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Erin Disalvo, 51, was transported to Harborview Medical Center after the Chevrolet truck she was driving smashed through a guardrail and hit a tree at Eighth and L streets in Port Angeles.
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Peninsula College President Luke Robins, left, takes on college mascot Pete the Pirate, portrayed by Jeremiah Hobbs, a member of the college’s basketball team, during a gladiator jousting match Thursday. The event, part of the annual Pete the Pirate Week, brought in dozens of students and staff to watch the duel.
SARC board targets July for reopening date Talks continuing with Olympic Peninsula YMCA BY ALANA LINDEROTH OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP
SEQUIM — July is the target date for the reopening of the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center, according to a YMCA
board member. “We have said July,” Gary Huff, Olympic Peninsula YMCA board member, told those attending a Wednesday board meeting for the facility known as SARC. “If it has to go to September, OK, we may have to, but we hope July, but we’re not in total control of that.” Since the facility at 610 N. Fifth Ave. suspended services Oct. 30, active collaboration to ink an agreement between the
SARC commissioners and YMCA board members has continued. Under the developing agreement, SARC commissioners would be the landlord of the facility as elected representatives while all operations would be managed by the YMCA. “I would like to ink it [the agreement] by mid-February, but let me just say this: Have you ever gotten a straight answer from two attorneys?” Huff said. TURN
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High-speed wreck puts 1 in hospital BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A 51-yearold Port Angeles woman was in a Seattle hospital Thursday after the pickup truck she was driving Wednesday smashed though a guardrail and crashed into a tree near Hamilton Elementary School. Erin Disalvo was the sole occupant of a Chevrolet pickup that was reportedly traveling at about 60 mph before it struck the guardrail at Eighth and L streets in west Port Angeles and continued west into the woods, said Sgt. Jason Viada of the Port Angeles Police Department. Disalvo’s condition was not available Thursday afternoon because she was in surgery at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
“She will be going to an intensive care unit,” Harborview spokeswoman Susan Gregg said.
Hit a tree After crashing through the guardrail, the pickup Disalvo was driving collided with one tree and came to a rest against a second tree on a precipitous bluff above a school portable building about 100 feet from the dead end on West Eighth Street. “Undoubtedly there was some high velocity and momentum involved,” Viada said. “One concerning thing about this collision is that it was on the southern edge of the school grounds at Hamilton school.” The wreck occurred at about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday. TURN
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Exchange serves more with fewer syringes Decrease of 50,000 needles in 2015 BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association, because it means the program has become more efficient. “We ask people about need for the amount of needles,” she said after the meeting. “Example: If a person injects three times a day, they need 21 needles per week. It helps us give only the amount they need, which reduces waste in the community.” And that, in turn, reduces the cost of the program, she said.
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Health and Human Services Syringe Service Program served more clients last year than in 2014 but issued fewer singleuse syringes. “In 2014, we gave out 275,000 syringes to our folks that came into the exchange,” said Christina Hurst, public health programs manager for Health and Human Services. “In 2015, we gave out 221,000, By the numbers so we are seeing a drop.” In 2014, Hurst said the And that is a good thing, she told about 28 people at a Tuesday exchange received 800 repeat visits
from about 234 clients in the community who then distributed sterile syringes to about 1,722 people. The sterile syringes help prevent the transmission of bloodborne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis among intravenous drug users. In 2015, Hurst said the exchange received 865 repeat visits from about 275 clients who then distributed sterile syringes to about 2,264 people. The exchange generally accommodates “a couple of new people a month, and they may come in once or they may be regulars we see every week,” Hurst said. “We probably have about 75 to 80 people that are regulars,” she said, a number that has stayed
“Many of those who visit the exchange act as middlemen for other addicts uncomfortable with attending themselves.” CHRISTINA HURST public health programs manager, Health and Human Services about the same since 2014. Many of those who visit the exchange act as middlemen for other addicts uncomfortable with attending themselves, Hurst said. “Not everybody wants to come in,” she said. Some are fearful of coming in because of the illegality of illicit
drugs and the stigma against intravenous drug users, which remains prevalent in the community, she said. The exchange operates on a one-to-one exchange policy. For each used syringe brought in, a sterile syringe will be given. “If you get 10, you’ve got to bring me 10 back to get 10 more,” Hurst said. “We don’t just give somebody what they want, and we ask them questions.” The exchange provides an opportunity to connect addicts with additional services such as immunizations, medical referrals, HIV/ hepatitis testing and case management services for drug treatment. TURN
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