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Powerful drug stops overdoses BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS CENTRAL VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE

Elroy, the baby llama who arrived Monday at Central Valley Animal Rescue in Quilcene, gets a kiss from his mother shortly after his birth.

Newborn warming up with help from rescue volunteers better and took a bottle,” said Sara Penhallegon, the director of the animal rescue at 11900 Center Road in Quilcene. “I am hoping he will pull through,” she said Thursday afternoon. “We will see what his labs show tomorrow.” Shortly after his birth, a volunteer christened the baby Elroy, also naming BY CHARLIE BERMANT his mother Jane. PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Penhallegon said Elroy was “pretty weak” when he was born but soon sat QUILCENE — A llama born Monup and was running around. day at Center Valley Animal Rescue He appeared healthy until 5 a.m. had a close call Thursday morning but Thursday, when Penhallegon found him is now recovering. unconscious in his stall. “For a while, we thought he wasn’t “He was laying on his side and was going to make it, but he is now doing a bit freezing cold,” she said.

Found unconscious, Elroy recovering Thursday afternoon

“I thought he was dead but found he was still breathing.” Llamas are native to cold areas, so the evening temperature in the 20s was not the only factor, she said.

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U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer is calling for more access to a life-saving antidote to heroin overdose, particularly in rural areas that need it most. Kilmer this week urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand grants and programs that make naloxone more available in places like the North Olympic Peninsula. Public health officials in Clallam and Jefferson counties say they applaud the Kilmer effort. “Congressman Kilmer understands the problems faced by rural counties in dealing with the opioid/heroin epidemic,” said Iva Burks, Clallam County Health and Human Services director. “As a provider of naloxone, we know it can save lives.” Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that temporarily blocks the effects of heroin or opioidbased prescription pills like oxycodone. It can prevent overdoses from becoming fatal by reversing the depression of the central nervous system and respiratory system, allowing the patient to breathe long enough for medical help to arrive. TURN

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Early council adjournment still simmering Members at odds over rules, signs BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — Issues that arose as a result of Tuesday’s aborted City Council meeting continued to simmer Thursday — and will likely surface at the council’s regular Feb. 16 session. Councilman Lee Whetham said he disputes a posted notice banning political signs inside the council chambers and Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd’s decision to cut short public comment at the end of a meeting dominated by comments on water fluoridation.

Kidd then adjourned the meeting without a vote of the council members. In an email Thursday to City Manager Dan McKeen and City Attorney Bill Bloor, Whetham said the adjournment appeared contrary to Robert’s Rules of Order. “It details that a majority vote was needed because we still had business on hand,” Whetham said. In an email Wednesday to McKeen and Bloor, Whetham said numerous labor attorneys have told him that “signs are a protected First Amendment right, as

another form of free speech.” “As a council, this new policy decision has not been discussed,” he added in the email. Whetham said Thursday in an interview that he expects to discuss the issues further when the council next meets at 6 p.m. Feb. 16. Kidd said Tuesday she was adjourning the meeting after a speaker used “personal insults” by invoking “The Four Horsemen” to describe four City Council members who voted Dec. 15 to continue fluoridation for 10 years. She had cut off other speakers, some before the end of their allotted three minutes. Bloor said Thursday the City Council is not “legally obligated”

to follow Robert’s Rules. “Under the council rules of procedure, those rules specifically give to the mayor the ability to control and limit and cut off public comments,” Bloor said. “At that point, when Cherie terminated the public comment, she basically had come to the end of the meeting. “The only thing left to do was adjourn.” Kidd said Wednesday that political signs had historically been banned from the council chambers. After the meeting adjourned, Whetham and council members Sissi Bruch and Michael Merideth — who had opposed fluorida-

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