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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS June 29 29,, 2016 | 75¢
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Championing the chalet
Minimum wage hike predicted Business group official: Entrepreneurs, prepare BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Rod Farlee, vice president of Friends of Olympic National Park, is proposing the Enchanted Valley chalet be moved about 150 yards to preserve its historic value. Below, the chalet sits above the East Fork Quinault River before it was moved in 2014.
Some urge moving historic structure again Park’s Enchanted Valley options all leave building shut BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK –– A man who moved the historic Enchanted Valley chalet in 2014 says it needs to be moved again. Jeff Monroe, proprietor of Monroe House Moving Inc. of Carlsborg, said during a scoping meeting in Port Angeles on Monday night that he was surprised the National Park Service hasn’t proposed an idea that would
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preserve the chalet. The Park Service is asking for public input in deciding the final fate of the chalet and has proposed three preliminary pro-
posals: tearing down the chalet, providing a new foundation or leaving it as is. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — North Olympic Peninsula business owners, prepare yourselves. An increase in Washington state’s minimum wage to $13.50 is inevitable, a statewide business-group representative told more than 60 entrepreneurs at a breakfast meeting Tuesday. Gary Chandler, vice president of government affairs for the Association of Washington Business, predicted voters this November will approve Initiative 1433. It would increase the minimum wage from $9.47 an hour to $13.50 by 2020 and allows workers to earn one hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked. “This initiative, at $13.50, will pass,” Chandler said. “Every one of us are going to look for ways to cut costs, and it will be staff that you will cut,” he warned. Jack Sorensen, a spokesman for the pro-I-1433 campaign, said in an interview later Tuesday that he expects enough I-1433 petition signatures will be submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office by the July 8 deadline to get the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. Chandler addressed members of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Port Angeles Business Association, the Port Angeles Downtown Association, the Forks Chamber of Commerce and the West End Business and Professional Association who
Gary Chandler Predicts approval of initiative met in the Red Lion Hotel upstairs meeting room.
Small-business agenda Port Angeles was the 16th and penultimate stop for Chandler and other AWB staff who are speaking to business groups across Washington to gather comments for the organization’s “small-business agenda” for the 2017 state legislative session. Their next and last stop is Omak. “This is the best turnout of all the other 15 we’ve done,” said Chandler, whose appearance was sponsored by the Port Angeles chamber and PABA. TURN
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Land purchase Court: Culverts come out Decision on pipes OK’d for lawsuit that block fish has Clallam to buy parcel for $300,000 County, a lawsuit filed in Kitsap County Superior Court by Scott and Elizabeth Lange. “The plaintiffs need the assurance that we will Chapman acquire this particular parcel of property,” Brian Wendt, civil deputy prosecuting attorney, told commissioners Tuesday. “That acquisition must happen within 60 days of our mediation that occurred on May 16,” he said.
BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Two of three Clallam County commissioners have approved the purchase of a waterfront parcel in Clallam Bay as part of a negotiated settlement to a 2014 lawsuit. Commissioners Mark Ozias and Bill Peach voted Tuesday to purchase the one-third-acre property at 120 Salt Air St., for $300,000 plus closing costs. Commissioner Mike Chapman voted no, citing public process concerns. The land purchase agreement with David and Krisanne Cebelak is one step in a proposed resolution to Lange, et al. v Clallam
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SEATTLE — In a case that could have big implications for dams and other development in the Northwest, a federal appeals court panel said Monday that Native American tribes have a right not only to fish for salmon but for there to be salmon to catch — a ruling that affirms the duty of the United States to protect the habitat of the prized fish under treaties dating back more than 150 years. Three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached their unanimous decision in a case involving culverts, large pipes that allow streams to
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Julie Henning, right, division manager of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife ecosystem services division habitat program, and Melissa Erkel, a fish passage biologist, look at a passageway for Newaukum Creek’s north fork near Enumclaw on June 22, 2015. flow under roads but which also can block migrating fish. They upheld a lower court’s 2013 ruling ordering Washington state to replace hundreds of the 661615973
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INSIDE TODAY’S PENINSULA DAILY NEWS 100th year, 154th issue — 3 sections, 54 pages
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