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April 2016
volume 6, issue 2
A publication for families living on the North Olympic Peninsula, and an advertising supplement produced by the Peninsula Daily
Variety of summer camps offered — Page 8 Museums the family will love — Page 12 Great Outdoors Photo Contest winners announced; see the photos — Page 14 And much more inside
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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS April 20, 20, 2016 | 75¢
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PA tech Clallam agencies center pitch in to aid teen planning for action Composites CEO: Big ‘arrangement’ coming BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Let the timed rollout begin. Bob Larsen, named CEO of the Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) on April 7, said Tuesday he will make a series of upbeat announcements on the CRTC beginning Friday. Larsen, formerly the CRTC board president, would not elaborate. Friday’s announcement is “a business arrangement, and it’s a big one,” he said. On Monday, Larsen said he will deliver the CRTC’s firstquarter status report to Port of Port Angeles commissioners. That will be followed by Larsen four to six weeks of business and community group meetings that will culminate in divulging, later this summer, the identity of a CRTC consumer product that will be manufactured from recycled composite fiber scraps. Larsen’s message Tuesday: Stay tuned. Recycled carbon fiber can be fashioned into products ranging from solar panel frames to ski poles, from computer cases to snowboards — products in which the aerospace industry has no interest. Larsen said he is managing expectations and being attentive to competition in the fledgling industry, in which the CRTC is one of the first players. “If they know what we are doing and the price point we are coming in, it changes the whole structure of our market,” he said. “We want to protect our position in our market niche that will contribute directly to the success of our product.” The scraps also will be pressed into rolls to be sold to other manufacturers at the CRTC’s 25,000-square-foot port building at 2020 W. 19th St. at William R. Fairchild International Airport, said port Director of Business Development Jennifer States, who also serves as the CRTC’s vice president of external affairs. TURN
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Clallam County corrections officers Eric Morris, left, and Owan McCann watch as chain gang inmates demolish a junked recreational vehicle on a property off Old Olympic Highway east of Port Angeles.
Inherited property cleared of 20 tons of debris BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County agencies have helped an orphaned teenager by clearing more than a decade of junk from property she inherited. Members of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang removed nearly 20 tons of debris last week from a property at 584 Old Olympic Highway, including junked cars, dilapidated motor homes and piles of old tires, old toys and trash.
The Clallam County Road Crew, the Clallam County Public Works and the Department of Community Development also contributed to the cleanup. The teenager, who has not been identified by the county and declined an interview, inherited the 0.53-acre property after both of her parents died in 2015, said Barb McFall, a Clallam County code enforcement officer. Her mother died of cancer in May and her father died on the property in July, McFall said. According to county property records,
the property has a taxable value of $24,000. The teenager is a high school student who is living with relatives in another county and did not have the resources to clear the property herself, McFall said.
Source of complaints McFall said the highly visible property has been the source of numerous complaints by neighbors and others driving by. TURN
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Jefferson School is reaching beyond PT Kids from Clallam, China on board BY MICHAEL DASHIELL OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP
mission is one of the smaller schools in the area. What it lacks in size, it makes up for in geographic vision, staff members say. “It’s a cool school. The education is individualized, to a large extent,” said Craig Frick, a Sequim resident who teaches history and civics and works as assistant head of school. “There’s a lot of free choice in their education, which empowers them,” Frick said.
PORT TOWNSEND — Small school, big dreams. Nestled in downtown Port Townsend among the boutique shops, cafes and bistros, in a three-story building once used as a Templar Hall, is a gateway to the world. Founded in 2004, Jefferson Community School at 280 Quincy St. has grown in recent years and now boasts about 35 students. Annual gala With a staff of less than 10, The school will host its annual the independent, private nonprofit school accredited by the dinner and auction fundraiser Northwest Accreditation Com- from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. April 30.
The Year of the Monkey Gala will be at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St. Tickets are $80 and are available in advance on the website at www.jeffersoncommunityschool. com. They also will be offered at the door. Head of School Rita Hemsley, who has a doctorate, came to the school three years ago to oversee a program that had seen enrollment drop to 17 students and was in danger of closing. Through reaching out to outlying communities and countries — three of the three dozen students this year are from Sequim and two are from China — that MICHAEL DASHIELL/OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP number has grown each year. History teacher Craig Frick of Sequim, right, leads a TURN TO SCHOOL/A8 current events discussion at Jefferson Community School.
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