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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS May 16, 16, 2016 | 75¢
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PA City Pier concepts unveiled Public input led to new designs BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — City Pier is destined for big changes. It will take awhile but those who weighed-in on the future of the Port Angeles City Pier last week told consultants with Studio Cascade of Spokane that they don’t want just a light touch of a new coat of paint and other sprucing up. They want a larger Hollywood Beach, an enhanced viewing tower and a combined facility housing the Feiro Marine Life
Center and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary visitor center. About 15 area residents attended the unveiling of pier plans Saturday afternoon at 104 W. First St., in the former location of Maurice’s at the intersection of First and Laurel streets. Consultants unveiled two potential possibilities for the renovation of City Pier, drafted from ideas presented by the public during last week’s public input sessions. Studio Cascade, which is under
contract with Feiro Marine Life Center and sub-contracted with the city of Port Angeles, last week led the series of workshop sessions to gather ideas about what types of improvements are most needed and desired at City Pier. The sessions led to six concept designs, which were then combined into two strategic master plans, one dubbed Klallam Cove and the other Peabody Place. A third plan, known as light touch, simply would renovate the existing infrastructure. “We came in here with no preconceived ideas on what the design plan should be,” said Bill Grimes, owner of Studio Cascade,
during the unveiling. “All these things we have learned from the community.” Among the ideas explored was whether the public wants a bigger and better Feiro Marine Life Center combined with an Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary visitor center. After the new facility location on Oak Street fell through in 2014, Feiro has worked with the Sanctuary and the city on the idea of possibly building a new facility on City Pier, Melissa WilKEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS liams, executive director of Feiro Bill Grimes of the Studio Marine Life Center, has said. Cascade design group TURN
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Student scaling up lizard business BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Lauren Taracka, a 16-year-old Port Townsend High School sophomore, holds Chunk, a boa constrictor participating in a Blue Heron Middle School assembly Friday.
PORT TOWNSEND — A high school sophomore’s love and respect for reptiles has turned into a fledgling business that provides education and entertainment. By the end of the school year, Lauren Taracka, 16, will have led 25 seminars bringing her animals to more than 500 students in six different local schools. She calls her business Lizardopolis. She faced her largest audience Friday during an assembly at Blue Heron Middle School. She told about 100 fourth- and sixth-graders about reptile care and feeding while providing contact with animals ranging from a small gecko lizard to a 13-foot, 40-pound Burmese python. Taracka usually makes presentations using her own animals but Friday she included several from Clallam County Snake Pit, a Port Angelesbased reptile rescue organization founded in 2015. TURN
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Drug bill to add $1 billion to opiate fight Aid could help Peninsula towns BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer and others in Congress whose districts have been hit hard by opioid drugs have introduced a bill to provide more than $1 billion to fight the epidemic. Kilmer, whose 6th Congressional District includes the North Olympic Peninsula, was one of six lead sponsors of the Opioid and Heroin Abuse Crisis Investment Act. The bill has the support of 90 house Democrats and reflects President Barack Obama’s bud-
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get request for resources to increase treatment programs that will help address the drug crisis, according to Kilmer’s office. “Wherever you live, too many folks have felt the impact of heroin and opioid abuse,” said Kilmer, a Port Angeles native, in a Thursday news release. “This scourge has led to overcrowded jails, overwhelmed medical professionals and emergency responders and families who simply want to do more to help their loved ones. “I’m proud to join my colleagues in introducing a bill that invests in programs and profes-
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sionals that are on the ground helping those struggling with addiction and working to provide lifesaving care.” Kilmer added.
Opioid overdoses More than 28,000 died from opioid overdose nationwide in 2014, a 200-percent increase since 2000. Clallam County had one of the highest opioid overdose death rates in the state at 29.0 per 100,000 people in 2013. The state death rate was 14.8 per 100,000. Jefferson County’s opioid over-
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access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders. ■ $50 million to expand access to substance use treatment providers. ■ $12.5 million for Drug Enforcement Administration heroin enforcement. ■ Studies of real-world medication-assisted treatment. ■ Advancements of safe opioid prescribing guidelines. ■ Enhancements of prescription drug monitoring programs. ■ Treatment for prisoners, Second Chance Act grant program funding and residential Bill provisions substance abuse treatment pro■ $930 million to support grams. TURN TO OPIATES/A5 agreements with states to expand dose death rate is lower than Clallam County’s but higher than the state average, Jefferson County Public Health Director Jean Baldwin has said. Kilmer The Opioid and Heroin Abuse Crisis Investment Act reflects the president’s call for $1.16 billion to combat the roots of the epidemic, Kilmer’s office said.
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