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2019 YEAR IN REVIEW

A look back at the people, events and stories that made headlines on the North Olympic Peninsula

A special supplement produced by Peninsula Daily News

Looking back on 2019

2019 YEAR IN REVIEW is a special supplement produced & published by Peninsula Daily News.

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As you read through these pages, think back to where you were during these stories.

How have they impacted you and your friends and family, and how are they still affecting you?

Many of these stories are nowhere near over, and our reporters and editors will be working hard this year to give our readers updates on these ongoing narratives.

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In Blyn, another hotel started its ascent, with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe breaking ground on the 7 Cedars Casino resort.

In Jefferson County, a hot debate regarding a shooting range began, and community members protested the aerial spraying of herbicides.

Port Townsend saw the debut of a new music festival, THING, which drew thousands to Fort Worden State Park.

In all this growth and community activism, the Peninsula also felt tremendous loss, with multiple deaths occurring throughout the year.

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lot can happen in just a year.

Within this special section, our team has recapped the major events that have passed on the North Olympic Peninsula.

In 2019, we saw a heck of a winter, with snow blanketing large parts of each county, causing school and business closures.

Port Angeles saw the beginnings of a few downtown developments, with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe tearing down a beloved restaurant to make way for a fourstory, multi-million-dollar hotel along with the site preparation for a waterfront arts and events hall.

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A PLETHORA OF HOMICIDES: Clallam County apparently broke some gruesome records in 2019, with two multiple murder cases in progress now and a total of 11 killed, counting three who died in late December 2018.

Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols told commissioners that according to the Death Penalty Project, a county the size of Clallam County will statistically have two to three murders per year.

The year began with the grisly discovery of three bodies on New Year’s Eve at 52 Bear Meadow Road in Port Angeles. Darrell Iverson, Jordan Iverson and Tiffany May each had been shot several times, including in the head.

Dennis M. Bauer, 50, Kallie Ann Letellier, 34, and Ryan Warren Ward, 37, are each charged with three counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the Dec. 26 shooting deaths.

Ward, who is being held in the Jefferson County jail, is scheduled to be tried on Feb. 3. Letellier’s trial is set for March 16.

Bauer, who has been in custody in Kitsap County, was set to be tried March 30 but

that date is likely to be reset.

Bail for Ward and Letellier is set at $3 million. Bauer’s bail is $3.5 million.

On Jan. 2, a Makah tribal member was found killed in her apartment in Sequim.

The killing of Valerie Claplanhoo, 57, has not been solved.

John R. Sutton, 25, is charged with vehicular homicide in the May 29 death of Lou M. Galgano, 27, after a fatal collision in Sequim that blocked U.S. Highway 101 for four hours.

Sutton is to be tried March 9.

An Oct. 5 trial date has been set for Matthew Timothy Wetherington, 35, on quadruple murder charges.

Wetherington, who remains in the Clallam County jail on $5 million bail, is accused of killing his wife and her three children July 6 and setting a fire to their residence at the Welcome Inn RV Park before fleeing the scene.

Valerie Kambeitz, 34, Lilly Kambeitz, 9, Emma Kambeitz, 6, and Jayden Kambeitz, 5, were killed.

In October, Shay Clinton Darrow, 30, was found not guilty by reason of insanity after he shot and killed his father, Clint

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On Dec. 1, a standout Forks athlete was killed at his home. Tristen LeeShawn James Pisani, 19, was a star in high school football and wrestling.

Phillip Z. Cowles, 17, was charged with first-degree murder with a firearm and was ordered held on $1 million bail in the county juvenile detention facility.

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SNOWMAGEDDON: A February storm dumped several feet of snow on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Although it dropped several inches of snow in East Jefferson County, Sequim and Port Angeles were hit the hardest.

Most everything ground to a halt after the largest snowstorm in recent memory socked the lowlands Feb. 9-10. Spotters reported six inches to three feet of snow in the Port Angeles and Sequim areas Feb. 10.

The massive snowfall riding the Fraser Outflow in British Columbia to the Peninsula caused power outages; closed schools and businesses; shut down government; prompted postponements of

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games, plays and other events; snarled highways with ice and wrecks, and kept many in their homes or unable to return to their homes because of impassable roads.

More storms quickly followed and ended up dropping as much as six feet of snow in the foothills.

Gov. Jay Inslee declared a statewide state of emergency.

Locals termed the snowfall “snowmageddon.”

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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW: New development got off the ground in Port Angeles in CLINIC 2019, making way for a CONTROVERSY: An announcement downtown building boom by the Peninsula Daily this year.

News in May of legislative The end results of funding of the Jamestown mammoth investments in S’Klallam Tribe’s Sequim multiple structures in medically-assisted downtown Port Angeles addiction treatment facility will be a waterfront that is for opioid addicts sparked just about unrecognizable controversy. to veteran residents once Save Our Sequim was all is completed. organized in opposition to Already under conthe facility, with members struction is the two-story, claiming the plans had $45 million Field Arts & been kept secret from them Event Hall on Front and and expressing fears that Oak streets.

JESSE MAJOR | FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS the clinic would attract The hall is part of a Wendy Goldberg, a member of Save Our Sequim, was first to speak when the thieves and homeless campus that also will Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe opened a meeting to questions and statements from the include a marine discovery people from other areas into a town some compared public Aug. 8, 2019, in Sequim. center housing the Feiro to Maybury, the wholesome Marine Life Center and Regional Methadone Clinic.” needed for opioid addicts in inside and out by 100 fictional site of the former national marine sanctuary cameras.

The clinic — planned for Clallam and Jefferson “Andy Griffith Show” on facilities, and a Longhouse counties who voluntarily The City Council has said activities building consome time with support television. seek services. that the facility was from Olympic Medical By late December, the structed by the Lower The facility is planned to planned in an area with Center, Jefferson group led by Jodi Wilke of Elwha Klallam Tribe. dispense daily doses of appropriate zoning near Healthcare and Peninsula Port Hadlock — who had The 1.6-acre Waterfront methadone, Suboxone and Costco at 526 and 521 S. Behavioral Health in run unsuccessfully for the Center parcel was purVivitrol in a closed, secure Ninth Ave., on the west side chased with Dorothy Field’s state Legislature in 2018 — response to an opioid of Sequim. It considered and $1.43 million donation. epidemic on the Peninsula setting, initially in a said it had 2,495 members 17,000-square-foot building rejected a survey on the — will not dispense only on its Facebook page, had Construction of the in the first phase. topic and a moratorium on methadone and it will not packed Sequim City 41,000-square-foot, 45-footA second phase, an permits.

Council meetings and other serve people from outside tall performance center is in-patient behavioral The tribe plans to apply Clallam and Jefferson events and had presented expected to be completed health facility, has not been for permits in 2020, counties, proponents say. the council with a petition May 2021. Equipment funded. officials said.

It will provide “wrapit said contained 2,600 would be installed and Tribal officials have said Construction is expected staff trained over the around” services of primary signatures demanding the to begin in the spring and care, dental, individual and that the clinic will be council take action. following three months, be completed by March group counseling, childcare staffed by three security Signs sprang up in and and the facility would open personnel and monitored 2021. around Sequim saying: “No and transportation if its doors by August 2021.

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Just a little east of that site, downtown Port Angeles had a changing of the guard with vintage businesses — Downtown Hotel, Cornerhouse Restaurant, Necessities & Temptations — and others removed to make way for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s four-star waterfront hotel on Railroad Avenue and Front Street.

As the year closed, work continued on the tribe’s environmental cleanup of the 0.65-acre East Front Street site, where a garage once housed an oil and gas company, and which the Port Angeles City Council declared surplus before selling.

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe plans to open the $20 million to $25 million, four-story, 86-room waterfront hotel at 110 E. Railroad Ave. and 111 E. Front St. by December 2023. It is slated to have a three-story garage, indoor and outdoor restaurants, a bar and meeting room.

Also planned is a six-story housing complex and retail center with a parking garage at 222 W. Front St., across from the waterfront center.

The privately funded project will include 62 to 72 housing units.

It will have a ground-level seafood restaurant and bar, retail space and 326 parking stalls below ground and in an adjoining parking structure west of the residential units.

Moving up from downtown, the William Shore Memorial Pool at 225 E. Fifth St. is undergoing a 10,000-square-foot expansion.

The $16.5 million renovation will add a children’s splash and play area, new locker rooms and a warm-water therapy pool.

Closed for renovation in May, it is expected to reopen in February.

Voters approved of the project by more than 70 percent in November 2017, allowing for local match money provided by the voters as well as the Clallam County Opportunity Fund. The debt load increase, which expanded the district’s debt capacity by $3.5 million up to $10 million, gave the green light to the project.

Nearby, Peninsula Behavioral Health opened its new youth services center in August.

The newly renovated $1.26 million facility features child-size drinking fountains, sinks and toilets, and has a new KEITH THORPE | PENINSULA DAILY NEWS playroom. The new playroom is designed John Wayne Marina, shown in March 2019, is being considered by the city of Sequim in a way that will allow kids to better for potential ownership transfer from the Port of Port Angeles. express themselves, officials said.

CMS CUTS: In early November, estimated at between $20 million and MARINA HAGGLING: Port of when a federal judge threw out a $30 million in the next 20 years, and so is Port Angeles officials are mulling Trump administration rule that looking for another responsible party. three concept proposals for the had cut $1.7 million from Olympic MediMany options were considered over future of John Wayne Marina of Sequim. cal Center’s budget, the government several years, including the Jamestown The port can’t afford the growing cost of S’Klallam Tribe and the city of Sequim decided to double down. maintenance for the 300-slip facility, In an effort to cut “unnecessary” considering bids for ownership. spending, the government decided to A public outcry against selling the slash payments by another 30 percent — facility — an objection shared by John a total of 60 percent — despite a federal Wayne Enterprises, which deeded the judge in September ruling in favor of property to the port in 1981 specifically for development of a public marina — led Olympic Medical Center (OMC) and other hospitals across the country that the to the port issuing a request for inforTrump administration did not have the mation for a long-term lease. Responding were the city of Sequim, Marsh Anderson authority to implement a rule that would have cost the hospital in Port Angeles and LLC and Safe Harbor Marinas.

Port commissioners said a solution may Sequim more than $47 million over the next decade. take months or even years.

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The fence effectively forced many of the homeless who had taken shelter under the roof of the structure over the bell to move elsewhere.

It is now opened only for special veterans ceremonies or for school groups or other interested people by request.

The fence includes two silhouettes of colonial soldiers with muskets and 13 stars standing for the original 13 colonies.

In November, then-Mayor Sissi Bruch raised concerns about the design of the fence, saying she had heard objections to the representations of solders with guns and wanted the City Council to discuss possible alternatives.

She said that symbols on the fence could represent what the veterans had KEITH THORPE | PENINSULA DAILY NEWS fought for, rather than the tools they used to defend democracy.

The silhouettes of a pair of Revolutionary War soldiers carrying period weapons The suggestion created an uproar, adorn a decorative gate protecting the Liberty Bell replica from vandals at Veterans drawing a packed audience at a council Memorial Park in Port Angeles on Nov. 5, 2019. meeting in early November and Bruch, On learning that the Centers for VETERANS PARK FENCE: The who had only three more meetings to Liberty Bell has been put in a Medicaid Services would repay the 2019 serve because she had not run for cage for its own protection. cuts, OMC confirmed that Medicare re-election, opted to pull her agenda item.

Port Angeles’ Liberty Bell — actually a claims paid by CMS as recently as Nov. 20 The council voted 3-3 on stripping Bruch 1976 replica of the original in Philadelphia of the mayor’s title. The motion failed for were done so without the 30 percent cut.

“Seeing these claims come through from — is the central structure of Veterans lack of a 4-2 majority.

Park adjacent to the Clallam County CMS as fully paid is exciting,” said OMC CEO Eric Lewis in a prepared statement. Courthouse on Lincoln Street in Port Angeles.

“However, it remains unclear to us if It was damaged by vandalism. Portions CMS intends to implement the additional of the wooden support structure were 30 percent of cuts as intended in its CY carved into and chipped away. The bell 2020 rule. It also remains uncertain if itself was marred by graffiti.

CMS intends to file a notice of appeal to A group of residents led by former Port this rule.

Angeles mayor Karen Rogers raised some “We appreciate all the community support to help reverse this policy and we $15,000 in donations to stop the destruction by building a fence. look forward to long term planning to The project was approved by the Port expand our Sequim campus,” Lewis said.

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JAMESTOWN HOTEL: Ground was broken at the end of February for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s long-awaited $39 million resort and casino expansion at 7 Cedars Casino.

The first of a three-phase project, according to W. Ron Allen — Tribal Council chairman and CEO — includes 100 rooms of an overall expansion to the casino’s west side.

It is planned to be a five-story resort with each floor featuring a different element — water, land, trees and sky — with mini, executive and business suites to go along with standard rooms.

The bottom floor will house a large lobby, coffee bar and administrative offices, as well as conference, meeting and banquet spaces.

Once the hotel is built, the casino, which now is open from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day, will be open 24 hours a day, as will Napoli’s restaurant in the casino, which will provide room service.

As part of Phase 2 of the project, a parking garage is planned behind the hotel to be less visible from the highway.

Phase 2 will be considered after three years of hotel operations.

“The second phase will definitely be a lot more than $39 million,” Allen said.

The grand opening of the resort hotel is slated for spring 2020.

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FREDS GUNS BURGLARY: One of the most notable, memorable and ongoing stories to hit the North Olympic Peninsula in 2019 was the FREDS Guns break-in and theft.

In April, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began investigating after someone stole an agricultural loader, plowed it through the front of FREDS Guns in Sequim and stole upwards of 20-30 handguns and ammunition.

FREDS Guns owner Seth Larson called it an “audacious criminal act,” adding that whoever did it tried to tear down his building.

Later that month, Larson said he would offer a $5,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to an “expedient” arrest of the thief.

In May, Larson released the security footage showing the front loader driving through the front of the store before a man stuffs a duffel bag with about 30 guns.

On May 3, the Peninsula Daily News reported that law enforcement arrested a man for investigation of firearms and drug charges who told them he bought and sold a gun with a price tag on it from FREDS Guns. Soon after, charges were filed against Isaiah A. Hylton, 20, in Clallam County Superior Court for first-degree unlawful

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But, authorities said, Hylton was not a suspect in the FREDS Guns break-in.

Toward the end of May, a man whose DNA and fingerprints were found after the April 13 FREDS Guns burglary was ordered held in the Clallam County jail on $350,000 bail.

Joey A. Maillet, 38, was held in the Clallam County jail for investigation of first-degree burglary, 26 counts of theft of a firearm, theft of a motor vehicle and firstdegree malicious mischief. Federal agents also suspect he is linked to another vehicle-involved gun store burglary in Skagit County.

In August, Maillet pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he stole guns from FREDS Guns and a gun store in Bow. He pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to two counts of theft of a firearm from a federal firearms licensee, specifically for two guns — one from each store — that had been shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce.

The federal trial was moved from Oct. 15, 2019, to Feb. 24, 2020, to give the defense more time to prepare.

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MAKAH WHALE HUNTS: The Makah Tribe continued to request to resume subsistence whale hunting, creating controversy between those aiming to maintain cultural traditions and animal advocates.

The Makah Tribe has historically harvested stranded whales and also hunted whales, but hadn’t done so while the gray whales were considered endangered.

Under a 1998 whale-hunting quota issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Makah last hunted and killed an Eastern North Pacific gray whale in a sanctioned hunt May 17, 1999, sparking local protests and focusing an international news spotlight on the North Olympic Peninsula.

The tribe applied for a waiver application in 2005.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had announced its proposal to allow the Makah Tribe to hunt and harvest one to three gray whales annually over a 10-year period.

On Nov. 4, that recommendation was put to the test as a hearing began in Seattle to review arguments for and against the whale hunting proposal.

As of the end of the year, no decision had been made on the debate.

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Top stories of 2019 in Jefferson County

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SHOOTING RANGE DEBATE: County health and safety ordinances regarding commercial shooting facilities have been referred back to Jefferson County commissioners to review and modify.

The Growth Management Hearings Board ruled Sept. 16 that it has jurisdiction over ordinances Title 8 and Title 18, classifying them as land ordinances and deeming them invalid. It also ruled that the county failed to conduct a State Environmental Policy Act review for Title 8, in violation of state law RCW 43.21C.030.

The Tarboo Ridge Coalition — which opposes Joe D’Amico’s proposed 40-acre multi-purpose shooting facility near Tarboo Lake — filed the suit, asking the growth management board to review the ordinances.

The commissioners referred the ordinances to the county planning commission for suggestions and to receive public input, and the changes the planning commissioners recommended was to not allow any new outdoor shooting facilities.

Members of the coalition and of the Jefferson County Democrats are asking for more stringent regulations for outdoor shooting facilities, while D’Amico, gun rights activists and members of the Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Association want a clear and affordable pathway for building new facilities.

The county commissioners also filed an appeal against the Growth Board’s decision, believing they were denied due process, but are working on bringing the ordinances into compliance simultaneously.

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CITY MANAGER HIRED: Port Townsend City Council members replaced retiring David Timmons, who was hired as the city’s first manager in 1999, with John Mauro, a man who had ties to the Pacific Northwest but lived at the time in Auckland, New Zealand.

Mauro, 44, accepted the job with starting annual wages of $156,000 in July, and started work Nov. 1.

He previously served as the chief sustainability officer for the Auckland Council and worked as a climate policy analyst for the city of Seattle from 2005 to 2007. Four years later, he was the director of policy, planning and government affairs for the Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle.

Mauro’s hiring was the result of a months-long city process that involved community meetings and a questionnaire to identify residents’ desired traits in a new leader, plus a city-hired consultant who used that profile and narrowed a list of qualified candidates to four.

Prior to his first day on the job, Mauro said some of his priorities include planning, sustainability and affordable housing.

“Obviously a community isn’t a growing community if it’s exclusionary,” he said.

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GLYPHOSATE PROTEST: About two dozen people protested the aerial spraying of herbicides in August after a low-flying helicopter applied chemicals just south of Anderson Lake Road near state Highway 20.

The protest was in response to Pope Resources’ hiring of a contractor to apply the herbicide, which contained the active ingredient of glyphosate, on timberland it maintains.

Protesters claimed the chemicals were getting into City Lake, the reservoir near Anderson Lake Road that supplies drinking water to Port Townsend.

They spoke during public comment periods before both the Jefferson County commissioners and the Port Townsend City Council, and both government bodies sent letters to Pope Resources and the state agencies that approved the applications to ask for it to be put on hold.

Adrian Miller, the vice president for corporate affairs and administration for Pope Resources, said the company uses a variety of tools to ensure the chemicals do not get into the water.

The city later confirmed in two separate tests that its water system was clean.

provided Bramson a lethal dose of heroin in his home on March 27, 2019.

Bramson was 43.

Superior Court Judge Keith Harper denied a motion in October to suppress certain evidence from a trial.

Defense attorney Richard Davies of Jefferson Associated Counsel unsuccessfully argued that Port Townsend police officers illegally seized Kelly’s home in the 1400 block of 12th Street, and information they gained after the seizure should not be allowed to be presented before a jury.

Harper said it was “sort of a close call,” but he ruled probable cause did exist to seize Kelly’s house.

A trial is not currently scheduled.

Kelly’s next court date is set for a status hearing at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 28.

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ANIMAL CRUELTY CONVICTION: A jury convicted a Chimacum bison farmer of eight counts of first-degree animal cruelty, but his defense attorney is filing an appeal.

BRIAN MCCLEAN | PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Denver Lee Shoop, 74, was found guilty Bison stand in a pasture at Center Valley Animal Rescue in Quilcene on Sept. 26, in October and sentenced in November to 2019, as workers attempted to entice them into an alleyway and into the back of a time he already served with no additional trailer for transport. jail time.

It was the second animal cruelty trial of Voters approved the second step in CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES the year for Shoop after the first ended August — for the fire board to expand HOMICIDE: A Port Townsend with a hung jury in February.

EJFR EXPANSION: East from three members to five — and then man was arrested and charged Each Class C felony conviction could Jefferson Fire-Rescue expanded voters approved each of the positions in with controlled substances homicide and both in service territory and with November to come from a specified several drug-related offenses following the have resulted in a maximum of five years the number of elected positions on its in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. geographic boundary within the fire death of a well-known local musician. board.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Julie St. district.

Adam Michael Kelly, 38, remained early Voters approved ballot measures three Marie presented the state’s case, which Two of those board positions will now this year in the Jefferson County Jail in separate times, starting in February when come from within city limits, and the focused on the emaciated condition of the lieu of $500,000 bond. the city of Port Townsend was annexed bison and a reported lack of hay for them board is currently seeking applications.

Controlled substances homicide is a into the fire district.

Outside of the city, EJFR provides fire Class B felony punishable by a maximum to eat.

East Jefferson Fire-Rescue (EJFR) Defense attorney Jack Range of and emergency medical services to the of 10 years in jail and/or a $20,000 fine. previously served the city under a unincorporated communities of Cape Jefferson Associated Counsel focused on The charges stem from the death of Jarrod Bramson, half of the Port contract, and the city had a representative George, Port Hadlock, Irondale, other possible factors that could have led Chimacum, Kala Point and Marrowstone Townsend music duo The Solvents. participate without the ability to vote in to the animals’ condition, including Island.

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Range’s argument in his appeal is that the state did not specify one of the alternative means of firstdegree animal cruelty in its instructions to the jury, so

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The $13.4 million project is expected to be completed by this summer.

Makers Square will be a new creative district at Fort Worden that will allow artists, craftsmen and makers to create, collaborate, educate and connect with new audiences in one centralized location.

To date, the PDA has raised more than $12.1 million — 90 percent of the $13.4 million campaign goal — through federal and state funding sources and philanthropic gifts.

Phase 1 of the Makers Square renovations included the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of three historic buildings — 305, 308 and 324 — and will provide 25,000 square feet of new space, capable of supporting multidisciplinary programming. Phase 2 construction will start after the PDA’s capital campaign is completed.

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THING attracted 5,000 people both days of its inaugural weekend Aug. 24 and 25. THING was the idea of Adam Zacks, the founder of the Sasquatch! festival, which ran for 17 years before being shut down.

The Seattle Theater Group created and executed the event. The festival hosted 50 live performances, guided hikes, on-stage podcasting, a contra dance and “Dance Church.”

Plans for a second THING are in the works.

Port Townsend, it had Mackenzie Marmol of Sequim onboard as a guest crew member until the ship docked in San Francisco.

Celeste Dybeck, a Jamestown S’Klallam elder, gave the crew a gift of local produce, smoked salmon and cedar carved roses.

Carol Hasse, owner of Hasse & Company Port Townsend Sails, presented the crew with an “I Love Port Townsend” flag to adorn the Maiden.

The ship was only in port for about two hours.

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Townsend for a short Voters passed with a stopover in August before simple majority a $16.8 it continued to San Franmillion levy in November cisco and hundreds of after a citizen group people gathered on land circulated a petition and and on boats to welcome forced the Port of Port the historic vessel.

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The port previously published a list of needed infrastructure improvements that totaled $14.6 million in today’s dollars.

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Here, we highlight these men and women who gave their time and energy to the people of the Peninsula, who left us too soon but whose memories will always be cherished.

PHIL JOHNSON

Former Jefferson County commission chairman Phil Johnson died Jan. 8 of complications of Parkinson’s Disease. He was 72.

Johnson, a native of Port Townsend, served three terms on the Jefferson County commission.

He helped restore the Rose Theatre and facilitated its opening in 1992.

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Last year, the Jefferson County Democrats established the Phil Johnson Environmental Scholarship Fund to honor Johnson’s advocacy of natural resources.

REX WILSON

Rex Wilson, who led the Peninsula Daily News’ coverage of local news for almost 17 years as its executive editor, died Feb. 6. He was 70.

Wilson died at his home in the Mexican town of Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, of complications from a stroke and lung cancer.

His wife, Olga, was at his side.

He and Olga moved Wilson from Port Angeles to Zapopan following Wilson’s retirement Aug. 1, 2015.

He had directed the PDN’s news and sports reporters, photographers, desk editors and layout staff since December 1998.

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Wilson also played the stand-up bass.

He recorded with singer-songwriter Cindy Lee Berryhill and toured nationally as a member of her band. He resumed playing the bass as a member of a band in Guadalajara.

The band had its first professional performance a few weeks before Wilson — who never had been a smoker — learned he had lung cancer. He had just completed a chemotherapy series when he suffered a stroke Jan. 23.

ELOISE KAILIN

Retired Dr. Eloise Kailin, a Sequim environmentalist whose activism stretched beyond her most recent fight — a successful battle against fluoridation of Port Angeles drinking water — died June 8 of age-related causes at her Sequim-area home.

The 1987 Clallam County Community Kailin Service Award winner, an allergist-immunologist who befriended Rachel Carson during the fight against DDT, was 100.

One of the few women, if not the only one, in her 1943 medical school class, Kailin led the fight against a nuclear power plant on what is now Miller Peninsula State Park in Sequim, fought

successfully to upgrade sewage treatment in Sequim, co-founded the Olympic Environmental Council and was the face of the environmental group Protect the Peninsula’s Future.

She fought the fluoridation of Port Angeles’ drinking water beginning in 2003, when it was approved. She realized success in August 2016 when the City Council reversed itself. The practice was stopped permanently a year later.

Kailin wrote and edited medical abstracts for more than 30 years and published more than 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her last piece was a half-page ad in the Feb. 20 Peninsula Daily News.

She compared the once-common declarations of DDT’s safety with the “false hope for human betterment” offered by 5G wireless communications and the dangers she saw from electromagnetic radiation.

“I’m not going down without a fight,” she wrote. “This nasty woman knows how to get things done.”

LORRAINE ROSS

Former Port Angeles City Council member Lorraine Ross died May 4.

A celebration of life was conducted for her July 9, which would have been her 100th birthday.

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After a stint in Coos Bay, Ore., Casey returned to the Peninsula Daily News in December 2014. His last story before he retired was published Jan. 28, 2016.

Casey was active in the community, serving as a member of the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Olympic Climate Action and Compassion of Clallam County. After retiring, he spent time woodworking, making canes, walking sticks, hiking staffs and pieces of art with driftwood.

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James “Jim” Casey, a longtime journalist who worked as a reporter and an editor on the North Olympic Peninsula, died in his Port Angeles home Aug. 9. He was 72.

Casey worked in a number of newsrooms across the country, from suburban Chicago to Dayton, Ohio, and Corpus Christi, Texas, and several in

Jim Cammack, co-founder of Jim’s Pharmacy in Port Angeles, a noted community fundraiser and a longtime

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Olympic Medical Center commissioner, died Aug. 8.

He was 74.

Jim’s Pharmacy was known for its fundraising for nonprofits and its other programs, such as Vitamins for Kids, free proCammack grams on diabetes and heart health, a “Charity of the Month” drive and its scholarships.

In 2012, the pharmacy was one of two recipients of the statewide 2012 Corporations for Communities Award.

Cammack was elected to the OMC board in 2003. He helped lead the public hospital district through a period of significant growth before stepping down for personal and health reasons in 2017.

Cammack was a founding member of the Nor’Wester Rotary Club of Port Angeles.

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Wisecup, 64, had served Clallam County since 2004.

She had become known statewide for her wide knowledge of emergency management and for her dedication to preparing people for the worst.

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Tom Jay, a bronze sculptor, a published author and an environmental advocate, died Nov. 10. He was 76.

He was a co-founder of Wild Olympic Salmon with his wife, Sara Johani. They lived in the Chimacum Valley.

Jay ran a commercial foundry and cast the work Jay of other artists. During recessions, he would take on other jobs, such as welding woodburning stoves and selling them.

One of his lasting projects was a game called Dragon Tracking, a form of geocaching before global-positioning system coordinates were readily accessible. Jay used bronze and cast pieces he called dragon footprints, and they were placed in about a dozen locations throughout the county, from the

Jim Moran, a Port Angeles City Council member known for passionate civic involvement and volunteerism, died Nov. 16.

He was 71.

Those close to Moran struggled to name every board the Vietnam War veteran was involved with or all the organizations he volunteered for; they all Moran agreed his death leaves a void in Port Angeles.

Moran, former president of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, began his four-year City Council term in January 2018. He served on the Clallam County Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, the Lumber Traders Board of Directors and the North Olympic History Center Board of Directors.

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He left that company to start his own firm specializing in pension administration and made Port Angeles his home in 2008.

BILL LITTLEJOHN

Bill Littlejohn, a Sequim businessman who owned numerous senior care facilities and whose philanthropy and advocacy boosted dozens of local organizations, died Dec. 12, just before his 73rd birthday on Dec. 18.

Littlejohn owned and oversaw several senior Littlejohn living facilities, including Sherwood Assisted Living, Fifth Avenue Senior Independent Living and the Lodge at Sherwood Village and owned Thomas Building Supply and Olympic Ambulance.

He was a significant contributor to the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula and Olympic Medical Center Foundation. He and his wife Esther also bestowed scholarships annually to local

high school students.

He served in a number of leadership roles in the health care arena — he was an OMC hospital board commissioner from 1986 to 1996 — as well as in business and community boards, including the Sequim-Dungeness Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Council.

His community activities and donations include the Sequim Irrigation Festival, Olympic Peninsula Humane Society and Peninsula Friends of Animals, Dungeness Health and Wellness Clinic, Dungeness River Audubon Center, Peninsula College nursing program and others, as well as OMC foundation fundraising events such as the Festival of Trees, Harvest of Hope, the Red, Set, Go Luncheon and the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby.

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Top stories of 2019 in Washington state Boeing announcing the halting of production of its troubled 737 Max airliner was voted Washington state’s top news story of 2019 by The Associated Press staff.

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BOEING-737 MAX: In December the Boeing Co. said it would temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 Max jet as it struggles to get approval from regulators to put the plane back in the air.

Production would halt at its Renton plant, though the company said it didn’t expect immediate layoffs.

The Max has been grounded since March after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed a total of 346 people.

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LAWMAKER LABELED ‘DOMESTIC TERRORIST’: A report released in December found that state Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, took part in “domestic terrorism” against the United States during a 2016 standoff at a wildlife refuge in Oregon and traveled throughout the West meeting with far-right extremist groups.

Shea has been suspended from the GOP caucus.

He said he won’t resign and has called the report prepared for the Legislature “a sham investigation.”

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UW FOOTBALL COACH QUITS: Following his team’s seventh straight Apple Cup victory over the Cougars, Washington football coach Chris Peterson unexpectedly resigned.

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Two iron workers on the crane and two people in cars were killed.

The crane had been used in the construction of a Google office building.

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Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders ELAINE THOMPSON | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and Elizabeth Warren INSLEE RUNS In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, House and Senate members and guests stand for the accused Amazon of trying FOR PRESInational anthem during a joint session of the Washington Legislature for the State of to buy the council and most DENT: Gov. Jay Inslee mounted a campaign the State address by Gov. Jay Inslee in Olympia. of the business-backed for the 2020 Democratic candidates lost, meaning PUBLIC Publishing, which owns the designated hitter was a presidential nomination, RECORDS Peninsula Daily News, seven-time All-Star and won when the new council the first high-profile convenes in January new RULING: The Sequim Gazette and Forks the Silver Slugger Award Washingtonian to make a Washington Supreme Forum. taxes on big businesses will five times during the 18 bid for the nation’s highest Court ruled in December Lawmakers had long years he spent in Seattle. almost certainly be on the office since 1976 when Sen. that state lawmakers are said they are not subject to When he retired, table.

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