Year In Review 2009

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2009 Year in Review/Clallam County

Friday, January 1, 2010

Peninsula Daily News

Top 10 Clallam County stories of 2009 1 It’s the stupid economy.

The year 2009 started off on bad momentum from the recession that ended 2008.

It was a bad year for the economy, which means it was a bad year for people.

Sadly, several retail businesses folded — including the largest downtown Port Angeles department store, Gottschalks, as part of a chain-wide bankruptcy.

Unemployment in Clallam, always sensitive, darted into the double-digits, food banks had record numbers of clients, and government services and jobs were slashed as both state and local governments struggled with declining revenue in 2009.

But 2010 starts with some bright spots on the horizon.

Many of them are on this Top 10 list, and projects now under way show up on next year’s Top 10 list.

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A dark saga of vampire tales brings sunshine to the West End. Sales receipts were up in Forks in 2009 because of tourism sparked by interest in the setting for Arizona writer Stephenie Meyer’s fournovel Twilight series about teen love, vampires and werewolves.

The best-selling books — Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn — and two movies based on the first two books,

Seattle-based nonprofit advocacy group for terminally ill patients which announced her death.

Fleming died at her Mrs. Fleming Sequim apartment with her daughter, her beloved dog, a Chihuahua named Seri, and her physician at her bedside.

“The pain became unbearable, and it was only going to get worse,” Fleming’s statement said.

“I am a very spiritual person, and it was very important to me to be conscious, clear-minded and alert at the time of my death.”

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Ken Porter, manager of the Port Angeles Gottschalks department store, is shown shortly after learning that the store chain will be liquidated. drew thousands of tourists to Forks.

Not only was the second movie, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” a blockbuster which has brought in a whopping $276.5 million domestically and $636.7

million worldwide, the craze brought a 48 percent increase in lodging tax revenues for Forks alone.

Businesses in LaPush and Port Angeles, which also figure prominently as settings in the books and movies, also are enjoying brisk business.

Expect more: The next movie in the saga is due for release in June.

Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

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Sequim woman first to use state’s assisted suicide law. In one of the more emotional stories on the The new PenPly begins North Olympic Peninsula in to bloom on the Port Angeles waterfront. Res- 2009, a terminally ill Sequim woman became the first person urrecting a legendary employer name in Port Angeles, Peninsula in the state to die under the Plywood began accepting applica- assisted suicide law was passed by voters in November 2008 and tions for 105 jobs at the shuttook effect in March. tered plywood mill on Marine Linda Fleming, 66, took her Drive.

The employees, who will be own life with a deadly prescrippaid wages ranging from $12 per tion of barbiturates prescribed hour to $30 per hour, could be at under Initiative 1000, also work as early as mid-January, known as the “Death with Digsaid PenPly president Josh Ren- nity” law. shaw.

Fleming was diagnosed last As 2009 came to a close, Ren- month with late-stage 4 pancreshaw said the company already atic cancer, according to Compasemployed 24 full-time staff mem- sion & Choices of Washington, a

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Young fans of the Twilight saga cross Division Street en route from the Dazzled by Twilight store to Chinook Pharmacy during Stephenie Meyer Day last summer.

bers, mostly administrators, and 15 temporary employees.

Renshaw’s plans are for the mill to produce about 1.8 million board feet of plywood per month, at first. The company’s goal is to eventually reach 5 million board feet monthly, with about 185 employees on the payroll.

Everybody into the pool.

Following a remarkable grass-roots campaign to save William Shore Memorial Pool in Port Angeles, voters by a 2-to-1 landslide approved creation of a new government agency to fund and oversee the former municipal plunge.

The new park district now taxes property owners in the city and unincorporated territory surrounding the city, parallel to school district boundaries.

The City Council said the city could no longer afford the pool’s $450,000 annual expenses and had set a timetable to close the indoor facility on Fifth Street — which would have happened had voters decided the other way.

Krista Winn, who led the Save the Pool PA campaign, said about 100 volunteers and more than 300 donors helped her with the election drive.

“I am proud of our community for taking a stance and showing that the pool is a valued part of our lives,” Winn said on election night.

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You got the Sequim city manager job . . . uh, just a minute, please. Vernon Stoner seemed like the ideal candidate to fill the Sequim city manager post vacant for more than a year — after a City Council majority fired the previous manager.

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Top 10 Clallam County stories of 2009/continued Not only had he managed cities larger than Sequim, he held other impressive jobs — including the No. 2 position to the state insurStoner ance commissioner.

The City Council offered the $120,000-a-year position in September, then withdrew it after a Peninsula Daily News investigation revealed that Stoner was fired by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on June 15, and was named in a sexual harassment claim by his executive assistant there.

The state of Washington settled the woman’s claim with a payout of $50,000 on Aug. 31.

None of this had been told to the council, either by Stoner or the recruiting firm that the city had hired for $20,000 to find qualified city manager candidates.

“I wish the council well. That’s it,” Stoner said.

Finally, on Oct. 19, nearly 1½ years after the City Council abruptly fired former manager Bill Elliott, Steve Burkett of Edmonds began work as Sequim’s permanent city manager.

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The (new) bridges of Clallam County. The year 2009 might be remembered as the year of the bridges on the North Olympic Peninsula.

The biggest project was the nearly half-billion-dollar eastern half replacement of the Hood Canal Bridge (see Jefferson County highlights).

But Clallam and Port Angeles received three new and expensive spans that replaced rickety predecessors, including one that was condemned.

Two concrete bridges over Eighth Street in Port Angeles were opened Feb. 24 after drivers had to detour across the city for about 18 months.

The twin bridges project — which cost $21.6 million in state Department of Transportation grants and $3 million in city

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Pedestrians try out the Olympic Discovery Trail span hanging beneath the road deck of the new Elwha River bridge on opening day in September.

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Traffic flows over Tumwater and Valley creeks in Port Angeles for the first time in 18 months as the Eighth Street bridges are opened in February. funds — was expected to be finished in November 2008, but wet weather delayed the application of a sealant into 2009.

Port Angeles officials finally opened the bridges to traffic Feb. 24 and finished the sealing work in June.

They span two 100-foot gorges — Valley Creek and Tumwater Creek.

In September, an eye-catching, double-deck span that carries the Olympic Discovery Trail hanging beneath an 85-foot-high automobile deck, was dedicated over the Elwha River.

The $19.7 million, 589-foot bridge — funded through a variety of federal, state, county and

Lower Elwha Klallam tribal sources — replaced a rickety steel bridge that served the region from 1914 until 2007, when the old bridge was condemned.

It instantly became a popular venue for the weekly Port Angeles Farmers Market, a street fair commemorating the premiere of a “Twilight” movie and the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival in October.

The opening indirectly spurred a pride-in-downtown effort that included the painting of many commercial buildings and other beautification projects done by volunteers through business donations and discounts.

Entering into 2010, The Gateway still isn’t finished behind the scenes.

The city of Port Angeles and Clallam Transit remained locked in a dispute with the contractor and architectural firm over costs related to the construction delays.

As of mid-December, The Gateway has cost $15.36 million, according to the city. About $8.1 million came from state and federal sources, $500,000 from Clallam Transit and about $6.76 million from the city.

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Sequim continues to grow and invest. Despite the recession, developers continued building and investing The Gateway’s gate in the Sequim and Dungeness opens — finally. The opening of the multimillion- Valley during 2009.

Chief among them: A Holiday dollar Gateway bus transportaInn Express and conference cention center at Front and Lincoln streets wouldn’t take a 2009 Top ter, an IHOP restaurant and a 10 position — it was supposed to major face lift of the Town Square at Sequim’s central interbe a 2008 story.

The bus station and large cov- section.

Construction of the nearly ered pavilion, delayed because of 35,000-square-foot Jamestown a wall construction problem in the underground parking garage, Medical Clinic alongside the Olympic Medical Cancer Center finally opened in April.

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got under way, as did Olympic Theatre Arts’ $1.6 million stage and playhouse renovation project.

And in November, Sequim voters — recognizing the sales tax revenues that result from the town’s growth — approved a twotenths-of-a-cent increase in the sales tax to help pay for street improvements.

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A teenage tragedy. A grisly discovery unfolded around New Year’s 2009: A 16-year-old girl, impregnated by a man more than twice her age when she lived in Colorado, allegedly drowned her newborn infant in a toilet and disposed of the body in a trash bin at her father’s Port Angeles home.

The death occurred Dec. 30, 2008, but authorities didn’t recover the child’s body until Jan. 5 — from a 30-ton trash bin in Tacoma.

Port Angeles’ trash is hauled from a west-side transfer station to Tacoma for eventual disposal in Eastern Oregon.

Lauryn L. Last, now 17, is scheduled to be tried as an adult for first-degree murder later this month.

Defense attorneys have argued that Last didn’t know she was in labor and that she went into shock after giving birth.

Meanwhile, the father, Gregory Greenway, 37, of Pueblo, Colo., was convicted last month of criminal attempt to commit sexual assault on a child.

In a plea deal, he received a four-year prison sentence instead of life under the original charges.

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2009 Year in Review/Clallam County

Friday, January 1, 2010

Peninsula Daily News

Top 10 Jefferson County stories of 2009

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Hood Canal Bridge opens, and closes — and opens and closes. During a nearly $500 million replacement of the east half of the Hood Canal Bridge, the floating bridge — the lifeline between the North Olympic Peninsula to Seattle and points east — was out of service from May 1 to June 3.

Jefferson, Clallam and Kitsap representatives on June 6 gathered at Salsbury Point County Park on the Kitsap side of Hood Canal Bridge.

State Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond lauded the project, noting that the bridge was wider for the many bicyclists who rode across the new east

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The light at the end of the ferry route. Work began on the first of two 64-car ferries for the Port Townsend-Keystone route, which has depended on the 50-car Steilacoom II leased from Pierce County for one-ferry service since early 2008.

The long-working, and rusty, Steel Electric class of Washington State Ferries were banished from the route just before Thanksgiving 2007.

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Even more shocking was the discovery by investigators that the Yarrs had been killed before the fire, which was intentionally Pierce set.

The investigators said bullet Tragedy in Quilcene: casings were found on the ground Was the fire a cover-up? near the couple’s bodies.

The farmhouse on Boulton Michael J. Pierce, 34, was Farm Road was home to members arrested March 23 and has of a historic family in Quilcene. pleaded not guilty to two counts So the March 18 fire which destroyed it with Patrick and Jan- of first-degree murder. Pierce ice Yarr inside was a shock to the also is charged with robbery, bur-

And that doesn’t count the unannounced marine openings — usually for nuclear powered Navy submarines — that halt vehicles for 40 minutes to an hour, or the overnight work that can stop the flow of traffic for up to 90 minutes.

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Now conspicuously missing is the bulge portion of the old draw span, which a Canadian company towed away to Vancouver Island with the rest of the 1961 east half for reuse in a marina or pier.

For the record: The bridge officially reopened to the public at 10:18 p.m. June 3.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

Since then, western-half retrofit and testing has disrupted traffic. Ballast testing was originally expected to be finished in December, but since has been extended to the middle of this month.

Until then, scheduled daytime drawspan openings stop traffic for up to 40 minutes each time.

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Top 10 Jefferson County stories of 2009/continued They were sold for scrap and towed to Mexico last August.

In January, Todd Pacific Shipyards, awarded a $65.5 million contract, began construction on the first 750-passenger ferry to be named Chetzemoka in honor of the revered Klallam chief who is buried in Port Townsend.

If all goes well, the Chetzemoka will be launched in August — an event that will be a likely candidate for this Top 10 list a year from now.

Todd Pacific is expected to begin construction on the second 64-car ferry this month after being the lone bidder and winning the $67.5 million contract.

That ferry is expected to be com-

with 10 fewer staff positions and all county departments cutting more than a combined $1 million in expenses.

County Morley Administrator Phil Morley, who focused most of his first year as the county’s chief executive on cutting county costs, had no The budget ax falls. It other choice but to enlist county was another year of ecodepartment heads to help him nomic fallout in Jefferson County, ending with county com- leave vacant positions unfilled or restoring to layoffs and county missioners in December approving a $52.8 million overall budget service reductions.

pleted in summer 2011.

Meanwhile, the Steilacoom II, not built for the harsh waves and currents of Admiralty Inlet, sometimes is docked for repairs or simply to wait out the weather.

State Ferries has used it to experiment with a reservation system — successfully enough that the agency will expand the RSVP system to other routes on Puget Sound in 2010.

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The county Sheriff’s Office eliminated its undersheriff position, a deputy, a corrections officer and an almost full-time data entry clerk.

But it added staffing fully funded by grant and contraction positions, including a community policing officer paid by federal stimulus dollars and a West End deputy paid by the Hoh tribe on contract. A sheriff’s clerk was hired through a state grant for 2010.

In October, Washington State University Cooperative Extension, which the county contracts for economic development and other services, reduced staffing and closed Fridays.

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Morley warned that more cuts were likely during 2010.

After laying off three in 2009, the county Department of Community Development in 2010 plans a staff reduction of 3.8 fulltime-equivalent positions. The department cut staff by eight in December 2008 and laid off three more in August 2009, the result of few building permits and flagging revenues.

Other hits to the county budget included Public Health, which closed Environmental Health on Fridays, cut Public Health nurse support to many mothers of newborns and cut family planning clinics by one day a week.

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PUD takes first steps toward power authority.

Jefferson County Public Utility District and Puget Sound Energy went behind closed doors starting in June to privately negotiate PUD’s possible takeover PSE’s power system in East Jefferson County.

The PUD was acting on legal authority given to it by voters in November 2008 for a PUD-operated, community-owned electric service.

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The 11,000-square-foot building is about half of the $12.8 million center at the end of Water Street, overlooking Point Hudson Marina and Port Townsend Bay. The Chandler Education Building proved to be a popular features of the 33-year-old Wooden Boat Festival, with new boat-building space and classrooms for youths.

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Those behind construction of the Northwest Maritime Center’s Chandler Maritime Education Building threw its doors open Sept. 10 with praise to the many who helped build it, a ceremonial untying of boat rope knots and a resounding cannon blast.

Addressing about 200 gathered at the end of Water Street, Maritime Center Executive Director Stan Cummings recalled conversations with Carlsborgbased Primo Construction workers building the maritime center who he said called it a “once in a lifetime experience” of building

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Top 10 Jefferson County stories of 2009/continued Officials with both entities say they hope for a smooth transition from PSE to PUD electric service in Jefferson County should PUD’s elected commissioners decide to strike a deal.

The decision was somewhat sidetracked by the November death of District 1 PUD Commissioner Dana Roberts.

Remaining PUD commissioners Wayne King of Gardiner and Ken McMillen of Kala Point have until mid-month to appoint Roberts’ successor to finish his term which ends Dec. 31, 2010.

PUD now serves more than 4,000 water and septic community septic system customers.

PSE has served East Jefferson

County for more than 100 years and has about 17,900 power customers.

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It begins this year as a complex of public and nonprofit offices bolstered by Port Townsend’s police headquarters.

An interesting transaction between the Port Townsend School Board and City Council converted Mountain View into a new home for police and other functions while reducing the

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dispute over jurisdiction in Brinnon.

It stems from an Oct. 3 incident in which three Brinnon hunters, all legally licensed an on private land with permission, were detained by law enforcement agents of the tribe’s natural resources department after one of the hunters killed an elk.

Brinnon, of course, is in Jefferson County — across Hood Canal and many miles from the Port A case of disputed juris- Gamble reservation based in diction. In the highestnorth Kitsap County. profile case involving tribal The tribal officers said they jurisdiction in East Jefferson thought the elk might have been County in many years, Jefferson poached on the tribe’s “usual and and Port Gamble S’Klallam accustomed” grounds where tribal authorities enter 2010 in a hunting was prohibited.

developed in Port Townsend — not to mention the town pool and a recreational gym?

“It’s absolutely awesome to see them here,” said Daily, whose office and department shares a space next to the YMCA. “If you want to define ‘community oriented policing,’ come down and take a look at this — because this is it.”

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financially strapped school district’s financial burden.

By the end of 2009, Mountain View has become a real Daily community center, says Police Chief Connor Daily, a big advocate of people-based community policing.

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Top 10 Jefferson County stories of 2009/continued State Department of Fish and Wildlife investigators determine that the elk was legally shot and that the hunters were Dalzell not trespassing at the time of the hunt or in subsequently retrieving the elk.

Also, a timeline prepared by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates that the hunters were detained and handcuffed for approximately 44 minutes as tribal officers investi-

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gated the situation.

One of the hunter’s 2-year-old son watched his father cuffed and detained, a bone of contention among the complaining hunters.

Jefferson County Sheriff Tony Hernandez has said the tribe was out of its jurisdiction in Brinnon.

And Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Juelie Dalzell said she has not decided if her office will file charges in the case.

“All the investigating agencies have it, but it will still be awhile before I make a decision as far as charging goes,” she said in November.

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A burning boat and a dramatic rescue. The crew of the Kemo Sabay, a well-known 65-foot shrimp boat out of Port Townsend, hung on for dear life as the boat burned for hours in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off Protection Island on July 29.

A propane leak had exploded and started the fire.

Skipper Dorsey Moody and deckhands Corey Meehan and Tyler Westlund were hanging onto the hull when a fisherman on a smaller boat spotted the flames and came to their rescue.

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position. He said the fire consuming the Kemo Sabay was so hot it burned a hole in the canvas covering his boat during the rescue.

“They were still in all their fishing gear,” Sutherland said of the three he rescued.

“They would have gone straight to the bottom. Thank God we were around.”

A series of protests came to an unexpected climax in July when pickets at a bus stop in Discovery Bay watched Border Patrol officers board two Seattle-bound vans to check nationalities of those aboard.

There were no physical incidents, but a lot of picketing and vocal opposition.

“Shame on you,” one woman yelled.

Border enforceThe agents smiled and kept ment in Jefferson County. Although the doing their jobs.

One lone Border Patrol supNorth Olympic Peninsula contingent of U.S. Border Patrol officers porter among the pickets — a man from Sequim — had his own is based in Port Angeles, a consign and he yelled out: “Thank siderable amount of operations you for doing your job, Border — and opposition — occurred in East Jefferson County in 2009.

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By Paul Queary

The Associated Press

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he savage early morning killings of four Lakewood police officers gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was voted the top Washington state story of 2009 by editors of the state’s daily newspapers [including the Peninsula Daily News].

The massacre on the Sunday after Thanksgiving and the subsequent manhunt for the killer dominated headlines here and around the country until Maurice Clemmons, a parolee from Arkansas with a history of violence, was shot to death by a Seattle patrolman fewer than 48 hours later.

Bloody two months The Lakewood killings marked the worst of a bloody two months for police in Washington state.

The shooting of a Seattle police officer on Halloween night was voted No. 7.

On Dec. 21, two Pierce County deputies were badly wounded while responding to a domestic violence complaint near Eatonville, a story that broke too late to make the ballot.

The killings drove home the fundamental danger of police work, even at seemingly safe times.

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Top 10 Washington state stories of 2009/continued “What we are not trained for is people that are ambushing us,” Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said after the most recent shootings.

“We now know it’s going to be part of the job.”

The Top 10 Washington state stories of 2009 as determined in a poll of the state’s newspaper editors and news directors:

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Backers of Referendum 71, the anti-domestic partners measure on the November ballot, stand near a large screen posting early statewide returns Election Night in Seattle.

Among yellow counties eventually voting down the measure were Clallam and Jefferson.

The law enforcement community mourns. The Lakewood slayings dominated the voting, however, testament to the story’s drama and heart-wrenching consequences.

The four officers, apparently chosen at random by the killer simply because they were in a coffee shop frequented by police, were attacked as they caught up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts.

Together, Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold and Greg Richards left nine children behind.

Richards managed to wound his killer.

Over the next two days, a network of relatives and friends helped Clemmons evade a massive manhunt, bandaging him with duct tape and providing him with transportation and shelter, police said.

The hunt ended when a lone Seattle police officer stopped to investigate a stolen car and found himself face-to-face with Clemmons.

The patrolman opened fire, killing Clemmons before he could draw a weapon taken from one of the slain officers, police said

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Domestic partnerships for the 21st century. Earlier in the year, opponents of gay marriage forced a statewide vote on the state’s new “everything-but-marriage” law expanding rights for gay couples.

The referendum narrowly qualified for the ballot, sparking a hard-fought campaigns.

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Top 10 Washington state stories of 2009/continued In the end, strong support from liberal areas including King County swamped opposition in Eastern Washington and other conservative parts of the state.

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Joblessness spreads its stain. Ranking third on the top stories list was the growth of unemployment as the nationwide economic meltdown finally caught up with Washington.

The state shed tens of thousands of jobs and the unemployment rate climbed above 9 percent by late summer.

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Ken Griffey Jr., perhaps the most beloved Seattle Mariner of them all, returned in 2009.

So long, P-I: News from the newspaper industry itself ranked fourth: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its final paper edition on March 17 after 146 years.

Most of the newspaper’s reporters and editors were laid off while a comparative handful remained to publish online only.

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The Dreamliner takes flight. The Boeing Co. made plenty of headlines this year as it continued to struggle with the production and launch of its new 787 jetliner.

In October, the company confirmed one of the region’s worst fears when it decided to build its second 787 production line in South Carolina.

In better news, the 787 made its maiden flights last month [with much of the route over the North Olympic Peninsula].

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So bad, she doesn’t like it. Gregoire’s budget proposal for next year made big headlines.

It ranked No. 6 not just for the deep cuts she was required to propose in offering a balanced budget, but because she immediately disowned the plan and pledged to seek tax increases when the Legislature convenes in 2010.

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Halloween night horror.

Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, 39, was fatally shot as he sat in a patrol car Halloween night.

Officer Britt Sweeney, 33, escaped serious injury in the attack.

As Brenton’s memorial service ended a few days later, Seattle police Brenton shot and arrested Christopher Monfort.

Paralyzed from the waist down, Monfort, 41, is charged with aggravated murder.

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When pigs fly over Washington state. The deadly toll of the swine flu was the No. 8 story of the year as more than 60 people died after the disease took hold in the state in September.

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The fountain of youth.

The return of Ken Griffey Jr. to the Seattle Mariners ranked No. 9.

Although slowed by age and injury, Griffey remained a big draw for fans, and his leadership helped the team go 85-77 after its disastrous 2008 season.

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The day the earth moved. Rounding out the Top 10 was the landslide that shoved a quartermile of State Highway 410 into the Naches River in early October.

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Bottom 7 Washington state stories of 2009 EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the annual features of this review of the previous year is Associated Press correspondent Nicholas K. Geranios’ irreverent look at the Bottom 7 around Washington state.

Here are his “lowlights of 2009”:

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Steamier espresso. Lewd behavior by some racy coffee steamers in the Everett area prompted the Snohomish County Council to demand that such espresso stands register as adult entertainment venues.

That was after five baristas were arrested for prostitution for charging customers up to $90 to

By Nicholas K. Geranios touch their breasts and buttocks The Associated Press at one stand.

Meanwhile, the Yakima City Scandal reared its busty Council cracked down on barely bosom across Washington in clad baristas by passing a law 2009, as scantily-clad baristas made news from Everett to Belle- that prohibited “cleavage of the buttocks,” see-through clothing or vue to Spokane. a G-string in any public busiMany communities grappled nesses. with complaints filed by citizens In Spokane, the employees of who were not amused by the Busty’s Top Espresso saw a spike antics of buxom baristas who in business when they began prepared lattes and mochas while wearing a bikini — or less. wearing bikini tops in the spring.

The manager said they used The resulting conflicts were to get 20 customers per day, but among the major lowlights of now get 20 customers every cou2009, proving the Evergreen State takes a backseat to nobody ple of hours. in the category of public embarAbout 95 percent of the cusrassment. tomers are men.

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Mr. Miyagi, we have a problem: In November, a man who thought he was a ninja was impaled on a metal fence in Seattle when he tried to leap over it.

The man insisted to police that he was simply a martial artist trying to perfect his craft.

Officers said the man was “overconfident in his abilities,” and that alcohol likely played a role.

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When a parent conference just doesn’t do: A kindergarten teacher in the West Valley School District near Yakima was reprimanded in May for sending a 5-year-old student home with a bag of feces in his backpack.

The boy’s father said his son came home with the plastic bag of feces and a sticky note that read, “This little turd was found on the floor in my room.”

The boy was moved out of teacher Sue Graham’s classroom.

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The owner said the 11-yearold black Labrador retriever mix named Jack was “just stoned.”

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’Scuze me while I kiss the wrecking ball. A small home associated with guitar legend Jimi Hendrix was dismantled in March after preservation efforts failed.

Hendrix lived in the house in Seattle from age 10 to 13 in the 1950s, and it was the first real home the struggling family had.

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Like a rock. In May, state troopers arrested a couple suspected of damaging at least 14 vehicles by throwing rocks onto them from a trestle over Interstate 5 near Lakewood.

Troopers said Joshua N. Sizemore, 23, and Amanda L. Madison, 18, were tossing baseball-sized rocks. Madison was in

her underwear when arrested.

Investigators say the couple was playing a game in which Madison would shed a layer of clothes for every left headlight they busted. The same rule applied to Sizemore and right headlights.

The game caused no major injuries.

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In plain sight. Fugitive Maxi Sopo was having such a good time while hiding in Cancun that he started posting Facebook updates.

“LIFE IS VERY SIMPLE REALLY!!!!” Sopo wrote on June 21. “BUT SOME OF US HUMANS MAKE A MESS OF IT . . . REMEMBER AM JUST HERE TO HAVE FUN PARTEEEEEEE.” The posting was read by federal investigators, and Sopo’s fun came to an end.

He was arrested by Mexican authorities on a warrant for defrauding banks in the Seattle area.

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Top 10 nation/world stories of 2009

By David Crary

The Associated Press

The convoluted American economy — restoring windfalls to a lucky few while leaving millions jobless and distraught — was the top news story of 2009, followed closely by the inauguration of President Barack Obama, according to U.S. editors and news directors voting in The Associated Press’ annual poll.

The economy, which has superseded other issues as Americans’ No. 1 concern, received 61 first-place votes out of 117 ballots cast for the top 10 stories.

[The Peninsula Daily News participated in the poll.]

Here are 2009’s top 10 stories of the nation and world as voted by the U.S. editors and news directors:

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Economic tough times.

Despite a $787 billion federal stimulus package, much of the U.S. economy continued to sputter throughout the year.

The jobless rate topped 10 percent, scores of banks failed, the federal deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion, and stocks fell to their lowest levels since 1997 before rallying.

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A new White House occupant. Inauguration Day in January was a moving moment for many Americans, as the nation’s first black president took the oath of office.

But Obama soon confronted the sobering realities of governing as he struggled to get the economy back on track and win support for his ambitious legislative priorities.

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Top 10 nation/world stories of 2009/continued His decision was complicated by the disputed Afghan election, which prompted allegations of widespread fraud but resulted in President Hamid Karzai taking office for a second five-year term.

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The “King of Pop’s” last dance. Michael Jackson died at the age of 50, triggering grief and nostalgia among his legions of fans around the world.

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Rampage at an Army fort. An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, was accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, a sprawling military base in Texas, before being seriously wounded by police gun fire.

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Though his own presidential aspirations were thwarted, he earned bipartisan respect for decades of hard work in the Senate.

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Miracle on the Hudson River. A US Airways passenger jet, both its engines disabled, made an emergency ditching in The last Kennedy the Hudson River, and all 155 on brother. Sen. Edward board survived in what was Kennedy, who carried on the family legacy after the deaths dubbed “The Miracle on the Hudson.” of his three older brothers, died The veteran pilot, Chesley of brain cancer after a distinctive Sullenberger, was hailed as a political career filled with highs and lows. hero for averting a disaster.

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Passings: Notable deaths of 2009 Kennedy Shriver, were born into America’s preOf all the notables who eminent political family died in 2009, the one who and spent decades living most changed the world up to its tradition of sercould have walked down vice. any Main Street USA withMichael Jackson helped out causing a stir. create his own family Scientist Norman Bordynasty, this one rooted in laug, who died Sept. 12 at show business, as the lead age 95, developed crops singer for The Jackson 5 that enabled Third World when he was just a child. farmers to wrest more food He grew up to become from their land. one of entertainment’s His “green revolution” most influential and conwas credited with averting troversial figures as the global famine — and won “King of Pop,” and his him a Nobel Peace Prize. death at age 50 was as Sen. Edward M. Kenmystifying as his life.

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Ricardo Montalban, 88. Actor in splashy MGM musicals; Mr. Roarke in “Fantasy Island.” Jan. 14.

Andrew Wyeth, 91. Artist whose portraits and landscapes combined realism, modern melancholy. Jan. 16.

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Passings: Notable deaths of 2009/continued George Kell, 86. Hall of Fame third baseman; Tigers broadcaster.

March 24 John Hope Franklin, 94. Towering scholar of African-American studies. March 25.

Jack Dreyfus, 95. Mutual fund pioneer. March 27.

Raul Alfonsin, 82. Argentine president; guided return to democracy following dictatorship. March 31.

APRIL Dave Arneson, 61. Co-created Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game. April 7.

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Steve McNair, 36. Popular former Tennessee Titans quarterback. July 4. Shot to death.

Bela Kiraly, 97. A leader of Hungary’s short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956. July 4.

Robert S. McNamara, 93. Pentagon chief who directed escalation of Vietnam War despite private doubts. July 6.

Walter Cronkite, 92. Premier CBS-TV anchorman of networks’ golden age. July 17.

Frank McCourt, 78. He gained post-retirement fame, and a Pulitzer, for “Angela’s Ashes.” July 19.

Harry Patch, 111. Britain’s last survivor of the World War I trenches. July 25.

Merce Cunningham, 90.

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Farrah Fawcett, 62. 1970s sex symbol, star of “Charlie’s Angels.”

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Michael Jackson, 50. The “King of Pop.” June 25.

Billy Mays, 50. Burly, bearded television pitchman. June 28.

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Harve Presnell, 75. His booming baritone graced Broadway musicals (“The Unsinkable Molly Brown”). June 30.

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Koko Taylor, 80. Regal, powerful singer known as “Queen of the Blues.” June 3.

David Carradine, 72. Actor (“Kung Fu,” ‘’Kill Bill”). June 4.

Bernard Barker, 92. Ex-CIA operative, Watergate burglar. June 5.

Omar Bongo, 73. He ruled Gabon for 42 years, making him world’s longest-serving president.

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John Houghtaling, 92.

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Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, 57. She treated her breast cancer before dramatic rescue from South Pole in 1999. June 23. Recurrence of cancer.

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Dom DiMaggio, 92. Bespectacled Boston Red Sox center fielder; Joe’s brother. May 8.

Chuck Daly, 78. Hall of Fame basketball coach; led Dream Team to 1992 Olympic gold. May 9.

Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54.

Leader of Sri Lanka’s separatist Tamil Tigers, one of world’s deadliest insurgencies. May 17. Killed by government forces.

George Tiller, 67. Physician who performed later-term abortions at his Kansas clinic, making him focus of protests. May 31.

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Millvina Dean, 97. Last survivor of Titanic sinking; was nine weeks old. May 31.

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ning cinematographer famed for innovative use of Technicolor (“The Red Shoes”). April 22.

Bea Arthur, 86. Her sharp delivery propelled “Maude,” ‘’The Golden Girls”; won Tony for “Mame.” April 25.

Venetia Phair, 90. As schoolgirl interested in mythology, she suggested name for the planet Pluto. April 30.

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Passings: Notable deaths of 2009/continued AUGUST Corazon Aquino, 76. Former Philippines president who swept away a dictator with 1986 “people power” revolt. Aug. 1.

Naomi Sims, 61. Pioneering black model of the 1960s. Aug. 1.

Budd Schulberg, 95. Novelist (“What Makes Sammy Run?”) and Oscar-winning screenwriter (“On the Waterfront”). Aug. 5.

John Hughes, 59. Writer-director of youth-oriented comedies (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” ‘’Home Alone”). Aug. 6. Heart attack.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88.

Founded Special Olympics to bring new opportunities to mentally disabled. Aug. 11.

Les Paul, 94. Guitar virtuoso; invented solid-body electric guitar and multitrack recording. Aug. 13.

Kim Dae-jung, 85. Dissident

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Irving Penn, 92. Photographer famed for stark simplicity in portraits, fashion shots. Oct. 7.

William Wayne Justice, 89.

Federal judge in Texas; rulings reformed schools, prisons. Oct. 13.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70.

Spiritual leader of Church Universal and Triumphant, predicted nuclear Armageddon. Oct. 15.

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Francisco Ayala, 103. Spanish novelist, sociologist; in exile during Franco dictatorship. Nov. 3.

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Soupy Sales, 83. Rubberfaced comedian whose career was built on thousands of pies to the face. Oct. 22.

John O’Quinn, Flamboyant Texas lawyer; won billions in verdicts. Oct. 29.

Claude Levi-Strauss, 100.

French intellectual who was considered father of modern anthropology Oct. 30.

Michelle Triola Marvin, 76.

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Guillermo Endara, 73. Former Panamanian president, led country to democracy after ouster of Manuel Noriega. Sept. 28.

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Army Archerd, 87. His Daily Variety column kept tabs on Hollywood doings for more than a halfcentury. Sept. 8.

Jim Carroll, 60. Poet, punk rocker; wrote “The Basketball Diaries.” Sept. 11. Heart attack.

Larry Gelbart, 81. Slyly witty writer for stage and screen (“Tootsie,” ‘’M*A*S*H”). Sept. 11.

Gertrude Baines, 115. World’s oldest person. Sept. 11.

Norman Borlaug, 95. Iowa farmboy who became acclaimed scientist, developed a type of wheat that helped feed the world.

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Patrick Swayze, 57. Dancer

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Jody Powell, 65. President Jimmy Carter’s press secretary, top adviser. Sept. 14.

Melvin Simon, 82. Billionaire mall developer; owned Indiana Pacers. Sept. 16.

Mary Travers, 72. One-third of 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary (“If I Had a Hammer”). Sept.

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Irving Kristol, 89. Writer, editor known as godfather of neoconservatism. Sept. 18.

Susan Atkins, 61. Member of Charles Manson “family”; killed actress Sharon Tate. Sept. 24.

William Safire, 79. Pulitzerwinning New York Times columnist. Sept. 27.

Donald G. Fisher, 81. Co-

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who became South Korean president; won Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to reconcile with North Korea. Aug. 18.

Robert Novak, 78. Combative conservative pundit who loved “making life miserable for hypocritical, posturing politicians.” Aug. 18.

Don Hewitt, 86. TV news pioneer who created “60 Minutes,” produced it for 36 years. Aug. 19.

Stanley H. Kaplan, 90. His company helped young people boost college admissions test scores. Aug. 23.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, 77.

Senate’s liberal lion and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch. Aug. 25.

Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, 36.

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Notable deaths of 2009/continued Vitaly Ginzburg, 93. Nobelwinning Russian physicist, helped develop Soviet hydrogen bomb.

Nov. 8.

Abe Pollin, 85. Washington Wizards owner who brought an NBA championship to nation’s capital. Nov. 24.

DECEMBER Jack Pitchford, 82. Air Force fighter pilot; survived seven years in North Vietnam’s notorious “Hanoi Hilton.” Dec. 2.

Richard Todd, 90. Acclaimed British actor (“The Longest Day”).

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Paula Hawkins, 82. Former Florida senator, first woman elected to a full Senate term without family political connection.

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Thomas Hoving, 78. Former

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Paul Samuelson, 94. Economist who won a Nobel prize, helped shape JFK’s tax policy and wrote a textbook read by millions.

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Oral Roberts, 91. TV evangelist who built a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name. Dec. 15.

Jennifer Jones, 90. Oscarwinning actress (“The Song of Bernadette”). Dec. 17.

Connie Hines, 78. Played Wilbur’s wife on the popular 1960s television show “Mister Ed.” Dec. 18.

Grand Ayatolla Hossein Ali Montazeri, 87. The spiritual father of Iran’s reform movement. Dec. 20.

Brittany Murphy, 32. Actress

in “Clueless,” “8 Mile.” Dec. 20. Flulike symptoms.

Arnold Stang, 91. Actor known for his nerdy looks and distinctive nasal voice. Dec. 20.

James Gurley, 69. Lead guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame. Dec. 20.

George Michael, 70. Hosted “The George Michael Sports Machine” highlights show. Dec. 24.

Rafael Antonio Caldera, 93.

Two-time president who helped establish democracy in Venezuela and issued the pardon that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise to power. Dec. 24.

Knut Magne Haugland, 92.

The last of six crew members who crossed the Pacific Ocean on board the balsa wood raft KonTiki. Dec. 25

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