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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS February 22, 2016 | 75¢
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Archbishop J. Peter Sartain speaks to more than 400 parishioners Sunday at Queen of Angels Parish in Port Angeles during Mass and the dedication for newly completed renovations. Below, the Queen of Angels Parish in July at the beginning of the renovation project.
Port Angeles church celebrates its renovation Archbishop visits Queen of Angels BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — More than 400 parishioners and the archbishop of Seattle, J. Peter Sartain, joined together at Queen of Angels Parish on Sunday to celebrate Mass and witness the blessing of the newly renovated church building. The archbishop blessed the changes to the church, including a new holy water font carefully fitted on an original pedestal that has remained with the Queen of Angel Parish since it was established in the 1890s. “Five years ago, [Father Thomas Nathe] first came to this church and said, ‘We’d like to fix the bathrooms,’ ” Sartain said. TURN
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BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIA — A bill that sets up a framework to address the McCleary decision has been passed by the state Legislature and is headed to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk for a signature. Senate Bill 6195 — the McCleary basic education funding plan — is the first bill of the session to pass out of both the House and the Senate. The bill passed out of the House on Thursday on a 66-31 vote and now goes to the governor for his signature, according to The Capitol Times. The bill passed Hargrove out of the Senate earlier last week. State Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Sequim; Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, D-Sequim; and Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam — representing the 24th District, which covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and part of Grays Harbor County — said they supported the bill. The bill requires next year’s Legislature to end the state’s overreliance on local school levies. “That is when we will deal with the issue,” Tharinger said Friday. “What [the bill] does is answer the court’s question about whether we have a plan or not to” address the McCleary decision, he said. “I think it shows that we do, so we are hopeful. The court did give us until 2018 to solve the problem, and so this lays out the plan on how we are going to get there.” TURN
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Chimacum decides on April 26 bond retry School board to send item to auditor
the Feb. 9 special election.
“It’s the identical package, there are no changes.”
Special election ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — The Chimacum School Board plans to make another attempt to pass a $29.1 million bond in the April 26 special election. The board met in open session Sunday for a previously scheduled retreat and unanimously approved a resolution to resubmit the bond to the Jefferson County Auditor by Friday’s filing deadline, said district Superintendent Rick Thompson. “It’s the identical package, there are no changes,” Thompson
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said, and added that interest rates on school bonds continue to be “favorable” to finance now. The board wants to capitalize on the momentum that was generated after the February campaign failed to gain voter approval, and there are still a lot of volunteers committed to getting the bond passed, he said. Thompson said the number of volunteers who have expressed interest in helping with a new campaign was noteworthy. The proposed bond resolution was placed on Sunday’s agenda so the board could consider another try at the measure that failed in
The measure gained support then from 2,749 voters, or 58.04 percent, and was opposed by 1,987 voters, or 41.96 percent — about 100 votes short of what it needed for the 60 percent-plusone vote needed for approval. On Friday, the election results were certified by Jefferson County Auditor Rose Ann Carroll. Sunday’s meeting followed a special school board meeting last Wednesday where support for the measure was nearly unanimous, as well as a strategy meeting Friday aimed at mapping out the rapid process needed to win approval in April.
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The proposed bond would fund the construction of an addition to Chimacum Creek Primary School, expanding the kindergarten through third grade school into a full kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school, and provide safety and equipment upgrades for the Chimacum High School track and natural grass ________ field, Thompson said. “The track is dangerous,” he Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at said. 360-452-2345, ext. 56250, or at arice@ The school board’s resolution peninsuladailynews.com.
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will go to the auditor this week to meet the Friday deadline for filing for the special election, he said. The board will meet Thompson again at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the administration building, at 91 West Valley Road. “Everyone is welcome to come,” Thompson said.
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