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What’s ‘affordable housing’ in Sequim? Who qualifies, what more may be needed by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette

In Sequim, $56,300 is the magic number when defining what’s affordable. That dollar amount is the area median income in Clallam County and is used to base income and rent limits for affordable housing

throughout the county. What’s considered affordable varies from place to place. In neighboring King County, for example, the median income is $89,600. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) calculates the median incomes for all communities, Kay Kassinger, Peninsula Housing Authority ex-

Elk Creek Apartments, east of downtown Sequim off Rhodefer Road is one of few affordable housing properties that isn’t limited to seniors and has the highest density with 138 units. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth

ecutive director, said. Based on the area median income in Clallam County, a person has an “extremely low income” if his or her annual income is $12,150, which still is above the 2015 state poverty guideline of $11,770, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “More than 50 percent of the single households we serve in our

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Teens fueling ballot drive

City councilors support effort to improve safety on Highway 101 Sequim staff proposes temporary shift of Happy Valley intersection

School bond sparks students’ interest in voting process

by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

Emphasis on eelgrass

by MICHAEL DASHIELL Sequim Gazette

For a number of Sequim teens, their first vote may help decided the future of their schools. A growing interest by young voters in the Sequim School District’s efforts to pass a multi-phase school construction bond issue has some Sequim High students talking to their classmates about changes they’d like to see at their ow n school and beyond. “In governWEBB ment class, we’d talked about how the bond barely missed being passed; that was frustrating to me,” SHS senior Emily Webb said. In November, a $49.3 million bond proposal fell just 0.45 percentage points short of a 60 percent supermajority needed for approval. The plan would have helped build a new elementary school, add science classrooms at Sequim High School, add classrooms at Greywolf Elementary School and complete several other projects district officials say are critical to the health of the district. “A lot of my peers hadn’t

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Local scientists continue work to restore a critical habitat

Commissioners put SARC on back burner behind Carlsborg sewer bids

by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is recognized by the Puget Sound Partnership, a state agency tasked with coordinating a variety of partners toward shared statewide goals to restore and protect Puget Sound, as both “critical habitat” and a “vital sign” of Puget Sound because changes in its abundance or distribution reflect changes in environmental conditions. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth

ocal scientists are lending their expertise to offset the global decline of seagrass by studying and restoring eelgrass. “The amount of eelgrass that is being lost is huge,” John Vavrinec, senior research scientist and dive officer at the Marine Sciences Laboratory, said. “In 2009, it was estimated about 30 percent the eelgrass meadows in the world had been lost since the 1940s.” To help address this decline, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine

The City of Sequim is now officially onboard of a grassroots movement to improve safety at U.S. Highway 101 and Happy Valley Road intersection. Sequim city councilors unanimously agreed to support a resolution on Jan. 25, advocating to the “State Legislature to work with the Washington State Department of Transportation to fund safety improvements to SR101.” David Garlington, Sequim Public Works director, said the request includes improvements at Happy Valley Road, Whitefeather Way and Palo Alto Road

by ROB OLLIKAINEN Olympic Peninsula News Group

Sciences Lab in Sequim are working with the state toward a sound-wide goal to restore eelgrass throughout the Puget Sound. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is recognized by the Puget Sound Partnership, the state agency tasked with coordinating a variety of partners toward shared goals to restore and protect Puget Sound, as both “critical habitat” and a “vital sign” of Puget Sound because changes in its abundance or distribution reflect

Clallam County commissioners will open bids for the Carlsborg sewer project before committing Opportunity Fund money to the shuttered Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center. They also agreed Monday, Jan. 25, to hold a public hearing before considering a $731,705 request from SARC to replace an aging air handler for the indoor pool room, which is needed for the athletic facility to reopen through a partnership with the Olympic Peninsula YMCA.

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From page A-1 changes in environmental conditions. As the amount of seagrass, including eelgrass, disappears on a local and global scale, so does an important piece of the overall marine habitat that supports many ecosystem processes. As a flowering, rooted and most widespread species of seagrass, eelgrass provides a variety to ecosystem functions, Ron Thom, lead for the Coastal Ecosystem Research technical group at Marine Sciences Laboratory, said. Examples include its ability to act as feeding grounds and food source, provide habitat for invertebrates and microbes, be a nursery and

Outdoor tanks at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Lab in Sequim are temporarily holding eelgrass from a restoration site off Bainbridge Island at the former site of the Wyckoff Creosote Plant. When the site is ready, the eelgrass will be replanted in hopes of restoring a once vibrant eelgrass meadow. Sequim Gazette photos by Alana Linderoth

spawning area for some fish oxygen to the water, trap and shellfish, protect shore- nutrients and cycle it and lines from erosion, improve sequester carbon. water transparency, provide Seagrass meadows oc-

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To fully rehabilitate and locally release eagles and similar-sized birds, Jaye Moore, director of the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim, and Cynthia Daily, director of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend, have combined forces to relocate a flight pen from eastern Washington to the Olympic Peninsula. Flight pens are large enclosures used to rebuild and MOORE strengthen injured or young birds’ abilities to fly before release back into the wild. “It’s like physical therapy for birds,” Moore said. “It can take a couple of months.” After regulations changed, the flight pen Moore had no longer met the size required under the permits administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife that both Moore and Daily operate under. “We started having to transport any eagles and bigger birds needing lots of flight time off the peninsula,” Moore said. A lt houg h nece ss a r y,

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From page A-1 “We have to have numbers verified for the board to make the right decision,” board chairman Mike Chapman said. The delay means that the planned reopening of SARC has been pushed back from July to September, YMCA and SARC officials told commissioners in their weekly work session.

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“It’s touch-and-go for us right now in terms of money,” SARC board chairman Frank Pickering said. “We need to get this done, but I am also sensitive to the public process.” Commissioners today are expected to call for bids on the estimated $12.1 million construction of the Carlsborg sewer. The sewer project is funded in large part by the sales taxsupported Opportunity Fund for rural infrastructure. Bids will be opened in a public meeting March 1. A public hearing on the SARC request will be held later that month on a date to be determined. Chapman proposed the delay to ensure that the Carlsborg project is fully funded and that the numbers behind the SARC proposal are independently verified

Moore explained, relocating eagles to other rescues often results in eagles native to the Olympic Peninsula being released in unknown territory. “We always try to put them back to where they came from because it’s familiar to them and it’s just so important we do everything we can to support our native wildlife.” she said. Large raptors like eagles are intrinsic to the Olympic Peninsula by providing a variety of ecological functions, Daily said. “They’re a top predator, so eagles help keep the ecosystem healthy and in check,” she said. “They’re also scavengers.” Allowing Moore and Daily the opportunity to once again locally release eagles and large birds that require time in a flight pen, the owner of the closing raptor center in Yakima is donating a flight pen. The pen is 100-feet long, 16-feet tall and 36-feet across. “This is huge for us,” Moore said. “It will make all the difference in the world to us.” However, to disassemble, transport via a semi-trailer, excavate an area and reassemble the flight pen at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue is projected to cost $15,000. “We’re hoping to get it moved and running by or

by the county auditor and treasurer’s offices. Chapman said doing so would avoid the potential of repeating last year’s clash between commissioners and County Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis over the release of $1.3 million in Opportunity Fund money to the Port of Port Angeles and City of Port Angeles. Barkhuis rejected the warrants for those grants during a four-month feud because there was no public hearing or signed contracts prior to their approval. “I would caution the board that this to me this seems like the exact same situation,” Chapman said. “I’m open to this project. I have not decided yet. But for me, I need to see this bid for the Carlsborg sewer.” Chapman noted that the SARC funding was not spelled out in the county budget. Chapman added that a signed agreement between

before spring,” Moore said. “That’s when we get really busy.” Working to get a shared flight pen is one of many examples of the longtime collaboration between Daily and Moore. “We’ve worked together for years,” Daily said. Considering the average demand from both rescues, Daily estimates about 20-25 local birds will benefit from the flight pen. Aside from eagles, the flight pen will assist in the rehabilitation of species like peregrine falcons, pelicans, osprey, hawks and great-horned owls, she said.

100 Feet to Freedom To help secure the flight pen, Merryn Welch, a volunteer at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center, has spearheaded the event “100 Feet to Freedom.” The benefit at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 19, at Studio Bob, 118 1/2 E. Front St., Port Angeles, seeks to illuminate the importance of the area’s eagles and other wild bird species through an entertaining evening of live music, art and education. Since volunteering at the center Welch has witnessed the release of native birds and describes the experience as “profound.” “It’s critical that we’re able to release these birds back into areas they’re familiar with,” she said.

Without a larger flight pen, all eagles brought back to health at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim or Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend must be transported off the Olympic Peninsula to undergo their final stage of rehabilitation, but the directors of both local wild bird rescues hope to change that. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth

Between 7-8 p.m., ning, creating art for the 100 Feet to Freedom Moore and Daily will host silent auction. What: An evening to benefit locally a raptor show with rapFor more information rehabilitating and releasing eagles tors from both rescues on the eagle enclosure When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19 and provide a presentaand/or to donate, visit Where: Studio Bob, 118 1/2 E. Front tion on the flight pen and www.gofundme.com/ St., Port Angeles its importance. pncvup7w, the NorthCost: $10 suggested donation. Following the show west Raptor & Wildlife and presentation, bands Center (nwraptorcenter. More info: All ages welcome, live ranging in styles from com or call 681-2283) or music, silent auction, guest artists, “classic and acoustic to Discovery Bay Wild Bird raptor show and presentation gypsy, pirate punk,” will Rescue (discoverybayresonate through the wildbirdrescue.com or dancing begins, local artists studio, Welch said. The call 360-379-0802). line-up includes Pufnstuff, Regie Saxerud, Ruth Kaspin, Donations also are acThe Crocs, Bread & Gravy Elaine Bawden, Shallon cepted at Pet Town in Port Bawden and Craig Dills will Townsend or Wild Birds and Rogues’ End. While music plays and the work throughout the eve- Unlimited in Gardiner.

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SARC and the YMCA would be necessary for his support of the grant. “I would strongly ask the board to consider a public hearing process, a budget change process and the requisite public hearings and have that right after we get the bids for Carlsborg,” Chapman said. “It’s going to take a little time, but we didn’t do that last year,” he said. “We got caught up. It took months to finally get monies released. It just wasn’t a good process and I’m personally not willing to go down that process again.” First-year Commissioner Mark Ozias agreed. “I’m certainly in favor of doing things differently than were done last year,” said Ozias, whose district covers the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Read the full version of the story online at www. sequimgazette.com.

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Garden club favorite returns for presentation Sequim Gazette staff

She couldn’t stay away for long — and her fellow green thumbs wouldn’t want her to. Former Sequim resident Eleanor Garthwaite, a longtime member of the Sequim Prairie Garden Club, presents “The Secret Lives of Plants” at the club’s next meeting, set for 10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1, at the Pioneer Park Clubhouse, 387 E. Washington St. “Since I was small, I would garden with my mother and father,” the 88-year-old Garthwaite said. “I love to garden; it’s one of the healthiest things you can do. I call it playing in the dirt.” Garthwaite and her husband, residents of Sequim since 1990, recently moved to Bainbridge Island, into an assisted-living facility near where their daughter lives. Of those 26 years in Sequim, Garthwaite was a club member for about 23 years. She said her husband Phillip was in the U.S. Navy for three decades, so she’s lived in numerous places across the globe. “Sequim is one of the best places you can live,” she said. “This is the most wonderful (place); I love all the weather, love the overcast days. I got so used to moving. It was easy … except this time.” During her time with the Sequim

In November 2015, Laura Singer, Sequim Prairie Garden Club member (left), stands with longtime club member Eleanor Garthwaite, who is the guest speaker at the club’s Feb. 1 meeting. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

club, Garthwaite gladly shared her experiences in her garden and quickly became what club member Laura Singer described as “our gardening guru” and a popular meeting program presenter. She also was a main contributor to the club’s annual plant and garden sales. Singer helped put together a book of 10 presentations Garthwaite gave to the club along with short horticultural

reports and a few old photos — including one of her hula-hooping in the 2007 Sequim Irrigation Parade. Despite the move, Garthwaite said she’ll find a way to keep gardening — and continue to talk to plants and weeds. “I go and play in her dirt,” she said. “The weeds, they talk to me. They’re upset with us. They’re doing their job and they don’t like being called weeds.”

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COMMUNITY NEWS BRIEFS Royalty at WAG event The 2015 Sequim Irrigation Festival royalty, Queen Megan O’Mera and Princesses Morgan King, Emily Larson and Amanda Sanders, will be at Petco, 1205 W. Washington St., Sequim, to support Welfare for Animals from 3-4:15 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. Meet the royalty and WAG pets up for adoption. Bring your camera for photos. Donations to support WAG are welcome.

Get free health screenings Free screenings are available for mammograms, colonoscopies and Pap tests through the Breast, Cervical & Colon Health Program in Clallam County. You may qualify if you are ages 40-64 or 35-40 with breast symptoms, are uninsured or underinsured or not qualified for Apple Health, and fall within income guidelines. Call Nancy Adams at 4522012 for eligibility information.

Genealogy class is Saturday Learn the basics of how to find your ancestors in the next “I know nothing about genealogy” class provided by the Clallam County Genealogical Society from 1:303 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at the CCGS Research Center’s monthly open house. The open house is from noon-4 p.m. and everyone is invited to look over the Research Center, do some Saturday research, or have a cup of coffee and munchies. The Research Center is at 402 E. Lauridsen Blvd. in Port Angeles. To reserve a place in the class or for more information, call 417-5000 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday or check out the CCGS website at www.clallamcogs.org.

SARC board is seeking volunteers for maintenance Volunteers are sought to help maintain the exterior of the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center until a plan for the facility is finalized. Maintenance tasks include lawn mowing, weed eating and/or spraying and clearing debris, such as leaves. If interested in volunteering or if you have questions, contact SARC Commissioner Bill Jeffers at 670-6961.

Word processor is topic The Strait Mac Users Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim. Glenn Gilliam, owner of MacTraders, will demonstrate Apple’s word processing program called Pages. He will outline the basics of the program along with some of the more advanced features. He will demonstrate both the Mac OS and iOs versions of Pages and how they integrate with Photos and iCloud. For more information, contact Jerry Freilich at 457-4660.

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Timberwolves on the Clock Hannah Hampton, a Sequim Middle School sixth-grader, competes in the “Chocolate Unicorn” at Sequim Middle School’s “Minute to Win It” event on Jan. 22. The school’s annual event features games for students who have good attendance, no missing homework assignments and no discipline issues. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

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From page A-1 intersecting the highway. City officials say they’ve been in discussion with the Washington State Department of Transportation about this stretch of highway for a number of years. “The answer we continue to get is that it doesn’t rate because there are so many intersections with worse accident records so that’s where the money has to go,” Garlington said. In a previous interview, John Wynands, WSDOT’s assistant region administrator for project development, said, that there are 700 worse intersections in the state than Happy Valley and safety projects are prioritized by the number of car wrecks. In the past 10 years, 24 incidents have been reported by WSDOT within a quartermile radius of the Happy Valley Road intersection ranging from from vehicles striking deer and rear endings to vehicles overturning. City officials say traffic has

A portion of Keeler Park may play a role in providing right of way for shifting the intersection of Happy Valley Road about 200 feet to the west as an interim solution to create safer passage from Happy Valley to U.S. Highway 101. Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash

increased 23 percent from 2000-2014. For those unfamiliar with the intersection, there’s a rise in the road that prevents drivers from seeing if there is a break in traffic from the left. Garlington said there isn’t any simple solution to improve safety such as posting signs that would “make it safer for people leaving Happy Valley to come into town.” Drivers not wanting to turn left choose one of two options: go east and look for a U-turn or drive up Happy Valley in a large detour, he said.

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about offering a cheap, sim- School District. Rudolf said she’s excited to ple solution when we need see the city council support more.” the safety proposals and she Letters to Legislature plans to deliver an informaTo find funding for the tional packet to Sen. Patty projects, city officials say they Murray’s office to wait and must advocate to legislators. see what happens. “If I have to follow up, I will “There’s no program that’s going to produce the mag- … I’m not going to let it die,” nitude of safety improve- she said. Rudolf said her household ments that we want to see,” Garlington said. “Legislators continues to use the intersecwill have to put it into the tion and she’s still worried about school buses using the transportation bill.” City councilors Dennis intersection and the growing Smith, Candace Pratt, Bob population south of Happy Lake and Genaveve Starr Valley Road that will use the and City Manager Charlie road more over time. “It’s going to take someBush, City Attorney Craig Ritchie and City Clerk Karen body getting killed (to get Kuznek-Reese traveled to attention) and we’re trying Olympia on Tuesday, Jan. 26, to prevent that,” Rudolf said. to meet with legislators. Bush said this is a topic they plan Other options to bring up. The plan prior to construcHappy Valley Road resident tion of the U.S. Highway 101 Shirley Rudolf and her hus- bypass would have improved band Gary have been advo- the geometry of the highway cating for improvements to including Happy Valley Road, legislators and WSDOT for Garlington said, but funding some time through petition was cut short for finishing signatures and writing let- projects like restructurters, which include support ing the road to parallel the from the Clallam County Fire highway and connect with District 3, Clallam County Simdars Road. However, Garlington said Sheriff’s Office and Sequim

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We asked Bob Forde, creator of the Truth in Taxation website, to expand on some of his concerns with the Sequim School District’s $54 million school construction bond proposal. • What motivated you to create the website? There are always two sides to an issue. Most, if not all, information published has been pro-bond. Friends and neighbors around the community have expressed their concern about the frequency of this school district with yet another attempt to raise revenue. The concern, of FORDE course, is that the bond would result in higher (and often unaffordable) taxes for 20 years — a bond which would total $84-$94 million with interest. As a result, the website — TT323. org — was created for the purpose of disseminating information in an affordable manner, to share with folks a point of view that reflects why many are opposed to this bond as presented. Putting the website address on every sign allows an easy way for people to contact us, both pro and con, and discuss the various impacts this bond would have on those who will bear the burden of it.

Sequim High students Taylor Bullock and Emily Webb present information about the Sequim School District’s construction bond proposal to classmates in early January. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

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From page A-1 voted and that would have made a difference,” Webb said. This February, Sequim school advocates are seeking support for a $54 million bond. Ballots went to voters in the Sequim School District on Jan. 20, with a Feb. 9 election date. The bond has received public support from the City of Sequim, Clallam County commissioners and Olympic Medical Center’s board. Sequim High School government teachers have used the school construction bond issue to engage students in the voting process, guiding students through the online voter registration online process. For some students, like Webb, getting registered was just one part of the process. She and other SHS Leadership class students began posting pictures and videos of what they consider outdated facilities they’d like to see upgraded in the bond proposal, including the school’s science classrooms and the district kitchen. “One day I just put on my Snapchat story (about a) leaky roof in the office — it was kind of a funny thing,” Webb said. “Emma (Eekhoff, a classmate) posted in on Facebook and it got tons of publicity … for Sequim. I thought, ‘Hey, this would be a great way for students to get involved.’” Soon, Webb and others were seeking out other parts of the district the bond seeks to address and posting more photos and videos. “No one knew what the base kitchen was — I didn’t even knew it existed,” Webb said. “Having visuals and from a student … kids that actually experience this every day, it’s a different perspective,” she said. Eekhoff added, “We would make fun how we get so used to the conditions we live in and joke around about it, like we took a picture of a puddle (and wrote), ‘Wow, Sequim has a swimming pool now.’” The photos and videos started spreading out to classmates and then their parents, Webb and Eekhoff said.

• Do you feel the district isn’t addressing key components of the bond proposal? Which parts and what are the most troubling? I think the district wants to get as close to their original “wish list” as they can. The world I live in says, “Live within your means.” Most families have to live within their budget based on their income. First and foremost, the “needs” should be addressed, like toilets. One wonders why more of the money from the levy for which we are still paying is not used to address some of these needed repairs and upgrades. The last $5.78 million “Maintenance & Operation” levy that we’re still paying has had only $316,000 allocated to “maintenance.” In addition, the Legislature is in the process of addressing the schoolfunding issue as mandated by the State Supreme Court. Let’s give the Legislature time to work on this before we jam through a 20-year bond on the backs of the local taxpayers.

Emma Eekhoff speaks at a Sequim City Council meeting in early January, encouraging councilors to back the Sequim School District’s $54 million school construction bond. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth

“We can help in such a big way,” Eekhoff said. “Parents aren’t really in the high school. They don’t see the interior. We didn’t realize the power we had with social media.” Student support has branched out past social media circles as well. Eekhoff and Megan O’Mera, SHS senior class president, advocated for the Sequim City Council’s support at city meeting in early January. Like most of her classmates who are registered to vote, Webb is a senior and likely won’t use any of the updated facilities if the bond gains approval. But Webb does have a younger sister, a sixth-grader, who would. “This is my last year to make a difference (but) even if I didn’t have younger siblings, there are younger kids that I know; (this is) for them, too,” Webb said. “School means a lot to me and this is letting our community members know what’s going on,” Eekhoff said.

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• Would you oppose an amended version of the bond proposal? Or, if you could change what the district is asking for, how would you change the proposal? It would depend upon what is specifically targeted as “needed.” The costs anticipated in the current bond proposal seem very excessive, perhaps in part because Seattle contractors and suppliers will be getting all the money at the very high Seattle prevailing rates, rather than local labor and businesses. Perhaps by biting this off in smaller pieces, we could employ the local labor force and materials suppliers, to help our economy, rather than that of Seattle. In other states, rapid expansion of school buildings later produced nothing but empty school buildings. Our student population is in decline. One suggestion would be that the school board actively pursue the county timber money that was earmarked for schools, fire districts, etc., that has not been received. Overall, this amounts to millions of dollars. Currently, there is a shortfall in the promised amount of timber harvest. Our county timber trust lands are currently managed by the State Department of Natural Resources. They agreed to cut a certain amount of timber and they are years in arrears of their agreed-upon harvest. It amounts to a tremendous amount of money that could become available to schools for all purposes, including construction. • What kind of responses have your site and signs around town generated? They seem to be making an impact, mostly favorable. Some have been angry that there is opposition to the bond. Most of the folks we’ve heard from are telling us that they just “can’t afford” any more taxes — many live on a fixed income. When we add a nearly 35 percent school property tax increase to the other increases in taxes, utilities and fees, taxation reaches an unsupportable level for many homeowners in our school district, an amount much larger than the 25 percent recommended for housing. Several landlords we’ve talked to say they will have to raise rents, which will hurt our most vulnerable citizens. One person said, “What good is my supporting a huge bond when I’m strapped now to pay my mortgage and taxes. I’ll lose my home if I can’t pay even ‘more’ taxes.”

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Doctors Neil Cays and Diana Thompson-Young stand in Sequim Vision Clinic’s new facility where they wanted to be closer to Sequim’s medical corridor and partnering agencies that they co-manage patients with in the area. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Sequim Vision Clinic eyes move Owner says they wanted to be in medical corridor by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

After 10 years on Washington Street, Sequim Vision Clinic recently made the move to the medical center of Sequim. Dr. Diana Thompson-Young, owner of the clinic since 2000, said she wanted her business to be closer to the medical corridor of Sequim on Fifth Avenue. “This gets us closer to everyone we work with,” she said, listing some partnering businesses like Northwest Eye Surgeons and Retina Center Northwest. She purchased the former Sound Community Bank building last year and hosted her first patients on Jan. 11. Thompson-Young continues to work with Dr. Neil Cays who helps patients three days a week. Cays, a Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Pioneer in 2013, opened the clinic in 1970 after practicing optometry in

Ellensburg. He wanted to open a clinic imaging device, which the doctors can sooner in Sequim but said he waited use in-house and send pictures to other until there were enough people in the doctors/specialists. area to do so. Cays said by co-managing patients With the move, Thompson-Young with other facilities they can request said they continue to or send needed inoffer the same priformation which can mary eye care services Sequim Vision Clinic help for treatment like as before along with Location: 541 N. Fifth Ave. glaucoma. vision therapy, low Staff: Dr. Diana K. ThompsonSequim Vision Clinic vision services, con- Young, Dr. Neil R. Cays continues to accept new tacts/glasses services, Contact: 683-3389, www. patients with regular and more. appointments available sequimvisionclinic.com Over the years, the Hours: By appointment, typically between twodoctors agree the big- schedule from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 four weeks. Thompsongest shift in their p.m. Monday-Friday Young said they try to business has been schedule patients with technology. emergencies sooner. “It’s hard to keep up with the As for the clinic’s former building at changing technology,” Thompson- 128 E. Washington St., Jose’s Famous Young said, which can costs hun- Salsa owner Jose Garcia said he plans dreds of thousands of dollars per to expand into the space but has not set machine. a timeline. “But it’s nice to have other facilities to For more information on Sequim co-manage with.” Vision Clinic, 541 N. Fifth Ave., call They recently purchased an Opto- 683-3389 or visit www.sequimvisionmap, an ultra-wide digital retinal clinic.com.

Valentines for veterans begins Sequim Gazette staff

Drennan & Ford Funeral Home and Crematory has started its sixth annual “Operation Valentine” collection program. “Operation Valentine” is a project that allows students, teachers, parents and anyone in the community to create a handmade Valentine card to be delivered to a U.S. veteran

or active duty service person. Valentines may include words of encouragement, get well sentiments, thank you for serving, etc. The valentines can be in the form of cut out hearts, folded paper with a note, drawings and the like. Envelopes are not necessary. It is also requested that a return response from the veteran not be requested as the nature of their injury or

sort and package the valentines for distribution to the veterans and service people. For more information, call illness or the status of their current service may preclude 457-1210. them from responding. Drennan & Ford owners Steve and Leah Ford will collect the valentines at the schools on Feb. 2. Valentines also can be brought to the Drennan & Ford office at 260 Monroe Road in Port Angeles between 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday through Feb. 2. Drennan & Ford will then

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Olympic Veterinary Clinic opens new facility After a major renovation, Olympic Veterinary Clinic celebrates the completion of its new, larger location at 1331 E. Front St. in Port Angeles. Dr. Dwight Waknitz and his staff offer routine exams, wellness checkups, spay and neuter, X-ray, ultrasound, dental, surgical and emergency services. The 6,000-square-foot facility is three times as big as its previous building. For more information, call 452-8978 or visit www.olympicveterinaryclinic.com.

Personal protection classes start Fit4Life Studio, 1245 W. Washington St., welcomes Ken Pannell who will be teaching Empowerment & Awareness: Concepts of Personal Protection classes starting at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 1. Pannell will present an entertaining and fun course on self-protection emphasizing empowerment and awareness. Classes will consist of various awareness drills and exercises, physical training and lectures. Fit4Life Studio also welcomes Kristin LaMoure who will teach a Zumba class on Wednesdays starting in February at 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact Fit4Life Studio at 360-464-5231 or www.fit4lifesequim.com.

Windermere to host open houses In the market for a new home? The public is invited to a Windermere open house event from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 30-31. This is an excellent opportunity to tour homes for sale in Sequim and Port Angeles. Drop by one of Windermere’s offices for a map and list of open houses. Offices are Sequim-East, 842 E. Washington St., Sequim, 683-4844; Sunland, 137 Fairway Drive, Sequim, 683-6880; and Port Angeles, 711 E. Front St., Port Angeles, 457-0456.

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Short history of Sequim Schools:

In 1868 it was found that the original Sequim school had been outgrown within twenty years and voters agreed to build a new, larger school building. In 1911 the School Board announced plans to build a newer structure over the summer months that would double the capacity of the first two buildings. The eight room, two-story building was demolished in 1952.

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As roads had improved throughout the east end and motor vehicles replaced horse-drawn school busses, eleven smaller schools were consolidated into the Sequim District between 1913 and 1938. To meet the demand of a growing population, a new brick building was finished in 1922. That building, the old brick high school building, has been added to three times and partly remodeled in early 2000’s. Other high school buildings were erected in 1969. Eventually a new elementary school was built on Alder Street. After Helen Haller Elementary School was built, the Alder Street school served as the middle school. In the 1990’s a new middle school and an addition to the high school were added to the campus.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Opponent now supports school bond

On Feb. 9 we will be voting for the third time on a bond issue to improve and enhance buildings in the Sequim School District. Before going further I want to state that I voted against the last two issues. I felt, like a lot of the voters, that the costs were too high and, at least in my case, I could not afford the increase in taxes. When I visit the schools in our district, I see the future citizens of our country and I also see that they are receiving a good education and the basics for further education, if they so desire. You and I can be proud of these young people, as they receive an education that many of us did not have the opportunity to achieve. My father often said, “You get exactly what you are willing to pay for. Nothing more, nothing less.” I am personally proud, as a member, that Sequim Prairie Grange at their January meeting, voted to support this vital bond issue. I would respectfully ask that you take time to visit the schools in our district and observe some of the conditions that would be improved by the passage of this bond issue. It is far better to vote with knowledge, rather than vote in ignorance. Community pride is a precious ingredient, which we can ill afford to throw away. Let all of us show this pride and vote for the bond issue. Robert J. Clark Sequim

Fearmongering is shameful

I am saddened and dismayed by the campaign of misinformation and fearmongering being mounted by the Truth in Taxation group against the school bond. The bond is for $54 million. There are no hidden or secret costs. Like any bond or home loan, there are interest expenses incurred for the term of the bond or loan. Those costs already have been incorporated into the cost per $1,000 for tax purposes. There are no costs or fees that are going to suddenly appear after the bond is approved. The bond supporters have been very transparent in their accounting and publications. They invite anyone to tour the schools to see for themselves where the need is most critical and how the money is going to be spent. Their goal is honest and open communication and education with the voters. The opposition’s negative innuendos and fearmongering is shameful. I urge voters to get educated and don’t be misled. Most of all vote! Let’s get this bond passed! Brenda Carpenter Sequim

Support for bond is ‘responsible thing’

I have been noticing billboards around town urging people to vote against the Sequim Schools construction bond which has set me to thinking. It seems to me that these folks are able to forget, and want you to forget as well, that their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents’ community bound together to build schools for them to attend and receive a free public education. They wish to forget that all the way back to the first settlers in this country the first public construction, after the church, was the school because our founders knew that good citizens require good education. They wish to forget that even if theirs was a one-room school house with dirt floors and no inside plumbing, that their community built for them the best school they could afford. They wish to believe that they are self-made and their wealth today is strictly the result of their personal hard work and wish to forget that they would not have their success if their community hadn’t recognized its responsibility to build schools to provide for their education. They would like to believe that the school construction bond is government’s way of tricking them out of their hard-earned wealth when in fact it is our community’s way of assessing ourselves to pay back those that provided schools for us and providing that same opportunity to our children and our children’s children. They are happy to take their Social Security benefits but don’t wish to contribute to the education of those children that will be paying for those benefits. I would like to urge you to do the morally right and responsible thing and vote to pass the Sequim Schools construction bond as a small token of repayment to those before you that provided so much for you. Tom Williamson Sequim

New elementary school not needed

To quote Jim Stoffer, a member of the Sequim School Board, “Excellent schools benefit the entire community … ” Some friends and I have united in an informal committee — NO on Sequim Bond — to express why we will vote no on the present school bond. First and foremost, we are for excellent schools and we do support our schools. What we do not support is excessive spending and poor management of our schools. Having recently toured our schools, I asked myself, “Why were our schools allowed to get in the poor conditions they are presently in and where did the maintenance/ upkeep money go?” The schools need to be repaired, fixed up, added to, etc. I think the base kitchen needs a big time renovation, our elementary schools need to be renovated and have new classrooms added, and additional bathrooms need to be added, we need to upgrade our performing arts center, and other improvements listed in the present school bond and even more. However, I do not think spending $28.5 million to build a new elementary school makes any sense at this time when the school administration has stated they project a 144-student increase over the next seven years. The voters have turned down two recent school bonds and then only a few weeks after the last turn down, the school board put forth a new bond increased by $5 million because of rising construction costs. Did not they hear or understand the voters? The voters do not want or cannot afford new taxes. Also saying construction costs are up $5 million in just a couple of weeks when wages and salaries are flat, cost of living indexes are near zero, no Social Security increase

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Location, location, location As a consumer of local news you’ve probably read or heard about the proposed Dungeness reservoir …? If not, it’s imagined as an 80-plus acre lake on DNR land southwest of Sequim that fills in the winter and summer and drains in the spring and fall. River water, when running high in May and June, could be used to fill it. Plus it would capture and control raging storm runoff from Burnt Hill before it floods properties in the city. The stored water would supply farms so amply that up to half the Water river flow would Matters stay in stream Ann Soule when sa lmon need it in late summer. The location is ideal: state-owned land already used for recreation and high enough for gravity to deliver the water via existing irrigation networks when and where it’s needed. Every single person I’ve heard from thinks this imagined reservoir is a wonderful idea and they’re clearly having fun imagining other new uses for a large body of water: bird watching, fishing, paddle boarding and so on. What’s not to love? Well — besides details like fish not surviving a periodically dry lakebed — the price tag. It will take some serious imagination to find sources of capital funding to secure the land and creatively fund future operations. Our community of water managers is up to the task, and in fact, already has started making contacts and seeking grants. If we think a new lake sounds wonderful now, it will be sacred in dry years in the future. We are not unique. The wisdom of storing water is grandly exhibited in massive, decorated Roman cisterns built or carved

underneath cities in ancient times throughout the dry Mediterranean region, affording survival during siege and luxury otherwise. These were filled with roof runoff and/or with stream water delivered via aqueducts. European settlers of the U.S. colonies commonly used private cisterns until piped water systems were engineered and built in the 19th and 20th centuries. Pioneers settling the West took advantage of vast open spaces and built irrigation systems, storage ponds and reservoirs as fast and as often as they could. Here in Sequim, settlers recognized that their future irrigation water was conveniently stored by Mother Nature in mountain snowpack until growing season when it melted and flowed downhill, into the waiting arms of Crazy Callen and other ditch diggers. Irrigation canals crawl all over maps drawn in the early 20th century. Storage ponds were (and still are) a wise way to supplement and hedge dry times on a farm. In a profound twist in Sequim’s hydrologic story, vast sand and gravel aquifers (natural cisterns, if you will) were recharged inadvertently summer after summer for a century through miles of leaking irrigation ditches and ponds. Now that water supplies are more carefully shared between human and environmental needs, unintentional leakage is minimal. Intentional recharge into a natural storage system conveniently located under our city, on the other hand, is another opportunity worth considering. You never know when we might be under siege.

this year and near zero growth in the economy following a decade of economic recession, does not compute. Is this good management of our money? How can we afford additional taxes for extras not needed? Dan Perry wrote a letter to the editor (“Bond pushes excess capacity,” Sequim Gazette, Jan. 13, page A-11) in which he spoke of excess capacity in our schools and the possibility of the federal government; and I add, our state government; looking around at small communities having excess school capacity so they can park a few thousand refugees. Is this a possibility? I believe it is. Does building a new elementary school for an additional 144 new students over seven years equate to excess capacity? I urge a no vote on the present $54 million bond and when it fails, I ask our school board to immediately place a new bond with $28.5 million (money for a new elementary school) less than the present bond before the voters. I would vote for it. Lew Norris Sequim

bankers and the time funds are disbursed for improvements. Public agency bonds are sold on the bond market to investors who expect a return on that investment. Of course, the cost to repay the bonds is going to be more than the amount of issuance! If repayment were only at par value, nobody would buy the bonds! The district’s website provides tools for property owners to calculate increased property taxes attributable to the bond issue. Whether the total amount of interest on those bonds over time is $20 million, $30 million or some other amount will ultimately be determined by prevailing rates at the time of sale and other factors. Maybe the state will finally be able to fulfill its constitutional obligation to properly fund K-12 and help retire the bonds early. In my opinion, the district is not deceiving anyone because they provide us with the tools to calculate our increased taxes. The opponents are the ones who are attempting to dupe voters with their misleading political signs! I moved to Sequim as a retiree about eight years ago. I have no children or grandchildren in school here. But, I’m voting FOR the school bond because I believe it is my duty to the community in which I live to do so! With that vote I will be able to help pay back for the opportunities provided to me and pay forward to provide opportunities to future generations. I urge other voters to do their duty and support the Sequim School District $54 million bond issue! Jack Reagan Sequim

Cheap shot on school bond issue

I’ve recently seen signs sprouting up around Sequim that supporters of the $54 million school bond issue are lying to voters — that the real cost will be $84 million. The bond opponents planting those signs either don’t have a clue about public finance or are themselves intentionally deceiving voters. If the February bond issue is approved, $54 million will be available for needed school infrastructure. It might be a little more with positive arbitrage on the funds held by the district between sale of the bonds by investment

Geek Moment: Current snow depth in the upper Dungeness basin on Jan. 21 = 29 inches Cumulative rainfall in Sequim for the water year (starting Oct. 1) = 12.9 inches Ann Soule is a licensed hydrogeologist working on water quality and quantity concerns in the Dungeness watershed since 1990. She now works for the City of Sequim. Reach her at columnists@sequimgazette.com.

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Don’t sign blank check

In the Jan. 20 edition of the Sequim Gazette’s letters section (page A-8), a writer complained about the Tell The Truth (Truth in Taxation) people pointing out the fact that the school board is stating the amount of money they want to spend on the schools and not including the interest that it would cost to borrow said money. He then points out the fact that when a homebuyer agrees to buy a home on an agreed on price and then goes to a lender for financing the buyer is told the total amount of interest that the buyer will be paying for the loan which then becomes the total cost of the home. This is correct. In the case of the school district borrowing, aren’t the voters the buyers who should be told of the entire amount they will be paying for this financing including interest? I certainly think so. I seriously doubt that the writer would enter into any agreement where he did not know the total bottom line cost yet he expects the voters to sort of sign a blank check for this project. I suggest the school board get the amount of interest this will cost and let the voters know exactly what they are committing to. Dick Sutterlin Sequim

Approving bond ‘right thing to do’

We and our colleagues are retired senior residents of the Sequim School District. We focus our efforts on creating a healthy, safe, sustainable and vibrant environment for all current and future generations. As a critically essential component of these efforts, we very strongly urge all Sequim School District voters to support the Sequim School Bond Measure on Feb. 9. After carefully analyzing extensive publicly available data comparing educational system performance and funding across school districts for all states, we have concluded that the Facilities Improvements included in the Feb. 9 Sequim School District Bond Measure are a minimum set of absolutely necessary facilities improvements. In turn, these facility improvements will provide a critically important increase in BOTH the efficiency (effective learning hours per year/per student/per student annual expenditure) of the Sequim School District operations AND the safety for all associated with the Sequim School District operations. Finally, this enhanced efficiency and safety will increase the ability of Sequim and our neighboring areas to achieve and sustain the flow of goods and services necessary to achieve the key community goals listed above. As retired seniors, we and our colleagues must closely manage our respective budgets including our taxes. In the case of the Sequim School District Bond Measure on Feb. 9, we have concluded that the “right thing to do (including fairness/equity across generations)” fortuitously coincides with individual self-interest for all generations. Please join us to celebrate this special event by voting for the Sequim School Bond Measure on Feb. 9. George and Marcella Cluff Sequim

Let’s just do it!

Can we please pass the Sequim school bond? Last time we were just a few dozen votes shy of the 60 percent supermajority needed. A few angry, anti-tax folks ask when will we take no for an answer. Unfortunately, the school facilities needs identified eight years ago only grow as each year passes without addressing them. Our schools’ dedicated teachers and staff have been making do with outdated and overcrowded facilities for decades. These older facilities were never designed and built with today’s technological and safety requirements in mind and they’ve reached their retrofitting limit. Some buildings have been condemned and the campuses are turning into trailer park schools cluttered with temporary, portable classrooms without restrooms and adequate ventilation systems. Some of these “temporary” classrooms have been in use for over 25 years. Meanwhile our community aquatic recreation facility sits shuttered because of a lack of support. An organized minority of voters are so opposed to taxes, they fundraise and campaign with distorted and misleading facts against the school bond. All this, even though Sequim School District taxes are second lowest on the Olympic Peninsula and would be less than half the state average with passage of the bond. It saddens me to imagine the future of this wonderful community I’m so proud to call home if we allow a minority of anti-tax folks to determine our fate. Let’s not let our community turn into a little Detroit. We’re better than this, Sequim. Please vote yes for the Sequim school bond. Joe Holtrop Sequim

Questions remain in bond issue For some time now voters have been asked to support a bond initiative which would fund no less than seven school district projects. Independently, each appears to be a worthy project. My concern arises from funding them all at once. Few of us have a budget which allows us to buy a home, a new car, appliances and furniture all at the same time. Yet somehow we’re expected to support a similar effort for our school district at the recommendation of the superintendent whose salary is almost that of the governor of the state. What is proposed is clear. What is not clear is what options have been explored or why priorities have not been set. So many questions remain. Specifically, is there no room to adjust the modernization to a level that is more fiscally palatable? Cannot a portion of the existing science rooms be refurbished and fewer than six science classrooms added? Many college campuses do not integrate choir and band rooms into the main campus. Cannot the room used by the cheerleaders or one of the 22 portables be “repurposed” to store the band’s instruments? If the new elementary school is to replace the Hellen Haller campus, what economies can be realized to reduce the $28,509,611? How will cost overruns be addressed? Sequim has limited employment. What are the projections for the nature of the families coming to Sequim? Of equal concern is the nature of the funding for the bond initiative. Is the amount to repay the bonds (67 cents per $1,000 of assessed value) fixed based on the year the measure is passed, or does it increases each year with each increase in assessed property value. With assessed property values increasing by more than $10,000 each year, this becomes a large sum indeed. Having a bond initiative which sets priorities and allows voters to determine which projects to fund might help. At the federal level we have a government characterized by runaway expenditures. I would like to think we can conduct ourselves more responsibly at the community level. Robert Rochon Sequim

More ‘mistruth’ than truth

The Preamble to our Constitution begins with a phrase cherished by every American: “We the people … ” For the first time, an entire nation spoke with a single voice proclaiming they were united in pursuing the eternal Truths of Equality, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. These Truths were proclaimed to be “unalienable Rights,” “self-evident” to those who then proclaimed themselves to be Americans. From the get-go, we’ve been a nation of truthseekers. Claiming to be “Telling the Truth,” creators of tt[“truth-truth”]323.org have assembled a collection of falsehoods to corral Sequim’s schools into the private sector where a few bucks can be made. The small untruths are more a matter of ignorance. It’s the whoppers that should concern us: • Gov. Inslee is conspiring with the Sequim School District to populate Sequim’s schools with Syrian immigrants! • Because they seem to have no need for loans, these plutocrats don’t understand that when you borrow, you pay interest. Yes, a $54 million loan would gather $30 million in interest over 20 years. That’s just math. Do they think we are stupid? Yes. • Average tax increase will be $531.36, over and above other taxes. No. The bond would increase property taxes 67 cents per every $1,000 of assessed property value. A $200,000 home would realize a tax increase of $134. Do these Truthers address citizens who don’t own property? No. Like King George III, they would prefer only “landed gentry” vote, those with money and therefore influence and entitlement. Look where their signs are posted: on big properties. From a 2013 Pew Poll: • (The Tea Party) is always talking about making government smaller. But that means dismantling big public programs, overlooking public needs behind these programs’ creations in the first place. • Deregulation or ignoring regulations that oversee schools/government/financial institutions is the answer to every problem. (Most remember the disaster of 2008. Care to take a drink of water in Flint?) You’d think no reasonable person could buy into these deceptions. However, this has happened before. “If you tell a lie big enough — and keep repeating it — people will eventually come to believe it.” (Joseph Goebbels, German Propaganda Minister, 1939-1945) Greg Madsen Sequim

Fired up to support school bond

Below is the gist of a conversation that occurred during a recent Sequim schools facilities tour regarding possible solutions to the extreme overcrowding at both elementary schools. A Sequim voter asked if the school buildings couldn’t be used in off hours and on weekends. So I suppose this Sequim voter is recommending something like sending all the kindergarten-second graders to school from maybe 7 a.m.-1:30 p.m., then perhaps the second shift of third-fifth graders can use the same rooms from 2-8:30 p.m. Or maybe we could better utilize these government buildings on the weekends, so first shift could come MondaySaturday, 7 a.m.-noon, then the second shift could come Monday-Friday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Sheesh. Do any of you see any potential problems with this suggestion? If I were a Sequim parent, knowing this type of thinking is alive and well in my community might make me angry enough to go out and make sure all my friends, neighbors, family and any school supporters vote by Feb 9. Dave Hasenpflug Sequim

Fix this mess!

I took the Sequim schools walking tour Saturday, Jan. 23. Please take the tour on Feb. 6, if you want to see the truth about the need for the bond. I saw the high school’s 50-yearold chemistry lab, built before we walked on the moon. There aren’t enough electrical outlets and no way to add more without blowing out the whole building. The work stations are too small because students are bigger than they were in the 1960s, so they’re pressed against each other. Cozy! The kitchen that prepares lunches for all the schools has a huge mixer that came off a Navy ship in 1945. That it still functions is a tribute to maintenance and luck! The conditions at Helen Haller Elementary made me furious! Six hundred kids in a space built for 350. Desks in the hall, outside the bathrooms, because there’s no room in the rooms. One toilet for all the girls and one toilet plus a urinal for all the boys. And the teachers have to use the same two toilets! If you do not vote to fix this mess, then Sequim will never get doctors with young families. Right now we get doctors who come here to work for two or three years and then retire — a constant turnover! If you don’t care about the kids, don’t you at least want to finish out your days with good medical care? Go see for yourself, then vote yes! Nancy Hofmann Sequim

It’s easy to vote yes

I want more doctors and nurses to move here to take care of me in my old(er) age. I want the children of all the people I rely on for services and sales to have a good education — rat- and mold-free. I want anyone who votes against the school bond to think carefully about the harm they are doing to our community. We were only 54 yes votes short last time. Your vote really counts — and it is easy. Check the “Approve” box, put the ballot in the privacy sleeve and then the envelope. Sign the envelope. If you don’t have a stamp, there are drop boxes in Sequim, Port Angeles and Forks. Their addresses are printed on the ballot. So — please be sure to vote. Lyn Muench Sequim

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• Sequim Bay State Park and Discovery Bay may host Navy training in the future (Jan. 21) No thanks. We don’t need the military controlling any more of the Strait/Sound. They’ve got enough water to work with already. Keyport/Bangor? Indian Island? Stay away from Sequim! — Shawn Anders These are the places people go to to relax. The military regime in Iraq and Syria destroyed all the public parks in the cities … then moved in and destroyed the cities themselves. We cannot allow this to happen. — Yenelli Anderson This place is too quiet for the Navy. — Kay Miller

Parents: Support bond issue!

There seems to be a plethora of misinformation about the Sequim schools bond with those against it and posting it on the web and those who just don’t know the facts and are against more taxation. I appreciate, however, Bertha Cooper’s column that set some of that misinformation straight (“Truth ... but verify,” Sequim Gazette, Jan. 20, page A-8). I appreciate how she checked her facts with the people who have the information. I appreciate how she set the record straight regarding funds approved for Maintenance and Operations that cannot be used for construction — whether that be remodeling or new construction. Maintenance is different from rewiring, re-plumbing or replacing a roof — or even transportation. The state has strict rules about how funds are to be spent. The other fact that gets overlooked is that the district will receive funds from the state when demolishing old, unusable buildings to help offset construction costs for a new school. In this case, district figures list it will receive $4.3 million from the state for demolition of buildings designated unsafe for public use at the old community school site. I think that’s smart planning and use of existing facilities. It’s also smart to refit Helen Haller as a community school once a new elementary school is open. After plumbing and other remodeling, it will add a wonderful, centralized location for a variety of community uses. I could go on about cramped classroom space at Greywolf Elementary School, district band and choir space inadequacy and security risk, district kitchen insufficiency, but there isn’t enough space. I’ll just end this by encouraging readers — (particularly parents) to vote for the school bond. Only one-third of Sequim’s district parents voted in the last election. And the bond did not pass by less than one-tenth of a percent. Every vote counts! The ballots have been mailed out this week. Open it, vote, seal it and get it in the mail. Carol Lichten Sequim

Small town, big potential

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, very similar to Sequim. Taking a week off school for opening deer hunting season was informally considered an excused absence. The big employers were the paper mill, the community college and the hospital, and we both needed and tolerated the tourists. Most folks who moved there, stayed there. I grew up in a town that was proud of its community and of its school system. We had some of the best teachers in the state. Our graduates are filmmakers, Olympic athletes, surgeons and authors. They donated money to renovate the community pool and create a scholarship foundation for graduating seniors. They are teachers — teachers who got their education and returned to teach. There’s a similar community thread running here in Sequim, but I keep hearing versions of the same argument: This doesn’t benefit me and it costs money, so why should I support it? In those dark moments, when a kid is at a crossroads, it’s often a teacher that reaches out and says, “I’m here for you. This community is here for you. We can help. You can succeed. You matter. There’s a place for you in this world.” And it’s that kid who is going to be proud to grow up in Sequim and proud to give back to his/her community. Have a little faith. You are voting for our community’s youth, and we need them to feel supported, despite our political differences and despite our struggling economy. You are voting for a strong community. You are telling our kids and teachers that you care. You will reap the benefits. Do you want to hear kids at the gas station talking about the upcoming play or the trouble they are getting into because school isn’t a good place for them? What are you doing to contribute to your community? What are you doing to be a role model for our youth? This one’s a no brainer: check the yes box and put a stamp on it. Jessica Haugen Sequim

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It bothers me that we are being told it will cost $35.5 million to build a new elementary and add on four classrooms and a gymnasium to Greywolf Elementary when Olympic Medical Center (just 18 miles down the road) is able to build a 42,587-square-foot building for exam rooms, doctor offices, laboratories and both primary care and urgent care clinics for less than half the cost ($15.5 million). Maybe our school board should be asking them where to hire workers and acquire materials. At some point, people need to accept reality and pass a school bond that allows for a new reasonably priced high school as well as enough elementary classrooms to accommodate our student population (allowing for reasonable growth rates, not the overinflated ones that our local real estate people would have us believe: actual population growth in Sequim has held steady at 1.5 to 2 percent per year over the last seven years). People will not want to stay in Sequim if their children have to attend an old poorly heated and overcrowded high school, especially after having attending new, clean, well-heated elementary and middle schools. Even if the number of students did not increase in the next 10 years, existing buildings plus 10 new classrooms at our high school will not begin to accommodate all the students. We will be asked for another bond to fix the problem again, even before this $54 million bond is paid for. Rebecca Davidson Sequim

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Section 8 program are below the poverty level,” Kassinger said. “The maximums (income limits) we don’t get anywhere close to serving, but our programs are critical for the clients we do serve.” To qualify for a Section 8 voucher through the Peninsula Housing Authority one must have an annual income of 50 percent ($20,300 for single person) or below the area’s median income. “People tend to think of Sequim as high income, and well, there are quite a few, but I don’t think people recognize how many extremely low-income people live in the community,” Kassinger said.

Affordability and who’s low income A mix of affordable housing exists in Sequim, but of the nine affordable apartments

SEQUIM GAZETTE listed by the Peninsula Housing Authority, less than half are open to families and individuals. Instead the majority are limited to seniors. Additionally, the affordable housing available in Sequim primarily serves those with annual incomes at 60 percent or below the area median income. Few properties reserve space for those with annual incomes of 50 percent or below the area median income and even fewer have units set aside for those earning 30 percent, according the Washington State Housing Financing Commission’s chart of affordable properties it’s financed in Sequim. Thus, for a single person to qualify for low-income housing he or she must earn an annual income of $27,480 (60 percent area median income) or below. The income limit also changes based on the number of people. For two people, 60 percent of the area median income is $31,380 or

OBITUARIES Dorothy H. Munkeby Port Angeles resident Dorothy Haller Monkey died Jan. 21, 2016, in Port Angeles at the age of 88. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 29, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 121 E. Maple St., Sequim, with a reception following. She was born Jan. 23, 1927.

James R. Sellers Port Angeles resident James Russell Sellers died Jan. 20, 2016, in Port Angeles at the age of 73. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today, Jan. 27, at Mt. Angeles Memorial Park, 45 Monroe Road, Port Angeles. He was born July 9, 1942.

Danny R. Beavers Port Angeles resident Danny Roosevelt Beavers died Jan. 24, 2016, in Port Angeles at the age of 75. A celebration of life will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Port Angeles Eagles Club, 110 S. Penn St., Port Angeles. He was born May 2, 1940.

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lines apply, resident manlandlords. ager Sarah Wilhelm said. But, to build more “We’ve had elderly affordable housing is a people, people with dis“competitive” process, abilities, single parents, Kassinger said. students and people at en“Tax credits are comtry level jobs living here,” petitive, but that’s about she said. “And really, what the only way you can fund most people need is a affordable housing at this stepping stone before the point,” she said. next phase of life.” The Washington State Chris Hugo, “People have this per- Director of community Development, Housing Finance Comception that if you’re mission helped fund most The City of Sequim low income, you’re no of the affordable housing good, but it just means properties in Sequim. Recognizing six years to you don’t have a high paying work through a waiting list The housing commission job,” Kassinger said. “There’s wasn’t an effective way, the administers federal tax credit always going to be deadbeats, agency decided to mirror through two programs. but that’s not everyone.” “Nine percent tax credits other agencies, such as the SeGiven the number of ser- attle Housing Authority and provide the deepest subsidy vice industry, hospitality and change to a lottery system. for housing, so they allow for seasonal jobs Sequim has to Using a computer program, lower incomes to be served. offer, Kassinger said, “jobs a pre-determined number of They are allocated each are one of the biggest prob- people based on the amount year through a competitive lems we have.” of available vouchers will be process,” Margret Graham, “Service industry jobs were randomly selected. Washington State Housing never designed to support This change in method al- Finance Commission comfamilies,” she said. “I don’t lows people “hope” Kassinger munications manager, said. see that we have come out said. “It won’t be six years from The less competitive “4 of the depression as much as now that we give you a call.” percent tax credits are allocommunities along the I-5 Kassinger expects to re- cated along with bonds,” she corridor. “I also think our open the waiting list and said. “The subsidy is less, so rural and remoteness has a launch the new lottery sys- incomes and rents at those lot to do with our affordable tem in spring. properties are higher.” housing demands.” The Peninsula Housing Room for more Authority hopes to build Change to Section 8 “The affordable housing more affordable housing in voucher program here is insufficient,” Flynn Sequim, Kassinger said, but To better manage de- said. “There are apartments they’re finding it challengmands, officials with the options available, but there are ing. Peninsula Housing Author- often times long waiting lists.” “Some of the challenges ity in Clallam County are Mountain View Court we see in Sequim are the cost preparing to switch to a new Apartments has a waiting of connection fees and real method of administering list of 41 applicants and Elk estate prices,” she said. Section 8 vouchers. Because the City of Sequim Creek Apartments, a 138In Clallam County the unit affordable housing com- doesn’t have the staff or techhousing authority has about plex, also has a waiting list for nical capacity to seek grants 420 vouchers. one and three bedroom units. and spearhead construction, “The last time the wait list Neither apartment complex it plays a more supportive role, was opened was February is limited to seniors. Chris Hugo, City of Sequim 2010,” Kassinger said. “We’re “We (St. Vincent de Paul director of community develjust now working through Society) average about 30-50 opment, said. the last of those.” “The role of the city is calls a week,” Flynn said. “We On average, Kassinger can’t help them all of course.” mainly to remove barriers to said, about 61 clients go off Of those calls, about two- affordable housing through the program annually — thirds of the assistance the zoning that doesn’t preclude thus it takes time to recycle society provides is for hous- it,” he said. those and eventually work ing, he said. The city also is tasked with down the list. Sequim Community Aid maintaining Sequim’s “small“The majority of our cli- annually provides about town character,” he said. ents we serve tend to be $3,000 for rent and utilities Within the newly adopted singles, seniors or disabled,” assistance, Tidrick said. City of Sequim 2015-2035 she said. “For a lot of people, As rents continue to in- Comprehensive Plan, Hugo once they get into the pro- crease from year to year, the included conditional use gram, they stay on it because nonprofit isn’t able to help permits as one mechanism they have no other option for as many people with the for affordable housing. affordable housing.” “Allowing low-income, same amount of assistance, she said. To best focus their special needs and group efforts and avoid offering home housing units through assistance to those that may a conditional use permit abuse the community safety process in all districts helps nets, like the St. Vincent de ensure that all areas share in Paul Society and Sequim the responsibly to meet comCommunity Aid, Tidrick and munity housing needs and Flynn keep records and con- are protected from the impacts of group housing and tinuously collaborate. 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Loving and greatly loved husband, father, grandfather and brother John A. Bennett, 67, passed away on December 21, 2015, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. He was born in Bethesda, Maryland on July 29, 1948. He was the oldest of 3 children born to Audrey (Mills) and Allan Bennett. John graduated from Kodiak High School in 1966 and served in the Navy from 1967-1970. From 1969-1970 he was assigned as a Field Medic to the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. He married Kirstine (Kim) Buckardt on August 25, 1973. After attending Green River Community College, he transferred to Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, where in 1976 he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in both Chemistry and Biology. He received his doctorate degree from the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, IA in 1979. He practiced medicine with the National Health Service Corp from 1980-1982 in Audubon, Iowa. John moved with his family to Sequim and served as a family physician at the Sequim Medical Plaza from 1982-2001. He closed his private practice in 2001 to work in the Emergency room at Bassett Army Hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska and in 2008 transferred to Weed Army Community Hospital in Fort Irwin, California. He retired in 2010. Family, friends and his patients were very important to John. He enjoyed the practice of medicine, to listen to his patients and be able to help them. He loved getting together for dinner or just a good glass of wine. He would discuss politics with a passion and loved to expound on the importance of the ideals of liberty. John was chairman of the Libertarian Party in the 90’s and last ran for the 6th Congressional District Seat in 2002. He enjoyed gardening, raising chickens, making wine, fishing, reading, computer games, playing Settlers of Catan, traveling, and hiking/back packing. He was elected as a Commissioner of the Clallam County Parks & Recreation District #1 in 1988 and helped make the SARC a reality. He was Chairman of Boy Scout Troop #1490 from 1992-1997, during which time they hiked up Goat Trail and took a canoe trip to British Columbia. He was appointed to the Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery by both Governor Gardner and Governor Lowry. He served on the board from 1990-2000. He is survived by Kirstine (Kim), his wife of 42 years, their 3 children, Jacob (Jennifer deceased) Bennett, Sarah Bennett (James Ragsdale) and Daniel Bennett, his sister Deb bie (Scott) Baker, 5 grand children, and 4 nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his brother Gary Bennett. A Celebration of Life Mass will be celebrated at St. Joseph’s Church, 121 E. Maple Street, Sequim WA on February 8, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. A reception will follow at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall around 12:00 noon. All who knew John are invited to join us as we celebrate his life. Drennan and Ford assisted in arrangements. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County 540 E. 8th St., Port Angles,WA or Hillsdale College, P. O. Box 96607, Washington, D.C. 20090-6607.

“The role of the city is mainly to remove barriers to affordable housing through zoning that doesn’t preclude it.”

$35,280 for three. Although restricting the amount of housing to those earning 60 percent or less of the median income opens housing options to more people, it also increases the demand as more people become eligible. “When we’ve run the numbers the 60 percent rate around here is really a market rate — It’s not a really a reduced income for this community,” Kassinger said. “When you look at what’s considered low income in our community, it’s decent money for around here.” Based on Washington’s minimum wage of $9.47, the annual income of someone working 40 hours a week totals about $19,700. “I think most people would be shocked if they looked at HUD guidelines,” Kassinger said. “We’ve had school teachers come through our programs — most low income are your neighbors.” “A lot of our customers are SSI and/or disabled so they’re limited in what housing they can afford and they’re not able to find it here,” Donna Tidrick, Sequim Community Aid vice president, said. “A lot of the people we see are single parents,” Mike Flynn, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, said. “Even if they’re working full time, their resources are often stretched thin and if they stumble — and everybody stumbles once in a while — then they’re in trouble.” Both the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Sequim Community Aid are local organizations that often provide financial assistance to rent and utilities. To limit the number of “housing burdened” people, where families or individuals are living paycheck to paycheck to afford their rent and basic utilities, the goal outlined by HUD is no one should pay more than 30 percent of their income for rent and basic utilities, Kassinger said. At the 72-unit Mountain View Court Apartments in Sequim, these same guide-

Donald Lee Clay

October 24, 1928 - January 14, 2016 Donald Lee Clay of Sequim, WA passed away on January 14, 2016. His passing was in nearby Port Angeles with family at his side. Although born in Toledo, Ohio on October 24, 1928, Don was extremely proud of his Kentucky heritage. Don traveled extensively during his youth due to his father’s work, but Kentucky was always home. After high school, Don joined the US Army at age 17 (1946), serving in Korea until his discharge in 1948. He then joined his parents in Anchorage, Alaska, became a member of Local 1281, and began working as a carpenter. After being in Anchorage a short time, he met his future wife, Lois (Kitty) Young. Kitty and Don were married on May 28, 1949. For the next few years, the two traveled around Alaska and California for work, having had four children by 1956. Don and family settled in the Anchorage area until both Kitty and Don retired in 1988 and moved to Sequim, WA in 1989. Don was preceded in death by Kitty in 2008, granddaughter Carey in 1992, and Sister Patricia Syester in 2015. He is survived by his children, Michael (Carol Ann) Clay, Cynthia (Larry) Hinkle, Scott (Lynn) Clay, Mitch ell (Diane) Clay and companion Fran Aaron. In addition, he leaves nine grandchildren and ﬁfteen great-grandchildren. His family sends heartfelt thanks to all his caregivers in particular Tracy S. and Kathy L. All treated Don with compassion and respect. There will be no services per his request. Don and Kitty will be interned together at Anchorage Memorial Cemetery this summer.

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MILESTONES Oh babies! Jan. 9, 6:59 p.m. — a daughter, Emmalee Nicole Ellis, 6 pounds 13 ounces, to David and Shaylene Ellis, Port Angeles. Jan. 14, 9:57 p.m. — a daughter, Moriah Joy Nash, 9 pounds 14 ounces, to Jeff and Shayla Nash of Sequim. Jan. 15, 2:13 a.m. — a daughter, Arianna May Lelle, 7 pounds 6 ounces, to Anthony and Brooke Lelle, Sequim. Submitted photo

Lofstrom gains Rotary kudos Eva Lofstrom, shown here with Bret Keehn, was named Sequim Sunrise Rotary’s December Middle School Student of the Month. Lofstrom is the daughter of Ken and Mary Lofstrom. Her favorite subjects are leadership and history. She enjoys volleyball, swimming and singing. In the future, Lofstrom would like to continue to participate in student leadership and attend college.

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Ferguson gets Rotary honor Morgana Ferguson, Submitted photo a freshman at Sequim High School, was recognized as the Sequim Sunrise Rotary’s January student of the month. Here she’s pictured with sponsoring teacher Mark Knudson and Rotarian Nell Clausen. Ferguson was nominated by Knudson, who teaches the career and technical education class at Sequim High School. Knudson told the Rotary club how proud he was of her for obtaining her Microsoft Office Specialist Master certificate, which recognizes her as a master across Microsoft Office applications. Some of Ferguson’s favorite classes include technology, drawing and art. She also is involved with the Future Business Leaders of America club. In her free time, she likes to read, play video games, blog and hang out with her friends. Her future plans include attending college in the field of technology or political science. Ferguson has lived in Sequim her entire life and has three siblings. She attended the Rotary meeting with her mother, Lisa Ferguson.

Stevensons on dean’s lists Natalie Stevenson, a 2013 Sequim High School graduate, was named to the dean’s list at Pacific Lutheran University for spring quarter 2015. Natalie Stevenson is a junior in the nursing program at PLU. To be eligible for dean’s list status at Pacific Lutheran University, students must maintain a semester grade-point average of 3.50 or better with 12 graded hours. Her sister Katherine also made the grade at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, earning a spot on the school’s dean’s list in December. Katherine Stevenson, a 2015 Sequim High graduate, is a freshman at Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business. To be eligible, Baylor students must have at least a 3.7 gradepoint average.

Young and accomplished Shortly after graduating from Port Angeles High School last September, being named the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula’s 2015 Youth of the Year and taking first in the cabinet-making category in the state SkillsUSA c o m p et it io n , Cole Tamba, 18, has achieved his most recent accomplishment. Tamba enlisted in the Army as soon as he was eligible and recently returned Submitted photo home from South Carolina where he completed his basic training at Fort Jackson, earning the title of Private second class. Continuing his education with the Army, Tamba is now attending machinist school.

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‘Secret’ Santa pays for pet adoptions

A secret Santa visited the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society the week before Christmas and paid for the adoption of 21 pets. Among the families who were surprised with a free adoption was Jessica Peterson and her 12-year-old son, Skylar. They adopted Lady, a dog who had been at the shelter waiting for her forever home for just over one year. “My son is autistic and Lady is a wonderful companion for him. They’re able to go for walks and Lady is helping him with his social isolation issues,” said Peterson. “Thank you so much to this wonderful donor. Our family is now complete.” Adopters did not find out that their fee was already paid for until they had completed all paperwork and were ready to pay for the adoption. “It was really special for our staff to be able to surprise people with the free adoptions,” said Mary Beth Wegener, OPHS executive director. “We were really excited to work with this donor to provide such a nice gift to our adopters.” The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society has maintained an active presence in the community since 1947. The society shelters and cares for animals of all types. A private, nonprofit corporation, OPHS is financed primarily by private donations and gifts. OPHS is the only open door shelter on the Olympic Peninsula and does not turn away any animals. For more information or to volunteer, call the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society at 457-8206.

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Namibia: Vast horizons Above: The sun sets over Walvis Bay. Below right, the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Photos courtesy of Arvo and Christiane Johnson

In the first of Traveler’s Journal’s 2016 series, Arvo and Christiane Johnson take visitors to a unique landscape by ARVO JOHNSON For the Sequim Gazette

My wife Christiane and I have lived in Sequim since 2009. We both love traveling and exploring many of the great places our amazing planet offers us. It is up to us how much we wish to see and experience. Our type of travel has changed over the past few years, since we have two daughters ages 6 and 2 . We are trying to introduce them to different cultures and places, hoping to instill in them a sense of adventure and appreciation of

what they have and what the world has to offer. We took this Namibia trip in 2008 before kids and hope one day to revisit Namibia with our children. Although we have traveled to more than 60 countries, Namibia is one our favorites for many different reasons — the unique and varied beauty of the landscape, its friendly people, its diverse wildlife, the feeling of solitude. Formerly known as German SouthWest Africa and later South-West Africa, Namibia gained its independence on March 21, 1990. Those who opposed

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About the presentation: When: 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28 Where: Sequim High School library, 601 N. Sequim Ave. Cost: Suggested $5 donation (adults); 18 and younger, free Presenters: Arvo and Christiane Johnson Presentation: “Namibia: Vast Horizons”

outside rule preferred the name Namibia, from a Nama/Damara word meaning shield. The name was derived due to the coastal desert, the Namib, which long protected the interior from access by sea. (With good reason, it is known as the Skeleton Coast.) Therefore, the new nation became Namibia. Being just over half the size of Alaska and with a population of 2.1 million, Namibia is one the least densely populated countries in the world. Situated between the Namib and the Kalahari deserts, Namibia is the country with the least rainfall in sub-Saharan Africa and depends largely on groundwater. Droughts are common and desertification an issue. With around 14 percent of its land protected, Namibia was the first country in the world to incorporate the protection of its land into its constitution. Namibia is unique.

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Senior class looks for love and laughs ‘What Is Love’ production benefits SHS 2016 graduates’ special events by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

Some Sequim teens are hoping you’ll show some love for the Sequim High Class of 2016 starting this weekend. “What Is Love,” a benefit show for Sequim High seniors, explores love, love of friends and family, and what can happen when love doesn’t work out, says director Robin Hall. Shows begin at 7 p.m. ThursAshlynn Reeves and Juan Cadenas, both Sequim High seniors, appear as Cher and day-Saturday, Jan. 28-29, and Sonny Bono, in Sequim High School’s play “What Is Love?” Sequim Gazette photo Friday, Feb. 5, and at 2 p.m. by Matthew Nash Saturday, Feb. 6.

Megan O’Mera, senior class president, said ticket sales all help with the annual senior ball on June 4 and graduation on June 10. “This show is extremely important because it can make or break our senior ball,” she said. The senior ball includes a surprise dinner and dance at an undisclosed location while the safe and sober party is run by seniors’ parents, O’Mera said. The graduating class has been fundraising all four years of high school for the events with events like school dances

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Rantz family to talk about Olympic hero, ‘Boys in the Boat’ Judy Willman returns to Sequim to share stories about her father, Joe Rantz, an Olympic Gold Medal winner, who with other members of the University of Washington team, won the 1936 rowing event. On Saturday, Jan. 30 at RANTZ 2:30, Willman will be at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road, Sequim, to speak and sign books. Seating is limited to 90 so early arrival is advised. Donation of $5 is suggested to help pay off the new elevator in the schoolhouse. Up against Hitler’s swastika-wearing athletes, the

strong, thin men from the Northwest, gave it everything they had, to win the race. The event is a fundraiser for Sequim Museum & Arts, a presentation of personal views of the humble, bright, talented man that she knew so well. Willman’s husband Ray is in charge of the visuals. Afterward, Willman will answer questions from the audience a bout her fat her or the writing of Daniel James Brown’s best-selling book, “The Boys in the Boat.”

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Videography workshops for teens set at library The Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., offers a three-part videography series for young adults between the ages of 12-18. Workshops take place from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, Feb. 9 and Feb. 16. The workshops are led by professional photographer and videographer C. Woodrow French and are in the Sequim Library meeting room. Participants are encouraged to bring their personal cameras to each session, however the library also will provide a limited number of devices for use during the workshops. On Feb. 2, participants will focus on pre-visualization, Creative Commons music and green screen operation. The second session on Feb. 9

will explore various filming techniques and the final session on Feb. 16 will be devoted to post-production editing and uploading projects to YouTube. All sessions in the series are free. Space is limited, however, and pre-registration is required. To register, visit the Sequim Library events calendar at www.nols.org, call 683-1161 or send an e-mail to youth@nols.org. Participants may sign up for one, two or all three workshops in the series. Funding for this program has been provided by the Friends of Sequim Library. For more information about this and other events for youth and young adults, visit the library website at www.nols.org.

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From page B-1 were recruited throughout the school including some underclassmen. O’Mera acted in the senior class play as a sophomore and finds the show to be a lot of fun. “It’s a lot more casual,” O’Mera said compared to the school’s other plays. “What Is Love” features several familiar and lesser-known scenes and music from “Beauty and the Beast,” “Spamalot,” “Into the Woods,” “Hairspray” and more. Senior Niki McElhose has acted all four years and finds the senior class play

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From page B-1 Our trip to the area encompassed more than just a visit to Namibia. We spent two weeks there and easily could have spent double that amount of time. After renting a car in Cape Town, South Africa, and spending 10 days or so exploring the western part of South Africa, we ventured north to Namibia. After our time in Namibia, we went to Botswana and then back to South Africa, exploring the eastern part of the country this time. Our travels to Namibia started with a border crossing at Noordoewer. We headed to rugged and majestic Richtersveld National Park and Fish River Canyon, a mini-Grand Canyon. Next we headed off to the Atlantic coast toward Luderitz, a town built alongside a restricted diamond area. With warning signs saying, “Stay away,” along with armed patrols, we made sure we did not venture too close to the fenced area. Seeing the ghost-mining town of Kolmanskop being swallowed up by the great Namib Desert also was quite a sight and another fascinating experience. Moving north, we explored the ever-changing Namib Desert and its incredible dunes. Sossusvlei and Dead Vlei, with its forest of dead trees in the middle the desert, are surreal. We made our way back to the coast at Swakopund and Walvis Bay, seeing too many out-of-theway gems to mention. We ended our Namibia adventure in the north, searching for African wildlife in Etosha National Park. There

At left: Sossusvlei is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes in the southern part of the Namib Desert. Top right: The red sands of Namibia create a kind of stairway. Bottom right: A giraffe stops for refreshment at a water hole. Photos courtesy of Arvo and Christiane Johnson

are so many incredible areas to view the wildlife there, being at one of the many watering holes throughout the park or just driving the secluded roads and coming across elephant, zebra, giraffe, impala, kudu or lion to name a few. So, if you ever have had a desire to see a unique corner of Africa, either on a tour or on your own, Namibia offers a safe and fascinating travel experience. It is without a doubt a top choice for travel in Africa. It has a little bit of everything in a big way. Namibia does not disappoint. Happy travels.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Music/Dance/Etc. Thursday Jan. 28 • Olympic Express Big Band, 6-10 p.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Friday Jan. 29 • Hot Lammas, 6 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. • BinGlo, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Saturday Jan. 30 • Mike and Erma (Naki’i), Hawaiian music, 6 p.m. Nourish, 101 Provence View Lane. • Farmstrong, 6 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. • Surfing’ the Beach Boys tribute, 7 p.m.; TBD band, 9 p.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Monday Feb. 1 • Jenny Davis, Ted Endere & pianist Mike Horsfall, 6-8 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. Thursday Feb. 4 • Buck Ellard, cool blues, 6-10 p.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Friday Feb. 5 • Twisted Roots, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. • Atlanta Rhythm Section, ticketed event, 8 p.m., NiteCrew, 10:30 p.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Saturday Feb. 6 • Jenny Davis Trio, 6-8 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. • NiteCrew, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Thursday Feb. 11 • Haywire, country, 6-10 p.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Friday Feb. 12 • Sarah Shea & Chez Jazz, 7-9 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. • TR N, 1970s-1990s, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101. Saturday Feb. 13 • Three Fools for Love, 7-9 p.m., Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St.

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Events • The senior class of Sequim High School presents “What Is Love?,” a two-hour variety show filled with songs, sketches, comedy and laughter centering on the ups and downs of love. See story, page B-1. • Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim, will open this season’s main stage musical “I Do! I Do!” on Feb. 5 for a three-week run closing on Feb. 21. See A&E briefs, page B-3. • Port Angeles Symphony concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at Port Angeles High School Auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.; encore recital at 2 Clark Horticulture owner Gordon Clark kicks off the 2016 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, at Maier Clallam County Master Gardener Green Thumb Garden Hall on Peninsula College Tips series with a presentation on pruning techniques campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen to remove dead, diseased and damaged limbs and to Blvd. Tickets are $5/$10 for manage growth and production of fruit trees in home the 10 a.m. final rehearsal on orchards from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in the county commissioners meeting room of the Clallam Saturday and $30/$20 for the County Courthouse in Port Angeles. The Green Thumb evening concert. Tickets for Garden Tips brown bag series is the second and fourth the recital, reception on SunThursday of every month. Submitted photo day are $25. Tickets available at Port Book and News and Seventh St. The swing lesson Arts, 681-5469. the symphony office in Port is from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and • Olympic Peninsula Men’s Angeles; The Good Book in the night club lesson is from Chorus rehearsal. 6:30 p.m. Sequim; and Sequim Village 7:30-8:30 p.m. Fees apply. Olympic Theatre Arts Center, Glass in Carlsborg. Cellist Call 457-5950. 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim. Julian Schwartz is featured. Mondays • Olympic Mountain Clog• Grand Olympic Chorus re- gers. 6 p.m. Howard Wood Ongoing Events hearsals for women’s a cappella Memorial Theater, 132½ W. • Alcoholics Anonymous: four-part harmony. 6:30 p.m. Washington St., Sequim, Call 877-682-4143 or 360990 E. Washington St., Ste. 681-3987. 797-0259 or see www.dis103. 681-6836 or 681-7135. • Square dance workshop. trict55aa.com for meeting • Shipley Center ukulele 7:30-9:30 p.m. Call for loca- schedule, times. group. 1-3 p.m. $3 non-mem- tion, 683-0155. • Shipley Center classes, bers/$2 members. Beginner’s • Rhody O’s Square Dance activities. 921 E. Hammond classes available, 477-4240. Club. 7:30 p.m. Gardener Com- St., Sequim, 683-6806. 921 E. Hammond St. munity Center, 683-2409. Sundays Tuesdays • Strait Wheelers Square • Open mic with Victor • The Cat’s Meow, waltz, Dances. 7-9 p.m. Port An- Reventlow,5-8p.m.,Fairmount two-step, fox trot, Latin, swing, geles Senior Center, 328 E. Diner, 1127 West Highway 101, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Port Angeles Seventh St., Port Angeles, Port Angeles, 797-4906. Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh 457-3912. • The Sequim VFW, 169 St., $5. Call 582-9026. Wednesdays E. Washington St., breakfast • Sequim Community • Sequim City Band re- from 9:30 a.m.-noon every Orchestra rehearsals. 7-9 hearsals. 7-9 p.m., James Sunday for $5. Open to public. p.m. September-June, James Center for the Performing • Dottie and Vienna’s Open Center for the Performing Arts, 563 N. Rhodefer Road. Mic. 3-5 p.m., Bell Creek Bar

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SHS grapplers find winning ways Wolves knock off PA and PT, then place first at Klahowya tourney Sequim Gazette staff

Sequim’s Aylee Bennett gets a win against a Port Angeles foe in between Sequim’s dual meet victories last week against the Roughriders and Port Townsend Redhawks. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Sequim wrestling seems to have found its niche with one week left in the regular season. Last week, the Wolves recorded big wins over Port Angeles and Port Townsend and they won Klahowya’s first Keigan Langholff Memorial tournament. With the wins, the Wolves overcame

some significant slumps. The 42-33 win on Jan. 21 over PA was Sequim’s first over the Roughriders since Jan. 8, 2009. Sequim head coach Charles Drabek said his son was a senior on the team at the time. “It feels really good,” he said of the win. “The kids were excited and some of the kids like Kevyn (Ward) and

Michael (Latimer) know the significance of it.” In two previous seasons, PA defeated Sequim 81-0, 76-6, and 66-12 in duals. Drabek said they “matched up really well and jumped out against them.” “We got some pins from kids who stepped up,” he said. For the Wolves, Dalton Brown (106 pounds) pinned Daniel Basden, Ben Newell (126) pinned Nate Harrelson, Kevyn Ward (160) pinned

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Zach McCracken, 12, of Sequim, works on his batting approach during a clinic at the 360 Sports Performance Training facility in Carlsborg on Jan. 19, while Dominic Riccobene, 11, watches. The facility is now open for younger athletes to train and learn from professional athletes. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

From Little League to the pros Training facility aims to helps younger athletes achieve their sports goals locally by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

One Sequim couple wants to help local athletes be great people while becoming the next Husky or Mariners great. John Qualls, with his partner Lisa Jones, recently opened 360 Sports Performance Training, 71 Ruth’s Place, #8, in Carlsborg, as a facility to help children and young adult athletes on the Olympic Peninsula have a better opportunity for athletic college scholarships and to play professionally. “Our kids have all of the potential to achieve greatness,” Qualls said. “Unfortunately, they just don’t have the resources

portunity to impact youth athletes in my hometown,” Millet said. Qualls also partners with BASE by Pros, a youth sports mentorship program that connects children with professional athletes available to maximize their potential here on twice a month for clinics and mentorship. the peninsula which means they miss out on Participating athletes include Mitch Canscholarships and ham, Brent Liloppor tunit ies 360 Sports Performance Training libridge, Danielle that are common Where: 71 Ruth’s Place, #8, Carlsborg Lawrie and Stein bigger cities.” ven Bougher. Contact: 461-0482, johnqualls34@gmail.com The facilit y On the web: www.360SportsPerformanceTraining.com Qualls said follows former these resources Sequim resident will help “kids to and now elite baseball trainer Jeff Millet’s be successful and keep them local.” Partnering with Millet and the profesNorthcore Performance Training, which approaches both athletic training and mental sional athletes is the “catalysts to instill preparation for competition and academic change in our community while teaching life lessons through the games of baseball achievement. “As a graduate of Sequim High School, and softball,” he said. I have always dreamed of having the opSee TRAINING, B-6

Sequim High’s district tournament-qualifying bowlers include, from left, Kaleigh Cassal, Dakota Henderson and Destiny Stauss. Photo courtesy of Randy Perry

Wolves send 3 to district tournament Henderson bowls 2ndbest mark in league, gets first team honor Sequim Gazette staff

A breakout first game nearly put the Wolves’ team into the district tournament. In the end, three Sequim bowlers — including the league’s No. 2 bowler Dakota Henderson — earned tickets to districts after a strong showing at the Olympic League tournament in Silverdale on Jan. 22. The West Central District tourney is set for Saturday, Jan. 30, at Pacific Lanes in Tacoma. Joining Henderson are Kaleigh Cassal, who placed sixth, and Destiny Stauss, who will take the 10th and final individual district berth. Henderson bowled a 212-pin first game as the Wolves posted a 794 score in game one, briefly leading the league tourney. It was Sequim’s best single game all season and best in four or five seasons, Sequim coach Randy Perry said. “Everybody was just on,” Perry said. “Dakota I was not surprised by at all; she can throw games like that. Same with Destiny — she’s really picked it up.” Sequim bowled a 654 in game two and 572 in the third. “That next game wasn’t bad; it was the second-highest all year,” Perry said. Henderson finished with a three-game series of 522 pins (212-161-149), the second-best in the tournament, earning a first team all-Olympic League honor. Cassal bowled a 414 (157-135-122) and Stauss a 379 (146-131-102). Klahowya took top honors at the league tournament with 3,019 pins, with North Mason second (2,796), Olympic third (2,754), Steilacoom (2,620) fourth and Bremerton (2,600) picking up the fifth and final team district berth. Sequim finished with 2,416 pins, eighth out of nine teams. Four 2A/3A teams and another eight individuals at districts qualify for the state tournament, set for Feb. 5-6 at Narrows Plaza Bowl at University Place. “(Districts) is going to be a great experience,” Perry said. “If Dakota she bowls like she did (at the league tourney), she’s going to state. And Destiny, you never know. She could catch fire.”

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Each Sequim swimmer earned at least one personal best in an Olympic League meet against Olympic’s Trojans on Jan. 21 in Port Angeles. Olympic won the meet 119-53, with Sequim earning one first-place finish and six second-place marks. Also competing were Klahowya and Port Angles in a fourteam dual meet. David Calderon and Christian Goodrich set personal bests and finished second and third in a five-man 100 back-

Craig qualifies

SHS diver Matthew Craig seeks his second trip to the state meet. He took the first step with a district meet-qualifying effort last weekend. See story, B-7 stroke race; Calderon finished in 1:16.63, a six-second improvement, and Goodrich finished in 1:17.66, a halfsecond improvement. Sequim’s 400 free relay team of Calderon, Goodrich, Brandon Grown and Wendall Lorenzen shed 14 seconds off their previous best and each

Sequim’s Wendall Lorenzen, left, and Liam Payne compete in the 200 individual medley against Olympic on Jan. 21. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

swam their best 100-yard leg end of the meet,” Sequim coach Linda Moats said. of the season. Sequim divers Mathew “It was great to see such motivation and focus at the Craig and Brendon Jack took

first and second with no Olympic divers to compete with, though they did dive with their counterparts

from Port Angeles. Craig scored 164.4 points while Jack scored 139.75 points in his first official Sequim competitions. Goodrich placed second in the four-man 100 freestyle race with a 1:03.81. Calderon improved his 50 free mark by two seconds, to 30.62. “He’s such a smooth swimmer; I expect big things from him in the future,” Moats said of Calderon. Grow dropped six seconds off his previous best in the 200 freestyle with a 2:39.93 mark.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Sign up for soccer Sequim Junior Soccer spring registration is now open. The spring season runs March 12-May 21. See www. sequimjuniorsoccer.com.

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Former Major League Baseball player Brent Lillibridge gives instruction at a clinic at the 360 Sports Performance Training Facility. He is one of a handful of athletes who will lead clinics at least twice a month on the Olympic Peninsula through the facility. Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash

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John Qualls and Lisa Jones recently opened 360 Sports Performance Training. Qualls said the No. 1 thing participating athletes can find at the facility is a sense of belonging and community through the games of baseball and softball.

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Beginning the game Qualls, who has been coaching at the high school and Little League levels for 20-plus years, said there’s been a huge demand in the past five years to find resources like his. “A lot of kids are uprooting and making the difficult decision to play for programs across the water,” he said. “You can imagine the cost of travel and for programs and yet they later regret it for not being able to be kids at the same time.” At 360 Sports Performance Training, Qualls says the No. 1 thing a participant can

get out of the facility is a sense of community. “We want to help these kids achieve their goals with a sense of belonging and community,” he said. To do that, the facility offers networking for coun-

seling, tutoring, nutritional guidance, college prep and more. Working with professional athletes is a big part of his programming, too, and Qualls plans to provide follow-up one-on-one during

the weekdays while the athletes can remain connected with the pros through phone and the Internet. Jones said while their focus may be on baseball and softball, they can help build a core foundation for any athlete to help prevent injuries and increase their inner-core strength. Qualls and Jones held their grand opening on Jan. 26 and continue to seek athletes and teams across the Olympic Peninsula. The facility offers retractable battings cages for rent, too, along with training and clinic opportunities. For more information on 360 Sports Performance Training, call 461-0482 or visit www.360SportsPerfor manceTraining.com.

Local gymnasts excel in Bellevue The Klahhane Gymnastics Competitive Teams opened the winter season at The Battle in Bellevue, held Jan. 16-17 by Gymnastics East at the Meydenbauer Center. The competition included competition in both the Junior Olympic and Xcel programs. In Junior Olympic competition, Klahhane’s Level 6 team scored 105.7 and brought back a third-place trophy. Kianna Miller, competing in the Junior C age group (35.525 points), led the team scoring with 9.0 scores on vault and floor exercise and 8.95 on beam. Individual medals in the Junior A age group went to Kori Miller, who earned second all around with 35.25 points, plus individual golds on vault and beam and silvers on bars and floor; Morgan Mattix (34.675 points), who was third all around

and added bronze event medals on vault and floor; and Gracie Sharp (34.15 points), who finished sixth all around and picked up a silver medal on beam. Also competing in Junior A competition were Anne Edward (33.70 points) and Susannah Sharp (33.25 points). Emma Sharp scored a 33.65 in the Junior B age group. Level 3 competitors were Madison Stockdale (33.75 points), who took sixth in the Senior D age group, Piper Allen (32.85 points) in the Senior B group and Waverly Mead (32.325 points) in Junior D group. Level 4 competitors were Cindy Liang, who placed fourth in the Senior A group with 34.55 points, Samantha Robbins in the Senior B group (33.05 points) and Dylan Baermann in the Junior C group (32.275 points). In the Xcel Competition, the Xcel

Bronze Division Xcel team was led by Adisyn Ellis-Bourm who placed third all-around in the Junior C age group, scoring 36.50. Also competing were Clare Bowchop (34.175 points, Junior B); Jazlynn Purhmann (34.50 points) and Isabelle Pecoraro (33.85 points) in Junior C competition; Samantha Aranda with 34.95 points in Senior A competition, and Chloe Notari, scoring 34.25 points in the Senior B division. Competitors in the Gold Division were Maizie Tucker, who took second on the balance beam (8.85) in the Junior B age group and Aiesha Mathis competing in the Senior C age group. In the Platinum Division, Cassii Middlestead was second on balance beam (9.1), second on uneven bars (8.85) and placed fourth all around (35.60). Danica Miller was fourth on beam (8.8) and fifth on vault (8.9).

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Ex-Wolf of the Week: Josh McConnaughey A figure that loomed large on Sequim High basketball courts, Josh McConnaughey now plays the post for Olympic College’s Rangers in Bremerton. The 6-foot 8-inch McConnaughey, a 2015 SHS graduate, scored his first collegiate basket against South Puget Sound on Jan. 2. He had three rebounds and a block in 16 minutes against Clackamas on Dec. 18 and set highs of four points and five rebounds in just nine minutes as the Rangers beat Centralia 72-65 on Jan. 4. McCONNAUGHEY Despite struggling overall (6-10), the Rangers are 4-1 in conference play after a win against Everett on Jan. 23. McConnaughey averaged 3.8 rebounds per game and had 22 blocks — second on the squad — as a senior with SHS’s Wolves in 2014-2015. As a junior, he nabbed 3.6 boards per game and had 26 blocks.

PA teams shine at MLK tourney Three Port Angeles squads took division titles and three more placed second at the Port Angeles Parks & Recreation’s Martin Luther King Tournament youth basketballtournament, held Jan. 16-17. Final standings are listed below: Girls fifth-grade division — 1. Tracyton Thunder, 2. Port Angeles Hazard, 3. P.A. Dominators, 3. N.K. Elite. Championship: Tracyton Thunder 25, Port Angeles Hazard 13 Girls seventh-grade division — 1. Olympic Avalanche White (Port Angeles), 2. Port Angeles Threat, 3. Drive Basketball Blue (Poulsbo), 4. Chimacum Cowgirls, 5. Sequim Lady Wolves, 6. Drive Basketball White. Championship: Avalanche 24, P.A. Threat 18 Girls eighth-grade division — 1. Port Angeles Storm 2. Bainbridge Roots 3. Drive Basketball, 4. Peninsula Seahawks. Championship: P. A. Storm 33, Bainbridge Roots 19 Boys fourth-grade division — 1. Tides Select Silver (Gig Harbor), 2. Lakewood Cougars, 3. Port Angeles Green, 4. Port Angeles White, 5. Tides Select Blue. Championship: Tides Select Silver 38, Lakewood Cougars 24 Boys fifth-grade division — 1. Drive Basketball (Poulsbo), 2. Tides Select, 3. Bainbridge Roots, 4. Port Angeles, 5. Sequim Wolves. Championship: Drive 31, Port Angeles 26 Boys sixth-grade Purple division — 1. Tides Select, 2. Drive Blue, 3. Port Angeles White, 4. Bainbridge Roots, 5. Lakewood Cougars, 6. Peninsula Seahawks (Gig Harbor), 7. Silverdale Spartans, 8. Clutch Basketball “A” (University Place). Championship: Tides 63, Drive 38 Boys sixth-grade Blue division — 1. Port Angeles Green, 2. Drive White, 3. Tides Select Blue, 4. Clutch Basketball “B”, 5. Sequim Wolves. Championship: Port Angeles Green 28, Drive White 24 Boys seventh-grade division — 1. Tides Select, 2. Stanwood, 3. Bainbridge Roots, 4. Port Angeles White, 5. Sequim Wolves, 6. Port Angeles Green, 7. Drive Basketball, 8. Arlington Eagles. Championship: Tides Select 55, Stanwood 46 Boys eighth-grade division — 1. Lakewood Cougars, 2. Stanwood, 3. Tsunami Basketball (Port Angeles), 4. Hoop Nation (Silverdale), 5. Bainbridge Roots, 6. Drive Basketball, 7. Port Angeles, 8. Silverdale Spartans Black. Championship: Lakewood Cougars 67, Stanwood 57.

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The Port Angeles Parks & Recreation Department is hosting the 20th Annual Presidents Day Classic, set for Feb. 13-14. The youth basketball tournament has divisions for boys and girls teams in grades 4-8. Cost is $250 per team with a four-game guarantee. For more information or to register, call Dan at 417-4557 or e-mail to destes@cityofpa.us.

business meeting, dinner and a speaker. A dinner can be purchased for $22 per person. This event is free and open to the public. The speaker is David Rugh, wildlife biologist with 34-plus years working at NOAA’s National Marine Mammal Lab. See www.northolympicboaters.com or call Tom O’Laughlin at 670-2798.

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Wolves to host rival Port Angeles on Friday

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Sequim High freshman Riley Cowan skies for a rebound in the first half of the Wolves’ 58-33 loss to the visiting Olympic Trojans on Jan. 22. SHS’s Jack Shea (10) and Olympic’s Chase Matheny (4) and Jumier Johnson (34) look on. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

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Olympic’s Trojans, coming off a big overtime win against North Kitsap, wasn’t about to let an upset-minded Sequim squad spoil their dreams of an Olympic League title. Olympic topped Sequim 58-33 in Sequim on Jan. 22. Details of the game were not available at press time. The defeat was Sequim’s sixth consecutive league loss, dating back to the Wolves’ 69-65 home win versus North Mason on Jan 5.

KO’d at Kingston The host Buccaneers raced to a seven-point lead after one quarter and made it hold up in a 64-45 win against the Wolves on Jan. 19. Gavin Veilleux hit four 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 22 points for the Bucs, who were 8-of-17 from long range. Jackson Oliver led Sequim with 15 points and Nick Faunce added 12, available at press time. The Wolves host but Sequim struggled from the field, seven rebounds. Sequim was slated to play at North Port Angeles on Jan. 29 and finish the shooting just 14-of-43 (33 percent). Payton Glasser led Sequim with Mason on Jan. 26 — results were not regular season Feb. 2 at North Kitsap.

Following a tough loss to Kingston earlier in the week, the Lady Wolves (1-8, 5-10) looked like they had a win in the bag on Friday against the Olympic Trojans. But a strong fourth quarter from the Trojans and a dry spell for Sequim in Poulsbo led to a 52-42 loss on Jan. 22 and a three-game losing streak. Sequim and the Trojans were tied up at 9-9 at the end of the first quarter, with Sequim’s Alisha Grasser scoring four points and Olympic’s Katie Campana five and Danielle Monzon with four. Adrienne Haggerty helped the Wolves build a six-point lead in the second quarter scoring six points 22-16, but in the third quarter Monzon recorded eight points for the Trojans to cut Sequim’s lead to five. Campan took over for Olympic in the fourth, scoring 13 points including three-3-pointers to help the Trojans rack up 21 points to Sequim’s seven.

Haggerty finished with 19 points and Jordan Miller with eight to lead the Wolves. Earlier in the week, Kingston freshman Lily Beaulieu helped the Buccaneers blow out the Wolves 75-44 in Sequim on Jan. 19. She scored 12 points of her 31 in the first quarter to put the Bucs up 30-5. The Wolves tried to recover in the second quarter with a mixed attack of three 3-pointers from McKenzie Bentz, Haggerty and Miller but Beaulieu continued shooting sharply with 10 points in the third quarter and nine in the fourth. Kingston’s Avy Hiner finished with 12 and Lily Eckert 11. Sequim’s Ella Christiansen scored 12 points, Miller 11 and Haggerty 9. Sequim finishes its regular season all at home with games on Jan. 26 against North Mason (0-8, 5-11), Friday, Jan. 29, against Port Angeles (7-1, 14-2), Monday, Feb. 1, against Bainbridge (2-6, 3-9), and Tuesday, Feb. 2, against North Kitsap (6-3, 9-7).

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Craig advances to district tournament

Moats said she was impressed with Lorenzen and Liam Payne in the 200 individual medley. Lorenzen placed third with a 2:49.48, a three-second improvement, while Payne dropped seven seconds off his previous 200 IM best set last week. Moats said she also was impressed with Alex Berikoff in the 500 free. “The distance events are usually daunting for new swimmers on the team, but Alex handled it well,” Moats said. Ross Burchell (50 and 500 free), Haakon Meyer (100 butterfly, 100 backstroke), Ziven Meyer (100 and 200 free) and Tiernann Shelton (100 breaststroke, 200 IM) had

Mathew Craig just extended his season. The Sequim High sophomore scored 265 points at an 11-dive meet at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor on Jan. 23, earning a spot at the West Central District tournament. Craig, who placed seventh at districts and 15th at the class 2A state meet last season as a freshman, used an array of dives to place 12th overall out of 28 competitors, and among the top three divers from class 2A schools, at the Gig Harbor meet. Craig will look to better his score at a postseason qualifier at Mount Rainier High School on Jan. 29, adding more challenging dives to his list and improving newer, harder dives he’s already added this year. “While Mathew was not to happy with his first eight dives today, he finished his last three very solid and left satisfied with his overall performance,” his father Peter Craig said.

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Brandon Grow competes in the 200 freestyle on Jan. 21 against Olympic. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

two wins apiece for Olympic. The Sequim- Olympic match was a make-up for a meet that was canceled in December.

Looking ahead The Wolves cap their regular season Jan. 28 with a home meet versus Bremerton at Port Angeles’ William Shore Memorial Pool. Sequim is back in Port Angeles on Feb. 2 for the Olympic League Invitational.

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Caleb Joslin, Michael Latimer (220) pinned Bryce Johnson and McKenzie Stockdale (285) pinned Tevanui Freitas. Sequim’s Grant Pierson (145) won 4-0 over Riley Gale and Adrian Klarich (182) won 8-1 over Blake Mann, too. PA’s state-ranked wrestlers all won with Tyler Gale (No. 2 at 120 pounds) pinning Sequim’s Caden Robert, Ben Basden (No. 6 at 132) won by injury default over Chris Puksta, Morgan Mower (No. 6 at 138) winning 9-5 over Craig Baker, and Evan Gallacci (No. 9 at 195) by forfeit. The Roughriders’ Brandon Currie pinned Travis Baker at 152 pounds and Tomas Blevins pinned Dylan Perreira at 170, too. The same night, Sequim defeated Port Townsend 69-3 in the double dual meet with the Redhawks losing eight weight classes to forfeit. Sequim won four of five

Sequim’s Hayden Gresli grapples with a Port Townsend wrestler as the Wolves take on PT and Port Angeles in a double-dual meet last week. Gresli placed second at the Keigen Langholff tournament at Klahowya Saturday, falling in the finals to teammate Grant Pierson. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

ment team win in more than five years. Sequim placed first with 178 points at Klahowya’s tournament in Silverdale on Jan. 23. They last won Franklin Pierce’s Cardinal Classic Tournament on Dec. 18, 2010. Tourney win Two boys took champiThe Wolves reached anoth- onship medals home and er significant milestone last another four boys placed secweek with their first tourna- ond, and three placing third. matches with Pierson (145) pinning Henry Veitenhaus, Perreira (170) pinning Bryan Chairez, Stockdale (285) pinning Tucker Booth, and Chris Puksta (132) winning in overtime 8-6 over Jackson Schott.

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seconds to go and Rogers got an escape to win 5-4. At the double-dual meet earlier in the week in Sequim, Mendoza defeated Rogers 5-4 in the final seconds, too. Rogers, currently ranked No. 2 in state, took second in the 2A state tournament last year, and Mendoza, ranked No. 4, placed seventh. Mendoza lost at the Hammerhead Invite to Rogers 11-4 in December. According to Washington Wrestling Report, Kiara Pierson is ranked eighth at 115 pounds for class 2A girls, and Ward is ranked No. 8 at 160, and Latimer No. 9 at 220 for 2A boys.

Up next Sequim finishes its regular season this week with a dual in North Mason on Jan. 27, and its All Comers Tournament in Sequim on Jan. 30. Drabek said they anticipate more wrestlers than previous years at the event, which includes Bremerton, Forks, Hoquiam, and Olympic.

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(170) lost his opening match but rebounded to pin his next two opponents and he won third place with a 10-8 decision over Jesse Salgado of PA. Both Travis Baker (152) and McKenzie Stockdale (285) tied for third in their weight classes with Baker recording two pins on the day and Stockdale four pins. Other Wolves recording wins include Dalton Brown (106) with one pin and one decision at the tournament, Ben Newell (132) pinning one opponent and earning one decision, Sven Wiker (145) pinning one opponent, and Austin Budd (160) pinning one opponent and earning one decision. The Lady Wolves wrestling squad traveled to the Lady Lakes Lipstick Invite in Tacoma the same day but full results were not available by press time. Drabek said Alma Mendoza took second at 140 pounds in another rematch with Port Townsend’s Chloe Rogers. He said it was tied 4-4 with a few

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Craig Baker (138) took first with an opening pin, followed by a 13-9 decision, and finals match pin in 1:02 over Kenny Soule of PA while Grant Pierson (145) won his first match by major decision 11-1, his second by pin, and the finals match over teammate Hayden Gresli by pin in 3:48. Gresli, prior to the loss, recorded a pin, 8-5 decision, and a 4-2 sudden victory to take second place at 145 pounds. Kevyn Ward (160) won second after an opening pin and a 9-0 major decision before losing 6-1 to Connor Horton of Aberdeen. Adrian Klarich (182) opened with a pin followed by a 9-2 decision before losing 16-12 for first place to Benji Hamilton of Klahowya. Michael Latimer (220) received two opening bye matches before pinning his first opponent, but he lost the finals match in an 8-6 sudden victory to Freddie Green of Spanaway Lake. Sequim’s Dylan Perreira

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SEQUIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATES Drs. Samantha Reiter, William Hobbs, Roger Olsen and Charles Sullivan of Sequim Medical Associates are proud to announce Dr. Jennifer Swanson will be joining them February 17, 2016. She has been a hospitalist at Olympic Medical Center for the last 6 years and is board-certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Swanson is accepting Dr. Jennifer K. Swanson new patients and is credentialed with most major insurance companies. Appointments can be made by contacting Sequim Medical Associates at (360) 582-2850, Monday thru Friday from 8:00 to 4:30.

Sequim diver Mathew Craig earns Sequim’s lone first-place finish as the Wolves take on Olympic on Jan. 21 in Port Angeles. Craig, a competitor at the 2014-2015 class 2A state meet, earned a West Central Dsitrict tourney-qualifying mark at a meet in Gig Harbor Saturday.Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

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are anonymous, so no one but the student and Knudson knows if the There is no school on Friday, answers are correct are not. Her Feb. 12, and Monday, Feb. 15. The students have embraced this new district office will be open on Feb. technology across all subject areas. 12, but closed on Feb. 15 for the Presidents Day holiday. HELEN HALLER A School Bond Walking Tour is offered at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. The tour begins in the boardroom at 503 N. Sequim Ave., and includes campus sites that would be affected by the bond passage around Sequim High School, the district’s base kitchen and Helen Haller Elementary. For more information, contact Patsene Dashiell at 582-3264.

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Kaylee Kinsey’s second-grade students produced some clever writing about Martin Luther King Jr. Here is a sampling:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words “Love is the key to the problems of the world” is my favorite quote because love fixes problems. You cannot get into fights with people The next school board meeting is when you love, and that’s how you Feb. 1, with a workshop at 5:15 p.m. get married. Ryan Spelker, age 8 and the regular meeting at 6 p.m. in the boardroom. An agenda is availDr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s able on the district website under words “Love is the key to the probBoard of Directors. The public is lems of the world” is my favorite encouraged to attend and time is set quote because it makes me feel aside during each regular meeting warm inside. It brings a smile to my for public comment. face and makes the world a better For more information, contact place when we love one another. Marilyn Walsh at mwalsh@sequim. Ashton Reichner, age 7 k12.wa.us or 582-3262.

An All District Family Reading Night is planned from 5:30–7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, at Sequim Middle School. All Sequim School District students and their families are invited to join the district’s teacher-librarians for an evening of literacy-focused fun and games. The evening begins in the gymnasium with a brief introduction at 5:30 p.m. Students and families then will be invited to participate in three 20-minute, literacy-focused activity sessions. Sessions will be offered for every age, from pre-K children through teens. Attending students will receive a free book at the end of the evening and light refreshments will be provided. A grand prize drawing will be held for gift cards.

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SEQUIM MIDDLE SCHOOL Caleb Gentry’s video game design class provides eighth-grade students the opportunity to work individually and in teams to create their own video games, using a variety of software, including Microsoft Kodu Game Lab, RPG Maker VX, Multimedia Fusion 2, Portal 2, Project Spark, the Unreal Tournament Editor and The Hammer Editor. In developing their own action adventure games, they follow a design process that includes identifying the problem, brainstorming, designing and building. Through the practice of playing the game, they test, evaluate and redesign. Next, they play each other’s games and share solutions. For more information about the “design process” go to www. pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ adptech12.sci.engin.design.idsprocess/the-design-process/. The student must create a story line for his or her game that includes characters (protagonist, antagonist and supporting characters and creatures). The setting must be developed, including terrain, lighting and structures. Each must determine what the player will need to overcome to reach checkpoints in the game. What are the major action sequences or battle in the game? What weapons or items are important to the game? What is the climax of the plot? Finally, how will the problem be solved? “Right now, we only have eighthgraders in the class since it is first semester and the digital media class is a prerequisite. There are seventh-graders enrolled for second

Taking It Kim Knudson’s second-graders, Gus Parry and Kaesha Larsen, from Greywolf Elementary School, help each other with math on a Promethean board using a digital number cube. Photo by Kim Knudson

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At top, Sequim High School cooking class students, from left, Matthew Roragen, Christina Lewis, Valeria Valdes Huerta and Jaimee Appel serve up baked goodies with a smile. Above, Sequim High School cooking class student Alec Holland serves a breakfast entrée sampling to Paul Brinkman, teacher, as Craig Baker looks on. At left, Curtis Gorr, working next to Chris Piersoll, puts the finishing touches on an egg entree for class finals. Photos by Patsene Dashiell

semester,” Gentry said. Students take a balanced approach to learning the game design process with each unit focusing on different aspects of design including Level Layout, Programming/ Coding, Story Development, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Sprite Development, Audio Editing and Publishing. To help celebrate our school directors during January, School Board Appreciation Month, several students were on hand to make presentations at the Jan. 19 board meeting. Tom Saffold’s drama class performed a scene from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in full costume with Shakespearean English intact. Assistant superintendent Dr. Ann Renker said, “The leading lady was so convincing a crier in the opening scene that I almost left my seat to comfort her! No cue cards,

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prompts or supports needed — the students had all their lines committed to memory. Our district is lucky to have a thriving fine arts program and super-congrats go to Mr. Saffold and his students!”

SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL There’s love and laughter in the air, as seniors rehearse the senior class play, “What Is Love?” — a twohour variety show filled with songs, sketches, comedy and laughter centering on the ups and downs of love. Music and scenes are from “Beauty and the Beast,” “Spamalot,” “Into the Woods,” Mad TV, “Hairspray” and more. Performances are at 7 p.m. Jan. 28-30 and Feb. 5; and at 2 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available in the high school office and at the door for $8/ adults and $6/senior citizens and students with an ASB card. It’s time for the cooking classes’ Semester Cook-Off! Warning: Do not read this if you are hungry! Carol Wagner’s students cooked up special menus and invited staff members to sample and critique. On Thursday, Jan. 21, during second period, they prepared and served breakfast items that included Hawaiian ham and Swiss sliders, tator tot casserole, sausage and gravy pastry, banana bread bars with brown butter frosting, spinach and tomato frittata, cinnamon rolls, eggs Benedict, sausage and egg boats, french toast rolls ups and chapurrado. During sixth period, students prepared and served chimichangas, chili relleno casserole, pork tamale pie, nachos supreme, burrito grande, Mexican rice, steak fajitas, baked cream cheese chicken taquitos, sweet and tangy chicken quesadillas, (American) tacos with

homemade tortillas and crisp caramelized puff campechanas. On Friday, Jan. 22, during first period, students prepared and served a breakfast menu including sausage gravy with angel biscuits, apple breakfast bars, deluxe egg scrambles, tator tot waffles, strawberry crepes, cranberry brunch punch, cinnamon roll french toast and cinnamon bananas. The third-period cooking class students created an Asian theme with chicken stir-fry and shrimp egg rolls, pad thai and Chinese pot stickers, Chinese almond chicken and fried rice, General Tao’s chicken and sticky white rice, beef chow mein and California rolls, sweet and sour chicken, and baked cream cheese wontons. The fifth period class created an Italian theme with shrimp caprese, ricotta cheese cookies, sausage and cheese manicotti, chicken parmigiana, chicken fettuccini and Italian sopapilla, cheesecake lasagna and fried polenta. Steve Mahitka, agricultural sciences teacher, FFA advisor and CTE director, advises that the advanced agriculture classes have raised hogs at the school farm that will be for sale. They will be selling quarters, halves and whole hogs that will have been cut and wrapped. The hogs are between 230-300 pounds and prices are based upon hanging weight. They have them cut up in standard cuts. They have sausage made but do not do hams or bacon. The cuts will be to order to smoke on one’s own or have done at a local shop. For prices or more information, call Mahitka at 582-3666. Senior parent ads for the yearbook are due by Jan. 29. Cost is $50 and may be paid in the school’s main office.

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Kim Knudson’s second-graders take part in math games using worksheets, whiteboards and now on a new Promethean board. Students work together to help each other learn new math concepts while they also learn how to access the tools, including a digital number cube, on the board. Knudson can save and print their work and send it home to show parents what they have learned. Her second-graders also have learned how to use Student Response Systems, by which students can enter answers to problems and/or questions (either multiple choice, true or false, numbers or words), and she can collect the data to evaluate how well the students learn a new concept. The Student Response Systems

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SCHOOLS CALENDAR Jan. 27 5:30-7:30 p.m. — Sequim School District Family Reading Night. At Sequim Middle School, 301 W. Hendrickson Road. Call 582-3500. Jan. 28 6:30 p.m. — Community Coffee Talk (Topics: Common Core, Sequim School District construction bond). At Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St. Call 582-3260. Jan. 29-30 7 p.m. — Sequim High School senior play. At school auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave. Feb. 1 9:30-11 a.m. — First Teacher activities. At Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St. Call 681-2250. 5:15 p.m. — Sequim School Board of Directors meeting. Departmental reports at 5:15 p.m., regular

meeting follows at 6 p.m. At school boardroom, 501 N. Sequim Ave. Call 582-3260. Feb. 4 TBA — Olympic Peninsula Academy Night of Excellence. Location TBA. Call 582-3403. Feb. 5 7 p.m. — Sequim High School senior play. At school auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave. Feb. 6 1-2:30 p.m. — Sequim School District walking tour. Starts at district boardroom, 503. N. Sequim Ave. Call 582-3260. 2 p.m. — Sequim High School senior play. At school auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave. 8 p.m. — Sequim High School Tolo (dance). At school cafeteria, 601 N. Sequim Ave.

“Parenting Matters” columnist Cynthia Martin has the week off. Pick up the Feb. 3 edition for the next installment of her columns that address key topics on how you can improve your parenting skills. See previous columns at Parenting M atters www.sequimgazette.com. Cynthia Martin

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1 John 5:13 The first commandment God gave to man was “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:16b-17. Simple, yes? God stated his truth claim to Adam and Eve, Then in comes the Devil and he delivers his truth claim, You surely will not die!” Genesis 3:4 and mankind believed the Devil’s “false truth claim” God has given another truth claim. “He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. Mark 16:16. God made this simple statement, easy to understand. There is another religious truth claim out in the world, made by many, that you don’t need to be baptized to be saved. Who will you believe? Want to know more? Call for a Bible answer to your Bible question. We are the Church of Christ In Sequim See our web page at churchofchristinsequim.com The plan of salvation study at theancientplan.com Phone 360 808-1021

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ATTRACTIVE WATER VIEW BUILDING LOT IN EMERALD HIGHLANDS. City Utilities, Power, Telephone and Cable T.V. all in at the road. Views include the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Mt. Baker and City lights. The property is conveniently located to down town shopping & restaurants. ML#241815/29105951 $40,000

4 BR, 2 BA, 1760 SQ. FT. MANUFACTURED HOME

on 2.38 acres of land zoned SC-3 (general commercial). The home features good mountain views, a quiet setting, fruit trees, and a large garden spot. Sequim Prairie Tri Irrigation runs through the property. Shares to use the irrigation water come with the property. $325,000.

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.... FOR YOUR BUSINESS HERE. Great visibility from main drag (Washington) and Hwy 101. Level lot and easy to build on. All utilities in and ready to go. Lot 8, 9 and 10 are also available. See plat map in associated docs. Terrific spot for new business. MLS#262081 $100,000

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INVESTORS BEWARE! Not many lots left to build your dream home on. Both lots 7 & 10 are available. If your looking at the scenic Peninsula Golf Course. Centrally located close to town, medical, restaurants & shopping. Bus line near by. Driveby and take a look, or walk the golf cart path to capture the stunning views of what could be your “well manicured backyard”. Gorgeous northernly views of the Strait and Victoria, westernly lush green landscape between the 8th & 9th holes. MLS#270718/#292127 $132,000

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INTERESTING ONE ACRE PARCEL with some character. Trees and rolling terrain. Manufactured homes are allowed here! Power to parcel. Water is hooked up. All you need is the septic system and you are ready to build. Loaded with wild rhododendrons!! Quiet Diamond Point area offers access to miles of trails and beaches. Call Ed Sumpter (360) 808-1712. ML#300060 $39,000

SINGLE WIDE MANUFACTURED HOME on one acre in the greater Diamond Point Area. Close to state land with thousands of acres to hike. Minutes from the beach to watch the marine life. Around the corner is dining and entertainment !! Call Mike Fuller (360) 4779189. ML#300050 $65,000

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REDUCED TO SELL! With acceptable offer sellers will give buyers a $10,000 allowance to cut or top trees of their choice. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Imagine building your dream home here on Bell Hill. This nice wide acre lot with beautiful views abound could be the perfect spot. Bring your “blue prints” and check it out. MLS#290976 $139,000

FOR BOTH OF THE ONLY TWO LOTS LEFT IN SUN MEADOWS. Easy build on this level lot in desirable gated community. Great location in county just minutes from town w/convenient access to Hwy 101 for the commuter. Includes community water & community septic/drainfield connection in the price of the lot. No extra fees for hookups. Mild CC&R’s & HOA fees to protect your investment. Available RV parking for owners & hook up’s available for minimal fee. Drive by & take a look only 2 left! MLS#291928 $55,000

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MUMFORD is a Boxer / Pit bull mix, about 4 years old. He is a calm guy with a friendly demeanor. He wasn’t getting along with other animals in his former home, but he’s made friends with a female dog at the shelter! We will update more info on Mumford soon!

TOYOTA: ‘09 Camry LE, 44K ml., loaded. $12,800./obo (360)640-2711.

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