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Red tide levels reach 10-year high Toxins force state to close Clallam shellfishing areas BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
A massive influx of red tide at levels not seen in at least a decade is inundating shellfish in Clallam County sea waters with potentially lethal levels of paralytic
shellfish poison — and the toxin may be moving east toward Jefferson County, state public health officials say. The discovery of high levels of the marine toxin — called PSP, which causes breathing difficulties
— prompted the closure last week of all beaches along the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Dungeness Spit to Cape Flattery to recreational harvest — ocean beaches already being closed for the season. A commercial geoduck harvest tract used by both the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe and the state Department of Natural Resources also was closed after the toxin level was tested there, said Greg Combs of the state Department of Health Office of Shellfish and
Water Protection on Friday. “It’s pretty bad compared to recent history” of the last 10 to 15 years, Combs said. “It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a bloom like this occur.”
Levels of toxin Levels of toxin ranged from more than 1,000 micrograms to more than 3,000 micrograms in samples from Clallam County beaches last week. Shellfish harvesting is closed
when PSP levels reach 80 micrograms per 100 grams of shellfish tissue. The level of PSP found approaches the amount measured in shellfish when three Lower Elwha Kallam tribal members died after eating poisoned butter clams and mussels in 1942 — the last time any deaths from the toxin were recorded in the state, Combs said. TURN
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Clallam to see a busy primary More contenders emerge for three county positions BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The final day of filing week for the November general election guaranteed a busy Aug. 17 primary ballot for elected Clallam County government positions. The new candidate filings on Friday produced three-way primary races for Democrat Mike Doherty’s West End county commissioner seat and District Court 1 Judge Rick Porter’s position as well as a five-way battle for director of the Department of Community Development John Miller’s post.
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Peninsula College graduate Philip Sheperd of Port Angeles gets assistance with his tassel from Sirrah Brown of Port Angeles before Saturday’s commencement ceremony on the college’s main campus. About 180 students were scheduled to take part in commencement.
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Some incumbents unopposed Incumbents who filed for re-election and face no opposition in the primary or general election are Sheriff Bill Benedict of Sequim, Auditor Patty Rosand of Port Angeles, Assessor Pam Rushton of Port Angeles, West End District Court 2 Judge Erik Rohrer of Forks, and Clallam County Public Utility District Position 1 incumbent Will Purser. In one county race, that for treasurer, only two candidates have filed. Incumbent Judy Scott of Port Angeles will face off against DCD Senior Planner and nonpracticing lawyer Selinda Barkhuis of Port Angeles. That’s not the case with the District 3 county commissioner, DCD and judge positions. Candidates will vie in a top two primary race that will narrow the field to only two candidates for the November election. TURN
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Washington Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens delivers the commencement address for Peninsula College on Saturday on the Port Angeles campus.
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Once hopeful for county prosecutor takes candidacy to Eastern Washington the Port Angeles attorney filed at the last minute for a congressional seat in Eastern Washington. PORT ANGELES — David R. Fox, 49, had said that he would Fox’s quest for a political office took run for the Clallam County prosan unexpected turn Friday when ecuting attorney seat now held by
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PORT ANGELES — Washington Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens used metaphors gleaned from her favorite sport to pitch a lifetime of wisdom to Peninsula College’s graduates Saturday. Owens, the seventh woman to sit on the high court and a former Clallam County District Court judge, delivered the commencement speech to a gymnasium full of graduates, their families and other supporters. About 180 of the 356 students who received degrees were pres-
ent at the ceremony at the Port Angeles campus of the college, which also has branches in Forks and Port Townsend. Owens’ approximately eightminute speech was initially going to be titled, “Why bother?” “But that’s not appropriate or inspiring for such a great day,” she said, joking that it would lead to questions such as: Why take on so much debt? Instead, Owens chose to throw that out and use baseball metaphors to deliver 12 positive messages for the graduates to take with them.
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Actress earns royal honors from queen FROM WALES TO Hollywood to “Chicago” — now Catherine ZetaJones has an appointment at Buckingham Palace. ZetaJones added a royal honor to Hollywood stardom when she was named a Zeta-Jones Commander of the Order of the British Empire on Saturday by Queen Elizabeth II. The Academy Award winner is part of an eclectic list of honorees, announced to mark the queen’s official birthday, that includes the founder of the Jimmy Choo footwear label and 1960s rocker Graham Nash. Swansea, Wales-born Zeta-Jones, 40, began her career in British theater and television before moving to Hollywood and marrying actor Michael Douglas. The actress, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2003 for the musical “Chicago,” can now put the letters CBE after her name. “I am absolutely thrilled with this honor,” ZetaJones said in a statement. “As a British subject, I feel incredibly proud.
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Jesse in court Jesse James is getting his day in court. Quite a few of them, actually. The biker businessman and estranged husband of Sandra Bullock was a fixture in a Los Angeles courtroom last week, where he’s involved in dueling lawsuits with an apparel manufacturer and distributor. James, 41, is scheduled to testify and is expected to attend all the proceedings. The case, with millions of dollars on the line, is far from the only one involving James.
It is, however, one that centers on his business rather than his personal life. He is James also embroiled in a custody dispute in neighboring Orange County with his ex-wife, Janine Lindemulder. James had been expected to attend a hearing in that case this week, but it may be postponed.
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Laugh Lines THE SCI-FI CHANNEL announced it was going to have a cooking show. Phasers on sauté, Mr. Sulu! Your Monologue
THURSDAY’S QUESTION: Should residences and businesses be legally required to recycle? Yes
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Passings SIGMAR POLKE, 69, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died Thursday in Cologne, Germany. The cause was complications from cancer, said Gordon VeneKlasen, a partner at the Michael Werner Gallery New York which, along with Galerie Michael Werner in Cologne, has been Mr. Polke’s chief representative for nearly 20 years. Mr. Polke was nearly as influential as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, the postwar titans who made his own work possible. And ultimately his influence could even exceed theirs through its sheer diversity, stylistic promiscuity and joyful, ruthless exploitation and expansion
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of the ways and means of several media. He made prints and sculpture and in his Mr. Polke youth, and dabbled memorably in Conceptual and installation art, with potatoes being a favored material. His paintings were essentially Conceptual in their skepticism about the very act of painting.
________ PETER KEEFE, 57, the creator and executive producer of “Voltron: Defender of the Universe,” a hugely popular 1980s cartoon series that helped prepare the way for other Jap-
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anese-style animation in the United States, died on May 27 in Rochester, N.Y. The cause was throat cancer, his brother, Chris, said. The show’s giant swordwielding robot defended the universe from 1984 to 1987; “Voltron” became the No. 1 syndicated children’s show for two years and raked in huge profits in merchandise.
Did You Win? State lottery results
■ Friday’s Daily Game: 1-2-0 ■ Friday’s Keno: 05-07-08-15-16-18-21-2230-33-35-36-42-44-46-4752-68-71-73 ■ Friday’s Match 4: 05-06-12-15 ■ Friday’s Mega Millions: 06-13-33-34-42, Mega Ball: 25 ■ Saturday’s Daily Game: 3-3-8 ■ Saturday’s Hit 5: 03-08-14-32-34 ■ Saturday’s Keno: 03-06-10-14-16-19-20-2228-30-33-39-41-43-49-5053-54-75-80 ■ Saturday’s Lotto: 01-04-14-22-28-38 ■ Saturday’s Match 4: 11-12-17-23 ■ Saturday’s Powerball: 09-12-13-35-38, Powerball: 30, Power Play: 10
■ Pam Lindquist is a candidate for Clallam County District Court 1 judge. Her name was misspelled Friday on Page A1 of the Clallam County edition.
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Peninsula Lookback From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
50 YEARS AGO (1960): Response to a local appeal for aid to victims of the Chilean earthquake disaster is gratifying, R.P. Moore of the clallam County Red Cross disaster committee said. Moore said $57 in cash and more than 400 pounds of clothing and blankets have been contributed. The committee made up of local church pastors and headed by Moore is spearheading the drive, which ends June 15. [The magnitude 9.5 earthquake in central Chile on May 22, 1960, remains to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.] 25 YEARS AGO (1985): Clallam County commissioners may soon lay to rest an issue that involves less than $1 in unpaid property taxes on an old Native American cemetery — an issue resurrected after 83 years. The Jamestown
S’Klallam tribe has asked the county to return ownership of the Jamestown Cemetery to the tribe. The county took over the cemetery in 1902 after the tribe failed to pay two years’ worth of property taxes on the land — a tax bill totalling 76 cents. The cemetery near Sequim contains the remains of many of the tribe’s ancestors and is regarded as significant in the Klallam culture and history, said Tribal Council Chairman Ron Allen. Commissioner Evan Jones, noting that a public hearing is required, said that he sees no problem in returning the cemetery to the tribe. But the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has advised the commissioners that they will have to legally require the tribe to pay the 76 cents in back taxes before returning the land.
Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS SUNDAY, June 13, the 164th day of 2010. There are 201 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On June 13, 1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent before being questioned by police. On this date: ■ In 1886, King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg. ■ In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City. ■ In 1935, James Braddock claimed the title of world heavy-
weight boxing champion from Max Baer in a 15-round fight in Long Island City, N.Y. “Becky Sharp,” the first movie photographed in “three-strip” Technicolor, opened in New York. ■ In 1944, Germany began launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II. ■ In 1957, the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrived at Plymouth, Mass., after a nearly two-month journey from England. ■ In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. ■ In 1971, The New York Times
began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam. ■ In 1981, a scare occurred during a parade in London when a teenager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. ■ In 1983, the U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune. ■ In 1996, the 81-day-old Freemen standoff ended as 16 remaining members of the anti-government group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch. ■ Ten years ago: The presidents of South Korea and North Korea opened a summit in the northern capital of Pyongyang with pledges to seek reunification of the
divided peninsula. Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who’d tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. Agca was then sent back to Turkey to serve a prison term for a killing there; he was released in January 2010. ■ Five years ago: A jury in Santa Maria, Calif. acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch. ■ One year ago: Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police in the heart of Tehran after the Iranian president claimed a re-election victory. Hundreds gathered in Los Angeles to attend a funeral for David Carradine, more than a week after the 72-year-old actor was found hanged in Bangkok.
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Briefly: Nation Prisoner who killed cellmate wants death POUND, Va. — For seven days, Robert Gleason Jr. begged correctional officers and counselors at Wallens Ridge State Prison to move his new cellmate. The constant singing, screaming and obnoxious behavior were too much, and Gleason knew he was ready to snap. On the eighth day — Gleason May 8, 2009 — correctional officers found 63-year-old Harvey Gray Watson Jr. bound, gagged, beaten and strangled. His death went unnoticed for 15 hours because correctional officers had falsified inmate counts at the high-security prison in southwestern Virginia. Now, Gleason says he’ll kill again if he isn’t put to death for killing Watson, who had a history of mental illness. And he says his next victim won’t be an inmate. “I murdered that man coldbloodedly. I planned it, and I’m gonna do it again,” the 40-yearold Gleason told The Associated Press. “Someone needs to stop it. The only way to stop me is put me on death row.” Gleason already is serving a life sentence for killing another man.
Teacher tenure DENVER — Colorado is changing the rules for how teachers earn and keep the
sweeping job protections known as tenure, linking student performance to job security despite outcry from teacher unions that have steadfastly defended the system for decades. Colorado’s Legislature changed tenure rules despite opposition from the state’s largest teacher’s union, a longtime ally of majority Democrats. Gov. Bill Ritter, also a Democrat, signed the bill into law last month. It requires teachers to be evaluated annually, with at least half of their rating based on whether their students progressed during the school year. Beginning teachers will have to show they’ve boosted student achievement for three straight years to earn tenure. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today’s news shows Guest lineups for today’s Sunday TV news shows: ■ ABC’s “This Week” — House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio ; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.; Bill Gates , cofounder of Microsoft Corp.
Fiorina ■ CBS’s “Face the Nation” — Govs. Charlie Crist , R-Fla., Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and Bob Riley, R-Ala. ■ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for Senate from California. ■ CNN’s “State of the Union” — Riley; Reps. James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Mike Pence, R-Ind. ■ “Fox News Sunday” — Fiorina; Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Barbara Bush, daughter of former President George W. Bush.
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Briefly: World Teen OK after her rescue from crippled sailboat A California teenager who spent three days adrift on the turbulent Indian Ocean described her ordeal as “crazy” as she started a long journey home aboard a French fishing boat that rescued her Saturday from her crippled sailboat. Abby Sunderland was bumped and bruised but otherwise healthy, her parents said after hearing from the 16-year-old in a 20-minute Sunderland phone call. “She sounded tired, a little bit small in her voice, but she was able to make jokes and she was looking forward to getting some sleep,” her mother, Marianne Sunderland, told reporters outside the family home. Her mother, who is close to giving birth to a boy, said her daughter joked about her ordeal affecting the baby and also talked about plans for the next school year. The young sailor continued to blog after being rescued more than 2,000 miles west of Australia two days after a wave broke the mast of her boat, Wild Eyes, satellite phone communication was lost and she set off emergency beacons.
Thousands flee OSH, Kyrgyzstan — Ethnic riots wracked southern Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, forcing thousands of Uzbeks to flee as their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men. The interim government begged Russia for troops to stop the violence, but the Kremlin offered only humanitarian assistance. At least 77 people were reported killed and more than 1,000 wounded in the violence spreading across the impoverished Central Asian nation that hosts U.S. and Russian air bases. Much of its second-largest city, Osh, was on fire Saturday.
A cabin along the Little Missouri River in Langley, Ark., was picked up by floodwaters and placed on top of a pickup truck.
Search for Arkansas victims turning grim 18 killed, more feared perished in flash floods THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANGLEY, Ark. — The search for nearly two dozen people who disappeared after flash floods swept through a popular campground went from desperate to grim Saturday, after teams that scoured miles of river and rugged wilderness found just two bodies. The last time someone was found alive was late Friday morning, hours after a pre-dawn wall of water surprised sleeping campers at the Albert Pike Recreation Area, leaving them frantically trying to scramble up the steep terrain in the dark. As the swollen rivers subsided and the hours ticked by Saturday, anguished relatives waiting for word of loved ones grew more and more frustrated, lashing out at reporters, knowing that at some point the search mission would become one of recovery. “They’re just devastated. The
KABUL, Afghanistan — Fueling momentum for a political solution to the nearly nineyear-old Afghan war, a U.N. committee is reviewing whether certain people could be removed from blacklisting that freezes assets and limits travel of key Taliban and al-Qaida figures, the top U.N. representative said Saturday. Delegates to a national conference, or peace jirga, held this month in Kabul called on the government and its international partners to remove some of the 137 people from the list — a long-standing demand of the Taliban. The U.S., Britain and France, who maintain troops in Afghanistan, wield veto power on the U.N. council and would have to agree to changes on the list. The Associated Press
Young children At least six of the 18 people confirmed killed were young children, according to a list released by Gov. Mike Beebe’s office publicly identifying 15 of them. Among them were five people, including three children, from Gloster, La., as well as three others from that state and six from Texas. State police said Saturday evening that there were 22 people missing. Search crews were called in around 8 p.m. Saturday but planned to resume their work around 6:30 a.m. today, police said. The only Arkansas victim identified was Leslie Jez, of 23-yearold mother and wife from Foreman whose husband, Adam Jez, was listed as among those who survived the flood. “So ready to go camping this weekend,” she wrote on her Facebook page Monday.
“Kaden is going to love it!!” She later added, “Not looking forward to that cold water, but sounds like I might change my mind after seeing how hot it’s supposed to be.” Authorities haven’t said whether the child survived. About 200 searchers combed some 20 miles of wilderness along the receding rivers on Saturday. Crews on kayaks and canoes scanned the thick brush and debris in the swollen Caddo and Little Missouri rivers for bodies, but experts say many of those killed could be trapped under fallen trees and rocks, and that the river water likely won’t be clear enough to see through for several days.
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time for shock has probably gone and now it’s just anxiety building. They’re beginning to fear the worst,” said Graig Cowart, the pastor of the Pilgrim Rest Landmark Missionary Baptist Church.
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the weekend, telling the British oil giant that its slow pace in stopping the spill is becoming increasingly alarming as the disaster fouled the coastline in ugly new ways Saturday. The Coast Guard sent a testy letter to BP’s chief operating officer that said the company urgently needs to pick up the pace and present a better plan to contain the spill by the time President Barack Obama arrives on Monday for his fourth visit to the beleaguered coast. The letter, released Saturday, follows nearly two months of tense relations between BP and the government and reflects the growing frustration over the company’s inability to stop the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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The dispute escalated on the same day that ominous new signs of the tragedy emerged on the beaches of Alabama. Waves of unsightly brown surf hit the shores in Orange Beach, leaving stinking, dark piles of oil that dried in the hot sun and extended up to 12 feet from the water’s edge for as far as the eye could see. Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. The latest cap installed on the blown-out well is capturing about 650,000 gallons of oil a day, but large quantities are still spilling into the sea. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company will respond to the letter by tonight.
Obama: Ire isn’t aimed at Britain PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA reassured British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday that his frustration over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was not an attack on Britain. The two leaders spoke by phone for 30 minutes. Cameron also has been under pressure to get Obama to tone down the criticism, fearing it will hurt the millions of British retirees holding BP stock that has taken a beating in recent weeks. Cameron told Obama of his sadness at the disaster, while Obama said he recognized that the former British Petroleum is a multinational company. The Associated Press
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West: Southern California jolted just a minute apart
Nation: Kagan held big Clinton administration role
World: Cuba apparently softens stance on dissent
World: Dutchman ordered jailed on murder charge
TWO EARTHQUAKES ONE minute apart shook Southern California on Saturday night, but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The first, a magnitude 4.9, was recorded at 8:08 p.m. The second, a magnitude 4.5, was recorded at 8:09 p.m. The epicenter of the quakes was about 15 miles northwest of Borrego Springs northeast of San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS geophysicist Dale Grant said quakes of the type that occurred Saturday night are extremely common for that area. They were considered moderate.
FOR FOUR YEARS as a White House lawyer and aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had a hand in many of the major issues that drove and vexed the Clinton administration. Nearly 90,000 pages of records from the Clinton White House, released at the request of senators who will vote on her nomination, show that Kagan played a role in crafting Clinton’s policies on abortion, gun control, welfare reform and tobacco. They also reveal that she was among the small army of lawyers who worked unsuccessfully to postpone Paula Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton.
CUBA ON SATURDAY freed a political prisoner who is confined to a wheelchair and began transferring six others to jails closer to their homes, part of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church and the most important sign yet that the government may be softening its hardline stance on organized dissent. Ariel Sigler, one of 75 activists, community organizers and journalists arrested in a sweeping 2003 crackdown, was released in his hometown of Pedro Betancourt in the province of Matanzas. Sigler, 44, had been serving a 25-year sentence for treason until being transferred recently to a hospital.
ANGRY ONLOOKERS SHOUTED “Disgrace!” and “Murderer!” at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a Peruvian judge ordered him jailed on firstdegree murder and robbery charges in the beating and strangling death of a young woman. Prosecutors said the Dutchman, who was taken to a segregated block of an eastern Lima prison, acted with “ferocity and great cruelty” in killing 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores in his hotel room. Van der Sloot remains the lone suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba.
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Group makes case for clean mill Environmental council wants to remove tank BY TOM CALLIS PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The theme of the meeting was how the remaining structures on the Rayonier’s former mill site can influence the cleanup of Puget Sound. But the Thursday meeting was not another information session held by Port Angeles city staff to explain how they want to use a large tank on the 75-acre waterfront property to prevent sewage overflows into Port Angeles Harbor and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Instead, the gathering hosted by the Olympic Environmental Council attempted to make the case for removing any and all remnants of the mill — including the 5-million-gallon tank. “Our concept is more 21st century,” said Darlene Schanfald, the group’s coordinator for the environmen-
tal cleanup of the site, at the meeting held at the Clallam County courthouse. Representatives of the state Department of Ecology, Puget Sound Partnership, the state Department of Natural Resources and Jim and Robbie Mantooth — the owners of Ennis Arbor Farm — made presentations, along with Schanfald’s. About 40 people attended the meeting, which was funded by an Ecology public participation grant.
Alternative to tank Instead of the tank, Schanfald said, the group wants to see the city use “low-impact development” and other methods to prevent storm water from overflowing the city’s sewer system, which causes about 32 million gallons of sewage to spill into the harbor each year.
City staff have said that option isn’t feasible. In previous interviews, city staff members said they are not opposed to such alternatives but maintain that relying on those options alone would cost at least double the approximately $38 million to $45 million cost of hooking the tank up to the city’s sewer system, and not solve the problem — at least not for the foreseeable future. The city’s plan for the tank, located next to its wastewater treatment plant, is to use it to store untreated storm water and sewage that would otherwise overflow during heavy rain fall, and drain the effluent to the treatment plant to the rate at which it can handle. It must have the tank — which it currently doesn’t own — ready for use by 2015 or face fines from the Ecology of up to $10,000 a day. While making the case against use of the tank, Schanfald said that it’s not big enough to handle all storm events. That may be true since
Port Angeles has seen overflow events of more than 5 million gallons. For instance, on Nov. 16, about 9 million gallons of untreated effluent spilled into the harbor during a 17-hour period. In an interview in May, city Public Works and Utilities Director Glenn Cutler said the tank could still handle that amount as long as the effluent was spread out enough over those 17 hours. But he also couldn’t promise that such a large storm event — which also caused Tumwater Creek to flood on Nov. 16 — wouldn’t result in an overflow. Still, Cutler said, the city’s plan to use the tank, approved by Ecology, will put Port Angeles in compliance with the state agency’s requirement that it have no more than four overflows a year on average after 2015.
Vision for site The environmental council displayed a graphic of its vision for the Rayonier site, which has been a state cleanup site since 2000. It showed a meandering,
unrestricted Ennis Creek flowing into a restored estuary near a tribal cultural center. The graphic also showed the pier removed. Neither Rayonier, which owns the site, nor the Harbor-Works Development Authority, which has been tasked by the city with acquiring and redeveloping the Rayonier property, were invited to send representatives to the meeting. No one from Rayonier attended. Jeff Lincoln, the executive director of the public development authority, and board member James Hallett attended to answer any questions that might arise. Lincoln said that the public development authority also plans to restore the creek and its estuary — in addition to possible development. Lincoln also said the company is maintaining its negotiation position that it won’t sell the property unless the sales agreement covers the company’s cleanup costs. Pockets of PCBs, dioxin, arsenic and other toxins
De Wege of Sequim, a firefighter and paramedic, will be challenged in the Aug. 17 primary by Port Ludlow Republican Craig Dorgan, a business owner who supports the tea JOYCE — A man ridparty movement, and Port ing a motorcycle lost one Angeles Republican Dan of his legs below the knee Gase, a real estate broker. Saturday in a one-vehicle The Position No. 2 seat wreck, according to the is a two-year position State Patrol. being vacated by retiring The 20-year-old man Democratic state Rep. from Silverdale, who was not identified, was airlifted Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam. Steve Tharinger, Jack to Harborview Medical Dwyer, Jim McEntire and Center in Seattle. Larry Carter will face off The wreck occurred at in the primary. about 5:50 p.m. on state Tharinger is a DemoHighway 112 near Lyre cratic Clallam County River Road. Trooper Krista Hedcommissioner from strom, State Patrol spokes- Sequim. woman, said Saturday Dwyer, a Montesano evening that the man Democrat, is a chiropracdrove off the road but it tor who serves in an remained unclear why, or unpaid position on the what he hit. Montesano School Board. “Usually they hit a McEntire, a Sequim guardrail,” she said. Republican, is a retired “It could be a number Coast Guard captain and of things.” first-term Port of Port Angeles commissioner. Candidate forum Carter, a Port Ludlow SEQUIM — Seven can- Republican who supports didates running for Legis- the tea party movement, is a retired Navy command lative District 24 will master chief petty officer. speak to the Concerned Citizens of Clallam Each candidate will be County — or Four C — given the opportunity to Monday, June 28. present a platform. The forum will be at 7 p.m. at the Sequim unit of Marine patrol grant the Boys & Girls Clubs of PORT ANGELES — the Olympic Peninsula at The Clallam County Sher400 Fir St. Questions may be sub- iff’s Office has received a mitted to fourc.info@yahoo. state grant for its marine patrol unit. com by Monday. The Sheriff’s Office The 24th District covers Clallam and Jefferson said it will use the $10,000 counties and part of Grays grant from the state Parks and Recreation CommisHarbor County. Two posision to increase the patrol tions are open in the unit’s activities during the upcoming Nov. 2 general late summer and early fall election. salmon season. Position No. 1 incumPeninsula Daily News bent Democrat Kevin Van
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PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College student Robbin Eaves hoped to learn more about what people in Clallam and Jefferson counties in the 20-to-40 age group wanted in the way of entertainment. What she found out is that they don’t respond well to surveys. Of 449 respondents to the month-long survey, only 24 were from the target demographic. Eaves undertook the survey as part of her internship with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, on her way to earning a bachelor’s in applied management from Peninsula College. She presented the results to the symphony board May 24. The survey is the first ever conducted on the behalf of the symphony. The address for the online survey was distributed in April to arts organizations across Clallam and Jefferson counties, posted on a Facebook group for young professionals on the North Olympic Peninsula and given to local media. The largest response came from the participants age 64 and older, with 198 replies. That was followed by 179 in the 50-to-64 age group and 47 in the 40-to49 age group. There were just nine respondents in the 30-to-39 bracket and 16 in the 20-to29 age group. Eaves had a better
response when she directly approached people 20 to 40 years old, with 14 in person surveys at PenEaves insula College and a group poll done at trivia night at a local nightspot.
People just busy “I think the biggest reason [for the low response] is these people are just flat busy,” she said. And the over 65 group — “That’s the hippie generation,” Eaves said. “They are very verbal. The survey showed that live musical events were preferred by 95 percent of all participants, while 50 percent preferred listening to and viewing musical events on CDs and DVDs. Because the questions gave the option of “choose all that apply” results totaled more than 100 percent.
Preferences In answer to the question “who do you most like to see perform?” instrumentalists were preferred over all categories, with orchestras and musical theater taking a close second, followed by vocal groups and dramatic actors. Participants were willing to pay $20 to $25 to attend an event, with $10 to $15 coming in second. For the 50 and up age groups, the Peninsula Daily News was the favored
source for entertainment news, while the 20-to-39 age groups got their information from posters, fliers, word of mouth and the Internet. The 20-to-39 age groups preferred vocalists and musical theater and outdoor festive musical events, followed by musicals and dramatic presentations. This group listed “time constraints” as the main reason they don’t attend events. Additional comments from this group indicated they wanted “something more current;” “cutting edge of excellent artistic community” and “fresh.” Mark Wendeborn, Port Angeles Symphony business manager, said the organization is taking the results to heart. “It was fascinating,” Wenderborn said of the survey.
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paper,” he said. “We’ll have to be more creative.” While the symphony has not relied heavily on word of mouth, posters or the Internet, “we’ll have to do better at that,” he said. The survey was distributed in Port Angeles to the Port Angeles Light Opera Association, Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, Northwest Women’s Chorus, Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers and Port Angeles Community Players, in Sequim to Olympic Theatre Arts, Sequim City Band and in Port Townsend to Peninsula Singers and the Port Townsend Community Orchestra. It was also distributed at the Independent Bible Church’s youth group at The Upper Room and fliers were sent out to all elementary students. In Jefferson County, Dewey Ehling, conductor and musical director of the Peninsula Singers and Port Townsend Community Orchestra, said those groups would also like to reach out to younger would-be audiences. “We would like younger audiences and younger singers,” Ehling said, noting that most of the Peninsula Singers are age 50 plus. “We’ve talked about it, but we’re not very effective about it,” he said. “I’m not sure how to reach them with what we do. I’d love for someone to tell me.”
Wendeborn said the survey confirmed what they had felt for quite a while — they need to reach out to younger people and families. “We’re not even a blip on their radar,” he said. “We need to do more familyfriendly, special events.” Symphony conductor Adam Stern is creating a special program for next March geared to that group, based on “The Grand Canyon Suite.” Wendeborn said the survey shows they need to look ________ beyond print media to reach Features Editor Marcie Miller younger prospective con- can be reached at 360-417-3550 cert-goers. or marcie.miller@peninsuladaily “They don’t read the news.com.
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Friday, Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrin said. Twenty-four local, state, tribal and federal agencies teamed up for the Operation Green Seal II, a problem-based exercise staged in Clallam County and the San Juan Islands. Law enforcement, fire and medical personnel took part in a scenario that
tested the communications and tactical response capabilities of the agencies. “It went really, really well,” Peregrin said during a debriefing. Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict said the exercise tested the department’s command and communication abilities. The training took place on Ediz Hook in Port Ange-
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Alcoholics Anonymous marks 75 years Lives keep changing with 12-step program BY NANCY BARTLEY THE SEATTLE TIMES
SEATTLE — With the fervor of a tent revival, the Cherry Fellowship Hall rocked with cheers and applause. “I’m Amy . . . I’m Jeffrey . . . I’m Miranda, and I’m an alcoholic.” Some had been sober 24 hours. Some more than 2 years. Others were cheered just at their ability to acknowledge their illness: alcoholism. For the past 75 years, Alcoholics Anonymous has been transforming lives through its 12-step program. Sunday, the Cherry Street Afterfivers AA will be among 1,300 Seattle-area groups and hundreds of others throughout the Northwest at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center to celebrate AA’s anniversary. The conference is a precursor to a July international celebration in San Antonio, Texas, for the now-2-million-member organization. For many, the anniversary is like celebrating the birth of a close friend who not only saved your life but transformed it. “The fellowship will hold you up when you can’t hold yourself up,” said Greg, who told the Afterfivers group how he used to take his parents’ car and disappear all night to go drinking, but also how his parents now thank his AA sponsor. Today, Greg is an AA leader and has visited the house in
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Akron, Ohio, where AA started. “It was pretty spiritual to be out there,” he said. When two alcoholics known simply as Dr. Bob, an Akron doctor, and a New York stockbroker Bill W. created AA in 1935, one of its bylaws included keeping identities confidential to make it safe for alcoholics to admit they have a problem. In keeping with that policy, The Times is using only first names in this story and not revealing specific details about members’ lives. The famed “12 steps” to recovery, which members follow and which have become a model for other addiction-recovery groups, were based on psychological knowledge at the time. They’ve held up for generations.
First AA chapter in Seattle The first Washington AA chapter opened in Seattle in 1941, following an article in the Saturday Evening Post. Dale M. of Seattle requested information on dealing with his own alcoholism and formed a group with others who also asked for the same information. Today, the chapters are individually named — ranging from Queen Anne’s Full Monty to the Kirkland Sober Cartooners — and there are groups solely for Koreans, Hispanics, youths, men and women, in addition to the many inclusive groups. While the styles might differ,
the message is always the same: acceptance, anonymity, support, accountability and relying on a higher power. Over the years, AA’s influence has transformed the way alcoholism is treated, experts say. Before treatment centers coming into use in the 1960s, alcoholics were sent to mental hospitals. In the mid-1940s, Seattle was faced with massive jail overcrowding, most of it from the 2,500 alcoholics who were repeatedly arrested and spending time in a city jail designed for 85 men and no women. The city created the Seattle Police Alcoholic Rehabilitation Project, or “police farm,” a 32-acre site on the Duwamish River. It was the city’s first attempt to do something about alcoholism, and officials there brought in AA members to work with the alcoholics. AA became connected to University of Washington Medical School in 1953, and the result was a program that became a national model for training doctors about alcoholism by using AA.
Growing reputuation While AA’s reputation was growing nationwide, Ralph B. had ignored it during his time at the police farm. He began drinking by sipping his father’s wine at 14. Like his father, brother, uncle and numerous other relatives, he easily became addicted. He was arrested so many times
that being locked up no longer held any fear for him, and even the comparative freedom of the police farm didn’t persuade him to change his life. He was young, married and began calling his wife’s doctor, hoping for answers, though he now admits: “I was somewhat unclear just what my wife’s gynecologist was supposed to do.” It wasn’t until much later when Ralph was fired for being drunk at work that he connected with AA through help from his boss, who rehired him once he was sober.
First meeting a relief Today, after a college education, family and many successes that pushed him to the top of the corporate ladder, Ralph, now in his 70s and a marathon runner, remembers that first AA meeting as a relief. His “sponsor,” someone willing to help him through the recovery process, took him to the meeting held at the Bartenders’ Union Hall in Renton. If he needed a reminder to stay sober, he didn’t need to look far. His father’s alcoholism was so out-of-control he had left the family and was living on what was then called Skid Road. Ralph sold newspapers at Third and Pine, and often his father dropped by to get a few dollars for a bottle of wine. Even today, it’s a heartbreaking memory. Despite the complications that came with alcoholism, “I knew he loved me very deeply,” Ralph said. In a large house with a Snoqualmie Valley view, Ed H. knows about life’s gifts — the familiar clatter of his children’s feet as
they come home from school, family times, memories of a crosscountry trip on Harley-Davidsons with his wife, and being with AA friends at a checkpoint in remote Alaska during the Iditarod. Without AA, “I’d probably be dead now.” Ed grew up in Southern California, a shy boy who took to alcohol easily after someone gave him a glass of Champagne to drink at his sister’s wedding. He was only 13. He’s now in his mid-40s and has been sober more than 20 years. But he recalls, “The feeling I got from alcohol was magical. I wanted that feeling again and again.” Yet, when he drank, his life was out of control, and one arrest for drunken driving followed another. He ended up in court so many times, he had to choose between a year in jail or alcohol treatment. He chose treatment, and in the process he met someone who would be “a trusted friend and sponsor, someone who could share his experience, strength and hope with me.” Eventually, he finished college, started a career, then a company, met his wife, who also was in AA, had children and began to help others get sober. Carol W. was a self-described “lace-curtain drunk,” a secretive drinker who quietly drank at home, peeking out the curtains to see who was at the door so she could hide the liquor. Now in her 60s, she was from a family of “social drinkers” who never regarded themselves as having a problem with alcohol, even though several had died of cirrhosis of the liver. “We looked normal from the outside,” she said.
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at 1137 W. U.S. Highway 101 on April 19 with a rifle. Police declined to say how much was stolen. A charge of first-degree robbery was also filed in court Thursday. Sullivan, a transient whose last known address was in Kingston, is described as 5-feet, 6-inches tall, 210 pounds with black hair and green eyes.
PORT ANGELES — An arrest warrant has been issued for a man police believed robbed a grocery store at gunpoint in April. Port Angeles police identified Nicholas Jay Sullivan, 24, through interviews with people who know him, according to court documents. The warrant was filed ________ Thursday in Clallam County Superior Court. Reporter Tom Callis can be Police say that Sulli- reached at 360-417-3532 or at van allegedly robbed the tom.callis@peninsuladailynews. Fairmont Grocery Store com. OLYMPIC PENINSULA VISITOR BUREAU
Initial web site and branding work session involved the following: Jill Locke, Freelock Computing, front from left, John Locke, Freelock Computing, Chuck Preble, Olympic Discovery Trail web committee, Laurel Black, Laurel Black Design, Bob Selby, Olympic Discovery Trail web committee, and Randy Washburne, Olympic Discovery Trail web committee.
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PORT ANGELES — How do people use the Olympic Discovery Trail? What do they like about it? What improvements could be made? Those are the types of questions on a questionnaire, available online until June 30, that will help the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau develop a new website and logo for the trail, which eventually will stretch 120 miles from Port Townsend to LaPush. “The trail is such a fabulous asset to our community, and it’s growing,” said Mary Brelsford, communications manager for the visitor bureau, which is
based in Port Angeles. “The trail is being upgraded and expanded. It’s time for the image to also be upgraded and expanded and be a definite destination for people,” she added. “It’s a great draw for people to come to the area and use.” Brelsford said the prototype for the upgrade of the Peninsula Trails Coalition website on the trail, www. olympicdiscoverytrail.com, is expected in August. The visitor bureau is the project manager for the identity branding project and website development — a project is funded with lodging tax funds, Brels-
ford said. Chosen through an interview process were Laurel Black of Laurel Black Design as the project designer and Freelock Computing as website designer. The revamped website will include interactive maps, as well as videos and places for people to upload their photos. People will be able to “build a community around the trail,” Brelsford said, sharing their journeys on the website. Freelock Computing will design a content management system that will allow the website to grow and change as new segments of the trail are completed.
The 10-question survey will help the branding development, said Black, in a prepared statement. “Insights provided by those who use and enjoy the trail will be a great help in creating a brand image that truly reflects its unique qualities,” she said. Two of those who complete the survey will win either a half-day tour of the new Adventure Route Segment of the trail with a guide from Adventures Through Kayaking, or an overnight stay at Red Caboose Getaway B&B, which is located on the trail. The survey is at www. olympicdiscoverytrail.com.
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Toxins: Blooms could move into Puget Sound CONTINUED FROM A1 yet,� Combs said, adding that he doesn’t know what The level then was 3,500 subsequent tests will find. However, another milligrams. Commercial products researcher with the departavailable on the market ment said, after viewing the should be safe to eat because results of tests on Friday, of regular testing of com- that it may be moving that mercial facilities, the state way. Last week, a sample health department said. Recreational harvest clo- from Second Beach in sures also are in effect in LaPush contained more than 3,600 micrograms. Whatcom County. An update is expected Test results received Friday found that the level had midweek. dropped to a still-dangerous 2,600 micrograms, said East Jefferson County Jerry Borchert of the state High levels of the marine office. toxin have not been discovAt the same time, the ered in shellfish on East level of toxin skyrocketed in Jefferson County beaches, a geoduck tract at Siebert Combs said. Creek west of Dungeness “We don’t have problems Spit. in Jefferson County,� Combs On Tuesday, researchers said, although continuing measured 128 micrograms. closures are in effect for On Wednesday, the toxin butter clams at the entrance level was 1,543, Combs to Port Ludlow and between said. Marrowstone and Indian “That’s the one that’s islands. bumped up radically,� he The algae that causes said. “In 24 hours they PSP “hasn’t traveled there waled.�
Borchert said the decrease on the West Coast and the increase at Dungeness may mean that the red tide is moving toward Puget Sound.
“It’s pretty bad compared to recent history. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a bloom like this occur.�
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A variety of factors may GREG COMBS Department of Health Office of Shellfish and Water Protection have caused the algae
bloom, Combs said. One factor could be warmer ocean water, he said. Another could be an increase of nutrients, which tend to go through “boom and bust� cycles, he said. These health-related closures are in addition to closures regulated by Fish and Wildlife. The department’s emergency regulation hotline is 866-880-5431. Recreational shellfish harvesters should phone 800-562-5632 or check www. doh.wa.gov/shellfish safety. htm before harvesting shellfish anywhere in Washington state, the state health department said.
Could move to Sound “It seems that the PSP bloom is pretty intense and seems to be moving east,� he said Friday. “It may continue to move east or it may stop. “It could potentially move into Puget Sound and it could potentially impact Jefferson County.� Levels are high throughout Clallam County. A sample tested Wednesday at Freshwater Bay contained 3,438 micrograms. “That’s lethal,� Combs said. An Ediz Hook sample, tested the same day, contained 1,966 micrograms. “If that’s not lethal, then it’s darn close,� Combs said, and could be fatal if ingested on top of an existing medi-
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cal condition. A Sekiu sample tested at 1,603 micrograms on Tuesday. The state closures were just before a license-free weekend for fishing and shellfish harvesting. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is allowing legal fishing and harvesting without a license through today. “That’s why when we started seeing these levels, we decided . . . to go ahead with a press release as the best way to get information out to Clallam and Whatcom counties,� Combs said. The closure includes clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and other species of mollusks. Crab meat is not known
to contain the PSP toxin, but the guts can contain unsafe levels. To be safe, clean crab thoroughly and discard the guts. PSP, often referred to as red tide, is caused by an algae called alexandrium cantella. The toxin is not destroyed by cooking or freezing. Common symptoms of PSP poisoning include tingly lips and tongue moving to the hands and feet which may begin within minutes of eating the shellfish. If a person consumes enough poison, muscles of the chest and abdomen ________ become paralyzed. Death can result in as Managing Editor/News Leah little as two hours. Leach can be reached at 360-417A person cannot tell if 3531 or leah.leach@peninsula the toxin is present by look- dailynews.com.
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The three Clallam County commissioners will conduct a public hearing on a proposed ordinance extending interim zoning controls for the Carlsborg Urban Growth Area on Tuesday. A state hearings board ruled in 2008 that Carlsborg was invalid and noncompliant with the Growth Management Act. The public hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the commissioners’ board room (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. The three-member Board of Clallam County Commissioners will hold its weekly business meeting at 10 a.m. Agenda items include authorization of staff hours to test the Olympic regional tribal-public health collaboration during Tribal Journeys 2010, a letter of support to Lower Elwha tribe for the Elwha Valley access road, acknowledgment of the state Department of Transportation’s designation of state Highway 110 as the Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial Highway and a proclamation recognizing June 19-26 as Pink Up Port Angeles Week. Commissioners will consider a resolution adopting the findings and conclusions of a closed record appeal by the owners of Little River rock quarry, and resolutions authorizing
Eye on Clallam application for funding through the state Recreation and Conservation Office to develop the Dungeness Landing Pier, Sekiu Shoreline Access and Wildlife Viewing Area and to acquire Clallam Bay shoreline property. Commissioners plan to call for a July 20 hearing on the county’s intention to form a road improvement district for Striped Peak Road and conduct a public hearing on the sale of surplus county property. The commissioners will meet in a work session at 9 a.m. Monday.
Port Angeles Council The Port Angeles City Council will consider approval of allowing pedicabs and other non-motorized for-hire vehicles in the city at its Tuesday meeting. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. Council members also will hear a presentation on a proposed dog park and an update on the Port Angeles Harbor-Works Development Authority. A public hearing is planned on extending sewer services to Lower Elwha Klallam tribe. Council members also will consider the 2011 budget process, police department fees, amendments to
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nity Center, 308 E. Fourth St. Also on the agenda are a report from the parks and ordinances for building recreation master plan subcodes ordinance and public committee and a budget records inspection, the pre- status update. sentation of meeting minutes, revision of agreement Board of Health with Clallam County Fire The Clallam County District No. 2 for volunteer programs, a Friendship Board of Health will hear Diversion Services contract reports on strategic planamendment, a Comprehen- ning for rural health and sive Plan amendment, and public health appropriathe 2010-2016 capital facili- tions in health care reform ties and transportation legislation on Tuesday. improve plans. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the commisSequim City Council sioners’ board room (160) at The Sequim City Coun- the Clallam County Courtcil will consider a market- house, 223 E. Fourth St., ing communications posi- Port Angeles. The board also will distion and discuss its goals for cuss exemptions for the downtown when it meets bottled water tax, a 9-1-1 Monday. The council will meet at good samaritan law, a letter 6 p.m. in the Sequim Tran- of appreciation for H1N1 sit Center, 190 W. Cedar St. pandemic responders and a The council also will con- request for mutual assissider a Bellecrest settle- tance for the 2010 Tribal ment agreement, a resolu- Journeys. tion establishing latecomer fees, and a centennial logo. Medical center Olympic Medical Center Port Angeles parks commissioners will consider The Port Angeles Parks, a linear accelerator purRecreation and Beautifica- chase on Wednesday. The meeting will begin tion Commission will review an report on repairs needed at 6 p.m. in Linkletter Hall for Civic Field at a special in the basement of the Port Angeles hospital, 939 E. meeting Thursday. The meeting will be at 6 Caroline St., Port Angeles. The board also will conp.m. in meeting room No. 3 at the Vern Burton Commu- sider an MRI agreement
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The Clallam County Planning Commission will hold a work session on the Shoreline Master Program update on Wednesday. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioners’ board room (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. The commission also will discuss agriculture, accessory uses, and farm-based businesses land use and zoning goals, policies and standards.
Public utility district The Clallam County Public Utility District commissioners will consider their compensation and hear a draft greenhouse policy resolution when they meet Monday. The meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Port Angeles office 2431 E. Highway 101. On the agenda is consideration of a resolution pertaining to compensation for commissioners to comply with recent changes in state law.
Port Angeles schools The Port Angeles School District will hear an update on the summer school plan when it meets Monday. The board will meet at 7 p.m. in the Central Services Building, 216 E. Fourth St. The board will consider several policy changes and hear reports from the language arts and math committees.
Forks City Council The Forks City Council plans a facilities tour during a special meeting and a discussion on an events coordinator position during a regular session when it meets Monday. During a special meeting at 5 p.m., council members will tour several facilities. The council will meet in regular session at 7:30 p.m. in the council conference room at 500 E. Division St. During regular session it also will set a public hearing on the six-year street plan and consider a timber sales. Council members will tour the Forks Police Department jail, the Quillayute Airport and the city sewer treatment plant, among other facilities.
dumb things in front of a crowd. “Account from your mistakes and learn from them.� ■Third, don’t drop the ball. “Be prepared.� ■Fourth, be ready for the curve ball. “Think before you swing, but swing away.� ■Fifth, you can’t steal second with your foot on first. ■Sixth, don’t let being shortstop, stop you from accomplishing anything. “There are a lot of opportunities out there no matter where you live.� ■Seventh, life is a game of averages. ■Eighth and ninth, what you do counts; what you don’t do doesn’t. ■Tenth, it’s good to be a pinch hitter.
■Eleventh, there’s a thin line between foul and fair. ■Twelfth, always have a home base. “Always put family and friends first.� Lastly, Owens told the graduates that education is not about the job that it provides. “It’s about putting knowledge to work in your life,� she said. Owens, who was elected to the state Supreme Court in 2000, also has served as a judge for the Lower Elwha Klallam and Quileute tribes.
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Cigar tastings teach basics, good time Hobby lends itself to much experimentation BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Want a drink with that stogie? Stick to cognac, bourbon and scotch, but avoid milk and soda. And if you want to delve even deeper into the finer points of pairing cigars with drinks, consider attending one of the growing number of smoking symposiums popping up around the country. During a recent gathering at the Legends of Fire cigar bar here, for example, 100 people sampled a variety of cigars, and spent the evening pairing them with different varieties of alcohol while noshing hors d’oeuvres. “Without the smoke, it would look virtually identical to a wine tasting,” said Gordon Mott, executive editor of Cigar Aficionado magazine, which began organizing similar gatherings during the early 1990s, but was not involved in this event. The magazine draws thousands each year to its annual Big Smoke convention in Las Vegas.
Pairing liquor Cigar smokers can be passionate about their hobby, which lends itself to much experimentation with flavors, shapes and prices. And pairing the right liquor
with the cigar is a crucial part of the experience. “A fine cigar is an exalted expression of the Earth’s bounty,” said Michael Gelb, author of the book “Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking.” Cigars tend to overwhelm most wines. Fortified varieties, such as ports, usually can stand up to cigars, Gelb said. And if you don’t do alcohol, espresso and hot cocoa work well. “This is a question of individual taste, but most individuals prefer cognac, armagnac, Port, bourbon, scotch or fine aged rum,” he said. “It’s best to match the quality of the libation with the quality of the cigar,” Gelb said. “You don’t want to sully your 60-year-old armagnac with a cheap stogie and you wouldn’t insult your Cohiba THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Esplendido by pairing it Michael Mattis of San Francisco enjoys an Ashton cigar and a glass of Sazerac rye at the with firewater.” Occidental Cigar Club in San Francisco. Cigar smoking remains a niche activity in the United
Things to avoid Things to avoid? Don’t mix a cigar with milk, eggnog, gin, soda, cranberry or grapefruit juice, Gelb said. As for eating, it may be best to hold off on the cigar until after, Gelb said. “No one has yet, to my knowledge, written, ‘What to Smoke With What You Eat,’” he joked. Cigar smoking remains a niche activity in the United States. After a long
States. period of decline, cigars rebounded in popularity starting in the 1990s. Sales of handrolled cigars imported into the U.S. peaked at around 300 million cigars a few years ago, Mott said. The recent economic trouble has depressed sales of what can be a fairly expensive luxury item, Mott said. Many people end up smoking alone in their home
American Indian land that is exempt from state smoking bans. “This is my bailiwick,” said Jim Kelly of Spokane, who didn’t know what to expect when he was invited by his cousin to the gathering. Ticket buyers received a dozen or so cigars to smoke on the spot and take home. Liquor makers poured samples of whiskey, vodka, red wine and heavy beers to
or garage, exiled because of the smell of their hobby. Public events such as these bring enthusiasts together in a society that has banned smoking in nearly all public places. The gathering at Legends of Fire drew stogie smokers to the only bar where the 450,000 residents of Spokane County can light up and relax. And that is only because the cigar bar is located on
see which flavors went best with the cigars. A professional cigar roller made stogies for patrons, who also got a chance to roll their own. Carol Weltz of Spokane was one of numerous women at the event. She sat at the bar, puffing on a fat stogie with 2 inches of ash on its end. “It’s kind of a fun hobby,” said Weltz, who gave up cigarettes years ago.
Crews remove derelict gear from Nooksack River BY KIE RELYEA THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
Tribe contact Fish and wildlife officials also contacted the Lummi and Nooksack tribes, who fish on the river. “Both of the tribes are taking the issue very seriously. Like us, they realize it’s in everybody’s best interest to remove this derelict gear,” said Capt. Bill Heb-
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ner, who oversees enforcement for northern Puget Sound for fish and wildlife. CCA members said they wanted to bring the same kind of attention to derelict fishing gear in rivers that has been given to lost and abandoned gear in the waters off Whatcom County and the Puget Sound. Since 2002, divers working under contract with the Northwest Straits Initiative have recovered thousands of fishing nets and crab pots left behind by commercial and recreational fishers because of bad weather, mistakes or mechanical failures. The gear had snared and killed marine life in the Puget Sound, some for decades.
Removal efforts The removal effort by the Northwest Straits Initiative got a big boost last June with $4.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In the Nooksack River, North Sound CCA members and other recreational anglers in Whatcom County first noticed the nets during a river float in November. In February, they again floated the Nooksack — covering 40 miles — to gather GPS coordinates for the 62 derelict nets, “which is way more than I ever thought would be in a river that size,” said Bryan Irwin, executive director for the state CCA. The river is home to
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spring stock of chinook salmon, steelhead and bull trout, all of which are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. Sturgeon also are found in the Nooksack and while they’re not listed under the ESA, they are listed under the Canadian Species At Risk Act. Sturgeon from the Nooksack have been found in the Fraser River in British Columbia. Hebner said crews have not been able to find all 62 nets. They may have been washed away during storms or hidden under rising water levels in the Nooksack. He said that of the nets recovered so far, three were able to catch fish and two of those nets had been set illegally. The Lummis and Nooksacks have treaty fishing rights under the 1974 Boldt
decision, and they are the they may have been illeonly ones legally allowed to gally set in the Nooksack by have nets, specifically gill- non-Indians. nets, in the river. Still, Hebner said most of the untended nets found so far are from lawful tribal Patrolling the river fishery - and the gear may A representative of have been lost, stolen or Lummi Nation said the otherwise abandoned. tribe regularly patrols the That was the view shared river to look at the nets. by Philip Anderson, director “We take out gear every of the state Department of year. We are dealing with Fish and Wildlife, who it,” said Merle Jefferson, responded to Irwin in an who oversees natural April 5 letter. resources for Lummi Anderson also noted that Nation. such gear wasn’t an issue in A Nooksack tribe repre- the Nooksack alone. sentative could not be “The observations of the reached for comment. derelict gear your members Jefferson and Hebner observed on the Nooksack said it shouldn’t be assumed River is not unique, it plagues that all the abandoned nets many of our Western Washbelong to tribal members; ington rivers,” he wrote.
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BELLINGHAM — Tribal and wildlife crews have removed at least two dozen lost and abandoned gillnets from the Nooksack River, after members of a conservation and recreational fishing group documented the locations of 62 “derelict” gear. The effort involves the Lummi and Nooksack tribes as well as the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The state agency started the project after receiving a letter in March from the state chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association, which also provided GPS coordinates for the nets and expressed concern that the left-behind gear could continue catching fish when they shouldn’t. “The number of derelict nets and the length of time they spent in the water really tells us we need to focus on solutions to ensure this doesn’t occur again in any of our rivers,” said Marcus Schumacher, president of the North Sound Chapter of CCA in Bellingham. “Whether there were one or 62 derelict nets, the concern is that derelict gear and any fishing out of season indiscriminately poses a threat to wild fish and other marine mammals.”
he river is home to spring stock of chinook salmon, steelhead and bull trout, all of which are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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Filings: Top 2 vote-getters advance to November CONTINUED FROM A1 deputy prosecuting attorney from 2003 to 2007 and The top-two vote-getters now represents state agenwill run in November, cies on behalf of the state regardless of party affilia- Attorney General’s Office, tion, even in partisan races. Prosecuting Attorney Deb Quileute tribe Executive Kelly said Saturday. Kelly, a Port Angeles Director Bill Peach of Forks filed Friday as a Republican Republican, will herself face candidate for county com- two Sequim Democrats in the primary. missioner. A two-term incumbent, Peach will join Republican Robin Poole, a Beaver Kelly will go up against UPS driver, and Doherty, lawyer and developer Larry the three-term incumbent Freedman and lawyer and from Port Angeles, on the administrative law judge Lauren Erickson. primary ballot. Two more candidates also joined the race for the Write-in candidates position of DCD director, a All candidates who filed nonpartisan post, bringing last week can still face addithe total to five. tional opponents — write-in Filing Friday were for- candidates can file positions mer DCD planner Tim as late as the day before the Woolett of Port Angeles and primary and the day before business owner Sean Ryan the general election. of Port Angeles. Ballots in the all-mail Woolett and Ryan will ballot election will be mailed join incumbent Miller, of to voters on July 28. Port Angeles, associate real All registered voters estate broker Alan Barnard countywide will be able cast of Port Angeles and DCD ballots for all elected county Code Compliance Officer government positions and Sheila Roark Miller of Port the PUD post. Angeles, who is not related All elected county governto John Miller, on the ment positions, except for August primary ballot. two of three county commisAlso on Friday, Tim sioner seats, are up for reDavis, a state assistant election to four-year terms. attorney general based in All county positions are Port Angeles, jumped into nonpartisan except for those the race for District Court 1 of county commissioner and judge, a nonpartisan posi- prosecuting attorney. tion. Davis, who has an U.S. Senate unlisted number and was In the U.S. senator race, unavailable for comment by e-mail on Friday, will join the field of candidates chaltwo-term incumbent Porter, lenging incumbent Patty of Port Angeles, and lawyer Murray, D-Freeland, grew Pam Lindquist of Port Ange- to 15 for the primary at the close of the filing period. les in the August primary. Republican Clint Didier, Davis was admitted to practice in Washington who filed on Thursday, state in 2003, according to tweeted that he was drawthe legal industry website ing support from former vice presidential candidate www.Justia.com. He was a Clallam County Sarah Palin, Anne Martens
Republican, is a retired Coast Guard captain and first-term Port of Port Angeles commissioner who has said he will resign his port commissioner position if elected. Carter, a Port Ludlow Republican who supports the tea party movement, is a retired Navy command master chief petty officer. The 24th District covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and part of Grays Harbor County.
State Supreme Court Position No. 1 incumbent State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson of Olympia will be challenged by Sam Rumbaugh of Tacoma. Position No. 5 Chief Justice Barbara Madsen of Seattle faces no opposition in the general election. Bryan Chushcoff of KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Tacoma filed for state Clallam County Elections Supervisor Shoona Radon, right, reads the Supreme Court Position 6, names of candidates during a drawing Friday at the Clallam County joining challenger Charlie Courthouse in Port Angeles to determine the order that candidates names will appear on the primary ballot as County Auditor Patty Rosand Wiggins of Bainbridge Island in opposing incumlooks on. bent state Justice Richard Two candidates who of Washington State DemoThe Position No. 2 seat is B. Sanders, turning that crats said in an e-mail on expressed “no party prefer- a two-year position being race into a three-way matchence” when they filed are vacated by retiring Demo- up for the primary. Friday. Other Republicans in Schalk Leonard of Poulsbo cratic state Rep. Lynn KesCongress the primary are Dino Rossi and James “Skip” Mercer of sler, D-Hoquiam. Bellevue. of Bellevue, Republican Steve Tharinger, Jack Incumbent Democrat Other races remained Dwyer, Jim McEntire and Norm Dicks of Belfair will Mike Latimer of Des Moines, Norma D. Gruber of Walla unchanged after Friday. Larry Carter will face off in be challenged by lawyer Walla, William Edward the primary. Doug Cloud, a Gig Harbor Chovil of Tacoma and Paul 24th Legislative District Tharinger, a Democratic Republican, and software Akers of Bellingham. For Position No. 1, two- Clallam County commis- engineer Jesse Young, a Also filing were Reform term incumbent Democrat sioner from Sequim, has said Tacoma Republican, in the Party candidate Will Baker Kevin Van De Wege of he will keep his county com- primary. Candidate filings are of Tacoma and Centrist Sequim, a firefighter and missioner seat if elected. Party candidate Moham- paramedic, will be chalDwyer, a Montesano posted online through the mad H. Said of Ephrata. lenged in the primary by Democrat, is a chiropractor state Secretary of State’s Other Democrats are Port Ludlow Republican who serves on the Monte- Office at www.clallam.net. Goodspaceguy of Seattle, Craig Dorgan, a business sano School Board and has ________ Mike the Mover of Mill owner who supports the tea said he will resign from his Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb Creek, Charles Allen of party movement, and Port position on the School Board can be reached at 360-417-3536 Seattle and Bob Burr of Angeles Republican Dan if elected. or at paul.gottlieb@peninsuladaily Bellingham. McEntire, a Sequim news.com. Gase, a real estate broker.
Five vie for community Tribal director to run for development director county commissioner Top two vote-getters will advance to general election after primary BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — And then there were five. A former Clallam County senior planner and a Port Angeles businessman filed on Friday to create a crowded field of Aug. 17 primary election candidates for Clallam County’s top land use official.
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Tim Woolett of Port Angeles, a county planner from 1997 to 2004, and Sean Ryan, co-owner of America’s Finest Fire and Restoration Co. in Port Angeles, became the fourth and fifth candidates for the position of director of the Department of Community Development. Incumbent John Miller of Port Angeles, associate real estate broker Alan Barnard and DCD Code Compliance Officer Sheila Roark Miller of Carlsborg — no relation to John Miller — filed earlier last week for the position. Clallam County is the only county in the nation where the community development director is elected. The DCD director serves a four-year term. The DCD director’s salary is between $62,211 and $70,878 annually, depending on years in office. The top-two primary election will narrow the field of DCD director candi-
dates to two for the Nov. 2 general election.
Woolett Woolett, 54, a Port Angeles native, worked full-time for the Green Crow timber products company in Port Angeles before being laid off in January and now is an on-call permitting consultant for the company, he said Friday. “I was thinking about this for quite some time,” he said of running for the position. “I really wanted to get back to the government side of it. I can see two sides of the operation. That’s not a campaign thing. It’s really the truth.” His goal as DCD director would be “to see that everything happens in a timely manner.” Woolett said will go into more detail on his approach to the job as the Aug. 17 primary approaches. “I can’t criticize John [Miller], and I haven’t heard any bad comments about him,” Woolett added. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Bill Peach, the executive director of the Quileute tribe, is running for Clallam County commissioner. Peach, 54, of Forks, will challenge Democratic incumbent Mike Doherty and fellow Republican Robin V. Poole to represent District 3, or the western third of the county. “I think that the community is looking for somebody that can actually apply the business background that I have,” said Peach, a former Rayonier manager, shortly before filing at the Clallam County Courthouse on Friday. Doherty, 67, is a threeterm commissioner from Port Angeles. “He’s an admirable person,” Doherty said of Peach. “I’m looking for-
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Way and the Clallam County Economic Development Council. My strengths include the ability to engage, focus, and deliver results.” Peach served in the Army at the end of the Vietnam era. He received a medal for meritorious service, he said. He earned degrees in civil engineering and forest engineering from Oregon State University, and a master’s in business administration degree from City University in Seattle. Peach worked as a manager for Rayonier’s timber and land division. His assignments included business development in New Zealand and Australia and the management of 200,000 acres of Clallam County timberland. He retired after a 26-year career with Rayonier in 2009. As executive director of the Quileute Tribe, Peach is responsible for the administration of human resources, natural resources, accounting, human services, a clinic, public utilities, tribal court, police, a store, marina and a resort. Peach moved to Forks in 1983. After assignments in Hoquiam and overseas, he returned to Forks in 1998. Peach has been married to his wife, Anita, for 37 years.
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Fox: Eyes on Congress seat since ‘a little kid’ CONTINUED FROM A1 after he was arrested by Fox said he chose to run Port of Seatfor the prosecutor’s seat tle police for only because it was open i n v e s t i g a and he felt that Kelly was tion of driving while vulnerable. The 5th Congressional intoxicated, District seat is a long-held possession Fox of marigoal, he said. “I’ve had my eye on this juana and drug parapherseat since I was a little kid,” nalia and possession of prescription drugs without a Fox said. The seat is now held by prescription. The arrest came a few Republican Cathy McMorminutes after Fox allegedly ris Rogers. Fox, who filed as a Dem- pulled a sheathed knife ocrat, unsuccessfully ran from his belt while speakfor Clallam County com- ing with a ticket agent at missioner in 2008. Seattle-Tacoma InternaThe King County Prose- tional Airport on June 6. cuting Attorney’s Office has He was released from not yet decided whether to King County jail last week file charges against Fox without bail when no charges
Candidate for congreshad been filed within 72 hours of his arrest. sional seats do not have to be residents of the districts they seek to represent. Awaiting toxicology The U.S. Constitution Leesa Manion, chief of requires only that they be a staff for King County Pros- registered voter in the state ecuting Attorney Dan Sat- that they filed. terberg, said charges were David Ammons, spokesnot been filed because the man for the Washington office is awaiting the results Secretary of State’s Office, of a toxicology test and said the only other position other reports, and that a that doesn’t require candidecision will be made after dates to live within their the reports are received. office’s boundaries is municThe state Attorney Genipal court judge. eral’s Office announced June “It will be up to the vot4 that it declined to file ers to determine the imporcharges over allegations of tance of residency,” he said. sexual misconduct, which Fox said he intends to were made by a former client keep his home in Port Angeof Fox’ because of discrepanles as his primary residence cies in the claims of the man, who was in the Clallam if he wins the 5th Congressional seat. County jail at the time.
He doesn’t think that his Port Angeles residency will be a problem for voters. He said he thinks he still has good chance of beating the other five candidates because he was born in the district, his grandfather established a homestead there, he worked on a murder case that made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, and “the fact that I look good on TV and that I’m smart.” Amy Biviano, Spokane County Democratic Party chairwoman, said she doesn’t know about Fox’s arrest or the claims made by his former client. But she said she welcomes any and all candidates. “I don’t know the guy yet,” Biviano said. “I will have to research him.
“But I think it’s good to have a hardy, robust conversation. “And anybody who can help force [Rogers’] comments into the light of day is absolutely welcome.” Fox said he isn’t challenging Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, who represents the 6th Congressional District that includes the North Olympic Peninsula, because he is a Democrat. He said his family still owns the 2,600-acre farm that he grew up on. Fox said he makes about 95 percent of his living from the farm.
________ Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom. callis@peninsuladailynews.com.
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PORT HADLOCK — It’s official. The Jefferson County Public Utility District commissioners on Friday signed a definitive agreement to pay Puget Sound Energy $103 million for its electrical facilities in East Jefferson County, with the expectation that the switch — probably in 2013 — will create an additional $33 million in PUD revenue. The public utility, which now provides water and sewer service, must take over as electrical power provider for PSE’s present 18,000 customers in East Jefferson County within 18 to 36 months, if all conditions of the agreement are satisfied. “This is what’s best for the citizens of Jefferson County,” said PUD Board President Ken McMillen on Friday. “We’ve spent the last 18 months making sure that everything pencils out.” PUD Commissioner Wayne King said the agreement was a significant event for local utility customers. “In the future, the people of Jefferson County will look back at what we did today and say, ‘those old guys were pretty smart,’” he said. The agreement is firm but for two caveats, said PUD Commissioner Barney Burke. Those deal with financing and environmental issues. “If we’re unable to get financing to our satisfaction, at our sole discretion we can walk away without penalty,” Burke said. The PUD also can back out without penalty if it
finds environmental hazards connected with the PSE facilities, Burke said. “We don’t believe there are any, but we are going to do a thorough examination of the facilities,” he said. Once the PUD waives its two contingencies, then it can’t back out of the agreement without paying a $2.5 million penalty, he said. The agreement lists no caveats for PSE. If the public company wants to renege on the agreement, then the PUD can either demand $2.5 million or go to court to argue that the private utility must honor the contract, Burke added.
What’s next The next step in the process is to apply to Bonneville Power Administration for electrical power. That is expected to happen this week, Burke said. The deadline for the application is June 30. The PUD hopes to hear an answer from BPA within a couple of months. “We’ve met with them and they are very encouraging,” Burke said. Once a contract with BPA is in place, the PUD will seek financing. That will be a combination of private and federal sources, he said, with the largest chunk, about 70 percent, expected to come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. After the PUD has secured financing, it will owe PSE a down payment of $20 million, with the balance to be paid soon after, Burke said. “We as rate-payers will pay [the loans] over 30 years,” Burke said. “That’s figured into the electric rate.” Burke said that the pub-
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lic utility can offer ratepayers savings in several ways. PUDs can borrow money at lower rate than private companies, he said, and eventually they can get the lowest possible price for electricity from BPA, an option that also is not available to private firms. However, public utilities must be BPA customers for three years before they can get the lowest rate, Burke said. That could mean about six months of power at market rates rather than the lowest “tier one” rates, he said. “Right now, market rate and tier one aren’t that different, but have to look at the long term . . . and pass on the lowest possible rate for customers,” Burke said. Burke doesn’t think that rates will drop once the PUD takes over, but he said it is likely they will not increase as much as customers would have paid had PSE continued service. The expected annual revenue of $33 million is figured from the rates that customers pay now.
The switch also is expected to both create jobs and improve service, Burke said. He did not know how many jobs will be added. The jobs would be skilled positions for linemen and linewomen. Service would improve because they would live near the facilities. “When we need service, we no longer will have to wait for someone to come over the Hood Canal Bridge, which can be difficult in bad weather,” Burke said.
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He said Saturday that he will run on his track record against all four challengers. The DCD during his tenure has processed “very few permits” that exceeded the processing deadlines of 90 days for a building permit and 120 days for a landdivision permit, he said. “We have not denied one building permit,” Miller added. “I think that’s a pretty darn good record. We go the extra mile.” Miller also said he’s heard the criticism that he’s out of touch with people. “The criticism has been made that I’m not accessible in my office,” he said. “The way I manage, I allow the front-line people to provide the services. I do not want to step over their authority because I think they need to develop their skills as customer service people. As a person who is 61 years old, my job is to nurture their career development, and the only way to do that is to nurture their customer service skills.”
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Battling ‘Medusa’ in my backyard MEDUSA WAS BACK, and she was after my family. Not the Gorgon from Greek Mark mythology. She’s been Bazer dead thousands of years. Rather her namesake, the plant/monster that climbs up the side of a narrow archway at the entrance to our backyard and then coils above it in an unruly mass that warns outsiders: You are about to enter the home of people who have little to no control over their lives. I don’t blame Medusa alone for our state of affairs. I blame the entire plant kingdom. If there’s one thing I’ve learned since owning a small backyard full of weeds, many of
which I’m sure are as yet unknown to horticulturalists, it’s that I’d rather there were bears back there. You can stop bears by chopping off their heads. Or, more cruelly, by naming an underperforming sports team after them so they slink away in shame. But you can spend entire weekends in your yard hacking and yelling away at every protruding green thing. You can hire professional landscapers, even ones not secretly on your plants’ payroll. It doesn’t matter. The protruding green things will return. It will end in tears. These tears will land on the protruding green things, causing them to grow more. Sometimes the things aren’t green. We have mushrooms in one corner of our backyard. They grow in a ring. It looks
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like a mushroom cult. I fear one day I’ll return home to see they’ve convinced my impressionable young son to join them. We also have a 3-foot-by-2foot-and-growing ant colony where grass was not so long ago. My wife first tried all-natural remedies, which involved sprinkling on the colony many types of food that no ants in the world except the ones in our yard can tolerate. Now we still have ants but not much food. We decided to bite the bullet and buy ant poison, which really should just be called “poison.” The warning label on the packaging essentially tells you to wear a hazmat suit while applying, and makes you wonder if all the world leaders working to eliminate nuclear weapons are worried about the wrong thing. Anyhow, I have been selected as the person in my family to administer the poison, but I am
stalling until I reach an age at which I don’t mind dying. But the protruding green things will always be the worst. They’ll poke you, block you, swallow you. Joni Mitchell sang, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” Right now, a parking lot sounds like paradise. People talk about becoming one with nature — the people who say that don’t have yards. When I’m out there, in 90-degree heat with the hazmat on, there’s no oneness, no peace. I want to kill the plants. I pretend I hear them screaming as I bring my garden shears to their necks. My only regret is that they don’t bleed. But the last laugh is always on me. We gave Medusa a trim at the beginning of spring. She didn’t see it as an act of kindness. A month later, she hadn’t just
grown back, she’d let herself hang down. When it rained, passing by Medusa to get to the garage was like walking through a car wash. This past weekend, we went to Minnesota, hearing that people liked nature up there. Maybe the plants were kinder, we hoped. My in-laws, meanwhile, who had fled the Soviet Union, paid a visit to Medusa. And they destroyed her. I opened up the lawn bag containing her remains this morning. “I’m sorry,” I said. And I can swear she hissed, “Not as sorry as you will be a month from now.” ________ Mark Bazer is a humorist who hosts “The Interview Show,” a Chicago-based talk show available at www.huffingtonpost.com. He is one of four columnists who appear here every Sunday.
What will be the tea party’s impact in the November elections?
Larry Scroggins
Billie Judy
John Estes
Susan Blair
Anthony Mitchell
Donna Saunders
Richard Stapleton
Myrta Keenan
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Videographer Port Townsend
Homemaker Port Angeles
Business owner Diamond Point
Medical receptionist Sequim
“The tea party is a vocal minority and does not represent the majority of the people, so I don’t think it will have a significant impact on the elections.”
“I think it adds political perspective to the grass-roots ideas and to what is shared by the media. Its impact transcends party lines, which is good.”
“It’s hard to say. It depends on who you listen to. Some trivialize it, and then some think the tea party is a big deal. We just want our country to get its act together.”
“Messy. Both sides of the major parties are divided already. I don’t know if it will have an effect. I just want them to lower property taxes. I left California for that reason.”
Retired auto parts manager Sequim
Homemaker Port Angeles
“It won’t change anything. Politicians do what they want to do all the time. The voice of the people doesn’t seem to matter anymore. It’s all about being politically correct.”
Retired financial manager Port Townsend
“It will be very good for the Democrats. It will pull votes away from the Republican Party. The tea party won’t have enough voting members to get anyone elected.”
“Actually, I think it will make an impact. [It’s] a movement of the people, like myself, who are fed up with the way things are going. They make sense, and they want to be heard.”
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dozens of column inches, plus photos (including one It is very had for me to of burning surface oil) and believe that state elected charts since the disaster officials could pass a tax began April 20. U.S. SHRIMPERS WHO comb seas unaffected bill that taxes one candy Space is allotted as new by the oil-fouled Gulf of Mexico are raising prices as bar — it amounts to developments occur, so demand for their catch rises, bringing a potential — between 8.4 percent and some days will find reports but bittersweet — respite from some tough years. 8.6 percent in Clallam and in our “Nation” briefs. Fishermen in North Carolina , South Carolina , Jefferson counties — and For ongoing news, phoGeorgia and Texas, whose waters have not been not tax the candy bar next tos and graphics between affected by oil, say prices for their shrimp have to it that contains flour. publications, we recomgone up as processing plants that normally buy Did they read the bill mend our website, Gulf seafood turn to other docks for their supply. before voting for it? peninsuladailynews.com, in The federal government has declared fishery I also wonder how our which full Associated Press disasters for Louisiana , Mississippi , Alabama and local state politicians can reporting on the Gulf situaFlorida, which could bring emergency payments for allow the nursing home tion appears 24/7 and is commercial fishermen. problem to exist — kicking accessible via the “Nation/ The Associated Press Oil spill coverage 89-year-old people out of World” dropdown on the their homes because the I understand the oil home page. state Medicaid program spill is across the country, Also, on our home page does not even pay the but then again you all York’s coast. Maybe before it gets to continues the live feed of home its bare costs [“Six on printed a separate and BP’s top exec “wants his Martha’s Vineyard? remarkable video of the Medicaid Forced Out/Facil- additional portion of your life back” and completely You don’t necessarily gusher from near the floor ity Owners’ Opt Out Leads publication dedicated solely missed both the tragic irony have to cover the politics of of the Gulf of Mexico. to Eviction of Residents,” to a canoe trip, as I recall. and the moronic audacity of it. How many times am I As far as I’m aware, June 6 PDN]. Surely, the death throes his whiny words. going to have to watch our we’re the only newspaper This is the third time of our Gulf Coast and the A diver with The Associ- government play us for website in the region to this has happened in precious life it held deserve ated Press came back up fools while the media care- continue showing this Sequim in the last four more than a paragraph in and reported the sickening fully avoid words like “cor- video feed easily seen on years. the corner of the “second truth: There is absolutely rupt”? the home page. We should ask our local front page.” nothing alive under the Mary Beth Zirkle, Finally, the special secpoliticians what they have There is at this very slick. Port Angeles tion the writer refers to in done to correct this and moment talk of lifting morBP is said to be burning her opening commemorated what they will do in the atoriums and taxing “we, oil. Executive Editor Rex a North Olympic Peninsula future. the people” to cover the Could I trouble you to Wilson replies: event involving thousands If they give us the right cost of cleanup. provide more complete covThanks for the comof people in 2005. answers, we should vote for The beautifully fat and erage of the end of the Gulf ments. We are always limI don’t see any connecthem regardless of their healthy-looking carcass of Coast ecosystem, complete ited in space for off-Penintion between that event, a party affiliations. a baby humpback has with photos, recent death sula news in the print local celebration, and the If not, then vote for the washed up along New tolls of wildlife, etc.? edition, but have published oil spill, a disaster.
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Defends Israel Those Israeli tyrants are at it again. Let’s send in a Nobel Peace laureate on the next love boat to run the blockade. The whole world cheers on these gentle souls. But wait. What about this video showing the peaceful humanitarians beating the daylights out of Israeli soldiers whose job it is to enforce the legal blockade? Its at http://tinyurl. com/354onbz. Check out those weapons they’re using against the Israeli commandos. Maybe next time, the Peninsula Daily News will do a little homework before printing The Associated Press’ usual anti-Israel hogwash. As Charles Krauthammer wrote in the June 4, 2010, Washington Post: “The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million — that number again — hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. TURN
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Peninsula Voices CONTINUED FROM A10 “a nation, group or person that is associated with “For which they are another or others for some relentlessly demonized, common cause or purpose.” ghettoized and constrained The recent naked from defending themselves, aggression against a even as the more commithumanitarian flotilla carryted anti-Zionists — Iranian ing much needed supplies in particular — openly pre- to Gaza by Israel on the pare a more final solution.” high seas makes one quesVirginia Leinart, tion whether Israel should Port Angeles be among the nations we consider allies — such as Criticizes Israel Canada, U.K. and other NATO (North Atlantic Webster’s College Dictionary defines an ally as Treaty Organization)
countries. Allies should be trusted. In 1986, Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former naval intelligence analyst, was convicted of spying for Israel and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Since then, other Israeli spies (Lawrence Franklin and Ben-Ami Kadish) have been convicted and sentenced for passing on national security secrets to Israel. Two AIPAC (American
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Israeli Political Action Committee) employees, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, were indicted for also passing on secrets. Not surprisingly, all of these spies, with the exception of Pollard, received reduced terms, or charges were dropped completely. Allies should not deliberately take the lives of another ally. On June 8, 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, an unarmed American
intelligence ship, while it was in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean. The attack killed 34 Americans and wounded more than 170. Our government covered up the incident (http:// tinyurl.com/246wyad), and Israel said it was an accident. They also explained the death of Rachel Corrie, (the 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia who
was run over by an Israeli soldier driving an American bulldozer while protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes) on March 16, 2003, as an “accident.” Time to re-think the “alliance.” Let’s start by cutting off the annual $2.5 billion to $3 billion giveaway of taxpayer money to Israel. Douglas Angus Campbell, Port Townsend
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Rants & Raves COMPILED BY LEE ZURCHER
Rave of the Week A THANKFUL RAVE to the person in the truck who was driving down Sequim Avenue on the overpass Thursday and gave a bagged lunch and soda to the heavily geared man walking down the road. Made me smile to see that.
JUST GREAT THANKS to the mower operator of the county road crew which mowed East Sequim Bay Road this past week. Nice, wide mows make it easy for us to safely pull out of our driveways and see oncoming traffic. Great job this year.
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cats on this Earth to be on leashes, but he did put them on this Earth to destroy furniture and entertain dogs. GOD MADE CATS to walk on leashes to protect them from cars and coyotes. My neighbors’ cat in Port Ludlow purrs when the leash comes out. He even gets to walk in the rain on his leash, because God made him both a summer and a winter raincoat to wear.
Estates (Port Ludlow) who think it is OK to burn trash: It is not. Stop stinking up the place. Some of us like to have our windows open on a nice day. RANTS TO THE city of Sequim for not enforcing the city ordinance that requires residents to have trash pick-up service.
We asked Sequim City Attorney Craig Ritchie for a response. TO MR. HARASSER: Ain’t it Here it is: fun for you to torment your wife The city does require trash to the breaking point, day after pickup service for all structures HAVE YOU EVER had to . . . and other Raves day? As neighbors, we are tired generating trash. of it. It takes a real man to show pick up a loved one’s cat off a The city contracts with DM highway? some compassion. THANK YOU TO the nice disposal for trash pickup serI have my cat on a leash. I lost You don’t have it. man who brought water and vices. one cat that was not on a leash. antifreeze to us as our car overWhen we become aware of I want to keep my cat alive. heated on Power Plant and persons refusing to contract with That is why I have my cat on Laird’s Corner roads (Port Ange- . . . and other Rants DM Disposal for service, our code a leash. les). We really appreciate that enforcement officer contacts and the neighbor who came over RANT TO THOSE who deny them. DOOR’S OPEN, KITTY, go and helped out. other people their freedom-ofA structure whose owner still use the neighbor’s garden for We’ll pay it forward. speech rights. refuses to have trash pickup will your litter box. Folks, this is America, where be sent a letter from the city She doesn’t mind scrubbing HUGE RAVE TO the we have these basic freedoms attorney advising that the structhe feces and urine off her vegeemployee at Albertsons (Port available to us thanks to our ture may be red-tagged “Do Not tables. You really think I should Angeles). heroes overseas who are willing Occupy.” learn to live with that? Thursday evening, I lost some to give their lives for our many DM Disposal is our usual I just cleaned a flower bed of money while shopping. freedoms we enjoy today. source of information on this, but feces. Don’t tell me I must learn You found it and were kind we also review complaints sent to to co-exist. enough to turn it in. You’ve no A HISSING RANT to the our “Citizen Comments” listed on idea want it means to me. the city’s Web page at: http:// June 6 ranter who declared God TO THE COWARD in the You need to be made employee thinks cats should be leash-free. tinyurl.com/24p5tel. of the year. It is a misdemeanor to violate Since when do cats have more Sequim area who shot my wellbehaved short and cute Labrador. our municipal code, but we try to spiritual rights than dogs? SUPER GRATEFUL RAVE I tracked the blood, know who avoid resorting to criminal Trapping wayward cats will to Jeff K. at Home Depot you are and want to know why. charges. salvage my flower beds that your (Sequim). You helped me and my If you are not man enough to cat turned into its personal litter wife with a broken oven part admit it, an anonymous letter KIDS HAVE THEIR whole box. A few impoundment fees will even though it wasn’t your would be appreciated. lives to be treated like dirt. And hopefully enlighten you. department. Why did Shorty deserve that? it should not come from a high It’s people like you who keep school and a teacher you respect. WHO WOULD MAKE such a us coming back to shop. THE MOST UNFRIENDLY statement about cats on a leash? place to business on the planet is RELAY FOR LIFE T-shirt Is it someone who is jealous A GIANT, HEARTFELT the Clallam County Courthouse. thieves: Shame on you. because his own cat can’t be rave to our Sequim Senior InforThey are the pruniest, sourest If you would have come out mation and Assistance office and trained or is it someone who people on the face of the Earth. the Clallam County Fairgrounds enjoys the screams of a cat being attorney Mark Mullins for helpAnd if they don’t like their this weekend, you could have gottorn to shreds by a coyote? ing me prepare my end-of-life jobs and can’t smile, then why ten your own. documents at no cost. don’t they get another job? GOD MAY NOT have made Without you, the job wouldn’t I KNOW IT’S nice to make cats to be on leashes, but I’m have been done. ON SATURDAY, JUNE 5, a hospitals attractive with an pretty sure using our yard as a person took $100 out of my wallet expensive waterfall, but I’m dislitter box isn’t in the divine A ROUSING RAVE to the at the Black Ball ferry terminal gusted with the negative treatscheme, either. Clallam County Public Utility (Port Angeles). I hope you needed ment and harsh judgments from If your cat comes into my District tree-control crew, which the money more than I did. some caregivers, nurses and docyard, scratches up the plants, skillfully removed a large tree Next time, ask, and I would tors criticizing people because of that threatened the power line in defecates in the vegetable garden gladly hand it to you. low-income or past drug use and and trashes flowers, I’ve a solufront of 1687 Place Road (Port using this to say no to medicine tion. If you don’t like it, keep Angeles). TO THE HANDFUL of peofor pain, leaving them to suffer or your cat at home. A job very well done, guys. ple living in Paradise Bay self-medicate. Many thanks for heading off a NOTHING IS NASTIER certain power outage. than discovering that the sandbox my kids are playing in is full A HUGE RAVE to this community (Port Angeles) for its out- of cat droppings. We don’t own cats (our yard is rageous support for Welfare for DOGS OR CATS: Which pet has the most sway with Amerfenced), so neighborhood cats Animals Guild’s First Annual icans? must be the culprits. Free-roamGarage Sale. Your donations It depends on how you count the numbers, according to a ing cats are a complete nuisance. were incredible. 2009-2010 pet ownership survey by the American Pet Products Not to mention, their eliminaThe shoppers got good deals, Manufacturers Association. tion habits are filthy and and the dogs were the real winIn short, there are more cats but more dog owners. unhealthy for children. ner. Start saving your items for Thirty-nine percent of households own at least one dog comnext year. Thanks from the botpared to 33 percent of households that own at least one cat. I DON’T HATE cats, but I tom of our paws. That’s because most cat owners have more than one feline. hate what they do to my landThere are about 77.5 million owned dogs, and 67 percent of scaping. It’s disgusting. BIG “RAVE” TO great guys dog owners have just one. I don’t let my dog potty all at Blake Sand & Gravel for fixThere are about 93.6 million owned cats, and 56 percent of over your yard, and God does not ing the tailgate on my pickup cat owners have more than one. give your cat rights to poop all truck, which I remembered The survey did not answer the question: Who really owns over mine. wouldn’t open after they loaded a whom? Entitlement attitudes like yard of gravel into the truck. Pet owners already know that answer. yours create unnecessary neighWhen I asked if they knew Paul Gottlieb, where I could get it repaired so I borhood wars. Contain your pet. Peninsula Daily News could unload, they took it apart GOD MAY NOT have put and put it back together.
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RANT TO THE administration of Port Angeles High School for allowing the most disgusting, inappropriate, vile dance at the awards assembly on June 4. I’ll never attend an assembly again at this school, and I’ll see why so many parents opt to home-school their children. I’m sure the school has some real talent to entertain. Please, quit trusting the students. I ATTENDED MY son’s awards assembly last week at Port Angeles High School. I was subjected to the most hideous dance show ever. The guys in leotards were absolutely disgusting for a high school setting. It seems our school rewards inappropriate behavior by making these students the stars. Get real! Stars they are not. They are obnoxious. I GOT A call came from a guy in Jamaica who said he was from Las Vegas and that I had won $1.5 million and a 2010 Mercedes. All I had to do was go to Walmart and give a Ms. Johnson $250. I looked at their phone number, and it said Jamaica. In desperate times, people do strange things. A DISAPPOINTED RANT about my local bank. What happened to you? You have cut back on all your tellers. One teller at lunchtime? I heard someone tell another person it was “the new model.” If I wanted to be treated like a big bank, I would have gone there. TO CLALLAM COUNTY parks and recreation: What is it that you don’t “get” about No Disc Golf at Robin Hill Park? RANTS TO THE driver in Port Angeles who was going about 45 mph as he sped through the intersection at Sixth and Chase streets. You didn’t have the right-ofway, and you almost hit another driver who had to swerve out of your way. Slow down before you injure someone or demolish your car. ________ (CLIP AND SAVE) To participate, call our Rants & Raves hot line at 360-417-3506 (works 24 hours a day), e-mail us at letters@peninsuladailynews.com or drop us a postcard, 305 W. First St., Port Angeles, WA 98362. Keep comments brief — 50 words or less. And, please, no libel, no responses to letters to the editor or news stories; no personal attacks on individuals or on businesses identified by name; no thank you notes to your favorite restaurant, dry-cleaner, grandchild (we simply don’t have enough room for those); no inaccurate information or unverified rumors; no calls for boycotts; no political endorsements; no charity fund appeals; no commercial pitches. Don’t forget to tell us where things happen — Port Angeles, Chimacum, Sequim, etc.
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During Saturday morning’s survivors lap, cancer survivors, from front left, Lou Jenny of Port Angeles, Richard Hammer of Sequim, and Nancy White and Cynthia Isenberger, both of Port Angeles, hold the survivors’ banner.
Cindy Larsen of Port Angeles, a survivor of breast cancer, decorates a paper bag that will become a lumenaria in memory of a friend on Friday evening at the Relay for Life at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles.
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Proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society for cancer research. PORT ANGELES — The year’s first The next Relay for Life on the PeninRelay for Life on the North Olympic Pen- sula will be at Memorial Field in Port insula wound down Saturday afternoon Townsend event on July 24-25. after 24 hours of laps, music, fundraising The West End Relay for Life will and companionship. start Aug. 6 at Forks High School. The Port Angeles Relay for Life, which Sequim’s event will begin Aug. 14 at was at the Clallam County Fairgrounds, Sequim High School. featured two survivor laps and a variety For 24-hour cancer information, phone of “fun laps,” as well as fundraising events the American Cancer Society at 800-2272345 or see www.cancer.org. put on by 26 teams.
Tally Swanson, 17, strikes a pose on Saturday as Alison Maxwell, 17, helps create a dress made from newspaper during a Relay for Life contest to develop creative clothing for the event.
Briefly: State Husband testifies in teacher trial YAKIMA — The husband of a Yakima teacher accused of having sex with one of her students testified in her defense in Yakima County Superior Court. The Yakima HeraldRepublic reported Kevin Taylor said Thursday he’s sure Michele Taylor was home with him and their triplets the night of May 9, 2009, when she’s accused of having sex with a 16-yearold in a pickup truck in a parking lot. Michele Taylor is charged with sexual misconduct and immoral communication with a minor. She is on paid leave
from her job as a physical education teacher at East Valley High School. Kevin Taylor also is a physical education teacher in the district.
Owner missing EVERETT — The daughter of Everett espresso stand owner Bill Wheeler said he disappeared last month on a trip to Las Vegas to pick up an espresso machine. His pickup truck was found burned May 29 about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Wheeler was in the news last year when five employees of his Grab-n-Go shop were accused of lewd acts and charged with prostitution. The Daily Herald of Everett reported Wheeler has had financial trouble
in recent months and was accused of failing to pay rent on two buildings in the Everett area and Lynnwood.
Orca calf spotted FRIDAY HARBOR — The Center for Whale Research at Friday Harbor said K pod has returned to Washington waters with a new calf. The calf was spotted Tuesday with the pod near Stuart Island in the San Juans. It’s been labeled K43 and it appears to be about 5 months hold. KING-TV reported there are now 20 whales in K pod, one of three pods that spend much of the year in Puget Sound waters. The Associated Press
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Boston’s Glen Davis (11) and Nate Robinson, rear, celebrate a scoring run against the Los Angeles Lakers during Game 4 of the NBA finals in Boston. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (2)
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England goalkeeper Robert Green reacts after letting a shot deflect off his hands and into the net during Saturday’s World Cup soccer match between England and the U.S. at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa.
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U.S. escapes with 1-1 draw Ex-Husky gives vs. Brits after keeper gaffe BY HARVEY ARATON THE NEW YORK TIMES
BOSTON — In the noisiest sports cycle in memory, a classically crazy NBA championship series between the Celtics and the Lakers appears to have broken out. And in the decades-long relationship between the league’s most storied and successful franchises, this usually hasn’t been good news for L.A. When Don Nelson’s jump shot bounced high off the rim and back down in 1969, the Bill Russell-led Celtics clinched their 11th title in 13 years on the Lakers’ home court. When Gerald Henderson stole a pass intended for Byron Scott from James Worthy and stormed in for a layup in 1984, the Celtics were spared losing the first two games at home in a series they rallied to win. Beware of lurking leprechauns when unheralded Celtics soar, or when the unpredictable and unfiltered Nate Robinson emerges as the fourth-quarter quarterback in a game Boston had to win to have any realistic chance of capturing its 18th title. “Something my college coach [UW’s Lorenzo Romar] used to say is that the more energy you bring, you’ll be surprised what the outcome of the game will be,” Robinson said after he — and not Rajon Rondo, the man who adorned the recent Sports Illustrated cover — was the floor leader and co-catalyst of Thursday night’s 96-89 Game 4 victory by the Celtics, which evened the series at 2-2.
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■ World Cup players wearing RUSTENBURG, South Africa — earth-friendly gear/C12 England’s players couldn’t get off Howard made six saves, withthe field fast enough. The Ameristanding a second-half barrage by cans lingered to savor the night. Wayne Rooney and his celeThey walked to the end brated teammates. of Royal Bafokeng Stadium “I think a lot of us came where thousands of red, off the field satisfied with white and blue-clad fans this result, but maybe a litwere waving the Stars and Stripes and cheering their heads tle disappointed we didn’t get more out of the game,” U.S. star Landon off. Try convincing the U.S. team Donovan said. Steven Gerrard put England and its fans there wasn’t a winner in the 1-1 draw with mighty Eng- ahead in the fourth minute, blowing past Ricardo Clark to beat Howard land. “We’ll take more out of a draw from short range. Dempsey tied it when Green than they will,” said U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard, the man of the match. fumbled his 25-yard shot that “They’re going feel like they should skipped off the ground twice, yet another mistake in a long line by have won the game.” Facing the Three Lions in the English goalkeepers. “Mentally we’re strong enough to World Cup for the first time in 60 years, the United States rallied and get over it and as a goalkeeper these then hung on for an instant boost things happen,” Green said. Anticipation had built for six in confidence that they could months for the much-hyped game, advance to the second round. Clint Dempsey became only the the first competitive meeting second American to score in two between the nations since the World Cups, getting the tying goal famous 1-0 U.S. upset at the 1950 in the 40th minute on a blunder by World Cup in Brazil. goalkeeper Robert Green. TURN TO DRAW/B3
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United States’ Michael Bradley, left, embraces fellow team member and goalkeeper Tim Howard following Saturday’s World Cup soccer match between England and the U.S. in Rustenburg.
MAKING WAVES AT LAKE PLEASANT Ron Magnuson of Brier, left, runs next to Steve Armfield of Mukilteo during the Whidbey Rooster Tails hydroplane races held under sunny skies at Lake Pleasant on Saturday. Races will continue today beginning at 11 a.m. and ending at an undetermined time. The races can be viewed at Lake Pleasant Recreation Area.
Just Robinson’s style Robinson has lived by that credo, and often his former team in New York City died by it, too. But after the former Washington Husky and New York Knick dived on the floor to wrestle the ball away from the Lakers’ Jordan Farmar with the score tied, 64-64, early in the fourth quarter, the Celtics scored the next six points and never trailed again as their coach, Doc Rivers, rode a wave of emotional and at times unbalanced reserves in what Robinson characterized as a Shrek and Donkey show. So while the World Cup begins in South Africa, big-time college sports reels from the apparent end of the major conference world as we’ve known it, Tiger Woods warms up for the U.S. Open, Stephen Strasburg prepares for another start, and the NBA assesses cause and effect in the Cleveland-related cases of Tom Izzo and LeBron James, a pivotal Game 5 will be played at the TD Garden tonight. Robinson promises to be in the middle of it. When weird happens, he usually is. In the aftermath of his 12-point, 2-assist contribution, which included all but the last 2 minutes, 51 seconds of the fourth quarter, a horde of news media people converged on the corner of the Celtics’ locker room where Robinson was dressing next to Glen Davis, whose neighbor on the other side was Rasheed Wallace. Big Baby (Davis), Crybaby (Wallace) and the occasionally puerile Robinson were whooping it up, preparing to address the army of inquisitors when a league employee informed Robinson and Davis that their presence was required in the interview room. TURN
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Seattle’s Cliff Lee slams his bat after striking out with a runner in scoring position to end the sixth inning of Saturday’s game in San Diego.
SAN DIEGO — When Adrian Gonzalez launched a two-run homer off Cliff Lee in the first inning, all of the San Diego Padres got a lift. Gonzalez’s shot and a strong outing from starter Wade LeBlanc helped the Padres to a 7-1 win over Seattle on Saturday night, the Mariners’ fifth straight loss. The home run by the streaking Gonzalez came after LeBlanc escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the top of the first. And it helped send the Mariners to 16 games under .500 (23-39); a
Next Game Today vs. Padres at San Diego Time: 1:05 p.m. On TV: FSN
new low point for a team that has had many this spring. “I think everybody in this stadium can sense a shift after Gonzo’s homer,” LeBlanc said. “It’s huge, especially against a guy like Cliff Lee. If you can get some early runs, get to him early because once he settles down, it’s tough.” Lee (4-3) proved that by retiring the final 11 batters he faced. But LeBlanc (4-4) provided his club with a big boost in the first by first getting Jose Lopez to ground into a third-to-home-to-first double play. TURN
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Area Sports Bowling LAUREL LANES Spring Classic Men’s High Game: Kevin Tachell, 235; men’s high series: Rob Sanders, 621. Women’s high game: Deb Halverson, 203; women’s high series: Deb Halverson, 545.
Texas LA Angels Oakland Seattle
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PCT .645 .629 .578 .540 .274
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GB HOME - 21-11 3.5 19-10 7.5 15-18 10.5 12-18 10.5 12-16
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Golf PENINSULA GOLF CLUB June 10 Men’s Medal Play Division One Gross: Mike DuPuis, 70; Kerry Perkins, 72. Net: Quint Boe 68; Paul Reed, 69; Tom Hainstock, 69; Bill Lindberg, 70; Roger Reidel, 70; Bernie Anselmo, 70; Mark Jefferies, 70. Division Two Gross: Larry Bourm, 84; Lyle Andrus, 85. Net: Ming Chang, 67; Doug Tissot, 68; Bart Irwin, 68; Kevin Borde, 70; Joe Tweter, 70; Bob Reidel, 70; Chuck Turner, 70. Team Event Gross: Mike DuPuis and Gary Thorne, 65; Mike DuPuis and Tim Lusk, 66; Mike DuPuis and Rob Botero, 67; Paul Reed and Rick Parkhurst, 67. Net: Larry Bourm and Joe Tweter, 59; Larry Bourm and Bill Rinehart, 60; Steve Jones and Lyle Andrus, 60; Tom Lowe and Bernie Anselmo, 61; Jack Morley and Bob Reidel, 61; Eric Kovatch and Steve Colvin, 61; Tom Hainstock and Jerry Hendricks, 61; Bill Lindberg and Kevin Borde, 62; Jim Schramm and Doug Tissot 62; Bob Reidel and Ray Santiago, 62; Tom Lowe and Al Osterberg, 62; Ming Chang and Gene Hitt, 62; Ming Chang and Mike Ferong, 62. CEDARS AT DUNGENESS June 11 Lady Niners First Division Net: Virginia Dvorshak, 31; Vernice Quigley, 32; Kathy Benedict and Lynn Gilbert tied. Putts 16: Barb Bullock. Second Division Net: Carol Inglesby, 34; Ginny Thompson, 35; Pauline Hammond, 37. Putts 16: Pauline Hammond. Jan Boyungs, Virginia Dvorshak and Ginny Thompson had birdie on hole 11.
Youth Baseball/Softball North Olympic Baseball and Softball Standings through June 11 Cal Ripken Major Baseball American League Team W L Mobile Music 14 3 Swain’s 11 4 Local 155 8 8 Elks 6 10 Eagles 3 13 National League Team W L Tranco Transmissions 14 1 Rotary 12 4 Laurel Lanes 6 11 Hi-Tech Electronics 5 12 Lions 2 15 Babe Ruth Major 12U Softball Team W L PA Power Equipment 12 2 Boulevard Wellness 11 2 Jim’s Pharmacy 6 6 Reid & Johnson 6 6 Paint & Caret Barn 2 9 Olympic Labor Council 0 12 Babe Ruth 16U Softball Team W L Diamond Roofing 6 2 Kiwanis 9 2 KONP 5 3 Albertson’s 3 6 ILWU 1 11 Cal Ripken AAA Minor Baseball Team W L Laurel Dental Clinic 5 3 Shaltry Orthodontics 5 4 Nippon Paper Ltd. 5 5 Frame & Eye 3 6 June10 Results Shatry’s Orthodontics 18, Airport Garden Center 8 Parsinen Landscape Maintenance Inc. 8, Sahltry’s Orthodontics, 7 Parsinen Landscape Maintenance, Inc. 17, High Tide’s/Zak’s 7 Elwha Braves 26, U.S. Coast Guard 16 U.S. Coast Guard 25, Roadhouse 24 Roadhouse 18, D12 14 America’s Finest Flooring 8, D12 7 Elwha Braves 13, America’s Finest Flooring 4
Slowpitch PA RECREATION LEAGUES Standings through June 7 Women’s Division Team W L Pro Active/Alan Millet 7 0 Shaltry’s Orthodontics 9 3 California Horizon 6 4 Link Roofing 6 4 Elwha Bravettes 6 6 Parsinen Landscape 5 5 High Tides/Zak’s 5 6 Olympic Sewer 2 7 Airport Garden Center 0 10 Men’s Purple Division Team W L Peak’s Pounders 10 0 Elwha River Casino 5 5 The Hanger 5 5 Affordable Roofing 4 6 Olympic Painting 4 6 Westport Shipyard 2 8 Men’s Gold Division Team W L Castaways 10 2 Link Roofing 7 5 Jesse’s Auto Salon 5 7 Pen Ply 4 8 Twisted Foulballs 4 8 Men’s Silver Division Team W L America’s Flooring 8 4 Elwha Braves 8 4 D12 7 5 Roadhouse 4 8 U.S. Coast Guard 3 9
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Baseball Padres 7, Mariners 1 Saturday Seattle San Diego ab r hbi ab r hbi Ichiro rf 5 0 3 1 Eckstn 2b 3010 Figgins 2b 5 0 1 0 Headly 3b 4211 FGtrrz cf 4 0 0 0 AdGnzl 1b 3222 JoLopz 3b 5 0 1 0 Hairstn lf 3000 Bradly lf 2 0 0 0 Adams p 0000 JoWilsn ss 4 0 2 0 Salazar ph 1113 Carp 1b 4 0 2 0 Mujica p 0000 RJhnsn c 2 1 1 0 Torreal c 4110 MSndrs ph 1 0 0 0 Denorfi rf-lf 4 0 1 0 Alfonzo c 0 0 0 0 HrstnJr ss 2011 Cl.Lee p 3 0 0 0 Gwynn cf 3010 Ktchm ph 1 0 0 0 LeBlnc p 2000 White p 0 0 0 0 Grgrsn p 0000 League p 0 0 0 0 Venale rf 1110 Totals 36 110 1 Totals 30 710 7 Seattle 010 000 000 — 1 San Diego 200 100 04x — 7 DP—Seattle 1, San Diego 1. LOB—Seattle 12, San Diego 2. 2B—I.Suzuki (13), Carp (1), Ro.Johnson (6), Headley (12), Venable (6). HR—Ad.Gonzalez (14), Salazar (1). CS—Hairston Jr. (3). S—Eckstein. SF—Hairston Jr.. IP H R ER BB SO Seattle Cl.Lee L,4-3 7 7 3 3 0 3 White 1-3 2 3 3 1 0 League 2-3 1 1 1 0 1 San Diego LeBlanc W,4-4 6 7 1 1 3 4 Gregerson H,16 1 0 0 0 0 1 Adams H,16 1 2 0 0 1 1 Mujica 1 1 0 0 0 1 Balk—Cl.Lee. Umpires—Home, Joe West; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, Paul Schrieber; Third, Rob Drake. T—2:30. A—30,019 (42,691).
Padres 4, Mariners 3 Friday San Diego ab r hbi ab r hbi Ichiro rf 5 0 1 1 Eckstn 2b 4021 Figgins 2b 3 1 0 0 Headly 3b 4110 FGtrrz cf 4 0 1 1 AdGnzl 1b 4011 JoLopz 3b 4 0 0 0 Hairstn lf 3010 Bradly lf 4 1 3 1 Hundly c 4001 JoWilsn ss 4 0 3 0 Denorfi rf 4010 Ktchm 1b 4 0 0 0 HrstnJr ss 3110 Alfonzo c 4 1 1 0 Gwynn cf 4121 JVargs p 2 0 0 0 Correia p 2000 Kelley p 0 0 0 0 Cnghm ph 1000 League p 0 0 0 0 R.Webb p 0000 MSndrs ph 1 0 0 0 Thtchr p 0000 Ardsm p 0 0 0 0 Venale ph 1110 Totals 35 3 9 3 Totals 34 410 4 Seattle 000 021 000 — 3 San Diego 002 000 002 — 4 Two outs when winning run scored. E—Figgins (8), Hundley (2). DP—Seattle 1. LOB—Seattle 7, San Diego 11. 2B—Alfonzo (1), Headley (11), Ad.Gonzalez (11), Gwynn (5). 3B—F.Gutierrez (3), Gwynn (3). HR— Bradley (4). SB—Bradley (6). S—J.Vargas, Eckstein. SF—Hundley. IP H R ER BB SO Seattle J.Vargas 6 7 2 2 2 5 Kelley H,3 1 1 0 0 1 2 League H,3 1 0 0 0 0 0 Aardsma 0-4 BS,4-16 2-32 2 2 1 0 San Diego Correia 6 8 3 3 0 5 R.Webb 2 1 0 0 0 1 Thatcher W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 HBP—by Aardsma (Headley), by Correia (Figgins). WP—Correia. Umpires—Home, Rob Drake; First, Joe West; Second, Angel Hernandez; Third, Paul Schrieber. T—2:52. A—20,049 (42,691). Seattle
Interleague All Times PDT Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox 10, Chicago Cubs 5 N.Y. Yankees 4, Houston 3 N.Y. Mets 5, Baltimore 1 Detroit 6, Pittsburgh 2 Cleveland 7, Washington 2 Florida 14, Tampa Bay 9 Kansas City 6, Cincinnati 5, 11 innings Boston 12, Philadelphia 2 Minnesota 2, Atlanta 1 Milwaukee 6, Texas 2 Colorado 5, Toronto 3, 6 innings St. Louis 5, Arizona 2 San Diego 4, Seattle 3 L.A. Angels 10, L.A. Dodgers 1 San Francisco 6, Oakland 2
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Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 9, Houston 3 Chicago White Sox 2, Chicago Cubs 1 Boston 10, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 3, Baltimore 1 Detroit 4, Pittsburgh 3, 10 innings Cleveland 7, Washington 1 Atlanta 3, Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 6, Florida 5 Cincinnati 11, Kansas City 5 Texas 4, Milwaukee 3 Arizona 7, St. Louis 2 Colorado 1, Toronto 0 San Diego 7, Seattle 1 Oakland at San Francisco, 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Today’s Games Houston (Moehler 0-2) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 8-1), 10:05 a.m. Pittsburgh (Karstens 1-2) at Detroit (Galarraga 2-1), 10:05 a.m. Washington (Strasburg 1-0) at Cleveland (D.Huff 2-7), 10:05 a.m. Kansas City (Greinke 1-8) at Cincinnati (LeCure 1-2), 10:10 a.m. N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 8-1) at Baltimore (Millwood 0-7), 10:35 a.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 5-5) at Boston (Wakefield 2-4), 10:35 a.m. Florida (Volstad 3-6) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 6-0), 10:40 a.m. Atlanta (Medlen 3-1) at Minnesota (Slowey 7-3), 11:10 a.m. Texas (C.Lewis 5-4) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 6-2), 11:10 a.m. Toronto (Litsch 0-0) at Colorado (Francis 1-2), 12:10 p.m. Oakland (Mazzaro 2-0) at San Francisco (Cain 5-4), 1:05 p.m. Seattle (F.Hernandez 3-5) at San Diego (Richard 4-3), 1:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 5-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Monasterios 3-0), 1:10 p.m. St. Louis (Carpenter 7-1) at Arizona (E.Jackson 3-6), 1:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Floyd 2-6) at Chicago Cubs (Lilly 1-5), 5:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Seattle at St. Louis, 4:10 p.m. Milwaukee at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.
Basketball NBA Playoffs All Times PDT NBA FINALS L.A. Lakers 2, Boston 2 Thursday, June 3: L.A. Lakers 102, Boston 89 Sunday, June 6: Boston 103, L.A. Lakers 94 Tuesday, June 8: L.A. Lakers 91, Boston 84 Thursday, June 10: Boston 96, L.A. Lakers 89 Today: L.A. Lakers at Boston, 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 15: Boston at L.A. Lakers, 6 p.m. x-Thursday, June 17: Boston at L.A. Lakers, 6 p.m.
WBA Storm 82, Sparks 60 LOS ANGELES (60) Thompson 4-8 2-2 10, Milton-Jones 2-7 1-2 6, Parker 6-12 0-2 13, Penicheiro 1-2 0-0 2, Quinn 1-2 1-2 3, Toliver 1-7 2-2 4, Lennox 2-5 0-0 5, Wisdom-Hylton 4-4 2-2 10, FerdinandHarris 2-7 0-2 4, Riley 1-4 0-0 3, Mokango 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-58 8-14 60. SEATTLE (82) Cash 5-12 0-0 11, Jackson 6-17 5-5 17, Little 2-3 9-12 13, Bird 6-11 0-0 15, Wright 1-8 2-2 4, Willingham 3-3 0-0 6, Abrosimova 3-5 2-2 9, Vesela 2-3 2-2 7, Robinson 0-0 0-0 0, Lacey 0-0 0-0 0, Bishop 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-63 20-23 82. Los Angeles 13 16 18 13 —60 Seattle 26 16 21 19 —82 3-Point Goals—Los Angeles 4-13 (Parker 1-2, Riley 1-2, Milton-Jones 1-3, Lennox 1-3, Toliver 0-1, Thompson 0-1, Ferdinand-Harris 0-1), Seattle 6-24 (Bird 3-7, Vesela 1-2, Abrosimova 1-2, Cash 1-3, Bishop 0-1, Wright 0-3, Jackson 0-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Los Angeles 37 (Parker 7), Seattle 41 (Jackson 9). Assists—Los Angeles 11 (Parker, MiltonJones, Ferdinand-Harris, Toliver 2), Seattle 17 (Bird 5). Total Fouls—Los Angeles 20, Seattle 18. Technicals—Milton-Jones. A—7,286 (9,686).
Soccer World Cup 2010 All times EST SOUTH AFRICA Qualifying Round As of June 12 Group A Team W-L-T GF GA P France 0-0-1 0 0 1 Mexico 0-0-1 2 2 1 S. Africa 0-0-1 2 2 1 Uruguay 0-0-1 0 0 1 June 11 South Africa 2, Mexico 2 Uruguay 0, France 0 June 16 South Africa vs. Uruguay, 11:30 a.m. June 17 France vs. Mexico, 11:30 a.m. June 22 Mexico vs. Uruguay, 7 a.m. France vs. South Africa, 7 a.m. Group B W-L-T GF GA P 1-0-0 2 0 3 1-0-0 4 0 3 0-1-0 0 0 0 0-1-0 0 2 0 June 12 South Korea 4, Greece 0 Argentina 2, Nigeria 0 June 17 Argentina vs. South Korea, 4:30 a.m. Greece vs. Nigeria, 7 a.m. June 22 Nigeria vs. South Korea, 11:30 a.m. Greece vs. Argentina, 11:30 a.m. Team Argentina S. Korea Greece Nigeria
Group C W-L-T GF GA 0-0-1 2 2 0-0-1 2 2 0-0-0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 June 12 USA 2, England 2 June 13 Algeria vs. Slovenia, 4:30 a.m. June 18 Slovenia vs. USA, 7 a.m. England vs. Algeria, 11:30 a.m. June 23 Slovenia vs. England, 7 a.m. USA vs. Algeria, 7 a.m. Team USA England Algeria Slovenia
Group D W-L-T GF GA 0-0-0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 June 13 Serbia vs. Ghana, 7 a.m. Germany vs. Australia, 11:30 a.m. June 18 Germany vs. Serbia, 4:30 a.m. June 19 Ghana vs. Australia, 7 a.m. June 23 Ghana vs. Germany, 11:30 a.m. Australia vs. Serbia, 11:30 a.m. Team Australia Ghana Serbia Germany
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Group E Team W-L-T GF GA P Denmark 0-0-0 0 0 0 Japan 0-0-0 0 0 0 Netherlands0-0-0 0 0 0 Cameroon 0-0-0 0 0 0 June 14 Netherlands vs. Denmark, 4:30 a.m. Japan vs. Cameroon, 7 a.m. June 19 Netherlands vs. Japan, 7:30 am Cameroon vs. Denmark, 11:30 a.m. June 24 Denmark vs. Japan, 11:30 a.m. Cameroon vs. Netherlands, 11:30 a.m. Group F Team W-L-T GF GA P Italy 0-0-0 0 0 0 Paraguay 0-0-0 0 0 0 New Zealand 0-0-0 0 0 0 Slovakia 0-0-0 0 0 0 June 14 Italy vs. Paraguay, 11:30 a.m. June 15 New Zealand vs. Slovakia, 4:30 a.m. June 20 Slovakia vs. Paraguay, 4:30 a.m. Italy vs. New Zealand, 7 a.m. June 24 Slovakia vs. Italy, 7 a.m. Paraguay vs. New Zealand, 7 a.m.
SPORTS ON TV Today 6 a.m. (47) GOLF EPGA Golf, Estoril Open at Penha Longa Golf Course in Estoril, Portugal. 6:30 a.m. (26) ESPN (2) CBUT FIFA Soccer, Serbia vs. Ghana in World Cup Group D. 9 a.m. (13) KCPQ F1 Auto Racing, Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montréal, Que. 10 a.m. (26) ESPN College Baseball, Vanderbilt at Florida State in Super Regionals. 10 a.m. (28) TBS MLB Baseball, Philadelphia Phillies at Boston Red Sox. 10 a.m. (31) TNT NASCAR Auto Racing, Sprint Cup Series Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 at Michigan International in Brooklyn, Mich. 11 a.m. (4) KOMO (2) CBUT FIFA Soccer, Germany vs. Australia in World Cup Group D. 11 a.m. (47) GOLF USGA Golf, Curtis Cup at Essex Country Club in Manchester, Mass. Noon (7) KIRO PGA Golf, St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. 12:30 p.m. (8) GBLBC PGA Golf, St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. 1 p.m. (5) KING Triathlon, Foster Grant Ironman World Championship in Clearwater, Fla. 1 p.m. (26) ESPN College Baseball, Super Regionals. 1 p.m. (25) FSNW MLB Baseball, Seattle Mariners at San Diego Padres. 1:30 p.m. (2) CBUT NTRA Horse Racing, Queens Plate Trials and Woodbine Oaks at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ont. 4 p.m. (27) ESPN2 College Baseball, Super Regionals. 5 p.m. (4) KOMO NBA Basketball, Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Celtics in Game 5 of NBA Finals. 5 p.m. (26) ESPN MLB Baseball, Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs. 7 p.m. (27) ESPN2 College Baseball, Super Regionals. 4 a.m. (26) ESPN (2) CBUT FIFA Soccer, Netherlands vs. Denmark in World Cup Group E.
Group G W-L-T GF GA P 0-0-0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0 June 15 Ivory Coast vs. Portugal, 7 a.m. Brazil vs. North Korea, 11:30 a.m. June 20 Brazil vs. Ivory Coast, 11:30 a.m. June 21 Portugal vs. North Korea, 4:30 a.m. June 25 North Korea vs. Ivory Coast, 7 a.m. Portugal vs. Brazil, 7 a.m. Team Ivory Coast Portugal Brazil N. Korea
Group H W-L-T GF GA P 0-0-0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0 0 0 June 16 Honduras vs. Chile, 4:30 a.m. Spain vs. Switzerland, 7 a.m. June 21 Chile vs. Switzerland, 7 a.m. Spain vs. Honduras, 11:30 a.m. June 25 Switzerland vs. Honduras, 11:30 a.m. Chile vs. Spain, 11:30 a.m. Team Honduras Chile Spain Switzerland
Transactions Baseball American League Baltimore Orioles: Announced LHP Alberto Castillo cleared waivers and was assigned to Norfolk (IL). Boston Red Sox: Placed RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 8. Optioned OF Josh Reddick to Pawtucket (IL). Called up OF Daniel Nava from Pawtucket. Activated RHP Jonathan Papelbon from the bereavement/family medical emergency list. Designated RHP Joe Nelson for assignment. Placed OF Jeremy Hermida on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 10. Recalled RHP Scott Atchison from Pawtucket (IL). Cleveland Indians: Recalled C Carlos Santana from Columbus (IL). Optioned C Lou Marson to Columbus. Kansas City Royals: Signed OF Timothy Ferguson, RHP Charles Byrne, OF Cameron Conner, SS Michael Liberto and CF Clifford Sandford. Oakland Athletics: Placed C Kurt Suzuki on the bereavement list. Recalled C Landon Powell from Sacramento (PCL). Tampa Bay Rays: Placed OF Gabe Kapler on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Justin Ruggiano from Durham (IL). Texas Rangers: Placed RHP Rich Harden on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Alexi Ogando from Oklahoma City (PCL). National League Arizona Diamondbacks: Activated C Miguel Montero from the 15-day DL. Optioned C John Hester from Reno (PCL). Chicago Cubs: Recalled RHP Mitch Atkins from Iowa (PCL). Optioned LHP James Russell to Iowa. Colorado Rockies: Agreed to terms with RHP Chad Bettis, OF Jared Simon, OF Corey Dickerson, 3B Jayson Langerfels, C Ryan Casteel, 1B Blake McDade, 1B Mark Tracy, RHP Bruce Kern, LHP Kenneth Roberts, LHP Blake Keitzman and 1B Jordan Ballard.
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Matt Waldrip of the Joyce Generals slides safely under Forks Rayonier catcher Mitchell Leppell’s tag to complete a grand slam inside-the-park home run during the Junior Babe Ruth Minor League championship game Saturday in Port Angeles. The slam helped vault the Generals to a 12-8 victory and a Minor League title.
Youth Sports ILWU rallies for win over Albertsons
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PORT ANGELES — Reid and Johnson rattled off five runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back for a 12-4 victory over Olympic PORT ANGELES — ILWU cruised to a 14-6 vic- Labor Council on Thursday. Hope Wegener pitched tory over Albertsons on Wednesday behind a stellar four strong innings for Reid and Johnson before three-hitter from Dusti Nicole Hill struck out Lucas on the mound and OLC’s No. 2, 3 and 4 batsolid infield defense. Infielders Courtney Bol- ters in the fifth to close the door. ster and Katie Loghry saved a number of potential runs for ILWU with Local organized their defense. PORT ANGELES — Lucas recorded five Local 155 sewed up third strikeouts in the game to place in the Cal Ripken limit Albertsons hitters in American League with an the 16U fastpitch contest. ILWU’s Cassidy Ciochon 11-1 drubbing of Elks on supplied five RBIs on three Friday evening. Tanner Gochnour hits while Loghry added pitched four innings for three hits with two RBIs. Emily Drake and Haley Local, giving up just one Love each had two hits for hit while striking out seven. Albertsons.
Briefly . . . Ex-Sequim runner eighth at NCAA’s EUGENE, Ore. — Stephanie Marcy, a 2007 graduate of Sequim High School, placed eighth in the 10,000 meter race at the NCAA track and field championships held at Hayward Field earlier this week. The Stanford junior finished the race in 33 minutes, 32.92 seconds during the first day Marcy of competition Wednesday. She was a little more
Gochnour was 2-for-2 at the plate with a triple and a double. Janson Pederson pitched a perfect fifth inning for Local. Ian Dennis had a single and scored the lone run for Elks in addition to pitching two innings and yielding just a single run.
Rotary lock up
Bailey Towne, Adam Iseri Fujii and Glatz each had three hits for Rotary on Friday as it stormed to an 11-1 victory over HiTech Electronics.
Local ekes out win PORT ANGELES — Local 155 squeaked out an 8-7 win over Blake Sand and Gravel in Olympic Junior Babe Ruth action Thursday night. Local’s Jordan Shepherd pitched a complete game gem, striking out 18 batters. Ryan Mudd led the charge offensively for Local, going 3-for-4 and scoring three times. Brian Sullivan had two RBIs on his lone hit of the night. Brett Wright and Nick Fairchild each had a pair of hits for Blake. Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College Board of Trustees recognized four student-athletes for top honors in their individual sports this past academic year. Dena Houser (women’s basketball), Bryce Jacobson (men’s basketball), Colleen Murphy-Carey (softball) and Brent Ricigliano (men’s soccer) were all singled out for their excellence. Each of the student-athletes was recognized for their leadership, sportsmanship, citizenship and academic achievements during the course of their individual seasons. H o u s e r, originally from Boulder City, Nev., was the recipient of the Art Fiero Award for Houser women’s basketball. Her leadership role for her teammates, combined with consistent and diligent work effort were cited in the board’s decision. Jacobson is a Palmer, Alaska native.
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After intentionally walking a batter to load the bases again, the left-hander retired Josh Wilson on a fly ball. “That was huge,” Gonzalez said. “It just picks you up, especially in the first inning. “Everyone is trying to get into the groove of the game and something like that just gets you going.” Said LeBlanc: “That’s not the ideal way you want to start off the game but that’s the way it happened. Fortunately, everything worked out.” Oscar Salazar added a pinch-hit three-run shot, his first home run of the season, to break open the game in the eighth. It added up to Seattle’s than one-tenth of a second Hill still waiting Hill has missed multiple eighth loss in nine games. minicamps and organized behind seventh. SEATTLE — Seattle It also led to a Mariners’ team activities. Asked if Prior to running for the Seahawks starting lineplayers-only meeting after that concerned him, Carroll Cardinal, Marcy won the backer Leroy Hill is closer the game. said Tuesday: Class 2A state cross counto a trial on a domestic-vio“We have to turn it “Well if that didn’t mattry championship and 1,600 lence charge. around,” Lee said. “It’s about ter then why would you meter title her senior year. Hill appeared at a second practice, you know? Practice time to snap out of it, but it Her 1,600 time of hearing Friday in suburban is hugely important. There’s is what it is. We’ve got to do 4:54.14 that year was one Issaquah Municipal Court. a better job of executing, and a new system. There’s a Another hearing was set for whole new approach to how that’s everybody.” of the best in the nation. Marcy also earned hon- July 14, according to the The Mariners tied their we’re doing things. orable mention Pac-10 All- court’s clerk. season high by stranding 12 “It’s certainly hindered The 27-year-old Hill was his opportunity, without Academic recognition for runners. arrested in April for investi- question. The other guys track in 2009. Seattle also loaded the gation of domestic violence bases with one out in the have just rocketed ahead an incident with with their chances and tak- eighth off Mike Adams. But Ace at Dungeness following his girlfriend at his home. Adams retired consecutive ing advantage of that. SEQUIM — Robert He has pleaded not guilty. “That’s part of the com- pinch-hitters, striking out Bourns recorded his secHill told police he was Michael Saunders and getpetition. You do what you ond-ever hole-in-one on the sleeping when his girlfriend can with your opportuniting Casey Kotchman on a 17th hole at Cedar at Dun- searched his cellphone “and ties. So, he is going to have grounder. geness Golf Course during that she found out he was “That’s two nights in a to battle back to get him Merchants League play seeing other girls.” row that we’ve had a pretty back out here. Friday. Hill reported there was “We’ll see when the time good starting pitching perforBourns’ ace helped pro- “nothing physical” that took comes.” mance and our offense has pel his team into first place between him and his Peninsula Daily News squandered it,” M’s manager place. girlfriend in the incident. and The Associated Press Don Wakamatsu said. PORT ANGELES — Rotary cemented its hold on second place in the Cal Ripken National League with two big wins this week. In Wednesday’s game, Rotary took advantage of four Laurel Lanes errors to run away with a 12-8 win. Laurel’s Kellen Landry had the evening’s best game, knocking three hits and driving in four runs in the loss. Jeffery Glatz scored three of Rotary’s runs.
His efforts on the court earned him the Art Fiero Award as well. Athleticism, a posi- Jacobson tive attitude, participation in student government and the intramural program on campus helped to single Jacobson out for recognition this year. The softball team’s MurphyCarey was a standout both on and off the diamond this year. Murphy She won the Jim Lunt Award this season for her excellence both offensively and defensively while also being recognized for her leadership skills on campus and in the general community. Murphy-Carey was also a member of the 2010 Washington and NWAACC allacademic teams. Ricigliano’s persistent display of outstanding effort and positive attitude on the soccer team earned him Ricigliano recognition from the board. He is from Port Orchard originally.
“We came out of the gate early and aren’t able to score. With Cliff Lee on the mound and the way he’s been pitching, it’s a totally different ball game.” Over his last 13 games, Gonzalez is batting .412 (21 for 51) with five homers, 15 RBIs and 10 runs scored. He is 7 for 9 against Lee, including seven straight hits. Gonzalez’s first-inning home run was only the second surrendered by Lee this season. “I got behind 2-0 there and threw a cutter and he hit it out,” Lee said. “He’s a great hitter. For whatever reason, I’ve had trouble against him.” LeBlanc pitched his second strong game after a four-game losing streak. The lefty got through six innings, allowing one run on seven hits and stranding eight baserunners. Lee gave up three runs and seven hits in seven innings. With the win, the Padres clinched the season series over Seattle for the first time since 2004. “We lost another game and the frustration is really growing even more at this point,” Wilson said. “We’ve got to do something to break it.” Gonzalez’s homer was his 14th this season, but just five have come at Petco Park. Ichiro got the Mariners on the board in the second when he hit a bloop single to score Rob Johnson, who had doubled.
Draw: English goalkeeper flubs Dempsey shot CONTINUED FROM B1 faces each week when he plays for Everton. Howard said the hit “felt There were viewing parties across America, and like agony.” After the match, he felt several Major League Soccer teams opened their sta- sore and said he might need diums to show the match an MRI to make sure there from across the world on isn’t any damage. “Obviously the adrenalarge video boards. “I’m sure they were line is pumping,” he said. excited in bars back home. I “In a couple hours I’ll be can only imagine it was struggling.” Big defender Oguchi pretty intense,” Howard Onyewu played his first said. “We’re a resilient side, 90-minute game since rupyou know. We’re a tough turing a knee tendon in the side and on our day we can last World Cup qualifier on put a good performance in.” Oct. 14. Forward Jozy Altidore, Howard bruised his ribs when Emile Heskey’s foot back from a sprained ankle, slid into him in the 29th nearly put the U.S. ahead in the 65th minute, but Green minute. He was down for awhile, got a hand on his angled grimaced several times shot and it deflected off the when play resumed and corner of the goal. “A little unlucky,” the had a painkiller injection at 20-year-old said after his halftime. Then he saved the Amer- World Cup debut. icans time and again in the With each save late in second half, frustrating the the game, louder chants of very high-priced stars he “U-S-A!” erupted from
Sam’s Army and American Outlaws, groups who made the long and expensive trip from home to sit among the vuvuzela-blowing fans on a cool night in the Southern Hemisphere. The crowd of 38,646 included Vice President Joe Biden, who visited the U.S. locker room before kickoff. Some players skipped his greetings. “I was getting taped,” captain Carlos Bocanegra said. England must try to regroup as it seeks its first major title since winning the World Cup at home in 1966. The U.S., trying to rebound from first-round elimination four years ago, got a boost as it heads into first-round games against Slovenia on Friday and Algeria on June 23. While not a shocking win to match 1950, the U.S. earned a huge single point
in its quest to reach the second round for the first time since 2002. Both sides started out tentative and nervous. England broke on top when Heskey took Glen Johnson’s throw-in and sent a through ball to Gerrard broke in as Clark couldn’t catch him and flicked it past Howard for his 17th goal in 82 appearances. It continued a troublesome pattern for the Americans, who fell behind in three of their last four qualifiers before coming back for a draw or win. “The funny thing is, we talk about, you know, don’t concede early,” Bocanegra said. “And man, it’s been our trademark lately, conceding early.” Dempsey, whose become a key player for Fulham in England, scored on a play very similar to the goal by Croatia’s Niko Kranjcar
that went in off Scott Carson’s arm and helped eliminate England from qualifying from the 2008 European Championship. Dempsey took several touches, spun around Gerrard and hit a dipping leftfooted shot. The ball hit the field twice, glanced off Green’s right hand and went into the net for Dempsey’s 19th goal in 63 national team games. Dempsey, who also scored against Ghana as the U.S. was eliminated in 2006, matched Brian McBride in 1998 and 2002 as the only American to score in World Cups. “At the last second, it moved a little bit,” Dempsey said. “These balls move so much, you just hit them on goal, you have a chance. “It’s one of those goals you always say, ‘Why can’t I get one like that?”
David Seaman and David “Calamity” James are among the other English keepers to make gaffes, one of the reasons Howard is among three American starters in the 20-team Premier League. Howard made a pointblank stop on Heskey’s 18-yard right-footed shot in the 52nd minute and parried Lampard’s 20-foot leftfooted shot over the crossbar in the 63rd. Rooney had a quiet night, failing to make good contact with a Gerrard cross while open on the side of the goal in the 76th minute. The ball glanced off his head and went harmlessly wide. “It was a difficult game,” Gerrard said. “I think the important thing in the first game is not to lose. “Unfortunately, we’ve let a poor goal in and we couldn’t go on and get the winner.”
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Expansion dominoes falling Landscape of college sports continues shift Nebraska bolted for the Big Ten, Boise State took a spot in the Mountain West and the Big 12 rallied for a last-ditch attempt to stave off its demise Friday, a tumultuous day that pointed toward a massive reconfiguration of college sports. Nebraska regents voted to sever the Cornhuskers’ 100-year relationship with the Big 12 and its predecessors and join the Big Ten, which along with the Pac10 is expanding, possibly to become a 16-team megaconference. Meanwhile, regents at Texas prepared for a meeting next Tuesday that figures to be the pivotal moment for the future of the Big 12. “I don’t think anyone could read all the commentary around the country and not think the Big 12 hasn’t felt under siege the last couple of months,� commissioner Dan Beebe said. Also on Friday, Colorado regents rubber-stamped the school’s decision to be the first to bail from the Big 12 for the Pac-10. Seeing a college landscape that might no longer include his conference, Beebe met with the remaining 10 teams, making the case that they are more valuable in their current conference than as add-ons to others. “If it’s about value and money, if that’s the issue, that shouldn’t be part of their equation,� Beebe said. “If it’s about other factors outside of our control, that’s not something I can do anything about.�
Money driven Many people think it is, in fact, all about the money, and the decision Texas makes next week will play a huge role in deciding where that money flows. Top officials at Texas A&M have been meeting with counterparts at UT to jointly discuss the future, while Oklahoma State’s athletic director wrote in an
e-mail to a Texas regent that his school simply hopes to end up wherever the Longhorns are “when the dust settles!� Those three, along with Texas Tech and Oklahoma, are considered candidates to turn the Pac-10 into a 16-team conference. If that happens, it would leave Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Missouri and Baylor without a home. Missouri had been viewed as a strong possibility for the Big Ten, but no official offer had been made as of Friday, leaving the school in limbo. Kansas, meanwhile, may have the most interesting situation, and one that speaks to which sport really drives the business of college athletics — football. One of America’s basketball stalwarts with a much less successful football program, the Jayhawks have not been linked to either the Pac-10 or Big Ten plans.
Boise to MWC The Boise State move from the Western Athletic to the Mountain West Conference gives one of the country’s best small schools — a participant in BCS games two of the last four seasons — an improved platform. Big 12 teams that don’t get snapped up could get offers from the Mountain West, which could expand further and turn out to be a winner — maybe even with an automatic BCS slot. “It’s my No. 1 goal. We want to play at the BCS level,� MWC commissioner Craig Thompson said. There are currently six automatic qualifiers, though for obvious reasons, the Big 12’s status is in limbo. Colorado is slated to move out in 2012, and Nebraska will start play in the Big Ten in 2011. With all the moves going on, the Southeastern, Atlantic Coast and Big East Conferences have been relatively silent, though it’s no sure thing they’ll stay on the sideline for long.
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Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne speaks after the university officially applied to join the Big Ten conference on Friday in Lincoln, Neb. The ACC poached teams from the Big East seven years ago, while the SEC started the mania for conference title games back in 1992, after it added Arkansas and South Carolina to reach 12 teams and split into two divisions. The next big move came in 1996, when the Southwest Conference disintegrated and four Texas teams joined the Big Eight to make it the Big 12. The change was not wildly popular everywhere in the conference — most notably, Nebraska. “Sometimes, change has to come, but all change is not necessarily progress,� said former Auburn athletic director David Housel. “It sure makes for some pretty big conferences and big travel budgets. “Hate to say it, but bottom line, it’s all about money.� For instance, Nebraska received about $10 million from the Big 12 in 2009, while Big Ten members — many located in large TV markets — got about $20 million, thanks in part to a bigger TV contract and the startup of its own network. SEC schools received $17.3 million each this year from their revenue-sharing plan. What’s playing out this summer is essentially a survival game. Conferences that stay in the BCS and hold a football playoff generate more
money for all their schools, which is why getting bigger is in vogue. “I’m presuming there will be� a title game starting in 2011, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said. He said the conference was studying further expansion, possibly up to 16 teams. Drawbacks to expansion include longer and more expensive travel (especially important considering all the non-revenue teams), the loss of rivalries, tradition and the regional distinctions of the conferences. If the Texas teams join the Pac-10, the conference would span three time zones and be spread from College Station, Texas to Seattle. “The future of college athletics appears to be less about academics and competitive success and more about money, as measured by television viewership and the associated revenues,� officials at Iowa State wrote in a letter sent to boosters. Beebe agreed, while conceding his comments weren’t purely objective, coming as they are in the midst of an attempt to save his conference. “If the future of college athletics is going to be four 16-member conferences, there’s going to be great risk,� he said, “especially if significant institutions in the history of college athletics find they’re disenfranchised.�
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threat — taught him how winning teams work. “I told him, ‘Stay positive, you’re going to win a couple of games for us,’ � Rondo said. Robinson had much help in Game 4 from Davis, whose combination of bulk and lightness afoot punished the Lakers once Andrew Bynum’s damaged knee took him out of the game. Davis scored 18 points and could be a decisive player
if Bynum’s shot-blocking is removed from the Lakers’ defensive equation. As for Robinson, who knows what to expect? But he said he is having the time of his life as he nears unrestricted free agency. “This is a great stage and a chance for me to be seen,� he said. And heard, always heard. Even when the sports buzz is reverberating from here to South Africa.
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West: Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Indiana. East: Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers. ■SEC: Things were looking so good for the SEC a few months ago. Now it might have to purge a few other conferences just to keep up with the Joneses. West: Ole Miss, MSU, Arkansas, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Louisville. East: Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Clemson, Vanderbilt. ■ACC: The conference that helped start this mess by raiding the Big East seven years ago might be getting a little nervous. It might just finish the fight it started this time around. North: Maryland, Syracuse, Boston College, UConn, West Virginia, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati. South: North Carolina, N.C. State, Duke, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Florida State, South Florida, Miami. ■Mountain West: This conference name will seem even more ridiculous once the Great Plains schools are forced to join. But look at it this way: By adding Kansas, Kansas State and Baylor, the MWC might just become the third-best men’s college basketball league in the country. East: TCU, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, New Mexico, Baylor, Colorado State, Houston. West: Air Force, San Diego State, Boise State, Wyoming, Utah, BYU, UNLV, Fresno State. ■The rest: Feel very, very sorry for them. Matt Schubert
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“I have to?� Robinson said, unfamiliar with the traditions and trappings of the June extravaganza, having spent the totality of his first four playoff springs at home in Seattle. “Hanging with family and friends, playing street ball,� he said. “This is real basketball.� In Robinson’s case, it’s as real as a fantasy can be. “I dreamed of playing in the finals, but I never thought I’d actually make it,� he said on Wednesday. This sounded perfectly understandable; in New York, the Knicks were and remain a long way from making the first round, unless James has a surprise in store for them July 1. Robinson was asked if he took any satisfaction from knowing several ex-Knicks, assailed as losers in New York, had proved themselves to be capable of contributing in positive environments. “Like who?� he said. “Jamal Crawford,� he was told. “Channing Frye. You.� “David Lee?� he volunteered.
Told that Lee is technically still in New York, Robinson smirked. “Well, soon, maybe.� He was, as usual, getting ahead of himself, but watching Robinson on Thursday night reinforced the notion that his energy and athleticism always potentially made him more asset than liability provided he was surrounded by people unencumbered by failure and despair. When Robinson left for the postgame interview room, Rondo appeared to say the Celtics had welcomed him and told him to be himself. Well, not always. Rivers chafed when Robinson bounced up after a fourth-quarter collision with Lamar Odom and earned a technical foul with a close and too-chatty encounter. There is substance in Robinson but always without subtlety and occasionally common sense. Good teams have a knack of mining the good and mitigating the bad. When Robinson wasn’t playing much after joining the Celtics, Rondo — seeing him as a talent and not as a
FORGET EVERYTHING YOU know about college sports. If the past two weeks have taught us anything, it’s that the times are changing, and fast. Who would have thought even two weeks ago, for instance, that Texas Tech could be coming to the Pac-10? Last time I checked, Texas bordered the Gulf of Mexico; a long way from the Pacific Ocean to say the least. But alas, the significance of regional proximity appears to be so 20th century. So here we are on the precipice of what might be the most dramatic shift in the college athletics landscape since the invention of the forward pass. Here’s one man’s guess at how it all might look once the dust settles: ■Pac-16: Reports abound across the Internet that a 16-team mega-conference is all but a given. There is one holdout, Texas A&M, which is flirting with the SEC. But in the end, the Aggies will follow their Texas rivals. West division: UW, WSU, Oregon, Oregon State, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA. East division: ASU, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State. ■Big 16: Don’t believe for a second that the Big Ten is done dealing. The conference wants to reach the East Coast, and they will likely do so by raiding the Big East. Notre Dame, which loves its football independence, will likely have its hand forced because of this and have to join or risk being without a conference for its other sports.
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Quilcene High School graduates, from left Kacey Ingalls and Chelsea Wong, check out a special mortarboard worn by Alex Galloway as they await the beginning of commencement ceremonies Saturday. About 23 graduating seniors participated.
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Joshua Konopik and Sarah Reeves, pictured in the mirror, prepare for the Clallam Bay High School commencement ceremonies Saturday, while Katheryn Stubbs critiques. Eight students were scheduled to receive diplomas.
eniors at six North Olympic Peninsula high schools received diplomas amid the congratulations of family and friends at ceremonies this weekend. Conducting commencement exercises Friday were Sequim High School and Port Townsend High School. Saturday ceremonies were held for seniors graduating from Quilcene High School, Clallam Bay High School, Crescent High School and Chimacum High School. Two graduations ceremonies are planned in Port Angeles this week. About 20 students will graduate from Lincoln High School in a ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, in the Little Theatre at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles. On Friday at 8 p.m., about 240 Port Angeles High School students will participate in commencement ceremonies in the school gymnasium at 304 E. Park Ave. Tickets are required. Graduation ceremony tickets will be distributed to seniors on Monday. Extra tickets will be given to them on Wednesday. Last Saturday, about 73 Forks High School students and about 26 Neah Bay High School students participated in graduation ceremonies. Four students graduated from Jefferson Community School at a ceremony Wednesday.
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Four of the 19 graduating seniors from the Crescent High School gather for a shot before the commencement ceremony Saturday. From left are Josh Anderson, Ae Leier, Nicki Norbisrath, and Tasha Kellen. Mikala Euro, far right, leads the Port Townsend High School graduating class in a you-can-alljoin-in version of the Beatles’ “Let it Be” at commencement Friday. About 110 students participated in the ceremony at McCurdy Pavilion in Fort Worden State Park.
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Sequim High School graduates Katie Allen, left, and Gloria Nesse check out a photo of themselves on the camera before commencement ceremonies Friday. About 220 students graduated from the school.
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Briefly: State Tiny plastic particles a concern TACOMA — Scientists have documented the effects of large plastic flotsam in the oceans, but very little research has focused on what happens when those bigger pieces break down into tiny specks. University of Washington Tacoma professor Joel Baker is developing methods to measure how much of these tiny particles called microplastics are in the oceans. He said microscopic fragments are floating in waters and washing up on shores, but the exact consequences for marine organisms are still unknown. He and his team are
sampling the waters of Puget Sound and using citizens to help collect plastics that wash up on beaches. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is funding the project as part of a national effort to examine the potential harmful effects of these tiny particles on marine ecosystems.
Army chief of staff FORT LEWIS — Army chief of staff Gen. George Casey has praised the performance of the 5th Stryker Brigade in Afghanistan, saying the soldiers “have had a tough fight in a very tough area.” Casey added, “I think they have done very well.” The brigade is based at Joint Base LewisMcChord, where Casey visited Friday with wounded soldiers and
awarded a Purple Heart to one brigade infantryman. The brigade is ending a yearlong tour. It suffered more than 35 deaths during its deployment in the Kandahar area. One brigade soldier has been charged with murder in the killings of three Afghan civilians. An Army spokeswoman has said four more soldiers might also face charges. Casey says civilian casualties are a major concern. But he adds the “process just has to play out, and I suggest that folks not rush to judgment.”
Tukwila crash SEATTLE — State Patrol said a half-empty bottle of vodka was found in the SUV that struck a car with three Federal Way teenagers, killing two of them, as the man
arrested for the crash made his first court appearance. Canadian citizen Alexander E. Peder appeared in King County Superior Court Friday and ordered held on $1 million bail. He is being held for investigation of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. Two teenagers — Derek King and Nicholas Hodgins — died from injuries suffered in the collision. A third, Anthony Beaver, survived. The teens were in Beaver’s car when they were struck from the rear by an SUV on Interstate 5 Wednesday night after their vehicle stalled. State Patrol said Peder had obvious alcohol odor, had bloodshot, watery eyes and slurred speech after the crash. The teenagers died just
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SEATTLE — The man accused of raping two Seattle women in their home and stabbing one of them to death has been found competent to stand trial. KOMO Radio reported Friday’s decision in King County Superior Court clears the way for proceedings to begin in the aggravated murder trial of Isaiah Kalebu. Prosecutor Dan Satterberg is not seeking the death penalty because of Kalebu’s history of mental illness. He also is charged with attempted murder, rape and burglary in the attack last July that killed Teresa Butz. If he is convicted, the 24-year-old he will be sen-
OMAK — The federal goverment is extending unemployment benefits for 350 laid-off millworkers in Omak. The Wenatchee World reported that the Labor Department approved a request from the Colville Tribal Enterprise Corp. on behalf of the workers, who were laid off at two lumber and plywood mills. One mill was closed in January 2009, and the other closed last November. Corporation chief executive Joe Pakootas says added benefits for the millworkers will include extended unemployment, and opportunities to train for jobs in new fields or attend school to learn a new profession. The Associated Press
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You’ve really gone above and beyond. You’ve stayed focused and taken pride in your work and that kind of dedication shows. You’re bound to do great things. Congratulations! Love you, Grams and Gramps
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Wishing you all the luck now that you are out of high school and grown up. We are proud of you and glad we got to watch you grow. Michelle and Don and family.
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Migration brings rare species to area THERE ARE TIMES, especially in the spring, when writing this column is like having many, many eyes keeping track of the birds in this part of the state. Letters and e-mails from readers that share what they are seeing present a broad picture of what is occurring in the bird world. Many of these widely scattered reports paint a colorful picture and contain some interesting surprises. A reader in Shelton recently described a bird she saw in her yard that she had never seen before. The next day, a reader from Port Townsend reported seeing the same species. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen yellowheaded blackbirds in my neighborhood. Even then, they weren’t in my backyard. Phone calls from where the birds were seen made it possible for me to go and
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see a bird usually found in Eastern Washington. It is rare to very rare on the West side. One of the most beautiful rare or uncommon birds to visit Western Washington is the lazuli bunting. The males have a blue head, back and tail. Their upper breast is orange and their bellies are white. There is also some white on their wings. Females are a drab grayish-brown. Lazuli buntings are seen throughout the western half of the country, but their numbers are small in our area. A few buntings nest in the Fort Lewis area. When the yellow-headed
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blackbirds were reported, a reader near Graham had buntings visit his yard. A few days later, a reader in Steilacoom reported seeing several buntings at a feeder in Boise, Idaho. That’s a long way for my “eyes” to reach, but I enjoy hearing about other areas too. The same letter described more bird action in Boise, and it had me reaching far back into my crowded “memory banks.” The writer described what appeared to be two very tiny hummingbirds feeding on the yard’s flowers. Their actions resembled those of a hummingbird, but their coloring (light chartreuse with some dark around the eyes) and tiny size were the mystery. They looked to be about the size of a very large bumble bee and smaller than the smallest hummingbird (2½ inches). The description rang a
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Yellow-headed blackbird bell, but I couldn’t remember where I had seen one. Enter the Web. Hummingbird moths look and act very much like hummingbirds, and there are several colorful species. The mystery was solved.
Today’s digital cameras are wonderful when it comes to bird identification. Readers not only can get some good photos, but they can e-mail them to me if they want a bird identified. Even a poor photo is a
great help and better than a written description. Everyone sees things a little differently, but photos tell the truth. Yellow-headed blackbirds, lazuli buntings and hummingbird moths are a small sample of the interesting sightings that come across my desk. Many rare, uncommon or accidental bird species visit Washington State. The opportunity to see them is greatest during spring and fall migrations. When you think you can’t be seeing what you think you are, look again. Maybe you will share your surprise with me. If you can get some photos that’s even better. Most of all, be sure to tell me about your interesting sightings.
________ Joan Carson’s column appears in this section every Sunday. Contact her at P.O. Box 532, Poulsbo, WA 98370. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a reply.
Clubs and Organizations Port Angeles DAV meets The Disabled American Veterans and the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary meet the second Sunday of every month at 216 S. Francis St. There is a potluck at 1 p.m. and a meeting at 2 p.m. For more information, phone 360-417-9444 or 360-417-2630 or visit www. davchp9.org.
Club members also planted annuals along Railroad Avenue in the area known as Billie’s Garden. For more information about the Port Angeles Garden Club, phone president Tina Cozzolino at 360460-4321 or dues secretary Patty Wheatley at 360-4570843.
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Grange meeting The Mount Pleasant Grange will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m., in the Grange hall on Mount Pleasant Road and Draper Road. The public is welcome. For further information, phone Suzanne Barber at 360-477-4156.
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The local affiliate of the National Alliance of Advocates for the Mentally Ill will meet Thursday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the basement of Olympic Medical Center, 939 Caroline St. NAMI, a volunteer organization that offers support for families, friends and individuals suffering from any mental illness, meets the third Thursday of the month.
OPEN meets The Olympic Peninsula Entrepreneurs Network will meet Thursday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Coldwell Banker Uptown Realty office, 1115 E. Front St. OPEN meetings are intended to bring together inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs of all ages from around the Peninsula who share common interests and passions for inventing. Support type services are also invited. Members can share resources, feedback and talents. For more information, phone Tim Riley at 360460-4655.
Marine Corps The Mount Olympus Detachment, No. 897, Marine Corps League will meet Saturday at 11:30 am. in Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive. Spouses and significant others are invited to attend. For further information, phone Commandant Tom Flanik at 360-477-4077 or Adjutant Jim Graham at 360-928-3672. The detachment will not meet during July or August.
The Phone Tree The Phone Tree meets on third Saturday of each month at noon in Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive.
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The Port Angeles Lions Club will meet Thursday at noon in the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St. The program will be induction of new officers. For information on the Lions eyeglass and hearing aid recycling program, phone 360-417-6862.
The Intuitive Circle meets the third Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Car club Hall, 73 Howe Road in Northwest Olympic Agnew. Mustangs and Cougars Car A donation of $5 per Club meets the third meeting is requested to Wednesday of each month help pay for facility rental at 7 p.m. in Joshua’s Resand speaker honorarium. taurant, 113 DelGuzzi The focus of the group is Drive. on the community, educaThe meeting is open to tion and practice of develall owners of Ford Musoping natural intuitive and tangs and Mercury Coupsychic abilities and will gars manufactured from 1964 to the present. For more information, phone Marv Fowler at 360683-1329 or go to www. northolympicmustangs. com.
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The weekly Clubs and Organizations listing focuses on groups across the North Olympic Peninsula. There is no cost to have your club included. Submissions must be received at least two weeks in advance of the event and contain the club’s name, location and address, times, cost if any, contact phone number and a brief description. To submit your club’s news: ■ E-MAIL: Send items to news@peninsuladailynews. com. ■ U.S. MAIL: PDN News, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles, WA 98362. ■ FAX: 360-417-3521 ■ IN PERSON: At any of the PDN’s three news offices. Please see Page A2 for the address of the one nearest you in Port Angeles, Port Townsend and Sequim.
month at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to come and help bring about change. The location of meeting place changes from month to month. For more information and for the meeting place, phone 360-683-0867 or 360-683-8407.
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Peninsula Quilters members make baby quilts for needy newborns and meet on the second and Alzheimer’s help fourth Mondays of every The Port Angeles month, from 1 p.m. to Alzheimer’s Caregiver Sup- 4 p.m. at the First United port Group, for caregivers, Methodist Church, 110 E. family members and Seventh St. friends of those suffering Members have set a from memory loss, meets goal of 100 quilts a year. the second Monday of each For more information, month at 9:30 a.m. in the phone Hayes Wasilewski at Port Angeles Senior Center, 360-457-8051. 328 E. Seventh St. The support group, Disabled support which is sponsored by the The Disabilities AssisAlzheimer’s Association, tance Trust Organization provides a confidential, meets on the second Moncomfortable setting in day of every month at which participants share 4 p.m. at 114 E. Sixth St. experiences, discuss conThis organization was cerns and obtain informaformed to provide residents tion about the disease. of Clallam County with For more information, phone the group facilitator, physical disabilities who Mardell Xavier, at 360-477- are at or below the poverty level with financial assis5511 or e-mail mxavier@ tance in the maintenance, olypen.com. repairs or replacement of their electronic wheelchairs Garden club meets or scooters through proThe Port Angeles Garcurement of federal and den Club will meet Monday state grant money and at IBC Church’s Family donations from the commuLife Center, 116 E. Ahlvers nity. Road. The business meeting, American Legion installation of officers and American Legion Walter the awarding of a $1,500 Akeley Post 29 meets the scholarship will begin at second Monday of each 11 a.m. month at 7 p.m. in the VetLunch will follow the erans Center at Third and business meeting. Francis streets. Lunch information may Potential members are be obtained by calling welcome. co-chairs Norma SteinMilitary veterans as bacher, 360-457-8501; Mary well as Merchant Marine Lou Waitz, 360-928-3729; Shirley Stenger, 360-4577205; or Teri Miller, 360452-3062. The program, “Lilies . . . With Hats,” will be pre■ Deer Park Cinema, sented by Diana Gibson, Port Angeles (360-452co-owner of B&D Lilies. 7176) Port Angeles Garden “The A-Team” (PG-13) Club members have “Iron Man 2” (PG-13) planted hanging baskets “Prince of Persia: The for the Clallam County Sands of Time” (PG-13) Fair. “Robin Hood” (PG-13) Members will maintain “Sex and the City 2 (R) the baskets until the Clal“Shrek Forever After” (PG) lam County Fair in August. Members helped the city ■ Lincoln Theater, Port plant 20 concrete planters Angeles (360-457-7997) that line Front Street, First “Killers” (PG-13) Street and Railroad Ave“The Karate Kid” (PG) nue. “Marmaduke” (PG) The city provides the plants and will care for ■ The Rose Theatre, them throughout their Port Townsend (360growing season.
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feature a variety of guest speakers. For more information, phone Marie-Claire Bernards at 360-681-4411.
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Grocery ‘line dance’ peeves customer DEAR ABBY: I hope you can settle this. I was ahead of my husband — who was pushing the cart — in a grocery store. I found a checkout line that was less busy than the others and got in line. By the time my husband caught up with me, another man was standing behind me, so my husband stood behind him. I signaled my husband to go around the guy so we could unload the cart, but he felt that the guy behind me should go first. Abby, I did not race this guy to get there, and I felt my spouse could have said something like, “Excuse me, my wife is in front of you. Can I go around you?” I ended up giving the
and on weekends, as well as weekday appointments. When an appointment stranger Abigail is made, we take it seriVan Buren (whose cart ously. was full) We don’t cancel if it’s my place inconvenient or we get a and left the “better offer.” line to find We don’t work for free, another but we can’t charge you if one, and I you don’t show up. am peeved. If you can’t make it, Am I someone else could have wrong? your time slot. I was If you must cancel, Dear Abby: May I already in line, so I think please give us as much address an issue that that should have counted seems like a no-brainer, but notice as possible. even if my husband didn’t Let us know if you apparently is not? get there before the other aren’t coming. I work in an insurance guy. Some courtesy is in This has become a huge agency handling financial order here. services. bone of contention. I don’t mind after-hours I can’t believe how many Feet Hurt and Tired people make appointments appointments, but I deeply Dear F, H, and T: Actu- and don’t show up. resent being away from my ally, I think you are wrong Our agency offers excel- family and having a client for expecting your husband lent service — after-hours stand me up. to take the initiative when you could have done it. All you had to do was give the stranger a warm smile and say, “Excuse me, but the man behind you is my husband. “Would you please let him in so we can check out and get the groceries paid for together?” Most people are courteous and would have agreed.
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Briefly . . . Author reading set at PA library PORT ANGELES — Teacher and writer Peter Bacho will read from his book, Leaving Yesler, at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., at 7 p.m. Friday. The event is presented by the Port Angeles Library and Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. Bacho has won the American Book Award and the Washington Governor’s Writers Award for previous books. “Though the novel takes place during the Vietnam War, this tale of a mixed race, impoverished, and soon-to-be orphaned American rings true to a contemporary setting,” according to Patty Comeau, a reviewer for ForeWord. Copies of the book will be available for purchase
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and signing. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, phone Keitha Owen at 360-417-8528 or visit www.nols.org and click on “Events.”
Footprinters Olympic International Footprint Association Chapter 74 meets the second Monday of every month at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road. The group is an association of active and retired law enforcement and fire personnel and welcomes community members who support public safety. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. followed by the business meeting. For more information, phone 360-681-0533.
Baton car wash SEQUIM — The Peninsula Baton team will hold a car wash fundraiser at Auto Zone, 1936 E. First St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The group’s competitive team is seeking donations to fund travel and competition fees for a performance at Twirltacular in Anaheim, Calif., this month. The Peninsula Baton Team meets at Fairview Bible Church’s gymnasium, 385 O’Brien Road, at 3:30 p.m. on Mondays. Lessons are ongoing and open to children ages 5 and older. For more information, phone Susan Johnson at 360-417-9240. Peninsula Daily News
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Boru and Legese Boru, an eight-year-old boy, and his brother, Legese, who is nine years old, can’t wait to have a new family to love. Boru likes to play games with his friends and likes to watch cartoons. Legese is a big soccer fan (playing and watching), and seems eager to attend school classes. He has big dreams for the both of them. For details on Boru and Legese, phone Adoption Advocates International at 350-452-4777. Families interested in adoption must be approved by a licensed agency. If adoption is not an option for you, but you would like to support the sponsorship programs, contact Linda@ adoptionadvocates.org.
Stockhounds Investment Club meets every third Tuesday of the month to share knowledge, do research on prospective stocks and evaluate our current portfolio. Members are from Port Angeles to Port Townsend. For more information, phone Merlyn Wursher at man can be contacted at 360-379-5412 in Port 360-808-2088. Townsend or Mike Zuspan at 360-582-1345 in Sequim.
Marriage Dissolutions Shelley Lynn Hall and William Paine Ritchie. Karl and Rosemary Wasden. Steve Roy and Tatiana Albertovna Slatin. Angel Marie and Jack Sexton. Laurie Marie and Shawn Weare Morehead. Harry Clay IV and Pennie Robinson Gravatte. Kirsten Ann and Peter Gerard Massingham. Chandrika M. and Rand W. Gilbert. George Harry Eckel and Shirlee Harris-Eckel. Jonathan and Mamie May. Benjamin J. and Heather Anne Handelman. Jana Elizabeth and
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TCF meets The North Olympic Peninsula Chapter of The Compassionate Friends meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave. TCF is a nonprofit, self-help support organization that assists bereaved families in their grief after the death of a child. For more information, phone 360-457-7395 or 360-417-1885.
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luck luncheon in the Chetzemoka Park kitchen shelter at Jackson and Blaine streets. There will be an installation ceremony of incoming officers. Club board members will provide dessert. For further information, phone Nancy Villagran at 360-385-1576.
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Olympic Minds, the Institute of Noetic Sciences community group for Sequim and Port Angeles, meets the first three Thursdays of each month at 1 p.m. in the conference room of The Lodge at Sherwood Village, 660 Evergreen Farm Way. The meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, phone 360-681-8677.
Knitting guild The Strait Knitting Guild meets the third Saturday of every month at 1 p.m. in the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., to share work-inprogress and completed projects and to provide support for each other’s endeavors. The June program will be a demonstration on how to cast on a moebius. Those who wish to try this should bring a long circular needle and some yarn — thicker yarn varieties works best. A $10 annual membership provides funds to purchase knitting books for the library.
SKWIM Toastmasters meets the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m. in Blue Sky Real Estate, 190 Priest Road. Brewers meet Arrival at the meeting is requested for 6:50 p.m. The next meeting of the Guests are welcome. North Olympic Brewers The president and chair- Guild will be Saturday at 3
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p.m. in the home of member Rich Lamkin, 110 Peterson St. This is a change from the previously announced location. If lost, phone 360-6814119 The North Olympic Brewers Guild invites all homebrewers, brewmasters and beer enthusiasts. Brewers are also invited to bring a sample of a favorite home brew. For more information on the North Olympic Brewers Guild, visit www. northolympicbrewers.org or e-mail info@northolympic brewers.org.
Soroptimist International of Port Townsend/ Jefferson County, a professional businesswomen’s club, meets the first three Thursdays of the month at noon at Discovery View Retirement Apartments, 1051 Hancock St. For information on joining the organization, visit www.soroptimistpt.org.
Submarine vets The recently formed Olympic Peninsula Base of the United States Submarine Veterans Inc. will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. in the VFW Post 7489, 31 Matheson Street, Port Hadlock. All submarine veterans are invited to attend. For further information, phone 360-437-1143 or 360-681-7247.
Dance club The Rhody Os Dance Club holds dances every first and third Fridays with rounds from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and mainstream square dance from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road.
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PORT ANGELES — The annual Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Concert on the Pier series will begin with country band 8 Second Ride from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 23. The music selection committee has brought back some crowd favorites and has added some new groups.
The free concerts will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. each Wednesday until Sept. 8 at the City Pier. Vendors will sell food. City Pier is a no-smoking, alcohol-free environment. Title sponsors include KeyBank, Peninsula Daily News and Elwha River Casino, and the presenting sponsor is Sunset Do It Best Hardware.
The rest of the schedule: ■ Big Fine Daddies with music from the 1960s to the present on June 30. ■ Wise Guys with music from Sinatra to the Rolling Stones on July 7. ■ Dixi-Blu Jazz Band on July 14. ■ Olympic Express Big Band on July 21. ■ Deadwood Revival with bluegrass on July 28. ■ Jane and the John
Doe Band with rock ’n’ roll on Aug. 4. ■ The Soulshakers with blues on Aug. 11. ■ SuperTrees with rock ’n’ roll on Aug. 18. ■ Sequimarimba with marimba on Aug. 25. ■ Luck of the Draw with bluegrass on Sept. 1. ■ Sequim City Band with big band music on Sept. 8.
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Genealogy society awards volunteers PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The Clallam County Genealogy Society recently presented Volunteer of the Year awards to society members Susan Koehler and Virginia Majewski. Koehler started her family history research in the early 1980s. Upon moving to Sequim in 2002 she joined the society and immediately volunteered with the group’s Query committee. For the past 2½ years, she served as a board member at large. Currently she is the society’s office manager, volunteer chair, family pioneer librarian and spends two shifts at the library each week. She has been awarded
two State Genealogy Awards. Majewski began volunteering with the Clallam County Genealogical Society in October 1997. She holds certificates in American Records and General Methodology from the National Institute of Genealogical Studies at the University of Toronto. She has also taught “Beginners Genealogy,” “How to Google” and “Names and Naming Practices” classes for the society. She has served as the society’s treasurer for the past four years. She is also vice president of the Washington State Genealogical Society. The group will present her with a Society Management award in September.
These are some of the 13,433 items donated during a recent USO Care Package Item Drive.
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PORT ANGELES — A group of Roosevelt Elementary School students recently rounded up thousands of items during a USO Care Package Item Drive.
Spearheaded by a number of Roosevelt fifth-graders, the students collected 7,613 items to send in care packages for U.S. troops serving overseas. Items ranged from candies to oral care and sanitizing products.
The same project also collected 5,820 items from the public during a Memorial Day weekend donation drive at Cracked Bean Coffee Co. The haul will be delivered to the regional USO office in SeaTac during summer vacation.
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Wing dedication JOYCE — The Gossett Wing of the Joyce Museum, 51001 state HIghway 112, will be dedicated at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The new wing was constructed with funds provided by the Myrtle and John Gossett Charitable Foundation, and is dedicated to the memory of the Gossetts, who were lifelong Joyce residents and active community members. The main museum is housed in the former Joyce Railroad Depot — a log building constructed in 1915. Directors of the Gossett Foundation will be introduced as well as officers of the Joyce Museum Society and contractors for the Gossett Wing. Weather permitting, Margaret Wetherald Sallstrom will provide guests with carriage rides. An 1890 Studebaker runabout horse carriage
donated by the Wetherald family is one of the items housed in the new wing, as well as a 1915 Republic truck which was donated by the Veterans of World War I. For more information, phone 360-928-3568.
The longest day PORT TOWNSEND — The “Longest Day of Trails,” a benefit walk-runand bike-a-thon on Larry Scott Memorial Trail to will be held in Port Townsend on Sunday, June 20. The walk will support local trail building groups, Pacific Northwest Trails Association, Jefferson Trails Coalition and
Quimper Trails Association The walk will begin at 5:11 a.m. (sunrise) and end at 9:11 p.m. (sunset). A registration tent will be located in the western corner of the Boat Haven’s parking lot near the Larry Scott Memorial Trail entrance. Check-in stations and tents will be set up along the trail for supporters to watch and sponsors to distribute water and other items. A $10 donation will be accepted, and participants can ask for pledges per mile. For more information, visit www.longestday oftrailspt.wordpress.com. Peninsula Daily News
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SEQUIM — The city of Sequim’s Music and a Movie in the Park series at the James Center for the Performing Arts, 202 N. Blake Ave., will begin with the Air National Guard Band of the Northwest at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 29. The series continues from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays until Aug. 31. Movies follow concert performances at dusk. The slate of movies has not been released. There are two exceptions to the regular schedule: a performance by the 133rd Army Band at 6 p.m. Friday, July 2, and a performance by Locust Street Taxi that will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3. The rest of the schedule: ■ Electric Blue Sun with original jazz fusion on July 6. ■ Big Fine Daddies with new and classic rock on July 13. ■ The Late Bloomers with acoustic folk rock on July 20. ■ Stardust Big Band with big band and swing music on July 27. ■ Howly and da’ Boyz with island swing originals on Aug. 10. ■ MLR with multigenerational classic rock ’n’ roll on Aug. 17. ■ Olympic Trombone Cousteau Days set Orchestra with standards PORT ANGELES — and jazz on Aug. 24. ■ Ranger and the Re- The Olympic Coast DiscovArrangers with bluegrass ery Center, with the support of local scuba divers, on Aug. 31. will celebrate “Cousteau — the life and work Free lunch for kids Days” of Jacques Cousteau the PORT ANGELES — week of June 18-25. First Step Family Support Cousteau’s contribution Center will partner with to marine science and conSodexo Food Services to servation include advancprovide a free summer ing the technology of scuba, lunch to youth in the comproduction of more than munity ages 1 through 18. 120 documentaries of the The program is offered underwater world, and prothrough the Summer Food motion of environmental awareness and activism. Service Program adminis-
The Olympic Coast Discovery Center will feature a weeklong display of scuba gear and Cousteau’s books and videos. Divers will demonstrate scuba gear in action at Port Angeles City Pier at 10 a.m. Saturday. They will broadcast live underwater video of the animals under the pier, bring critters to touch tanks on the docks, and also collect marine debris from beneath the pier. Olympic Coast Discovery Center is located on the second floor of The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave., and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.olympiccoast.noaa. gov/AboutUs/ocdc.html or phone Mike Kesl at 360-4573190 or Jacquline Laverdure at 360-457-6622, ext. 21.
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PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Reading PALS book discussion group will cover Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 30. Middlesex is an intergenerational novel that spans three generations and two continents. While growing up in 1960s Detroit, Calliope Stephanides discovers that in addition to the troubles of adolescence, she has the body and genes of a boy although she was raised as a girl. Copies of Middlesex are available for checkout. Reading selections for future discussions in 2010 also will be on the agenda for the June 30 session. Preregistration is not required and drop-ins are always welcome. For more information, visit www.nols. org and click on “Events,” phone the library at 360-4178528 or e-mail Keitha Owen at kowen@nols.org.
Shantala, a group composed of Heather and Benjy Wertheimer, will perform Kirtan music at the Madrona MindBody Institute, Fort Worden State Park gymnasium, Building 301, at 8 p.m. Friday.
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PA Rotary Club selling flower bulbs PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Rotary Club’s 10th annual fall flower bulb sale is under way, and orders for imported Dutch bulbs are being taken. A list of bulbs is available at www.parotary.org/ bulbsale. Preorders are being taken through June 24. The bulbs can be picked up at the corner of East First and South Washington streets Sept. 17-18. Proceeds help fund the
road Ave., 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets: $12 adults, $10 senior citizens and students, $6 ages 6 to 12. Children younger than 6, free. Reservations, phone 360-452-2363, ext. 0. Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics health clinic — 909 Georgiana St., noon to 5 p.m. Free for patients with no insurance or access to health care. Appointments, phone 360-457-4431.
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center — “ArtPaths: Portfolio 2010.” 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Open Wednesday through Sunday through July 4. Phone 360457-3532.
First Step drop-in center — 325 E. Sixth St., 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free clothing and equipment closet, information and referrals, play area, emergency supplies, access to phones, computers, fax and copier. Feiro Marine Life Center Phone 360-457-8355. — City Pier, noon to 4 p.m. Admission by donation. Phone Blood drive — Vern Burton 360-417-6254. Center, 308 W. Fourth St. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Contact 1-800PA Senior Softball — Co-ed 298-7888 for an appointment. slow pitch for fun, fellowship and recreation. Practice and General discussion group play at Elks Playfield, noon to 3 — Port Angeles Senior Center, p.m. For information, phone 328 E. Seventh St., 1:30 p.m. to Gordon Gardner at 360-452- 4 p.m. No specified topic. Open 5973 or Ken Foster at 360-683- to public. 0141. Dance — Sons of Norway Hall, 131 W. Fifth St., 6:30 p.m. with 30 minutes of instruction, followed by folk and ballroom dance. $2 members, $3 nonmembers. Refreshments, 9 p.m. Phone 360-457-4081.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Shantala, a duo composed of Benjy and Heather Wertheimer, will perform a concert of Kirtan music at the Madrona MindBody Institute, Fort Worden State Park gymnasium, Building 301, at 8 p.m. Friday. Kirtan is an ancient form of call-and-response singing of sacred chants with audience participation. Guest artists performing at the event include Brent Kuecker on bass and Port Townsend musicians David
Michael on Celtic harp and Joe Breskin on lead guitar. Tickets are $18 in advance, available from Quimper Sound Music & Media, 230 Taylor St. in Port Townsend, and online at www.madronamindbody. com. They will cost $24 at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Attendees should bring a pillow, blanket or chair for seating. For more information, phone 360-344-4475 or e-mail info@madronamind body.com.
Briefly . . . club’s work, including scholarships for Port Angeles High School students, U.S. Highway 101 beautification, restroom facilities at the Rotary log cabin in Lincoln Park and youth exchange programs. The Port Angeles Rotary Club, chartered in 1921 as Rotary International’s 74th club, is the oldest Rotary Club on the North Olympic Peninsula. For more information, phone 360-477-2162 or e-mail bulbsale@parotary. org.
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Mental health drop-in center — The Horizon Center, 205 E. Fifth St. , 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. For those with mental disorders and looking for a place to socialize, something to do or a hot meal. For more information, phone Rebecca Brown at 360457-0431.
Senior meal — Nutrition Overeaters Anonymous — St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, program, Port Angeles Senior 510 E. Park Ave., 9 a.m. Phone Center, 328 E. Seventh St., 4:30 p.m. Donation of $3 to $5 360-477-1858. per meal. Reservations recomClallam-WSU Master Gar- mended. Phone 360-457deners plant clinic — WSU 8921. Extension Office, Clallam Bingo — Masonic Lodge, County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 622 Lincoln St., 6:30 p.m. Free. Open to the public. Bring Doors open at 4 p.m. Food, samples of plants for identifica- drinks and pull tabs available. tion. Phone Muriel Nesbitt, pro- Phone 360-457-7377. gram coordinator, at 360-565Port Angeles Toastmas2679. ters Club 25 — Clallam Transit Alzheimer’s Association Business Office, 830 W. Laurid— Free information and sup- sen Blvd., 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. port group, Senior Center, 328 Open to public. Phone Bill E. Seventh St., 9:30 a.m. to 11 Thomas at 360-460-4510 or a.m. Caregivers, family mem- Leilani Wood 360-683-2655. bers and friends welcome. Phone Mardell Xavier, 360American Legion Post 29 477-5511. Walter Akeley — Veterans Center, 216 S. Francis St., 7 Walk-in vision clinic — p.m. Visit www.post29. Information for visually impaired legionwa.org. and blind people, including accessible technology display, Sequim and the library, Braille training and various magnification aids. Vision Dungeness Valley Loss Center, 228 W. First St., Suite N, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Today Phone 360-457-1383 or click VFW breakfast — 169 E. on www.visionlossservices.org/ Washington St., 9:30 a.m. to vision. 1 p.m. Cost: $5 a person. Joyce Depot Museum — Adult Scrabble — The 15 miles west of Port Angeles on state Highway 112, 10 a.m. Buzz, 128 N. Sequim Ave., to 4 p.m. 1915-era log depot 1 p.m. Phone 360-681-2619. houses, photographs and hisTrivia Night — Oasis Sports torical information regarding Joyce, Port Crescent, Twin, Bar and Grill, 301 E. WashingLake Crescent, Camp Hayden, ton St., 5:30 p.m. Phone 360the Spruce Railroad and early 582-3143. logging. Phone 360-928-3568. Music with a Mission BenGuided walking tour — efit Concert — Choir concert Historic downtown buildings, benefits earthquake relief. an old brothel and “Under- Grace Lutheran Church, 950 N. ground Port Angeles.” Cham- Fifth Ave. 7 p.m. $10 donation ber of Commerce, 121 E. Rail- suggested donation.
Carter will be featured at a “Sea-to-Table” conversation hosted by the North Olympic Salmon Coalition on Saturday. The event will be held at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Carter is the director of the documentary film “Miss Sarajevo,” which consists of amateur video material he shot during his stay in the besieged city in the midst of war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The evening also will include presentations from local business leaders and fishing families.
Attendees also will see a screening of Carter’s promotional trailer for his new novel Red Summer. Suggested donation is $10. Proceeds will support the work of the North Olympic Salmon Coalition. For more information, phone Kai Wallin at 360379-8051.
Republicans meet CHIMACUM —The Jefferson County GOP will host a Republican Candidates Forum at the TriArea Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The Jefferson group has
invited candidates for national, state and local offices. Invited candidates include Doug Cloud and Jesse Young, running for the 6th Congressional District seat presently held by Norm Dicks D-Belfair; Larry Carter, Craig Durgan, Dan Gase and Jim McEntire, who are running for 24th Legislative District state representative seats; and Jim Boyer, candidate for Jefferson County Commissioner, District 3. For more information, phone the Jefferson GOP at 360-343-4041 or visit www.jeffgop.org. Peninsula Daily News
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Monday Hot Yoga — Indigo Hot Yoga at Village Plaza Suite 11, 609 W. Washington St. 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. First class free. Phone 206-321-1718.
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous — Calvary Chapel, 91 S. Boyce Road, 2 p.m. Phone 360-452-1050 or click on www.foodaddicts.org.
Health clinic — Free medical services for uninsured or Walk aerobics — First Bap- under-insured. Dungeness Valtist Church of Sequim, 1323 ley Health & Wellness Clinic, Sequim-Dungeness Way, 777 N. Fifth Ave., Suite 109, 8 a.m. Free. Phone 360-683- 5 p.m. Phone 360-582-0218. 2114. Women’s barbershop choExercise classes — Sequim rus — Singers sought for Community Church, 1000 N. Grand Olympics Chorus of Fifth Ave. Cardio-step, 9 a.m. to Sweet Adelines. Sequim Bible 10:15 a.m. Strength and toning Church, 847 N. Sequim Ave., class, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Phone Wendy Foster Cost: $5 a person. Phone Shel- at 360-683-0141. ley Haupt at 360-477-2409 or NAMI — For relatives and e-mail jhaupt6@wavecable. friends of people with mental com. health issues. Sequim ComFree blood pressure munity Church, 950 N. Fifth screening — Faith Lutheran Ave. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Free Church, 382 W. Cedar St., Phone 360-582-1598. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Phone 360683-4803. Port Townsend and Natural Science Study Group — Dungeness River Audubon Center, Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, 10 a.m. Adult discussion group focuses on the North Olympic Peninsula. Phone the Audubon at 360681-4076 or e-mail river center@olympus.net.
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Call for entries — The Northwest Maritime Center seeks submissions for “On The Water: An Exhibition of Maritime Photography.” Open to all photographers. Deadline June 18. Call 360-385-3628 ext.112, e-mail contest@nwmaritime.org Bingo — VFW, 169 E. or visit www.nwmaritime.org. Washington St., 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Proceeds support Port Townsend Aero high school senior scholarships Museum — Jefferson County and community groups. International Airport, 195 AirRefreshments available. port Road, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $10 for adults, $9 Peonies on Parade — 2204 for seniors, $6 for children ages Happy Valley Road. 11 a.m. to 7-12. Free for children under 4 p.m. Phone Amy Hall at 360- age 6. Features vintage aircraft 808-4099. and aviation art. Sequim Duplicate Bridge — Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave., 12:30 p.m. All players welcome. Phone 360-681-4308 or partnership 360-582-1289. Women’s weight loss support group — Dr. Leslie Van Romer’s office, 415 N. Sequim Ave.
Fort Flagler State Park Guided walking tours — Friends of Fort Flagler offer walks. Meet at park office at 10:30 a.m. Learn about park history including historic power plants, buildings and underground passages. Bring flashlight. $5 adults, $2 children.
Chimacum Grange FarmFamily Caregivers support ers Market — 9572 Rhody group — Trinity United Meth- Drive, Chimacum, 11 a.m. to odist Church, 100 Blake Ave. 3 p.m. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Phone Carolyn Puget Sound Coast ArtilLindley, 360-417-8554. lery Museum — Fort Worden German class — Sequim State Park, Port Townsend, 11 Bible Church, 847 N. Sequim a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $3 for Ave., 2 p.m. Phone 360-681- adults, $1 for children 6 to 12, free for children 5 and younger. 0226.
Exhibits interpret the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Phone 360-385-0373 or e-mail artymus@olypen.com.
Cabin Fever Quilters — TriArea Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, Chimacum, 10 a.m. Open to public. Phone Laura Gipson, 360-385-0441.
Rothschild House — Franklin and Taylor streets, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $4 for adults; $1 for children 3 to 12; free to Jefferson County Historical Society members. Phone 360-385-1003 or visit www.jchsmuseum.org.
Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum — Fort Worden State Park, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $3 for adults; $1 for children 6 to 12; free for children 5 and younger. Exhibits interpret the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Phone 360Jefferson County Histori- 385-0373 or e-mail artymus@ cal Museum and shop — 540 olypen.com. Water St., Port Townsend, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $4 for Rothschild House — adults; $1 for children 3 to 12; Franklin and Taylor streets, 11 free to historical society mem- a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $4 for bers. Exhibits include “Jefferson adults; $1 for children 3 to 12; County’s Maritime Heritage,” free to Jefferson County His“James Swan and the Native torical Society members. Americans” and “The Chinese Phone 360-385-1003 or visit in Early Port Townsend.” Phone www.jchsmuseum.org. 360-385-1003 or visit www. jchsmuseum.org. Jefferson County Historical Museum and shop — 540 Commanding Officer’s Water St., Port Townsend, 11 Quarters museum tour — a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $4 for Fort Worden State Park, 11 adults; $1 for children 3 to 12; a.m. to 5 p.m. $4 adults, free for free to historical society memchildren. Phone 360-385-1003. bers. Exhibits include “Jefferson County’s Maritime Heritage,” Port Townsend Marine Sci- “James Swan and the Native ence Center — Fort Worden Americans” and “The Chinese State Park. Natural history and in Early Port Townsend.” Phone marine exhibits, noon to 4 p.m. 360-385-1003 or visit www. Admission: $5 for adults; $3 for jchsmuseum.org. youth (6-17); free for science Commanding Officer’s center members. Phone 360385-5582, e-mail info@ptmsc. Quarters museum tour — org or visit www.ptmsc.org. Fort Worden State Park, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $4 adults, free for Schedule valid until Sept 6. children. Phone 360-385-1003. Quilcene Historical Northwest Maritime CenMuseum — 151 E. Columbia St. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and by ter tour — Wooden Boat Founappointment. Artifacts, docu- dation and Northwest Maritime ments, family histories and Center offer a free 45-minute photos of Quilcene and sur- tour of the center’s new headrounding communities. Phone quarters, 11 a.m. Meet docent 360-765-0688, 360-765-3192 at 431 Water St. Elevators or 360-765-4848 or e-mail available, children welcome quilcenemuseum@olypen.com and pets not allowed inside or quilcenemuseum@embarq building. Phone 360-385-3628, ext. 102. mail.com.
Port Townsend Marine Science Center — Fort Worden State Park. Natural history and marine exhibits, noon to 4 p.m. Admission: $5 for adults; $3 for youth (6-17); free for science center members. Phone 360385-5582, e-mail info@ptmsc. Salsa lessons — The org or visit www.ptmsc.org. Upstage, 923 Washington St. Schedule valid until Sept 6. Intermediate lessons at 6 p.m., $3 a person; beginning lessons Quilcene Historical at 7 p.m., free; DJ salsa dance Museum — 151 E. Columbia from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., $5 St. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and by a person. Instructors are Alan appointment. Artifacts, docuAndree and Judy Rudolph. ments, family histories and Phone 360-385-6919. photos of Quilcene and surUptown walking tour — Jef- rounding communities. Phone ferson County Historical Society 360-765-0688, 360-765-3192 offers an enhanced walking tour or 360-765-4848 or e-mail beginning at the Rothschild quilcenemuseum@olypen.com House Museum, corner of or quilcenemuseum@embarq Franklin and Taylor streets, mail.com. 2 p.m. Cost is $10 for the public Silent war and violence or free for Jefferson County Historical Society members. protest — Women In Black, Museum admission included. Adams and Water streets, 1:30 Click on www.jchsmuseum.org. p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Through September. Overeaters Anonymous — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Monday 1032 Jefferson St., 5 p.m. Call for entries — The Phone 360-385-6854. Northwest Maritime Center Quilcene Lions Club Meetseeks submissions for “On The Water: An Exhibition of Mari- ing — Second and fourth time Photography.” Open to all Mondays of each month at the photographers. Deadline June Quilcene Community Center, 18. Call 360-385-3628 ext.112, 294952 U.S. Highway 101. e-mail contest@nwmaritime.org Social gathering at 6:30 p.m. or visit www.nwmaritime.org. Meeting at 7 p.m. Fort Flagler State Park historic Hospital tours — Tour historic hospital, see restoration work. Meet at park office 2 p.m. $2 for adults free for children.
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Principal Amity Butler, left, addresses the retirement party for Franklin Elementary School employees, from left, Margaret Carlson, Sharon Bailey, Bill Tiderman, Dianne Whitaker, Barb Boston and Sharon McCarter. Butler thanked each of the retirees for his or her years of service to the Port Angeles School District.
PORT ANGELES — Staff at Franklin Elementary School recently hosted an open house for its retirees: Sharon Bailey, Barb Boston, Margaret Carlson, Sharon McCarter, Bill Tiderman and Dianne Whitaker. They are retiring at the end of the current school year. Port Angeles School District staff, students, former students, parents and families and community members celebrated their retirement with words in song and memories. Bailey, a third-grade teacher, retires after 31 years in education, 23 years with the Port Angeles School District. Boston, a paraeducator in the library, and has worked for 14 years for district.
Carlson, a kindergarten teacher, has worked for district for 32 years. McCarter, a secondgrade teacher, has been an educator for 28 years, including 21 with the district. Tiderman, a sixth-grade teacher, has worked for the district for 32 years. Whitaker, a psychologist for the Port Angeles School District, has worked in education for 40 years, including 10 with the district. Other retirees in the Port Angeles School District are Assistant Superintendent Mary Hebert, Dry Creek Elementary teachers Barb Pearl and Shirley Rutz, Dry Creek paraeducator Cheryl Wood and Hamilton Elementary paraeducator Gwen St. Peter.
Five killed in Flying cat recovering after jump Veterinarians apartment pitch in to help injured feline fire in Seattle
and treated the cat for a broken palate (the top of the mouth), injured when the cat’s head slammed into the pavement. Jani Remsburg at Lower Columbia took an X-ray of the cat’s leg and determined it was broken. Russell Moore at Ocean Beach Animal Hospital set the leg and cast. Stacey Martzall spayed the cat at the Humane Society facility.
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SEATTLE — A blaze tore through a Seattle apartment Saturday and killed five people, including a number of children, fire officials said. The fire was reported just after 10 a.m. in what authorities described as a two-story apartment unit in the city’s Fremont neighborhood north of downtown. Property records indicate the building is owned by the Seattle Housing Authority. The first engine to respond had a problem with a pump that prevented it from spraying water on the fire, but a second unit arrived two minutes later and was able to fight the fire, said Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick. The fire was put out within about 40 minutes of when it was reported.
High death toll It was the highest death toll for a Seattle fire in recent memory. “We haven’t had anything like this in at least the last 10 years,” Fitzpatrick said. The fire did not spread to any neighboring apartments. Its cause was not immediately known. Fitzpatrick could not immediately confirm the victims’ ages, but told The Associated Press that some were children. Chaplains joined Seat-
tle fire investigators on scene, and two women were so distraught they were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Fitzpatrick said. Seattle police also sent bomb and arson units, as is standard in fire fatality investigations, she said. The investigators were able to enter the building by midday. Fremont is a trendy neighborhood on the Lake Washington Ship Canal known for its giant statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and an annual summer solstice parade. A witness told The Seattle Times that a woman ran from the building with a baby in her arms. “She said, ‘fire!”’ Lisa May, of Bellevue, told the newspaper. “’My babies, my babies, my babies are inside.”’ The three-bedroom apartment had been rented by the same family since 2006, said Seattle Housing Authority spokeswoman Virginia Felton. Abdi Roble, a representative of Muslim Housing Services, which operates apartments in the building, told the Times that the unit was rented by a woman from Eritrea with two children in preschool. Felton could not immediately confirm that with the AP. Two men fought the fire with garden hoses as they waited for help to arrive, the newspaper said.
Death and Memorial Notice ESTHER VIOLET PARKER Esther Violet Parker, 92, resident of Port Angeles for more than 60 years, left her mortal existence on Tuesday June 8, 2010, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Esther raised four children, all living: Wanda Gifford of Deming, New Mexico, Donna McCandless and Shannon Norman of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and Jerry Norman
of Anchorage, Alaska. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and two great-greatgrandchildren! Esther was known for her many hours of community service around Port Angeles. There will be a Memorial Service for her on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 1 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 139 West Eighth Street, Port Angeles.
KELSO — A high-flying cat is banged up after jumping off the Allen Street Bridge but should make a full recovery thanks to several local veterinarians who have donated their services. A distraught woman called the Humane Society of Cowlitz County on June 3 to report she was driving across the Allen Street Bridge and saw a cat crawl out of the engine compartment of the truck ahead of her. The cat dashed through traffic, disappeared beneath a car, re-emerged and leaped off the bridge, humane society officer Rich Falk said Thursday. “They were horrified,” Falk said of the woman, who was with her two young daughters. The woman drove around and under the bridge, found the cat beneath a car in the Kelso City Hall parking lot and called the Humane Society.
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Russell Moore at Ocean Beach Animal Hospital in Longview checks on a cat that leaped off a bridge last week.
“I’m surprised she survived the fall,” Johnson said. “She landed probably the best way she could, considCat’s ‘horrible day’ ering.” Falk retrieved the aniA vet gave the cat pain mal, which he said was “just medication and sent her a loving cat, and it was having a horrible day.” “She was somebody’s pet,” he continued. “She’s a very, very good cat . . . Doesn’t have a mean CARL P. bone in her body.” SPONGBERG The cat had fallen September 1, 1918 roughly 70 feet, said Rick June 2, 2010 Johnson, executive director of the Humane Society of Carl P. Spongberg of Cowlitz County. Sequim died on June 2, 2010, at 91 years of age. At his request, no services are planned. Mr. Spongberg was born September 1, 1918, in Algona, Iowa, to George and Christine (Panum) Spongberg. He graduated from STEVEN C. high school in Algona where he displayed an GILBERTSON aptitude for painting and Steven C. Gilbertdrawing. son, 60, was born in He attended the ChiAberdeen, Washington. cago Academy of Art for a His spirit took flight year, and then attended like an eagle and the Minneapolis College soared onto heaven’s of Art, graduating in 1941 highway, May 11, 2010, with a BFA. in Federal Way, WashUpon graduation he ington. worked in a number of Memorial service will commercial art studios in take place at 2 p.m., Minneapolis, California August 15, 2010, Eagles No. 3523, Burien, Washington. RSVP (208) 866-7842.
home for the night with a foster family. That night, the cat miscarried a litter of kittens, Johnson said. The next day at Lower Columbia Veterinary Clinic, Tammy White diagnosed
All the veterinarians donated their work, Johnson said. “It’s just one of those interesting stories where everyone agreed to help out,” he said. Despite the kitty’s ordeal, “she’s in remarkably good humor,” Johnson said. The tabby cat is about 3 years old and will stay with a foster family until she’s healed and ready for adoption. And what is the cat called? Johnson said he hadn’t thought of that until asked but decided she needed a “flying name” to honor her adventure. Famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart popped to mind, and the matter was settled. “Amelia,” he said. “We’re calling her Amelia.”
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and Washington, D.C. On December 22, 1942, he entered the Army and his regiment, the 355 Engineers, spent a year in England. They landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. His regiment served from Normandy to northern Germany and received numerous citations, including five battle stars. He was honorably discharged on October 5, 1945, and returned to Minneapolis. Mr. Spongberg became the Art Director of Cargill Inc. in early 1946. He married Edith Storlie LaGrave in 1949 and they had 61 happy years together. He served as the Art Director for Cargill until retiring in 1980, when Carl and Edith moved to Sun City, Florida.
They traveled extensively both in the U.S. and Europe. In 1986, they moved to Sequim. Mr. Spongberg was a member of the Minneapolis Society of Artists and Art Directors, the Lutheran Church of Good Shepherd, Minnesota Valley Golf and Country Club, the Caloosa Golf and Country Club in Sun City, Florida, and SunLand Golf and Country Club. He was an ardent golfer and painter, and enjoyed small-town living in Sequim. Mr. Spongberg is survived by his wife of 61 years, Edith; a son, Donald (Gladys), of Holliston, Massachusetts; daughters, Carol (David Carroll) of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, and Susan of Minneapolis, Minnesota; four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.
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$ Briefly . . . Van De Wege sets first talks following filing SEQUIM — State Rep. Kevin Van De Wege will speak to two business groups this week fresh off of filing last week to seek reelection to a third term in the Legislature. Van De Wege, D-Sequim, will speak to the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce in Port Townsend on Monday and Van De Wege the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday. He is being challenged in the top two primary election ending Aug. 17 by two Republicans: Dan Gase, a real estate broker from Port Angeles, and Craig Durgan, a retired marine engineer and current business owner from Port Ludlow. The top two vote-getters in the primary election — regardless of party preference — will advance to the Nov. 2 general election. Monday’s luncheon meeting of the Jefferson County chamber, formerly the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce before it combined with other chambers, begins at noon at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St. Lunch costs $12 for a full meal, $9 for soup/salad or $5 dessert/beverage. The prices include tax, beverage and dessert. Tuesday’s meeting of PABA, of which Gase is listed on the organization’s website as a member, begins at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive, Port Angeles. There is a $2.16 minimum charge by Joshua’s for those who do not order breakfast.
Worker’s comp topic PORT ANGELES — A discussion on a proposed statewide initiative to privatize worker’s compensation insurance will keynote Monday’s meeting of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce. North Peninsula Building Association Executive Director FaLeana Wech immediate past president Kevin RusWech sell, a board member of the Building Industry Association of Washington, will discuss proposed Initiative 1082. The statewide BIAW filed I-1082 for signature-gathering. If qualified for the Nov. 2 ballot, the initiative would create a Joint Legislative Task Force on Private Competition for Industrial Russell Insurance. The task force would be charged with developing proposed legislation for recommendation to the Legislature, which would be required to adopt legislation to privatize worker’s compensation insurance by March 1, 2012. Monday’s Port Angeles chamber luncheon, open to the public, begins at noon in the second-floor meeting room of the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant at the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St. Luncheon tickets are $13 and can be purchased from the meeting room cashier.
Prison dog program FORKS — An Olympic Corrections Center program in which inmates are allowed to train and care for dogs from the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society will be discussed at Wednesday’s Forks Chamber of Commerce meeting. Correctional program manager Traci Hixson and dog handler Miles Lawson will be the feature speakers. On March 12, two dogs — a pit bull named Charlotte and a Labrador retriever mix named Hank — were the first dogs to complete a new offender program at Olympic, which is south of Forks. The prison staff takes dogs
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A GOLDEN CELEBRATION from the animal shelter which are not obedient enough to be adopted and allows offenders to train and care for them. Wednesday’s Forks chamber meeting, open to the public, starts with no-host lunch at noon at JT’s Sweet Stuffs, 80 N. Forks Ave. Lunch costs $8; a bowl of soup; $4.75; and a cup of soup, $4. Phone Marcia Bingham, chamber director, at 360-3742531 for further information.
Pizza mixer SEQUIM — An “after hours” business mixer will be held by the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce at Islander Pizza and Pasta Shack on Tuesday. Samples of pizza will be included also with gift drawings at the event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Islander is located at 380 E. Washington St.
Master’s degree PORT ANGELES — Sharon Bartlett, a registered nurse and clinical educator for Olympic Medical Center’s Education Department, recently earned a Masters of Science degree in nursing from the University of Phoenix. “Completing her advanced degree shows persistence and dedication to the nursing profession,” said Olympic Medical Cen- Bartlett ter Director of Education Lynda Minor. Bartlett has been employed at Olympic Medical Center for one year, and is involved in the creation and facilitation of educational opportunities for OMC staff, patients and the community. She is involved with introducing HealthStream at Olympic Medical’s Port Angeles and Sequim locations. HealthStream is a Web-based system that helps hospitals manage work force continuing education, and maintain required clinical, technical and regulatory qualifications.
Car shops listed PORT ANGELES — AAA Washington recently recognized three Port Angeles auto repair facilities with Top Shop awards. Award winners by the state American Automobile Association unit are Evergreen Collision Center, Wilder Auto Center and Wilder Toyota. Each year, AAA Washington evaluates the quality of repair work and the shop cleanliness of each AAA-approved auto repair facility in Washington and Northern Idaho. Measured by customer satisfaction surveys and feedback, the “best of the best” earn a AAA Top Shop Award. The facilities that earn this honor typically have received customer satisfaction rates close to 100 percent during the previous calendar year. TURN
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Hartnagel Building Supply in Port Angeles celebrated its 50th anniversary with food and prizes for customers. Top photo, Joanne Warren of Port Angeles, right, is served a hamburger by Chan McManus during the event, which included a bucket sale, vendor displays, food and prize drawings for customers. McManus, a yard foreman Angeles Millwork & Lumber in Port Angeles, a sister company for Hartnagel,
was brought across town for the event. In the photo above, Donna Pacheco, advertising coordinator for Lumber Traders Inc.,
parent company for Hartnagel Building Supply, explains a scavenger hunt form to Tom Baumstark of Port Angeles.
Face it: We’re all hooked on Big Oil Almost every product has petrochemicals BY SETH BORENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Has the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got you so mad you’re ready to quit Big Oil? Ready to park the car and take up bike-riding or walking? Well, your bike and your sneakers have petroleum products in them. And sure, you can curb energy use by shutting off the air conditioning, but the electric fans you switch to have plastic from oil and gas in them. And the insulation to keep your home cool, also started as oil and gas. Without all that, you’ll sweat and it’ll be all too noticeable because deodorant comes from oil and gas too. You can’t even escape petroleum products with a nice cool fast-food milkshake — which probably has a petrochemicalbased thickener. Oil is everywhere. It’s in carpeting, furniture, computers and clothing. It’s in the most personal of products like toothpaste, shaving cream, lipstick and vitamin capsules. Petrochemicals are the glue of
our modern lives and even in glue, too. Because of that, petrochemicals are in our blood. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested humans for environmental chemicals and metals, it recorded 212 different compounds. More than 180 of them are products that started as natural gas or oil. “It’s the material basis of our society essentially,” said Michael Wilson, a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. “This is the Petrochemical Age.” Louisiana State University
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A Marathon Oil Co. petrochemical facility is shown in Texas City, Texas.
environmental sciences professor Ed Overton, who works with the government on oil spill chemistry, said: “There’s nothing that we do on a daily basis that isn’t touched by petrochemicals.” When in the movie “The Graduate” young Benjamin is given advice about the future, it comes in one word: plastics. About 93 percent of American plastics start with natural gas or oil. “Just about anything that’s not iron or steel or metal of some sort has some petrochemical component. And that’s just because of what we’ve been able to do with it,” said West Virginia University chemistry professor Dady Dadyburjor. Nothing shows how pervasive and malleable petrochemicals are better than shampoo, said Kevin Swift, director of economics and statistics for the American Chemistry Council, the chemical industry’s trade association. The bottle is plastic. The cap is plastic. The seal and the label, too. The ink comes from petrochemicals and even the glue that holds the label to the bottle comes from oil or gas. “The shampoo — it’s all derived from petrochemicals,” Swift said. “A bottle of shampoo is about 100 percent chemistry.”
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Feast of classes for area mariners THE NORTHWEST MARITIME Center and Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend will be hosting three classes later this month that can make or break an otherwise pleasurable day on the water for recreational mariners. First up, as part of the Safety and Survival at Sea series, is a class offering first aid and CPR training with a focus on the water world. This class is produced by Emergency Medical Training Associates and meets or exceeds Coast Guard requirements. The recreational boater will gain the skills to provide basic lifesaving care in a remote environment. The two-part class takes place on June 22 and 24 and costs $50, which includes books and materials. The class instructor is Jordan Pollack. On June 29, there is a class that will teach water rescue skills for the avid boater. This four-hour program, which will be taught by Erik Wennstrom, covers, among other things, rescue skills including overboard drills, patient transfers from boat to boat and search and rescue skills. The cost is $25 and participants will need to dress appropriately for cold and wet weather. Bring a life jacket and other rescue devices that you normally carry on your vessel. Also, beginning on Tuesday, June 29, and for the three following Tuesdays, Crystal Goodner of Dirty Girl Mechanics LLC will be the instructor for a women-only class on diesel engines. Crystal will discuss with the ladies the basics of how a diesel engine functions, how to change the oil and filters and other practical information related to their maintenance and upkeep. And there’s more. Carl Allen of Pacific Marine Consulting LLC will hold a coed class on diesel engines beginning on Wednesday, June 30, and for the three succeeding Wednesdays that will cover the same ground as Crystal’s women’s class. The fee for either of the classes is $90 per student. All of the classes will be held at the beautiful Northwest Mari-
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time Center at 431 Water St., Port Townsend. For more information on any of these excellent classes or to register, contact Rob Sanderson at 360-3853628, ext. 103 or at rob@
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New life for a war hero About 10 days ago, Lady Goodiver had her bow line lashed to one of the Port of Port Angeles buoys off Terminal 3. The white, 110-foot boat had the rugged look of being neglected and tired. Clutter could be seen strewn about her weather decks, and she was listing a few degrees to starboard. However, beneath that worn and weathered façade there is history and a bit of a story. Lady Goodiver began life when her keel was laid down at the Peyton Company in Newport Beach, Calif., on May 23, 1942, as an SC-497 class submarine chaser and was commissioned by the Navy on April 15 of the following year as USS SC-772. She initially did patrol duty in Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Astoria, Ore., and the Columbia River basin. In mid-August 1944, she was deployed to the South Pacific for patrol duty near Saipan and Tinian, and on June 8, 1945, she rescued two survivors from a downed aircraft. At the conclusion of World War II, USS SC-772 was transferred to the Coast Guard and was commissioned as the cutter Air Mallard (WAVR 437). She served for a brief twoyear period in San Diego before being struck from the records. A total of 438 of these wooden sub chasers were built by 50 different boat builders on both coasts, the Great Lakes and the Gulf Coast.
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The Lady Goodiver, a World War II-era Navy submarine chaser, sits anchored in Port Angeles Harbor before a journey to the Portland, Ore., area, where she’ll be preserved as a bed and breakfast inn. They were the first line of defense at the outset of World War II against the German U-boats that were having a devastating impact on the shipment of materiel and cargo, especially in the Atlantic Ocean, by the sinking of merchant ships of all nations regardless of neutrality. Sub chasers, otherwise known as the “Splinter Fleet” — one direct hit from an enemy cannon would turn the boat into splinters — were a constant nuisance to the German submarines. U-boats were only effective when they could be at periscope depth, sighting and aiming at a ship at which to fire its torpedoes. When sub chasers picked up a U-boat on its sonar, they would be in a position to drop depth charges, forcing the German sub deeper into the water and allowing shipping to proceed unimpeded. There are currently fewer than a dozen known survivors of the Splinter Fleet. Some of them remain in the Pacific Northwest
in private and commercial hands. There is also one based in Bergen, Norway, that serves as a museum ship and tours the Norwegian coast during the summer months.
Steve said after he repaints her in a pretty shade of gray, he will rename her Subchaser SC 772. For those of you who would like to know more about the Splinter Fleet, check out www. splinterfleet.org.
Back to the Goodiver After World War II, Lady Goodiver passed through a number of owners until she had been converted to a live-aboard dive boat in British Columbia in the 1990s. In the summer of 2004, she was in Seattle awaiting a new future because of the death of her owner. The timeworn, weather-beaten lady was facing a bleak and ignoble future until Steve Harrick of Hillsboro, Ore., bought her last December and took her to Gig Harbor. He traded a Grand Banks 32 for her. As of this writing, Lady Goodiver is moored in Scappoose, Ore., where she will undergo a refit and be converted to a bed and breakfast inn.
Harbor filler-up Out in Port Angeles Harbor on Tuesday, Tesoro Petroleum provided bunkers to Nicolaos, a 623foot cargo ship flying the flag of Cyprus. She got under way for Vancouver, Wash., shortly after fueling.
________ David G. Sellars is a Port Angeles resident and former Navy boatswain’s mate who enjoys boats and strolling the waterfront. Items involving boating, port activities and the North Olympic Peninsula waterfronts are always welcome. E-mail dgsellars@ hotmail.com or phone him at 360-417-3736. His column, On the Waterfront, appears every Sunday.
Hundreds watch multinational naval display in B.C. Aircraft carrier Reagan among most-discussed BY KATIE DEROSA VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST
ESQUIMALT, B.C. — It could have been a scene from the game Battleship. Naval ships from six nations were scattered beyond the Esquimalt Lagoon on Saturday for an international fleet review commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the Fort Road Hill shoreline west of Victoria with binoculars for an up-close view of Canada’s HMCS Algonquin as it sailed into the harbor at 10 a.m. It was from that ship that Canada’s governor general, Michäelle Jean, conducted the muchawaited fleet review of ships from Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France and the United States.
craft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan. “My dad’s on the Protecteur,” said 6-year-old Jurian Vezerian, referring to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt’s supply ship, HMCS Protectuer where Demian Vezerian serves as a supply technician. Jurian said he’s been looking forward to this weekend for a long time. His younger brother, Gunner, and grandparents, Ross and Kathryn Vezerian, had nabbed prime seats by 9 a.m.
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Medicare aid sought by Obama 21 percent payment cut feared BY CHARLES BABINGTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is asking Republican lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. If GOP senators don’t allow the stalled proposal to pass, some doctors will stop treating Medicare recipients, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. The Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said his party wants to avoid reducing physicians’ fees, but do it without adding to the deficit — meaning spending cuts elsewhere. The president noted that since 2003, Congresses led by Democrats and by Republicans alike have blocked similar proposed cuts in doctors’ reimbursement rates. But now, he said, Republicans are “willing to walk away from the needs of our doctors and our seniors.� The “doc fix� is part of a large, Democratic-drafted bill that would extend several popular tax breaks while greatly increasing the tax that oil companies pay into a spill liability fund. Republican senators have focused their objections on the bill’s tax increases, not the doctors’ pay matter.
“I am committed to permanently reforming this Medicare formula in a way that balances fiscal responsibility with the responsibility we have to doctors and seniors.� PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA in weekly radio address get plans appear more frugal. Later, in a move that watchdog groups call cynical, the lawmakers routinely undo the proposed cuts in doctor payments, which are considered politically unpalatable. Obama acknowledged that a better plan is needed. “I realize that simply kicking these cuts down the road another year is not a long-term solution,� he said. “I am committed to permanently reforming this Medicare formula in a way that balances fiscal responsibility with the responsibility we have to doctors and seniors.� The president said he is “absolutely willing to take the difficult steps necessary to lower the cost of Medicare and put our budget on a more fiscally sustainable path. “But I’m not willing to do that by punishing hardworking physicians or the millions of Americans who count on Medicare. That’s just wrong. And that’s why in the short-term, Congress must act to prevent this pay cut to doctors.� In the GOP weekly radio address, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio called on Obama to rein in government spending and accused the president of “refusing to make the tough choices� when it comes to budget cuts. While Boehner did not mention the dispute over Medicare doctor payments, he renewed his attack on the new health care law, saying its “burdensome mandates and tax increases� are stalling economic recovery.
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Insurance won’t stand pat Health overhaul may force changes to employer plans BY RICARDO ZALDIVAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Over and over in the health care debate, President Barack Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it. But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers — 51 percent — will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to midrange projections in the draft. Republicans said Obama broke his promise. Employer groups were divided. Issue of the debt It’s more evidence that the law will raise costs, said “Even in the face of pubthe U.S. Chamber of Comlic outrage, Democrats are merce. showing either that they But the Business Roundjust don’t get it on this issue table — representing CEOs of the debt, or that they just of major firms — saw dont care,� McConnell said. encouraging signs of flexiFor years, lawmakers bility, though it’s withholdfrom both parties routinely ing final judgment. have said that would trim Some experts believe Medicare reimbursement increased regulation will rates as a way to save lead to improved benefits money and make their budfor consumers. “On the face of it, having consumer protections apply to all insurance plans could be a good thing for employees,� said Alex Vachon, an independent health policy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ence serious or even life- consultant. threatening reactions if they “Technically, it’s actually SAN FRANCISCO — eat it. Bimbo Bakeries USA is Besides California, the recalling some of its bread 1 lb. 4 oz. packages of Soft distributed in California White Bread were distriband three other states after uted to stores in Idaho, Orediscovering the label did not gon and Washington. indicate the product conThe bread is offered in tained milk. bags that have a red band The company said Satur- as well as square lock tabs day that it has not received in the following colors and any reports of illness from dates: white tab — 6/14 or the mislabeled bread, but 6/21; blue tab — 6/15; tan warned that people who are tab — 6/17; green tab — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS allergic to milk could experi- 6/18; and red tab — 6/20. SAN FRANCISCO — It used to be that the only time you’d notice a bar code was at a store, maybe when a cashier scanned your groceries. But lately bar codes are showing up in more places around town — and getting more sophisticated. You might have seen one cousin of the traditional bar code: Known as a QR code, this 257151 Highway 101 jumble of little squares ranLocally owned since 1977 452-3366 Contr. Lic. # EVERWI*088NL domly arranged within a
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improved coverage.� The types of changes that employers could have to make include offering preventive care without copayments and instituting an appeals process for disputed claims that follows new federal guidelines. The law already requires all health plans to extend coverage to young adult children until they turn 26. Such incremental changes can nudge costs up. The Obama administration said the draft regulation is an early version undergoing revision.
Leaked document Nonetheless, the leaked document was getting widespread interest Friday in lobbying firms that represent employers and insurance companies and on Capitol Hill. “What we are getting here is a clear indication that most plans will have to change,� said James Gelfand, health policy director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “From an employer’s point of view that’s a bad thing. These changes, whether or not they’re good for consumers, are most certainly accompanied by a cost.� Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said it showed that Obama’s assurance
that Americans would be able to keep the plans they currently have was “a myth� all along. “Since its passage, Republican arguments against the bill have been repeatedly vindicated, even as the administration’s many promises about the bill have been called into question again and again,� McConnell said. “So Democrats may have passed this bill, but the debate is far from over.� An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the rules are still being written, said the final version will uphold Obama’s promise, accommodating employers’ desire for flexibility while protecting consumers from runaway costs. Employer-provided coverage is the mainstay of the nation’s health insurance system and is expected to remain so even after the new health care law is fully phased in.
Main issue The main issue in the 83-page regulation is how to deal with what the government calls “grandfathered� health plans. Those are plans that predated the health care law and are exempt from many, but not all, of its consumer protections. Lawmakers created the special category to deliver on Obama’s promise that people can keep the coverage they have if they like it. But health plans change
frequently. Premiums and copayments keep rising. Coverage is expanded for some services and restricted for others. Lawmakers asked regulators to spell out how much an employer can change a plan and still claim it to be grandfathered, exempting it from closer federal regulation.
Called inflexible Gelfand, the Chamber of Commerce expert, said the draft rules are too inflexible. Generally, plans can lose their protected status by increasing copayments and deductibles above certain limits, and Gelfand said they’re too narrow. But Maria Ghazal, health policy director for the Business Roundtable, said she saw signs that the administration is trying to be responsive to employers. For example, plans that only cover retirees would be exempt from the new regulatory requirements — an important clarification. “We think there is some recognition of the challenges ahead for employers,� she said. How employers react to the coming changes will be critical. If many companies start dropping health care benefits, opting instead to pay the government a penalty, Democrats would face a political backlash. Whether there’s a tipping point ahead is still unclear.
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Polaroid classics A STRIKING BLACK-AND-WHITE photograph of the majestic Bridalveil waterfall is among numerous that landscape photographer Ansel Adams took with Polaroid film — a technology many celebrated artists embraced to produce innovative and surprising works. The mural-sized iconic image, “Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite,� is going on the auction block in New York City at a pre-sale estimate of $70,000 to $100,000. “It is the largest and best collection of works by Ansel Adams to ever come on the market, representing a broad spectrum of most of his career,� said Sotheby’s photography expert Denise Bethel. The image is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography being offered at Sotheby’s on June 21-22 as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale. The prints are being sold by PBE Corp., a previous owner of the Polaroid brand. The Polaroid camera was the invention of Edwin H. Land, whose revolutionary 1948 technology for instant photography was not matched until the arrival of the digital camera almost 40 years later. Land hired Adams as a consultant a year after the camera hit the market — a collaboration that lasted 35 years. The photographer produced some of the most sweeping and dramatic black-and-white photos of the American West, especially of the national park system. Soon after coming to Polaroid, Adams began building the company’s collection, acquiring works by such SOTHEBY’S/VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lens masters as Dorothea Lange, Margaret BourkeWhite, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Wil- The late photographer Ansel Adams’ “Canyon de Chelle National Monument, Arizona, 1942� is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century liam Garnett. The Associated Press photography being offered at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City.
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WASHINGTON — The nation’s minority population is steadily rising and now makes up 35 percent of the United States, advancing an unmistakable trend that could make minorities the new American majority by midcentury. As white baby boomers age past their childbearing years, younger Hispanic parents are having children — and driving U.S. population growth. “The aging of baby boomers beyond young middle age will have profound impacts on our labor force, housing market, schools and generational divisions on issues such as Social Security and Medicare,� said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. “The engine of growth for the younger population in most states will be new minorities.� New Census estimates show minorities added more than 2 percent in 2009 to 107.2 million people, boosted by a surge in Hispanic births and more people who
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described themselves as multiracial. During this time, the white population remained flat, making up roughly 199.9 million, or 65 percent, of the country. By comparison, whites comprised 69 percent of the total population in 2000, and minorities 31 percent. Currently four states — Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas — as well as the District of Columbia have minority populations that exceeded 50 percent. That’s one state more than in 2000, when Texas was not on the list. About 311 of the 3,143 counties — one in 10 — have minority populations of 50 percent or greater. That’s up from around 250
counties in 2000. The Census estimates released Thursday documented a widening age and race divide. They are the last government numbers before completion later this year of the 2010 census, which could change the balance of political power when legislative districts are redrawn based on population and racial diversity. A key factor in the demographic transformation is aging baby boomers, a predominantly white group now shepherding college kids instead of starting young families. Since 2000, the number of whites younger than age 45 decreased by 8.4 million, while the number of whites over that age rose by 12.6 million. The result is that the number of white younger adults and children fell in 42 states. Fifteen states, led by California, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan, have lost more than 10 percent of their younger white population since 2000. Locally, the changing
Health secretary stumps against obesity in kids mayors “know how to develop effective solutions� and can “spur action at the grass roots unlike anyone else.� Sebelius said local leaders can help by building parks, supporting farmers markets and bringing healthier foods into schools. Obama’s program, launched in February 2009, is aimed at solving the childhood obesity problem in a generation, so children born today can reach adulthood at a healthy weight.
It has four components: helping parents make better food choices, serving healthier food in school vending machines and lunch lines, making healthy food more available and affordable, and encouraging children to exercise more. Sebelius said one in three American children are overweight or obese. She said that number had quadrupled during the past 20 years. At the conference, Sebe-
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critical role in reshaping the racial and ethnic structure of the country,� said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire. Multiracial Americans, the fastest growing U.S. demographic group, are also adding to minority gains. About 5.3 million last year were identified as being of multiple race or ethnicity, up 3.2 percent from the previous year. Among racial and ethnic groups, Hispanics grew by 3.1 percent to 48.4 million and Asians increased 2.5 percent to 13.7 million. They now represent about 15.8 percent and 4.5 percent of the U.S. population, respectively. Blacks, who make up about 12.3 percent of the population, increased less than 1 percent last year to 37.7 million. Other findings: ■The median age for Hispanics and Asians edged lower — to 27.4 and 35.3 respectively — compared to 36.8 for the total population. The median age for blacks was unchanged at 31.3, while whites rose
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Obama administration is calling on mayors to help in the fight against childhood obesity because the effort won’t work if communities don’t engage in it, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a conference Friday. Sebelius touted first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move� campaign against childhood obesity at the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors. Sebelius encouraged about 400 mayors and members of their staffs to have their cities join a new part of the campaign, dubbed “Let’s Move Cities and Towns.� “I know well how critical it is that you are mobilized and energized, because you are the leadership teams that can actually make things happen,� she said. “We now have, I think, a real opportunity with the spotlight of the first lady on this problem.� Obama addressed the conference by video, saying
race dynamics were widespread. Seven U.S. counties last year saw their minority populations become the majority: Gwinnett County, Ga.; Titus and Victoria counties in Texas; Finney County, Kan.; Saguache County, Colo.; Contra Costa County, Calif.; and Yakima County in Washington. The rise in the minority population is due to recent sharp increases in minority births, especially among Hispanics, who accounted for more than half of total U.S. population gains last year. There are now roughly 9 births for every 1 death among Latinos, compared with a roughly one-to-one ratio for whites. Based on current rates, data from the 2010 census could show a new “tipping point� in which babies born to minorities outnumber that of babies born to whites. About 1 in 4 counties now have more minority children than white children or are nearing that point. “Fertility is playing a
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World Cup shows Earth-friendly wear Shirts made from bottles part of profitable trend BY SINDYA N. BHANOO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
As the world’s greatest soccer players take to the fields at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many are wearing jerseys made almost entirely from plastic bottles rescued from landfills in Japan and Taiwan. It is, if nothing else, good publicity for Nike, the maker of the jerseys and the official sponsor of nine teams, including the United States, Brazil and Portugal. Yet what many might view as a gimmick is also part of a broadening effort by the company to incorporate sustainability, or environmentally responsible practices, into its product design. Around the globe, a growing number of manufacturers are including more recyclable or biodegradable components into products. Companies making changes run the gamut — there are furniture makers, carpet manufacturers, clothing retailers and makers of shampoos and household cleaners. And with big-box retailers like Wal-Mart joining in, industry analysts say the sustainable philosophy is no longer viewed as the province of high-end sellers like Nike or Herman Miller, the furniture maker.
Half-trillion dollars In 2008 alone, American consumers doubled their spending on sustainable products and services to an estimated $500 billion, according to a survey that polled more than a 1,000 people by Penn Schoen Berland Associates, a market research firm that studies the green economy. The movement can be confusing to navigate and goes by many monikers — ”cradle to cradle,” ecoefficiency, life cycle improvement and closed-
loop production. In its most utopian form, it envisions a world in which all products are made from natural materials and are 100 percent reusable, recyclable or biodegradable, never ending up in landfill. At its most pragmatic, it is mainly about cutting costs — by reducing waste, selling recyclable components and reusing byproducts like rubber or plastic to create a new product. For a large company, this can mean millions of dollars in annual savings. “When sustainability burst onto the scene, it was in the responsibility category, something that a company should do because it was the right thing to do,” said Beth Lester, a vice president at Penn Schoen Berland Associates. But now it is equally about saving money, she said.
Wal-Mart switches For example, Wal-Mart Inc. attributed more than $100 million of its 2009 revenue to a decision to switch to a recyclable variety of cardboard in shipments to its 4,300-plus Walmart stores in the United States. Now it sells the cardboard to a recycler rather than paying to ship the waste to a landfill. The company also sells photo frames made from its polystyrene waste and recycles plastic scraps leftover from producing Walmartbrand diapers into material used in building new Walmart stores. “It’s coming from economics,” said Marc Stoiber, vice president for green innovation at the Chicagobased business consultancy Maddock Douglas. “If you look at the big guys like Wal-Mart, they embrace green because it’s all about efficiency.” Matt Kistler, the senior vice president of sustain-
ability at Wal-Mart Inc., agreed. “If this was not financially viable, a company such as ours would not be doing it,” he said.
Tagging merchandise In its most ambitious project, Wal-Mart, after surveying more than 100,000 suppliers worldwide, has embarked on a yearlong effort to tag every product it sells with information about its production and life cycle. Nike first dipped its toe into sustainability in 1993, when it began grinding up old shoes and donating the material and other manufacturing scraps to builders of sports surfaces, like tracks and basketball courts. That program continues, but the company has shifted gradually from one-of-akind initiatives to a longterm plan to “minimize or eliminate all substances known to be harmful to the health of biological or ecological systems.” In the past four years, the company’s sustainable design group, known as Nike Considered Design, has brought shoes and athletic clothing to market that incorporate waste from the factory floor and a less toxic type of rubber.
Old shoes recycled Some of Nike’s clothing incorporates zippers and cords made from old shoes. The company has also reduced its use of solvents, the toxic glue used to cement soles to the bottom of shoes. ”Our customers expect this from us,” said Lorrie Vogel, general manager of Nike’s Considered group. “It’s not about two or three green shoes — it’s about changing the way our company does things in general.” As companies move to reduce waste and analyze the components of their products, many are turning to outside consultants for help. Among the most promi-
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Serbia national soccer team player Dragan Mrdja, showing practicing Saturday before a World Cup match against Serbia today, wears Nike gear, including an undershirt, recycled from plastic bottles.
ith big-box retailers like Wal-Mart joining in the green movement, industry analysts say the sustainable philosophy is no longer viewed as the province of high-end sellers like Nike or Herman Miller, the furniture maker.
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nent is William McDonough, co-author of a 2002 book called Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. He runs a consultancy that evaluates companies’ policies in areas like toxicity, renewable energy, water stewardship and sustainability and awards corporations Cradle to Cradle Certification if they make the necessary changes. His firm, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, has worked with Nike, Herman Miller and Shaw, the world’s largest carpet maker. Herman Miller says that 50 percent of its revenue now comes from products that are Cradle to Cradlecompliant, and it is aiming for 100 percent. Shaw has collected 300 million pounds of used carpet in the last three years and reused 85 percent of it. “I’ve never met one CEO who said ‘Give me a toxic product,’” Mr. McDonough said. “But they need business
models that are effective for them.” Still, companies can be reluctant to make trade-offs when performance or aesthetics suffers.
Chemicals and bottles Method, a maker of household cleaning products, shuns chemicals like ammonia, bleach and phthalates and maintains a list of earth-friendly ones. But when it came to the design of its bottles, the company stood firm, declining to reduce the plastic content beyond a certain point because it believed that it would make them less visually attractive, according to a recent report in The McKinsey Quarterly, an online business management journal. Companies may also have to weigh a product’s toxicity level against its longevity. The retailer Patagonia is viewed as environmentally conscious — 75 percent of the clothing it sells is recyclable — but it has had dif-
ficulty finding nontoxic dyes. For now, Patagonia prefers to stick with colorfast dyes, although not all are harmless to the earth. “It’s super-easy to find an environmentally friendly dye that will fade in three washes,” said Jenn Rapp, a spokeswoman. “But a garment that lasts 20 years is much more friendly than one that lasts five months.” Even champions of sustainability say that consumers should be wary of giving companies too much credit or accepting all of their claims. Makers of cleaning agents in particular may offer an expensive “green line” of offerings but leave the rest of their products untouched, some say. “I think the cradle-tocradle concept is great,” said Wood Turner, executive director of Climate Counts, a nonprofit group that scores manufacturers of consumer products makers on their track records. “The problem is that most companies are not as inclined to push that into all their products and all their brands. “I have to ask, is this really just an example of green tokenism, or does it reflect deep thinking on a company’s part?”
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LAS VEGAS — Bill Clinton says Democratic incumbents can’t run away from their records, so they might as well embrace them. “Tell your story,” the former president advised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other embattled Democrats.
“Never give up,” he added. Clinton, considered one of the sharpest political minds of his generation, also urged Reid to avoid getting “ground down” by all the talk of this being an anti-incumbent, anti-Washington, anti-Democratic election year.
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learn from Lincoln’s victory? “First,” Clinton said, smiling, “never give up.” Second, he said, don’t listen to political consultants who steer incumbents away from talking about their records. Jon Corzine followed that bad advice, Clinton said, and got bounced from the New Jersey governor’s office last year. “Get out and tell the people what you’re doing and what you’ve done and remind them that this is a job,” Clinton told AP. “I think you have to tell people you know why they are mad and you know why they are frustrated but the question is, What is the most productive thing to do with it?”
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WASHINGTON — The fight to allow gay and bisexual people to serve openly in the military is already drawing political blood in the nation’s capital, but tucked into the same 852-page Pentagon policy bill as the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell� is a little-noticed amendment that takes on another emotionally charged issue: Making abortion easier for military women in war zones. In a vote that advocates of abortion rights sought beforehand to keep quiet, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a provision May 27 to allow privately financed abortions at military hospitals and bases. Current law bans abortions in most cases at military facilities,
even if women pay themselves, meaning they must go outside to private hospitals and clinics — an impossibility for many of the estimated 100,000 American servicewomen in foreign countries, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. The result, the advocates say, is that military women serving overseas do not have the same access to basic health care that other American women do, or that is ensured by the laws of the country they are fighting to protect. “It’s an issue of basic fairness,� said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, one of eight women’s advocacy groups that lobbied heavily last month for the amendment’s passage. Opponents say that because
the abortions would be performed in government facilities, taxpayer money would still help subsidize the underlying costs — the reason that Sen. Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat who is opposed to abortion, voted against the amendment. “He opposes government-provided or funded abortion,� said Jake Thompson, a spokesman.
Backers optimistic The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Roland W. Burris, D-Illinois, passed 15-12, and advocates say they are cautiously optimistic about its chances in the full Senate this summer and even in negotiations with the House, where Rep. Ike Skelton, the Missouri Democrat who leads the Armed
Services Committee, remains opposed. Similar amendments have failed numerous times since a ban was put in place by congressional Republicans in the 1990s, but this is the first such vote in the Obama administration, when Democrats are in control and women have been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan for nearly a decade. The Pentagon declined to comment on the proposed legislation. The Army and the Marine Corps do not make public how many servicewomen become pregnant each year in Iraq and Afghanistan, but whatever the number, thought to be relatively small, an unwanted pregnancy in a war zone is a professional as well as a personal crisis for a woman. With no access to safe abor-
tions outside the base, regulations require that a woman be flown home within two weeks of the time she finds out she’s pregnant, a particular stigma for unmarried women that ends any future career advancement. Despite the current ban, abortion has been available through shifting regulations in the United States military in the past. In 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, the Department of Defense quietly adopted a policy permitting military hospitals to provide “therapeutic� abortions, regardless of the laws of the states they were in. President Richard M. Nixon revoked the policy less than a year later, saying it was “an unacceptable form of population control.�
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after two unusually strong months fueled by tax refunds, rebates for energyefficient appliances and higher gas prices.
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Google denies WASHINGTON — Google Inc. is telling lawmakers that it never dissected or used any of the information that it accidentally sucked up while collecting data about public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries. In a letter to three key members of the House Commerce Committee, the company apologized for collecting fragments of e-mails, search requests and other online activities over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The company got the information while photographing neighborhoods for its “Street View� mapping feature.
Lions Gate bid NEW YORK — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn stepped up his effort to take control of the boutique movie studio Lions
Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, saying he will put up his own slate of candidates Icahn to replace the company’s board. Icahn, who has a roughly 19 percent stake in Lions Gate, has been tussling with management since last year. In a lengthy open letter to the company’s board Friday, Icahn jabbed at Lions Gate’s directors for allowing its stock price to sink and for trying to block his efforts to buy up the company’s shares. He said he hopes a new board will move quickly to replace management.
NEW YORK — Benchmark crude for July delivery dropped $1.70 to close at $73.78 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In other Nymex trading in July contracts, heating oil lost 2.75 cents to settle at $2.0053 a gallon, while gasoline fell 2.08 cents to settle at $2.0497 a gallon. Natural gas gained 13.4 cents to settle at $4.781 per 1,000 cubic feet. Brent crude fell 94 cents to settle at $74.35 on the ICE futures exchange.
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NEW YORK — Spot nonferrous metal prices Friday. Aluminum - $0.8640 per lb., London Metal Exch. Copper - $2.8529 Cathode full plate, LME. Copper - $2.8555 N.Y. Merc spot Thu. Lead - $1655.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch. Zinc - $0.7642 per lb., London Metal Exch. Gold - $1220.00 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Gold - $1220.80 troy oz., NY Merc spot Thu. Silver - $18.260 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Silver - $18.342 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Thu. Platinum -$1545.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract). Platinum - $1536.20 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Thu.
The letters posted online deal with specific technologies from: 23andMe Inc., deCODE Genetics, Illumina, Navigenics and Knome Inc.
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The Peninsula Surface high pressure just offshore and an upper-air high directly overhead will result in a nice day across the Peninsula today with a mostly sunny sky and seasonable temperatures. There will be a gusty breeze at times. Tonight will be mostly clear, breezy Neah Bay Port and chilly. Monday will be another breezy day. Expect a 56/48 Townsend mixture of clouds and sunshine as a disturbance drops in Port Angeles 61/48 from the north, but no precipitation is expected. Tuesday 60/44 will be a partly sunny day with seasonable temperaSequim tures.
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CHICAGO — Talk about a hard-knocks life: She has been jailed in North Korea, kidnapped repeatedly, accused of murder, trapped in a cave, roughed up by gangsters.
And she’s just a kid — precisely, a red-haired girl named Annie. Over 86 years, the spunky (and forever young) orphan has endured hundreds of curly hair-raising adventures, not to mention homelessness, poverty and other Dick-
ensian hardships. Annie, the character, may be indomitable. But “Annie,” the comic strip, is not. Facing a shifting media landscape — the closing or shrinking of newspapers, a dwindling audience
for comic adventures and an explosion of new forms of entertainment — Tribune Media Services has determined there will be no more newspaper tomorrows for Annie. After today’s strip, Annie, her father figure and frequent rescuer,
Daddy Warbucks, and her beloved pooch, Sandy, will disappear from the funny pages. “Annie is not dying; she’s moving into new channels,” said Steve Tippie, a vice president of Tribune Media, which owns the license.
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Coq au Vin is just an example of a simple recipe that allows fresh morels to shine when it comes to flavor.
olish legend has it that the devil, in a particularly foul mood, tore an old woman into bits, scattering her through the woods. Where her pieces fell, morels sprouted, bearing her wrinkled appearance. Science has extinguished the legend, but to this day, gourmands around the globe expend considerable sacrifice in pursuit of the wrinkly morel. If truffles are the most prized specimens in the fungus world, morels are close behind. Technically called a “morchella,” morels are widely distributed in the United States. They have a distinctive, upright appearance resembling a spongy honeycomb. Their taste is distinctive, too: earthy, intense and utterly addictive. Morels tolerate a range of conditions in the wild, but efforts to cultivate them have been largely unsuccessful — hence, the sticker shock that accompanies their appearance in supermarket. Those who don’t mind a springtime walk might consider foraging for themselves. A little research can teach you how to distinguish a true morel from the poisonous false morel. Where to look is another matter. Morels can grow in woods and fields. They love dying elm trees. They also have a reputation for growing on the site of recent fires: Reportedly, 18th-century German peasants had to be restrained from setting fires to encourage morels to grow. Depending on where you live, morel season can run from March through May. Fresh morels should not be eaten raw. Choose simple preparations that allow their flavor to shine through. Dried morels are available year round, have a slightly smoky flavor and lend themselves to many preparations. Use any combination of mushrooms you prefer with this hearty Coq au Vin — shiitake, morels or crimini, for example.
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cup dry red wine teaspoon salt Coarsely ground black pepper 1 bay leaf 11⁄2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, chopped 4 ounces bacon 3⁄4 cup finely chopped onions 3⁄4 cup finely chopped carrots 3⁄4 cup finely chopped mushrooms 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour 3 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth 1 tablespoon tomato paste
________ Combine wine, salt, pepper, bay leaf and chicken in large shallow bowl. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat; add bacon and cook until crispy. Remove bacon, reserving 1 tablespoon drippings in pan. Add onions, carrots and mushrooms to pan and cook over medium heat, stirring browned bits from bottom, about 15 minutes. Remove vegetables from pan. Remove chicken from marinade; drain well, reserving marinade. Discard bay leaf. Toss chicken lightly in flour. Add 11⁄2 tablespoons oil to pan. Working in batches, add chicken to pan and cook over medium heat until brown. Add remaining oil if needed. Add broth, tomato paste and reserved marinade. Bring to boil; add vegetables. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 45 minutes. Crumble bacon on top of each serving.
Fennel fronds a lovely garnish Core of produce rests in the bulb BY JO MARSHALL RELISH
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Fennel is a showoff in the produce aisle, with its bright white bulb and profusion of green, feathery fronds. Folklore claims it wards off supernatural intruders in the garden, but we’ll focus on what it does in the kitchen. Commercially, fennel is grown mostly for its seeds, the characteristic flavor in Italian sausage. It’s native to the Mediterranean, and Florence fennel is the type you’ll likely find in markets. It has a crisp texture and tastes mildly like licorice. Some stores label it anise, but anise is a different plant. Look for specimens with crisp, clean bulbs with no sign of browning; foliage should be green. Cooks are concerned mainly with the bulb. To prepare fennel, cut off stems and leaves. You’ll reveal a triangular core in the bulb — cut it away just as you’d core a cabbage. In salads, shaved raw fennel pairs beautifully with citrus. Roasted or stewed, its licorice flavor mellows. In the interest of root-to-tip dining, freeze the mild-tasting stems for flavoring soup or chop for salads. It’s nearly as mild as celery. Fennel fronds make a lovely garnish. In the ninth century, Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman emperor, ordered fennel to be grown in the south of France. If you’re planting a garden, you might issue a similar edict — fennel is easy to grow. You’ll have harvests throughout summer, bulbs will continue to grow after the first several frosts, and you can collect seeds to dry for the pantry. Some gardeners think fennel’s too pretty to harvest — in southern zones, it can serve as an ornamental perennial. This salad, with its grilled fennel, sweet tomato dressing and peppery arugula, is perfect with a grilled steak. You can make the tomato dressing and the grilled fennel ahead, then reheat the dressing before serving.
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PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Master Gardeners will hold their 15th Secret Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The theme for this year’s tour is Art in the Garden. The tour will visit eight Port Townsend gardens. In addition to the gardens themselves, each garden owner has invited a local artist to display his or her work. Tickets are on sale at Henery’s Garden Centers locations in Port Townsend and Sequim, Gardens at Four Corners, Secret Gardens Nursery and Landscape Supply, McComb Gardens in Sequim and Valley Nursery in Poulsbo.
Ticket prices Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 on Saturday. A ticket booth will be available at the Haines Place Park & Ride, at Haines and 12th Street, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Gardens may be visited in any order. Carpooling from the park and ride is encouraged. Garden owners and Master Gardeners will answer questions at each tour site. Ticket sales underwrite the Master Gardeners Grant Program, which provides funding to countywide community efforts that support environmental stewardship and horticulture-based, sustainable projects.
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Interstate Queen goal of rider SHE’S BLOND, BEAUTIFUL, sexy and fast — in patterned speed horse gaming events that is — and hoping to reign over Washington and Oregon as the next Interstate Queen. Completing her sophomore year at Western Washington University in Bellingham this week, Ady Crosby is celebrated on the Olympic Peninsula as one of the fastest barrel racers in the state. The Sequim High School graduate still holds records in Washington State High School Equestrian Team challenges and was a key player in helping her team win WAHSET state championships. Currently, she’s competing for the crown against two candidates from Oregon. All three bear the title of Interstate Princess. Being a princess and running for queen is no easy task. In addition to looking pretty and competing in as many shows throughout the state as possible, contestants are asked to raise $10,000 in sponsorship money for the hosting of the interstate final competition. It all started back in 1957 when a challenge was made by Oregon and answered by Washington. Twenty of the best patterned speed horses and their riders from Washington and Oregon gathered in Portland to settle the issue of which had the fastest game horses. Oregon won the first meet, and the annual Interstate Games Competition was born. The event is held every Labor Day weekend, alternating between Washington and Oregon. It’s been said that nowhere in the country is there such a meeting between two states — matching the “cream of the crop” game horses and their riders. It’s a thrilling event to watch, a great challenge
Hollow. For directions, phone 360-531-2337. For information on upcoming and a fun Karen events, check the website spirit of Griffiths at www.olympus.net/ competicommunity/buckhorn tion. -bchw. This is ■ June 20, 9 a.m. Clalnot a case lam County Silver Spurs where 4-H horse show at Clallam youngest is County Fairgrounds. Prefastest — entry due by June 16 for competitors’ discount, or sign up at the ages range show. Judged by the Danish from 14 to system. Entry sheets avail65 — this is an arena in able through 4-H leaders or which the oldest can and at Airport Garden Center do place first. Experience in Port Angeles. For more counts. information, phone Theresa But most winning rides Whitney at 360-457-6028. depend on a good, fast ■ June 21-25. Freedom horse. Farm Summer Camp I. Ady is very excited to be Campers learn about care, representing this “fabulous feeding and grooming and sport through running for enjoy fun crafts. Contact Interstate Queen.” Mary Gallagher at 360“I am putting my heart 457-4897 or freedomf@ and soul into this competiolypen.com. tion and trying do my best ■ June 23-27. Open to positively advertise this horse camp sponsored by sport .” the Jefferson County 4-H The Agnew resident has Horse Program, for kids 8 literally been riding since and older through adults. she was born. Features a variety of lesShe said her mom, Pam sons taught by four profesCrosby, would strap her to KATHY KRATZER sional instructors, includher back and take her for a ing showmanship, English Ady Crosby, shown with Lacey, is vying for the ride. and western equitation, title of queen of the Interstate Games She spent several years dressage, jumping, trail, Competition between Washington and Oregon, in 4-H, competing at the gaming and much more. held each year on Labor Day weekend. annual Clallam County For beginners to advanced Fair and the Western riders. Phone Tanya Schbird discount deadline has Events Washington Fair in Puyalpassed, so the cost is $5 per weitzer at 360-301-3559. lup. ■ Friday, 7 p.m. Buck■ June 27, 10 a.m. class for performance “I love every second of horn Range monthly chap- classes and $4 per class for Annual Equitese Pony racing with my horse; the ter meeting at Chimacum Club-sponsored trail ride western games. Show rush, the excitement, the Saddlery & Tack. Jan Giland pony club rideathon at forms are available at most good company and the sup- landers will discuss equine Sandy Shores. Trail fun feed and tack stores and at port we all have for one natural movement and ride is on Olympic Washington State Univeranother,” said Ady. bodywork that honors the sity Extension in Port Had- Resource Management’s “I am proud to say that horse’s structure and spirit. lock. For more information tree farm, starting from I am involved with the Jan is certified in Equine or show forms, phone Mar- Wahl Lake Road (through gaming genre of horseman- Natural Movement Series. ian Gilliland at 360-301the ORM gate across the ship.” Phone Bethel Moore at highway from the visitors 5433 or 360-385-6313. Ady, 20, is working on 360-301-1547. center at the intersection of ■ Sunday, 9 a.m. Justwo majors, in sociology ■ Saturday and Sunstate Highways 104 and wen Farms is sponsoring and archaeological anthro- day, 10 a.m. Patterned an Olympic Peninsula Zone 19/Beaver Valley Road; folpology, with a minor in speed horse gaming show low the signs). It will be a open show at the Clallam women’s studies. at Quarter Moon Ranch on County Fairgrounds. Judge 10-mile flagged ride. DonaShe plans to study in West Runion Road in tions will be accepted upon will be Pamela Kiehn of the near future in South Carlsborg. Phone Waynora Chehalis. Entries close registration. Africa, where she hopes to Martin 360-683-6902. today. For information, ________ get involved with archaeo■ Saturday, 9 a.m. phone Jan Peterson at 360logical digs and do volunOpen schooling horse show 457-5561. Karen Griffiths’ column, Peninteer work with orphanages with both performance and ■ Mondays, from next sula Horseplay, appears every other Wednesday. or wildlife. gaming at the Jefferson week through Aug. 30. If you have a horse event, clinic If you’d like to help County Fairgrounds. Horse Lover Club for Kids sponsor Ady, visit the web- Hosted by Wild Angels 4-H in Chimacum. Phone Paula or seminar you would like listed, please e-mail Griffiths at horse site www.interstategames. Club and Jefferson County Stingle at 360-710-5812 play.kbg@olympus.net at least two com/Royalty.html or phone 4-H Horse Project, high ■ June 18-20. BCH weeks in advance. You can also her mother, Pam, at 360point will be awarded for Buckhorn Range Chapter write Griffiths at PDN, P.O. Box 670-3906. each division. The earlyride and campout at Sleepy 1330, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
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PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College will hold its 48th commencement ceremony Saturday. Commencement exercises will be held in the gymnasium on the main campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 2 p.m. A reception will follow. The commencement speaker will be state Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens. The title of her address is “Why Bother?” The student speaker will be Tori Lucier-Miller. She will be speaking about “Standing Outside the Fire.” This year, more than 390 degrees and certificates will be awarded. The graduates’ processional and recessional will be lead by the Kenmore Pipe Band. Peninsula Daily News
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Group effort puts icing on Swan cake IN THE ANNALS of Olympic Peninsula history, James G. Swan is remembered as a naturalist, historian, artist, journalist and judge. But Catherine Garrison of Port Ludlow sees him in a different way. “I picture him having dinner with Mrs. Haller and saying, ‘That was a splendid pudding, my dear. Might I have the recipe?’” Garrison said. Garrison is a volunteer at the Jefferson County Historical Society Research Center, where she has transcribed 149 recipes that Swan collected in the 19th century. The recipes are now being tested by volunteer bakers, with the goal of creating a cookbook with a historic twist. “He liked food and wrote about food and cooked with the natives,” Garrison said of Swan. “He was upset when people ate hardtack when there was so much of the bounty of nature.” In his diaries, Swan, who arrived on the Washington coast in 1852, recorded how he sampled local delicacies — crow, otter and skunk — and whipped up batches of duck stew, roast goose and mincemeat made with a gift of whale meat from a Makah. Most of the recipes
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Swan collected, however, are for desserts, Garrison said, theorizing that cooking meat is straightforward, while baking requires the right combination of ingredients. Measurements are also important, not that the recipes provided them — Garrison read half a dozen Victorian cookbooks to get a grasp on the terms and methods used, including measuring in gills. Baking times were not always included, she said, while temperatures range from “quick oven” to “slow oven.” That a main ingredient in many recipes is suet — beef fat — didn’t phase her. “My father was born in England, and I was raised in Canada,” Garrison said. “My mother used to make suet pudding, and I have, too. It’s delicious.” When she had a question, she called her mother, a retired baker who is 101, but one recipe title, for “Runners,” stumped even her. Not knowing what she
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she said. Now, 22 testers are creating the recipes, bringing the results — cream cakes, puddings, sauces and sherbets — to the research center for staff and volunteers to taste, Moratti said. The codfish balls were a little boring, she said, but Swan rarely specified adding salt, Garrison said, maybe because he assumed people would add a pinch. No one has stepped forward to test the recipe for calves’ head, which starts, “clean the head and remove the brains,” the brains being cooked separately and mashed to create a topping. And a few of the recipes are medicinal, including the “Cure for Mange,” and “Government Whitewash” — something that might come in handy today. Swan, who left behind a wife and two children when he came West during the JENNIFER JACKSON/FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS gold rush, was a familiar Wearing cotton gloves, Catherine Garrison holds character on the streets of Port Townsend until his the original ledger containing 149 recipes collected by James Swan during the last half of death on May 18, 1900, at the age of 82. the 19th century. His cane, as well as his recipes and diaries, remain. found while looking up a ‘She showed no remorse,’” recipe for an exhibit on VicGarrison said. ________ Then in February, Garri- torian kitchens. Jennifer Jackson writes about Reading the recipes in son started transcribing Port Townsend and Jefferson Swan’s handwriting Swan’s recipe collection, County every Wednesday. To conbridged the centuries, Gar- tact her with items for this column, which fill a small ledger, that JCHS collections man- rison said. phone 360-379-5688 or e-mail “It’s him talking to me,” jjackson@olypen. ager Becky Schurmann
A dance with music from the 1950s and 1960s will be held from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Answer For Youth is seeking items for the silent auction and volunteers to help with the fundraiser. For more information, phone Susan Hillgren at 360-670-4363, Pam Fosnes at 360-477-0247 or Cookie Kalfur at 360-477-9351.
Open Schooling Horse Show at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., on Saturday. Performance classes will begin at 9 a.m. Western games classes will follow in the afternoon. Pricing is $5 per class for the performance classes and $4 per class for western games. Stalls are available on a first-come, first-serve-basis, with a refundable stall deposit. Show forms are available at most feed and tack stores and at the Jefferson County Washington State University Extension, 201 W. Patison St., Port Hadlock. For more information and show forms phone Marian Gilliland at 360301-5433 or 360-385-6313.
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SEQUIM — Sequim High School senior Alisa Lee was recently honored as Sequim High School Girl of the Month by the Clallam County chapter of the American Association of University Women. Lee is an honor roll student, president of the Sequim High School Future Business Leaders of America and a member of Woman in Networking. Lee plans to attend Willamette University in Oregon and major in international affairs with a minor in Asian studies. She is the daughter of Wong and Sara Lee.
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PORT ANGELES — The Answer for Youth, a drop-in center for high-risk and homeless youth, will hold a “Rock N’ Roll 4 Youth” fundraiser at the Eagles Aerie, 110 S. Penn St., on Saturday. The event will begin with a silent auction from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., and a car show will be held from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. There will be appetizers and a no-host bar from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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PORT ANGELES — Chapter 430 of the Experimental Aircraft Association will offer free introductory Young Eagle flights to youth 8 to 17 at William R. Fairchild International Airport between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The Young Eagle Program was created to welcome young people into the world of aviation, and Saturday has been designated International Young Eagles Day. Flights will begin near the Rite Bros. Aviation hangar. Minors must be accompanied by or have written permission from a parent or legal guardian. Flights are dependent on weather conditions. For more information, contact Gary Johnson at 360-452-2340 or e-mail gjjohn@olypen.com.
St., June 23-27. The camp is for ages 8 through adult, and lessons are appropriate for beginning to advanced riders. A mandatory meeting for all attendees is scheduled at 6 p.m. on WednesSenior sock hop day, June 23. PORT TOWNSEND — Haul-in will occur that Seaport Landing Retireevening. ment and Assisted Living Four professional Community, 1201 Hancock instructors will lead sesSt., will host a free “Senior sions, including showmanSock Hop” at 7 p.m. Satur- ship, English and western day. equitation, dressage, jumpAttendees will “rock ing, trail and gaming. Enrollment is limited to around the clock” with a 40 people on a first-come, night of 1950s music and first-served basis. dancing. The cost is $125 per perThere will be an oldson or $100 per person for fashioned ice cream bar families with two or more with root beer floats and members attending. ice cream sundaes. Enrollment forms are For more information, available at most feed and phone 360-379-9376. tack stores and at the Washington State UniverHorse camp sity Jefferson County PORT TOWNSEND — Extension, 201 W. Patison The Jefferson County 4-H St. in Port Hadlock. Horse Program will host its For more information, annual Open Horse Camp phone Tanya Schweitzer at at the Jefferson County 360-301-3559. Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes Peninsula Daily News Sept. 4 and Oct. 2. For more information, visit www.forksopenaire market.com or e-mail contact@forksopenaire market.com.
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PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School senior Lauren Coventon was recently honored as Port Angeles High School Girl of the Month by the Clallam County chapter of the American Association of University Women. Coventon is an honor roll student who earned varsity letters playing for the girls golf and volleyball Coventon teams. She is a member of the school’s DECA club and has participated in Key Club and Future Business Leaders of America. Coventon will attend a university this fall and plans to major in communications with an emphasis in
BELLINGHAM — Western Washington University has released its honor roll for winter quarter 2010. North Olympic Peninsula honor roll students were Jenny Blenk, Isaac Boekelheide, Daniel Brooks, Nicholas Grinnell, Rebecca Horst and Jaymes McClain all of Sequim; Chloe McCabe, Eli Owens, Cortland Waldron and Ann Walrath, all of Port Angeles; Kymry Burwell of Port Hadlock; Bryan Callaway, Liane Norcutt, Samuel Nowak and Ashley Schweizer, all of Port Townsend; and Ashley Lynes of Chimacum. Earning 4.0 grade-point averages were Blenk, Brooks, Lynes, Nowak and Walrath. To be on the honor roll, students must complete 14 credit hours and be in the top 10 percent of their class. Peninsula Daily News
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