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Pilots await enormous cargo ship PA, PT residents can see vessel pass by Tuesday BY LEAH LEACH AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cook Courtland Waldron pushes a cart of food supplies up the passenger ramp for the MV Coho on Friday. KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The biggest container ship to enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca — and perhaps the entire United States — will be piloted into Seattle on Monday by Puget Sound Pilots boarding in Port Angeles. Three pilots — Capt. David Grobschmit, a lead pilot and an electronics pilot — will board the Benjamin Franklin container ship at 3 a.m. Monday and direct it into the Port of Seattle by about 7 a.m. that day, said Grobschmit, who is president of Puget Sound Pilots. It will return Tuesday, traveling past Port Townsend to Port Angeles, he said. “It is the biggest to come here,” he added, “and I believe anywhere in the U.S.” The container ship is more than 1,300 feet long and nearly
180 feet wide. It displaces 240,000 tons of water, Grobschmit said. The pilots who will guide the ship toward its berth at the Port of Seattle are excited by the opportunity, Grobschmit said. “We’ve been waiting for this our whole seagoing career,” he said. “It’s a pilot’s dream to get this assignment.”
See it in PT, PA Although the ship will leave in the dark Monday, it will return in daylight Tuesday, Grobschmit said. It will stay in port in Seattle for 24 hours, leaving at about 8 a.m., and return to Port Angeles by about noon Tuesday, he said. He expects it to pass Port Townsend at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. TURN
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Ferry, dock preparing for busy spring season to leave Port Angeles at 8:20 a.m. Monday. It will resume multiple daily back in service after a two-month trips across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from its terminal at the hiatus for construction of a new foot of Laurel Street to the wharf at its Canadian terminal, Inner Harbour of the British Black Ball Ferry Line President Columbia capital. Ryan Burles said Thursday. The Coho’s first passenger TURN TO COHO/A5 sailing since Jan. 3 is scheduled
Coho restarts service tomorrow BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A trip to Victoria will get a whole lot easier come Monday. The MV Coho ferry will be
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Benjamin Franklin at Port of Los Angeles in December 2015.
Lawyers disagree over PA petition impact Measure designed to force election BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Attorneys disagree on whether changing the form of municipal government would force an election to potentially get rid of the “Fluoride Four” on the Port Angeles City Council.
Members of Our Water-Our Choice!, a group opposed to city water fluoridation, are circulating a petition that calls for an election to switch Port Angeles from a code city back to its pre-1971 secondclass-city classification “in order to elect a full new City Council.” Organizers hope to bring the
question of changing city status to voters for the Nov. 8 election and follow it with elections for all seven City Council seats April 25, 2017. But it isn’t clear that changing the city’s classification would force council elections. “I don’t see anything in the statute that requires the entire City Council to be elected,” City Attorney Bill Bloor said Feb. 9 at
a Port Angeles Business Association weekly breakfast meeting. Our Water-Our Choice! lawyer Gerald Steel of Seattle said a new City Council would have to be elected because the city’s government would be governed by different state statutes. Brian Wendt, the county deputy prosecuting attorney who will review the petition for conformance with state law, said the
legality of holding new City Council elections could be determined before it ever comes before voters. There is no precedent. No city in the state has yet changed from a code city to a second-class city, according to the Seattle-based, nonpartisan Municipal Research & Services Center, which answers research requests from government entities. TURN TO CITY/A6
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