Deed of Trust Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MLSG, INC. Deed of Trust Instrument/Reference No.: 1879076 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the undersigned Trustee, will on 10/28/2016 , at 10:00 AM at the main entrance to the Mason County Courthouse, 419 N 4th, Shelton, WA sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of MASON, State of Washington, to-wit: ALL THAT PORTION OF THE EAST 500 FEET OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 19 NORTH, RANGE 3 WEST, W.M., IN MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON, AS MEASURED ALONG THE SOUTH LINE THEREOF, LYING SOUTHERLY OF THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF THE KAMILCHE POINT COUNTY ROAD NO. 14880. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SOUTH 7.5 ACRES. EXCEPTING THEREFROM BLOOMFIELD COUNTY ROAD NO. 14410. More commonly known as: 4611 SOUTHEAST BLOOMFIELD ROAD, SHELTON, WA 98584 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 9/19/2006, recorded 9/29/2006, under 1879076 records of MASON County, Washington , from DAVID J. CARPENTER AND AMY L JOHNSON-CARPENTER, HUSBAND AND WIFE , as Grantor(s), to LAND TITLE COMPANY , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MLSG, INC. , as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MLSG, INC. (or by its successors-in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-21 . II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/ Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $162,268.73 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $178,994.98 , together with interest as provided in the Note from 12/1/2008 on, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on

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10/28/2016 . The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 10/17/2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 10/17/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 10/17/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME DAVID J. CARPENTER AND AMY L JOHNSON-CARPENTER, HUSBAND AND WIFE ADDRESS 4611 SOUTHEAST BLOOMFIELD ROAD, SHELTON, WA 98584 by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. These requirements were completed as of 1/28/2015 . VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20 th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20 th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you

would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi. wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm . The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index. cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&fi lterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/whatclear . If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: 6/17/2016 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, as Trustee By: Maria Montana, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202 Seattle, WA 98104 (866) 925-0241 Sale Line: 916939-0772 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-14-613862-TC IDSPub #0109879 9/29/2016 10/20/2016 8765 September 29, October 20 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Preliminary Budget for the MAGGIE LAKE WATER DISTRICT for the fiscal year 2017 has been prepared and placed on file in the office of the District and that a copy of the said budget may be obtained by contacting the District at P.O. Box 350, Tahuya, WA 98588 or by phone at 360275-0358. The Board of Commissioners of will hold the final budget hearing October 10, 2015, at 10:00 A.M. at the office of the District, located at 21 NE Cedar Lane, Tahuya Washington, whereat any person may appear in support of or opposition to the budget. DATED this 19th day of September, 2016. Terri Sherfick Maggie Lake Water District Administrative Manager 8969 September 29 1t

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PUBLIC NOTICE AMENDED SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR MASON COUNTY LAKE LIMERICK COUNTRY CLUB, a Washington not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff, v. LOT THREE HUNDRED THIRTYSIX, LAKE LIMERICK DIVISION NO. 3 , VOLUME 6 OF PLATS, PAGES 118 TO 128, RECORDS OF MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JOAN LANEVILLE, deceased; JUDY KING, Trustee of the JOAN CONSTANCE MASON LANEVILLE FAMILY TRUST; and ALL OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; Defendants. NO. 16-2-003412 AMENDED SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION The State of Washington to the said Unknown Heirs of Joan Lanville, and All Other Persons or Parties Unknown Claiming any Right, Title, Estate, Lien or Interest in the Real Estate described in the Complaint Herein: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 1st day of September 1, 2016, and defend this action in this Court, and answer the Complaint of the Plaintiff, Lake Limerick Country Club, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for Plaintiff, Robert D. Wilson-Hoss of Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP, at his address below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the Complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of this Court. This is a lawsuit brought to foreclose Plaintiff’s lien against real property located within the State of Washington. Date of first publication: September 1, 2016 DATED this 24th day of August, 2016. /s/Robert D. WilsonHoss, WSBA #8620 Attorney for Lake Limerick Country Club; Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP 236 W. Birch Street, Shelton, WA 98584; Address of Court: Mason County Superior Court 419 N 4th St, Fl 2 PO Box 340 Shelton, WA 98584 8927 September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6 6t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Mason County Commissioners will hold a public hearing at the Mason County Courthouse Building I, Commission Chambers, 411 North Fifth Street, Shelton, WA 98584 on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 9:30 A.M. SAID HEARING will be to consider adoption of revised Mason County Development Regulations, Title 17 (Zoning), Chapter 17.06 Definitions, Sections 17.06.010 and Chapter 17.07 Low Intensity Mixed Use, Section 17.07.220 with respect to Self-Storage Facilities. If you have questions, please contact Barbara Adkins (36o) 427-9670, Ext. 286. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the Commissioners’ office, 427­-9670, Ext. 419. DATED this 20th day of September, 2016 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 8973 September 29, October 6 2t

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The Journal of Record is produced using 911 call information Mason County Emergency Communications, the Mason County Sheriff’s Office and the Shelton Police Department provides.

SEPT. 19 Theft — a caller on West Franklin reported the theft of license plates.

Possible drug activity — a caller on East Lakeshore Drive West reported heavy vehicle traffic at a nearby house.

Disorderly conduct — a caller on South First Street in Shelton reported an intoxicated man.

Theft — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported shoplifting at Wal-Mart.

Vagrancy — a caller on West Pine Street reported a passageway blocked by a sleeping man.

Child welfare — a caller in Shelton reported that her 16-year-old daughter had not returned from a party.

Assault — a caller on West Dayton Airport Road reported that an inmate assaulted a staff member.

Overdose — a caller reported a possible overdose of liquid morphine by a 58-yearold man.

Vandalism — a caller on West Fairgrounds Road in Shelton reported vandalism at the fairgrounds.

Hit and run — a caller on West Franklin Street in Shelton reported a hit-and-run accident in a parking lot.

Illegal dump — a caller on West Franklin Street in Shelton reported people dumping garbage.

Alarm — a caller on West Franklin Street in Shelton reported an alarm going off at Shelton Cinema.

Estray — a caller on Northeast Courtney Creek Lane in Belfair reported a goat in her yard that climbed up the side of the house and ate her hanging baskets.

Trespass — a caller on East Timberlake East Drive reported a vehicle parked on his property.

Assault — a caller on East Wokojance Lane in Shelton reported that her sons keep getting beaten up.

Loud noise — a caller on Jefferson Street in Shelton reported a barking dog.

Domestic disturbance — a caller on Turner Avenue in Shelton reported that she is pregnant and her brother will not let her get her belongings.

Fraud — a caller on Northeast Tahuya Blacksmith reported identity theft on the computer.

Theft — a caller on North Reservation Road in Shelton reported shoplifting.

Lost and found — a caller on North Foothills Park Road in Hoodsport found a painted sawblade.

Fraud — a caller on East Grapeview Loop Road reported that someone opened a Macy’s account in her name.

Burglary — a caller on Southeast Simmons Road in Shelton reported that someone broke into his shed.

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Drive in Shelton reported vandalism to several mailboxes.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard reported a woman hanging around the gas pumps for over two hours.

Theft — a caller on East Deer Creek Road in Shelton reported the theft of a marijuana pipe.

Trespass — a caller on West Roosevelt Street in Shelton reported a woman who would not leave.

Assault — a caller on North State Route 119 in Hoodsport reported that her son had visible marks from where an upperclassman choked him.

Missing hikers — a caller on North Staircase Road in Hoodsport reported that three people had not returned yet from hiking.

Citizen assist — a caller on Southeast Squaxin Lane in Shelton requested a battery jump.

Loud noise — a caller on East Shelton Springs Road reported loud music.

Hazard — a caller on East Trails Road in Belfair reported a tree limb hanging over power lines.

Theft — a caller on Northeast Steelhead Drive South reported that his ex-roommate took some of his belongings when she moved out.

Trespass — a caller on Jefferson Street in Shelton reported that a woman won’t leave his house.

Domestic dispute — ­ a caller on East Leffler Lane in Grapeview reported that her boyfriend won’t let her leave.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East South Island Drive in Shelton reported that someone put a jack of spades in his mailbox.

Theft — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported shoplifting at Wal-Mart.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on West Franklin Street in Shelton reported that a man was grabbing at everything in the store and had been asked to leave but wouldn’t.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Sycamore Court in Shelton reported hearing people screaming in the woods behind her house.

Trespass — a caller on West Franklin Street in Shelton reported that a man who had been told to leave Safeway was back at the store.

SEPT. 20 Suspicious behavior — a caller on North Sixth Street in Shelton reported a man knocking on her door who was slurring his words.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported that a man said he wants to “turn himself in.”

Civil dispute — a caller on East Marine View Drive in Allyn reported that a neighbor came over with his pit bull and won’t leave.

Prowler — a caller on Turner Avenue in Shelton reported that there might be someone in her house.

Fraud — a caller on East Eastwood Court in Union reported credit card fraud on her account.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on Turner Avenue in Shelton reported that there was a car parked near her house with steamedup windows.

Missing — a caller on East Balbriggan Road in Shelton reported a 63-year-old woman missing.

Estray — a caller on Southeast Binns Swiger Loop in Shelton reported a stray bull.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Grapeview Loop Road reported that someone was going through his mailbox.

Citizen assist — a caller on East State Route 106 in Union reported that he picked up a stray dog and now cannot get it out of his truck.

Overdose — a caller on West Grove Street in Shelton reported that someone took 50 units of insulin.

Vandalism — a caller on West Wynwood

Harassment — a caller on Northeast State Route 300 in Belfair reported that a customer keeps harassing an employee.

Traffic hazard — a caller on Northeast State Route 3 in Belfair reported debris in the roadway.

Loud noise — a caller on East State Route 106 in Belfair reported loud noise created by her neighbors who run an oyster business.

Theft — a caller on Southeast Arcadia Road in Shelton reported the theft of prescription medication.

Theft — a caller on East Bayshore Drive in Shelton reported the theft of jewelry.

Theft — a caller on West Cota Street in Shelton reported the theft of a backpack.

SEPT. 21 Suspicious behavior — a caller at Camp Spillman reported that someone went through his things at his campsite.

Fraud — a caller on West Cota Street in Shelton reported credit card fraud.

Suspicious — a caller on East Island Lake Road in Shelton hearing a noise and when he went to investigate found a white cooler with a black bag on top that smells bad.

Theft — a caller on Northeast Old Belfair Highway in Belfair reported the theft of fuel by an ex-employee.

Theft — a caller in the 600 block of West Franklin Street in Shelton reported shoplifting at Safeway.

Estray — a caller on Callanan Street in Shelton reported that two stray dogs killed five chickens.

Missing — a caller on Southeast Peeksin Lane in Shelton reported that her daughter had not returned from the mall.

Estray — a caller on Northeast Courtney Creek Lane in Belfair reported that her neighbor’s goats and sheep were on her porch again eating her plants.

Fraud — a caller in the 100 block of East Shetland Road in Shelton reported that someone attempted to open a credit card account in her name.

Civil dispute — a caller on West Crooked Pine Lane in Shelton reported that her neighbor keeps putting nails under her tires.

Citizen assist — a caller in Shelton wanted to know what could be done about inappropriate posts on Facebook.

Loud noise — a caller on North Glenwood Road in Hoodsport reported an explosion.

Vagrancy — a caller on East Peebles Court in Shelton reported that someone has been living in a camper at the end of his street.

Drug paraphernalia — a caller on Northeast Seitz Drive in Belfair reported that people keep dropping needles on his property.

Lost and found — a caller on Northeast State Route 300 in Belfair lost a ring in a store.

Citizen inquiry — a caller on Northeast Davey Jones Court in Belfair wants to know if he can shoot two aggressive dogs that chase his car.

Game laws — a caller in Upper Car Inlet in Olympia reported someone fishing in closed waters.

Drug paraphernalia — a caller on North Agency Road in Shelton reported finding needles.

Drugs — a caller on East Capital Hill Road in Shelton found a large bag of marijuana.

Threat/intimidation — a caller in the 500 block of West Boyer Road in Shelton reported that his neighbor threatened to harm his dog.

Lost and found — a caller in the 100 block of East Stavis Road in Shelton found an unopened letter.

Assault — a caller on Northeast Sail Loft Court reported an assault.

Theft — a caller on Stevens Street in Shelton reported the theft of water by his neighbor.

Theft — a caller in the 300 block of West Railroad Avenue in Shelton reported the theft of a purse.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on Southeast Lynch Road in Shelton reported that a chunky white woman with a red top and no pants was standing by the side of the road.

Threat/intimidation — a caller in the 600 block of West Franklin Street in Shelton reported that someone threatened to assault her.

Traffic hazard — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported that a car with a broken axle was blocking traffic.

Theft — a caller on West State Route 108 in Shelton reported the theft of a vehicle.

Warrant violation — a caller on East Clay Road in Shelton reported that a woman is refusing to bring her child to the courtordered meeting place.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on Boundary Street in Shelton reported a strong chemical smell coming from the house across the street.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on Arcadia Avenue in Shelton reported a man running around, holding his head and screaming.

Theft — a caller on East Eastlake Drive in Shelton reported the theft of tools from his garage.

Theft — a caller on East Rasor Road in Belfair reported the theft of old coins.

Loud noise — a caller on Northeast Blacksmith Drive in Belfair reported loud music.

Child welfare — a caller on Southeast State Route 3 in Shelton reported possible neglect of a child who lives in a travel trailer.

Reckless driving — a caller on Olympic Highway South in Shelton reported that a car just hit a coffee stand.

Welfare — a caller on East Lakeshore Drive West in Shelton reported that her mother threatened suicide.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Timber Tides Drive in Union reported that people are crawling around his house.

Civil dispute — a caller in the 1500 block of Southeast Dickinson Avenue in Shelton reported that her neighbor called her husband names.

Personal injury — a caller in the 300 block of East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported that he poked himself on a needle when he reached into the paper towel dispenser in a bathroom.

Trespass — a caller in the 900 block of Cascade Avenue in Shelton reported that he saw someone in an abandoned house.

Missing — a caller in the 600 block of Southeast Phillips Road in Shelton reported a 4-year-old child missing.

Loud noise — a caller on East Springwood Drive in Shelton reported his neighbor playing his guitar too loud.

Abandoned vehicle — a caller in the 1500 block of West Cloquallum Road in Shelton reported that a vehicle was abandoned on her property.

SEPT. 22 Theft — a caller on East Pickering Drive in Shelton reported the theft of everything in his truck while it was parked at the Park and Ride.

Domestic disturbance — a caller in the 100 block of East Country Lane in Allyn reported that her stepfather threw a cup at her.

Theft — a caller in the 600 block of West Franklin Street in Shelton reported the theft of two bags of merchandise from Safeway.

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Loud noise — a caller in the 1700 block of Northeast Blacksmith Drive in Belfair reported loud music.

Public urination — a caller on Southeast Fuchsia Avenue reported a woman urinating in public.

Harassment — a caller in the 100 block of Northeast State Route 300 in Shelton reported that her neighbor is threatening her ex-husband about her cat.

Domestic disturbance — a caller in the 6200 block of East Grapeview Loop Road reported that her boyfriend is breaking things in the house.

Abandoned vehicle — a caller on West Skokomish Valley Road in Shelton reported an abandoned vehicle.

Domestic disturbance — a caller on East Lakeshore Drive West in Shelton reported a domestic disturbance with her father.

Vandalism — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard reported that her car was keyed.

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Road in Shelton reported that two pit bulls chased him when he was running.

Theft — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard reported the theft of an iPad from a van.

Child welfare — a caller on Shelton Springs Road in Shelton wanted to know what to do about a child whose parents haven’t shown up.

DUI — a caller on Mountain View Drive in Shelton reported that an intoxicated man is about to drive.

Civil disturbance — a caller on Fairmount Avenue in Shelton reported that his neighbor is screaming at him.

Child welfare — a caller on Northeast State Route 3 in Belfair reported two children left unattended in a vehicle.

Theft — a caller on Northeast Roy Boad Road in Belfair reported shoplifting at RiteAid.

Missing — a caller on East Eagle Point Drive in Shelton reported that his son has been missing for two months.

SEPT. 24 Citizen assist — a caller on West K Street in Shelton reported that she may have left her door unlocked and asked that law enforcement check it.

Loud noise — a caller on North US Highway 101 in Shelton reported loud music.

Loud noise — a caller on East Eastlake Drive in Shelton reported loud music.

Citizen inquiry — a caller on North Dow Mountain Drive in Hoodsport reported that his estranged wife wants to bring her boyfriend home and he doesn’t know what to do about it.

Vandalism — a caller on East Alder Place East in Shelton reported that someone broke his windshield.

Warrant violation — a caller on West Cota Street in Shelton reported that a man violated her restraining order.

Hazard — a caller on Olympic Highway North in Shelton reported that a truck knocked down a power line.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on West Railroad Avenue in Shelton reported that someone threw a rock with a note attached to it at his house. The note alluded to a rapist.

Theft — a caller on East Crestview Drive in Shelton reported the theft of a vehicle.

Motor vehicle accident — a caller on East State Route 3 in Shelton reported an upside down vehicle in the road.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on North Goldeneye Place in Hoodsport reported that people are taking items from the home of a deceased person.

Public urination —a caller on Olympic Highway South in Shelton reported a man urinating in public.

Civil dispute — a caller on West Birch Street in Shelton reported ongoing problems with the smells of his neighbor’s dogs.

Theft — a caller on Southeast Mason Street in Shelton reported the theft of a package.

Citizen assist — a caller on East Cranberry Creek Road requested help in discarding prescription drugs.

Drugs — a caller on West Railroad Avenue in Shelton reported people smoking marijuana.

Threat/intimidation — a caller on South 12th Street in Shelton reported being threatened by her neighbor over her dogs.

Threat/intimidation — a caller on East Agate Road in Shelton reported that someone threatened to kill her grandson.

Fraud — a caller on East Soderberg Road in Allyn reported credit card fraud.

Animal welfare — a caller on East Leisure Lane in Grapeview reported animals in distress.

Overdose — a caller on Northeast Davey Jones Place in Belfair reported an accidental overdose on muscle relaxers.

SEPT. 23 Elder welfare — a caller on Northeast Beck Road in Belfair requested a welfare check on a man with a history of strokes who did not show up for an appointment today.

Civil dispute — a caller on West Railroad Avenue in Shelton reported that his neighbors got paint on his car.

Estray — a caller on East Mikkelsen Road in Shelton reported that a stray pit bull is preventing her from reaching her mailbox.

Trespass — a caller on East Johns Prairie Road in Shelton reported that a man keeps entering his business after being asked to leave.

Civil dispute — a caller on East Libby Road in Shelton reported that a company he used to work for gave him a tractor and now wants it back.

Warrant violation — a caller on East Julian Road in Shelton reported that her ex-husband keeps texting her despite a restraining order.

Abandoned vehicle — a caller on East Richardson Road in Belfair reported an abandoned vehicle in the bushes.

Estray — a caller on West Shelton Valley

Dog bite — a caller on Northeast Newkirk Road in Belfair reported a child bitten by a dog.

Theft — a caller on East Maple Drive in Shelton reported the theft of his garbage and recycle bins.

Animal welfare — a caller on Northeast North Shore Road reported that his neighbor’s dog killed his chickens.

Malicious mischief — a caller on East Agate Road in Shelton reported that someone in a blue Neon is throwing firecrackers at her while she is riding her horse.

Theft — a caller on Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported that a man just stole a basket of produce from Fred Meyer.

Welfare — a caller in Mason County reported that a listing on Craigslist says that someone wants to kill himself.

Fire — a caller on East Roosevelt Street in Shelton reported a structure fire.

Citizen inquiry — a caller on King Street wanted to know how to evict someone.

SEPT. 25 Littering — a caller on West Cota Street in Shelton reported a man digging though a trash can and dumping cigarette butts on the ground.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on North Front Street in Shelton reported that someone is trying to break into the water tower

by Bob’s Tavern.

Traffic hazard — a caller on East Brockdale Road in Shelton reported several kids in the roadway blocking traffic.

Loud noise — a caller on North US Highway 101 in Shelton reported loud music.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on West Valley Heights Drive in Shelton reported a man driving back and forth on a motorcycle for 45 minutes.

Theft — a caller on Northeast Dewatto Holly Road reported a vehicle theft.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported that a man came out of Wal-Mart and threw a weedeater over the fence.

Fraud — a caller on West State Route 108 in Shelton received a counterfeit $20 bill.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Sycamore Court in Seattle reported that his mother is throwing bleach around the garage.

Trespass —a caller on East State Route 3 in Allyn reported a man trespassing on his property.

Drug paraphernalia — a caller on East Victor Ridge Road in Belfair found crack pipes.

Traffic hazard — a caller on East Agate Road in Shelton reported damage to the guardrail.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard in Shelton reported that someone left a suspicious backpack by the propane tank.

Estray — a caller on East Purdy Cutoff Road in Union reported a stray horse.

Theft — a caller on East State Route 3 in Allyn reported the theft of a GPS from a boat.

Fraud — a caller on West Cota Street in Shelton reported the theft of money from her bank account.

Fraud — a caller on North US Highway 101 in Shelton received a counterfeit $10 bill.

Civil dispute — a caller on North Fairway Drive East in Hoodsport reported that a golf ball broke the windshield of his motorhome and the golfer won’t accept responsibility.

Theft — a caller on East Cedar Street in Shelton reported the theft of a handicapped placard.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on North First Street in Shelton reported that someone keeps putting property under the hedges by his house and he suspects it may be stolen.

Traffic hazard — a caller on West Cedar Street in Shelton reported that someone’s parked vehicle was parked blocking his shop.

Lost hiker — a caller on Lightning Peak reported that he is lost.

Vagrancy — a caller on Shelton Springs Road in Shelton reported people living on the Huff ’N’ Puff trail.

Threat/intimidation — a caller on East Sycamore Court in Shelton reported that his mother threatened to burn the house down.

Theft — a caller on Northeast Barbara Boulevard in Belfair reported the theft of a vehicle by her daughter.

Civil disturbance — a caller on Northeast Old Belfair Highway in Belfair reported that a customer is yelling at the barista in front of other customers.

Drug paraphernalia — a caller on Madison Street in Shelton reported finding needles outside her house.

Assault — a caller in Belfair reported that

he assaulted someone and he wants to go to jail.

Warrant violation — a caller on North US Highway 101 in Shelton reported that two people are in the Lucky Dog Casino and one has a restraining order against the other.

Suspicious behavior — a caller on Southeast Brewer Road in Shelton reported that someone climbed up on the drive-in sign.

PUBLIC MEETINGS Oct. 3 — 6 p.m., Port of Allyn Commission, 18560 E. state Route 3, Allyn Oct. 3 — 6 p.m., Shelton City Commission, 525 W. Cota St., Shelton.

Oct. 4 — 2 p.m., Port of Shelton Commission, 21 W. Sanderson Way Oct. 4 — 9 a.m., Mason County Commission, 411 N. Fifth St., Shelton.

BUILDING PERMITS A building permit was issued Sept. 15 to Chuck Holcom for a cabin demolition in the 20200 block of Northeast North Shore Road, Tahuya.

A building permit was issued Sept. 15 to Rad NW Investments for a window replacement on Northeast Lorrain Court, Belfair.

A building permit was issued Sept. 15 to D&L Secured Investment for a window replacement in the 100 block of East Lakeway Drive, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 16 to Michael Moore for a dock replacement in the 200 block of East Lakeshore Drive, Allyn.

A building permit was issued Sept. 16 to Deb and Dale Erickson for a heat pump in the 400 block of Northeast Snowcap Drive, Tahuya.

A building permit was issued Sept. 19 to Tom Straub for a heat pump in the 600 block of East Cronquist Road, Allyn.

A building permit was issued Sept. 19 to Loren Chilson for a generator, propane tank and gas outlets in the 100 block of Northeast Sundown Drive, Tahuya.

A building permit was issued Sept. 19 to Ira Brehmeyer for a re-roof in the 2900 block of West Deckerville Road, Elma.

A building permit was issued Sept. 19 to Edward Bye for a single-family residence in the 100 block of North Triton Head Drive, Lilliwaup.

A building permit was issued Sept. 20 to Mike Marshall for a re-roof in the 100 block of West Fredson Road, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 20 to Jod and Doug Adams for a re-roof in the 1800 block of Northeast Haven Way, Tahuya.

A building permit was issued Sept. 20 to Marilyn Okert for a re-roof in the 200 block of East Ballycastle Way, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 20 to Tracy Moore for a heat pump on North Deer Lane West, Hoodsport.

A building permit was issued Sept. 21 to Lavonne Gouley for a furnace and heat pump in the 500 block of East Maple Street, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 21 to Jeri Sommer for a furnace and heat pump in the 500 block of East Old Ranch Road, Allyn.

A building permit was issued Sept. 21 to Paul Murphy for a heat pump in the 500 block of East Pointes Drive West, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 21 to S&P Properties for a re-roof in the 700 block of East Johns Prairie Road, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 21 to Doug Reimers for a heat pump in the 700 block of East Ballow Road, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 22 to Amanda Gerttula for a gas outlet and gas fireplace in the 4300 block of East Agate Road, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 22 to Donavon Ellison for a furnace and heat pump on East Wade Street, Allyn.

A building permit was issued Sept. 22 to Greg Hatton for a demolition in the 100 block of East Merrimount Road, Union.

A building permit was issued Sept. 22 to Gordon Miles for a heat pump in the 100 block of West Insels Road, Shelton.

A building permit was issued Sept. 22 to Sandy Strohchein for a furnace and heat pump on East Kathryn Court, Shelton.

n Compiled by Linda Frizzell

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PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. TS No.: WA-15-697399-SW APN No.: 31915-75-00010 Title Order No.: 150331341-WA-MSO Deed of Trust Grantor(s): ELISA HOPE FREDRICK-HYATT, SAMUEL A HYATT Deed of Trust Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC / GRANTEE Deed of Trust Instrument/Reference No.: 2020470 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the undersigned Trustee, will on 10/7/2016 , at 10:00 AM at the main entrance to the Mason County Courthouse, 419 N 4th, Shelton, WA sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of MASON, State of Washington, to-wit: PARCEL 1 LOT 1 OF LARGE LOT SUBDIVISION RECORDED IN VOLUME OF SURVEYS, PAGE(S) 167, RECORDED JUNE 27, 2003 UNDER AUDITOR’S FILE NOS. 1785233 AND 1785234, AND BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 19 NORTH, RANGE 3 WEST, W.M., IN MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON. PARCEL 2 AN APPURTENANT EASEMENT FOR INGRESS, EGRESS AND UTILITIES AS DESCRIBED AND DELINEATED ON LARGE LOT SUBDIVISION RECORDED JUNE 27, 2003 IN VOLUME 28 OF SURVEYS, PAGE 167, UNDER AUDITOR’S FILE NOS 1785233 AND 1785234, BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER, SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 19 NORTH, RANGE 3 WEST, W.M., IN MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON. More commonly known as: 2871 SE BLOOMFIELD RD, SHELTON, WA 98584 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 1/16/2014, recorded 1/30/2014, under 2020470 records of MASON County, Washington , from SAMUEL A. HYATT AND ELISA HOPE FREDRICK-HYATT, HUSBAND AND WIFE , as Grantor(s), to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC / GRANTEE , as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC / GRANTEE (or by its successors-in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to Ditech Financial LLC . II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/ are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $45,263.48 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $310,241.86 , together with interest as provided in the Note from 12/1/2014 on, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 10/7/2016 . The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 9/26/2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 9/26/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 9/26/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME SAMUEL A. HYATT AND ELISA HOPE FREDRICK-HYATT, HUSBAND AND WIFE ADDRESS 2871 SE BLOOMFIELD RD, SHELTON, WA 98584 by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and

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the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. These requirements were completed as of 2/22/2016 . VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property.

IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20 th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20 th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060.

THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation.

DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/ homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_ foreclosure.htm . The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Tollfree: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http:// www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm ?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filt erSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/ what-clear . If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: 6/9/2016 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, as Trustee By: Lauren Esquivel, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington C/O Quality Loan Service Corp.

411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202 Seattle, WA 98104 (866) 925-0241 Sale Line: 916-939-0772 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-15697399-SW IDSPub #0108356 9/8/2016 9/29/2016 8747 September 8, 29 2t

ton, the undersigned Trustee, will on 10/7/2016 , at 10:00 AM At the Main Entrance to the Mason County Courthouse, located at 419 N. 4th Street (4th & Alder), Shelton, WA 98584 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of MASON, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 7, CHERRY PARK, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 9 OF PLATS, PAGES 52 AND 53, RECORDS OF MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON. More commonly known as: 7 E CHERRY PARK, SHELTON, WA 98584 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/3/2008, recorded 11/13/2008, under 1930672 records of MASON County, Washington , from ROBERT R TRAIL & LINDA TRAIL HUSBAND & WIFE , as Grantor(s), to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR ADVANCED FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. , as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR ADVANCED FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. (or by its successors-in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. . II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/ are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $100, 6 85.40 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $177,552.97 , together with interest as provided in the Note from 9/1/2011 on, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 10/7/2016 . The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 9/26/2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 9/26/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 9/26/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address( es ): NAME ROBERT R TRAIL & LINDA TRAIL HUSBAND & WIFE ADDRESS 7 E CHERRY PARK, SHELTON, WA 98584 by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. These requirements were completed as of 12/28/2015 . VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20 th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20 th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL

STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.

SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/ consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_ counselors_foreclosure.htm . The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/ sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&s earchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear . If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBTAND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: 5/27/2016 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, as Trustee By: Rhianna Watson, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202 Seattle, WA 98104 (866) 925-0241 Sale Line: 800-2802832 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-15-674703-SW IDSPub #0108731 9/8/2016 9/29/2016 8734 September 8, 29 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. TS No.: WA-15-674703-SW APN No.: 42012-54-00007 Title Order No.: 150159620-WA-MSO Deed of Trust Grantor(s): LINDA TRAIL, ROBERT R TRAIL Deed of Trust Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR ADVANCED FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. Deed of Trust Instrument/Reference No.: 1930672 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washing-

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF MASON In the Matter of the Estate of: RANDALL JOSEPH BEAUCHAMP, Deceased. NO. 16-4-0165-4 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as the Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative/Attorney of Record at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1) (c); or (2) Four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets. DATE OF FILING COPY OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS with Clerk of Court: September 21, 2016 DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: September 29, 2016 Personal Representative: Attorney for Personal Representative: Robin Beauchamp Clinton L. Morgan P.O. Box 1100 Morgan Hill, P.C. Hoodsport, WA 98548 2102 Carriage Drive SW, Bldg. C Olympia, WA 98502 Court of Proceedings and cause number: Thurston County Superior Court: 16-4-0165-4 8975 September 29, October 6, 13 3t

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Weinstein and Riley, P.S. will on October 7, 2016 at 10:00 AM at the main entrance of the Mason County Courthouse located at Fourth & Alder Streets in the City of Shelton located at Mason County, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in Mason County, State of Washington, to-wit; LOT 23, HIGHLANDS WEST, DIVISION NO.1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN VOLUME 12 OF PLATS, PAGE 65, RECORDS OF ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF ISLAND, STATE OF WASHINGTON. which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated May 20, 2009, recorded May 27, 2009, under Recorder’s/ Auditor’s File Number 1940215 records of Mason County, Washington, from Kelly L Warner, II and Rosemarie M Warner, Husband and Wife, as Grantor, to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. is a separate corporation that is acting solely as a nominee for Ward Lending Group, LLC and its successors and assigns as Beneficiary. Nationstar Mortgage LLC is now the beneficiary of the deed of trust. Said Deed of Trust was assigned on to NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, by an instrument recorded under Auditor’s File No. 2036303, on February 12, 2015. The sale will be made without any warranty concerning the title to, or the condition of the property. II No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: i) Failure to pay the following amounts, now in arrears: Amount due to reinstate by May 31, 2016 Monthly Payments: Delinquent Monthly Payments Due: From 09/01/2014 through 05/30/2016 21 payment(s) at $764.54 Total: $16,055.3 Late Charges: Total: Accrued Late Charges: $626.40 Taxes Advanced: Property Inspection: BPO: Recoverable Balance: $3,058.6 Appraisal Cost: TOTAL DEFAULT: $19,740.34 IV The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is $93,008.89, together with interest from August 2014 as provided in the note or other instrument, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on October 7, 2016. The payments, late charges, or other defaults must be cured by September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date) the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, or other defaults, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be with cashier’s or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after September 26, 2016 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI A written notice of default was transmitted by the beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): See ‘Mailing List’ attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. by both firstclass and certified mail on January 27, 2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served on January 27, 2015, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII The Trustee whose name and address are set forth will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the abovedescribed property. IX Anyone having objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objection if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale, the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chap-

PUBLIC NOTICES ter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060 If the Trustee’s Sale is set aside for any reason, the submitted bid will be forthwith returned without interest and the bidder will have no right to purchase the property.

Recovery of the bid amount without interest constitutes the limit of the bidder’s recourse against the Trustee and/or the Beneficiary. XI NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS AND PARTIES WHO ARE GUARANTORS OF THE OBLIGATIONS SECURED BY THIS DEED OF TRUST: (1) The Guarantor may be liable for a deficiency judgment to the extent the sale price obtained at the Trustee’s Sale is less than the debt secured by the Deed of Trust; (2) The Guarantor has the same rights to reinstate the debt, cure the default, or repay the debt as is given to the grantor in order to avoid the trustee’s sale; (3) The Guarantor will have no right to redeem the property after the Trustee’s Sale; (4) Subject to such longer periods as are provided in the Washington Deed of Trust Act, Chapter 61.24 RCW, any action brought to enforce a guaranty must be commenced within one year after the Trustee’s Sale, or the last Trustee’s Sale under any deed of trust granted to secure the same debt; and (5) In any action for a deficiency, the Guarantor will have the right to establish the fair value of the property as of the date of the Trustee’s Sale, less prior liens and encumbrances, and to limit its liability for a deficiency to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale price paid at the Trustee’s Sale, plus interest and costs. XII NOTICE THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: (1-877-894-4663) Website: http://www.wshfc.org/buyers/counseling. htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: (1-800-569-4287) Website: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/ fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate= WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: (1-800-6064819) Website: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear DATED: June , 2016 WEINSTEIN & RILEY, P.S. Successor Trustee By: Daniel Ross, Director 2001 Western Avenue Suite 400 Seattle, WA 98121 206269-3490 State of Washington County of King On this day of June 2016, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Daniel Ross., to me known to be an Officer of , the corporation that executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and on oath states that they are authorized to execute the said instrument WITNESS my hand and official seal hereto affixed the day and year first above written. Name: Roger Shadduck NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of Washington at: Thurston My Appt. Exp.:04/18/2018 ‘Mailing List Kelly L Warner II 31 SE Valley Lane Shelton, WA 98584 Kelly L Warner II 31 SE Valley Ln Shelton, WA 98584 Rosemarie M Warner 31 SE Valley Lane Shelton, WA 98584 Rosemarie M Warner 31 SE Valley Ln Shelton, WA 98584 8733 September 8, 29 2t

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Mason County Commissioners will hold public hearings at the Mason County Courthouse Building I, Commission Chambers, 411 North Fifth Street, Shelton, WA 98584 on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 9:30 A.M. SAID HEARINGS will be to consider adopting the following Development Areas (zoning) amendments and correction: · Rezoning two Rural Industrial (RI) parcels to Rural Commercial 5 (RC5). Parcels are located adjacent to State Route 119 west of Hoodsport (Parcel # 42210-34-9002o and 42210-34-90010); · Rezoning a Rural Commercial 1 (Ra) parcel to Rural Residential 5 (RR5).

Parcel is located adjacent to State Route 302 on the Mason/Pierce County line (Parcel 12233-5000009); · Correcting a mapping error for a parcel mapped as Long Term Commercial Forest that is designated as In-Holding Lands (Parcel # 6193611-00040). If you have questions, please contact Kell McAboy (36o) 427-9670, Ext. 365. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the Commissioners’ office, 427­-9670, Ext. 419. DATED this 20th day of September, 2016 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS J. Almanzor, Clerk of the Board 8974 September 29, October 6 2t

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Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky.

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“Prairie Spring” was first published in 1913 as the prologue to Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers!

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OYSTERFEST 2016 / OCT. 1-2 / SANDERSON FIELD, SHELTON

THE GOO WELCOMES YOU

By BRIANNA LOPER brianna@masoncounty.com

The label of “Grand Old Oyster” is more than just a title.

Those holding the prestige of Grand Old Oyster, or GOO, are the ones overseeing the OysterFest each year, making sure each aspect of the annual festival falls into place.

“The GOO is responsible for coordinating the many, many moving parts,” said David Baker, the 2016 Grand Old Oyster.

The GOO is the next step in his line of service for the Skookum Rotary Club, which has put OysterFest on for the past 34 years. Baker was president of the club last year; now, he says, it’s time to take on the GOO title.

Baker said the most important responsibility for the GOO is to make sure OysterFest is a success, both for those attending and for local charitable causes.

Each year, Skookum Rotary donates money raised from the

David Baker festival to area scholarships, food banks and academic programs.

“It’s great to see so many people come together for such a great cause,” Baker said.

This is Baker’s first time as GOO. He said that while he volunteered at OysterFest before he joined Rotary five years ago, he didn’t understand all the work the service club puts in to the event until he saw it from the other side.

“Most people might think,

mistakenly, that oh, since it’s the first week in October, we start planning in September,” Baker said. “But no. We start planning in November (the year before.)”

Baker said the club has to do everything, from setting up tents and booths to cleaning up trash — whatever it takes to make sure the community has a good time at the festival.

“You start thinking about what goes into an event that 15,000 people will attend in, oh, 15 hours,” Baker said. “It can be a lot.”

However, this year’s GOO said that all the work is worth it. In the end, the Rotary is able to help students get an education, as well as support other charitable causes, both locally and internationally.

In addition, vendor and exhibitors who attend the event get to earn money and get their name out as well.

“It’s a big deal,” Baker said. “More than anything, it’s about bringing the community together.”

HOURS: 10-6 ON OCT. 1 / 10-5 ON OCT. 2 ADMISSION: $5 BOTH DAYS / KIDS UNDER 13 FREE SUNDAY

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.......................................The GOO welcomes you ..............................Shucking: The need for speed ................. Seafood cookoff: Chefs in the kitchen ................. Co-winning recipes from 2015

................ A history of OysterFest and Rotary ................... Where do OysterFest dollars go? ..................Kids day offers youth a place to learn .....................................OysterFest exhibitors .... Full-color map / fold out poster

............................Camping out at OysterFest .....................Grab a brew at the beer garden ...............................................Wine and dine ........Get ready to rock with these bands

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The need for speed

Journal file photo by Lloyd Mullen

Oyster experts vie for top honors at West Coast shucking competition

By BRIANNA LOPER brianna@masoncounty.com It takes more than luck to shuck.

One of the biggest draws for those attending OysterFest is the West Coast Speed and Half Shell Oyster Shucking Competition.

Each year, the two must-see shucking competitions take place as the centerpiece of the festival. The Skookum Rotary sponsors the events, scheduled from 11 a.m. through 4 p.m.

Oct. 1 and 2.

During the two-day competition, contestants from across the Northwest vie for the opportunity to claim the titles of fastest oyster shucker or best half-shell shucker.

In years past, some skilled shuckers have even claimed both esteemed titles.

Speed is the name of the game on Oct. 1, the first day of the competition.

The event goes through more than 500 dozen oysters during the weekend of trials.

Each shucker receives 24 oysters to shuck as quickly as possible. The fastest time usually comes in under two minutes.

Speed is still a factor during the Oct. 2 trials, but precision also comes into play.

Each contestant is given 24 oysters to not only shuck, but place back in their shell.

Points are won for proper shucking, but see SPEED, page C-6

SHUCKING SCHEDULE Saturday and Sunday Noon to 4 p.m. / On-the-hour oyster shucking 5 p.m. / Shucking finals 5:30 / Awards

LAST YEAR’S WINNERS Speed shucking: n Miriel Silva — 01:12:94 n Alejandro Leon — 01:16:22 n Mario Leon — 01:16:65 n Gerardo Leon — 01:24:00 n Marcos Mendoza — 01:28:41 n Dionisio Leon — 01:30:53

Half-shell shucking: n Miriel Silva — 02:41:80 n David Leck — 02:44:00 n Raymundo Meza — 02:51:90 n Mario Leon — 03:09:50 n Dionisio Leon — 03:38:20 n Best presentation: Miriel Silva Provided by www.oysterfest.org

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Journal file photo by Lloyd Mullen

Speed: Plenty of prizes for those who test their mettle continued from page C-5 deducted if the oyster is cut, or if a piece of shell is in the finished half shell.

This means the fastest shucker may

not always be the winner.

A prize is also awarded for Best Presentation for the tray of oysters that looks the best following the half-shell oyster shucking competition.

Cash prizes are awarded each day.

First prize for speed shucking is $400; first prize in the half-shell shuck is $600.

Prizes are given through sixth place

for each competition.

To participate, submit an application prior to OysterFest.

For more information or to register, visit www.oysterfest.org.

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Chefs in the kitchen OysterFest seafood cookoff competitors square off for prizes, prestige

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com The 35th edition of Shelton’s annual OysterFest brings with it shucking competitions, a wide range of musical acts, food, beverages, vendors and demonstrations.

Yet consistently one of the most popular attractions year after year is the seafood cookoff competition, during which professional chefs and amateurs alike from across the Northwest battle for a share of $1,300 in prize money awarded in each of three categories — main dish, soups and stews, and appetizers.

Gold, silver and bronze medals will be presented to the top three placers in each category and all will compete for the title of Grand Champion, with the winner chosen based on a point total of entries in each of the categories. A panel of expert judges and the OysterFest audience will evaluate entries and choose winners. Prize winners will be announced at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 2.

According to co-chairperson Debbie McHargue, 12 to 15 cooks will compete at this year’s event to be hosted on both Oct. 1 and Oct. 2.

Competitors will have one hour to prepare and present six portions of their entries, with penalties incurred to those to go over the time limit. One plate will be presented for photos and another will be auctioned off along with a packet of all of this year’s recipes. Cooks will provide their own ingredients and utensils and are encouraged to do as much off-site prep work prior to event as possible.

Last year, two competitors tied for the grand champion’s crown. John W. Clark and Anthony Eads secured a share of the title for their entry of Dungeness crab croquettes with a miso aioli, garnished upon a bed of daikon with matchstick carrots and fresh cilantro. Clark and Eads shared the title with Maria Ancira. She was crowned for her pan-fried oysters on a fennel shortbread shell with spicy chowder pearl ice cream on bacon Tabasco sand.

Ancira will faceoff Oct. 2 against Damien Poon, sous chef at Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club.

Finalists in each category were chosen to compete at OysterFest after submitting entries by Sept. 1, and the competition will take place during each of the two days of the event.

LAST YEAR’S WINNING RECIPES Want to re-create the top entries to 2015’s seafood cookoff? See the full recipes on the following pages: Dungeness crab croquettes / miso aioli — Page C-8 Pan-fried oysters on fennel shortbread shell with spicy chowder ice cream pearl on bacon Tabasco sand — Page C-9

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OYSTERFEST 2015 CO-WINNING ENTRY Dungeness crab croquettes with a miso aioli As prepared by chef John W. Clark / Anthony Eads (Serves 6 guests) Ingredients for croquette:

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OYSTERFEST 2015 CO-WINNING ENTRY

Pan-fried oyster on fennel shortbread shell with spicy chowder ice cream pearl on bacon Tabasco sand

1 tablespoon lemon zest, 1 large egg, 6 ounces pastry flour

As prepared by Maria Ancira (Serves 12 guests) 1 1/2 hours of preparation time Ingredients: Spicy chowder ice cream 2 strips diced bacon, 4 ounces mirepoix, 2 cups heavy cream, 1/4 teaspoon marjoram, 1/4 teaspoon thyme, 1-1 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco, 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire Fennel short dough 4 ounces unsalted butter 1/2 tablespoon salt, 1 tablespoon toasted fennel seeds,

Bacon/ Tabasco sugar sand 2 strips of bacon cooked, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons tabasco Instructions: Spicy chowder- cook bacon, render fat, add 1 tablespoon butter, sweat mirepoix until tender, add heavy cream, add spices, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce, add salt to taste. Strain solids and hold them aside. Put base into ice cream maker until frozen, shape into pearls.

Fennel short dough: cream fat, salt and toasted fennel seeds 1 tablespoon lemon zest, add

egg, and sift flour mix until incorporated. Flatten into disc, wrap in plastic and chill before baking. Roll out dough thin and form into Madeline pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes until golden brown.

Bacon Tabasco sugar: boil sugar water and Tabasco to 330 degrees, pour onto sheet pan and add crumbled bacon, and set over ice. Once hard shatter and place in food processor to grind to sand texture.

Pan-fried oysters: 6 to 12 oysters of choice; I used kumamotos, standard breading. Season flour with salt and pepper, dust oysters, dunk in egg wash and roll in panko. Pan fry until golden brown. Serve immediately.

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ver the past three plus decades, OysterFest has become a first-class event and economic force in our community. For this, our community has Skookum Rotarian Dick Oltman to thank.

As a retired military man, Oltman found himself in the travel business in downtown Shelton and completing his master’s thesis about the economic benefits of tourism – a new concept in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. As part of that thesis, Oltman created the first OysterFest roadmap, including a complete operating plan and all policies and procedures – many of which are still in use today.

Oltman’s vision was to create an event that would bring people to our community after the summer high season, extending the economic benefits of tourism for the entire community.

He planned the event to showcase Mason County’s treasured oyster and aquaculture industry, throwing a spotlight on the fact that the shellfish and timber industries can and do coexist successfully.

And from the beginning, the centerpiece has been the official West Coast Oyster Shucking Championship. This, plus nearly 100 food vendors, all of whom are local, non-profit organizations using the festival to generate funds for their

mission-driven operations in our community, has turned OysterFest into the largest annual fundraising event in our county.

Other popular elements to OysterFest include the Seafood Cookoff, the Washington wine hall, the microbrew tent and the live entertainment stages.

Through all of these activities, a great deal of education is provided through exhibitors who showcase best practices about maintaining clean waterways, shellfish habitat and recycling.

But the hidden pearls of OysterFest are the volunteers who run every single aspect of the event, caring for Oltman’s vision, celebrating some of our community’s most treasured resources, promoting the Rotary ideal of service above self and ensuring that OysterFest continues to give to our community for many years to come.

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Where do OysterFest dollars go?

ysterFest supports Skookum Rotary projects in the local community and internationally. n OysterFest dollars support academic excellence, which recognizes and rewards the top 10 percent academic elite of the Mason County eighth-graders and high school juniors.

n OysterFest dollars support the Mason County Science & Engineering Fair.

Students from first through eighth grade prepare and display science projects. Awards are given to top projects in physical and biological science. More than 100 students participate each year. n OysterFest dollars support academic scholarships. Scholarship applicants

are interviewed and students who will be in college this fall receive scholarships.

backpack program, and local food banks and homeless shelters.

n OysterFest dollars support community grants.

Local nonprofits request grant money for projects. Some of the recent recipients include Sound Learning, 4-H Forestry Leadership, Hope Gardens, YES, Transition Conference, Senior Services for South Sound, the Saints’ Pantry

n OysterFest dollars support international projects, including contributions to PolioPlus, Rotary International’s initiative to eradicate polio, and partnerships with Rotary clubs in South Africa to improve the health, welfare and quality of life of those ill and living in abject poverty in rural areas.

n OysterFest dollars support Shelton High School Interact Club, a Rotary service club for high school students. Support also goes toward other Rotary youth leadership programs, Rotaract for college students and a leadership program called Rotary youth leadership awards.

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Learning about natural wonders on Kids’ Day

By GORDON WEEK gordon@masoncounty.com About 500 fourth-grade students from Mason and Thurston counties on Sept. 30 will learn about the county’s natural resources and nautical wonders at the 24th Kids’ Day at OysterFest.

For half a day, students and their teachers will immerse themselves in educational displays and activities provided by agencies and groups.

They will learn about water, including how to keep it clean and be safe in water-based recreational activities. An aquatic touch tank is one of the most popular activities.

Many of the teachers will use the

activities as the starting point for some of their environmental studies.

The event was launched in 1993, and is funded by the Skookum Rotary Club Foundation and Washington Sea Grant.

Almost 100 Mason County residents volunteer each year to bring the popular event to life. The event is also made possible through partnerships with such organizations as the City of Shelton, Hood Canal Aquanuts, Mason Conservation District, Mason County Medic One, Mason County PUD 3, North Mason Kiwanis, the Skokomish Tribe, Skookum Rotary, Washington Sea Grant, the state Department of Ecology, the state Department of Health and Washington State University Extension.

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By GORDON WEEKS gordon@masoncounty.com OysterFest patrons can enjoy informational exhibits at the event that illuminate projects by local clubs and organizations.

One of the most popular exhibits is Washington Sea Grant’s touch tanks.

The tanks have undersea creatures to touch and see up close, with experts to explain the wonders.

All the vendors and exhibitors must be nonprofit organizations operating in Mason County.

This year’s exhibitors are the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, Mason County Conservation District, Mason County PUD 3, Mason County Tourism/ ExploreHoodCanal.com, Mason County WSU Extension, Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association, Sanderson Field R/C Flyers, Shelton Scale Ship Modelers, Sound Learning, Washington Sea Grant and the Washington State Department of Health Shellfish Program.

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RVs will be parked on the east and west sides of the festival, just outside the paved runway, outside the inside fence and stretching the length of the festival grounds.

Each RV site will be 20 feet wide and a minimum of 40 feet long, with most sites deeper. There will be no fees for additional vehicles,

but all vehicles must be parked in the 20-by-40-foot area, off designated roads. There will be plenty of nearby room in general parking for vehicles that don’t fit.

All the sites are $30 per night, which includes one day of admission to the festival for two people.

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Grab a brew at OysterFest Microbrew area open to patrons 21 and older

By ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ alexandria@masoncounty.com If you’re looking for a place to wet your whistle, look no further than the OysterFest Microbrew Garden.

This year, check out 24 different breweries from across the United States, the Pacific Northwest and Washington. Some choices from Washington’s backyard can be found from Mack & Jack’s Brewery based in Redmond, Elysian from Seattle and the Narrows of Tacoma. Selections from Oregon include 10 Barrel out of Portland and the Worthy Brewing in Bend.

Varieties range from crisp ciders all the way to a vanilla stout. After you grab a beer, stick around and listen to live music.

No one under the age of 21 is allowed in the Microbrew Garden. All patrons will be asked to show identification at the entrances and then be given a bracelet.

Tickets for beer purchases are sold separately.

WHAT’S ON TAP? Alaskan Brewing: Freeride APA American Brewing: Big Bad Plaid Scotch Ale ESB Blue Moon: Belgian White Deschutes Brewery: Jubelale Seasonal Dark Elysian Brewing: Men’s Room Red and Loser Pale Ale Firestone Walker Brewing: DBA British Amber, Okto Amber, Union Jack IPA, Pilsner

Mac & Jack’s Brewery: Amber, Porter, Cascade Dark Ale Narrows Brewing: Octopus IPA, Golden Ale New Belgium Brewing: Tour of Fall, Snapshot Ninkasi Brewing: Total Domination IPA Red Hook Brewery: Blonde, Longhammer IPA, Audible Pale Ale Samuel Adams Brewing Angry Orchard cider Seattle Cider Company: Semi-sweet Flagship Cider

Full Sail Brewing: Pilsner

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Goose Island Beer Co.: 312 Urban Wheat, IPA

Square Mile Cider: The Original, Spur & Vine

Kona Brewing: Big Wave Golden Ale, Longboard Lager, Castaway IPA

Stella Artois: Belgium White

Langunitas Brewing: IPA, Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Wheat Pale Ale, Dogtown Ale Lost Coast Brewery: Tangerine Wheat

10 Barrel Brewing: Apocalypse IPA, Swill American Rattler Widmer Brothers Brewing: Hefeweizen, Okto Amber Worthy Brewing: Vanilla Stout

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PERFECT PAIRING

Wine and dine at OysterFest

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After loading up on salmon, geoduck and other seafood delights, head over to the wine-tasting hall to sip on wines from around the state.

This year, 19 wineries are bringing their best selections to pair with your seafood sections.

For the first time last year, Convergence Zone Sellers donned an OysterFest label on white and red wines. This year, Horizons Edge Winery will assume that honor. Horizons Edge was established in 1983 and is based in Zillah.

Souvenir glasses are $5 and wine tasting tickets are $1 each. Each taste of wine costs two to four tickets, depending on the wine. Tickets may be purchased and redeemed at any of the winery tables.

2016 OYSTERFEST WINE LIST

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Horizon’s Edge Winery

McKinley Springs Winery

Ginkgo Forest Winery

Mosquito Fleet Winery

Hoodsport Winery

Northwest Mountain Winery

Convergence Zone Cellars

Scatter Creek Winery

Hyatt Vineyards

Stina’s Cellars

Leony’s Cellars

Stottle Winery

Madsen Family Cellars

Tanjuli Winery

Maison de Padgett Winery

Walter Dacon Wines

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OysterFest Music Schedule

READY TO ROCK OCT. 1

MICROBREW BEER GARDEN 10:30 a.m. to noon — Strike Nine 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Raucous 2:30 to 4 p.m. Knucklehead 4:30 to 6 p.m. — Hurts Like Hell

WINE STAGE 10 to 11:30 a.m. — Family String Band Noon to 1:30 p.m. — Joanne Green 2 to 3:30 p.m. — Dave & Will 4 to 5:30 p.m. — Tammy Frost Band

OCT. 2

MICROBREW BEER GARDEN 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Chrome Betty 1:30 to 3 p.m. — Psychedelic Shadow Show 3:30 to 5 p.m. – The Varmints

WINE STAGE 10:30 a.m. to noon — Lorree Gardener 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Driving Sideways 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. — Andrew Landers

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Driving Sideways

For those about want to rock 14 OysterFest bands ready to cater to music lovers of all tastes

By MICHAEL HEINBACH michael@masoncounty.com

Hurts Like Hell

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ights, smells and tastes never cease to thrill the crowds each year at OysterFest. But the annual gathering provides a smorgasbord of thrilling sounds for music lovers as well.

This year is no different, as 14 different musical acts are slated to perform on two separate stages throughout the two-day festival.

Eight of those acts are returning from last year’s lineup.

Four bands each will grace the Microbrew Beer Garden Stage and the Wine Stage on Saturday, Oct. 1, before three acts apiece play each stage on Sunday’s final day of the event.

The good vibrations begin promptly at 10 a.m. Saturday.

That’s when the Family String Band, featuring members of Shelton High School choir director Paul Nakhla’s family and others, kickoff the action at the Wine Stage. A half hour later, Olympiabased, classic rock trio Strike Nine hits the Microbrew Beer Garden Stage.

Following Strike Nine on the

Andrew Landers

Beer Garden Stage on Saturday is five-piece classic rock outfit Raucous at 12:30. Bremerton’s own

Raucous

three-headed classic rocker monster Knucklehead takes over at 2:30 p.m. before Hurts Like Hell,

a blues/rock trio, playing originals, closes out the day at the Beer Garden State by playing from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Wine Stage lineup features Joanne Green from noon to 1:30 p.m. and Dave & Will, a cello and guitar duo comprised of Shelton mainstays Dave Pierik and Will Adams, which plays at 2 p.m. The Tammy Frost Band, a country/soul/rockabilly blues trio from Port Orchard headlines the Wine Stage, playing Saturday’s final set from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Lorree Gardener opens the day of music Sunday on the Wine Stage, playing from 10:30 a.m. to noon before Driving Sideways takes over at 12:30 p.m. and Andrew Landers plays from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Three bands familiar to OysterFest veterans grace the Microbrew Beer Garden Stage on Sunday, beginning with Olympia garage rockers Chrome Betty at 11:30 a.m. The Psychedelic Shadow Show, a seven-piece band from Olympia, covering classics from 1965 to ’72, are scheduled to play from 1:30 to 3 p.m. before Shelton quintet The Varmints finish it off from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

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Journal photos by Lloyd Mullen

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