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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.
Peninsula 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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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 Thompson 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 Feb. 9 special election.
Special election 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 percentplus-one vote needed for approval. On Friday, the election results were certified by Jefferson County Auditor Rose Ann Carroll.
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Area legislators support bill on McCleary Measure is headed to Gov. Inslee 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
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Capitol Times. The bill passed 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.”
Lawsuit The McCleary decision is named for Stephanie McCleary, a Sequim native who is a Chimacum parent and school district human resources director. She was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit that led to a state Supreme Court decision in 2012 directing the Legislature to fully fund basic public education. While Hargrove says SB 6195
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“is not terribly substantive,” he said the bill does lay out “a process for getting to the end goal, and that was actually what the contempt was about, was that the Legislature had not provided a plan on how they were going to get there, so hopefully this will work.” The state Supreme Court has held the state in contempt over its failure to figure out the remaining issues about how the state can fully pay the costs of basic education, as the constitution requires, while ending its overreliance on local tax levies. Hargrove is hopeful the bill demonstrates to the Supreme Court that there is “a process in place that would end up with a
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solution that would pass that would satisfy their concerns, and it will be favorably received to get us out of contempt,” HarHargrove grove said. Van De Wege said the measure sets some deadlines and makes sure legislators are going to be on the schedule mandated by the court.
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