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Senator aims at housing
Fire and heat
Affordable options highlighted in PT BY JESSE MAJOR
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Smoke from the Hayes Fire sends plumes of smoke across Olympic National Park on Friday.
Record-breaking heat fuels Olympic National Park fires
Heat wave expected to begin relaxing its grip on area today BY JESSE MAJOR
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The Hayes Fire in the Elwha Valley had more than doubled from Thursday to Saturday morning, while the nearby Godkin Fire grew by some 47 acres and the Cox Valley Fire near Hurricane Ridge exploded from 10 acres to 55 acres during the same time period because of heat, low humidity and wind, according to Koshare
Eagle, fire information officer. On Thursday and Friday, two North Olympic Peninsula cities set new heat records, according to the National Weather Service. Forks reached a high of 96 degrees Friday, breaking its record of 85 degrees, set Aug. 19 in 2009 and 1966. At 96 degrees Thursday, Forks also broke the 2015 record of 90 degrees. Port Angeles reached 94 degrees Thursday, breaking its record of 85 degrees set last year. Port Angeles also reached 91 degrees Friday, breaking its record of 84 degrees set in 1966. Port Townsend had a high of 88 degrees Friday. The forecast Saturday was for contin-
ued high temperatures with minimum relative humidity at 19 percent, Eagle said. The Weather Service extended a red-flag warning through Saturday evening. Fires were expected to grow more through Saturday, but a cooling trend starting today was expected to begin to calm fire activity. High temperatures are expected to drop into the 70s today, with humidity increasing up to 80 percent, Eagle said. The heat wave was fueled by offshore flows coming from over the Cascade Mountains, said Josh Smith, a meteorologist with the Weather Service in Seattle. TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — To increase affordable housing, increase supply and opportunity, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell said during a visit to Port Townsend. Cantwell met with officials from the city of Port Townsend, Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County, Peninsula Housing Authority, Clallam County and developers at Discovery View Retirement Apartments on Thursday. The consensus was clear at the meeting: There is not enough affordable housing in Clallam and Jefferson counties. This is a reality Sarah Hull, a resident at the apartments, knows all too well. A couple of years ago, Hull’s living situation changed, and she was forced to find a new place to live. “I started looking around here, and a decent apartment is at least $700 to $800 — and that’s at the low end,” she said. TURN
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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Mountlake Terrace, tours Discovery View Retirement Apartments in Port Townsend on Thursday after talking with North Olympic Peninsula affordable housing developers and officials about finding solutions to the affordable housing shortage.
PA attorney struggles to define profanity Council guidelines being prepared BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles City Attorney Bill Bloor is wrestling with the meaning of profanity. He is preparing guiding principles for City Council members on a ban against use of profanity that they imposed on themselves
last week by a vote of 6-1. Bloor said Friday he could not yet define profanity in terms of what council members could and could not now utter. He said he expects to report on his ongoing review of the prohibition, contained in new rules of procedure for the council and the public, at the council’s next meet-
ing Aug. 30. “I hope that I will be able to give them some advice about how to interpret that in the context of their rules,” he said. American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Doug Honig said Friday the City Council would be wise to rethink its decision in light of the First Amendment. “The restrictions interfere with the free speech right of council members,” Honig said.
“They leave a council member having to guess what is acceptable to say and not to say.” City councils in Sequim and Forks do not have similar restrictions on council members’ speech, city officials in those municipalities said Friday. Longtime Port Townsend City Councilwoman Michelle Sandoval, the city’s former mayor, said Saturday she was unaware if the council’s rules were that specific.
“On occasion, we’ve had issues where the gavel has had to be used,” she said. Port Angeles City Council members on Tuesday approved new rules of procedure that can subject council members to an oral admonition, written reprimand, censure, expulsion from a meeting at which the conduct is occurring or removal from chairs and committee memberships for using profanity. TURN
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