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PA council delays ethics action Waiting on 2 more panels BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council has delayed acting on an ethics board recommendation to make Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd the first council member to be verbally admonished under the city’s ethics code. Council members voted 3-2 Tuesday to table their decision until two other ethics panels decide on a second complaint against Kidd and one against Mayor Patrick Downie. The second complaint against

Kidd over her actions chairing a Feb. 2 City Council meeting will be reviewed at an ethics board meeting at 2 p.m. today at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St., that deals with such issues as her role in banning political signs in council chambers.

Special counsel Because City Attorney Bill Bloor has said he has a conflict of interest, Port Townsend City Attorney Steven Gross was approved Tuesday as special counsel at no cost to the city, except for mileage, to advise the

panel today on legal questions regarding the ordinance. Bloor would not comment on the conflict of interest. “I’m not going to describe the details of what the conflict is,” he said. The legal questions were raised by second ethics board Chairman Ken Williams, a retired Clallam County Superior Court judge. Williams said Wednesday his concerns are related to the unconstitutional and continuing double jeopardy that could be inflicted upon people who are targets of successive, identical ethics complaints. “If every person who files a complaint follows the exact same

procedure, you could have numerous people filing complaints about the same council member and have multiple boards hear it and arrive at different opinions,” Williams said. “That’s an issue in the ordinance that probably was not contemplated but appears to me to be a problem.”

Rewrite ordinance Bloor said Wednesday he will rewrite the ordinance to address Williams’ concern and have it ready for the City Council’s review by the time they meet for a public Ken Williams work session at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Former Clallam County TURN TO ETHICS/A8 Superior Court judge

Last day for PA’s Haggen is today

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Closure is 3 weeks earlier than expected BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

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In this Feb. 23 photo from the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, an orca whale known as L95 swims in the Pacific Ocean near La Push, shortly before being fitted with a satellite tag. Below is the dorsal fin of the same orca with a satellite tag attached.

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PORT ANGELES — The Haggen store in Port Angeles will permanently close today. The closure date is nearly three weeks earlier than originally announced. The store at 114 E. Lauridsen Blvd. will remain open today until the end of business hours or until the entire story is empty of merchandise, Haggen company spokeswoman Deborah Pleva said Wednesday. The store stopped receiving new stock soon after the March announcement of its closure, and corporate officials said it would remain open until all stock inside was sold.

Soon emptied Initially, the closure was estimated to take place May 10, with its 67 employees laid off at that time, but customers flocked to purchase deeply discounted items, and the store shelves were soon emptied.

Orca death spurs tag suspension Satellite devices are suspected in demise of tagged animal BY PHUONG LE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE — Federal biologists have temporarily stopped tagging endangered orcas in the Puget Sound after a dead orca was found with pieces of a dart tag lodged in its dorsal fin. Researchers use a dart projector to fire the small satellite-linked transmitters into the animals to track where

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they go in the winter and how they find food. An initial exam of the 20-year-old orca found floating off Vancouver Island last month did not find a clear cause of death, but some advocates fear tagging injures the animals and say there are less invasive ways to monitor the small population of whales.

Size of battery The transmitter is the size of a 9-volt battery and attaches to the orca’s fin with two titanium darts about 6 centimeters long. It’s designed to detach over time and leave nothing behind in the whale. TURN

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Signs in the front windows of the Port Angeles Haggen Northwest Fresh grocery store on Wednesday advertise the establishment’s last day of operation, scheduled for today.

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