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Theresa R. Lehman, a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council, left, greets a collection of canoes at Jamestown Beach on Friday.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Paddlers in the 2016 Canoe Journey are expected to depart Port Townsend for Port Gamble today. The exact time of departure
was being determined Saturday evening, said Sonja Elofson, Lower Elwha Klallam tribe Canoe Family coordinator.
Skipper’s meeting “Each night they have a skipper’s meeting where the people who are directing the canoes”
review weather forecasts and tide schedules to determine when would be the best time to leave, she said. North Olympic Peninsula tribes began joining the Paddle to Nisqually on July 8, as the Quinault left their shores. TURN
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Members of the Port Townsend High School football team lend a hand and transport the tribal canoes to higher ground during the tribal canoe journey stop at Fort Worden State Park on Saturday.
f approved, Initiative 1433 would raise the statewide minimum wage to $13.50 an hour, bumping it up to this level over four years.
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OLYMPIA — The state’s voters will decide in November whether to raise the minimum wage. The Secretary of State’s office announced Friday that supporters gathered enough valid signatures for the measure to make the Nov. 8 general election ballot. The state Elections Division completed a random sample of the 345,907 signatures submitted by the initiative backers and determined that the measure easily exceeded the bare minimum of 246,372 valid signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, said David Ammons, office spokesman. Secretary of State Kim Wyman said a random sample of more than 10,000 signatures showed most were valid. The rejection rate, for duplicates or invalid signatures, was 15 percent, lower than the average error rate of 18 percent, Ammons said.
The measure also would provide paid sick leave to employees who don’t currently have it. Employers would have to provide one hour of paid sick leave for each 40 hours an employee works. Ariana Davis, a grocery worker from Renton who is the sponsor of I-1433, said last week that “this initiative is going to change the lives of every worker in Washington.” “Passing 1433 is the right thing to do for our economy and for our jobs,” she said. Critics say the measure, if approved, could hurt small businesses.
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If approved, Initiative 1433 would raise the statewide minimum wage to $13.50 an hour, bumping it up to this level over four years. The increase would be phased in starting next year, when the statewide rate would increase to $11 an hour. It would increase to $11.50 in 2018, $12 in 2019 and hit $13.50 an hour in 2020. Washington’s current minimum wage is $9.47 an hour. The rate is adjusted each year for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for the past 12 months.
Several business groups, including the Association of Washington Business, the Washington Restaurant Association, and the Washington Farm Bureau issued a written statement Wednesday stating their opposition to the initiative and expressing disappointment that “a thoughtful middle ground” could not be found through the legislative process. Previous bills on the minimum wage, including one to raise the statewide wage to $12 an hour, never gained traction in the Legislature. TURN
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AG declines perjury charge against Kidd False testimony under oath alleged BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The state Attorney General’s Office has declined to file a perjury or falseswearing charge against Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd over testimony she gave at a March 29 ethics board hearing, saying Kidd was giving her opinion and could not be prosecuted. Kidd was defending herself at the March 29 hearing against an April 8 ethics complaint filed by Port Angeles businessman Dale Wilson. Wilson said Kidd “gave false testimony under oath” that Coun-
Mark Nichols. Nichols had referred Wilson’s complaint to the state agency over cilman Lee Whetham had incited issues involving potential conflictresidents at a contentious Feb. 2 of-interest and appearance-ofCity Council meeting that she fairness issues. soon afterward abruptly AG ruling adjourned. Kidd had told the ethics board “The defense that would be that public safety had become at raised to either a charge of perrisk at the meeting at which a large number of people com- jury or a charge of false swearing plained of a council decision to is that the words of Ms. Kidd continue fluoridating the city’s expressed an opinion — her opinwater supply, and cut off public ion that it was not safe to continue the City council meeting comments. State Assistant Attorney Gen- within the atmosphere that had eral Scott Marlow outlined his arisen,” Marlow said. “An opinion can be neither decision not to file criminal charges against Kidd in a three- false nor true; it can only be suppage June 5 letter to Clallam ported or not supported. County Prosecuting Attorney “This was the question at the
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heart of the ethics board hearing — was Ms. Kidd’s opinion that it was unable to continue the City Council meeting supported by the circumstances or not? “The board ultimately determined that Ms. Kidd could have and should have taken other steps to address her concerns about safety and they found her in violation of the Ethics Code and issued a reprimand. “Ms. Kidd expression of her opinion, however, cannot support either proposed criminal charge as that opinion is not false.” Kidd said Friday she was not surprised by Marlow’s decision. “I’ve always been confident that this would be the outcome, that it would be dismissed,” she said.
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