Historical society wants to mark long-lost schools

A project is in the works to memorialize the three Lacey schools that once stood at Carpenter Road and Pacific Avenue on property now occupied by a Safeway store.

The Lacey Historical Society is accepting donations through Friday from school supporters who would like their names recorded on the three arched, porcelain panels erected on the grocery store. The panels depict photos and history of the schools that spanned 1892 through 1967.

The arches and replica of the school bell tower will be dedicated at a community ceremony in September.

Donations can be mailed to Lacey Historical Society, P.O. Box 3324, Lacey, WA 98509-3324. For more information, contact Shirley Dziedzic at 360-491-0905.

SOUTH SOUND

Nisqually River Council looks at habitat corridor

The Nisqually River Council is having a series of public meetings to talk to river basin residents about a voluntary plan to create a fish and wildlife habitat corridor between Mount Rainier National Park and Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.

The first two meetings are scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, 100 Brown Farm Road, and from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Yelm Prairie Motel, 701 Prairie Park Lane, Yelm.

TUMWATER

Agency offers Web site to check contractors

The Department of Labor and Industries is urging those thinking of doing building or remodeling projects to do some research on prospective builders and contractors.

Consumers can check the status of a contractor, electrician or plumber on L&I's Web site, www.LNI.wa.gov/contractors/contractor.asp, or by calling L&I's contractor registration line, 800-647-0982.

Residents can learn:

-If a contractor is registered.

-Whether an action against the contractor's bond is pending or has been taken in the past.

-Information about previous companies a contractor has owned.

-The names of the contractor's bonding and insurance companies.

HOQUIAM

Half-naked woman cited after hanging from train

A woman was cited for assault, trespassing and resisting arrest after she was discovered half-naked and hanging upside down from a train ladder, police said.

Robin Bishop, 31, of Hoquiam was taken into custody after an engineer on a Puget Sound & Pacific train discovered her hanging from the rear of the train as it approached a bridge.

"She was wearing jeans and nothing else," Hoquiam police Lt. Mike Whittaker told The Daily World of Aberdeen on Tuesday. "She was hanging upside down, topless, from a moving train."

Police Capt. Jim Maloney said engineers stopped the train, which had four or five cars, and approached the woman. She yelled at them and struck one with a rock before climbing to the roof of the car.

Police don't know how the woman got onto the train.

The woman's feet were bloodied, apparently cut on rocks as she walked along the tracks, police said.