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Somittlhi S'oumdl Thursday February 28 1991 The Olympian City Editor Mike Burges 754-5423 Section ObituariesC2 LegislatureC3 ClassifiedsC5-10 Northwest BRIEFLY Crime does pay if you fell Crime Stoppers Fidalgo Bay oil spill worse than thought How to help Crime Stoppers guarantees that tipsters will remain anonymous It offers rewards of up to $1 000 alter a suspect is indicted Those who have a tip should can 493-2222 Mondays through Friday from 9 am to 3 pm Messages can be left on an answering machine at other times The first local Crime Stoppers ad appears on Page C2 of today's Olympian It asks tor help in finding a man who tried to abduct a woman Feb 7 from a South Puget Sound Community College parting lot investigators hundreds of hours" Sorger said Trained personnel will answer the tip line from 9 sun to 3 pm Monday through Friday During other hours a recording will tell the caller to leave a message ana call back For the first year the Lacey Police Department will be the lead agency Under the program the basic crime-tip process is as follows: The caller is given a code number and is asked to call two weeks later to find out what resulted from the tip The tip goes to the jurisdiction in which the offense occurred or is expected to occur If the tip leads to a suspect being charged police inform the caller that the Board of Directors will meet See CrimeC4 ganizations and residents to share information leading to the indictment of crime suspects -The program guarantees anonymity to callers and offers rewards of up to $1000 after a indictment "Crime has a new enemy in Thurston County and called Crime Stoppers" said Lacey police Detective LL Ed Sorger who is serving as program coordinator He said the program serves as a clearing-house for residents to call with information about crimes in the community and reduces apathy by offering a reward He said the fear of involvement or retaliation is eased by the guarantee of anonymity "This program assists police when they have nowhere to go when their investigations hit snags or dead ends It can save Thurston County police agencies have a new weapon against lawbreakers: Cash doled out to people who give information that leads to a indictment By Armando Machado The Olympian Following successfid Crime Stoppers efforts across the United States Canada and other countries the Thurston County Area Crime Stopper Program begins today The program joins more than 1000 chapters of Crime Stoppers International It will rety heavily on cooperation among local law enforcement agencies news or ANACORTES More oil than previously believed entered Fldabzo Bay from a 210000-gallon spill and a change in the weather could hamper cleanup and increase bird losses officials said Wednesday Ron Holcomb of the state Ecology Department said about 9000 gallons of Alaska crude oil had been recovered from water near the Texaco refineiy About 1050 remained A day earlier officials said 0400 gallons of oil had reached the bay About 100 people were doing cleanup work Wednesday including more than 60 using 16 vacuum trucks and oil skimmers from the Chempro Division of Burlington Environmental said John Brown refinery spokesman SusanEwing of the state Wildlife Department said the latest waterfowl count was 50 dead including eight that died after being brought to a treatment center staffed by volunteers Fifty were contaminated but are alive the temperature drops significantly that would increase the stress on the birds and could increase the number of deaths" Holcomb said The oil spewed from a broken pump late Friday night All but a small fraction was contained on land Gulf news lifts spirits of families South Sound families with loved ones in the Middle East say they feel that a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders By Devin Smith The Olympian Seven weeks ago Wednesday night Rita Edwards sat nerves on edge clutching a pillow and watching events unfold on television as the allies began bombing Iraq Wednesday night after seven weeks iff worrying about her son Army Pvt Brent Stafford 21 she had no words to describe the sense of relief she fell just ecstatic" she said from her Nisquauy Valley home moments After President Bush declared victory over Iraq just happy I was just sitting here smiling wondering who I could Edwards said In Olympia Ann Engle answered the phone with a big The news have been more Sim BtoomTha Olympian PRE-GAME APPLAUSE: An announcement of a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf brought a crowd of nearly 4000 basketball fans to their feet before the game began Wednesday night at St Martin's Pavillion They had cause to cheer again later when the Saints beat foe Western Washington University Vikings 82-80 Three seniors participate In community need project Three New Market Skills Center seniors are participating in a statewide competition Friday that could take them to a national competition in Washington DC FHAHERO students choose and a i a project to meet a community Seniors Tracy Anders Kari Beveridge and Tammy Norris chose Water Around on Earth Day They will present it to area children from Headstart the Hands-On Museum and the Olympia Association of Educators of Young Children The presentation includes an opportunity for children to plant seeds and offers seedlings to home puppet shows (m water safety and quality concerns and other hands-on activities for children The seniors are expected to stay within environmental guidelines and demonstrate what learned about childhood development Members write a two-page summary iff their project and submit it to the Superintendent of Public Office by Friday SP1 and a panel of judges will announce the winning project on April 20 The winner will compete in nationals $5 million Lotto unclaimed jackpot jumps to $6 million No one won a $5 million Lotto jackpot Wednesday night so the drawing Saturday night wulbe for (6 million a Washington State Lottery official said Lottery spokesman Ridiard Paulson said a computer check showed 80 tickets were sold with five iff the six winning numbers and are worth $718 each white 3988 tickets had four winning numbers and are worth $29 dollars each Sates were $226J12 Hie winning numbers were 1 24 25 32 36 and 47 Area groups plan to lay out welcome mat welcome for Ann and her husband Bob who have a son and a grandson on the front lines of the war "Boy are we Ann Engle said For both women President announcement was taken to heart Neither wanted to allow room for doubt or questions instead embracing the an-tews they nave been nouncement as the By Joel Coffldla The Olympian Jackie Woffi a staff person for the antiwar group Otympia Anti-Intervention Coalition said her anti-war group will not hold welcoming ceremonies for the troops However Wolf emphasized that the group supports the troops in its own way the troops to us means bring them home alive" Wolf said "And supporting their (troops) right to In addition "support the troops means give them what they need" Wolf said Veterans in the past have been ignored Sthe government Wolf said ana many the homeless are veterans of the Vietnam War who have not received proper treatment "Obviously not talking about at and they want to talk Wolf! that and they want If said of the US government know what been Carla Snow of Operation Support an Olympia group that has sent tetters and to the troops said a "welcome ceremony is in the works have had so many boys say WeYe coming home via Olympia Lacey Tumwater to give you a hug and a kiss for all of the support you have Snow said iff the troops that nave received letters packages and words of encouragement from group members we definitely are planning on having a big rally for anybody and everybody to come ana ay 'welcome when these kids start coming she said At Fort Lewis spokesman Mqj Martin Eckert said "We are planning to welcome back every unit that But Eckert added a little premature at this waiting to hear since the warbegan Since the mound war started Saturday the Engles have watched troop movements cm the news They paid dose attention to the First Armored Division which their son Army Sgt Steve Hangge 41 serves in and the First Infantry Divk in the Seventh Corp which grand- CpL Michael Hangge 20 i At last word she said Steve was probably somewhere near Kuwait See ReactionC4 Congressional reacfionC4 but that still too eariy to plan anything "I am certain that we of the American -Legion will be doing said Dallas Vaughan department adjutant for the American Legion in Washington state But Vaughan said the organization has not yet decided what it will do for the returning veterans Leo Hollcroft commander of Veterans of Foreign Wan Post No 318 in Olympia said the post will welcome all veterans going to throw our post open when they come Hollcroft said need to come see us became we North Thurston narrows superintendent field to three Lacey City Council meets at Panorama City tonight The Lacey City Council will take its regular meeting out into the community tonight The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 at Panorama Quinault Building 150 Circle Drive SE The council tries to move its meetings out of city hall several times a year to make them more accessible Two top administrators from Richmond Va and a California superintendent make the final cut in the search for a replacement for John Gott ton Richard Eisenhauer superintendent St Roseburg Ore and Roger Woehl superintendent at Oak Harbor Steele had described himself in his semifinalist interview as having teamed literally at the knee of current Superintendent John Gott who is retiring in June after two decades at North Thurston Eisenhauer had been a finalist a year ago with Olympia School District School board president Jeanne Ward who announced the selections said the board decided it needed to go outside North Thurston to meet its goateThe district will reach a decision by April 1 is no way to deny an outsider generates an energy and excitement that you cannot get from an Ward said Each iff the finalists holds a doctorate and has an extensive education background According to their resumes: Jones has served as superintendent since 1989 for Richmond Public Schools He previously served as deputy superintendent in Wichita Kan ana served in the Seattle School District as principal vice principal area supervisor and teacher during a 20-year period Tresvant has served as assistant superintendent the past two years for Richmond Public Schools in Virginia Before that she served the Washington state Superintendent iff Public Instruction as director of instructional services and technology during 1987-89 Tresvant also worked as elementary school principal in various administrative rotes and as an elemental teacher from 1967-87 with the Seattle School District Tyler has served as superintendent since 1986 for Amador County Unified School District in Jackson Calif He previously served as superintendent during 1981-86 at Cutler-Orosi Unified School District in Orosi Calil and during 1979-81 jointly as district superintendentr elementary principal for Aumsville Ele mental School District in Aumsville Ore Tyler also had administrative or principal posts with Falls City School District in Oregon Modesto Calif Fpm Ridge School District in Oregon He also taught elementary age students in Tokyo Palo Alto Calif and Coos Bay Ore Each finalist is scheduled to visit North Thurston School District for a day next month According to a tentative schedule Tresvant will visit March 14 Tyler on March 19 and Jones on March 25 During the visit each will meet for an hour with a series erf interest groups including business and community leaders Gott parent group leaders principals and district administrators and the union Each also will meet the public in evening forums and be interviewed behind dosed doors by the five-member school board "So they'll have a very full day onp might call it Ward said By Brad Shannon The Olympian Saying the trio best matched the school values and chemistry the North Thurston school board narrowed its field of superintendent candidates to three Wednesday The finalists included two top administrators Ginny Tresvant and Albert Jones from Richmond Public Schools in Richmond Va Each has long ties to Seattle School District The third finalist Clifford Ttyier of Jackson Calif has worked extensively in Oregon and California Not chosen were David Steele an assistant superintendent with North Thurs traffic signal in TVimwater An accident at the Intersection of Capitol Boulevard and Israel Road in Tumwater has damaged the traffic signal so temporary stop signs have been installed city officials said The traffic signals will be out iff service until repairs can be made probably within the next three weeks officials said Until that time the intersection is a two-way stop for east- and westbound traffic on Israel Road Capitol Boulevard is open to through traffic Olympian staff news services i permits must be resolved first according to FEMA Ecology wants FEMA to relax flood plain restrictions ana allow the county back into the insurance program so it will be eligible for state grants to fend a management plan said chuck Gate of Ecology White those agencies posture for what first steps need to be taken all involved agree the first nuyor obstacle has been passed: sitting down to talk "Everyone is going to have to said County Commissioner Laura Porter "I think there realty a commitment to get around this without having to go to The county was suspended from the federal insurance program in 1988 when it tailed to pass a flood management plan i Ecology has been battling valley residents over their dikes since the mid 1960s The residents many iff whom have only the dikes for flood protection have fought Ecology eveiy step of the way The issue has been locked up in court since The group including the Skokomish tribe and other entities and residents which met for the first time Feb 8 win meet again Friday at 9 am in County Commission Chambers Mason County Building No 1 411 Fifth St Shelton The December 1990 ridership translated into an increase of about $31000 in ticket sates revenue over 1989 Ftem said Ridership for November 1990 was up 43 percent over November 1989 The new station was dedicated Dec 15 It has an 800-foot platform a 36-space park-and-ride lot lights a telephone booth portable toilets and a bus shelter Groups discuss river flood plan SHELTON A number of agencies and county residents have begun breaking loose the bureaucratic teg jam that has stalled Skokomish River flood management since the mid-1980s White representatives from the state Department of Ecology and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are at loggerheads over who will give first the agencies agree that a flood plain management plan appears to be key to clearing the way At issue is reinstating the county in the National Flood Insurance Program which would make it eligible for assistance from the state as well However court action taken against several valley residents by Ecology over dikes it says were constructed along the river without the proper Around South Sound New Amtrak station boasts ridership up 60 percent December 1990 ridership of trains arriving and departing from the new Otympia-Lacey Amtrak station was up 60 percent over the same period in 1989 "We were hoping with a good rail station facility that the people of Thurston County would begin to use rail mime and this has woven to be true said Lloyd Ftem an Amtrak Depot Committee member The new station opened Oct 28 Ftem said that in December 2083 people boarded or departed trains at the Centennial Railroad Station 6600 Yelm Highway about 1 mile southeast iff Ruddell Road In December 1989 1302 passengers used the old East Otympia station which was about 3 mites off the Yelm Highway That station was a wooden hank on an isolated site It had no telephones lights or bus service SS-i OT- Around South Sound is a compilation of news item from Thurston Mason Grays Harbor Pierce and Ltmia counties It appears daily in the South Sound section.