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Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Conference gathers info for women vets Inaugural event will be held at Fort Worden Commons on Friday BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Information, resources and networking opportunities will be available to women veterans at a Friday conference in Port Townsend. The inaugural Veteran Community Partnership event, sponsored by the Veterans Administration Office of Rural Health,
will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday at Fort Worden Commons, 200 Battery Way. It is intended for all women veterans of the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas. “I think it’s the first of its kind around here,” said Rita Frangione, outreach coordinator with Vet Connect, part of Olympic Community Action Programs.
“We hope that this will be the beginning of an [annual] event to bring women veterans together.” Admission to the conference is free. Registrations are encouraged, but Friday walk-ins will be accepted. Keynote speakers for the conference will be Alda Siebrands — who served in the Army, Coast Guard and Peace Corps — and Colleen McAleer, an Army veteran who served in Desert Storm, later flying helicopters and fixedwing aircraft and serving in military intelligence. McAleer also is
“We hope that this will be the beginning of an [annual] event to bring women veterans together.” RITA FRANGIONE Vet Connect outreach coordinator president of the Port of Port Angeles commission. Veteran Community Partnership began as a VA pilot project in 2014 to partner with community agencies, especially in rural areas, to provide resources to veterans. For more information, see Vet Connect Olympic Peninsula’s Facebook page.
To register, contact Rita Frangione at Vet Connect at 360-3444940 or Barb Reuter at 206-2774459 or Barbara.Reuter@va.gov.
________ Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56450, or at rollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
PT sea level is summit focus
TV cameras trained on Peninsula
Action is urged during gathering BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
A behind-the-scenes look at the new Discovery Channel program “Dark Woods Justice” shows a camera operator filming Sean Gow as he investigates a cedar theft site.
PORT TOWNSEND — The sea level in Port Townsend and surrounding areas is expected to rise in the coming decades and area agencies need to begin to prepare for it, said participants in a Sea Level Summit. “We are entering a time period of unprecedented uncertainty and transformative change,” said Eric Toews, the Port of Port Townsend’s planning director, at Friday’s meeting in the Point Hudson Marina Room. “We may be able to kick the can down the road for a considerable period of time, but ultimately we are going to have to make some fundamental changes that will be required whether we wish to accommodate them or not,” Toews said. TURN
Jefferson is central to new Discovery Channel show Jefferson and Mason counties. Most of their investigations in the show, said Discovery Channel’s Samantha Coria, center around illicit natural resource thefts. The black market for exotic hardwoods, she said in a news release, is so rich that poachers risk prison time and BY MARK SWANSON their lives to steal from both public and PENINSULA DAILY NEWS private forests. “Known for their intricate pattern of PORT ANGELES — A new Discovery Channel program, “Dark Woods Jus- wood, trees like the Western Big Leaf Maple bring in millions,” said the televitice,” will peel back the bark on forest poaching and other issues of the Olym- sion channel in the release. The dwindling supply has triggered pic Peninsula when it premieres at 10 a black market — one that also spurs a p.m. Tuesday night. variety of criminal behavior. “Dark Woods Justice” focuses on “The story line shows that it fuels a investigations by sheriff’s deputies from
‘Dark Woods Justice’ highlights the work of sheriff’s deputies
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lot of criminal stuff,” said Coria. “Bad things.” Deputies on the show also pursue investigations into drug sales and a murder, said Coria. During the course of the first season, which was filmed on the Peninsula between August 2015 and April 2016, deputies take part in an active murder investigation, according to Coria. The story line details a human body that has been hidden in the woods of the Olympic Mountains. “I’m just the guy who gave permission,” said Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Stanko. TURN
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About 60 people attended a climate change conference Friday in Port Townsend and heard from officials including, from left, Jefferson PUD General Manager Jim Parker, Port Townsend Public Works Director Ken Clow and Jefferson County’s interim director of the Department of Community Development, David Goldsmith.
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