Special Sections - Year in Review - 2015

2015 YEAR IN REVIEWA look back at some of the people, events and stories that made headlines

Clallam County ■ Jefferson CountyWashington state

A publication of Peninsula Daily NewsAlso distributed in the Sequim Gazette

Top Peninsula story of 2015: Water woes, p.2

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Lower Elwha Klallam tribal member Ben Charles Sr. looks over a rain-swollen Elwha River after it left its banks and spread out over Lower Elwha Road on the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation west of Port Angeles on Dec. 10.

SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE SECTION OF THE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS2015 YEAR IN REVIEW 2 FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016

1WATER WOES: The North Olympic Peninsula began

2015 with too little water and ended it with too much.

So little snow fell in the Olympic Mountains that Hurricane Ridge had no ski season and by this past summer, the Olympic snowpack had fallen to zero, leaving rivers that have sources in the moun-tains running at record-low levels.

Gov. Jay Inslee declared a drought on the North Olympic Peninsula, among other areas, on March 13 and declared a statewide

drought emergency May 15.

Port Townsend, Port Angeles and Forks insti-tuted water restrictions, and in July, the Sequim-Dungeness Water Users Association called for its members to curtail irrigation to the point of choosing to let some crops die because of the low flow in the Dungeness River.

But in August, rain blew in with high winds that toppled trees and caused widespread outages — and closed Olympic National Park.

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Peninsula’s top story in 2015:

Drought to deluge


Eleven-year-old Abi Moore of Port Angeles plays with her dog, Cosmo, in the knee-deep Elwha River beneath the Elwha River Bridge west of Port Angeles in July. River flow was at a near-record low, prompting Port Angeles city officials to eventually impose mandatory limits on water usage.

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That storm was followed by a series of others that inundated the Peninsula with rain.

A storm in December dropped more than 3 inches of rain on Port Angeles and 2 inches on Forks in a 24-hour period, and flooded Olympic Hot Springs Road near the Elwha Campground for the second time this season.

Port Townsend was the last city on the Peninsula to lift water restrictions, with the City Council call-ing an end to alternate out-door watering days on Dec. 7 after rainstorms had filled the Lords Lake reser-voir in Quilcene to nearly 20 feet, a significant increase from its lowest level of 8 feet, 5 inches in November.

Port Angeles and Forks lifted restrictions in October.

The El Niño weather forecast for this winter could leave the Olympic Mountains short on snow-pack next summer, and communities are preparing

for possible future drought.Port Townsend City

Manager David Timmons said officials are making plans now as to procedures to take should the coming summer be as dry as last year’s.

Port Angeles

In Port Angeles, city offi-cials are taking prelimi-nary steps to locate a sec-ondary source of domestic water should the Elwha River run low again — although it could be seven years before water might flow from wells on the city’s West End, which a pair of hydrogeologists said was the best place to drill.

But so far, the situation looks better.

On Dec. 12, Hurricane Ridge had 44 inches of snow, and the opening of the ski season was able to take place Dec. 19.

And after a summer of anxiously gazing at bare-rock mountains, Peninsula residents now can see snow on those peaks.

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The rain-swollen Elwha River flows past the closed Olympic National Park gates on Olympic Hot Springs Road in early November.

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1POLAR PIONEER: An oil rig doesn’t look — or generally act —

much like Santa Claus, but the Polar Pioneer left gifts in its wake as it left for the North Sea in December.

The crew on the 350-foot-tall oil rig, which had been parked in Port Angeles harbor since Oct. 28, offloaded about 15 tons of food to be distrib-uted to food banks and food pantries across Clallam County before the rig was floated onto the MV Dock-wise Vanguard, a 902-foot semi-submersible heavy-lift

ship, on Dec. 15, and departed for the North Sea at the end of December.

The donation included frozen meat, vegetables, cheese, pita bread, bulk dry goods, snacks and condiments — enough food to make a significant impact toward getting area food banks through the spring, said Jessica Her-nandez, executive director of the Port Angeles Food Bank, who accepted the donation on behalf of the Clallam County Food Bank Coalition.

“This is huge for us. . . .

This is $40,000 of food,” Hernandez said.

Coalition members shar-ing in the largess included Serenity House, Port Ange-les Salvation Army, Sequim Food Bank, Olympic Com-munity Action Programs’ Senior Nutrition Program and the Jamestown S’Klallam, Quileute and Makah tribes.

The donor of the food was platform owner Transocean Ltd. of Zug, Switzerland, Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said.

Top 10 Clallam County stories in 2015



The oil drilling platform Noble Discoverer, left, is floated onto the transport ship MV Blue Marlin in early December as the oil platform Polar Pioneer, right, waits its turn to be transported away.

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The gift of food was in addition to the $1 million that city officials, citing a report released by Shell Oil, estimate was injected into the Port Angeles economy while the Polar Pioneer was in the Port Angeles Harbor from April 17 to May 14.

The Polar Pioneer’s spring visit was to prepare for a summer of drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska.

It drew the attention of protesters opposed to drill-ing in the Arctic.

By the end of Septem-ber, Royal Dutch Shell — the parent company of Shell Oil — which leased the rig from Transocean Ltd., gave up on a more than $7 billion push to drill for oil in the Alaskan Arc-tic, saying it did not find enough oil to make the venture worthwhile.

The Polar Pioneer then was returned to Port Ange-

les in October to offload equipment.

Just before the Polar Pioneer was taken out of the harbor, the drill ship Noble Discoverer arrived from Everett and was loaded onto the 738-foot-long semi-submersible MV Blue Marlin.

The Blue Marlin left the harbor with its ship aboard Dec. 14.

Port officials have said the Noble Discoverer was headed next to the West Pacific.

2FROM WISHFUL TO WINDFALL: Port Angeles’ wild-card

entry in Outdoor magazine’s “Best Town Ever” contest became a promotional bonanza when the city won several preliminary con-tests and finished second to Chattanooga, Tenn. — nearly 10 times its size — in the national finals in June.

The tourism promotion was priceless, and resi-dents in the two communi-ties became friends, with many Chattanoogans vow-ing to pay the Peninsula a visit and vice versa — and sympathy banners were hand-carried from Port Angeles to the Tennessee city after a gunman killed four Marines and a Navy sailor July 16 at a Navy and Marine Corps reserve center there.

During the contest, signs urging residents to vote for their town went up on business readerboards, windows and restaurant tables as organizations ranging from the Chamber of Commerce to Black Ball Ferry Line promoted voting.

Gov. Jay Inslee backed Port Angeles, as did the Sequim-bred Emblem3 band. U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray

and Rep. Derek Kilmer — a Port Angeles native — tweeted their support. West-ern Washington University called for votes on its Face-book page, and the Seahawks urged people to cast ballots for Port Angeles.

The mighty effort to convince the rest of the nation that the attractions of Port Angeles made it the Best Town Ever was led by Revitalize Port Angeles, a group founded by Leslie Robertson.

Inspired by success, the Revitalize Port Angeles group is capitalizing on momentum generated by

the contest to expand into such areas as Port Angeles Citizens Action Network, which is focusing on creat-ing community solutions to illegal drug use.

3FLUORIDE FIGHT: The Port Angeles City Council decided

Dec. 15 on a split vote to continue fluoridation of city water after a long battle between proponents of the practice and those who want fluoride out of their water.

The council voted 4-3 to continue fluoridating the city’s water beyond May 18,

when a 10-year pledge with the Washington Dental Service Foundation expires.

Deputy Mayor Patrick Downie and council mem-bers Brad Collins, Dan Gase and Cherie Kidd voted for Kidd’s motion to continue fluoridating city water through mid-year 2026, while Mayor Dan Di Guilio and council members Lee Whetham and Sissi Bruch voted against it.

Di Guilio and Whetham cited an advisory survey of water customers that rejected fluoridation.

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The survey sent in November to 9,762 water customers was returned by 4,204. Of those, 2,381, or 56.64 percent, rejected water fluoridation, while 1,735, or 41.27 percent, favored it.

The City Council had decided in July to get public input through an advisory survey of water customers, rather than through an advisory measure on the Nov. 3 ballot, so as to allow

responses from water cus-tomers outside city limits.

After the council vote, a key opponent promised to keep fighting.

“Don’t pack away your fluoride papers quite yet,” the council was warned by

Dr. Eloise Kailin, correspond-ing secretary of Protect the Peninsula’s Future, which, along with Clallam County Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, has unsuccessfully challenged Port Angeles water fluoridation in court.

Kailin also headed a city committee opposing fluori-dation while Dr. Tom Locke, the public health officer for Jefferson County, headed a committee supporting it. The city held a forum on the issue in October.

Proponents say fluoride in the water helps fight tooth decay.

Opponents say the prac-tice doesn’t work, that it harms health and consti-tutes putting medication into drinking water.

The city began adding fluoride into the water sys-tem in 2006. The action was paid for by a grant from the Washington Den-tal Service Foundation.

Forks is the only other city on the North Olympic Peninsula that fluoridates its water. It has done so since 1956.

4BUILDING BOOM: New construction could be seen spring-

ing up all over Clallam County in 2015.

In April, nearly 200 West End residents cele-brated the grand opening of the $2.1 million, 6,300-square-foot Rainfor-est Arts Center in Forks.

The building at 35 N. Forks Ave. replaced the community’s arts center in the 70-year-old Interna-tional Order of Odd Fel-lows Hall, which burned 2½ years earlier.

Olympic Medical Center is presently constructing a new 42,000-square-foot, $14.2 million medical office building across from the Port Angeles hospital at 939

Caroline St., has just fin-ished expanding the hospi-tal’s emergency room and is eyeing an expansion of the hospital’s Sequim facilities.

The new emergency room opened in September, the office building is expected to be completed by next fall and the Sequim expansion is expected in 2017.

In December, OMC neighbor Palmer “Jack” McCarter donated his house at 1035 Columbia St. to the hospital. Officials plan to use the area for office space, parking and relocation of its helicopter landing pad, used by Airlift Northwest.

In August, Peninsula Col-lege broke ground on a 41,650-square-foot, $25 mil-lion building for the Allied Health and Early Childhood Development Center at its Port Angeles campus.


Fight over water treatment to persist?/CONTINUED

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Construction is expected to take 18 months.

In September, Port Angeles threw a party to celebrate the opening of its $3.62 million downtown waterfront park, complete with two new sandy 80-foot-deep beaches.

Sometimes called West End Park or the esplanade, the 1.5-acre park features colored-glass markers that mark the Olympic Discov-ery Trail’s winding route through the park along Railroad Avenue, a walk-way along the shore of Port Angeles Harbor and recre-ation areas.

The park is the second phase of the city’s $17 mil-lion waterfront transporta-tion improvement plan for the waterfront from Valley Creek estuary to City Pier.

Also in September, a groundbreaking ceremony celebrated the beginning of conversion of a 25,000-square-foot building at 2220 W. 18th St. into the Composite Recycling Tech-nology Center.

Hopes for the estimated $6.5 million facility are that it will provide 340 direct and spun-off jobs at its building on the Com-posites Manufacturing Campus at William R. Fair-child International Airport.

In the fall, Clallam County announced that a private landowner was willing to donate 1.2 acres of waterfront property on the southwest shore of Lake Crescent to Clallam County to be used for pub-lic access.

In December, the Clal-lam County Public Utility District celebrated the grand opening of an $8 million, 29,496-square-foot facility in Carlsborg.

The building at 104 Hooker Road consolidates former offices in Port Ange-les and Sequim.

Along with new con-struction, new businesses flourished in 2015.

Some 37 businesses had opened, remodeled or relo-cated between late April and early August in Port Angeles.

5ELWHA RIVER DELTA: One result of the dismantling of

two dams on the Elwha River was the formation of some 80 acres to 100 acres of new beach at the river’s mouth west of Port Angeles.

Elwha Dam, built in 1912 about 5 miles south of the river mouth, was taken down in 2012, and the last vestiges of Glines

Canyon Dam, built in 1927 some 13 miles south of the mouth, were demolished in 2014.

Since the dams, built to fuel North Olympic Penin-sula development with a source of electricity, were built without fish ladders, the work freeing the river to its wild state opened it to salmon after a century of blockages.

Sediment trapped behind the dams was car-ried downstream to form new land where once was only a moonscape of cob-bles.

That land grew ever more alive with fish and birds in 2015.

As of the end of the year, the new beaches — fed with more sediment pouring out of the river into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and disturbed by storm waves — were still growing and changing.

6OPIATES: Buoyed by the city nearly being named the

“Best Town Ever,” Port Angeles residents resolved to end its reputation as the worst place for opiate addiction.

The first group formed by Revitalize Port Angeles members — the Port Ange-

les Citizen Action Network (PA CAN) — was followed by Hope After Heroin, This is OUR Town: Port Angeles and other efforts.

At the same time, Clal-lam County received atten-tion for its strategy of com-bining drug intervention with its syringe exchange program.

“Now it’s the wave of the future,” Christina Hurst, public health pro-

grams director for the county Health and Human Services Department, told members of the county Board of Health in October.

“A lot of people are watching us.”

According to state Department of Health sta-tistics, Clallam County had 13 opiate-related deaths in 2013, while Jefferson County had one.

Clallam County had the highest per capita opiate-related death rate in the state that year, health offi-cials said.

The Port Angeles Police Department was the first on the North Olympic Pen-insula to begin carrying naloxone, which can reverse an overdose long enough for patients to seek complete medical care.PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE

Buildings blossom all over the county/CONTINUED

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Sea gulls fly over a pool in the Elwha River estuary. Sediment washing down the river has built more than 80 acres of beaches.

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7TREASURER DIS-PUTE: Clallam County Treasurer

Selinda Barkhuis’ chal-lenges of county commis-sioners and county Admin-istrator Jim Jones made

headlines in 2015.In June, Barkhuis

rejected warrants for nearly $1.3 million in Opportunity Fund grants because com-missioners did not hold a budget emergency hearing

or secure written contracts with sister governments.

A grant of $1 million to the Port of Port Angeles was earmarked to repurpose a building near William R. Fairchild International Air-

port for a planned Compos-ite Recycling Technology Center.

A $285,952 grant to the city of Port Angeles was for the waterfront face-lift between Oak Street and the Valley Creek estuary.

Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols in July appointed Jefferson County Chief Civil Deputy Prose-cuting Attorney David Alvarez to represent Barkhuis.

Commissioners Jim McEntire and Bill Peach, with Commissioner Mike Chapman opposed, voted Aug. 25 to seek a declara-tory judgment and an order from a Superior Court judge that would have forced Barkhuis to release the warrants.

Barkhuis discharged Alvarez of his duties Sept. 2.

In September, citing an undisclosed medical condi-tion, she said in an email to Nichols that she would be on medical leave until Oct. 13 and would no lon-ger stand in the way of approval of the grants.

McEntire and Peach approved the grants with opposition from Chapman, who wanted them placed in the 2016 budget and fully vetted by the public.

Communicating by

email in November, Barkhuis called for com-missioners to deny an increase in next year’s rev-enue projections, which she found unrealistic, and to nix a $440,000 expenditure for new staff in the prose-cuting attorney’s office, which she said would be used against her.

She also called for com-missioners to fire Jones, saying the revenue projec-tion was designed to allow him to “maliciously blame me, as county treasurer, for the layoffs he will inevita-bly recommend when these ridiculous revenue projec-tions fail to materialize.

‘Another example’

“In my opinion, this is yet another example of the county administrator abus-ing his authority to harass me, retaliate against me, and otherwise intrude on my office as county trea-surer, all of which amount-ing to an utterly hostile work environment that is damaging my health and my ability to do my job,” Barkhuis wrote.

Barkhuis also, in a Nov. 23 email to county commissioners and other officials, said Nichols had evidence that “unauthor-ized and excessive” Veter-

ans’ Relief Fund pay-ments were made for the benefit of an unnamed Peninsula Daily News reporter.

Barkhuis said the reporter covered the Dis-trict 1 commissioners’ race and $1.3 million Opportu-nity Fund loan controversy.

Rich Sill, Clallam Coun-ty’s human resources direc-tor and risk manager, con-cluded that no unauthor-ized or excessive payments were made from the fund to a PDN reporter.

A husband and a wife, both veterans who qualified separately for veterans’ relief funds, received proper payments that were recorded under a single account for “convenience reasons,” Sill said in a memo to Jones.

“This appears to be the basis of Ms. Barkhuis’ com-plaint,” Sill said.

“With respect to this account, no unauthorized or excessive payments were found to have been made from the county Veterans’ Relief Fund during 2015,” Sill said.


Clallam officials embroiled in dispute/CONTINUED

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In December, also by email, Barkhuis objected to the county’s draft $36.8 million budget on procedural and substantive grounds, saying she reserved “the right to spec-ify the procedural and sub-stantive defects until such time as I have had a rea-sonable opportunity (access and time wise) to review the 2016 budget processes and documents.”

Commissioners have since approved the budget.

8TAXPAYERS SAY NO: Taxpayers said no in 2015 to the Sequim

Aquatic Recreation Center, the Port Angeles School District and the Sequim School District — the latter for the third time.

Simple majority needed

A measure to create a metropolitan park district that would solely fund the aquatic recreation center at 610 N. Fifth Ave. — which is known as SARC — was defeated in the Aug. 4 primary election. The measure required a simple majority.


Taxpayers/CONTINUED

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330 E. 1 st St., Ste 1Port Angeles

452-1326Doing property managementsince 1986

Years32

ESTABLISHED 1984

611489904

901 Ness Corner Rd.

Port Hadlock, WA 983391-360-385-1771

Toll Free: 1-800-750-1771

Have a Happy New Year!

Years 30

611489922

ESTABLISHED 1986

Merry

Christmas

and

Happy

New Year!

452-1621

Years

30

ESTABLISHED 1986

101 E. Front St., Port Angeles

452-9692

611490025

To our valued customers..Thank you for your patronage over

the past 30 years. We lookforward to many more. Have asafe and prosperous New Year.

The

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RESTAURANT

Years

SPA SHOPPellet Heat Company

230-C E. 1st St. Port Angeles

WhereQuality & Customer Service

are #1

www.spashop.com360.457.4406

1.800.869.7177

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611

490035

ESTABLISHED 1984

Years

28

ESTABLISHED 1988

Your Independent

Agency wishing

everyone

a Happy New Year!

Reetz Insurance Services, Inc.

835 E. 2nd St.Port Angeles452-5820

611490406

Years


The measure was put before voters after they had rejected a proposed six-year property tax levy in February.

The levy required a 60 percent supermajority.

Now, the SARC board will consider an agreement in which the center is man-aged by the Olympic Penin-

sula YMCA.Port Angeles voters

rejected in February a $98 million bond to build a new high school.

The board has delayed a decision on when to propose another school construction bond to voters until this year.

The Sequim School

District failed to pass a $49.2 million construction bond proposal in February and a $49.3 million con-struction bond on the Nov. 3 ballot after voters defeated a $154 million measure in April 2014.

Bond measures require a 60 percent supermajor-ity.

The Sequim School Board will try again, hav-ing voted unanimously to place a $54 million bond on the Feb. 9 special election ballot this year.

The bond would pay for a new elementary school, renovation of Sequim High School and other dis-trict improvements.

9MEASLES: Clallam County residents started searching for

spots on themselves and their children after a man was diagnosed with mea-sles Feb. 1.

Before it was declared over last spring, six mea-sles cases — one of them fatal — had been discov-ered.

Health authorities con-tacted 257 people with pos-sible measles exposure, conducted 30 no-cost vacci-nation clinics and gave some 500 shots of the mea-sles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

10COVARRUBIAS SUICIDE: Rob-ert Gene

Covarrubias, who in 2009 confessed to raping and murdering 15-year-old Melissa Leigh Carter in 2004, killed himself in cus-tody Sept. 2.

Covarrubias, 35 — who was serving a 34½-year sentence at the Monroe Correctional Complex for Carter’s murder — died of asphyxia by hanging him-self, said Heather Oie, Sno-homish County Medical Examiner’s Office spokes-woman.

The Lancaster, Calif., native was accused of rap-ing and strangling Carter.

He testified that he did not kill Carter and that sex was consensual during his 2006 trial; he was found guilty of first-degree murder.

The state Court of Appeals remanded the case to the Superior Court for a new trial in 2009, saying that some evidence had been admitted by error.

There never was a sec-ond trial.

Covarrubias confessed to murder and rape.

Measles outbreak arrives in Clallam/CONTINUED


Olympic Medical Center lab assistant Deana Heimbigner looks over an isolation tent near the hospital’s emergency room in Port Angeles in February. The tent was to be used to temporarily quarantine incoming patients with infectious diseases, such as measles.

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Robert Gene Covarrubias in Clallam County Superior Court during his sentencing in 2009.

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260 Monroe RoadPort Angeles

www.drennanford.com

457-1210

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11489873

Drennan & FordFuneral Home and

Crematory

ESTABLISHED 1990

Years 25

611

489815

ESTABLISHED 1991

Years

All Types of Welding,Repair & Fabrication

Structural steel, railings &ornamental iron, gates & gate

operating systems, spiralstaircases, trailer and RV hitches,

farm and construction equipmentrepairs. Your inventions!

81 Hooker Road #9, SequimOffi ce: 360-681-0584

www.allformwelding.com

Contractor Registration # ALLFOWI023CB

ESTABLISHED 1990

Sales & Service you can count on Since 1990!

Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.,Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

271 S. 7th Ave. #26Sequim • 681-0820

61148993326Years

ESTABLISHED 1991

61149030825Years

Owners:Jim & Laura Decker

HappyNew Year!

Serving the Olympic Peninsula Since 2004

360-374-9400

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ESTABLISHED 1992

611490026

Years

ALDERSON’SAUTO BODY

& PAINT

RANDY ALDERSON

360.452.5990

Free EstimatesCustom Painting& Color MatchingCollision Repair

& Insurance Work

1935 Edgewood DrivePort Angeles

25

Thanks to all our Loyal Customers!

Happy New Year! 611490033

ESTABLISHED 1991

WATER CONDITIONING& BOTTLED WATER

683-4285

Years


1PAPER MILL SOLD: Port Townsend Paper Corp.

was sold in February to a newly formed holding com-pany, Crown Paper Group, purchasing the mill from GoldenTree Asset Manage-ment, a New York-based company.

The paper mill is Jeffer-son County’s largest pri-vate employer, with 298 people working there.

At the time of the sale, the new owners released a statement that promised to improve the safety perfor-mance, streamline manu-facturing and build on the performance improvements and customer satisfaction that the employees have already achieved.

Mill manager Roger Hagan said after the sale that the purchase would not immediately change operations at the facility and there would be no change in personnel in the near future.

However, a new general manager, Carr Tyndall, 54, was named in March.

Tyndall — who was plant manager for Kap-Stone Paper and Packaging in Summerville, S.C. — has more than 30 years of experience in the industry.

Tyndall said he planned to focus on safety and worker morale. He also hoped that dredging of a runoff pond would sweeten the air, since odors have been a cause for complaint.

During the drought this summer, the mill lowered its water consumption from 10 million to 15 million gal-lons daily to a little more than 10 million gallons.

2MOUNTAIN VIEW UPGRADE: Voters in February overwhelm-

ingly approved the sale of up to $3.6 million in bonds for repairs at the Mountain View Commons.

Repairs of the 50-year-old facility at 1919 Blaine St. in Port Townsend are esti-mated to cost $4.1 million.

Property owners will pay for only part of the cost of repairs, with a property tax increase of no more than 13 cents per $1,000 of valuation for 15 years.

The amount between the total cost of the project and the amount raised by the bond measure will come from grants that are already committed from the state Department of Ecology for $300,000; the state Department of Com-

merce for $500,000; a grant of about $180,000 adminis-tered by the Jefferson County Public Utility Dis-trict; and other sources to be determined, according to City Manager David Tim-mons.

The city of Port Townsend has leased the former Mountain View Ele-mentary School from the Port Townsend School Dis-trict since 2009.

The campus includes the Port Townsend Police Department, the Port Townsend Food Bank, Jef-ferson County YMCA, the ReCyclery, the KPTZ 91.9 FM radio station, Working Image, the Olympic Penin-sula chapter of the Ameri-can Red Cross and the only public pool in Jefferson County.

A new roof was installed in the fall. At the end of the year, the city had com-missioned a study to deter-mine the future space allo-cation for the campus, as many tenants need more room.

Parallel to the building’s renovation are plans to build an adjacent YMCA facility, for which a funding feasibility study is now in progress.


Top 10 stories in Jefferson County

CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Workers gather debris from the roof at Mountain View Commons in Port Townsend in July during the roof replacement process.

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ESTABLISHED 1992

611489821

334 Benson Road,Port Angeles, WA 98363

(360) 417-3564www.camaraderiecellars.com

Celebrating 24 years of Great Winemaking!

Sharing the Best Things in Life

Years 23

611489823

ESTABLISHED 1993

“We Make House Calls”

360 452-5278

• NO START SPECIALIST •Tune Ups • Brakes • Starters • RadiatorsAlternators • Fuel Pumps • Water Pumps

Timing Belts • Heater Cores • Trailer WiringElectrical & Computer Diagnosis & Repair

Your Home, Office or Roadside Service

Years

ESTABLISHED 1994

2357 E. Hwy. 101Port Angeles

452-4890

Auto Repair

Thank you for your loyalty. We wish you peace & happiness

throughout the year.

61148992922Years

FOREIGN & AMERICAN

PAWPRINCEWHERE YOUR PET IS ROYALTY!

Serving The Olympic Peninsula Since 1994

Quality Grooming For All Dog Breeds

Specializing in Cat Grooming

Cozy Homestyle Indoor Boarding

K-9 Obedience Training

360-452-9555 • By Appointment Only

61149041122

ESTABLISHED 1994

Years

$5Grooming or Boarding Service with Coupon

Exp. Feb. 29th 2016

off


The cost of the new YMCA, which could open in 2020, is estimated to be between $13 million and $15 million for a building between 47,000 square feet and 52,000 square feet.

3BUILDING BOOM: May was a big month for groundbreaking,

with ceremonies held for a Peninsula College campus at Fort Worden on May 14 and a Jefferson Healthcare Emergency Services Build-ing five days later.

Both buildings are scheduled for completion this year, with the college hoping to offer fall semester classes in the new facility.

Plans for the college and the rehabilitation of Building 202 have been in development since 2011, but the funding wasn’t lined up until late 2014.

The $6.1 million renova-tion project will create four

general classrooms, a sci-ence classroom, a studio-art room, a learning lab, a work-force training room, a stu-dent study space, faculty offices and a reception space.

Video-equipped class-rooms are planned so classes can be conducted in one loca-tion and viewed in another.

The new space will con-tinue current course offer-ings, general adult educa-tion and associate degrees, as well as eventually expand the curriculum, according to Luke Robins, Peninsula College president.

The hospital area at 834 Sheridan St. in Port Townsend has been impacted by construction since the early summer.

An office building was demolished to make way for a 50,000-square-foot, $20 million structure that will include an expanded emergency department, an orthopedic clinic and an

improved and dedicated cardiology services space supporting the latest in cardiac test procedures.

4GO, REDHAWKS, RANGERS: In its second year as the

Redhawks, the Port Townsend High School football team decimated its opponents, finishing the season with the program’s best record since 1977, a second straight Olympic League 1A title and the school’s first state playoff berth since 2004.

The team won all nine of its regular season games, six of them wide-margin shutouts.

The Redhawks blistered Bellevue Christian 51-8 in the district playoffs before losing their state playoff opener to King’s Schools of Seattle 24-7.


Building boom/CONTINUED

CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

The construction of Jefferson Healthcare’s new emergency facility in Port Townsend kicked into its second phase in September.

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611

489819

ESTABLISHED 1995

Years

7 Cedars Casino

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ESTABLISHED 1995

Years

452-7880Fast, Friendly

ServiceSince 1995

Custom ComputerSales & Service

1940 E. 1st St. Ste. 154Port Angeles

611489824

22 611

490038

ESTABLISHED 1994

Years

Your One Stop Auto Parts Store

144 W. Washington St.Sequim

Phone: 360-681-2883

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

20

GHS

611489896

ESTABLISHED 1996

Mon-Fri 8-8Sat 8-6 • Sun 10-5

360-681-8767

Thank you for your continued

support!

Years 20 611

490409

ESTABLISHED 1996

Years

• Veterinarian Recommended• 24-hour care• Lives on Site

NEAR PORT ANGELES AIRPORT

21Serving the North Olympic

Peninsula Since 1995

&Strait

Alignment Brakes

452-7991611490045

120 S. AlbertPort Angeles, WA 98362

ESTABLISHED 1995

Years

FREE FARMS – FREE STREET FAIRJOIN US

THIS SUMMERFOR OUR

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The Quilcene Rangers also made the eight-man state playoffs, besting Taholah 56-8 in the first round before being defeated by Lummi in the quarterfinals.

Chimacum snapped an 18-game losing streak and advanced to the district playoffs before falling to Cascade Christian.

5MENTAL HEALTH HELP: Jefferson Healthcare hospital

was awarded in November a $1.5 million grant from the state Department of Commerce to create East Jefferson County’s first inpatient psychiatric unit.

Hospital commissioners are scheduled to meet this month to discuss accep-tance of the grant for the seven-bed facility that will be created from existing space on the Port Townsend campus.

Jefferson Mental Health Services was a key partner in the application and will play a significant role in the development of the ser-vice, according to hospital CEO Mike Glenn.

Support also came from the Port Townsend Police Department, the Jefferson County sheriff, East Jeffer-son Fire-Rescue and the Peninsula Regional Support Center, said Adam Marquis, Jefferson Mental Health Services’ executive director.

The issue of mental health services was brought to the forefront after the forceful arrest of a reportedly mentally ill man in June.

An external investiga-tion found in September that the officer did not use excessive force.

By that time, the Port Townsend Police Depart-ment had developed new procedures to deal with

similar situations. The incident accelerated

the development of a planned interagency task force combining police, mental health and emer-gency services resources for mental health cases.

6ABORTION SER-VICES: Jefferson Healthcare hospital

adopted a new reproductive health policy in July with expectations that a full slate of services — including abor-tion — would be available to East Jefferson County resi-dents early this year.

The hospital had received in February a letter from the Seattle chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union saying that Jefferson Healthcare was out of com-pliance with state law because it did not provide on-site abortion services.

Psychiatric unit/CONTINUED


611

489813

ESTABLISHED 1998

18 Years

RV Park • Golf Course • Clubhouse9 Hole

Golf CourseClubhousePull ThursPropane

Group Discounts53802 Hwy. 112 West

Port Angeles(360) 928-2488

www.olypen.com/scrv

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611489834

ESTABLISHED 1996

360-417-8090

Years

• Pre-K – Mon., Wed., Fri.

• 3-4 year olds – Tues. & Thurs.

• Educational hands-on learning

• 8:00-11:00 or 12:00-3:00

19

720 E. Washington St. Ste 106, Sequim - 683-2429

ESTABLISHED 1997

Thanks to all our clients that we had

the privilege of serving in 2015

611489850

Years

NMLS-50132

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611

489870

ESTABLISHED 1998

Years

Four-LeggedFriends

Bonita’s

Fine Dining for your

Family Pets1433 Sims Way, PT.

360-379-0436bonitasfourleggedfriends.com

19

ESTABLISHED 1997

CertifiedHearing Inc.

(360) 452-2228Forks

1-800-723-4106

Have a Happy & Wonderful 2016 611489892

Years

830 East 8th Street, Port Angeles

18

611

490311

ESTABLISHED 1998

Years

190 Center Park WaySequim, WA

of Clallam & Jefferson Co.

Fire & WaterCleanup & Restoration™

683-0773379-0205

20

611490288

ESTABLISHED 1996

Years

Port Angeles360 457-1644

Sequim360 683-7377Port Townsend360 379-6659

www.caregiversonline.com

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611489939

ESTABLISHED 1997

James W. PaulsenOwner

360-452-5326 • 360-683-6535Toll Free 1-888-331-4477

PO Box 2636Port Angeles, WA 98362

Wishing all a Happy New Year!

Years

18

611491044

ESTABLISHED 1998

NECESSITIES

&TEMPTATIONS

457-6400

217 N. Laurel Street

Visit Us onfacebook

Prosperity to Allin 2015!

Years

��

We Pick Up Where You Left Off

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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• Residential & Commercial Refuse & Recycle Curbside Pick-Up• Dumpsters (Permanent & temp)• 1, 1 1/2 or 2 yarders• Portable Storage Units, 12 or 22 ft .• Drop Box Service, 20, 25, & 30 yarders

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Although hospital offi-cials responded that the low annual number of abortions — about 50 — wasn’t enough to establish a specialized clinic, they formed a committee to explore the issue and understand what resources would be needed to offer those services.

The task force recom-mended that the hospital provide abortion services, and commissioners approved adopting them.

Implementation will be monitored by the ACLU and members of the com-munity.

7LARGEST DRUG BUST: An expired license plate led to the

confiscation of 803 grams of heroin and 98 grams of methamphetamine having a combined street value of over $100,000, the Jeffer-son County Sheriff ’s Office

said.The value of the drugs

made the July bust the largest in the history of the county, deputies said.

The two Port Angeles women found in the car both quickly returned to custody after being released on bail.

Colette Marie Vail, 35, of Port Angeles was arrested for investigation of driving without a license, two counts of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and one count of introducing contraband into a correc-tional facility as she alleg-edly attempted to smuggle heroin into the jail after her arrest.

Vail was released on bail Sept. 11 and was arrested again Sept. 14. She was hospitalized for a heroin overdose and then turned herself in to the state Department of

Corrections in Port Angeles.

On Oct. 30, she pleaded guilty to driving with a suspended license, posses-sion of heroin with intent to manufacture or deliver and unlawful possession of oxycodone, buprenorphine and methadone.

She was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

A passenger in her car, Marlen Ravelo, 47, also of Port Angeles, was charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to manufacture or deliver and unlawful pos-session of a controlled substance.

She was scheduled for a Nov. 30 trial and released on bond.

On Oct. 31, Ravelo was charged with 10 drug-related felonies in Hamil-ton, Mont.

Biggest drug bust/CONTINUED


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ESTABLISHED 2000

611489836Years

A T C E D A RC R E E K

665 N. 5th Avenue, Sequim (across from SARC)

681-4363

16 Beautiful yearsin Sequim

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611490028

ESTABLISHED 2000

Located onThe oldest family owned farm in

Washington State since 1850.Great mountain & water views.Breakfast is served family style.

322 Clark Road, Sequim, WA 98382360-683-4431

www.olypen.com/clachaE-mail: [email protected]

Clark’s Chambers

Bed &Breakfast

Inn

Years

16

611489862

ESTABLISHED 2000

Serving the North Olympic

Peninsula since 2000

1510 W Sims WayPort Townsend

379-4739

Years

17(360) 681-3368

289 West Bell St., Sequim

ESTABLISHED 1999

Linda Allen, DVM

We would like to thank all our

clients entrusting us to care

for their four-legged children.

VETERINARY HOSPITAL

611489883

Years

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611

489889

ESTABLISHED 2002

Years

ALL SAFEmini storage

101 Grant Road 8 LOCATIONS IN SEQUIM

TO SERVE YOU!

360-683-6646WE SELL PACKING SUPPLIESwww.allsafe-storage.com

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611490027

ESTABLISHED 1999

128 E. Railroad Ave.Port Angeles

Happy New Year!

Years17

511202707

ESTABLISHED 1999

Years

2912 HWY 101 EASTPORT ANGELES

360.417.8858

TYLER & GUYAuto Body Repair

HAPPY NEW YEAR

16

611490292

ESTABLISHED 2000

360-565-0308625 E. Front St.

Port Angeles, WA

Karon’sFRAME CENTER

Years

“Imagine it Framed”

Thank youfor your

PatronageHappy New Year!

16

ESTABLISHED 2000

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611489854

ESTABLISHED 2002

14Years

BANQUETROOM

AVAILABLE

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SINCE 2003!

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She was released from the Ravalli County Adult Detention Center in Hamil-ton after paying $100,000 bail but was returned to custody within 24 hours, where she remains.

Deputies said she set up a drug delivery when she arranged for bail. Her bond was reset at $250,000 after a urine test showed she had used narcotics, author-ities said.

They added a charge of tampering with evidence to her 10 state drug-related counts after jailers said they caught her trying to replace the sample with “clean” urine.

While in the Montana jail, Ravelo was among 12 people indicted on federal charges after a two-year investigation of drug trafficking in the Puget Sound area.

The indictments announced Nov. 5 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in

Seattle included residents of Bothell, Everett, Marys-ville and Stanwood, as well as Fresno, Calif.

A spokeswoman for the federal office in Seattle said then it remained undecided whether the Jefferson County case, the Montana charges or the federal indictments against Ravelo would take precedence.

The federal office did not enumerate the federal complaints against her.

Vail is now incarcerated at the Washington Correc-tions Center for Women in Purdy, where she is serving a 30-month sentence for possession with intent to distribute, one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and driving without a license.

8YOUTH TAKES SEATS ON PORT TOWNSEND CITY

COUNCIL: The two new-

est members of the Port Townsend City Council are in their 30s, which brings an element of youth to a panel that once had no one younger than 45.

The ages of other sitting members on the seven-member council range from their 50s to 70s.

David Faber, 32, and Amy Howard, 33, were elected to the council in the Nov. 3 election.

Faber succeeds Deputy Mayor Kris Nelson, who chose not to run for re-elec-tion. Howard fills the seat vacated by Mayor David King, who also chose not to run again.

That, both Howard and Rice have said, will change the balance of the council.

Their election means that a heretofore unrepre-sented demographic now will have a voice on the council, they have said.

9RACE TO ALASKA: In June, the North-west Maritime Center

sponsored the inaugural Race to Alaska.

Participants traveled 750 miles from Port Townsend to

Ketchikan, Alaska, in non-motorized craft.

There were no restric-tions as to the size of the boat or the number of crew members. The only rule was that each boat travel

under its own power. The race, which ended

on the Fourth of July, drew 53 entries, with 16 finish-ing the race.


Inaugural Race to Alaska gets underway/CONTINUED

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ESTABLISHED 2004

318 Howe RoadPort Angeles, WA 98362

www.catspjsbnb.com

A Bed and Breakfast for Cats, Inc.

The Cat’s Pajamas

360-565-1077

Happy New Year! 611489816

Years

360-379-8025 315 Decatur St. Port Townsend

HAPPYNEW YEAR!

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611

489898

ESTABLISHED 2004

Years

Quail HollowPsychotherapy

PLLC

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Sequimwww.QuailHollowTherapy.com

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ESTABLISHED 2003

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Forty finished the first leg, a 40-mile journey to Victoria. Twenty-nine teams continued on the subsequent 710-mile jour-ney to Alaska.

Team Elsie Piddock came in first to claim a $10,000 prize, while the second-place award, a set of steak knives, went to team MOB Mentality.

The event succeeded beyond the sponsors’ dreams, drawing intense worldwide interest and extensive media coverage.

In August, the maritime center announced that a sec-ond race was scheduled to begin June 23 from Port Townsend, a later start than 2015 to allow increased stu-dent participation.

10PORT TOWNSEND IN THE MOVIES:

When independent film-maker John Sayles arrived in 2014 as the Port Townsend Film Festival’s special guest, he said he might not ever make another movie due to the

money-driven state of the film industry.

That changed when he visited Fort Worden State Park and decided it was the perfect place to film a long-percolating idea about a 19th-century school for Native Americans.

By February, he’d writ-ten the script for “To Save the Man” and began rais-ing money for the movie. By year’s end, he’d made progress, boosted by mega-star Robert Redford becom-ing the executive producer.

Redford is not expected to visit Port Townsend dur-ing filming, according to Maggie Renzi, the film’s producer.

In the fall, Sayles signed a letter of intent to film the movie in July, renting space for the movie that is scheduled to star Chris Cooper, one of the film fes-tival’s 2015 special guests.

A place in pictures/CONTINUED

The three-person crew of Team Elsie Piddock — from left, Capt. Al Hughes, Matt Steverson and Graeme Esarey — with their $10,000 cash prize after winning the Race to Alaska.

9

611490029

Experience the art of dining Thai style in the heart of

Sequim

360-683-8069120 W. Bell

Sequim, WA 98382

ESTABLISHED 2007

www.galarethai.com

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489857

ESTABLISHED 2008

Years

www.CozyCarePetBoarding.net

By Appointment Only

360-681-0113

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611489888

ESTABLISHED 1952

Port AngelesCommunity

Players

Port AngelesCommunity Playhouse

1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

www.pacommunityplayers.com

360-452-6551

Years 8

611

489897

ESTABLISHED 2008

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• stumptown coffee • • fresh lunch / smoothies •• scratch-made pastries •

• wi-fi • drive-thru •

8th & PeabodyPort Angeles

360.452.3999www.theblackbirdcoffeehouse.com

Happy New Year!

9

ESTABLISHED 2007

611489864

Th ank you for 9 great years on the Peninsula!

821 First StreetPort Angeles

360 670-5188

www.tjsfl ooringpa.com

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ESTABLISHED 2007611489886

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1THREE FIRE-FIGHTERS KILLED: The men

perished in August after their vehicle crashed and was engulfed in flames in the Methow River Valley.

Tom Zbyszewski, 20, Andrew Zajac, 26, and Richard Wheeler, 31, were fighting the Okanogan Complex fire, which as the largest wildfire in state history burned more than about 470 square miles.

2AUDITOR INDICTED: Troy Kelley was indicted in

April on charges of money laundering, possession of stolen money and other charges related to his prior operation of a real estate

services firm. Gov. Jay Inslee and

other top officials have called for him to resign but Kelley maintains he’s innocent. His trial is set for March.

3RIDE THE DUCKS CRASH: An outing for new international

students at North Seattle College ended in tragedy when a bus they were on was struck Sept. 24 by an amphibious tour vehicle on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge.

Five students were killed, and dozens were injured.

Authorities have been looking into whether axle failure on the repurposed military “duck boat” caused

the crash.

4LEGISLATURE FINED: In August, the state Supreme

Court announced $100,000 daily fines for the Legisla-ture because justices said lawmakers have failed to adequately pay to educate the state’s 1 million school children following the McCleary education fund-ing lawsuit.

Lawmakers have allo-cated billions of dollars toward public schools, but critics said that’s not enough to meet the requirements in the state Constitution that education be the Legislature’s “para-mount duty.”

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The killing was cap-tured on cellphone video that went viral. Authorities said the 35-year-old from Mexico threw rocks at the officers near a busy inter-section.

A local prosecutor said in September that the offi-cers would not be charged with any crimes.

6SEAHAWKS LOSE SUPER BOWL: Fans anticipating a thrill-

ing, late-fourth-quarter Super Bowl comeback were left dumbstruck when the Seahawks opted for a pass play from the 1-yard line.

Russell Wilson’s throw was picked off and the New England Patriots hung on for a 28-24 victory in Super Bowl XLIX.

7HEAD OF STATE ARRIVES: Chinese President Xi Jinping

started his U.S. visit by speaking to business lead-ers in Seattle, visiting the Boeing production plant in Everett and stopping at a Tacoma high school as part of his three-day swing through Washington state before he headed to the nation’s capital.

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8DEBATE ON IDEN-TITY: Spokane’s Rachel Dolezal

resigned as president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter in June after her parents said she was a white woman posing as black.

The furor touched off fierce debate around the country over racial identity and divided the NAACP itself.

9YAKIMA ELEC-TION: Three Hispanic candidates were

elected to the Yakima City Council following a federal lawsuit. November’s elec-tion was the first since the ACLU sued the city under the Voting Rights Act, demanding that the com-munity’s election system be changed to give Hispanics a better chance.

Yakima, which has about 90,000 residents, is about 40 percent Hispanic.

10CHIPOTLE E. COLI OUT-BREAK: Chipotle

temporarily closed 43 of its Pacific Northwest locations in the fall after a foodborne illness linked to its stores sickened nearly 50 people in Washington and Oregon — prompting renewed scrutiny of a company that touts its use of fresh ingredients and farm-sourced fare.

Cases of the E. coli. ill-nesses were traced to six of the casual Mexican food res-taurants, but the company voluntarily closed down all of its locations in Washing-ton and the Portland, Ore., area as a precaution.

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