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Leaps and bounds

Fair crowns queen Flamingo � ock helps grads

SHS track starts season with sweepB-5 A-3 A-2

Frank Wajda tries out the cockpit of his bush plane-in-process. He has been steam-bending Sitka spruce for years to create the framework. The plane’s wingspan is 36 feet.Photo by Joan Worley

Mark Cameron, of Sequim, visits the Museum & Arts Center last week. The museum closed on Saturday but reopened on Tuesday and will remain open with the help of volunteers. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

by MATTHEW NASHSequim Gazette

After a string of resignations, the election of a new board of trustees, and a brief closure and reopening of the exhibit center, the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dunge-ness Valley is moving ahead with and

without some key pieces.The past two weeks led to a near-

complete overhaul of the museum’s board of trustees and staff: Execu-tive Director DJ Bassett resigned on March 29. Of the paid staff, only the bookkeeper remains since the end of March.

Priscilla Hudson, former trustee

vice-president, handed over keys and gave brief instructions for the new trustees at a special meeting on Saturday, March 29, inside the DeWitt Administration building on Sequim Avenue.

Hudson gave her own resigna-tion at the meeting, saying that for nine months she had received negative comments about her and the museum. She referred to the January annual members meeting as a “hostile war zone” and the

A museum meltdown

by MATTHEW NASHSequim Gazette

In a few weeks, CPA Steve Kanters will see a new Sequim blue hole from his of� ce’s porch.

The bright blue of the former Serenity House Thrift Shop building will be replaced with an open space next to the City of Se-quim’s future civic center and police station.

“The open space is a posi-tive,” Kanters said.

He and his wife already created a gar-den in front of their offices, which Kanters said will carry well into the new space.

As for the center’s impact with noise and traf� c � ow, Kanters said the way his of� ce faces shouldn’t be a problem.

“It’s not any worse than when they did repairs to Sequim Avenue,” he said.

Traversing near the civic center might be a minor annoyance for passers-by, but it might be a morning wake-up call for dozens of neighbors with the project slated to go through early 2015.

Over several weeks, Lydig Construction, the contracted Bellevue out� t, will begin demolition on two vacant houses that will

City sets timeline for civic center construction

New MAC trustees opt for change

Executive director resigns

See MAC, A-11

Steve Kanters’ dog, Lemonade, takes a brief moment to rest on the porch next to the soon-to-be demolished Serenity House Thrift Store building that will create an open space for lo-cals. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Project planners expect minimal inconveniences through early 2015

See CONSTRUCTION, A-8

Sequim Gazette staff

What can $3 get you these days? Not much — but it can get you a month’s digital subscrip-tion to the Sequim Gazette.

Along with sister paper Pen-insula Daily News and sev-eral other Sound Publishing weeklies, the Gazette will start charging frequent users of its website beginning today, April 2.

Home-delivery print subscribers will not be charged and will have unrestricted free access to all of the Gazette’s digital products.

In other words, if you’re already a print subscriber, you

now get free web access. Under this new system, non-

subscribers to the Gazette’sprint edition will have to pay after viewing � ve free articles per month. Sign up directly from the website, or call us at 683-3311.

Gazette makes changes to website, subscriptions

T he wood frame is Sitka spruce, shipped from Alaska then steam-bent by hand us-ing a home-built steam box.

Half-inch aluminum, bent with the aid of only a vice, makes up the engine mounts and the stays for landing gear.

Frank Wajda of Sequim has been tenderly hand-crafting the Alaska-style bush plane for the past 14 years.

His eyesight failing and he wants to hand the project over to someone who can complete, or at least preserve, his work.

For 40 of his 93 years, Wajda built boats in Wrangell, Alaska, hence his skill at steam-bending wood. This is the � rst plane he has attempted, but he has aircraft experience of the most intimate sort.

Desert, war and pigeonsThe son of Polish immigrants, Wajda enlisted early

in World War II from his home in Chicopee Falls, Mass., and spent the years 1941-1945 as a mechanic with the 12th Bombardment Group, 82nd Squad-ron. As ground personnel, the young enlistee joined

Boatbuilder eyes the skies Frank Wajda makes a bush plane from scratch

by JOAN WORLEYFor the Sequim Gazette

See BOATBUILDER, A-4

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High school grad party fundraiser keeping �amingo tradition in 2014

More than bragging rights are on the line once again.

Students are working on films for this year’s ninth Sequim Education Foundation Student Film Festival, sched-uled for 7 p.m. Friday, April 18, in the Sequim High School auditorium, where students will compete for more than $7,000 worth of scholarships and awards.

The deadline for all student films to be turned in is April 7.

In addition to the regular competition, this year students will be able to submit films on behalf of their favorite school clubs. The film which best de-picts how their club embodies school spirit will win a $500 cash award for the club. The Sequim Middle School trophy case has been home to the “Elkie” trophy since the audience gave their loudest approval for Blake Wiker and his cousin Brendon Hudson’s film “Bad

Submissions deadline is April 7

Breath and Beyond” last April.Event organizers invite the community

to come April 18 and help decide the fate of the “Elkie.”

See www.sequimed.org or call Elna Kawal at 683-3027 for more information.

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THE IMPACT OF THE HONEY BEETimothy Lawrence, Island

County WSU Director of Extension, explains what

is happening to bees, bee-keeping and agriculture at

noon on Thursday, April 10, in the commissioners meet-

ing room of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E.

Fourth St., Port Angeles. The presentation is part of

the “Green Thumbs Garden Tips” brown bag series sponsored by the WSU

Clallam County Master Gar-deners on the second and

fourth Thursday of every month in Port Angeles. Call

417-2279. Submitted photo

CORRECTIONThe Sequim Rainbow Girls Easter bread pick-up date is April 12. The March 26 issue of the

Sequim Gazette listed an incorrect date.

SEF’s 2014 Film Festival is right around the corner

Emily Glenn, middle school representative and board member of the Sequim Education Foundation Board, retrieves the “Elkie” award from the middle school awards case. Submitted photo


Be on the lookout for a flock of flamingos making the pilgrimage to Sequim for a good cause.

Parents of the roughly 240 Sequim High School graduating seniors are beginning to “flock” Sequim-area lawns with flamingo or-naments in a four-week-long fundraiser for a safe-and-sober party after graduation, to run 8 p.m.-4 a.m. Friday-Saturday, June 13-14, at the Sequim Community Church.

The group asks a $25 “fee” to remove flocks and a $10 charge to send the flock to someone else. The goal is to raise $6,000-$7,000.

Melanie Bentz, fundraiser chairman, said at least 95 percent of SHS seniors attend the event, which serves as a good free and dry option after graduation.

Organizers hope to raise about $30,000 for the all-night party, which includes prizes, games and food.

Parents are also selling $5 raffle tickets for a chance to win multiple gift cards worth upward of $500, and they plan a four-man scramble golf tournament at the Cedars at Dungeness on Saturday, May 24.

All donations to the Sequim Graduation Party are tax-deductible. For more informa-tion, call Bentz at 461-2848.

Flamingos may be coming to a neighborhood near you as a bene�t for the 2014 Sequim High School graduating class party. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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The ballot box in Sequim has been moved from the City Hall parking lot on Cedar Street, to the Sequim Village Shopping Center, next to the PUD and city payment boxes. The move was

necessary for the construction of a new Sequim City Hall.

The ballot box is clearly marked for ballots only.

Ballots for the April 22 election will

be mailed today April 2. They must be placed in the ballot drop box no later than 8 p.m. on April 22.

Voters also may mail ballots by plac-ing proper � rst class postage on the return envelope and mailing the ballot so that it bears a postmark no later than April 22.

High school grad party fundraiser keeping � amingo tradition in 2014

“Bad Breath and Beyond” last April.Event organizers invite the community

to come April 18 and help decide the fate of the “Elkie.”

See www.sequimed.org or call Elna Kawal at 683-3027 for more information.

CORRECTIONThe Sequim Rainbow Girls Easter bread pick-up date is April 12. The March 26 issue of the

Sequim Gazette listed an incorrect date.

SEF’s 2014 Film Festival is right around the corner

Emily Glenn, middle school representative and board member of the Sequim Education Foundation Board, retrieves the “Elkie” award from the middle school awards case. Submitted photo

Melanie Bentz, fundraiser chairman, said at least 95 percent of SHS seniors attend the event, which serves as a good free and dry option after graduation.

Organizers hope to raise about $30,000 for the all-night party, which includes prizes, games and food.

Parents are also selling $5 raf� e tickets for a chance to win multiple gift cards worth upward of $500, and they plan a four-man scramble golf tournament at the Cedars at Dungeness on Saturday, May 24.

All donations to the Sequim Graduation Party are tax-deductible. For more informa-tion, call Bentz at 461-2848.

Flamingos may be coming to a neighborhood near you as a bene� t for the 2014 Sequim High School graduating class party. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

The 2014 Clallam County Fair Royalty includes, from left, princess Hannah Fritz, queen Mia Steben and princess Hannah Gauthun. Sequim Gazette photos by Michael Dashiell


Mia Steben, a home-schooled sophomore from Sequim, stood before her fellow royalty court candidates and a room full of well-wishers Saturday afternoon.

“I’m a person that likes chal-lenges,” she told them.

A few minutes later Steben was crowned Clallam County Fair Royalty queen, and now Steben and her princesses — senior Hannah Fritz and junior Hannah Gauthun — can look forward to a whirlwind of royalty responsibili-ties. The 2014 fair royalty court are scheduled to ride in nine parades, participate in multiple community service events totaling more than 400 hours each and stand in the spotlight at the Aug. 14-17 Clallam County Fair.

Steben won over the judges at the Clallam County Fair Royalty Tea and Coronation with her pre-sentation Saturday at the Clallam County Fairgrounds, detailing her experiences with family members as they work in the commercial � shing industry. She recalled ex-

periences in the past three years in Alaska’s Bristol Bay (home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon � shery) that helped her learn life lessons.

“It takes struggles to achieve something,” Steben said. “I learned the importance of perseverance.”

Fritz said her experience as a life-guard taught her about leadership.

“I’m de� nitely more con� dent,” Fritz told the judges. “I learned how to enforce rules. When you’re being a leader, you don’t want to always be a dictator.”

Gauthun talked about her experiences playing tennis for the Sequim High School team, and her inspiration that came from learning about Maureen

Connolly Brinker, winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s.

“I became so inspired (and) I fell in love with the game,” Gauthun said, noting her effort to earn a spot at the 2A state tournament last spring. “I know that I want to get back (to state). It will take commit-ment and determination. If you’re committed and determined … you can do anything.”

Event attendees were encour-aged to sip tea with the court and some well-known “Disney” prin-cesses and help the royalty court by bidding on silent auction items.

The county fair queen earns a $500 scholarship and princesses earn $400 scholarships.

The 2013 Clallam County Fair royalty share a laugh as they watch a video recount-ing their year of service at the Clallam County Fair Royalty Tea and Coronation on Saturday. The royalty includes, from left, princesses Naomi Gish, Grace Koenigsaecker and Lily Paulsen, and queen Torrie McIntyre.

Crowning the fair royaltySteben selected queen, Fritz and Gauthun princesses at Clallam County Fair coronation


Two dams on the Elwha River disrupted the � ow of sediment to the Strait of Juan de Fuca for nearly 100 years, contributing to erosion of the Elwha River delta and alter-ing coastal habitat.

Dr. Ian Miller describes how re-searchers are tracking the response of coastal systems (both physical and biological) and describes their most up-to-date � ndings at the next Science Café, presented by Sequim Education Foundation, slated for April 8.

Miller is Washington Sea Grant’s coastal hazards specialist, working at Peninsula College in Port Ange-les as well as the Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks.

Miller works with coastal com-munities on the Olympic Peninsula to increase their ability to plan for and manage coastal hazards, including tsunami, chronic ero-sion, coastal � ooding and hazards associated with climate change. Find him online at the Coast Nerd Gazette.

The Science Café is a commu-nity service of Sequim Education Foundation. Programs present expert speakers for adult and

young adult audiences interested in current developments in sci-ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Science Café events are held on the second Tuesday of the month at the Paradise Cafe. Admission is free and food and beverages are available for purchase.

For more information about Sequim Education Foundation, see www.sequimed.org.

Upcoming Science Café events

May 13 — Alex Bradbury on “Mollusks and Looking Beneath the Surface of the Salish Sea”

June 10 — Dave Brasher on “Ex-plosive Welding”

Elwha dams are subject of next SEF Science Café

Science Cafépresented by Sequim Education FoundationWhen: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 8Where: Paradise Cafe, 703 N. Sequim Ave., SequimPresentation: “Two Dams and the Beach: Dam Removal as Coastal Restoration” with Dr. Ian MillerAdmission: FreeMore info: www.sequimed.org

Library board names Jakubcin new director

The board of trustees of the North Olympic Library System has appointed Margaret Jakubcin, assistant director of the library, to be the next director, to succeed Paula Barnes, who will retire in July. Jakubcin has been assistant director at the library since September 2007.

The Board consid-ered conducting a regional or national recruitment for the next director, but after surveying the staff, Friends of the Library and Library Foun-dation members, they decided to follow the library’s established practice of recruiting internally � rst. “After reaching out to the staff and the library’s affiliate groups through an online survey, the board con� rmed the fact that the library is on the right course,”

board chairman Don Zanon saidAs assistant director, Jakubcin,

54, has been integrally involved in developing community partner-ships and expanding the library’s rich calendar of programs and events. She also has played a lead-ership role in creating the library’s management team of branch man-agers and department heads, as well as planning facility upgrades and drafting and updating NOLS poli-cies and procedures.

“I’m delighted and honored to be given the opportunity to continue my leadership role with NOLS,” Jakubcin said.

Jakubcin will make $85,500 per year when she assumes her new po-sition in July. She and her husband, Michael, live in Port Angeles. Their son, Tor, graduated from Port Angeles High School and Peninsula College, and will receive a BFA from Western Washington University in June.

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March 268:28 p.m. — Warrant ar-

rest, 100 block of River RoadMarch 2712:02 p.m. — Warrant

arrest, West Spruce Street/North Fifth Avenue

1:47 p.m. — Vehicle prowl, 2000 block of West Hendrickson Road

3:50 p.m. — Warrant arrest, North Fourth Av-enue/West Cedar Street

6:04 p.m. — Vehicle ac-cident, 600 block of Cays Road

March 2811:16 a.m. — Vehicle

prowl, 1000 block of West Brackett Road

11:56 a.m. — Vehicle prowl, 1000 block of West Brackett Road


1:54 p.m. — Vehicle ac-cident, 100 block of Letha Lane

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8:23 p.m. — Theft, 1200 block of West Washington Street

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9:38 a.m. — Burglary, 700 block of West Sequim Bay Road



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12:57 p.m. — Vehicle accident, North Sequim Avenue and Washington Street

2:06 p.m. — Burglary, 200 block of West Sequim Bay Road

7:21 p.m. — Drug viola-tion, 200 block of House Road

7:26 p.m. — Assault, 200 block of House Road

become the home to Clallam Transit’s park-and-ride. Lydig will then demolish the old city hall and Serenity House buildings.

David Garlington, project manager for the City of Sequim, said construction is set for weekdays from 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. with no night work.

They haven’t set a firm demolition date as of Tuesday, April 1, but will post the infor-mation on the city’s website at www.sequimwa.gov. Dur-ing construction, the City of Sequim plans to display a live feed on its website of the project from a camera at the public restrooms on Sequim Avenue.

Local impact Vehicles moving along

Sequim Avenue shouldn’t be affected, Garlington said.

ConstructionFrom page A-1

For a few days, how-ever, Cedar Street between Sequim Avenue and Second Avenue will become one lane for utility work sometime between May and June. At night the lane will reopen with metal plates over the holes.

Other roads remain rela-tively unaffected except for the alleyway between Spruce Street and Cedar Street. It will close for several weeks to replace a manhole and later to ground utilities, Garling-ton said.

There are three residential lots north of the property with dozens of residents in houses and apartments.

Throughout the project, the Sequim Avenue sidewalk on the west will be closed in front of the former Seren-ity House Thrift Shop and around the site including the north side of Cedar Street.

A six-foot fence will sur-round the entire project’s site.

A portion of Spruce Street will also close in front of the city’s new property for the park-and-ride near the northwest corner of Spruce Street and Second Avenue.

Pedestrians, particularly residents who access their homes from the alley, will have access but not vehicles.

Those looking to catch the bus will need to go to the northwest corner of the Clal-

lam Transit building for a ride until the project is complete.

Once finished, bus pickups and drop-offs will go to the soon-to-be leveled lot on Spruce Street.

Garlington said the city is still in the process of purchas-ing a second lot next to the house it plans to demolish.

Voices of citizensParking was one of the big

concerns for local businesses but Garlington said parking on the south side of Cedar Street will be unaffected.

Those living and parking in the alley will need to park elsewhere, though.

Kevin Bell, who owns busi-ness and residential build-ings south of Cedar Street, thinks the city will do a good job on the project.

“It’s going to be a problem for a little bit but they’ll keep

it going smoothly,” he said.Kanters said he’s pleased

the city will close the alley behind his business during construction because people drive through it too quickly.

Lisa Bridge, market man-ager for the Sequim Farm-ers Market, formerly the Sequim Open Aire Market, said they’ll be moving to Centennial Place at the corner of Washington Street and Sequim Avenue during construction.

“The move has its share of challenges and we will not know how well it suits us un-til we actually set up and run a handful of markets there,” she said.

Once completed, the mar-ket plans to move onto green space to the east of the civic center and onto Cedar Street east of Seal Street.

Bridge said she was told

Buses with Clallam and Jefferson transits will pick up and drop off riders on the northwest corner of the Clallam Transit build-ing along Second Avenue during construction of the new City of Sequim civic center and police station. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Civic Center construction impact timeline• AprilDemolition of existing buildings: former city hall, former Serenity House Thrift Shop and two vacant homes near Spruce Street and Second Avenue.Sidewalk closed around the new civic center site with a six-foot fence around its entirety. Fencing will also go up around the city’s new site for the park-and-ride in front of the two properties on Spruce Street. • May-June The alley between Cedar and Spruce Street from Sequim Avenue to Second Avenue will close for several weeks for utility work. Portions of the sidewalk on Spruce Street will close as well as the entrances to the alleyway.For a few days, Cedar Street will become one lane. • June 2014-winter 2015 Alleyway is closed to vehicles. Sidewalks around site remain closed but no tra�c alterations are expected.

The initial construction schedule for the City of Sequim Civic Center and Police Station closes sidewalks in April around the project and in front of a soon-to-be demolished lot northwest of the site. Submitted graphic

architects kept the market in mind for the space.

“Relocating back to Cedar St. and to the new civic center

will likely be to our advan-tage,” she said.

For updates on the project, visit www.sequimwa.gov.

joined thousands of other soldiers on the overseas trip from the U.S. around the Cape of Good Hope and up to Suez, part of an effort to relieve British forces recently defeated at Tobruk by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

In the war for North Africa, Wajda spent most nights camped in a two-man tent under the wing of a B-25 medium range bomber. He serviced the planes by day and guarded them from sabotage and air attack by night, moving with the planes through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

Wajda recalls days when the planes were too hot to work on, fol-lowed by dust storms “thick as night and black as hell.”

The 82nd weren’t the only fliers out there: One night a car-rier pigeon waddled into Wajda’s little tent; Wajda and his buddy turned the banded visitor and its message over to the proper authority.

Once Rommel’s campaign was demolished, the squadron was sent on to Italy, India and the Burma theater.

A Buick to AlaskaCpl. Wajda took a lot of chaff

during the war about his oft-expressed determination to go to Alaska. Once he was rotated back to the U.S. in 1945 and discharged, he made good on that dream, heading out in a 1929 Buick. At Seattle he sold the car to purchase a spot on the boat to Ketchikan, Alaska, then flew by small plane to Wrangell. There he found work in carpentry until he built cabinets for a cabin owned by Olaf Anson. The boatbuilder hired Wajda to build boats.

“It took me about seven years to really learn how to build a boat,” he said. But in his career, Wajda built 82 boats of wood, two of steel and one of aluminum.

While working for Anson, Wajda met and married his wife Martha, and the two had a daughter. In 1974 the family moved to Sequim. Wajda had built three houses in Alaska and he was to build nine more in Sequim, one with an all-wood spiral staircase. He also built three milking parlors for lo-cal dairies.

In 1997, Wajda built a last boat and sailed it from Sequim to Alaska and back.

Dream to lendSince that trip, Wajda’s major

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The plane’s framework is com-plete, sculpturally beautiful as it sits, but meant to be clad in a skin of 5/32-inch plywood and mounted with two Corvair or Rotamax engines. The plane has a 36-foot wingspan, a 21-foot fu-selage and a height of seven feet. The 15-degree sweptback wings have a 14-inch dihedral, curving 14 inches higher at the tip than near the fuselage. With torque tube controls and a tri-cycle landing gear, the plane is ready for completion.

“To begin with, I wanted to fly it,” said Wajda. When problems with his eyesight arose, he knew flying the plane was impossible. Now he is ready to crane up the wing section, move the plane out of the barn and see his work taken over by someone who shares his skills and his dreams.

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Frank Wajda built the plane’s framework using a home-made steam box and boiler to bend Sitka spruce. Photo by Joan Worley

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Boosters raise funds for Oso victims

The Sequim Softball Boosters and varsity and junior varsity softball teams will be selling concessions at the Building, Remodeling, and Energy Expo on April 5-6 at Sequim High School. All proceeds go to the victims of the recent landslide in Oso, Wash. Stop by the Expo concessions stand in the gym or mail donations to Sequim Softball Boosters, 8707 Old Olympic Hwy., Sequim WA 98382; make a note on the check that reads “OSO.”

Call 460-0380.

OMC board meetsThe OMC Board of Com-

missioners meet in their regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, in Linkletter Hall at Olympic Medical Center. Meeting topics include con-tributions to the “Red, Set, Go!” program, a resolution for the Sequim School Dis-trict Facilities Construction and Replacement Bond, and an interlocal agreement with the City of Port Angeles.

Clallam planning commission meets

The Clallam County Plan-ning Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. tonight, April 2, at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. The meet-ing agenda includes an overview of implementation of I-502 (Recreational Mari-juana Initiative) and discus-sion of the Clallam County Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plan draft. Call 417-2277.

Pioneer dinner tickets go on sale

The Sequim Pioneer As-sociation announces that tickets for the Annual Pio-neer Dinner will available for purchase starting April 2.

Tickets will be $17 and available through Hazel Ault at BrokersGroup, 681-8878.

Proceeds go toward hon-oring the 2014 Grand and Honorary Pioneers of the Irrigation Festival and the funding of the association’s Pioneer Scholarship.

Carlsborg advisors meetThe Carlsborg Community

Advisory Council meets from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at Greywolf Elementary

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POLICE BLOTTER

March 268:28 p.m. — Warrant ar-

rest, 100 block of River RoadMarch 2712:02 p.m. — Warrant

arrest, West Spruce Street/North Fifth Avenue

1:47 p.m. — Vehicle prowl, 2000 block of West Hendrickson Road

3:50 p.m. — Warrant arrest, North Fourth Av-enue/West Cedar Street

6:04 p.m. — Vehicle ac-cident, 600 block of Cays Road


prowl, 1000 block of West Brackett Road



1:54 p.m. — Vehicle ac-cident, 100 block of Letha Lane



March 298:26 a.m. — Vehicle ac-

cident, 100 block of River Road

9:38 a.m. — Burglary, 700 block of West Sequim Bay Road



March 302:01 p.m. — Burglary,

1000 block of River Road4:41 p.m. — Theft,

259000 block of US High-way 101


prowl, 300 block of Cam-eron Road

12:57 p.m. — Vehicle accident, North Sequim Avenue and Washington Street

2:06 p.m. — Burglary, 200 block of West Sequim Bay Road

7:21 p.m. — Drug viola-tion, 200 block of House Road

7:26 p.m. — Assault, 200 block of House Road

Local professional photographer Ernst Ulrich-Schafer addresses Sequim High School students on the school’s Career Day on March 25. Photo by Patsene Dashiell

Civic Center construction impact timeline• AprilDemolition of existing buildings: former city hall, former Serenity House Thrift Shop and two vacant homes near Spruce Street and Second Avenue.Sidewalk closed around the new civic center site with a six-foot fence around its entirety. Fencing will also go up around the city’s new site for the park-and-ride in front of the two properties on Spruce Street. • May-June The alley between Cedar and Spruce Street from Sequim Avenue to Second Avenue will close for several weeks for utility work. Portions of the sidewalk on Spruce Street will close as well as the entrances to the alleyway.For a few days, Cedar Street will become one lane. • June 2014-winter 2015 Alleyway is closed to vehicles. Sidewalks around site remain closed but no tra� c alterations are expected.

The initial construction schedule for the City of Sequim Civic Center and Police Station closes sidewalks in April around the project and in front of a soon-to-be demolished lot northwest of the site. Submitted graphic

will likely be to our advan-tage,” she said.

For updates on the project, visit www.sequimwa.gov.

Frank Wajda built the plane’s framework using a home-made steam box and boiler to bend Sitka spruce. Photo by Joan Worley

School, 171 Carlsborg Road. Agenda items include proj-

ect schedule updates and Carlsborg land use/zoning issues. Call 417-2323.

Easter bread sale setSequim Rainbow Girls

are taking orders for their annual Easter Bread sale. Order deadline is April 7. Call Mary Miller at 417-9236 with any questions or for more information about any ingre-dients. Send order and check to Sequim Rainbow Girls, c/o Mary Miller, 830 N. Minstrel Road, Sequim, WA 98382. Orders will be available for pick up at the Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave., from 3-5 p.m. on April 7.

Spirit session plannedAzella The Barefoot Proph-

et presents “A Walk with Spirit” session from 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the Sequim Library meeting room. The fee is $15 paid at the session. For questions or information, call Azella at 681-3191.

Coffee with the mayorSequim residents may

meet informally with Sequim mayor Candace Pratt, on Thursdays, April 3 and 17 at 8:30 a.m. at The Oak Table, 292 W. Bell St., Sequim. The mayor will be at a different published location each month, along with a notepad to take notes, to listen to any-one who wants to chat, ask questions, express a concern

or make a comment about the city or the community.

Contact Pratt at [email protected] or call 582-0114 for more information.

Chicks 101The Co-op Farm & Gar-

den, 216 E. Washington St., Sequim, will have a free Chicks 101 seminar at 11 a.m. April 5. Roger Lampitt from Land ‘o Lakes/Purina will discuss the basics of raising backyard chickens and he will answer questions. Chicks are available for purchase through the � rst weekend in May.

Cancer support groupsOlympic Medical Cancer

Center offers the following support groups in April:

• 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, Women’s Cancer Support Group, OMCC library, second

and fourth Tuesday of the month.

• 1-2:30 p.m. Monday, April 21, Look Good, Feel Better, OMCC conference room. Call 582-2845 to register.

• 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, Women’s Cancer Support Group, OMCC library, second and fourth Tuesday of the month.

Amateur radio classesThe Clallam Country Ama-

teur Radio Club will hold free Technician and General License instruction classes and an exam, beginning April 5, 12 and 19. These three days will be based on chapters from the ARRL Technician or General Class Manual. April 19 will consist of a class � rst, then a review. The exam session is at 1 p.m. at the Port Angeles Fire Station, 102 E.

Fifth St. There is a $15 pro-cessing fee for the exam.

To register, call Chuck Jones at 452-4672 or Dennis Tilton at 452-1217.

Garden club to meetSequim Prairie Garden

Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 8, in its club-house at Pioneer Memorial Park, 387 E. Washington St. in Sequim. April’s speaker is the Wildwood Nursery owner, Greg Haskins. Dessert will be provided by hostesses Diana Stafford, Joyce Hoover and Susan Shiffman.

For information on rent-ing the clubhouse or about the Garden Club, call Diane 808-3434, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Senior Nutrition MenuSequim Senior Nutrition

Site menus are served at 4:30 p.m. at Suncrest Village Retirement Apartments, 251 S. Fifth Ave. Suggested dona-tion is $5 (60 and over), $8 guest, and a 24-hour advance reservation is needed. RSVP to 683-8491. Menus are sub-ject to change.

Thursday, April 3: Three-bean salad, ravioli w/mari-nera, garlic bread, steamed spinach, carrot cake

Friday, April 4: Tomato juice, biscuit w/sausage gra-vy, scrambled eggs, fresh fruit, chocolate mousse

Monday, April 7: Mush-room medley soup, salad, tuna � sh, dessert from Prai-rie Springs

Tuesday, April 8: Spinach salad, spaghetti, green beans, garlic bread, fruited gelatin

Wednesday, April 9: Green salad, chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, refried beans, baked custard.

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Meeting dates & locations

City Council Regular Meeting

Transit Center2nd & 4th Monday • 6:00 p.m.

City Council Study SessionTransit Center (when required)2nd & 4th Monday • 5:00 p.m.

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April 2014

Welcome New Employees!Marshall Baker, Public Works

2/18 (temporary)Dustin Baker, Public Works

3/3 (seasonal)Joe Irvin, Special Projects Manager

3/31 (temporary)

Sequim residents will begin to see progress on the new Civic Center site beginning in April. Early in the month, Lydig Construction will secure the perimeter of the site with fencing. The fencing will remain for the duration of the project construction. Residents can expect some sidewalk restrictions along Sequim Avenue, and portions of the sidewalk will be closed at times.

Abatement (the removal of asbestos) and demolition will begin � rst with the duplex at 171 N. Spruce Avenue, followed by the City Hall building at 152 W. Cedar St., and then the Serenity House Buildings along Sequim Avenue. There may be some traf� c restrictions during the Serenity House buildings demolition.

Removal of the buildings will be followed by work to move the utilities underground.

Cedar Street is expected to remain open during construction, although it will be restricted to one lane at times.

For the duration of the project the Clallam and Jefferson County bus stop will move from W. Cedar St. to 2nd Avenue between Cedar and Spruce Street.

Lydig Construction and the City will hold monthly neighborhood meetings to keep the community informed.

The City website www.sequimwa.gov will post weekly updates on what is happening once the project begins. Please contact City Engineer David Garlington at (360) 683-4908 or [email protected] with ques-tions.

Demolition for New Civic Center to Begin

Dick and Pat Gritman on the ODT by the new Dogi Pot.

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document � ood-ing or other runoff problems by sending photographs and videos of problem areas to Ann Soule at [email protected] with the location, date, and time the image was taken. Contact Ann at 582-2436 with questions. To learn more about the Stormwa-ter Needs Assesment project, visit http://www.sequimwa.gov/ index.aspx?NID=560

“Coffee with the Mayor”

Sequim residents can meet informally with Sequim Mayor Candace Pratt on Thursdays, April 3 & 17 at the Oak Table Cafe, 3rd Ave. & Bell Street at 8:30 a.m. The Mayor will be at a different published loca-tion each month to meet with anyone who wants to chat, ask questions, express a concern, or make a comment about the City or the community. Please contact Candace Pratt at (360) 582-0114 or cpratt@sequim wa.gov with questions.

City of Sequim Police Department Offers Project Lifesaver Program

In light of the recent wandering disappearance of dementia patients in Clallam County, the Sequim Police Department wants to remind the public of the Project Lifesaver Program available in Clallam County.

Project Lifesaver is a program that is proven to locate people who wan-der due to disorienting disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Down Syndrome, Autism or any other disorder that can cause disorientation or wandering. The client wears a wrist or ankle band which emits an indi-vidualized tracking signal on an assigned radio frequency. The caregiver noti� es 9-1-1 if a client goes missing, a team will respond to search for them. The average rescue time is less than 30 minutes.

“We are very happy that the individuals who went missing recently were recovered, but they were not in very good shape when they were found,” said Sequim Police Chief Bill Dickinson. “The Project Lifesaver Program can help locate, and return clients safely to their home or care facility much more quickly and reduce their risk of harm or increased health problems.”

Project Lifesaver operates in more than 1,000 jurisdictions across the nation. The Sequim Police Department (360) 683-7227 manages the program and enrolls clients for east Clallam County. The Clallam County Sheriff’s Of� ce (360) 417-2376 manages the program and enrolls clients west of Deer Park Road. The Sequim Police Department, Clallam County Fire District #3, and the Clallam County Sheriff’s Of� ce all have personnel trained as Electronic Search Specialists and the agencies work together to electronically search for a missing client.

Once a client is enrolled in the program, a caregiver will be required to check their transmitter daily for battery power. Participants must be seen on a monthly basis to replace the transmitter battery. There is a one-time $50 fee to enroll a client in the program.

The Project Lifesaver Program is available by the Sequim Police Depart-ment through generous funding from the Ray and Donna Guerin Fam-ily Foundation.

Please contact the Sequim Police Department at 683-7227 or visit the City’s website www.sequimwa.gov with questions.

VOLUNTEER CORNERVolunteers Make a Difference

Pat and Dick Gritman have lived in Sequim for almost 16 years and have worked as vol-unteers maintaining the Olympic Discovery Trail (ODT) for 15 of those years.

“We love the trail. We can be outside anytime walking a safe path through town, farmland, forests and parks, over streams and along the Strait with views of the Olympics, San Juan Is-lands, or Canada,” Pat said.

The Gritmans were instrumental in carving out the path for the Adventure Route of the ODT.

“We did a bit of everything from bushwhacking the proposed route to dig-ging down to mineral soil, clearing brush, spreading gravel, installing trail signs and bollards, and generally having a great time with hard-working folks who also think we live in the best place,” Pat added.

Since the beginning of the Adopt-A Trail program they have maintained the section of the ODT from the Visitor Information Center to the Lofgren Access. Early this year, they noticed a problem with dog waste on their section of the trail. They passed the information along to the City and were pleasantly surprised at how quickly the City responded by installing a Dogi Pot station on the trail.

The Gritman’s work on the trail involves mowing, litter pick-up, scraping soil and overgrowth build-up along the edges, and trimming shrubbery. Thanks to the Gritmans for all of their hard work!

To learn more about how you can make a difference by volunteering with the City, contact Volunteer Coordinator Pamela Leonard-Ray at 582-2447 [email protected] or City Clerk Karen Kuznek-Reese at 681-3428 or [email protected].

Sponsors Needed for Sequim’s Music and Movies in the Park

The City of Sequim is looking for sponsors to support the 2014 Mu-sic and Movies in the Park summer concert series. The program is held at the James Center for the Per-forming Arts, located at the Water Reuse Demonstration Site on Blake Avenue, and is scheduled to run on Tuesday evenings from June 24, 2014 through August 26, 2014. All performances begin at 6:00 p.m. An outdoor movie will be shown at dusk on the last Tuesday of each month following the musical per-formance. All programming is de-pendent on available funding.

Each musical performer receives $400 for their performance, and each movie costs approximately $2500 for the screen and movie license. Music and Movies in the Park is a popular community event series that relies on the generosity of community sponsorships and presents an opportunity for sponsors to promote themselves to the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Com-munity. Donations may be tax de-ductible (IRS Code, 26 U.S.C. 170 (c) 1).

Sponsorship opportunities come in many levels. Visit the City of Sequim website www.sequimwa. gov for complete sponsorship in-formation.

Please contact City Clerk Kar-en-Kuznek Reese at 681-3428 or [email protected] with questions or to learn more about becoming a sponsor for Music and Movies in the Park.

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Audit CorrectionThe March 2014 Sequim News

said that the City had received a clean audit on the 2013 � nancial statements. The audit was on the 2012 � nancial statements, which marks 24 straight years of clean audits for the City.

SEQUIM PARKS TRIVIA

How well do you know your City parks?

Sequim has a large variety of parks for many different activities. Which ones have you visited? Which ones don’t you know about? Look for Sequim Parks Trivia each month in the newsletter, “like” the City of Sequim Government facebook page or go to www.sequimwa.gov to � nd out what you’ve been missing!

1) How many parks does the City of Sequim maintain?

A. 2B. 4C. 8D. 12

2) What is the largest Park in Sequim?

A. Pioneer Memorial ParkB. Carrie Blake ParkC. Kirner ParkD. Dr. Standard Park

3) What is the smallest Park in Sequim?

A. Carrie Blake ParkB. June Robinson Memorial ParkC. Pioneer Memorial ParkD. Seal Street Park

Answers: 1) D; 2) B; 3) D


SEQUIM GAZETTE A-7

Shop reopeningAnne’s Sequim Antiques, 253 W. Washington St.,

reopens after a winter hiatus from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 4. The shop will be open Fridays and Saturdays.

Vendors wantedVendors are wanted for the Avamere Olympic

Rehabilitation of Sequim 3rd Annual Craft Fair & Raf� e from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 25. For information, contact Cherie Cariou, Life Enrichment director at 582-3900, ext. 3941 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Sebastian joins Estes BuildersCarla Sebastian has joined Estes Builders as an

administrative assistant, bringing with her more than 18 years of administrative and of� ce manage-ment experience. She will direct the administrative areas of the Sequim and Poulsbo of� ces.

Sebastian has strong family ties to the Sequim area. She has been an active volunteer with the American

Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event as well as with youth sports.

Landscaper adds licenseDoug Cockburn of Landscapes by Cock-

burn has passed the Washington State Pesti-cide License tests and is licensed to apply herbi-cides and insecticides in the state of Washington. The four-hour test was given at the WSU Puy-allup Extension Station on March 20 af-ter two and half days of classes.

Cockburn is the president of Land-scapes by Cockburn Inc., which has been in opera-tion for 20 years. Call 681-0132 or e-mail [email protected].

New VP at bankColumbia Bank has appointed

Julie Hatch as vice president and manager of its Port Angeles branch. In her new position, Hatch will be dedicated to overseeing customer relations, including attracting and providing service for new and exist-ing customers. She has more than

30 years of banking experience.

Spring renewal at Nash’sCulinary nutritionist and regis-

tered dietitian Dr. Monica Dixon will present “Spring Renewal: Ten Steps to Finding Your Summer Mojo,” at Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way in Dungeness at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Creating a deli of delights

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The peninsula’s an-nual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival, scheduled for Oct. 10-12 this year, has been nomi-nated for “Best Food Festival” as part of the Best Northwest Escapes contest run by KING5 television’s “Evening Magazine.”

The winners are decided by the public. To vote, visit http://nwescapes.king5.com/best/

food-festival/family-fun/northwest by April 11. For more information on Crabfest and a detailed

program, visit www.crabfestival.org, e-mail [email protected] or call 452-6300.

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Crabfest up for Best Northwest Escape?

by PATRICIA MORRISON COATESequim Gazette

If his customers are as enthusiastic as butcher and artisan deli owner John Pabst is about freshly cured meats, then Paci� c Pantry is bound to be a “go to” place in Sequim for local, natural meat and produce. Pabst’s interest in butchery, a service mostly lost over the past genera-tions, began about a decade ago when he worked in a South Carolina restaurant. He’s been a chef for � ve years.

“I’m fascinated with butchery because it’s something not many people do or do correctly,” Pabst said. “It’s really impor-tant for me to get animals raised properly and humanely because it makes a big dif-ference in � avor. The public doesn’t have access to properly raised meats with no hormones or antibiotics. We are what we eat.”

In Europe and in large American cit-ies, customers still go the local butcher to pick up their favorite cuts of raw and cured meats. Before the rise of supermar-kets after World War II, a local butcher’s shop was just one of the daily stops of the American housewife.

Pabst is calling his venture an artisan deli/butchery where the 12-seat deli will have a menu of three hot and/or cold soups, three sandwiches and three salads that will change monthly. In the deli case there will be beef, pork, lamb “and prob-ably even a little goat, plus smoked chicken breasts,” Pabst said. He also makes his own mustard and sauerkraut and will stock fermented vegetables by Sequim’s own Getting Cultured.

“I want to get as many local products as I can get in here,” Pabst said. After the

animals from Clark Farms, Nash’s Or-ganic Produce or Spring Rain in Chima-cum are slaughtered by a USDA-approved slaughterhouse, Pabst will get halves or quarters of the animals and will cut and cure the meat with natural spices and no chemicals. People who buy half a hog from Nash’s or Clarks’ can have Pabst butcher it into their preferred cuts.

“Every country had their cured meats, so I’ll make salamis from all over Eu-rope,” Pabst said. “It takes about two to 10 months to cure meat and I believe in not rushing the process so the � avoring

really develops. When we open (April 1) I’ll have lots of fresh cured meats such as ham, pastrami, bacon and sausages like bratwurst and knockwurst.”

Deli case meats and cheese from Mt. Townsend Creamery in Port Townsend will be available by weight and Pabst hopes people will make it part of their weekly routine to swing by and get something for dinner or supper.

“I don’t want to limit it to a speci� c genre of food — I just want to have fun with it,” Pabst said. “There also will be some tarts, cheesecake and other pastry items. I grew up around baking. Within six months to a year I want to do a cut-and-wrap service.”

He also plans to offer brunch-type fare on Sundays.

Pabst is jumping in to be part of the community — he’ll feature a different local artist in the deli monthly and will be part of April 4’s First Friday Art Walk.

Chef and butcher John Pabst recently opened Paci� c Pantry, a deli/butchery on South Sequim Avenue. Sequim Gazette photo by Patricia Morrison Coate

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Paci� c Pantry’s John Pabst opens artisan deli, butchery

Vendors are wanted for the Sequim Fire Centennial Celebration, set for 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Water Reuse Demonstration Park north of Carrie Blake Park.

The event includes music, food, games and antique � re engines from across the entire Paci� c Northwest.

Co-hosted by 7 Cedars Casino and spon-sored by the City of Sequim, Clallam County Fire District 3 and along with local busi-nesses and vendors, the event begins with an antique � re engine parade at 10 a.m. and continues at Carrie Blake Park, concluding with a “Burning Down the House” after-party at 8 p.m. at 7 Cedars Casino.

Go to www.redlightsirens.comand and click “vendors” to download an application. E-mail Kelly Jo Hill at [email protected], call 461-3950 or fax 683-6834.

Seeking vendors for ‘Fire Centennial’

Three additional projects aimed at increasing tourism in Clallam County have been funded by the Olympic Pen-insula Visitor Bureau. Grants include:

• ASB Sprint Boat Races, $2,000. Two races will take place in 2014, Aug. 9 and Sept. 6. Much of the promotion will be off the Olympic Peninsula to the Seattle and Victoria markets, en-couraging overnight stays. See www.extremesportspark.net.

• “Paint the Peninsula” Plein Air Com-petition, $2,500. This eight-day event will bring 30 artists to paint outside for 4½ days across the Olympic Peninsula. Sponsored by the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, this event also includes a judging competition, concluding with a viewing and sales in the gallery. See www.paintthepeninsula.org.

• North Olympic Discovery Mara-thon, $2,500, to promote the race between Sequim and Port Angeles along the Olympic Discovery Trail. See nodm.com.

About the grantsTourism Enhancement Grant funds

are earmarked to encourage longterm economic growth through tourism-related projects or events that attract overnight destination guests. The bureau distributes these funds locally as long as funds are available.

Grant guidelines and applications are available at www.olympicpeninsula.org/page/tourism-grants, or call Diane Schostak at 452-8552. Year to date, $24,550 has been awarded. There is $10,450 remaining in available TEG

Visitor bureau awards another $7,000 for area tourism grants

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On April 22, the Sequim community will face a huge decision that will signifi cantly affect the future of our community and the children and families living here.

I will vote “yes” for the much-needed Sequim School District facility bond for the following reasons:

• Our community needs to recruit and retain physicians and other health care pro-fessionals. There is a significant shortage of physicians both na-tionally and locally and rural areas in the U.S. have 20 percent of the population but only 10 percent of the physicians. In my role as CEO, I work on recruiting physicians every week. When talking to physicians considering moving to Sequim, the No.1 question that I get is, “What is the quality of the local schools?” Physicians with fami-lies often decide where to live and practice by the quality of local schools. By passing this bond, Sequim schools will become a magnet for recruiting and retaining physi-cians and other health care professionals. The quality of our local health care system is directly connected to the quality of our schools. You can impact the availability of quality physicians locally by voting for the school construction bond.

• Our 2,700 children need the best edu-cation we can give them. To maximize the education we offer our children, facilities and technology are critical. Up-to-date science labs, computer networks, modern class rooms and technical training facili-ties better position students and teachers to excel.

The promise of the U.S. has always been that each generation sacrifi ces for the next generation so they may have greater opportunities. The “American Dream” is under intense pressure and today’s children need an excellent educa-tion to keep this country moving forward. Sequim children can’t vote but we can certainly give them the best opportunity to succeed.

• Sadly, Sequim schools are falling apart. The facility bond will address these prob-lems. Our high school needs to be massively upgraded. Helen Haller must be replaced. Our middle school roof leaks. Greywolf needs to be expanded to fi t new students and full-day kindergarten.

Our school kitchen is too small and badly needs new equipment. Our schools have

Lauren Holloway, produce manager at Nash’s Farm Store, stopped to tell her story as she shopped the store for healthy snacks to take on her next adven-ture: a walkabout.

“Tomorrow I’m taking a day of personal evaluation. I’m going to fi ll a backpack with snacks and water and I’m planning to walk away from my home in Dunge-ness and just go.

I don’t know where I’m going. I don’t know how long I’m going to go or where I’ll end up, but it just feels like a good thing to do.

And who knows what I’ll en-counter?

It’s a daylong thing; I can’t afford more time than that right now.

I really am inspired to walk the pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain at some point. My boyfriend and I have been thinking of ways we could get the same experience without actually having to travel to Spain.

We’ve been talking about doing our own little ‘Camino’ right here, from back in the Olympics all the way to the water, but I kind of feel like I need something sooner, so I’m just going to head out on foot.

It’s important for people to take time to be with themselves.”

OPINIONLETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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• Letters are welcome. Letters exceeding 250 words may be shortened. We strive to publish all letters.

• Letters are subject to editing for spelling and gram-mar; we contact the writer when substantial changes are required, sending the letter back to the writer for revi-sions. Personal attacks and unsubstantiated allegations are not printed.

• All letters must have a valid signature, with a printed name, address and phone number for verification. Only the name and town/commu-nity are printed.

• Deadline for letters to appear in the next publica-tion is noon Friday. Because of the volume of letters, not all letters are published the week they are submitted. Time-sensitive letters have a priority.

• Letters are published subject to legal limitations relating to defamation and factual representation.

• To submit letters, deliver or mail to 147 W. Washington St., Sequim, WA 98382; fax to 360-683-6670 or e-mail [email protected].

Kelly Shea, the superintendent of Sequim Schools, will spend hours with you showing you school facilities and explaining why the district wants the community to ap-prove the $154 mil-lion school bond on the April 22 ballot.

So I took him up on his offer and hap-pened to be on the tour with an interested Sequim resident who wanted to make the point that the most important role a school can play is to prepare children to become productive, satisfi ed persons.

He wondered as many do if a bond this size was necessary to achieve that goal. Looking fully like a super-intendent who had just heard his rea-son for being eloquently described by this concerned resident, Shea explained the school isn’t keeping up with the facilities that children need today to learn the skills needed for the jobs today.

‘But then there’s that stadium!’The stadium attracts the laser-like

focus of many even though it repre-sents only three percent of the bond. Is it necessary? Shea described the stadium as a stand of seating with a roof. “We cannot host a game here because we don’t have facilities. All our games are away games.”

Ninety-two percent of the School Bond is for classrooms, buildings and areas essential to a safe learn-ing environment. The remaining fi ve percent is for grounds, includ-

ing athletic fields, transportation and warehouses.

I felt a twinge of nostalgia over high school games I at-tended and school pride I felt but I was ready to move on to the real money.

‘What’s wrong with the old?’

It’s too old for today’s education needs, but I understand the ques-tion. I took it personally when my elementary school was torn down ripping away any nostalgic memo-ries I exhumed when I drove by it. Then my high school was closed for lack of interest in yet another failure to honor the history of my youth.

Seems my elementary school, which by the way was built almost 30 years before I was born, was sitting on a prime piece of view real estate. I will admit to not caring about the view of both the Olympics and Cas-cades when I was in the fourth grade but I did like touching and smelling the old wood.

In a fi t of ironic destiny the school was torn down and replaced with condominiums for retired teachers, although probably not mine since they seemed older than dirt when I attended school.

All those havens of brick crafts-manship and wood that seemed to oil itself went the way of new sleek school construction that multiplied like fast-food places to keep pace with the swelling baby boomer generation.

Somehow those fl at-roofed wood-

en structures didn’t endure like the old stately brick schools. I can imagine it was in the frenzy of construction and cost control that someone wondered why we need to build schools to last 100 years. Kids run, play, throw things and bump into walls. Parents know it; that’s why they buy kid furniture and save the nice stuff for the day the last kid leaves home.

At one time the Sequim school system consisted of the Dungeness School House, now home to com-munity activities and the chair that rides up and down the steep staircase only when it feels like it.

The stately old brick Sequim high school was built in 1935, followed by the gymnasium a leisurely 22 years later in 1955. Then the kids came fi rst as a trickle then a fl ood when baby boomers started having babies.

The capacity of the high school was expanded in 1968, complete with trendy fl at roofs, small win-dows and thick concrete walls later covered with stucco. Helen Haller, the elementary school, was built in 1967 and an addition in 1978. The kid population continued to explode and portables were brought in for use as temporary classrooms.

Temporary classroomsPortable classrooms put on sur-

rounding lands emptied out when Greywolf Elementary was built in 1991. Some portables were sold, some remained at Helen Haller and others were moved to the high school to handle kids moving into upper grades.

Those would be the same portables I was in during the tour with Shea.

We toured the classrooms built 46 years ago and temporary portables installed 22 years ago. I imagined generations of kids passing through and bumping into walls. Somehow it all felt like a well-maintained but tired old battleship still trying to serve its country.

In truth, the school rooms prob-ably have about the same window-to-wall ratio as battleships or a slightly above-ground bunker. I don’t know what the theory of learning in 1968 was but it didn’t include an environ-ment of daylight and fresh air. I won-dered for a moment if the designers even liked kids since they kept them in the dark.

Studies have shown that adults and children read better in daylight. We also think more clearly when we breathe air made fresh by bringing in outside air, exchanges not in build-ings of the 1960s. The tour moved on.

We came to what was for me the rarifi ed metal shop that only boys went to in my youth and next to it I was surprised to see a large area with partially dismantled cars on hydraulic lifts. We had inadver-tently stepped into a museum dis-guised as an opportunity to develop mechanical skills to repair 21st century cars; it was only equipped to fi x pre-computer cars. This is a lot like training surgeons to do robotic surgery using the latest in rearview mirrors and scalpels.

Stumbling blocksWe passed the tennis court on

which an instructor was patiently coaching kids to hit tennis balls. I wonder if you become a better or

Shining a light on school bond, classrooms

Verbatim: Lauren Holloway

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Vote for Sequim schoolsImagine a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post

Cover and it‘s Sequim High School! People smile, “That’s our school … we can go there for everything!”

Two women were coming in the school room and I was moving as quickly as I could to meet them at the doorway in the far corner. One woman was pushing a baby carriage and the other had a toddler in tow, so I arrived before they had advanced very far. I was surprised and shocked that this entourage would just enter my biology classroom. Then I saw it — they had brought a spider in a glass jar for me to identify.

This was only the fi rst of several “drop in” visitors off the street, generally as harmless as the spider in the jar, although the delivery of a boa constrictor snake that some-one found wandering around Dungeness was shocking!

Rooms in many of the high school buildings open directly to the outdoors. Because there is no extra space, many students wear their coats all day and keep a pile of belongings on the fl oor around themselves. This impedes quick movement around the room when dealing with emergencies.

As a retired teacher from the Sequim School District, I hope our community always will see their schools as the place “to go.” But Norman Rockwell doesn’t live in Sequim and it is terrifying to picture a different scenario as strang-ers enter our schools and classrooms.

Help make our students and teachers as safe as possible. Join me in voting YES to support Sequim Schools.

Shirley AndersonSequim

School bond too big a biteAt $154 million, the Sequim school board is asking

approval for a huge amount of money, leading toward the billion-dollar state and federal level.

Sequim is not the California Silicon Valley where they pave the streets with million dollar bills! Having been in-volved in these types of projects, there is no way (even with outside project support), given the size and experience of the Sequim School District staff, that they can execute this magnitude of project in a COST-effi cient and effective manner — they are simply not prepared to oversee, as the owners’ representative, a project of this magnitude and complexity. That is a matter of fact.

The board needs to return to the planning table and fi rst, establish a long range plan setting individual priorities for each aspect of the total project, taking into consideration “necessary vs. nice.”

Then, this needs to be divided into phases over a reason-able period of years in a manner which can be effi ciently and effectively managed and fi nanced with smaller in-dividual bond issues. It seems that, to some degree, the school district has not planned and performed appropriate professional maintenance to the facilities over the years for them to have gotten into the disrepair condition that they are in today.

Please overlook the emotional promotional sales and marketing effort by the school board and their vested-interest supporters which distorts facts. If anything, higher property taxes make homes less attractive with a lower property value as opposed to their statement of increased property value — this is just common sense.

If approved as proposed, this bond will substantially increase each and every homeowner’s property taxes by nearly 20 percent! Is this an amount that everyone can afford all at one time?

Approving a bond in this size will also signifi cantly

School facility bond needs your support

See LETTERS, A-9

See COOPER, A-10

reduce the opportunity for approval for other bond needs of the com-munity, such as a much needed expansion of the library.

I urge a NO vote for this Sequim School Bond in the amount of $154,325,000. This needs to be re-placed in a rational, logical, respon-sible and professional manner with a new proposal in phases which can be cost-effectively managed over a period of time.

John SartoriSequim

Council fails to lead on bond issue

The Sequim City Council seems to have forgotten what it means to provide leadership for our commu-nity. If, by a 6-1 vote, the council can “provide general support” to the school district in “seeking voter approval to fund the acknowledged need for districtwide improvements in its education facilities,” why vote down a resolution supporting the bond issue?

One of the most important du-ties of the city council is to provide visible support to the things that make Sequim strong (great schools, fi rst-rate health care, a strong pub-lic library).

While it may not have direct control over many of these com-munity resources, surely it can and should make its support known in the strongest way possible.

There has been a major effort to identify the capital needs of our schools. We have known about many of these needs for some time — but ignored them. The school board has said they should not be ignored any longer.

In short, the school board evi-denced the leadership that our com-

LettersFrom page A-8


In just a few weeks voters in the Sequim School District will be asked to vote on Proposition 1 — School Improvements General Obligation Bonds — $154,325,000, the largest school bond proposal in the history of Clallam County. The actual cost for the tax-payers would be $262.1 million, which includes $107.8 million in es-timated interest. The bonds are 20-year gen-eral obligation bonds.

The issue is not being for or against providing quality education for our children. It is about identifying the priori-ties to achieve quality education and determining options that are within our means. The optimum solution should balance three elements — what is essential, what is reasonable and what � nan-cial impact it will have on the middle- and lower-income families.

With the wide range of projects in this proposal and a lack of prioritization, there is no clear determination of what is es-sential. We the taxpayers are faced with an all or nothing choice. The total package includes projects from safety improvements and a new elementary school to building a league-approved football stadium with an arti� cial turf, a new bus barn and shop, a central warehouse, new tennis courts and a new gym, to list a few. Are all these projects essential, reasonable and of equal priority?

The safety of our children is a priority. As much as we value our open campuses, uncon-trolled access creates a dif� cult environment to manage. This must be addressed. There are a variety of ways to improve safety in our schools. A few examples of what has been done elsewhere include: installing reinforced exter-nal doors, cameras for monitoring, perimeter fencing that directs all access to controlled points and campus security guards. We will need a solution that meets the essential need, is reasonable and is affordable.

How are the educational needs being met? Quality education is measured by outcomes such as the percentage of students that graduate on time, graduates that pursue post-secondary education; graduates entering four-year colleges that require remedial math and/or English, etc. How will spending $262 million on facility replacement and remodeling improve these measures? Great educations are more the result of great teachers and strong curriculum than they are on the amount of money we spend. This point is demonstrated by the fact that the state with the highest

expenditure per student is ranked No. 32 in 50 states – in terms of their performance.

Is Proposition 1 a reasonable proposal or a wish list? As reported by the Sequim Gazette, the committee co-chairman, Sue Ellen Riesau said, “The committee put together a vision for what the future should look like.” She noted that worrying about the dollars wasn’t part of the assignment. “It was our job to dream.”

At a cost of $262 MILLION can we the people of the Sequim School District really afford this vision, “The Dream”? It represents an 80-percent increase in the amount now assessed for schools on your tax bill. It results in a 16-percent increase in your overall tax bill. On a $200,000 home, the added cost to the tax bill would be approximately $340 per year, almost $7,000 in additional taxes over the term of the bond.

Today, annual taxes per student are $10,635. This � gure includes taxes from all sources for the school district’s general fund and debt servicing, divided by Full Time Equivalent (FTE) students. If the bond is passed, the taxes per student would increase 45 percent to $15,489.

Many residents in the Sequim School District are senior citizens; many are on � xed incomes. A tax increase of this magnitude will adversely affect them. Young families and individuals would not escape the impact even though they may not own property. The heavy burden of higher taxes would result in increases in rents to adjust for the increase in cost to rental property owners. Yet we are being asked to pass the largest local bond proposal in our history.

Here are the facts! Clallam County school-aged population has decreased 11.5 percent since 2000. Unemployment is high at 9.8 percent. The labor force is shrinking with 2.8 percent fewer employed since 2005. Working age population is decreasing. Retired population is increasing. Sales tax receipts are dropping (25 percent lower than 2005). Median individual worker income is $24,064. Median household income within the Sequim School District is $47,942.

The only item that is increasing is taxes. Total property taxes in constant 2000 dollars are increasing; do we believe that all other taxing authorities will hold their assess-ments, fees and taxes constant for 20 years while these bonds are being paid? How about new libraries, new city halls and new police facilities, utility rate increases?

We must say “NO” to this bond proposal and encourage the school board to go back to the drawing board, take a more realistic approach and prioritize the projects.

Jerry Sinn is a Sequim resident.

On April 22, the Sequim community will face a huge decision that will signi� cantly affect the future of our community and the children and families living here.

I will vote “yes” for the much-needed Sequim School District facility bond for the following reasons:

• Our community needs to recruit and retain physicians and other health care pro-fessionals. There is a significant shortage of physicians both na-tionally and locally and rural areas in the U.S. have 20 percent of the population but only 10 percent of the physicians. In my role as CEO, I work on recruiting physicians every week. When talking to physicians considering moving to Sequim, the No.1 question that I get is, “What is the quality of the local schools?” Physicians with fami-lies often decide where to live and practice by the quality of local schools. By passing this bond, Sequim schools will become a magnet for recruiting and retaining physi-cians and other health care professionals. The quality of our local health care system is directly connected to the quality of our schools. You can impact the availability of quality physicians locally by voting for the school construction bond.

• Our 2,700 children need the best edu-cation we can give them. To maximize the education we offer our children, facilities and technology are critical. Up-to-date science labs, computer networks, modern classrooms and technical training facili-ties better position students and teachers to excel.

The promise of the U.S. has always been that each generation sacri� ces for the next generation so they may have greater opportunities. The “American Dream” is under intense pressure and today’s children need an excellent educa-tion to keep this country moving forward. Sequim children can’t vote but we can certainly give them the best opportunity to succeed.

• Sadly, Sequim schools are falling apart. The facility bond will address these prob-lems. Our high school needs to be massively upgraded. Helen Haller must be replaced. Our middle school roof leaks. Greywolf needs to be expanded to � t new students and full-day kindergarten.

Our school kitchen is too small and badly needs new equipment. Our schools have

serious security issues. Before deciding not to support this bond, tour the high school, Helen Haller and other facilities, or watch the videos on the Sequim School District’s website to see for yourself.

Thankfully, due to extremely low interest rates, it will never be cheaper to fund these much-needed improvements. Reduced interest rates will come to an end. In� ation will make the construction costs go up if we further defer this work. Kicking the can down the road is not in the best interest of tax payers.

• Public investments improve our qual-ity of life and support our economy. Can you image Sequim without the SARC, the Highway 101 bypass, John Wayne Marina, and the Sequim OMC campus? These large public investments have made Sequim a more desirable place to live. Improved school facilities will lure more families (including physicians) to Sequim. Our lo-cal economy will bene� t from this public investment in our schools. With strong schools and healthcare services, selling homes will be easier due to more people moving here.

• If this bond passes, the total property tax supporting our local schools will be $3.85 per thousand, which is below the average of all other school districts across the state, which is $4.44 per thousand. If passed, Sequim will be 13 percent below the state average and if it does not pass, Sequim will be 52 percent below the state average. The manner in which we fund our local schools in Washington is much different from other states and relies heavily on local property taxes. This may seem like an odd way to fund schools, but this is the system we have. Other communities have clearly stepped up for their schools: Sequim should do the same.

My two children are too old to bene� t from these new facilities, but I am go-ing to vote for these facilities. Sequim needs more physicians, and it needs to be a place for local kids to get an excel-lent education; Sequim school facilities must be improved to meet the demands for classrooms, current technology and security, and we need people to want to move and live here to maintain/improve our local economy.

We can accomplish all this and still have a school property tax rate that is well below the state average.

Please join me as we help determine the future direction of our community.

Eric Lewis is CEO of Olympic Medical Center, a Sequim resident and father of Sequim School District students.

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Back to drawing board with school bond proposal

School facility bond needs your support

reduce the opportunity for approval for other bond needs of the com-munity, such as a much-needed expansion of the library.

I urge a NO vote for this Sequim School Bond in the amount of $154,325,000. This needs to be re-placed in a rational, logical, respon-sible and professional manner with a new proposal in phases which can be cost-effectively managed over a period of time.

John SartoriSequim

Council fails to lead on bond issue

The Sequim City Council seems to have forgotten what it means to provide leadership for our commu-nity. If, by a 6-1 vote, the council can “provide general support” to the school district in “seeking voter approval to fund the acknowledged need for districtwide improvements in its education facilities,” why vote down a resolution supporting the bond issue?

One of the most important du-ties of the city council is to provide visible support to the things that make Sequim strong (great schools, � rst-rate health care, a strong pub-lic library).

While it may not have direct control over many of these com-munity resources, surely it can and should make its support known in the strongest way possible.

There has been a major effort to identify the capital needs of our schools. We have known about many of these needs for some time — but ignored them. The school board has said they should not be ignored any longer.

In short, the school board evi-denced the leadership that our com-

munity needs. It would have been encouraging to see a similar level of leadership from our city council.

Jim and Jo Ann RobertsSequim

Support bond issueAs co-presidents of a Parent-

Teacher Organizations here in Sequim, we see first-hand how special the Sequim School District is. The educational opportunities are broad and deep, including not only the core areas (e.g., English, social studies, math, science) but also award-winning programs such as drama, music and athletics. The district offers high school cur-ricula in both agricultural science and building trades. The district has an alternative high school and provides a home schooling-based program at Olympic Peninsula Academy.

This richness of program is not without purpose, for through it we are preparing our students for their impending roles in our community. These are our future citizens and voters. These are our future busi-ness owners and taxpayers. These are our future leaders.

Unfortunately, much of the physi-cal infrastructure of the district fails to support this purpose. Aging, in� exible and crowded buildings are inadequate to meet the needs of learning in 2014. If they are failing today, what will the picture be to-morrow? Please join us in learning the facts and voting YES on April 22 in support of our schools. Sequim can wait no longer.

Kyra and Steven HumphreySequim

SHS grad votes YESI am a proud Sequim High

School 2012 graduate, and I voted YES for the school renovation plans.

My biggest concern for the reno-

vations is the plans for the Band, Choir and Theater departments. My entire high school career I was involved in the Choir and Theater departments, and I loved every minute of it but there are problems with our facilities.

My biggest issue is that the band and choir rooms are located off-campus. Many might think this not to be a big deal but it is. Being across from the main campus we are cut off from everything. The intercom and telephone systems don’t work, so if there was an emergency lock-down, say God-forbid a gunman on campus, the students wouldn’t know and would be put in harm’s way, simply because we are so out of the loop.

The classrooms are small as well. As years go by the programs are thriving and growing and the classrooms simply cannot accom-modate the numbers of students joining the programs.

As far as I’m concerned everyone should be voting YES. It might be expensive but in the end it creates a safer environment for future gen-erations; after all we are doing this for students we have now and the students of the future. Although I am now at college in Idaho, Sequim will always be my home and one day I would like to raise a family here. I want my kids to go to a school that’s safe and can enrich their education.

Walt Disney once said, “Around here ... we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious ... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” I think it’s time for the Sequim High Wolves to go down a new path and see what new doors we can open.

So please vote YES to the pro-posed school changes.

Sarah StofferSHS Alumni Class of 2012Boise, ID

Budgets and exemptions

I have always lived on a budget, and have been against most bond issues because I either thought them unnecessary or overpriced. If I have to live on a budget, and do without, or make do with less, then government should be held to the same standard.

It is not government’s money, it is the tax payers’ money. Now that I am a retired senior citizen I have learned great news. If you are 61 years old and make under $35,000 a year, you qualify for property tax exemptions. You can vote yes on the school bond and not have to pay for it.

Your part of the tax increase can be passed on to your younger neighbor.

Why not vote yes on the bonds? I ask you, isn’t America wonderful?

Gary ThomasSequim

Art of teachingOn a spring day in 1957, my art

teacher, Mrs. Dorcas Taylor, an-nounced, “Get your sketch pads and pastels together. We are going out-side to do some drawings from life.”

I found a cherry tree across the street from Sequim High School. The boughs were bent with pink blossoms. Mrs. Taylor walked from student to student. “Bring out the contrast, dark and light. It will make the image pop,” she told us.

Later, we carved animals from blocks of salt. I still have the charg-ing bull I carved. I did a watercolor still life. It won a Hallmark Scholas-tic Gold Medal and was on display at Frederick & Nelson in Seattle along with art of other Washington State students.

In the years that followed, I covered the walls of our house, our children’s and neighbors’ houses with bold, colorful images.

She taught us to look for beauty everywhere, to understand nature by observing it. She taught us to revere life.

She was a gifted artist in her own right, deserving of a museum � lled with her marvelous art somewhere in this valley she loved so dearly.

I remember her now and urge ev-eryone to vote “YES” on the School Bond issue to replace our aging, decrepit school buildings. I hope that a big, naturally lit art studio is in the plan. It should be named “The Dorcas Taylor Studio.”

Tim WheelerSequimSequim High School Class of

1958

Students deserve safe, modern buildings

Our community has supported Sequim Schools in the past. We now have the opportunity to make a signi� cant improvement to our students’ learning environment. It is my hope that voters take time to understand both the need for this bond and the solution it offers. With the bond’s passage our students will enjoy the bene� ts of a safe, modern and ef� cient campus.

Currently, our school facilities are not meeting the needs of today’s students and will prove even more inadequate in the years to come. The student population is expected to rise, driven in part by a new state mandate for all-day kindergarten. The current facilities cannot ac-commodate these new students within existing classrooms. The bond addresses this need and builds classrooms under one roof instead of growing the number of tempo-rary portable buildings.

Many buildings at our high school and community school have reached the end of their useful life.


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Problems include poor physical condi-tion, security difficulties, the inability to upgrade technology and the inefficiency of 50-year old building designs. In addi-tion, athletic fields and courts show the wear of many years of hard use and are in need of modernization.

By acting now we capitalize on today’s low interest rate environment and the benefits of a thoughtful building plan that incorporates all district facilities. Many of the details are available at www.sequimschools.wednet.edu.

Please vote yes.Jon JackSequim

Vote no on bond issueEducation is one of the most important

issues facing America today. The U.S. ranks 24th in math and 16th in science among the major nations of the world. A recent study found that 50 percent of U.S. adults were not able to read an eighth-grade level book. I have not been able to find a single retail cashier under the age of 25 who can make change without the use of an electronic cash register.

I cannot find anything in the proposed school bond issue that does anything to address the education of the students. Fancy new bricks and mortar are not going to improve the education of our children.

The tax burden imposed by this bond proposal does not deliver a meaningful return on investment. I urge a no vote and hope the school board will search out programs to improve education instead of building new facilities.

Steven MillerSequim

Reinvest in schoolsThis April, we have the opportunity

to create learning environments that encourage high academic performance. I’m writing to support secure schools, adequate spaces and a properly function-ing educational system in Sequim.

What did a functioning educational system mean for me? It meant a world-class education in a small town — from my first day of kindergarten at a brand-new Greywolf to graduation from SHS. It meant mentorship and support from a fantastic team of teachers. It meant well-equipped facilities to allow me to explore

and learn through extra-curricular ac-tivities. It meant that I was prepared for college and law school at the University of Washington.

I’m proud that I grew up in Sequim, a community that cares. I’m grateful for my training and growth in Sequim schools. And I’m hopeful that the citi-zens of Sequim are still invested in its children. Let’s prepare them to make a positive impact on the world by making this small commitment to our shared future.

Sequim’s levy rate is the second-lowest in all of Clallam County. Even if April 22’s bond passes, our rate still would be sig-nificantly lower than districts of similarly assessed values.

Please do your part to reinvest in our education system. Please vote YES FOR YOUR SCHOOLS!

Holly Golden (Lange)SHS Class of 2004Seattle

Add SARC to prioritiesA suggestion to property owners, the

ultimate taxpayers: Prioritize.Have you ever thought how many com-

munity services require your tax dollars? We know of schools, fire and libraries, but do you know you own and operate a recreational center? Yes, it’s called the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center. I understand the name doesn’t impart instant awareness but it’s a junior taxing district much like the library. Both serve the community.

While SARC hasn’t asked for a bond or levy for 13 years, it has kept your kids off the street, taught them how to swim and allowed them to physically test themselves in a controlled, clean facility for those years. Not to forget the older set; SARC, although its name doesn’t refer to the whole community, does enlist and instruct hundreds of those of older age every week in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

Unlike most social services, SARC has charged a minimal user fee to extend your past bond and levy contributions.

All this to say, come this next ballot on bonds and levies, please don’t forget one of your most financially competent community services; save a dollar or two for your 25-year-old recreation center’s forthcoming (within two years) levy action.

Prioritize your current and future tax dollars.

Jan RichardsonSequim

worse tennis player when you also have to learn to avoid cracks in the concrete; that would be if you didn’t break something stumbling over them.

Traveling to the band area, Shea pointed out that band students must travel from class to the band area, pick up their instruments and travel back to the auditorium to practice, an inefficiency that costs about ten percent

of class time. At least it’s an opportunity for sun except when it’s raining. I wonder if the school nurse monitors Vitamin D levels.

Two thousand meals a day pass out of the kitchen that was built for a student popu-lation of 1,200 in yet another building in the maze. This culinary feat becomes all the more masterful when one sees that the kitchen is equipped with decades-old equipment, including one device that blew enough of something to cause a fire recently.

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It happens that this device was purchased from the Navy, which strengthens my battleship analogy.

We finished the tour in Helen Haller elementary school, which will be rebuilt in the east end of the dis-trict. The classrooms were as dark and stale as high school classrooms but more convenient, although I’m not sure that one toilet for each gender is enough in a building that seemed to hold at least 100 children. Part of the old Helen Haller will be torn down and some will be refurbished and used for Olympic Peninsula Academy, the school home for kids in home-school programs.

We walked back to admin-istration through the open campus, in which restrooms opened to quiet sidewalks, and Shea talked about safety and security. The bond will provide for connections between buildings so that students will walk through

corridors instead of outside. The idea, besides getting

out of the rain, is to provide control of access to build-ings and enable a plan of protection in the event of suspicious activity. He said someone suggested building a fence and I envisioned the same chain-link fence that keeps prisoners in minimum security facilities.

Teachers and kids make a school

Throughout the tour I noticed that each dim class-room seemed to take on a character of its own, which I suspect had much to do with the teacher creating a learn-ing environment. Clearly teachers were making the effort to do the best they can with what they have. Smiles for and interest in the kids were the order of the day.

The spirit of learning was alive and I concluded that children were in good hands. Which raised the question of

how much better learning would be in an environment in which form follows func-tion and equipment meets the needs of the 21st century student.

‘Why not wait and build parts of it later?’

Seventeen million dollars, said Shea. The district wants to take advantage of current construction costs and inter-est rates. Shea says the need won’t go away and the district will come back to the com-munity with another bond measure.

The School Board con-sidered a bond in 2008 and decided for reasons we all know that 2008 was not the year to ask. Shea makes the point that the district has always been a good steward of the bonds. The 1996 bond was refinanced when interest rates fell and as a result that bond will be retired at the end of this year, three years earlier than its due date.

Shine a light in the classrooms

As the man said, it’s all about the future of kids. Kids learn better in daylight and fresh air. Is there a reason not to make schools efficient, safe and secure? Our permanent school buildings are built for the functions of the 1970s and temporary portables should not be permanent. Form needs to follow function and there just aren’t enough jobs for fixing 1970s cars.

Go to www.sequimschools.wednet.edu/Page/3630 to take your own tour.

Think about it and vote by April 22.

Bertha D. Cooper is retired from a 40-plus year career as a health care administra-tor focusing on the delivery system as a whole. She still does occasional consulting. She is a featured columnist at the Sequim Gazette. Reach her at [email protected].



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The future of Clallam County starts at home.

One of just six counties in Washington State to use the Home Rule Charter form of government, Clallam looks to 15 representatives — three from each of its commis-sioner districts — to amend the county charter, a kind of constitution for our region.

Since it was established in 1976, Clallam County’s Home Rule Charter has undergone review by five commissions, in 1982, 1988, 1993, 2001 and 2006. Charter review commis-sioners serve one year, from the date they are elected.

In November of 2014, county residents have a chance to run for and elect fellow residents to a review commission.

“It’s a way for our citizens to have a say in how our county is organized,” said Sue Erzen, who was on the 2006 charter review commission.

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‘Home’ rulesHome Rule Charters allow

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The Clallam County Charter undergoes periodic reviews — now once every eight years

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Erzen said, “It’s a good mix (with) five from each district.”

Vail, who served on the 2006 commission with Erzen, added, “It’s just like any board: fifteen peo-ple coming from fifteen places.”

One of the more significant changes to the county charter, Erzen noted, was the decision to make the Clallam County Director of Community Devel-opment staffer into an elected position, the only one like it in the nation.

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Erzen says the issue of num-ber of county commissioners may come up as well.

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Shine a light in the classrooms

As the man said, it’s all about the future of kids. Kids learn better in daylight and fresh air. Is there a reason not to make schools ef� cient, safe and secure? Our permanent school buildings are built for the functions of the 1970s and temporary portables should not be permanent. Form needs to follow function and there just aren’t enough jobs for � xing 1970s cars.

Go to www.sequimschools.wednet.edu/Page/3630 to take your own tour.

Think about it and vote by April 22.

Bertha D. Cooper is retired from a 40-plus year career as a health care administra-tor focusing on the delivery system as a whole. She still does occasional consulting. She is a featured columnist at the Sequim Gazette. Reach her at [email protected].

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The public is welcome and light refreshments will be served.

The RWCC business meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. prior to public forum.

For more information, con-tact Stephanie Noblin, RWCC Publicity, at [email protected].

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OBITUARIESTamera K. Flores

Eugene, Ore., resident Tamera K. Flores died March 14, 2014, in Eugene.

Survivors include her mother, Shirley Jahns, and brother, Troy Grahn, both of Sequim.

adequacy and suitability.“This gives citizens an op-

portunity to have a voice in government without having to make the incredible life commitment,” Vail says. “You don’t have to have an agenda. I found it a very good learning experience.”

Says Erzen, “It’s a good mix (with) � ve from each district.”

Vail, who served on the 2006 commission with Erzen, adds, “It’s just like any board: � fteen people coming from fifteen places.”

One of the more signi� cant changes to the county charter, Erzen notes, was the decision to make the Clallam County Director of Community Devel-opment staffer into an elected position, the onyl one like it in the nation.

“(That rule) will probably come again this year,” Vail says.

Erzen says the issue of num-ber of county commissioners may come up as well.

Other Washington state “Home Rule” county govern-ments exist in King, Pierce, San Juan, Snohomish and What-com County; 33 other counties in the state operate under the commission form of govern-ment provided by state law.

League aims to explain, boost Charter Review Commission Sequim Gazette staff

Sequim resident William Rusk, 79, was found dead in the Bogachiel River in Forks on the morning of Thursday, March 27, after his boat overturned on March 21.

Clallam County Sheriff’s De-

partment reported they recovered Rusk’s body at about 10:08 a.m. Thursday after a Forks � shing guide saw him submerged in about six feet of water. Rusk was found near the spot his boat was recovered days earlier, about two miles down river from the boating incident.

Quileute Tribal Fish and Wildlife Enforcement of� cers assisted with the recovery of Rusk’s body.

Rusk’s boat overturned in the early evening of March 21 on the Bogachiel River in Forks just af-ter he and friend Mark Roller of Vancouver, British Columbia, had

launched their drift boat from the Bogachiel Way � sh hatchery.

Roller made it to shore and threw Rusk a life jacket. Rusk held onto the life jacket and the boat as it drifted down the river. Roller called 9-1-1.

Law enforcement searched for

Rusk for two days. Chief Deputy Ron Cameron of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Department said they suspended the search as of Sunday evening after further searching.

Rusk was a retired professional from California and new to the Sequim area.

Sequim man found dead in Bogachiel River

trustees’ March 20 meeting as a “hostile takeover” after a handful of potential trustees applied and were voted onto the board.

“You not only destroyed a part of my heart, you affected the lives of paid and unpaid staff and many volunteers and have damaged the pro-fessional state of the MAC,” she said.

Trustee Candace Bur-khardt said the museum will survive the changes.

“We’re moving forward and the museum is going to be � ne,” Burkhardt said.

Following the resigna-tions, the museum’s exhibit center, 175 W. Cedar St., did not open on Saturday, March 29, but new MAC board mem-bers and volunteers with Sequim Arts reopened it on Tuesday, April 1.

Lester Ellis, a new trustee, said they’ve permanently switched back from a $3 entry fee to a donation. They also plan to be open for the First Friday Art Walk.

Financial issuesThe con� ict, said Board of

Trustees Secretary Bob Stipe, stems from the museum’s former trustees and staff not revealing � nancial informa-tion.

New Board of Trustees President Jerry Brown� eld said they’ve been following the � nancial issue for about a year and that a lot of red � ags went up.

New and old museum members brought up money issues at the members’ meet-ing, wondering why the museum should pay for two

consultants and staff when there is a shortfall.

It was revealed the muse-um lost $138,998 in 2013 and is expected to lose $65,458 this year.

The museum lost $43,466 in 2008, $3,094 in 2009, $45,317 in 2010, and $87,372 in 2011.

In January the museum’s available operating fund consisted of about $40,000 from an endowment which is worth about $163,000, but $120,000 is restricted and can’t be used for general operating expenses.

The museum closed its Second Chance Consignment Shop on Feb. 25 due to declin-ing revenues, a move which may save $21,000 a year.

Stipe said the board’s biggest focus right now is finances and trustees are unsure how much is due to staff and consultants Michael Friedline, who resigned on March 20, and Richard Beck-erman, who resigned earlier.

Robert Schlechter, who has worked on the MAC’s photo collection for the past three years, said Bassett tried to raise money and it didn’t happen.

“(The consultants) never got a chance to prove them-selves,” he said.

Former volunteer Lyn Fiveash said Beckerman was an asset who changed the exhibit center, which � nished a remodel on Feb. 2, for the better in only a few hours.

“Sequim needs those tour-ists in … for revenue,” she said.

Director’s resignation Bassett resigned on March

28 in an e-mail to Hudson “due to the hostile take-over of the Board of Trustees by an outside self-interest group.”

He said most of the staff and volunteers have stepped away from the museum due to the “hostility” but he encouraged respect for the museum and the incoming volunteers.

Bassett, who came to the museum in 2010, has been a point of contention for groups such as Sequim Arts after a dispute over finances for an art show.

Linda Stadtmiller, Sequim Arts president, said she and Bridget Baker, former exhibit center manager, will volun-teer at the center on Tuesday and Sequim Arts volunteers through the week.

In October, Sequim Arts publicized a conflict with Bassett about shared rev-enues, estimating the club lost $1,000 for Sequim Arts’ Juried Art Show held at the MAC.

Stadtmiller said Bassett failed to honor their verbal agreement despite agreeing to it the previous year.

She sent correspondence to former Board President Gideon Cauffman, but Bas-sett said he did not receive the letter and that there was no spoken contract between the agencies.

Sequim Arts recently stopped renting space from the museum, as did Readers Theatre Plus.

Olympic Driftwood Sculp-tors postponed its April 1 exhibit to a later date but looks to partner in the future, organizers said.

Angelina Reese, a museum photo archivist since 2012, said volunteers were glad to donate their time and talents

because of the leadership they had.

“They (the new board members) don’t know how to run a museum. It’s sad,” she said.

“DJ, with Renee (Mizar, communications coordina-tor & executive assistant), has brought the museum up to a professional level.”

Brownfield said he’s re-ceived multiple calls from past board members and volunteers looking to help since the changes.

“It’s been a good response,” he said. “The community has been waiting for this to happen.”

Randy Radock spoke to the board on Saturday, saying he wants to serve as a liaison between the museum and Sequim Arts.

“We plan to repair the damage,” he said.

Bob Clark, a co-founder of the museum and current board adviser, said he’s served as a committee member of the Dungeness Schoolhouse and they’ve worked to cut � nances so that it is within $1,000 of breaking even. He hopes the facility will be rented during Lavender Weekend.

Steph Ellyas, exhibit center manager for more than a year and a volunteer for four years prior, said she was laid off but would have quit due to the changes.

“I liked the work,” she said. “I hope it keeps going, but I won’t come back.”

Ellyas hopes volunteers do come back, though, because “It’s too nice of a place to see it go.”

Trustees meet at 5 p.m. Thursday in the DeWitt Ad-ministration building, 544 N. Sequim Ave.

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Priscilla Hudson, former vice-president of the MAC board, top left, leaves the room after addressing the board of trustees in a special meeting on March 29. She was the last person of several volunteers to resign, which led the MAC’s exhibit center to temporarily close through Tuesday morning until former volunteers opened it. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

BASSETT

The National Alliance on Mental Illness in Clallam County will spon-sor a Family-to-Family Education Program beginning Saturday, April 12.

This free, 12-week course is de-

signed to meet the needs of family members and close friends of an adult who is living with a mental illness.

The course will meet from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Port Angeles at

Olympic Medical Center, 939 Caro-line St., each Saturday.

Information on bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and co-occurring disor-ders will be presented, along with

coping skills for handling crises and relapse.

Other topics include current brain research, treatment and medication options, listening and communication techniques, and

self-care for caregivers.The course is facilitated by

trained family member volunteers. Curriculum for these classes was written by an experienced fam-ily member/mental health profes-sional.

Class size is limited, so early reg-istration is advised.

For more information or to reg-ister, call 452-5244.

NAMI sponsors series of classes

Registration is open for the Clallam Conservation District’s annual spring natural landscaping course and spring landscaping with native plants � eld workshop. Conservation district man-ager Joe Holtrop is the in-structor for both the course and the � eld workshop.

The natural landscape course applies permacul-ture design principles to help participants develop their own sustainable land-scape plans. Through a combination of lectures and � eld trips, course par-ticipants are instructed on how to develop landscape designs suited to the unique ecological conditions of their properties. The course emphasizes water conser-vation, stormwater man-agement, wildlife habitat enhancement and minimal maintenance.

There are three Tuesday evening classes and three Saturday field trips. The

evening classes will be from 6-8:30 p.m. on April 8, 15 and 22 at the Armory Square building at 228 W. First St. in Port Angeles. The � eld trips will be on the afternoons of April 12, 19 and 26.

A $25 registration fee covers the cost of materials, including a book on native plants. To register, contact the Clallam Conservation District at 360-775-3747. The deadline for registering is April 4.

One free � eld workshop on landscaping with na-tive plants is being offered separately from the natural landscaping course. The workshop will be held at the Dungeness Recreation Area from 1-4:30 p.m. Friday, April 25. No fee is charged for the � eld workshop, but due to space limitations, pre-registration is required. Call the Conservation Dis-trict at 360-775-3747 to register.

Sustainable landscaping is topic of CCD course

Local researcher and author Alice Alexander presents “West of the Elwha” at the Clallam County Historical Soci-ety’s History Tales lecture series at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at the First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St., Port Angeles. Alexander is the author of � ve books. In addi-tion, she writes a monthly column for the Peninsula Daily News. She is active with the Clallam County Historical So-ciety, Celebrate Heritage and the Heritage Advisory Board.

History Tales is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Clallam County Historical Society’s of� ce at 452-2662 or e-mail [email protected].

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Charles Drabek, Sequim High School wrestling head coach, teaches a lesson to students about escaping a pin in the Mat Rats program, which emphasizes the fundamentals in wrestling for younger athletes. During March Sequim’s up-and-coming wrestlers learned the basics at Mat Rats. Coaches and high school wrestlers taught techniques and strategies twice a week to students ages 5-12 in the Sequim Community School gymnasium. More than 50 students participated in the camp which encourages and prepares athletes for middle and high school wrestling. Drabek said the program grew from last year and was another success. For more information on the program next year, contact Drabek at 477-7501, [email protected] or Anthony Gowdy at [email protected]. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

THE FUN IN FUNDAMENTALS

U.S. and Canadian birders fl ock to Sequim in early April each year to enjoy the three-day Olympic Bird-Fest. The 2014 Festival (April 4-6) offers “Birding by Land and Sea,” a new, two-day pre-festival fi eld trip that offers an opportunity to see birdlife seldom seen from land.

“We should have a very exciting time exploring a section of the Washington coast that receives little attention from birders — any-thing is possible,” said Bob Boekel-heide, seabird biologist and one of the trip leaders.

On Wednesday morning, April 2, the guided trip begins with birding around Neah Bay by van and foot to several birding hotspots and beauti-ful areas within the Makah Nation. After a freshly caught halibut buffet dinner, and weather permitting, the group will enjoy stories and camaraderie around the resort’s campfi re.

On Thursday, April 3, partici-pants will board the M/V Wind Song in search of birds that spend most of their lives offshore. Boekelheide and expert birder Denny Van Horn will identify birds and wildlife as the Wind Song, crewed by Makah tribal members, takes them to the Juan de Fuca Canyon, Tatoosh Island and Swiftsure Bank. Shearwater, albatross, petrel and northern fulmar are some of the viewing possibilities.

Meals, boat trip, expert guides and lodging are included in the $325-$395 per person trip cost.

The Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society started BirdFest in 2004. The festival offers nearly two dozen guided trips, workshops and a gala banquet with silent auction and raffle. Noah Strycker, the 2014 banquet speaker, is a photographer, author and adventurer. He has a degree in fi sheries and wildlife and is associate editor of Birding maga-zine. On April 7, following BirdFest,

there are two more other birding-by-boat experiences.

Boekelheide and Van Horn will be the naturalists on board a three-day birding and wildlife cruise to the San Juan Islands, and a second — very popular — three-hour cruise goes around Protection Island at Admiralty Inlet. Both cruises de-part from John Wayne Marina in Sequim.

A chapter of the National Audu-bon Society and a partner of the Dungeness River Audubon Center, OPAS created BirdFest to help support the educational programs and operations of the center and Railroad Bridge Park.

To learn more about the Neah Bay seabird trip or the Olympic BirdFest, log onto www.olympic-birdfest.org or call the Dungeness River Audubon Center at 681-4076.

Not open to visitors, Tatoosh Island is a former Coast Guard station with a de-commissioned lighthouse. The Makah Tribe maintains treaty rights to the land, once a whaling base.

2014 BirdFest ready for � ock of visitors

Seabird biologist Bob Boekelheide, left, and Denny Van Horn, right, are excep-tional guides. Photos by Sue Chickman

Jamestown S’Klallam tribal elder Marlin Holden and videog-rapher Al Bergstein will host four separate screenings of their new short fi lm “Legacy of Our An-cestors: Treaty Resources of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.”

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to defray costs.

Through interviews with tribal citizens who use modern methods to fi sh, hunt and gather, and those who remember the old ways, juxta-posed with historical photographs and explanatory narrative, this fi lm reconnects viewers to the cycles of nature which allowed in-digenous people to thrive through the millennia; knowledge of which is necessary not only for the sur-vival of humans, but also for the

health of the planet.“Legacy of Our Ancestors:

Treaty Resources of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe” was conceived by Marlin Holden, chairman of the tribe’s Natural Resources Commit-tee, and fi lmed by videographer Al Bergstein, with fi nancial support from Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council. Holden and Bergstein interviewed tribal fi shers, hunters and gatherers to create a fi lm that captures the legacy left by ances-tors, with Native methods that continue to serve the tribe well in the 21st century.

The documentary will be shown at the following locations and times:

• Elwha Klallam Heritage Cen-ter, 401 E. First St., Port Angeles

— Tuesday, April 8, at 7 p.m.• Quimper Unitarian Universal-

ist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave-nue, Port Townsend — Wednesday, April 9, at 7 p.m.

• Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock — Thurs-day, April 10, at 7 p.m.

• Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road, Sequim — Wednes-day, April 16, at 7 p.m.

This showing will include a special additional video: “Working for the River: Restoring the Dunge-ness River,” conceived by the tribe’s Natural Resources Environmental Planning Program, to help property owners along the Dungeness River understand the importance of pre-serving and restoring the riparian ecosystem for future generations.

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