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Clallam sizes up quake practice
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Recent disasters give backdrop BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Konstantin Kirzhakov, a visitor from Siberia, made the most of his time on Ruby Beach on Sunday by free climbing a sea stack. Kirzakhov made it to the top to enjoy a very picturesque beach day.
Plenty of paddlers, peddlers at weekend’s kayak festival Clinics and films present warmup for fun on water BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Whatever floats your boat, the Port Angeles Kayak & Film Festival will offer something for everyone next weekend. The third-annual event begins Friday with a film festival and continues Saturday and Sunday with a wide array of classes taught by expert paddlers and a
demonstration beach near Port Angeles. Award-winning adventure filmmaker and expedition kayaker Justine Curgenven will deliver the keynote presentation at this year’s Port Angeles Kayak & Film Festival. “Sea Kayaking the World” will feature clips from Curgenven’s films highlighting paddling excursions along the coasts of Russia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Patagonia and the Aleutian Islands. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday at Peninsula College’s Maier Performance Hall, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door or can be purchased at www. portangeleskayakandfilm.com.
“We are honored to host one of the world’s most accomplished expedition kayakers,” Hinkle said in a news release. “Justine is an adventurer’s adventurer, and she’s done it all. Her stories are captivating. “She will arrive at the festival having just completed a 700-mile kayak expedition from the city of Sorong in the Eastern Indonesian Province of West Papua to Jayapura, on the Island of New Guinea.” Curgenven also will host a Sunday morning paddle around Port Angeles Harbor and teach a two-hour seminar on kayak-based videography. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — With three major earthquakes on the Pacific Rim in just the past few days as a focus, Clallam County commissioners discussed the upcoming Cascadia Rising 2016 disaster drill during Monday’s work session. The three-day “mission rehearsal” from June 7 through June 10 will test the county, state, federal and tribal disaster response in the aftermath of a simulated magnitude-9.0 earthquake off the Oregon coast with a 50-mile rupture on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, said Jamye Wisecup, co-program coordinator for the Clallam County Office of Emergency Services. “Once the drill is over, the lessons learned will show what changes need to be made,” Wisecup said. Cascadia Rising will include agencies from California to Alaska, including British Columbia, Canada. In Clallam County, the drill will include field actors, staff at the Emergency Operations Center in the Clallam County Courthouse, as well as an Army National Guard decontamination unit, multiple local agency drills, neighborhood groups and representatives from area food banks, she said. In Jefferson County, the drill will be centered around the Emergency Operations Center in Port Hadlock. The timing of the commission’s update was noted at Monday’s meeting. Two earthquakes struck Kumamoto province on the island of Kyushu, Japan: A 6.4 quake on Thursday killed nine people, and a 7.3-magnitude temblor Saturday raised the death toll to 42 with more than 1,000 injured. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador late Saturday killed at least 413 people, with more than 2,500 injured and 180 prisoners escaped from a damaged prison, Wisecup said. TURN
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Port hears of frustration in assessment Report paints ‘fragile’ community connection; unhappy staff, tenants BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles serves an important role in Clallam County, but its connection with the community is “fragile,” according to an assessment based on 34 interviews with government leaders, staff, residents and tenants. Port commissioners discussed the report by Seattle-based Jones Strategic at their work session Monday as they begin searching for the port’s sixth executive direc-
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commission President Colleen McAleer said after the meeting. “It’s not surprising.” The executive director’s position “will not be an easy job,” McAleer added. tor in the “I’m very hopeful that someone past 16 years. will be up for the challenge and “We heard will find it inspiring to have an from the opportunity to have such a big public that impact on so many people and there was a just the community in general.” lot of frustraThe report was put together by tion, we Larry Boone and Pat Jones of heard from Jones Strategic. tenants a lot The company is under a of frustra- McAleer $39,600 port contract, including tion, we also up to $3,600 in expenses, to find a heard from staff that they feel we are trying replacement for Ken O’Hollaren, to do too much, that there is too who resigned effective Dec. 31. much expected of them,” port Jones Strategic will have 10-15
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candidates for the commissioners’ review by mid-May, Jones told commissioners. The identities of finalists will likely be divulged by the end of May, Jones and McAleer said. O’Hollaren, who became interim director in August 2013 and permanent executive director in April 2014, succeeded Jeff Robb. Boone is a former director of the state Public Ports Association and former executive director of the Port of Moses Lake. He said the Port of Port Angeles has stable revenue and expenditures, adequate reserves and strong debt coverage. But organizational changes have created stress among staff
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members, including the brief tenures of port commissioners Colleen McAleer, Connie Beauvais and Steve Burke, none of whom have served full four-year terms. Burke was named to the position March 11 after Jim Hallett’s sudden resignation. “You are a port that’s going through a lot of change, but there’s an awful lot of opportunity facing you,” Boone told commissioners at their meeting. Port staff said they wanted an executive director with an understanding of high-performing port districts. Staff also wanted to be treated with “more respectful behavior,” he said.
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