South Sound briefs for Oct. 23

The Olympian, News Services | • Published October 23, 2008

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Olympia

Sex offender registers to live on 11th Avenue

The Olympia Police Department is notifying the public that Derrick Paul, a 35-year-old registered level 3 sex offender, is living in the 500 block of 11th Avenue Southeast.

A level 3 sex offender is the most serious sex offender designation, based on a subject's likelihood to reoffend. In July 2002, Paul pleaded guilty in Thurston County Superior Court to indecent liberties without forcible compulsion, residential burglary with sexual motivation, and two counts of burglary with sexual motivation. The conviction stems from Paul breaking into residences and peeping on the victims inside, or entering a fenced area and peeping on women inside their residences. Paul has a long history of predatory acts and at least two documented incidents where he entered a residence and sexually assaulted a female while she slept, police said.

Paul is described as a white male, 5 feet, 10 inches and 175 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

Thurston County

Volunteer Center to host weekend resource fair

Families hit hardest by the recent economic downturn can find help Saturday as part of the Make A Difference Day Family Resource Fair hosted by the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason and Thurston Counties.

The free event is from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St. N.W.

Families can connect with local social service agencies for help with food, housing, transportation, education, health, utilities and child care. The Family Volunteering Challenge also will begin during the event. As part of the challenge, local families are asked to volunteer five hours between now and National Family Volunteer Day on Nov. 22.

To receive a free Family Volunteering Kit and sign up, e-mail sara@volunteer.ws or call 360-741-2625 or 360-741-2607.

Olympia

Toilets brought in for school power outage

Portable toilets were brought in as the power was out for a few hours Wednesday at South Bay Elementary School, but school remained in session.

Puget Sound Energy made the repairs in a few hours. District spokeswoman Courtney Shrieve said parents were notified by auto-dialer.

Lewis County

Expo on how to prepare for floods coming up

A flood-resource expo to aid Lewis County residents with storm recovery and preparedness is set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the W.F. West High School Commons, 342 S.W. 16th St., Chehalis.

Tara Withrow, event organizer and outreach worker with Lewis County Disaster Outreach Services, said a number of support services still are available for residents.

Organizations including the Area Agency on Aging, Cascade Mental Health, Washington State Department of Health, Help 4 Hard Times and Red Cross will hand out information at the event.

For more information, call Disaster Outreach Services at 800-850-8775 and press "1" for Lewis County.