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Carving out a history
Budget is focal point in capital Lawmakers eye Inslee’s addition BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Master Carver Dale Faulstich sits with handcrafted masks in his living room shortly before his retirement from full-time carving. For 20-plus years, he’s researched regional styles to create much of the art for the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe.
Jamestown S’Klallam’s master artist retires and more in an official capacity for “The Strong People.” Faulstich retired Jan. 8 from his 50- to 60-hour weekly routine to pursue other artistic passions, with plans to do some occasional work with the tribe. “I spent my entire adult life doing art for the sake of money,” he said. BY MATTHEW NASH “Now I’m going to do art for the sake OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP of fun. It feels wonderful. I have no idea what I’m going to make.” SEQUIM — For 20-plus years, Dale The iconic art Faulstich has made Faulstich, 65, has put a face, or faces, to the stories of the Jamestown S’Klallam remains everyday fixtures for those driving through Blyn, Sequim and Dungeness. tribe. He’s designed and helped carve more The soft-spoken, non-native artist than 60 totem poles including the 10 from Missouri has served as the tribe’s master carver since 1994, designing and poles in and around 7 Cedars Casino with helping create totem poles, masks, signs its center pole at the entrance his first
Dale Faulstich was man behind more than 60 totem poles
project in his full-time role for the tribe. “I thought it was going to be a temporary contract, maybe take six months, but 22 years later here I am,” he said. His designs continue to welcome visitors and/or share the tribe’s history following different styles from the Oregon/ Washington coastline to Southeast Alaska. Tribal Chairman W. Ron Allen said in Faulstich’s book, Totem Poles of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, that the poles “remind our citizens of their history and heritage and to create a memorable experience for our visitors and guests. TURN
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OLYMPIA — As state lawmakers begin the second week of the session today, North Olympic Peninsula legislators are focusing on the goals of the governor’s 2016 supplemental budget. The supplemental budget calls for adjustments to the $38 billion biennial operating budget approved last year. In his State of the State address last week, Gov. Jay Inslee “set up what he thinks the priorities are for the budget and for the session,” State Rep. Steve TharTharinger inger, D-Sequim, said Friday. “They kind of align with most of what the Legislature is thinking about.” Tharinger — along with Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, D-Sequim, and Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam — represents the 24th District, which covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and part of Grays Harbor County. Along with public education funding, a major component of the supplemental budget concerns mental health care. The supplemental budget provides more than $137 million — including $44 million through the state’s general fund — to provide better treatment for mental health patients. All told, the budget funds about 62 additional medical staff positions — including 51 registered nurses — and makes investments to improve staff recruitment and retention rates at state psychiatric hospitals. TURN
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Retiring PT port chief plans to shift focus Crockett set to depart post June 1 about for several years, according to Deputy Port Director Jim Pivarnik.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Port of Port Townsend Executive Director Larry Crockett expects to take some time for himself after his June 1 retirement. “I gave my first 20 years to my parents as a good son who never got into trouble,” he said. “The next 30 were spent serving my country and the next 17 serving my community, so I’m ready for some ‘me’ time.” Crockett announced his retirement at a meeting of the Port of Port Townsend commissioners Jan. 13, taking an action he has talked
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February workshop Port commissioners will most likely begin discussing the replacement process at a Feb. 10 workshop meeting, according to Pivarnik, as commission president Pete Henke will be in Hawaii until the end of January. “We haven’t talked about this yet,” Henke said from Hawaii. “We knew that he was going to move on, so we are prepared for this.” Henke and Pivarnik said it would be possible to name an interim director to allow time for
the search, a position that Pivarnik said he would most likely accept if asked. “The commission may need more time to work this out,” Pivarnik said, adding that he wasn’t angling for the top spot. “The community may want change which I would not provide as I would run the port similar to Larry.” Pivarnik said the search might be competitive as at least five port director positions are now open in Washington. The candidates could include someone with little or no port experience, Pivarnik said, as “these positions tend to be filled by ex-military or lawyers.” TURN
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