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Jury finds for former PA employee Awards $1.5M plus earnings BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County Superior Court jury has awarded a former Port Angeles finance director $1.5 million in damages and $113,471 in lost earnings after deciding her termination was prompted by gender
discrimination. The eight-woman, four-man panel determined 10-2 Friday that Yvonne Ziomkowski, 62, was subject to a hostile work environment and disparate treatment because of her gender when thenCity Manager Ken Myers fired her March 15, 2012.
“I stopped doing anything,” she 21, according to his voice mail. said. “I just wanted to die. “The city is disappointed in the “Now I will start living again. ” decision,” said Abbi Fountain, human resources manager. Considering appeal “We are taking some time to review the decision and evaluate City Attorney Bill Bloor said our options.” Friday afternoon that the city is Bloor, Fountain and city evaluating the pros and cons of an Finance Director Byron Olson appeal, which must be filed within would not comment Friday on 30 days of a judgment being how the city would pay the judgentered. ment if it comes to that. City Manager Dan McKeen will not be in his office until April TURN TO VERDICT/A6
“I feel that finally my name and reputation [have] been restored,” Ziomkowski said. The jury’s verdict brought Ziomkowski to tears, she said later Friday, adding she was “still shaking.” Ziomkowski, a Polish woman who fled communism with her husband and young children in her 20s, said she has isolated herself at her home for the past four years.
Hundreds attend sculptor’s memorial
Extra, extra! Read all about it! Region’s paper salutes 100 years
PA police continue murder investigation
Founded April 1916 as the Port Angeles Evening News
BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Stunned family and friends at Neah Bay memorialized and celebrated the life of acclaimed 65-year-old Native American carver George C. David at Neah Bay while Port Angeles police continued their search for clues into his murder. A service for David at Neah Bay Assembly of God on Friday was attended by about 250 mourners and was followed with further commemoration by 400 to 500 people who filled the gymnasium on the Makah tribal reservation, David’s nephew Wade Greene said Saturday.
BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
This newspaper is 100 years old today. Now the Peninsula Daily News, it was born as the Port Angeles Evening News on Monday, April 10, 1916, one of a swarm of newspapers that proliferated in Clallam County during the late 1800s and early 1900s. When A.A. Smith and E.B. Webster formed the daily, its first edition had eight pages, a circulation of a little more than 1,000 and cost 1 cent a copy, 5 cents a week or 20 cents a month. That’s according to Olympic Leaders: The Life and Times of the Websters of Port Angeles, a book published in 2003 by Helen Neal Radke and Joan Ducceschi, wife of former publisher Frank Ducceschi. The first front page included accounts of fighting between the French and Germans at Verdun, France, in World War I, the pursuit of Mexican bandit and revolutionary Pancho Villa by American cavalrymen in West Texas — along with local news. Since then, the newspaper has covered such milestones as the establishment of Olympic National Park and a road built to Hurricane Ridge. It has published stories about the rising and falling fortunes of the timber industry as well as the debates over protection of old growth forest and the creatures that live there and in the sea. It covered the controversial legal Makah whale hunt in 1999 — and an illegal one in 2007 — as well as the dis-
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Sequim man dies in crash Above, the first edition of the Evening News, dated April 10, 1916. At left, co-founder E.B. Webster and his wife, Jessie. covery of the ancient village of Tse-whitzen in 2003 and the subsequent loss of jobs from a graving yard that had been planned on the Port Angeles waterfront. Most recently, it has published accounts of drought in a land where rain seems to fall for months at a time, and a
dispute over what should be added to the water residents drink. Throughout, the newspaper keeps readers up to date on local wrecks, power outages and what the police and courts are doing. TURN
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BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — A Sequim man missing since early Friday morning was found dead Saturday. Deputies said he apparently drove his motorcycle over a cliff overlooking Dungeness Bay. They found the body of Jeffrey Nash, 47, at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the base of the cliff north of the intersection of Cays Road and Marine Drive, said Sgt. Eric Munger of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. CRASH/A6
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INSIDE TODAY’S PENINSULA DAILY NEWS 100th year, 85th issue — 5 sections, 60 pages
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