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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS July 19, 2016 | 75¢
Port Angeles-Sequim-West End
Police seek suspects in PA assault
Catching some rays
Man struck, injured in racially motivated crime BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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A harbor seal basks in the sun on a log in the Port Angeles Harbor near Ediz Hook on Monday.
City Council to consider second-class city issue
PORT ANGELES –– City police are looking for a man who allegedly struck someone in the face several times in an unprovoked and racially motivated assault early Sunday morning, police said. “We would like the public to help in solving this crime, and we’re taking this very seriously,� said Sgt. Jason Viada. “We do not want people to think this kind of thing represents Port Angeles.� Officers are looking for a white male, 18 to 19 years old and about 5 feet, 10 inches tall. The suspect could face charges for malicious harassment, a class C felony. At least one other person could face a charge of rendering criminal assistance. At about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, someone reported he had been assaulted near 11th and Cedar Streets.
Insults shouted
Vote date on board’s agenda BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — City Council members tonight will consider an anti-fluoridation group’s request for a Nov. 8 ballot measure that could change city government from a code city with home-rule-charter powers to a second-class city without them. Council members — the majority of whom favor fluorida-
tion — will consider the request by Our Water, Our Choice! tonight at 6 at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. OWOC!, which far exceeded the 467 petition signatures needed to hold the election, wants the council to have the Clallam County Auditor’s Office include the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot by Aug. 2, the state deadline for submitting resolutions for the general election ballot. The next regular council meeting is 6 p.m. Aug. 2, after the deadline because the Auditor’s Office will have closed. City Attorney Bill Bloor said
that under state statute — and absent City Council action by Aug. 2 — the measure must still be on the November 2017 municipal general election ballot, when four of seven City Council seats will be up for grabs. Council members interviewed over recent days expressed little enthusiasm for putting the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. “I absolutely do not support it,� said Mayor Patrick Downie, part of the four-person majority on the council who voted Dec. 15 to continue fluoridating the city’s water supply. TURN
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fficers are looking for a white male, 18 to 19 years old and about 5 feet, 10 inches tall. The suspect could face charges for malicious harassment, a class C felony. At least one other person could face a charge of rendering criminal assistance. Anyone with any information about the suspects or case is asked to call the Port Angeles Police Department at 360-452-4545.
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at least one vehicle and one suspect and are actively seeking information from all people who were present. The victim was transported to Olympic Medical Center after suffering contusions and abrasions to his face, and he was later released. Anyone with any information about the suspects or case is asked to call the Port Angeles Police Department at 360-4524545. They can also provide information anonymously by going to the “Online Crime Reporting� tab on the Port Angeles Police Department website, http://tinyurl. com/PDN-police, and clicking on the “Anonymous Crime Tips� link.
A group of people, who the victim didn’t know, shouted insults at him. Then one member of the group struck him in the face several times, Viada said. Viada said that based on the what the group was saying to the victim, the attack is thought to be racially motivated. He declined to detail what was said to the victim or provide his race. After the attack, the group fled in several vehicles before law enforcement arrived. Officers ________ searched the area for the suspect, other members of the group and Reporter Jesse Major can be reached vehicles. at 360-452-2345, ext. 56250, or at jmajor@ Police have information about peninsuladailynews.com.
Navy: No impact Fest makes registers ring estimated in sonar decision Revenue at $500,000 for PT Court says testing wrongly allowed
BY CHARLIE BERMANT
BY PENINSULA DAILY NEWS AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT TOWNSEND — Along with its cultural opportunities, the Port Townsend Film Festival generates significant income to city merchants, according to information presented to a business audience Monday. “We found that each attendee spends at least $400 during the CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS three days they are here, which Port Townsend Film Festival special guests, from left, is huge,� PTFF Marketing Direc- Chris Cooper, Marianne Leone Cooper and Beau Bridges tor Jan Halliday said. greet the crowd at the opening of the Port Townsend
SAN FRANCISCO — A recent federal appeals court ruling will have no immediate impact on warfare-related sonar testing and training activities by the U.S. Navy off the Northwest coast, a Navy spokeswoman said Monday. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar in the nation’s oceans that
could harm whales and other marine life. The court reversed a lower court decision upholding approval granted in 2012 for the Navy to use low-frequency sonar for training, testing and routine operations. The five-year approval covered peacetime operations in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea. TURN
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Thank You, Community!
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