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Ethics complaint dropped in PA Fluoridation foe: I made my point BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
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PORT ANGELES — Fluoridation opponent Marolee Smith dropped her ethics complaint Friday against Mayor Patrick Downie just as an ethics board was preparing to hear her allegations. The complaint was dropped three days after the City Council stopped fluoridation. Of four ethics complaint emanating from the City Council’s Dec. 15 decision to continue fluoridation — a decision the council reversed, at least temporarily, on Tuesday — only one now remains. The City Council will discuss
Marie Wiggins’ state Open Public Meetings Act complaint at its next meeting Aug. 16. The board composed of former Superior Court Judge Ken Williams, Danetta Rutten and Diana Tschimperle met Friday to discuss Smith’s allegations, but before they got started, she said she was dropping the complaint.
Ethics claim She had claimed that Downie, who favors fluoridation, violated the ethics law by engaging in “namecalling” and giving “long-winded lectures” and “actually fingerwagged” at Jan. 5 and Jan. 19 City
Council meetings, when he attempted to quiet down fluoridation opponents. She said that Downie characterizing the audience as bullies and as discourteous, threatening, intimidating, angry and disrespectful constituted “name-calling.” “I don’t have time for this,” Smith said in an interview after she dropped the complaint. She also suggested pursuing it was no longer necessary. Smith praised the City Council for last Tuesday approving Downie’s proposal to stop fluoridation immediately at least until Nov. 7, 2017, when city residents will PAUL GOTTLIEB/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS vote on an advisory ballot on Marolee Smith and Mayor Patrick Downie chat at City Hall restarting the practice. in Port Angeles on Friday after Smith dropped her ethics TURN
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Blackberry pies sell fast at Joyce Daze Town’s fruity pastries featured at festival BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
JOYCE — Homemade blackberry pies sold out early Saturday at the 2016 Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival. “We made 230 pies [Friday], and we sold them all out by 2:15 p.m.” Saturday, said Tracey Grover, who coordinated the baking and sale of fresh pies to the public during the festival based on the small, sweet blackberries that abound in the Joyce area. The festival also offered a pancake breakfast, about 60 vendor booths, demonstrations and live entertainment, as well as plenty of fresh homemade pies.
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In addition to the pies for sale, bakers competed in a pie contest, and five out of the six top three finishers in the youth and adult pie contests hailed from the small community. “We had 28 pie entries — 17 adult and 11 youth,” said Deborah Moriarty, festival media relations manager, Saturday afternoon. “We were overwhelmed. It was wonderful.” In the adult category, Linda Dechant won first place, Joan Rogers took second and Katy Thompson third, Moriarty said. All live in Joyce.
Rebecca Paradis of Joyce lines up individual slices of blackberry pie for sale to the public on Saturday.
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Johnson widens Pipe bomb accusations loom Police adding to margin for ballot former report BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Randy Johnson is closer to securing a place on the Nov. 8 general election ballot in the Port Angelesarea District 2 Clallam County commission race after 6,000 additional ballots in Tuesday’s primary election were counted Friday.
Democrat Ron Richards was assured a spot on the ballot after the initial count of votes Tuesday. After Friday’s count, his total was 1,934 votes, or 37.77 percent. Johnson, an independent, now has 1,303 votes, or 25.44 percent. Republican Gabe Rygaard has received 1,144 votes, or 22.34 percent. TURN
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in the Clallam County jail Saturday on $75,000 bail for investigation of unlawful possession of a firearm, assault in the fourth degree-domestic violence and BY CHRIS MCDANIEL possession of methamphetamine. PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Police also may accuse him of PORT ANGELES — A Port unlawful possession of an exploAngeles man arrested July 29 sive device, Powless said. and jailed on firearm and drug charges also may be accused of Other accusation allegedly crafting two improvised The domestic violence charge explosive devices, said Port Ange- is unrelated to the explosives les Sgt. Josh Powless. investigation, Powless said. David J. Pharr, 26, remained Following Pharr’s arrest, Pow-
less initially said that a State Patrol Explosives Unit had found deconstructed fireworks in Pharr’s Port Angeles residence that were intended to be meshed together for recreational purposes, but no pipe bombs. Additional police reports Powless has received since then indicate there indeed were two pipe bombs found during the search that were confiscated by state troopers and rendered inert, Powless said. TURN
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