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Plaintiff tells her side in PA an accountant in December 1988. She said Myers fired her in March 2012 from her $112,000-a-year job after constantly belittling her, while Cutler regularly went over her head to seek spending-related approval county courthouse, 223 E. Fourth from Myers. St. Ziomkowski, who was 59 when Not accepting of women she was terminated for violating “The male managers or departthe city’s general-leave cash-out ment heads really weren’t very policy, testified that then-City accepting of women, telling them, Manager Kent Myers and thenyou know, what to do,” ZiomPublic Works and Utilities Direckowski said. tor Glenn Cutler were part of a “There was different comments male-dominated culture at City about my accent and how I speak,” KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Hall that shut out women and said Ziomkowski, a native of Poland Former Port Angeles Finance Director Yvonne Ziomkowski made life unbearable for her. who speaks in a heavy accent. testifies in her sex discrimination suit against the city Ziomkowski had worked for TURN TO SUIT/A4 Wednesday in Clallam County Superior Court. the city for 24 years, beginning as
Former finance director says she was singled out BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Former Port Angeles city Finance Director Yvonne Ziomkowski tearfully asserted she was unfairly screamed at, singled out and finally fired during lengthy testimony Wednesday in her sex discrimination case against the city. Testimony in her civil suit continues in Clallam County Superior Court at 9 a.m. today at the
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Private school girls allege molestation BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
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At top, endangered orcas from the J pod swim in Puget Sound west of Seattle in 2014 as a federal research vessel tracks them. Above, a female orca leaps from the water in the same area. times of the year, wildlife managers can access the animal’s health history to see what’s going on and what they could do about it, he said. Understanding the factors that affect an orca’s health will ultimately help pinpoint the key threats and how to reduce them, experts say. “It will be really powerful to rule out things that aren’t important and focus
in on what’s really important,” said Lynne Barre with NOAA Fisheries. She said that will help inform research and management decisions in the long run. The project aims to pull together data on behavior, reproductive success, skin diseases and other study areas to allow for integrated analysis, she said.
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PORT ANGELES — Douglas J. Allison, the principal and head teacher at Mountain View Christian School near Sequim, was arrested Tuesday for investigation of first-degree rape of a child and first-degree child molestation. The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said the alleged victims were two girls 10 and 11 years old, that they were Allison’s students and that the alleged crimes occurred during class. Allison, 55, is being held in the Clallam County jail on $100,000 bail. A hearing for formal charges is set for 1 p.m. Friday in Clallam County Superior Court at the county courthouse in Port Angeles. Michele Devlin, Clallam County chief criminal deputy prosecuting attorney, requested a $250,000 bail at Allison’s initial court appearance Wednesday. “Our argument is based entirely on community safety,” Devlin told Superior Court Judge Christopher Melly. “Mr. Allison is a schoolteacher of minor children, and the allegations are that he molested and potentially raped children in front of his class while other children were watching.”
Centralized records could help scientists monitor Puget pods SEATTLE — The southern resident orcas that spend time in the inland waters of Washington state, including near Port Townsend, already are tagged and tracked, photographed and measured. Researchers follow them by drone and by sea, analyzing their waste and their exhaled breath. Now, experts want to add another layer to the exhaustive studies: individual health records for each endangered whale. The records would take existing research on the creatures and combine it in one place. The idea is to use them to monitor the orcas’ health trends individually and as a population. It’s similar to people having one medical record as they move from one doctor to the next or between specialists. Eighty-four orcas typically appear in Puget Sound from spring to fall. “The goal is to really start getting a lot of data and pull them together in a way that permits easier analysis,” said Joe Gaydos, a wildlife veterinarian at the University of California, Davis, and chief scientist with the SeaDoc Society, which is part of the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine. “Ultimately, the real benefit of any health record is to help make [management] decisions,” Gaydos added. For example, if an orca appears emaciated or is in bad shape during certain
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