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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS April 5, 2016 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Kingston picks PT’s port deputy To start new job April 25 BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Port of Port Townsend Deputy Director Jim Pivarnik will start as the new director of the Port of Kingston on April 25. “This feels great; it is another step in my career,” Pivarnik, 64, said. “This is a great opportunity for me to build the Port of Kingston economically and will allow me to take my profession a little further.”
Pivarnik’s announcement follows Port Executive Director Larry Crockett announcing on Jan. 13 that he would retire June 1, resulting in the turnover of the port’s top two administrative positions. The search for Crockett’s replacement is in progress with 21 applications received, although five are incomplete according to Abigail Berg, the port’s finance and human resources director. The port commissioners will begin evaluating the applications this week with an eye to winnow-
ing it down to an undetermined number of finalists, Crockett said. The director is to be selected by the three-member board while the deputy director will be determined by the new executive hire, Crockett said. “I won’t make any organizational changes before I leave. That would be unprofessional,” Crockett said. “The new director needs the ability to develop his or her own team.” Crockett said senior staff will hold a planning meeting later this week to map out a short-term plan for the port to take it through the personnel changes.
When Crockett announced his retirement, Pivarnik made the decision to stay in his current job but was recruited by Patrick Jones, principal at Jones Strategic, soliciting 68 applicants that were winnowed down to three finalists for the Kingston post. Pivarnik’s salary and benefits package is still under negotiation, but the annual salary range is between $85,000 and $105,000. Pivarnik currently earns a $96,000 salary. There are fundamental differences between the two ports, Pivarnik said. Jim Pivarnik TURN TO PORT/A6 PT Deputy Port Director
Fish farm expects loss from Navy pier
Art on the road
Dock construction could be $6M hit BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Centrum Executive Director Rob Birman shows off one of the new passenger vans the Fort Worden-based arts organization will use to increase access to programming. This van features fiddler Anya Burgess.
Centrum leader eyes room for growth, innovation Executive director cites history but stays focused on future BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Since opening in 1973, Fort Worden State Park has built a reputation as an arts center but still has significant untapped potential, according to a presentation given to the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce on Monday. “We’ve done of great things in 43 years, but we want to grow and inno-
vate,” said Rob Birman, who is beginning his fourth year as Centrum’s executive director. “Our goal us to be propelled by a future vision and not pushed by the past.” Since its establishment, Centrum has followed a unique model of offering intensive week-long programs where participants can learn an artistic endeavor from leaders in that field, including jazz, blues, voice, fiddle and writing.
Room for more Birman said there is room for more programs, both artistically and physically. “There are no buildings in Fort Worden that can’t be used as a classroom,”
he said. “We have a lot of vacant space, it’s like a canvas waiting to be painted.” Centrum has added programs along the way, most recently a ukulele festival that is already sold out for its third year from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, and a Kitchen Culture program that celebrated Cajun food and music in 2015 and will pick up again at an undetermined future date. Birman is constantly thinking of new programs and has a list of ideas in his office, including clown school, cowboy painting and storytelling. “We offer programs that are residential based, one week immersive experiences,” he said. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Building a new Navy pier at Ediz Hook could cost a Port Angeles Harbor fish farm $6 million in estimated lost earnings from the end of this year and into 2017, an Icicle Seafoods Inc. vice president said Monday. The company will take the financial hit by being forced to harvest 30 percent of its Atlantic salmon — about 240,000 fish — by Dec. 1, about two months earlier than usual, when construction begins on the $25 million ballistic missile submarine-escort-vessel dock on the south side of Ediz Hook, Icicle’s Alan Cook said in a telephone interview. As a result, each fish will lose significant mass at a time they are gaining about 1 pound a month. “The marketplace punishes the smaller fish,” Cook said. Harvest normally starts at 18 months of growth and runs through 22 months before they are removed from the pens, he added. “We’ll have to empty them by Month 20,” he said. “For us, it’s a very clear infringement on our commercial activity. “We feel there should be some compensation, but whether there is or not, I don’t know.”
$25 million project Construction is expected to last 18 months on the $25 million pier project on the southern face of Ediz Hook at Coast Guard Air Station/ Sector Field Office Port Angeles, Robin Senner, National Environmental Policy Act coordinator at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, told Clallam County commissioners Monday during their work session. The Navy might compensate Icicle for its loss. “The Navy is exploring ways through which that compensation can occur,” Senner told commissioners. A draft environmental impact statement determined that there was no significant impact from the project. TURN
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