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Wednesday April 20, 2016

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Stepping up to the carbon conundrum Taming Bigfoot teams confront carbon emissions, lifestyle, transportation choices

By Nicholas Johnson of the Leader

to residential (23 percent), commercial (9 percent) and industrial Win or lose, those who partici- (29 percent) energy use. pated in the countywide Taming “Transportation, generally, Bigfoot competition are now more and air flight, in particular, are attuned to their own carbon foot- really the big problems,” said prints and how they can continue Rick Doherty, a member of a team to reduce them. called Newts, which was in secThat’s exactly what Bob Bind- ond place at the end of the first schadler and fellow members reduction phase, having produced of Local 20/20’s Climate Action 8,152 fewer pounds of carbon for a Group had hoped for when they 65 percent reduction. launched the three-phase, teamDoherty and many others took based competition in January. airplane trips during the competi“I am getting a very positive tion, whether for business, vacasense that this has influenced, tion or to visit family. at least in their consciences, how “You can do everything you their actions translate into carbon can [to cut your carbon footprint] emissions,” said Bindschadler, all year long, and then take one who has been compiling data sub- flight and wipe out all your progmitted by some 13 teams, ahead ress,” he said. “We don’t have to of a final celebration and prize do all this flying. We live in a ceremony set for 7 p.m., Friday, beautiful natural playground.

April 22 at Quimper Unitarian With everything we have here, it Universalist Fellowship in Port seems irresponsible to me to be Townsend. traveling long distances by air for “That’s a big step. Ultimately, pleasure. I think we need to be that’s where we want people to more educated on what’s in our be – with a greater awareness own backyard.” of their carbon Kathleen footprint.

If Kler, chair of Get involved the competiJefferson Beyond the outreach and pre- the tion helped in paredness efforts of the Climate County Board some way with CommisAction Group, Local 20/20 offers of that, I think it’s other ways to get involved and sioners and a been a raging affect change, such as the Trans- member of the success.” portation Lab (TLAB), the Energy Hellbenders The comAction Group, Citizens for Local team, said she petition was Food, and Beyond Waste. Learn came into the split into three, competition almore at L2020.org. roughly monthready living a long phases – a green lifestyle, baseline phase and two reduction aside from car and air travel rephases. Using a custom-made quired of her as the board’s legiscalculator, teams recorded their lative representative. During the carbon emissions in three areas competition, she drove to Olym– transportation; home energy pia weekly and flew to Washingand water use; and garbage pro- ton, D.C., once, on top of regular duction, food consumption and drives between Port Townsend shopping. and her home in Quilcene.

“For almost every team, trans“We were rather low on carbon portation was at least half of their emissions until I got this job and footprint in the baseline period,” had to start commuting north,” Bindschadler said. “In some cas- she said. “We deliberately bought es, it was 80 percent.” a Prius because of that. I know I By uncovering the most car- have very few choices for transbon-intensive parts of their own portation with where I live and lifestyles, participants came to what I do. That makes it more see what collective behaviors are incumbent that I make good decidriving greenhouse gas emissions sions in other areas of my life.” locally.

Bill Ferguson of the Gray Transportation accounts for 39 Wolves team said he tries to visit percent of all carbon generated in family in Seattle twice a month Jefferson County, according to a and typically drove until the com2005 baseline inventory of energy petition prompted him to try pubuse and emissions by the joint lic transit.

Port Townsend–Jefferson County “In this last phase, I have deClimate Action Committee. The cided to park my car the whole other 61 percent can be attributed time,” Ferguson said, noting that

Aliina Lahti, 29, of Port Townsend uses her cellphone to take a picture of her underground, hard-to-reach and hard-toread water meter April 14. Lahti, a member of the Newts team, said the Taming Bigfoot competition forced her to pay attention to her water and electricity use, rather than just paying her utility bill each month. Photos by Nicholas Johnson

he has enjoyed walking around town, rather than driving. “I have used the bus to get to Seattle and to the airport. I had never used the bus. I was really impressed with the service and the price. It takes a bit longer, but at a more leisurely, enjoyable pace. I typically make the trip myself, so it’s nice to sit back and enjoy the scenery or talk with someone sitting next to me.”

Ben Bauermeister of the Hellbenders team said he burned propane to heat his house during the baseline phase.

“After that, we dialed down the thermostat that controls our main furnace and used electrical space heaters instead,” he said.

“The change in our carbon load was huge. I think switching over to an electric heating system is in my future.”

PUD GREEN POWER Barney Burke, a Jefferson County Public Utility District (PUD) commissioner and member of the E.T. team, said electricity here is nearly carbon-free because the PUD’s power comes from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and locally generated solar power.

BPA’s power is about 89 percent hydroelectric and nearly 10 percent nuclear, Burke said, compared to Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) power, which is 36 percent hydroelectric, 35 percent coal, 24 percent natural gas and about 5 percent from renewable sources.

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When the PUD purchased PSE’s holdings in East Jefferson County in 2013, effectively becoming carbon-free, the county’s total greenhouse gas emissions fell 25 percent from what they were in 2005, according to Climate Action Committee chair Cindy Jayne.

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She said propane and other fuel sources used for heat have become bigger carbon culprits locally.

“In the county, we’ve noticed that propane use is driving up carbon emissions, because it has more carbon than our very clean electricity,” she said.

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One doctor’s ‘prescription’ for a healthy How it came to be, and was updated relationship with the environment

By Douwe Rienstra While a few politicians and others continue to insist that global warming is controversial, my chemistry classes in the 1960s taught me that carbon in the atmosphere would heat the earth and that this is a phenomenon that had been first understood and predicted in 1824 by a French physicist.

Our current unstable weather and rising sea levels were likewise predicted long before they started to happen.

As a doctor I try to read all the latest medical news and studies. But I also pay attention to greater issues, such as climate change.

Climate change poses a tremendous threat to your health. No one can say whether you’ll be impacted by a new disease such as Zika or through social instability as in Syria, nor if it will affect you personally or your children, but as surely as we know that snow melts on a hot day, trouble is coming.

What is so sad is that we have ignored this for so long, and it was so predictable.

“But what can I do?” you may ask. One cannot push the global thermometer down on one’s own. Only collective action can influence the major contributions to environmental destruction.

People often express sadness to me, and a sense that the world is out of control, and that they are helpless.

We are not helpless. Certainly we cannot solve the climate problem or our other common problems by ourselves, but we can decide that we are a part of the whole,

saying. But it’s true. The more care you take with what you eat, the better you’ll feel. Methane, and so much of it comes from beef production, is a more damaging greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Plus, you’ll benefit from enjoying foods other than red meat.

SPEND CARBON CAREFULLY Finally, you can do things Laundry drying in the wind – and spring sun – does happen in Port that might not benefit your Townsend. This isn’t Dr. Douwe Rienstra’s sheets blowing in the health directly, but will help wind, but he, too, enjoys the sight and smell of line-dried laundry. you sleep better at night. You Photo by Marian Roh can carpool. You can turn your car off instead of idling minutes. Take these minutes and that our individual effort it. When we idle more than 10 off your 150-minutes-per-week seconds, we emit more carbon is necessary to our common minimum exercise requiresuccess. than if we turned off the enment. You may require some In my view, this contribgine and re-started it. time for your body to condition utes mightily to our good These measures are but itself to this, and you may health. the first step on a long journeed, as we did, to create your ney. But each one makes a So here is my “preown solutions to fitting your scription” for your healthsmall difference. You will shopping into the panniers of ful relationship with our feel better. a bicycle. But who said that environment.

Our human nature is to reversing climate change was feel more relaxed when we LAUNDRY IN THE MORNING going to be easy? know more about a difficult Some of my favorite days problem and take some acDRESS FOR SUCCESS begin in my backyard. The tion. The actions above will Warm clothes in the house be good for the muscle that birds trill tunes you’ll never hear on your radio, the clouds can reduce the requirements is your heart and for the and peeking sun spread beau- for household heating signifiemotional heart and spirit cantly. There’s also a medical ty I’ve never seen before and that give you comforting rebenefit: lower indoor temam guaranteed never to see pose at night. peratures raise metabolic rate again, and is therefore all the These actions will signal to and can help you lose weight. more precious. your neighbors that you know Proven fact.

We all enjoy games of energy conservation matters, chance; you can make a game and that we as individuals of monitoring the pile of laun- GIVING BACK can do something about it.

Plant trees.

They don’t dry along with the weather Minimizing the damage have to be big. If this is not report and matching the two. from carbon pollution will be an option, you can donate to (Our personal score is about a reputable organization that a win, and improving your a 95 percent reduction in enhealth will be a win. Yes, a works to save or re-establish ergy consumed by the clothes win-win, as they say. the forests of the Amazon dryer.)

That’s my prescription.

This can become a medita- river basin, helping to make sure that your quota of carbon (Dr. Douwe Rienstra has tion, the natural joy of the is recycled. The reputation of lived in Port Townsend for morning, the quiet and purthe Nature Conservancy is more than 25 years and is poseful activity, the innocent unmatched. Your dollars can, an independent practitiopleasure of eyes, ears, hands in perpetuity, protect the rain ner. He writes a monthly and perceptive skin. forests that recycle your carcolumn, Medicine For Peobon dioxide back into oxygen. ple. This is an excerpt of a GETTING OUT AND ABOUT You can bicycle Port recent column he wrote that EATING BETTER Townsend from one end to the Leader asked to use for This almost goes without the other in about 20 to 25 Living Green.)

Maraiah Lynn and good uses,” Nadeau loves inNadeau said. troducing people to “Many people know the community and about Goodwill and especially to proWaste Not, Want grams that recycle Not. But I’d like and reuse items. people to also supNadeau, of Port port local services Townsend, spent Maraiah Lynn such as the Advenalmost a decade Nadeau tist thrift store, welcoming newwhich is a major comers as part of a local source of basic goods for Red Ribbon Welcome pro- many of our lowest-income gram, and telling them people.” about the resources availThere are a lot of othable in the community. er recycling programs She recently remem- throughout the county, bered a “Living With Less” she notes. handout that was pubQuimper Harvest is a lished by the Port Ludlow gleaning operation that Voice. invites volunteers to colAlthough the welcome lect from local fruit trees program is defunct, she that would otherwise go came across a copy of the unpicked. handout recently and wonNadeau also wishes dered when it had been more people knew about last updated.

Freecycle, an online list“I found it had been cre- ing of items for sale or ated by Kate Madson and giveaway with more than last updated in 2013 by 1,000 local participants, Taylor Farrell of Chima- as well as ECHHO (Ecucum High School for his menical Christian Helpsenior project,” she wrote ing Hands), which has to the Leader. medical equipment to loan Nadeau says she re- out, and Working Image, ceived the blessing of which outfits women reMadson and Bev Browne, turning to work or fleeing managing editor of the domestic violence.

Port Ludlow Voice, to up“Whether you are lookdate the list of where to ing to move along art suprecycle things in Jefferson plies, vehicles, bicycles, County. books, building materials, Nadeau wondered if clothing, baby or pet supthe Leader would be inter- plies or musical instruested in publishing the up- ments, or you want to dated list, which the Voice know what is accepted for also has on its website at recycling or as household plvoice.org under An- hazardous waste, you’ll nouncements. With Earth find resources for all of this Day events set for all of and more in the Moving It this week, the Leader On list,” Nadeau said. agreed the timing for publishing the list couldn’t be better.

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Moving it on:

Places to recycle almost anything For more info visit jeffersoncountysolidwaste.com or call 385-9160 • Recycle lists, locations and hours for drop box and curbside collection.

• Recycle sites: Transfer Station, 325 Landfill Road, off Jacob Miller Road, PT, 385-0404. Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Quilcene site, 295312 Hwy. 101, 385-9160; also sites in PH, PL and Kala Point.

• Yard debris collection information, for the Transfer Station and curbside.

• Tipping fees at the Transfer Station and Quilcene site.

• Household Hazardous Waste facility, 282 10th St., PT, 385-9160. Fri., 10 a.m.-noon and 12:30-4:30 p.m.

Printable brochures of acceptable recycling and hazardous waste items are on the web page. Printed brochures are available at JC Public Works (PT QFC parking lot), or call 385-9160.

Editor’s note: This list is a service of the Port Ludlow Voice and was recently updated by Maraiah Lynn Nadeau.

To proposed additions or revisions to the list, email welcome@olympus.net.

Abbreviations are PT for Port Townsend, PH for Port Hadlock and PL for Port Ludlow. All area codes are 360 unless otherwise noted.

Sarah Klause (seated, left) has been helping sort donations at the Adventist Thrift Shop in Port Townsend’s Uptown District since 1999. She says that a lot of wonderful items, like the pink baby mats above, are donated. Manager Fran Carey (right) says the store, open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday only, typically sees 60 customers a day.

THRIFT STORES • Goodwill, 602 Howard St., off Sims Way, PT, 385-6600, Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

• Adventist Thrift Shop, Uptown PT on Pierce St., corner of Franklin, at the Better Living Center. Drop box located at side of building. Good, clean basic clothing, house wares, bedding, shoes accepted; no big stuff. Open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tues. and Thursday.

• Olympic Trading Post, 10632 Rhody Drive, PH, 379-3648.

Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Accepts usable clothing, furniture, mattresses. Some items are given to the Chimacum Free Store.

• Chimacum Free Store, upstairs from the Tri-Area Food Bank, 10 W. Valley Road. Call Polly: 732-0383. Tue.Wed., 9 a.m.-noon.

• Habitat for Humanity Store, 2001 W. Sims Way, PT, 3792827. Tue., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

INTERNET • Freecycle: Local listings of free items. You can decide to whom, if anyone, you give the item. To list, go to freecycle.org and search for “Jefferson County Washington,” then follow instructions to sign up for the very ac tive list, with over 1,000 local participants.

• Craigslist: To post items for sale, or free, visit the Olympic Peninsula list at olympic.craigslist.org.

• Other websites are 2good2toss.com, nextdoor.com, Yahoo groups: PT Babies, PT Kids and TheJeffCoTradingPost.

APPLIANCES • Habitat for Humanity Store. Only certain kinds of appliances. Call 379-2827.

• Peninsula Recycling (see “metals,” below). Accepts refrigerators and other appliances, free.

• Transfer Station. Fee based on weight; additional fee for refrigerators and freezers.

• Around Again, see “building materials,” below.

ART SUPPLIES • Boiler Room, 711 Water St., PT, 379-8247. Offers youth services.

BATTERIES • Alkaline (AA, 9V etc.): Place in the trash. Rechargeable, buttons, lithium, cell phone and auto batteries can go to the Household Hazardous Waste facility in the PT Boat Haven.

• Radio Shack, 2207 E. Sims Way, PT. Rechargeable bat teries accepted.

• Car batteries: Penny Saver Market, 2140 E. Sims Way, PT, or • Townsend Electric, 2227 Washington St., PT. Mon.-Fri., 8:30-12:30 p.m.

BICYCLES • The ReCyclery, 1925 Blaine St. (Mt. View), PT, 643-1755.

Tue.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Accepts usable bike equipment and bicycles in any condition.

BOATS • Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, 42 N.Water St., PH. Call 385-4948 ext. 313. Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

BOOKS • Jefferson County and Port Townsend libraries. What they don’t add to their collections is sold for other library needs.

• County: 620 Cedar Ave, PH, 385-6544. Bring in or phone if donating a lot. PT: 1220 Lawrence St., 385-3181. Drop slot located by outside door.

• William James Bookseller, 829 Water St., PT, 3857313, buys used books Mon. & Thu., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Insatiables, 821 Washington St., PT, 385-9262, buys old, collectible and technical books, Thu.-Mon., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

BUILDING MATERIALS • Waste Not Want Not, 1532 W. Sims Way, PT, 379-6838.

Accepts doors, windows, cabinets, light fixtures, toilets, tools, architectural salvage. Buy, sell or trade. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Around Again, 22 Gilbert Road, just west of Sequim, 360-683-7862. Accepts a wide variety of tools, products, furniture, appliances. Call first. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. aroundagainstore.org.

CELL PHONES AND CHARGERS • Dove House Advocacy Services, 1045 10th St., PT, 3855292. Donated phones given to clients for 911 use or sold for other program needs. No chargers.

• Cell Phone Bank, 911cellphonebank.org, 1-866-290-7864 for shipping label.

• Port Townsend Computers, 1200 West Sims Way, Suite B, 379-0605. Cell phones and various printer cartridges.

CLOTHING • Thrift stores, see listing, above.

• Working Image, Mt. View Commons, 1925 Blaine St., 385-0300. Current, well-made attractive clothing, shoes, outerwear; given to women and teens in need. Tue. & Thu., 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• ARC will pick up. Sales income benefits developmentally disabled clients. 1-800-613-0813.

• Fancy Feathers, 910 Water St., PT, 385-1414 for appoint ment. Consignment. Open Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

• Wandering Wardrobe, 936 Washington St., PT, 379-4691.

Consigns vintage, designer, unique items. By appointment. Open Mon.-Sat.,11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m.

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT • Freecycle (See “Internet,” above) • Transfer station and Goodwill accept for free items taken

by E-Cycle Washington. Only computers, monitors, lap tops, tablet computers, televisions, portable DVD players and e-readers. For details, see ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/eproductrecycle.

• Ecycle NW, 272693 Hwy. 101 (east of Sequim) accepts ECycle WA covered items free of charge and other electron ics for a fee. 912-3634 or ecyclenw.com.

• Staples and Best Buy stores accept almost all electronic equipment and peripherals.

• Computers, working: contact David Conklin 344-3383 to discuss donating.

EYEGLASSES • Kiwanis Club, c/o Pacific Eyecare, 2029 E. Sims Way, PT, 385-9580. Mon.- Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Lions Club, c/o Olympic Optical, 2500 W. Sims Way, PT, 379-6477. Tue.-Fri. 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m.

FOOD, PERSONAL CARE ITEMS • Tri-Area Food Bank. Donation barrel at PH QFC. Un opened, non-perishable food items, pet food/supplies, baby food; diapers, cleaning supplies, toiletries. Non-food items may be opened.

• PT Food Bank: 531-0275. Donation barrels at PT Police Station, PT QFC, Food Co-op, PL Bay Club. Accepted items same as for Tri-Area, above. PT Food Bank also accepts fruits and vegetables from local gardeners.

• Boiler Room, 711 Water St., PT, 379-8247. Perishables or non-perishables for free meals (15,000 meals in 2015).

• Toiletries for Dove House (assistance for victims of do mestic violence), via PL Bay Club.

FRUIT • Quimper Community Harvest will harvest apples and other fruit; surplus goes to food banks, seniors, schools and meals programs. Contact Seth Rolland, 379-0414 or Cathie Wier, 202-0677.

FURNITURE • Thrift stores (see list, above.) Habitat for Humanity Store can arrange pick-up, accepts no particle board.

• PT Antique Mall, 802 Washington St., PT, 379-8069. Buy, sell, consign antiques. Call for appointment.

• Cherry Blossom, 2203 E. Sims Way, PT. Call for appoint ment, 379-0853. Sun.-Mon. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

HOMELESS SUPPLIES • Winter Shelter, Legion Hall basement, Monroe and Wa ter streets, PT, 385-1403. Bring after 4 p.m. during season, November-March. Accepts sleeping bags, good tents, warm socks, outerwear.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE • Household Hazardous waste facility located in Boat Haven across from Safeway, PT. • See County website, above.

LINENS • Old sheets and towels, and fleece or cotton blankets, are useful to the Animal Shelter, near the Transfer Station.

385-3292. Tue.-Sun. Noon-5 p.m. Good items can also go to thrift stores, see listing, above.

MATTRESSES • Olympic Trading Post accepts clean mattresses. The other thrift shops listed do not.

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT • ECCHO loans medical items for free. They accept walk ers, wheelchairs, crutches, commode chairs, hospital beds, etc., 1110 Jefferson St., PT. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Call ahead: 379-3246.

• PL Community Church, 9534 Oak Bay Road, accepts some ECCHO donations Tue.-Fri. Call ahead: 437-0145.

MEDICATIONS • Don’t flush: they damage marine life and drinking water.

• See also Sharps, below.

• Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dept., 79 Elkins Road, PH, 385-3831. Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Non-liquid prescrip tion medicines only, loose in a small bag.

• Bartell Drugs, 9600-15th Ave. SW, Seattle, takes drugs in original containers, including inhalers and liquids.

Must bring to pharmacy desk for approval.

METALS • Peninsula Recycling & Auto Wrecking, 4711 S. Discovery Road (Four Corners area), PT. All appliances, autos and auto parts, “anything metal.” For more information, call Ed: 301-1229.

MOTOR OIL • Oil filters should be drained, double-wrapped in

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• Port Ludlow Marina Store, 1 Gull Drive, PL, 437-0513.

Winter 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; summer 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Ask for key.

• Household Hazardous Waste Facility, PT. Also oil filters, fuels, antifreeze. Do not mix.

• Transfer Station and Quilcene Site (see county web site, above). Used oil, antifreeze.

MOVING BOXES • U-Haul, junction Hwy. 19 & 20, takes used moving boxes.

Mon.-Sat., 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS • Crossroads Music, 2100 Lawrence St., PT, 385-1471.

Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 12-4. Donate or consign.

PACKING MATERIALS • See also “moving boxes,” above.

• Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship parking lot (adjacent to small shed), 2333 San Juan Ave., PT. Peanuts, clean white block material only. Small do nation appreciated to offset costs.

• UPS Store, 2023 E. Sims Way, PT, 385-7447. Accepts foam peanuts, bubble wrap, air pillows.

• Mike’s Mail & More, 46 Village Way, PL, 437-2939.

Accepts foam peanuts, bubble wrap.

PAINT • Full cans to Waste Not Want Not or Around Again (see building materials). Oil-based to household hazardous waste . Latex/Acrylic:Discard lid, thicken to non-pourable with kitty litter or sawdust and place in trash.

PET SUPPLIES • Center Valley Animal Rescue, 11900 Center Road, Quilcene, appreciates food, scoopable litter, linens, other sup plies. Call for information and directions. 765-0598, Fri.-Sun. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

PLASTIC BAGS • Recycle clean, dry bags at deposit boxes in QFC, Safeway.

PLASTIC BOTTLES, CONTAINERS • See recycling lists. No brittle clamshell-type plastics, lids, drink cups.

PRINTER INK CARTRIDGES • PT Computers, in PT QFC lot, 379-0605, accepts inkjet and laser cartridges.

• Olympic Art and Office, 220 Taylor St., PT, 385-3141.

Inkjet only.

• Radio Shack, 2207 E. Sims Way, PT, 385-2022. Inkjet only.

• PL Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, PL, 437-2208. Inkjet only.

• Staples and Best Buy stores accept both inkjet and laser cartridges.

PROPANE TANKS • Sunshine Propane, 10853 Rhody Dr., PH, 385-5797, ac cepts 10-gallon or larger.

SEWING SUPPLIES • Project Linus, c/o Pat Gracz, Gardiner, 797-7311.

Welcomes yarn, machine-washable solid or child-friendly print material, batting, etc. Volunteers make quilts for children in need.

SHARPS • Put in red sharps container or plastic soda bottle, lid taped securely, on top of trash. Details at tinyurl.com/hem3yt7.

SMOKE ALARMS • Put in the trash.

TIRES • Les Schwab, 2355 Sims Way, PT, 385-0124, accepts pas senger car tires, no rims, for $3 each.

TOOLS • Habitat for Humanity Store accepts most hand tools and working power tools.

• Around Again, Sequim, see “building materials.”

TRASH • Transfer Station. Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Also Quil cene Site. See county website for current fees.

• Disposal companies: DM Disposal/Murrey’s Olympic Dis posal, 385-6612.

VEHICLES • See donatingiseasy.org/car-donation-washington/porttownsend.htm.

YARD DEBRIS • PT Biosolids Com posting Facility at the Transfer Station.

Yard waste, brush and small tree limbs.

No dirt, sod, rocks or stumps. Fee based on weight.

Dee Dee Spann, director of programs and services at Dove House Advocacy Services in Port Townsend, accepts a cell phone. The program recycles old cell phones and can exchange them for working cell phones for victims of domestic violence.

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Growing ‘food security’

Quimper Grange volunteer garden supports Port Townsend Food Bank

By Robin Dudley of the Leader

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The garden supplies the food bank with collard greens, chard, broccoli, herbs (such as basil, rosemary, sage and chives), rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, several kinds of beans, peas, beets, kale, carrots, radishes, fennel and various lettuces. It doesn’t supply onions or potatoes, which the food bank gets at low cost in large quantities from elsewhere, Stewart said.

The PT Food Bank is located at Mountain View Commons, 1910 Blaine St., and is open on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturdays (seniors 55 and older only) from noon to 2 p.m.

SMALL FARM At the height of growing season last summer, the Grange garden supplied about 125 pounds of produce twice a week.

“It’s basically a small working farm,” said Kathy Ryan, an at-large FBFG member and an experienced farmer. “This is a sizable contribution toward food security in the area.” She added that food bank president Shirley Moss takes care to provide organic vegetables to people who want or need them.

And it makes the farmers feel good.

“If you want to have a good day, just drop stuff off at the food bank,” Stewart said.

We are what our microbes eat: Talk is April 30

Weeding a garden bed – made of a repurposed bed frame – at the Quimper Grange garden are (from left) Kathy Ryan, Jo Yount, Emily Stewart and Grange president Marla Streator. The garden supplies fresh organic produce to the Port Townsend Food Bank.

Photo by Robin Dudley

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The Grange garden is a relaxing, pleasant place to be.

Volunteers of all ages, experience and skill levels are welcome. Those interested can call 360-531-2536 or 517231-1332, or email ptfoodbankgarden@gmail.com.

Another benefit of volunteering at the Grange garden is free produce, as well as the pleasures of gardening.

“It helps you feel really grounded,” Ryan punned.

“It’s very casually run here,” Stewart said. “We have fun. It’s a relaxing pastime.”

The grounded gardeners harvest either on Tuesday and Friday evenings, or in the mornings on food bank days. That entails gathering, washing and then pack-

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“you-pick” garden; part of it is also worked by kids from the YMCA who are growing their own snacks. Stewart noted that at peak productivity, items such as peas and blueberries are timeconsuming to harvest.

Gleaning is the gathering of leftover or extra produce after a harvest; for example, when fruit ripens all at once, gleaners gather and distribute those apples, plums and pears that would otherwise fall unused from local trees. If you have a fruit tree that produces more fruit than you can use, contact Kastel at hahgleaningjc@gmail.com or 531-2536. She also gathers leftover food from Fort Worden’s food services for distribution, helping package, for example, leftover soup that would otherwise go to waste.

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aging the produce in bags or boxes.

The new hoop house should arrive in May, and they’re also building a new washing table for produce.

Totes filled with rainwater are to be replaced with a long washing table equipped with an outdoor utility sink.

Yount, Ryan and Stewart are also glad to have a new deer fence protecting the Grange’s food bank garden.

“We’ve had an awful problem with deer,” Ryan said, as she stood surrounded by succulent lettuces.

Stephen Cade, a professional landscaper and food bank volunteer, donated his time to build the new fence around the 7,000-squarefoot garden. There is also about 1,000 feet of space outside the fence for storage and composting, Yount said.

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Behind the historic Quimper Grange hall grows a garden that supplies thousands of pounds of organic fruits and vegetables to the Port Townsend Food Bank.

“The garden is one of the things that we are contributing to the community,” said Marla Streator, president of Quimper Grange.

In 2014, the Grange signed a memorandum of understanding with Food Bank Farm and Gardens (FBFG) of Jefferson County Inc. to allow use of the garden space indefinitely.

FBFG received its 501(c) (3) nonprofit status in May 2015.

That year, volunteer gardeners grew and gave away about 3,000 pounds of food, said secretary/treasurer Emily Stewart.

Stewart moved to Port Townsend two years ago from Chicago, where she had helped coordinate a community garden. “I was looking for a project,” she said. She didn’t have a job her first summer here, and helped out at the Grange garden almost every day.

“She’s quick and efficient, and young!” said Jo Yount, no slouch herself in the food bank garden. Yount also serves as vice president of the nonprofit, which also manages food bank gardens at Mountain View Commons and at Port Townsend High School; its president is Lys Burden.

FGFB has a core group of about five gardeners, plus about 100 volunteers, including students from Port Townsend High School and people from United Good Neighbors and Gray Wolf Ranch.

And the gardens are growing, literally; especially the Grange garden, set to receive a second hoop-house greenhouse in May, expanding possibilities for year-

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Living Green:

Earth-friendly activities plentiful

Living Green Energy Lunch talks finance April 21

The upcoming Jefferson County Energy Lunch Program features keynote speaker Juliana Williams in a presentation titled “Financing Energy Transition: State Resources for Local Projects.” The program is set for 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 21 at the Port Townsend Yacht Club, 2503 Washington St. Williams addresses the front-end or “capital” part of the costs for development of local renewable energy resources in sun, wind and water, known as SW2 energy. The natural supply of intermittent SW2 energy in Jefferson County is many hundreds of times greater than all local energy needs.

Williams is to discuss the types of projects eligible for low-interest loans through the Sustainable Energy Trust; examples of energy projects financed by the commission; the use of bonds to finance energy-related projects; and resources available to individuals looking to make their homes more efficient.

Williams is the senior sustainable energy analyst for the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, and manages the Sustainable Energy Trust, a fund created in 2009 by the Legislature to provide public support to local energy development activity.

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Program is a local energy activity of the new Jefferson County Energy LLC, in collaboration with Local 20/20.

Main Street plans April 23 Earth Day projects

To get ready for Earth Day, the Port Townsend Main Street Program is planning its annual beautification and maintenance projects, to take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 23. Volunteers – individuals, families, clubs, etc.

– are invited to help paint the Tyler Street staircase and the fence next to the Green Eyeshade, as well as perform chores at Adams Street Park.

Volunteers may call the Main Street office at 3857911 or email admin@ptmainstreet.org.

The Boiler Room sponsors Earth Day this year and expects to have volunteers pick up litter throughout downtown.

Celebrate Earth Day April 23 in Gardiner

Wild Birds Unlimited in Gardiner hosts its 11th annual Earth Day Celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 23 at 275953 U.S. Highway 101 in Gardiner.

The day is dedicated to organizations and artists who work to preserve, promote and rehabilitate native wildlife, habitats and resources; highlights included birds of prey and rescued songbirds presented by the Northwest Raptor and Wildlife Center and Discovery Bay Bird Rescue.

Other special guests include Northwest native flute player Vincent Redhouse together with the Wind People; a short recital is presented by Redhouse’s students at 11:30 a.m.

New this year are two edible plant tours of the Wild

Celebrate watersheds April 23

In honor of Earth Day, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is featuring works by Sequim artists Dianna Sarto and Deborah Harrison in an exhibit titled “Celebrating Our Watersheds.” “As the world around us suffers from increasing droughts, wildfires and water pollution, the preciousness of clean, abundant water is increasingly apparent,” said Harrison. “In this exhibit, we aim to honor Olympic Peninsula’s pristine watersheds and celebrate water’s mysterious power to renew, restore and regenerate life.” A reception is set for 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 23 at QUUF, 2333 San Juan Ave. “Elwha Riverdance” (shown) is a piece by Sarto from her Riverwalker series, which features life-size, photo-based images of the Olympic Peninsula’s wild rivers. Courtesy image by Dianna Sarto

Birds Unlimited grounds with Nancy Slick. Tours, $5 per person, are set for 1111:30 a.m. and 1-1:30 p.m.

The event also features raffles of quilts, a bird-feeding station and more. Tickets are $5 each, and benefit the Northwest Raptor Center and Discovery Bay Bird Rescue.

Artists featured include Amy Weber, Ron Smith of Recycled Ranch Relics, Natalie Brown of Steel Coyote, Jeanne Wyatt and Carmelle Minor-Callow, and the Pacific Northwest Wood Artisans.

For more information, visit gardiner.wbu.com.

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“If every farmer in the United States would practice this system, in fewer than 10 years we would sequester all the carbon that’s been emitted since the beginning of the Industrial Age ... ” says Joel Salatin.

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Bigfoot: Teams reflect ▼Continued from page C1

As the PUD and paper mill have reduced their emissions, individuals and families find themselves responsible for a greater share. For Val Johnstone of the St. Paul’s Pandas team, confronting that responsibility requires a conscious effort.

“For me, the big thing was just being more aware of everything – how much water I was using, how much electricity I was using, trying to buy report that found the livemore local, organic produce, stock industry accounts for 18 not traveling so much,” she percent of global greenhouse said. gas emissions, most of which Johnstone’s teammate is nitrous oxide and methKeith Fleming said he came ane. “I was impressed that into the competition having we were tracking that. Cows, never given much thought to for example, put out a lot of his carbon footprint. methane, and we have a lot of “I wasn’t paying any atcows on this planet.” tention to that stuff,” he said.

“Like most unmarried guys, RESULTS FRIDAY I ate what was easiest to Bindschadler plans to fix. When I saw something present the competition’s fiat Safeway, I would buy it. I nal data and team rankings didn’t think it through. Living at Friday’s celebration, and a green lifestyle just wasn’t on he expects team members my radar.” will share Flemtheir experiing said he ences. Port began conTownsend solidating Mayor trips to the Deborah “For almost every post office, Stinson is reading the team, transportation set to make water and opening was at least half of electricity remarks, meters on their footprint in the a special his house guest is exbaseline period.” and avoidpected to ing red attend, and Bob Bindschadler meat. teams will Local 20/20 Climate Action Fersplit more Outreach Group guson, of than $2,900 the Gray in prizes Wolves donated team, said by local he was imbusinesses. pressed “I’ve been astonished at that the competition includhow generous our sponsors ed a measure for red meat have been,” he said, noting purchases. that every team would walk “It turns out meat has a away with something. “There huge impact on the environare some astonishingly low ment,” said Ferguson, pointfootprints out there. There ing to a 2006 United Nations are some people who are al-

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Park planting The Tri-Area Garden Club continued a tradition of assisting H.J. Carroll Park in Chimacum by donating

plantings. A Callicarpa americana (beautyberry) and a dwarf hemlock (pictured) were planted. Gathered at an April 6 ceremony were (from left) Molly Hilt of Jefferson County Parks & Recreation, and club members Catherine Kapp, Bernita Butler, Vicky Miller, Kathie Wilkinson, Kathy Ryan and Ora Hickman. The club’s annual plant sale is May 7 at a new venue: Chimacum High School. Photo by Patrick J. Sullivan

to launch his own competition as part of his capstone research project on climate change.

“I was already thinking of doing a challenge like that and when I found this, I decided I wanted to use their materials and do a mini project,” Manza said of his competition, which is set to begin April 23, take four weeks, and focus on transportation, electricity use and garbage production.

“A lot of people use cars when it’s not necessary,” said Manza, acknowledging he could walk or ride his bike more often. “And a lot of people use electricity when it’s not actually needed.”

Manza said he hopes to include 20 households and NEW COMPETITION anyone can participate. If Swan School sixth-grader you’re interested, send him a Sebastian Manza has already message him at s.manza05@ piggybacked on the competi- gmail.com. tion, using Bindschadler’s calCounty Commissioner culator and recording sheets Kler said that while she was most carbon sinks.”

Bindschadler said he wants to make the competition’s data set available to local policymakers and, with feedback from participants, he wants to fine tune his custom carbon calculator to be more accurate and easy to use for county residents.

“I’m really quite proud of this thing that we’ve done,” said Bindschadler, who’s thinking of writing an article for Sierra Magazine or Nature Conservancy Magazine with the goal of exporting the competition to other communities. “I have to admit: I think it’s the best darn product of its type that’s ever been put together.”

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