Sequim Gazette — Sept. 25, 2019

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City puts MAT poll decision on hold BY MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

To poll or not to poll: A decision on whether the city council will gauge public opinion on the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s proposed medicated-assisted treatment (MAT) facility with an internet poll remains on hold. Councilors voted 4-2 — with Candace Pratt and Bob Lake against — to postpone a vote to the Oct. 14 meeting, so that absent city councilor Jennifer States could weigh in and city staff can explore other polling questions. Councilor Ted Miller initially proposed using the city’s online polling system, Polco, to ask residents about the MAT facility on Sept. 9. In a statement to city councilors at their Sept. 23 meeting, Miller said the city remains divided and that councilors have witnessed rhetoric from both MAT proponents and opponents.

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BY MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette Pat McElroy, an engineer for Clallam County, said construction crews plan to place about 8 inches of gravel and 6 inches of hot asphalt to repave the Ward Bridge over the Dungeness River. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Ward Bridge to open by early October BY MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

Ward Bridge along Woodcock Road and over the Dungeness River tentatively reopens in early October. Clallam County officials closed the bridge in late June and a section of Woodcock from milepost 2.27 to milepost 2.39 to repair the bridge’s piers and resurface its roadway. Clallam County engineer Pat McElroy said

contractor Bruch & Bruch Construction, Inc., of Port Angeles anticipates paving the roadway the last full week of September and finishing construction the first week of October barring weather. The approximate $1.2 million project is on budget too, McElroy said. He said the bridge’s piers were built in the late 1930s and its superstructure rebuilt in late 1970s.

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The City of Sequim’s leaders plan to take a more “direct” approach in their request for the city to take on ownership of the John Wayne Marina from the Port of Port Angeles. Rather than partnering with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in potential management of the marina, Sequim City Manager Charlie Bush proposed the city draft a Request for Information, RFI, to the Port that transfers the BUSH marina to the city. “They (the tribe) would not compete with us but support it,” Bush said at the Sept. 23 city council meeting. He said this is contrary to city discussions in June, when city officials considered developing a public engagement process. However, Bush said, “a lot of things changed in our community over the summer,” leading to a July discussion with the tribe about the city’s full ownership proposal. “The tribe was amenable to that perspective,” Bush said. “If we want to do partnerships with the tribe at the marina, that’s something we could talk about down the road.”

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Federal judge rules in favor of OMC BY PAUL GOTTLIEB Olympic Peninsula News Group

Genevieve Wakefield, 9, will compete this November at the National All-American Miss pageant for the national title, the talent title, and possibly the national Ambassador Spotlight title. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

An ambassador with aerials Wakefield, 9, seeks national title

peted for the Miss Washington Junior PreTeen (ages 7-9) state title in Tacoma. She received the Platinum Spotlight Ambassador award for her efforts in outreaching to the community seeking sponsorships. BY MATTHEW NASH Wakefield also placed second runner-up Sequim Gazette in the talent competition for her acrobatic’s Genevieve Wakefield is now an ambas- routine to the Alan Parsons Project song “Sirius.” sador for Washington. At the state competition she placed in the On Aug. 31 the Sequim 9-year-old com-

top 10 of more than 50 competitors, and will compete in the National All-American Miss competition and the talent competition in California the week of Thanksgiving. If she raises enough funds, she’ll also compete in the National Spotlight competition, too. So what did she learn from the experience so far?

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A federal judge ruled last week in favor of Olympic Medical Center and other hospitals across the country that the Trump Administration did not have the authority to implement a rule that would have cost the Clallam County hospital more than $47 million over the next decade. U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer filed her memorandum LEWIS opinion in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday, vacating portions of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule that led to Olympic Medical Center delaying construction at its Sequim campus and slashing its budget. “It’s just outstanding news for our community and Olympic Medical Center’s patients and we are thrilled with the court’s decision that came out (Sept. 17),” said OMC CEO Eric Lewis last week.

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