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PRIL Great things Resort plan ..page 2 to read in Buried treasure found...page 3 Hometown news...page 8 this week's Sentinel =---= Price 50¢ Thursday, April 29, 2004 • Goldendale, Washington 98620-9526 One hundred and twenty-fifth year --- No. 19 on in d try; Goldendale school civic organizations, and, on levy, the second Tuesday, demonstrated with hand-held signs. voters approved The Feb. 3 vote failed to and mainte- attain the necessary 60 per- in Tuesday's elec- cent majority by a mere sev- 66.7 percent to eral dozen votes. The second to Klickitat election, this Tuesday, brought out 380 more voters ~. district voters went than the first levy attempt. Polling places -- and, The difference of support se with absentee bal- between the first election and [the mailboxes - in the second was lO percentage ~3 Elections officials points. , ~1~ ~ 1,8Ol people voting Tuesday s results are, as I[' ~rtlesday election. 1,2o,2 one elections officer put it, i[~ ~._V0ted for the district s "very unofficial. • ~~s and maintenance The county Auditor s ~~Voted against it- Office, which handles elec- ~g the tally surpassed tions, sent out about 1,4oo ~~-eSsary 6o percent absentee ballots. Of those, ' 't *jority. 988 had been counted by 'V'L,,g°t my fingers Tuesday night. Others that ID ~/' said Lindawere postmarked as of I~ ]~ri before the elect!on, Tuesday will be counted as rg at the outcome. We they come in. V ~d from what we saw Last-minute absentee bal- ~ the community. We lots rarely change election ~t of,thumbs up, and results that are as solid as the w4~'~we re hopeful, levy s approval, however. The ~~on was one of the final tally will be certified on ~ 'lt~ganizers for a citizens May 7. The commit- The district levy will raise an energetic politi- to change the tnind following the first levy vote on of the committee )orters wrote to the news- yard signs, )hone calls to voters, took out advertise- SPoke before several $1,395,OOO per year for 2005 and 2006. The money will replace a current biennial levy, and go toward funding programs as varied as the school nurse and athletic teams. The levy represents about lO percent of the district's budget, according to school officials. -- Dan Richardson lay. Photo by Sam Lowry prepares to cast a ballot on the school Patti Jones, Barbara Thompson and staffed the table. by, city make a, mission for [: residents in May .city residents said Goldendale Mayor Mark exhibits Sigfrinius. County The law requires that a museum, public body giving money to a for free. private entity receive some- House, at 127 thing in return, said Street, willSigfrinius. Residents' free admission for admission is that return. Weeks of May"It's a really good cause and according towe do get a good benefit out • officials• of it, he said. only show The Presby House is filling a stu- its new building built next or a note from door with new historic dis- plays, largely with money to be a real given in bequests from said Goldendale residents such as Society's Wilma Olson, Frank Knosher, It an oppor- Gladys Uecker and Grace e groups to rorry. , The city s money will help "-h thing as a fund photographic enlarge- trse, nor even merits, said Historical Society n: The offer officials. 1re of thanks The photos feature old- e eitycouncil time harvest scenes and o contribute images from Klickitat County -~ Historical schools of old Along with the h School/ photos will be reading infor- Project on the marion and improved light- negotiateding, said Becks. of months, -- Dan RichardSon AFTERNOON FIRE Photo by Sam Lowry Children, playing with a lighter they found, apparently caused a Monday afternoon blaze in the roof of a duplex at 603 E. Court St. in Goldendale. Firemen (ABOVE) chainsawed square holes in an effort to control flames. Fire Chief Howard Scartozzi said the children ignited a juniper bush beneath the eaves. "Juniper is not desirable next to a house," he said. "It looks green but burns very well." Fire entered vents, then spread above the rafters, destroying a section of roof. Flames and water severely damaged both units. The owners, Clyde and Edna Robison of White Salmon, said none of six residents was injured, nor were any pets. b Jury convicts Shattuck of ling from By SAM LOWRY By the time KIickitat County. News Reporter Deputy Prosecuting Attorney . Shawn Anderson presented On Monday morning at closing remarks, shortly lO:15, after eight hours of before 3 p.m. on Friday, the deliberation and the weekend State's case had been whittled off, a Superior Court jury of nine women and three men found Sophie Lynn Shattuek guilty of first-degree theft. Charges were filed against Shattuek last September fol- lowing a nine-month investi- gation into her tenure as man- ager of Klickitat Valley Grain Growers (KVGG) in Goldendale. Shattuck pleaded not guilty in October; numer- ous procedural postpone- ments finally led to her jury trial before Judge E. Thompson Reynolds starting last Wednesday morning. to a single, central charge. Of initial allegations that Shattuck had written 21 KVGG checks for personal use, total- ing $24,ooo, and then forged a document to suggest she'd reimbursed her employer for the largest check, at the end the jury had only that single check to consider. Objections successfully raised by defense attorney Eugene Hanson of Goldendale eliminated the rest. Nobody disputed that Shattuck wrote the check - No. 11534, for $14036.37, in September 2OOl, to McKenna Motors in Union Gap for a 1997 Ford Explorer that she drove as her own until Gotdendale police confiscated it in late 2oo2. Anderson, calling eight wit- nesses, argued that Shattuck wrote the check intentionally, never intending to repay KVGG. She expected nobody to discover her act due to a muddle she had made of grain growers' books and tricks she'd learned from a prede- cessor who got caught, Anderson calimed. Hanson claimed that Shattuck wrote the KVGG check only because she'd wasted her last personal check on a mis-tallied bill of sale from McKenna. She ordered money sent to KVGG from a personal mutual fund account that same day. The paperwork muddle, Hanson sought to" show, was the responsibility. of KVGG's board of directors and Shattuck's co-worker, Joi FAwards. The other 90 checks were in the picture until Friday morn- ing, when Judge Reynolds agreed with Hanson that aggregated checks and checks under $1,500 could not be considered for the charges at hand. That left only the McKenna check. For a day and a half, howev- er, the jury had heard about the implications of 91 checks. See SHA~TUCK, page 4 Wind worker followed ... to the gorg By GREG SKINNER News Reporter As a young boy Brian Hinde moved to Hawaii, while his father was in the military. A week after his arrival, he was hand-shap- ing surfboards. Thirty-seven years and somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 boards later, he's still hand-shap- ing custom boards -- now, for windsurfers. Hundreds of thousands of production- made surf and sail boards bear his name, because Brian Hinde is a master of board design. "That's what they call me," he said. Hinde was the lead designer for four of the world's largest companies in the business. Pointing to the 20 years of surf maga- zines piled in his Lyle show- Photo by Greg Skinner Brian Hinde sculpts a windsurfing board at his Open Ocean company's shop in Lyle. room, Hinde said he could show proof of who he is, but pro, the man has been ever3,- "Anywhere there was a boat surfing took off in a big way. offered instead, "I'm just a where to surf and sail. The show," said Hinde. In the Columbia Gorge, there glorified toy maker." most recent issue of The So with the whole world were soon a few dozen cjas- More important than his Surfer Journal (the surfer known to him, why move to tom board makers. success, Hinde said, are two magazine) details a trip he Lyle, Washington? "It made a social impact things to think about with and friends made to surf the At the age of 40, he wanted back in the 8os, said Hinde. wind surfing: Getting to go, coast of Angola for a pro to experiencefourseasons, to It was important to the and getting to go when the competition in 1973, during hunt and fish, to give his,chil- Gorge. The Business of wind- wind is blowing, that country s civil war. dren,a chance to avoid r()ck surfing brought jobs and When the wind blows in Escorted from beach to fever and to get a chance to attention,transforming the Gorge, from April to beach, passing machine gun get, ahead if they like. backwater Hood River into a October, there is no better nests, the men were the first Growing up in Hawaii you hip outdoor Mecca. place in North America. 'It s to surf waters off the West have no chance to get ahead Things are different now. unbelievable the amount of African nation, as the average working guy, "It is less important than it windhere, said Hinde. Back in the day, Hinde said Hinde. " was 2o years ago, said When the master moved traveled to 3o countries twice The cost of living prohibits Hinde. his company, Open Ocean, to a year to promote his boards, it. And, he thought, "My busi- It s not that windsurfing is Lyle years ago from Hawaii, He s been to Germany, Israel, hess would do well here. it was quite a change. As a France, Italy and Canada, Back in the ~98os, wind- See WIND WORKER, page3