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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS May 30, 30, 2016 | 75¢

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PA shooting suspect still hospitalized

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James Sweet’s condition has improved to serious BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

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Betsy Reed Schultz speaks to the audience at the Captain Joseph House Memorial Service in Port Angeles on Sunday. She is joined by fellow speaker Sarah Vargo.

Captain Joseph House holds commemoration Event honors Memorial Day early in PA BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — Betsy Reed Schultz marked the fifth anniversary of her son’s death by hosting a Memorial Day ceremony Sunday at the house that bears his name. Capt. Joseph Schultz was killed May 29, 2011, while serv-

ing as an Army Green Beret in Afghanistan. “This is not just about Joseph Schultz. This is about every man and woman since our country began and we’ve lost — men and women who stepped out to serve to honor their country, to protect, to give us the freedoms that we enjoy,” Schultz said. Schultz and a team of volunteers is converting the former Tudor Inn bed-and-breakfast on Oak Street in Port Angeles into the Captain Joseph House, a refuge for Gold Star families. Gold Star families are parents, siblings, children and

spouses of service members who died while on active duty during wartime in the military. The nonprofit Captain Joseph House Foundation is creating a first-of-its-kind refuge for grieving families of fallen service members. “Every day, that number of Gold Star families grows,” Schultz said. “It’s not ending. It’s not stopping. We have more families today than we did five years ago, more families than we had two days ago.” TURN

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PORT ANGELES — James Edward Sweet remained at Harborview Medical Center on Sunday after authorities said he took aim at law enforcement officers east of Port Angeles on Saturday. Sweet, 36, was in serious condition at the Seattle hospital, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said. He was initially listed in critical conditions after the gunfight on U.S. Highway 101 at Monroe Road. “As far I know he’s going to be at Harborview for a bit,” Brian King, Clallam County Sheriff’s Office chief criminal deputy, said Sunday. “But how many days? I don’t know. There are officers at the hospital that are maintaining security of him.” Sweet is under arrest for investigation of attempted murder of a police officer. Harborview officials would not confirm that Sweet was on the patient census Sunday, likely for security reasons, King said. “I’m certain he’s at Harborview,” Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict said. Sweet allegedly fled a traffic stop for suspected reckless driving at about 9:47 a.m. Saturday. Port Angeles Police Officer Whitney Fairbanks initiated the stop at Golf Course Road when Sweet sped east, crashed into a car at Monroe Road, got out of his vehicle and fired at Fairbanks, Port Angeles Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said. Fairbanks was able to get out of her car and return fire. Officer Dallas Maynard and

Corp. Kori Malone of the Port Angeles Police Department and sheriff’s Sgt. Shaun Minks arrived at the intersection and also fired return shots. Sweet Sweet had refused officers’ commands to drop his revolver, Benedict said. Fairbanks and a fellow officer were treated for non-gunshotrelated superficial wounds and released from Olympic Medical Center on Saturday. The other officers involved in the shooting and the driver of the vehicle that Sweet crashed into were not injured. There were no new details about the incident Sunday.

Dozens of witnesses “There were probably 50 people who saw that, and you’d be amazed at how differing their accounts are,” Benedict said. The State Patrol is leading the investigation. The gunfight and ensuing crime scene investigation snarled traffic on U.S. Highway 101 in both directions until about 9 p.m. Saturday. Vehicles were diverted around the Monroe Road intersection to allow investigators to process evidence at a scene littered with bullet casings. “There was a lot of forensic evidence that we have to gather and we don’t want to lose,” said Trooper Russ Winger, State Patrol spokesman. TURN

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PA Port to consider director applications Executive session set for Tuesday BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — Port of Port Angeles commissioners will review executive director applications for the port’s top administrative position Tuesday. Commission President Colleen McAleer said Friday that all the applicants’ names — they include Karen Goschen, interim executive director — may be made public following an estimated two-hour executive session that will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the port administrative offices, 338 W. First St. in Port Angeles. McAleer said the commission

also will meet in open session Tuesday, but no earlier than 9:45 a.m. McAleer said she hopes a new executive director will be on board at the port by mid-July. Pat Jones of Jones Strategic will make the executive-session presentation. Jones told commissioners April 18 that the Seattle firm will come up with 10-15 candidates for the commissioners’ review. Jones did not return a call for comment Friday. “It may be that on Tuesday, we determine which people we want to interview,” McAleer said.

“Hopefully, that is enough time to identify which ones we want.” Port commissioners on Tuesday also will discuss the interview process for choosing a new executive director. “I think we need a series of interviews and to bring some community members into it,” she said. “We are going to be discussing those options, those ideas, and possibly give some guidance to Pat Jones, the recruiter, so he can set it up.” Larry Boone of Jones Strategic told commissioners April 18 that an annual salary for the new executive director could be $140,123 based on the average for executive director salaries for the

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ports of Anacortes, Olympia, may be that Kalama, Pasco, Edmonds and Karen Goschen is the Skagit. best option ‘Exceptional skill sets’ that is presented to us. Goschen, who held the dual “I am keeprole of deputy director and finance ing my mind director before filling in as execu- open, but I am tive director, has “exceptional skill one vote of sets,” McAleer said. McAleer three. “My personal view on it is, we “I want to would really need to grow Clal- make sure it is a very well-suplam County economically,” she ported commission decision.” added. Goschen, a Sequim resident “She is an exceptional admin- hired as port finance director in istrator and strategic operations August 2012, said Friday she person, but I’d really love to see will stay with the port regardsomeone with great business less of the commission’s decidevelopment capacity as well. sion. “I want to see what the different options are, and it very well TURN TO PORT/A4

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