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DOT worker presumed dead notifications occur,” Millar said. “We all know our jobs involve potential danger,” he wrote. “It’s heartbreaking when that missing state Department of danger becomes a reality and, in Transportation employee. an instant, changes lives forever.” Acting Secretary of Transportation Roger Millar said in an email Recovery operation to Department of Transportation Winger has referred to the employees that there were indicasearch as a recovery rather than a tions that a Department of Transrescue operation. portation bridge maintenance “We have found a few possible technician’s personal vehicle had targets using sonar and an breached a pedestrian cable rail- unmanned submersible, but we ing on the lower deck of the Hood haven’t gotten a target location,” Canal Bridge while leaving his Winger said. work shift Monday evening. As of late Tuesday, no sign of The person is not being identi- the vehicle had been reported. fied “out of respect for our colThe search began at about league’s family . . . until proper 7:30 a.m. Tuesday after reports of
Search will continue today BY CHARLIE BERMANT AND ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SHINE — A search for a state worker presumed dead after a vehicle plunged off the Hood Canal Bridge on state Highway 104 is expected to continue today after an unsuccessful search Tuesday. Cranes and other heavy equipment were expected to arrive onsite late that night, Trooper Russ Winger, State Patrol spokesman, said Tuesday. The person is thought to be a
a car going off the side of the floating bridge. The water in that area is 350 to 400 feet deep, he said.
Welfare check The missing employee was the last person on the bridge crew to depart on Monday evening, and a welfare check at his home showed he did not return home that night, according to Petty Officer George Degner, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman in Seattle. Vehicle traffic was proceeding normally on Tuesday, Winger WASHINGTON STATE PATROL said, while marine traffic had Broken cables show where been suspended. a vehicle is believed to TURN
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A vision for housing Below, Kay Kassinger, executive director of the Peninsula Housing Authority, describes the first phase of the Mount Angeles View low-income housing near homes that will be demolished to make way for multi-family structures. At left is a rendering from the east side of Francis Street from the area where a new Boys & Girls Club facility will be located.
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Housing authority plans to replace low-income units Demolition to start in January, with completion in 2018 BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula Housing Authority has won a $12 million federal Housing and Urban Development grant to replace about 33 lowincome units built in 1942 with 63 new homes and apartments at Mount Angeles View Family Housing complex. The allocation from the state Hous-
ing Finance Commission is for the first phase of the replacement of the buildings originally constructed as Army barracks and a new Port Angeles unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula. It is the first of three phases to replace aging and poorly laid out housing units in an eventual complete redevelopment of the 18-acre, 100-unit lowincome housing complex, said Kay Kassinger, executive director of Peninsula Housing Authority. After the three phases are completed, the development will have 232 units. The project eventually will include two roundabouts on South Francis Street.
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“We want it to be a showcase. We want it to look good,” Kassinger said. Demolition of 33 housing units is expected to begin in January, and construction will begin early summer 2017. “We hope to have the units ready to move in by June 2018,” she said. The first phase will construct 63 replacement units — including one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom town homes and flats — and a senior housing complex in the development bounded by Lauridsen Boulevard to the north and East Park Avenue to the south, and Peabody Creek to the east and South Eunice Street to the west.
PORT ANGELES — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office referred a perjury complaint against Port Angeles Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd to the state Attorney General’s Office after Special Investigator Bob Gebo cut short his review. Assistant Attorney General Scott Marlow said Tuesday afternoon that he received the case and could not estimate how long it will take to make a decision. “It depends on what I’ve got as to whether we need to do any additional investigation or not,” Marlow said. Undersheriff Joe Nole Nole said that Gebo hand-delivered materials, including interviews with Kidd and Port Angeles City Attorney Bill Bloor, to the Seattle branch of the Attorney General’s Office.
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