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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