Sequim Gazette, June 18, 2014

by ALANA LINDEROTHSequim Gazette

The six-month marijuana morato-rium within Sequim City limits estab-lished in February remains and won’t likely be revisited until late August

but that doesn’t mean the cannabis industry is not evolving throughout the county.

Sequim, an area nestled at the foot of the Olympic Mountain range un-der the umbrella of the rainshadow, provides the most ideal conditions

in Washington for growing cannabis in greenhouses, said Tim Humiston, potential Clallam County processor and producer of Canna Organix LLC.

If you ask Humiston why he came to the area once Initiative 502 opened the doors allowing him to follow both a business endeavor and

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Since health care fa-cilities have tightened up on prescription opiates and the abundance of drugs like hydrocodone, oxycodone and metha-done has decreased, heroin (also an opiate) has been on the rise within Clallam County.

Despite having the third highest opiate-related deaths within Washington counties and higher than state averages for opiate-related hospitaliza-tions, Clallam County does not have a detox or inpatient treat-ment center, according to Alcohol and Drug Coordinator for Clallam County Department of Health and Human Services Jude Anderson.

“Heroin started as a pill problem and partially as a provider problem by over prescribing,” Anderson said. “About three years ago stricter laws were placed on the prescribing of pain medica-tions and as soon as demand appeared so did heroin.”

A dearth of detox and inpatient treatment centers a growing concern among residents and local health care providers

Treating addicts in Clallam County

The future site of the Clallam County 16-bed inpatient chemical dependency treatment center intends to open in July. Funding and permitting pending, given the extra space within the building, there is potential for a detox facility as well. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth

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The power of the meager tab top: Gabe Omann, left, takes over a tab top collecting effort that Sequim High School graduate Sam Manders worked on for the past 10 years. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

by MICHAEL DASHIELLSequim Gazette

He sure has come a long way.It was about 10 years ago that a Sequim youth named Sam

Manders saw some potential in a small piece of metal. Ten years and hundreds of thousands of tab tops later, he’s built a legacy.

“At first I didn’t know its purpose,” Manders says of the Ronald McDonald House Charity’s tab top program, one that’s helped raise thousands of dollars to support the families of seriously ill or injured children.

“It was more of a personal goal,” he says. “I was naive in thinking, ‘This is going to cure cancer.’ You know, take vengeance on something that took something from you.”

It’s a reference to his father Jim, a longtime peninsula journalist who died in 2005

Sam’s legacy

by MATTHEW NASHSequim Gazette

More parking and bathrooms may come to the Albert Haller Playfields as

soon as the end of summer. Organizers with Sequim Family

Advocates, a nonprofit which fund-raised and petitioned for the fields to alleviate wear on other playfields in

Sequim, are raising funds for Phase 2 of their project next to the Water Reuse Demonstration Site.

In the plans are 64 parking spaces west of the James Center for the Performing Arts, 29 spaces on North Rhodefer Road and a 1,249-square-

Playfields organizers seek second phase

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From front to back, Madison Fisher, Brandon Payne, Anthony Pinza and Jesse Francis hold hands over hearts during the national anthem. See story and related photos on B-1. Sequim Gazette photo by Patricia Morrison Coate

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CORRECTIONSSequim High School senior Ciara Westhoven was incorrectly identified in a photo in last week’s Sequim Gazette.

In the Living on the Peninsula magazine published June 11, the large photograph on Page 28 with a quail perched on a wheel in a field of lavender, should have been credited to Cedarbrook Lavender and Herb Farm, not the Sequim Gazette.

Also in the Living on the Peninsula summer issue, Holly Clark of Clark Farms was misquoted in this sentence: “Holly applied for a teaching job in Sequim, but when she didn’t get the job, that’s when Tom said, ‘Why not farm?’ ” Clark said she never applied for a teaching job in Sequim and thus was not rejected for a teaching position with the Sequim School District.

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Singers, second from left, Karla Messerschmidt Morgan, Viletta Skillman and Elise Ray join nearly 30 others in singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” on June 14 for its 200th anniversary. Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash

The Clallam County League of Women Voters invites the public to the fol-lowing forums for candidates in the Primary Election:

• June 22, 1:30-3:30 p.m. State Representative Forum, Sequim Transit Center, 190 W. Cedar St. Steve Tharinger, Thomas Greisamer, Stafford Conway

• June 25, 6-8 p.m. State

Representative Forum, Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St. Steve Tharinger, Thomas Greisamer, Stafford Conway

• July 10, 6-8 p.m. U.S. Representative Forum, Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St. Derek Kilmer, W. McPherson, Marty Mc-Clendon, Douglas Milholland

• July 16, 6-8 p.m. County

Commissioner Forum, Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St. Sissi Bruch, Bill Peach, Bryon Monohon

General election events to be announced. Primary ballots mailed July 16. Bal-lots are not forwarded by the post office.

You must file a change of address with the County Au-ditor’s Office or online.

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To commemorate the 200th anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” lo-cals gathered at the corner of Bank of America Park to sing the U.S.’s national anthem by Francis Scott Key on Flag Day, June 14.

Karla Messerschmidt Mor-gan organized the event in conjunction with the Smith-sonian’s “Raise It Up!” event after a Port Angeles event was cancelled. “I’m thrilled,” she said afterward about the turnout of about 30 people. “Anytime you have a sponta-neous event and take a stand together, what a gift.”

D eon ne H a n son o f Sequim took a break from rehearsing with the Olympic Peninsula Men’s Chorus and

Maggie Philbin, president of the North Olympic Newcomers’ Club, sings the national anthem on its bicentennial anniversary in Sequim on Saturday afternoon.

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In the Living on the Peninsula magazine published June 11, the large photograph on Page 28 with a quail perched on a wheel in a field of lavender, should have been credited to Cedarbrook Lavender and Herb Farm, not the Sequim Gazette.

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Singers, second from left, Karla Messerschmidt Morgan, Viletta Skillman and Elise Ray join nearly 30 others in singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” on June 14 for its 200th anniversary. Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash

Commissioner Forum, Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St. Sissi Bruch, Bill Peach, Bryon Monohon

General election events to be announced. Primary ballots mailed July 16. Bal-lots are not forwarded by the post office.

You must file a change of address with the County Au-ditor’s Office or online.

League schedules candidate forums

Maggie Philbin, president of the North Olympic Newcomers’ Club, sings the national anthem on its bicentennial anniversary in Sequim on Saturday afternoon.

Locals celebrate 200 years of our national anthem

For more information about the event, visit www.anthemforamerica.si.edu.

With a grant from the Washing-ton State Department of Ecology nearly 29 acres neighboring Carrie Blake Park was bought by the City of Sequim to transform into a water reuse demonstration site. In doing so, the Water Reuse Demonstra-tion Site has become a place for a variety of community groups, gatherings and activities.

Although not a city park, the Demonstration Site has a park-like feel with picnic tables, walking and biking trails traversed across the site, horseshoe pits, roughly 14 manicured acres with soccer nets scattered about, community gar-dens and a performing arts stage. Since the purchase of the property in 1998 various community organi-zations have become part of the site in one way or another.

Reused waterAlthough the acreage has pro-

vided some serendipitous com-munity opportunities the primary function of the Demonstration Site is to educate and demonstrate the sustainable practice of reusing wastewater.

“The Department of Ecology implemented multiple water reuse demonstration sites throughout the state and we have one of them,” Patsy Mattingley, Sequim Parks and Recreation board member, said.

Partnering with city’s wastewater reclamation facility, treated Class “A” wastewater is piped to the Water Reuse Demonstration Site where it is kept in holding ponds and used

for a variety of uses. “A majority of the reuse water

is utilized on public lands includ-ing roadway medians, landscaped areas and park sites,” said Joe Irvin, special projects manager.

Complimentary to the reuse of water, the entire site is designed with a consistent focus on water conservation using “low impact development” strategies. The Clallam Conservation District, with help and contributions from local businesses, volunteers, Se-quim High School FFA and mul-tiple grants, installed examples

of low impact development such as porous paving, a rain garden (a garden of drought-resistant plant species) and water-wise landscaping.

To continue to utilize the Dem-onstration Site’s potential, city officials have future plans to “do more infiltration and move and enlarge the holding pond south/southwest of the existing holding pond,” Irvin said.

Community contributionsThe reused water is fittingly re-

cycled about the Demonstration Site. The restrooms within the James Center for the Perform-ing Arts uses the water and both the Terrace Gardens and Albert Haller Playfields are irrigated with it. In addition, the holding ponds support fish for youths to hone their fishing skills.

By day the fields within the Demonstration Site are fairly un-disturbed, but once work hours draw to a close the fields are used primarily by soccer players. Last spring the Sequim FC Adult Co-ed Recreational Soccer League took form. The league started with a group of local youth soccer coaches and their desire for an adult recreational league. Since, the league has grown to more than 10 teams and still growing, Quincy Byrne, director for the league, said.

During the league’s fall, spring and summer seasons at least 200 people use the fields weekly with roughly 15 players per team and family and friends that come to watch.

Before the Albert Haller Play-fields, which were spearheaded by the Sequim Family Advocates, there “really wasn’t much of an alternative for public fields,” Byrne said.

But, the playfields are just one example of the community’s in-teraction with the Demonstration Site. In 2004, the James Center for the Performing Arts was built by the nonprofit organization the Sequim City Band. The organiza-tion has since gifted the center to the city with the stipulation that they can use the rehearsal hall and stage for their performances. With more than 60 band members, the Sequim City Band needs a large venue, like the James Center to play and practice. The James Center’s stage was carefully engineered to properly promote acoustics and those on the stage can be heard across the Demonstration Site, Mattingley said.

“Nearly everyday of the week the Swisher Rehearsal Hall is occupied with one organization or another,” Mattingley said.

Similar to the Albert Haller Playfields, the James Center for

the Performing Arts has seemingly filled a community niche.

Ongoing development Aesthetically, the Demonstra-

tion Site is pleasing. For example, the Terrace Gardens near the James Center are planted with various flowers that peak at differ-ent times throughout the seasons. The gardens started as a Master Gardeners project, but has since fallen into the hands of a local volunteer group.

“Part of the goal (of the gardens) is to provide a community space for people to enjoy,” Lee Bowen, Terrace Garden manager, said. “The site (Water Reuse Demon-stration Site) is a great location with a lot of foot and bike traffic.”

Although most of the gardens and landscaping is mature at this point, more than 15 years later the Water Reuse Demonstration Site continues to develop new gardens and amenities appear as community organizations and individuals get involved with the site. Additional parking and restrooms are among the future goals for the Demonstration Site and the Sequim City Band hopes to expand the James Center.

“It’s a lot of property, but it has filled up quickly,” Mattingley said.

As with Sequim City parks, the Water Reuse Demonstration Site’s most challenging aspect is allocating staff and the main-tenance and operations cost. Following the Master Park Plan visioning workshop “[i]mprove-ments are desired to the James Center seating area by providing tiered (built into the ground) seating,” Irvin said. “Further-more, a lot of the comments emphasized the importance of maintaining a balance between the built and natural environ-ment at the Class “A” Water Reuse Demonstration Site.”

The wide array of community interests invested in the site per-haps “highlights the importance and need for a Master Park Plan update,” Mattingley said. At the core of the Demonstration Site however, is the original objec-tive to use the site as a place to demonstrate what is possible with reclaimed water.

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Kids FIshing Day is a popular event each May at the Water Reuse Demonstration Site. Sequim Gazette file photo by Michael Dashiell

Mini-boat users find the Water Reuse Demonstration Site just north of Carrie Blake Park a popular place throughout the year. Photo by Rich Taylor

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lowering,” Parks said. “They are widely spaced profiles, but are a convincing representa-tion of the trend.”

Based on Park’s data, the bluffs within the Dungeness drift cell are receding at a faster rate than the bluffs within the Elwha drift cell.

“Where you have a high rate of sediment loss on the beach you also have a higher rate of erosion on the bluffs,” Parks said.

The 2001-2012 average rate of bluff recession within the Dungeness drift cell is 0.36 meters per year, or slightly more than 1-foot per year. Whereas the 2001-2012 av-erage rate of bluff recession within the Elwha drift cell is 0.26 meters per year, or slightly under 1-foot per year.

“A lot of people don’t have any concept of how fast these rates are,” Parks said.

The information from this study is intended to aid county officials update the Shoreline Master Program. Although the program was

northern border of the county a coastline, parts of it consist of actively eroding bluffs left behind by retreating glaciers thousands of years ago.

Despite the instability of bluffs, they still tend to be a desired location for home-owners given the breath-taking views bluffs provide. In attempt to slow erosion and thus prolong the safety of nearshore infrastruc-ture, shorelines often are “armored.” And although armoring may slow erosion, it does not stop it and it influences the connection between bluff erosion and habitat-building processes that create accretionary landforms like the Dunge-ness Spit, which is primarily maintained by the sediment from the west, Parks said.

The studyStudying the Elwha and

Dungeness drift cells (section of coastline with a net sedi-ment source with an input of sediment and a zone of trans-port which then moves the sediment to a deposition area) helped Parks and involved parties understand the com-plexities of bluff erosion which is important for both ecologi-cal and planning reasons. Past studies of local bluff erosion are “hard to apply generally” because each study unfortu-nately used different methods and scales, Parks said.

“We were really interested in getting accurate num-bers to fill the gap in data,” Parks said.

In order to piece together a timeline for the bluff erosion at each drift cell, Parks repeat-edly gathered GPS measure-ments by foot at the same locations bimonthly for four years. This arduous method gave Parks the information to create cross-shore beach pro-files. Parks coupled his data with digitized historical aerial photographs and nearshore beach profiles collected with both airborne and boat-based LiDAR technology. The boat-based LiDAR was developed specifically for the study by the Washington State Depart-ment of Ecology, Parks said.

“With one exception west of Port Angeles, all profiles have net erosion where beaches are losing sediment and the beach profiles are

A four-year cooperative study will draw to a close at the end of this month, but the beginning of many more years of research is just beginning. David Parks, geologist with the Depart-ment of Natural Resources, embarked on data-collecting journey July 2010. Parks has since walked the studied sec-tions of coastline countless times investigating coastal bluff processes.

The study involved a variety of organizations such as the Department of Ecology, En-vironmental Protection Agen-cy, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, Clallam County Marine Resources, Coastal Watershed Institute and Peninsula Community College and Western Wash-ington University interns. Both the Clallam County Marine Resources Committee and Environmental Protec-tion Agency funded the study with grants.

“One goal was to better understand the sediment budget for the nearshore and how much sediment comes from the bluffs,” Parks said. “We also looked at rates of bluff recession.”

Clallam County is nestled between the Olympic Moun-tain range and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. With the

Studying the impermanence of bluffsCouncil seeks appointees

The Sequim City Council is seek-ing representatives to serve on the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee. Two members shall be represen-tatives of businesses required to collect the lodging tax and two members shall be persons involved in activities authorized to be funded by revenue received from lodging tax funds. Applications are available at Sequim City Hall, 226 N. Sequim Ave., by calling 683-4139 or on the website at www.sequimwa.gov. Submit applications to Sequim City Hall, attn.: City Clerk, no later than 4 p.m. June 27.

Planning meeting cancelledThe June 18 Clallam County

Planning Commission meeting is cancelled. The commission will reconvene July 2.

VIPS schedules seminarThe Vision Loss Center and

VIPS (Visually Impaired Persons of Sequim) will be conducting a free seminar from noon-3 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at the Sequim Library at 630 N. Sequim Ave., on independent living for the visually impaired in the community. Topics will include public transportation, available alternative transportation, shopping, crossing streets, how to select assistance and various other subjects. During the seminar, equip-ment and other devices to assist individuals with vision loss will be available for examination and pos-sible purchase. For more informa-tion, call Kyle Parrish at 683-5301 or Gary Mackenstadt at 683-1263 or see www.visionlossservices.org.

NAMI to show filmThe National Alliance on Mental

Illness (NAMI) of Clallam County will feature the film, “Reign Over Me” at its monthly public outreach program at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in the Linkletter Hall of Olympic Medical Center. Attendance is open and there is no charge. A brief busi-ness meeting for all NAMI members will be held prior to the movie at 6:30 p.m. in Linkletter Hall. For more information, call 452-5244.

OMC board to meetThe Olympic Medical Center

Board of Commissioners will meet in its regularly scheduled meet-ing today, June 18, at 6 p.m. in Linkletter Hall in the basement conference area of Olympic Memo-rial Hospital, 939 Caroline St., Port Angeles. Call 417-7705.

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Chris Saari’s neighbor’s gazebo is teetering on the edge of the bluffs between Sequim and Port Angeles. The gazebo later fell to the beach below. Submitted photo

Research started in 2010, adds to understanding erosion processes

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Community development and planning

The Clallam County build-ing code “requires that struc-tures be set back a distance equal to the height of an unstable bluff not to exceed 100 feet,” according to the Clallam County website. The Clallam County Shoreline Master Program and the Critical Areas Ordinance also establish setbacks from all shorelines that range from “35 feet to 200 feet depend-ing on the classification of the fish and wildlife habitat or the shoreline environment designation.”

The building codes that supposedly err on the side of caution have not kept bluff erosion from impacting county resident and coach for Port Angeles boy’s soccer team, Chris Saari’s home.

Saari bought his 1970s home located within a bluff subdivision near Gasman Road between Sequim and Port Angeles nearly 18 years ago. Late February of last year a landslide occurred prompting Saari to begin the task of moving his house away from the eroding bluff.

“I knew I would probably have to move the house at some point, but looking back I am not sure I would do it again,” Saari said.

Fortunately for Saari he

has the space to move the house back farther from the bluff and from where the house is now, which is only about 17 feet since the landslide. Unfortunately, the process is expensive Saari said. There’s the cost of mov-ing the house, building a new foundation and installing a new septic system.

Two additional areas with houses in close proximity to the Dungeness drift cell that includes the stretch of coast-line between Morse Creek and Dungeness Spit are the Monterra community and Gehrke Road, Parks said.

The technique of “armor-ing” doesn’t stop erosion, it at best it only slows it, and often increases erosion (including down drift of the armoring), said Anne Shaffer, director of Coastal Watershed Insti-tute and a marine biologist. Thus, in many ways research appears to suggest heavy ar-moring is not an ecological or economical sustainable practice.

Parks’ data did in fact identify that the heavily ar-mored areas of coastline are undergoing slower erosion rates, however “anything that interrupts wave energy or sediments is potentially problematic from an ecologi-cal standpoint,” Parks said.

Ecological importanceUnrestricted drift cells are

able to erode and supply the

sediment needed for trans-port along the coastline to provide material for beaches and habitats. This natural process provides the neces-sary needs for a variety of eco-logical processes, including proper spawning conditions for forage fish such as smelt and sand lance (two examples of local forage fish species).

“Forage fish are a key prey base for iconic species, like salmon and marine birds,” Parks said. “They (forage fish) need specific grain sizes to be able to spawn successfully.”

Thus, the erosion and movement of sediments along the coastline can influence the health of nearshore eco-systems. In addition, the interaction between drift cells also has proven important.

Without the Dungeness drift cell, the Dungeness Spit could be lost, Shaffer said. The Dungeness Spit not only has recreational value, but it creates Dunge-ness Bay.

The Elwha and Dunge-ness drift cells differ in their characteristics. Most noticeably, 68 percent of the Elwha drift cell is armored compared to less than 1 percent of Dungeness drift cell, Shaffer said. Feeder bluffs of the Elwha histori-cally provided more than 60 percent of sediment to the nearshore, including Ediz Hook (the spit in the Elwha drift cell). Because the majority of feeder bluffs within the Elwha drift cell are now armored, Ediz Hook is severely sediment starved. In contrast, Shaffer said the Dungeness drift cell has little armoring and no impaired sediment sources — and Dungeness Spit is growing on its own.

Elwha drift cell and Ediz Hook provide the opportunity to understand what armoring does to shorelines and com-paring and contrasting differ-ent nearshore management practices with an eye to the best future plans, Shaffer said.

Build on research“The next step is to relate

beach sediment volume changes to bluff recession rates so we can begin to understand how lowering the beach influences bluff erosion,” Parks said.

Although the grant for the four-year study has come to a close, Parks plans to con-tinue to gather post Elwha dam removal data for future use and to provide a con-sistent baseline of geologic information.

“It’s important to know what’s happening at the Elwha delta, but also im-portant to know what’s happening east and west of the river,” Parks said.

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Council seeks appointeesThe Sequim City Council is seek-

ing representatives to serve on the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee. Two members shall be represen-tatives of businesses required to collect the lodging tax and two members shall be persons involved in activities authorized to be funded by revenue received from lodging tax funds. Applications are available at Sequim City Hall, 226 N. Sequim Ave., by calling 683-4139 or on the website at www.sequimwa.gov. Submit applications to Sequim City Hall, attn.: City Clerk, no later than 4 p.m. June 27.

Planning meeting cancelledThe June 18 Clallam County

Planning Commission meeting is cancelled. The commission will reconvene July 2.

VIPS schedules seminarThe Vision Loss Center and VIPS

(Visually Impaired Persons of Se-quim) will be conducting a free sem-inar from noon-3 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at the Sequim Library at 630 N. Sequim Ave., on independent living for the visually impaired in the community. Topics will include public transportation, available al-ternative transportation, shopping, crossing streets, how to select as-sistance and various other subjects. During the seminar, equipment and other devices to assist individuals with vision loss will be available for examination and possible purchase. For more information, call Kyle Parrish at 683-5301 or Gary Mackenstadt at 683-1263 or see www.visionlossservices.org.

NAMI to show filmThe National Alliance on Mental

Illness (NAMI) of Clallam County will feature the film, “Reign Over Me” at its monthly public outreach program at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in the Linkletter Hall of Olympic Medical Center. Attendance is open and there is no charge. A brief busi-ness meeting for all NAMI members will be held prior to the movie at 6:30 p.m. in Linkletter Hall. For more information, call 452-5244.

OMC board to meetThe Olympic Medical Center

Board of Commissioners will meet in its regularly scheduled meeting today, June 18, at 6 p.m. in Linklet-ter Hall in the basement conference area of Olympic Memorial Hospital, 939 Caroline St., Port Angeles. Call 417-7705.

Scholarships offeredSoroptimist International of

Sequim will award three Continu-ing Education Scholarships of $2,000 each. Applications must be postmarked by July 15. Applicants must be female graduates of Sequim High School or have a legal address

within the Sequim School District. They also need to have completed one year of post-secondary educa-tion and will be continuing their education in the fall of 2014. Down-load applications at www.sisequim.org (click “Educational Support”) or call Pat Willis at 797-1251.

Magician to appear at pen-insula libraries

Magician Jeff Evans presents “Sci-ence Magic” to kick-off the North Olympic Library System’s annual Summer Reading Program, “Fizz Boom Read.” Evans performs at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 23, at the Port Angeles Library, at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 24, at the Sequim Li-brary (or, in the case of rain, Sequim Middle School cafeteria), and again at the Port Angeles Library at 2 p.m. June 24. The program is presented as part of “Fizz Boom Read, NOLS’ annual Summer Reading Program for young people of all ages, which runs through Saturday, Aug. 2, at all four NOLS libraries: Sequim, Port Angeles, Clallam Bay and Forks. In addition to enjoying books and reading, participants will be eligible for prizes, including a grand prize.

Thrift shop openThe Sequim Dungeness Hospital

Guilds Thrift Shop at 204 Bell St. in Sequim will be open from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Featured this month will be summer fash-ions in clothing for everyone, lots of games, fine jewelry, household items and furniture, kitchen acces-sories and framed pictures. Con-signors and volunteers are always needed. Call 683-7044 for more information.

Yacht club to hold racesThe Oasis Bar & Grill in Sequim

is sponsoring the Thistle District Championship on Saturday-Sun-day, June 21-22 at John Wayne Ma-rina, 2577 West Sequim Bay Road. Thistle sailboats from all over the Northwest will be descending onto Sequim Bay and will be competing in the Pacific Northwest District Championships. The regatta is hosted by the Seattle Thistle Fleet #61 and the Sequim Bay Yacht & Sailing Club. A complete notice of race can be found at www.regat-tanetwork.com.

Learn about gleaningWSU Clallam County Extension

will have a free gleaning informa-tional gathering at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at Renaissance, 401 E. Front St., Port Angeles. The purpose of the meeting is for disseminating information on gleaning, which is the activity of collecting excess and unwanted produce from farms and gardens in support of food outreach programs. Contact Meggan Uecker, Waste Reduction coordinator,

WSU Extension Clallam County, at 417-2279 or muecker@co.clallam.wa.us.

Masons host lecture“Freemasonry in Tolstoy’s War

and Peace” is the next lecture at Sequim’s Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave., set for 7-8 p.m. on Tues-day, June 24. The lecture examines how Masonry plays a pivotal part in the epic 19th-century Russian novel. The presentation is the fourth of a six-part public lecture series celebrating the upcoming 100th anniversary of the lodge. For more information, call Don Williams at 504-1180.

Freethinkers to meetThe monthly meeting of the Juan

De Fuca Freethinkers is at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25. The quarterly no-host dinner is at the Dynasty restaurant, 990 E. Washington St., Sequim. Call 683-6511. RSVP by June 24 by e-mail (gowing@olympus.net) or call 683-5648. The Juan de Fuca Freethinkers is a non-profit educational and social group consisting of local secularists who use science and reason to increase understanding of the universe and to improve the human condition.

Sequim Pre-3 now enrolling for summer session

Sequim Pre-3 Co-op is a nonprofit early learning program for parents and children (ages 10 months-6 years). Parents come weekly with their children for a variety of ac-tivities including music, art, social interactions, dramatic and outdoor play. Summer classes start at 9:30

a.m. on July 9 at the Sequim Wor-ship Center, 640 N. Sequim Ave., and run for six weeks. For more informa-tion, call Sonja Ralph at 504-1011 or see www.pre3.org.

Trinity dinner setA free community dinner will be

served at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave. The meal includes hamburger stew, creamed corn, green salad, desserts and beverages. Reservations, which are requested to ensure that enough food is pre-pared, may be made by phoning the church at 683-5367 between 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on the Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday before the dinner or by e-mail to dinners@sequimtumc.org. The church presents the din-ners on the last Thursday of each month.

Weed Control Board seeks end of Scotch broom

For the first time, The Clallam County Noxious Weed Control Board will send out a notice to 30,000 homes on the North Olym-pic Peninsula in coupon mailers on June 25 on how to remove Scotch broom. The advisory asks you to remove Scotch broom due to fire hazards, increased allergies and invasion of natural habitats. Orga-nizers plan to mail it out again next year as the plants are beginning to bloom. Weed wrenches are available by calling 417-2442 or 417-2779.

Fliers’ group meetsThe June meeting of the EAA

(Experimental Aircraft Association) hosts Mike Lavelle, director of the

Museum of Flight in Seattle. The meeting is at 10 a.m. Saturday,

June 28, in hangar 10 at Sequim Valley Airport. The meeting is fol-lowed by a potluck.

Newcomers gatherThe Newcomers’ Club of the

Olympic Peninsula will be having its next luncheon on Tuesday, July 1, at The Cedars at Dungeness Leg-ends Room, 1965 Woodcock Road, Sequim. Socializing begins at 11:30 a.m. The program will be the Art of Bonsai. Bob Stack of the Dungeness Bonsai Society will bring several bonsai plants and discuss bonsai care and shaping illustrated with liv-ing plants. RSVP by noon June 27 to sammemail@aol.com or 504-2522.

Senior Nutrition menu setSequim Senior Nutrition Site

menus are served at 4:30 p.m. at Suncrest Village Retirement Apart-ments, 251 S. Fifth Ave. Suggested donation is $5 (60 and over), $8 guest, and a 24-hour advance reser-vation is needed. RSVP to 683-8491. Menus are subject to change.

Thursday, June 19: Fruit cup, Ital-ian sausage w/peppers and onions, steamed rice, bread pudding

Friday, June 20: Salad, mac and cheese w/ham, vegetable, dessert

Monday, June 23: Salad, spa-ghetti, vegetable, dessert from Sinclair Place

Tuesday, June 24: Strawberry salad, roasted pork, baked sweet potato, asparagus, baked apples

Wednesday, June 25: Waldorf salad, chicken cordon bleu, rice pilaf, lima beans, peach crisp

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Business

Owner of NW Pawn Shop Jeff Kritenbrink always has been drawn to pawn shops and fasci-nated by the style of business. But, if you would have asked him a few months ago if he was going to own a pawn shop, he would have simply replied “oh yeah, sure ….”

“The opportunity just came up,” Kritenbrink said. “Some-times you just have to go with it if chance presents itself.”

Though not actively seeking to open a pawn shop, Kriten-brink bought the pawn shop and its inventory from the past owner after she had decided to get out of the business. Now, with his very own storefront, Kritenbrink intends to liquidate as much of the old inventory he can and before putting new items out on the floor.

“We plan to have new stuff every week,” Kritenbrink said.

Grand opening Although the shop has been

open since the end of May, Kritenbrink and Deborah Boet-tin, shop manager, are preparing for the grand opening during the first week of July. In addition to a 32-inch flat screen TV giveaway, Kritenbrink will bring out a Top Alcohol Funny Car (type of professional drag racing car) and show off a few of its tricks.

Kritenbrink and Boettin de-cided on a July grand opening because by then they’ll have a lot of new items out for sale.

“We have to wait 30 days before we sell anything we buy,” Boettin said. “That gives enough time for all items to be processed through LeadsOnline.”

LeadsOnline is an online in-vestigation system used by law enforcement to recover stolen property. Both Kritenbrink and Boettin hope by utilizing Lead-sOnline and being picky about what kind of merchandise they sell and pawn will help to alleviate some of the negative “stigma pawn shops often have,” Boettin said.

“A pawn shop can be an hon-est, legitimate business,” Boettin said. “We want people to be able to see that from how we operate and the things we carry.”

NW Pawn plans for grand openingLifelong interest in pawn shops inspires new business owner

by PATRICIA MORRISON COATESequim Gazette

After 16 years at the Whistle Stop Barber Shop and prob-ably thousands of haircuts, Joyce Horner is putting down her shears, maybe not forever, but for the time being, and pulling up her roots to move to Vallejo, Calif., to be with her daughter and son-in-law because of health problems. She’s ex-cited to retire — she’s been working since she was 9 years old — but saddened to leave what she calls “my guys.”

The gregarious and spunky 73-year-old opened the barber-shop in her home in 1998 and it’s become a mecca for all matter of railroad memo-rabilia.

“I used to cut hair for a hobby and I found I had a knack for it in California where I lived for 30 years,” Horner said.

After moving to Sequim 27 years ago and working odd jobs, Horner decided it was time to turn her hobby into a profession, graduat-ing from the Bates Barber School

in Tacoma after seven months of training. At her first shop in Manette, she displayed a toy train set in the window and soon a flood of railroad-related items were bestowed on her by her custom-ers. The collection followed her to Sequim and increased tenfold to include photos and posters of trains, toy trains, authentic red lanterns, all kinds of train whistles and hats, clocks, jackets and T-shirts displayed all around the shop. She even had railroad wallpaper and a train whistle ring

tone on her phone. But all of that went away on Saturday, June 14, at a sale of the collection and the thought brought tears to her eyes three days before it.

“It’s been really fun but it will be sad to see it go,” Horner said last Wednesday. “I asked God to keep me from crying. The guys come every six weeks and I’ve gotten to know them like

family. My heart is breaking.”When she first opened in Se-

quim, Horner had a roster of about 600 clients, doing the old haircuts like crewcuts and flat tops plus ba-sic tapered cuts and shaves. After waiting fours years for knee re-placement surgery and working 10 hours a day on a bad knee, Horner realized she was overwhelmed and

needed to slow down. For the past few years she’s trimmed it down to a pool of 200-300 clients.

“My customers all trust me and know they’ll get a consistently good haircut. They don’t have to worry about being lopsided!” she quipped.

“The best part has been just get-ting to know my guys because they are ‘my guys,’ hearing their stories from a rocket scientist to a garbage collector and every thing in be-tween,” Horner said. “Everybody has a story and I love the stories

because I get to know people very well — that to me is the best part. Cutting hair, I get into a routine on how they like their hair cut, so I can focus on the stories.”

Every working day there’s been good-natured bantering between Horner and her guys and she ad-mits to teasing them a bit and none of them taking anything seriously.

“God has been very good to me and because of God I am where I am today,” Horner said with some emotion. “He opened up a lot of doors for me and I give him all the

praise and glory.”To her customers, she says, “I’m

gonna miss you guys — I’m trying very hard not to cry,” while tears formed. “They all have been so good to me and I just appreciate every single one and I appreciate all their business. I just love every single one of them and I wouldn’t trade the past 16 years for any-thing.”

Horner has sold her house and the Whistle Stop Barbershop will be no more. She moves to Califor-nia on June 20.

No more stops at Whistle Stop Barbershop

This sign has led the way to Whistle Stop Barbershop for the past 16 years.

Owner retiring, leaving Sequim

Joyce Horner smiles at the Carlsborg “depot” that her barber-shop custom-ers built for her in 2000. She’s moving to California this weekend. Sequim Ga-zette photos by Patricia Morrison Coate

Having carved more than 200 unique bears for the 63 Black Bear Diners scattered across eight western states, woodcarver Ray Schulz is com-ing to the Sequim Black Bear Diner location to carve two bears.

One bear will stay at the restaurant and the other will be raffled off. Each bear will stand 5 feet tall and weigh more than 400 pounds.

Schulz recently completed a eight-day annual “Chainsaw For Change” carving tour where he visited seven cities in four states to help benefit community nonprofits.

Because Sequim is a bit off the beaten path, Schulz originally wasn’t scheduled to come to Sequim, but Bret Wirta, owner of the Sequim diner,

asked to be included in the tour in a effort to support the Captain Joseph House Foundation.

“Participating in the tour is a vol-untary choice for each franchise,” Wirta said. “We searched for a local organization that would give back to our military.”

All proceeds raised at the carving will be donated to the Captain Joseph House Foundation to help Betsy Reed Schultz, the founder of the founda-tion, reach her goal of building “a liv-ing memorial to her son and to carry on his mission of serving others” in the form of a home capable of housing

up to three families of fallen soldiers for respite.

“It (carving event) may be support-ing my project, but it’s really support-ing every Gold Star family that comes to the house,” Schultz said.

Consistent with the organization Wirta selected to support, the bear to be raffled off is planned to be soldier bear, Wirta said.

Each bear Schulz carves starts as a cedar log, but quickly become a unique sculpture that reflects the area.

Thus, the bears already at Sequim’s diner tend to be hiking, fishing and outdoor oriented bears.

“It’s just amazing how he (Schulz) starts with a piece of wood and takes away everything but the bear,” Wirta said.

Schultz’s goal is to have the Captain Joseph House operational by June 2015.

For more information about the foundation, visit captainjosephhouse-foundation.org.

On the ‘Chainsaw For Change’ tour

Ray Schulz has carved more than 200 variations of black bears from cedar logs for the 60 plus Black Bear Diners. The bears are carved to reflect each diner’s unique location. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth

Woodcarver to create two 400 pound bears

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Deck it out!Hartnagel Building Supply, at 3111 E.

Highway 101, Port Angeles, is hosting an informational summer decking event from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, June 25. Homeowners are invited to stop by to see product samples and learn about composite decking materials and railing options from Evergrain, TimberTech and Azek.

Event attendees also can enjoy a free hot dog lunch and enter to win door prizes.

For more information, visit www.hartna-gels.com or call 452-8933.

Acupressurist gives talk at Nash’sCelebrate the summer solstice and re-

ceive insight for the coming year with East Asian medical practitioner Randy Soren-

son as he presents a talk on Acupressure at Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dunge-ness Way in Dungeness at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 21. The talk is free and open to the public.

The class will focus on the ancient wisdom of East Asian

medicine and modern understanding of the circulatory and nervous systems to increase the ability to reduce pain, improve circula-tion, and optimize health.

See birds of preyDiscovery Bay Bird Rescue and the

Northwest Raptor Center, with several birds of prey, will be in the gardens of the Wild Birds Unlimited store, 275953 U.S. 101, Gar-diner, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday June 21. Donations of feed and supplies are needed.

Summer ferry hours beginBeginning Thursday, June 19, Black Ball

Ferry Line launches its expanded summer schedule with eight sailings a day on the M.V. Coho’s scenic, 90-minute journey between Port Angeles and Victoria, British Columbia.

The M.V. Coho will depart Port Angeles daily at 8:15 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 5:20 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. with returns from Victoria at 6:10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. throughout the summer.

Grill closes for July 4Dockside Grill at John Wayne Marina will

be closed on Friday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.

Chiropractor retiringAfter 35 years in practice, Dr. Brian Mit-

telstadt, DC, is retiring. Dr. Dustin Clark, DC, of Elma, has purchased Mittelstadt Chiropractic & Massage PS and has joined Mittelstadt to provide health care services to both new and existing patients. An open house will be from 3-5 p.m. Friday, June 27, at 601 Race St. Ste. C, in Port Angeles to meet the doctors. Call 452-7636.

More fudge to loveWeDo Fudge, a drive-thru fudge business

at 11 Valley Center Place, Sequim, is adding a new day. The business is now open on Sat-urdays, noon-3 p.m. in addition to Tuesday and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. See www.wedofudge.com.

BusinessSEQUIM GAZETTE A-7

business news

Owner of NW Pawn Shop Jeff Kritenbrink always has been drawn to pawn shops and fasci-nated by the style of business. But, if you would have asked him a few months ago if he was going to own a pawn shop, he would have simply replied “oh yeah, sure ….”

“The opportunity just came up,” Kritenbrink said. “Some-times you just have to go with it if chance presents itself.”

Though not actively seeking to open a pawn shop, Kriten-brink bought the pawn shop and its inventory from the past owner after she had decided to get out of the business. Now, with his very own storefront, Kritenbrink intends to liquidate as much of the old inventory he can and before putting new items out on the floor.

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Grand opening Although the shop has been

open since the end of May, Kritenbrink and Deborah Boet-tin, shop manager, are preparing for the grand opening during the first week of July. In addition to a 32-inch flat screen TV giveaway, Kritenbrink will bring out a Top Alcohol Funny Car (type of professional drag racing car) and show off a few of its tricks.

Kritenbrink and Boettin de-cided on a July grand opening because by then they’ll have a lot of new items out for sale.

“We have to wait 30 days before we sell anything we buy,” Boettin said. “That gives enough time for all items to be processed through LeadsOnline.”

LeadsOnline is an online in-vestigation system used by law enforcement to recover stolen property. Both Kritenbrink and Boettin hope by utilizing Leads Online and being picky about what kind of merchandise they sell and pawn will help to alleviate some of the negative “stigma pawn shops often have,” Boettin said.

“A pawn shop can be an hon-est, legitimate business,” Boettin said. “We want people to be able to see that from how we operate and the things we carry.”

Sell, pawn or buyNW Pawn Shop offers three

services: buy, sell or pawn be-longings. If someone wants to sell something, he or she receives a quote, settles on a price, the client is paid for the item and then shop officials wait 30 days to make sure it’s not stolen prop-erty, Kritenbrink explained. If someone wants to pawn an item in return for a loan, he or she has 90 days with interest to pick it back up before it becomes shop property and can thus be sold.

“Ron, owner of Angeles Pawn, has been great about teaching me and helping me learn how to run a pawn shop,” Kriten-brink said. “All the local pawn shops work together around here to keep reasonable rates.”

Despite being fascinated his entire life with pawn shops and a devoted watcher of the History Channel’s “Pawn Stars,” Kriten-brink is new to the industry and still is learning the ropes. Though as an entrepreneur of sorts and being self-employed for more than 30 years, Kriten-brink is confident in his abilities to make the pawn shop a success.

“I’ll do whatever it takes to keep the doors open,” Kritenbrink said. “With the economy the

way it is, there is a need for this (pawn shop) in this town.”

The future, challenges and rewards

If all goes to plan, Kritenbrink anticipates outgrowing his cur-rent location and eventually buying his own property to build a space for NW Pawn Shop. How-ever, having just opened Kriten-

brink realizes the work ahead and is looking forward to win-ter when he’ll be able to devote more time to the shop himself as he also oper-ates a sweeping and stripping company and is involved in the race car in-dustry. Luckily for Kritenbrink, Boettin faith-fully commutes

from Bremerton to oversee the shop and help get the business off to a strong start.

Thus far, the most challenging aspects of the business are hav-ing the start-up funds and money to buy inventory and not turn people away, Kritenbrink said. One of the of most rewarding attributes of operating a pawn shop is the opportunity to help and meet people of all kinds.

“You get to meet a lot of dif-ferent people and everyone has a story,” Kritenbrink said.

Satisfying his tireless curiosity in both interesting individuals and the history of their stuff is one of the main reasons Kriten-brink wanted to own his own pawn shop. The shop allows for the chance to learn about antiques, unusual coins and jew-elry, arms and armor and most of all a lot of history.

“Everyday is a new day where you get to meet someone new and see something you’ve never seen before,” Kritenbrink said. “To quote ‘Pawn Stars,’ ‘You never know what’s going to walk through the doors.’”

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NW Pawn ShopHours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat-urdays; closed Sundays; grand opening first week of July Where: NW Pawn Shop at 755 W. Washington St., Suite A. Cost: No charge. Stop by and get a free ticket to enter to win a 32-inch flat screen TV anytime prior to Grand Opening. More info: Call 406-4901

Jeff Kritenbrink, owner of NW Pawn Shop, intends to sell and pawn quality items. The shop consists of a diverse inventory with jewelry, DVDs, CDs, tools and cameras to snowboard and guitars and more. Sequim Gazette photos by Alana Linderoth

Kritenbrink and Deborah Boettin, shop manager, stand outside the new pawn shop on West Washington Street.

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No local inpatient yet Although Clallam County has a handful of drug and alcohol

outpatient treatment centers, the closet detox and inpatient facility is in Kitsap County or farther yet, Tacoma.

“It is crazy to me that we have such a serious opiate problem and still don’t have a detox facility,” said Kristina Bullington, administrator for Olympic Personal Growth.

However, a vacant building at 825 E. Fifth St., in Port Angeles recently purchased by Crali Properties is intended

to accommodate a 16-bed adult inpatient chemical dependency treatment center. The center will be operated by Specialty Services, an offshoot of Ameri-can Behavioral Health Systems (ABHS), said Craig Phillips, busi-ness manager for ABHS.

Because the build-ing has more than enough space to ac-commodate Speciality Services, ABHS also hopes to provide a detox facility, funding and permitting pend-ing.

After meeting with Clallam County health care personnel and lis-tening to their needs, it was clear both an

inpatient and detox facility are wanted in the county, Phil-lips said.

“Inpatient treatment is really all about stabilizing the patients and providing the opportunity to safely expose themselves to everyday life again,” Phillips said. “Oftentimes inpatient and detox is the step needed before a patient can maintain effective outpatient care, which luckily is already readably available in the county.”

Phillips is in the planning and permitting process with the building, but anticipates being in operation by July.

The upcoming inpatient treatment center is for adults how-ever, and thus no local inpatient or detox options for youth are available, said Pete Peterson, director of Clallam County Juvenile and Family Services. “The delay to get a youth placed into an inpatient service can be up to a few weeks or even a couple of months,” Peterson said.

Although not all impatient treatment candidates, roughly 65 percent to 70 percent of the youth Juvenile and Family Services interacts with have drug or alcohol and/or mental health issues, Peterson said.

In the meantime without any type of inpatient treatment options available within the county, the jail is the closet thing to a detox program, Anderson said.

“The truth is, most addicts go through law enforcement before receiving treatment,” Anderson said. “Because one of

AddictsFrom page A-1

the main symptoms of addiction is loss of self-control, many of the outpatient programs aren’t effective for people with serious addictions.”

Despite the variety and abundance of resources and out-patient programs available in the county, Bullington thinks an inpatient and better yet, a detox facility would be a huge benefit to the community and some of their patients.

“In some cases people can’t cope with the withdrawals to even give sobriety a chance,” Bullington said.

From hospital to treatment Sequim resident and local business owner Julie experi-

enced first-hand the frustrations and challenges of working within the current health care confines of treating persons with addictions when her heroin-addicted daughter Sarah was admitted to the emergency department multiple times.

“We never could get to the bottom of her sickness, includ-ing an advanced MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infection and at one point liver failure because the hospitals were not able to make her comfortable enough to stay,” Julie said.

It wasn’t until multiple trips to Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center that a drug and alcohol specialist finally was available to recommend something to alleviate the overpowering pain of withdrawal Julie’s daughter was experiencing.

Julie was told by health care officials it was rare that a drug and alcohol specialist was available, but Julie thinks it was her continuous pleas and fight for her daughter’s life that eventually persuaded action.

“It’s missed opportunities,” Julie said. “You finally get your hands on this ad-dicted person and have the chance to save them, but because the hospi-tals are reluctant to provide the drugs needed to comfort a patient experienc-ing withdrawals it is often easier for an addict to leave and use again before receiving adequate care or the chance to get into treat-ment.”

The time lapse between hospital-ization and a treat-ment facility also can prove to be a challenge for pa-tients dealing with an addiction. Even a relatively short amount of time can seem like an eternity for someone in withdrawal.

“I had been in the hospital a couple of days before a specialist came to talk to me about treatment options,” Julie’s daughter Sarah said. “For an addict experiencing withdrawals, you’re already mentally gone by that point and it’s too late to have a real conversation. I was already packing my bags to leave.”

Hospital staff seemed to go into sort of a “panic” once they were aware they were treating an addict, Sarah said. Sarah explained that she had trouble with what seemed to be “in-experienced” medical staffs’ abilities to draw blood from her and had a nurse refuse to give her anti-anxiety medication because of her addictive behavior.

“As soon as you go into a hospital and say you’re a drug ad-dict, a lot of things change,” Sarah said. “I think whether the hospital treats an addiction like a disease or something you’re doing on your own will makes a difference and personally I think it’s a little of both.”

The goal of the hospital, however, is to treat the immediate symptoms for the emergency department visit, not the addic-tion, said Lorraine Wall, assistant administrator and chief of

nursing officer at Olympic Medical Center.“We are often dealing with people that might not be forth-

coming about their particular situation,” Wall said. “We can and do give medications to help lessen the side effects of withdrawal.”

However, in Julie’s experience the hospitals were unable to administer a sufficient amount of medication to ease her daughter’s withdrawal symptoms.

“What’s missing in the hospitals from our experience is a drug and alcohol specialist who understands addictions and can give advice on what type of medications and the amounts needed to allow a patient to stay and get treated,” Julie said.”The hospitals need to realize that the immediate symptoms and addict are not separate and treating one and not the other isn’t effective.”

With all complexities aside, Wall agrees it’s a difficult bal-ance treating patients with serious addiction and points out the hospital can’t solve it alone.

Meeting the needNew opportunities are emerging within local hospitals as

drug and alcohol abuse continues to persist within the county. “About 1,000 people

are treated per year in Clallam County for substance abuse, but that is not nearly the number that needs to be treated,” Anderson said.

Since November 2013, Olympic Medi-cal Center has been participating in the Washington State Screening, Brief, In-tervention, Referral to Treatment (WAS-BIRT) program fund-ed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad-ministration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SBIRT grant and administered by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services and managed by the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery.

OMC is using the program to help identify patients with risky behavior sooner rather than later, Wall said. Between Novem-ber 2013 and March, 2, 750 chemical dependency screens were performed at Olympic Medical Center and 640 of these screens were positive for potential risky behavior requiring a full screen.

Through a series of screening and assessment “240 of the 640 patients who initially screened positive for potential risky behavior either received a brief intervention or were referred for appropriate treatment,” Wall said.

As part of WASBIRT program, Olympic Medical Center now has two behavioral health specialists on staff in the emergency department.

“The greatest success lies with patients early in their addic-tion,” Wall said. “We’re hoping to be able to identify patients with risky behavior before an addiction becomes serious.”

The WASBIRT program may become a helpful tool to iden-tify a person with “risky behavior,” but the transition between hospital to treatment facility remains a challenging one, Bul-lington said. Although the hospital tries to discharge patients into safe and supportive environments, like family or friends, the reality is very few addicts have that safety net available.

“We communicate pretty well with the hospital, but unfortunately don’t get as many referrals that are probably necessary,” Bullington said. “It would be nice if the hospital had a chemical dependency person on staff because we know how busy the emergency department is and their staff can’t always take the time to call and set up after care.”

Olympic Medical Center was given a grant extension until April 2015 for the WASBIRT program, but the state is trying to figure out a way to fund the program after the grant expires.

“Unfortunately, treating persons with addictions is a grow-ing concern,” Wall said.

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a drug and alcohol specialist who understands addictions and can give advice on what type of medications and the amounts needed to allow a patient to stay and get treated,” Julie said.”The hospitals need to realize that the immediate symptoms and addict are not separate and treating one and not the other isn’t effective.”

With all complexities aside, Wall agrees it’s a difficult bal-ance treating patients with serious addiction and points out the hospital can’t solve it alone.

Meeting the needNew opportunities are emerging within local hospitals

as drug and alcohol abuse continues to persist within the county.

“About 1,000 people are treated per year in Clallam County for substance abuse, but that is not nearly the number that needs to be treated,” Anderson said.

Since November 2013, Olympic Medical Center has been participating in the Washington State Screening, Brief, Intervention, Referral to Treatment (WASBIRT) program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SBIRT grant and administered by the Washington Depart-ment of Social and Health Services and managed by the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery.

OMC is using the program to help identify patients with risky behavior sooner rather than later, Wall said. Between November 2013 and March, 2, 750 chemical dependency screens were performed at Olympic Medical Center and 640 of these screens were positive for potential risky behavior requiring a full screen.

Through a series of screening and assessment “240 of the 640 patients who initially screened positive for potential risky behavior either received a brief intervention or were referred for appropriate treatment,” Wall said.

As part of WAS-BIRT program,

Olympic Medical Center now has two behavioral health specialists on staff in the emergency department.

“The greatest suc-cess lies with pa-tients early in their addiction,” Wall said. “We’re hoping to be able to identify patients with risky behavior before an addiction becomes serious.”

The WASBIRT program may be-come a helpful tool to identify a person with “risky behavior,” but the transition between hospital to treatment facility remains a challenging one, Bullington said. Although the hospital tries to discharge patients into safe and supportive environments, like family or friends, the reality is very few addicts have that safety net available.

“We communicate pretty well with the hospital, but unfortunately don’t get as many referrals that are probably necessary,” Bullington said. “It would be nice if the hospital had a chemical dependency person on staff because we know how busy the emergency department is and their staff can’t always take the time to call and set up after care.”

Olympic Medical Center was given a grant extension until April 2015 for the WASBIRT program, but the state is trying to figure out a way to fund the program after the grant expires.

“Unfortunately, treating persons with addictions is a grow-ing concern,” Wall said.

“The greatest success lies with patients

early in their addic-tion. We’re hoping

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foot bathroom and storage facility near the southwest corner of the fields.

Dave Shreffler with the advocacy group said its goal this summer is to be finished before the Dungeness Cup on Aug. 1-3, but scheduling of other events like Sequim Lavender Farm Fair will postpone construction.

“It largely depends on the city permitting process,” he said. “We’re hoping to get going in mid-August.”

Prior to the original project’s approval with the Sequim City Council, sev-eral hundred community members petitioned to leave the site as is while current councilors at their May 27 meeting expressed concerns for maintenance and vandal-ism of the bathroom.

City councilors previously approved plans for the second phase with the first phase of the fields and parking spaces in 2011.

Special projects man-ager Joe Irvin with the City of Sequim said councilors will have final say again when he brings construction plans back sometime tentatively in

July to one of their meetings. However, plans for a conces-sion stand next to the bath-room have been abandoned.

Phase 2, Irvin said, also in-cludes safety improvements to the playfields such as mov-ing the Olympic Discovery Trail crossing up Rhodefer Road to help prevent pedes-trian and vehicle crossing mishaps.

Parking spaces by the James Center will use a grass/pavement material that can be driven, parked and walked on while the proposed park-

ing on Rhodefer Road will be chipsealed over an irrigation ditch.

The playfields’ proposed restrooms will host two unisex ADA compliant stalls open at all times with more stalls open during special events.

Irvin said the costs to the city will include nearly four more hours per week of janitorial services, additional toiletries and annual main-tenance.

In the agreement between the city and the advocacy

group, the city pays for reused water in the toilets and any electricity inside but the city won’t pay for any construc-tion and change in electricity use such as adding lighting.

Shreffler said free standing poles around the playfields aren’t part of the plan.

“It isn’t now and never has been,” he said. “We have no current plans after this. As far as our vision for what we had envisioned, (Phase 2) would complete it.”

For now, the advocacy group continues to negotiate

with project partners for fi-nancial and in-kind support, Shreffler said.

“We’re confident we will get it,” he said.

He said a cost estimate wasn’t available yet for Phase 2.

Community impact So far, the Sequim City

Band, which predominately uses the James Center, and the city’s parks and recre-ation board approved the advocacy group’s proposal.

Irvin said the city, the advocacy group and city band held multiple meetings about the project, which accommodates the band’s proposed plans for a new practice space.

As for standards with the Department of Ecology, Irvin said the project doesn’t re-quire a full impact study but will be reviewed by the State Environmental Policy Act that city staff will work on.

Shreffler said the playfields remain a phenomenal suc-cess.

“It’s beyond what we ever imagined,” he said.

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were heavily used and over used, and had some real problems of safety and play-ability. Since a lot of that use has shifted to Albert Haller Fields, the district fields have had an opportunity to heal with the exception of the high school field, which is a whole separate issue.”

The advocacy group’s up-coming Dungeness Cup has grown from 25 teams in 2012 to anticipating 100 teams this year, he said.

Yet, Shreffler said the playfields also host spillover for community concerts at the James Center, special events, some lacrosse play, soccer clinics and leagues, and everyday uses like walk-ing dogs, picnicking, frisbees and flying radio controlled planes.

“It’s the biggest and best piece of flat, open grassy space in the city,” he said.

For more on Sequim Fam-ily Advocates and the Dunge-ness Cup, visit www.dunge-nesscup.com.

For more information, contact the City of Sequim at 683-4139 or visit www.sequimwa.gov.

North Kitsap Ballistic fans give their team high-fives after winning their age bracket at the Dungeness Cup in 2012. Sequim Gazette file photo by Michael Dashiell

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Nearly 2 1/2 years after announc-ing an effort to revitalize the Guy Cole Convention Center in Carrie Blake Park, volunteers say they still are pushing forward.

Pat Johansen, volunteer project coordinator, and Sequim City Coun-cilor Ken Hays host the first com-munity meeting about the project at 4 p.m. Thursday, June 26, in the building off of North Blake Avenue.

“Our original plan was to reach out to the community, raise every dime we could and fundraise,” Jo-hansen said. “The city is not really in a strong position to do it, so we wanted to give the community the opportunity to build it over.”

Her hope is that at the meeting, residents will have ideas that could help with costs and/or its usage.

“We want everybody to be there,” she said. “We want to talk about the fee structure so we can set up something that makes sense to the community.”

Originally, Hays and Johansen proposed focusing the venue on eat-ing local foods and culinary-based programs while helping to make Sequim an agritourism and eco-tourism culinary destination.

Johansen said that goal is now secondary to renovating the facility but she finds the idea could help make Sequim a great winter season destination.

Since first announcing their proposal, discussions with commu-nity groups have stopped for various reasons.

Johansen said the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe was looking for a meeting space after renovating the 7 Cedars Casino but decided to move meetings to The Cedars at Dungeness.

The Sequim City Band abandoned a project that could have turned the center into a multi-use community center and concert hall. Estimated costs were at about $1 million.

Johansen said she thinks Sequim’s tastes continue to mature and re-furbishing the center gives the city another base of some kind.

“Frankly, there aren’t many facili-ties designed to accommodate many high quality events even in Port Angeles,” she said. “It just seemed to me that there is a need and so many opportunities to encourage our nonprofits and the idea of first class meeting space. We could fail, but I don’t think we will.”

Origins and next steps The Sequim Valley Lions Club

built the Guy Cole Convention Center in 1982 and it still is used three to five times a month but city

staff said the facility remains in bad shape and rentals don’t make up the maintenance costs.

Recent discussions about revi-talizing the center come at a new time, Johansen said, when the city is considering a reconfiguration to the entrance to Carrie Blake Park around the skate park, making it safer for children crossing between playgrounds while enhancing park-ing and accessibility.

She’s discussing partnering with students in the North Olympic Pen-insula Skills Center as soon as the beginning of the next school year.

Riley Stites, work site coordina-tor and applied math and building trades instructor for the skills center, said the project would be a good fit for his students.

“We’re finishing up our last day (on Tuesday, June 17) in the last room at the old high school (current

administration building), so we’re in need of a project,” Stites said.

The last time Stites said he was in the convention center was 10 years ago when his daughter was a Sequim Irrigation Festival queen, but he did peek in the windows and said it’s in need of a tune up.

If his students were to take on the project, some of their duties could include demolition, framing, dry wall and painting.

Stites said they work three peri-ods, five days a week for 2 hours and 45 minutes a day.

Students can earn up to 14 college credits a year in technical prepara-tion if they earn a B or higher in the class while working toward their high school diplomas, he said.

They also learn applied math that deals with the building trade itself.

“I would really like to see it go,” Stites said of the project.

Along with Hays, an architect, doing pro-bono work designing the interior and exterior of the building, Johansen hopes to bring on board other builders and local service agencies.

“The building was built with community work teams and I hope groups like the Lions will become involved again,” she said. “We rec-ognize the role they played the first time around and want to memorial-ize the work of the Lions in a plaque or something in the new Guy Cole.”

Renaming the center is likely to happen, Johansen said, and she’s spoken to Guy Cole’s son who under-stands that so long as they recognize the original builders.

“Our goal is to break ground in the fall,” Johansen said.

For more information, contact Pat Johansen at 582-3737 or pjohan-sen@olypen.com.

Convention Center upgrade still in worksInformation meeting scheduled for June 26

Volunteers for the City of Sequim sit while being honored earlier this year in the Guy Cole Conven-tion Center, which other volunteers continue to seek support to refurbish. City of Sequim staff said its rentals don’t cover monthly maintenance and utilities. Photo cour-tesy of Barbara Hanna

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faith newsTaize services on Mondays

All are welcome to the ecumenical Taize service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., at 7 p.m. Monday, June 23.

In a meditative candlelit atmosphere which includes singing simple repetitive songs, one may simply sit peace-fully during the hour long service or join in the chorus while experiencing the calming effect of being in God’s presence.

Taize will continue to be held the fourth Monday of each month.

Vacation Bible school set“Spirit of Service — Creation Care” is the theme of a

Vacation Bible School to be held from 1-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, June 23-26, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 Blake Ave.

Included will be arts and crafts, singing, exploration of a Psalm each day and caring for God’s creation, which may involve local field trips. Snacks will be provided.

Minimum age is 6 or entering first grade. Registration fee is $5, but scholarships are available.

For information, call 683-5367 or e-mail jan@sequim-tumc.org.

The 2014 Annual Planning Forum on Ending Homelessness in Clallam County, set for today, June 18, takes on a grimmer tone.

“Last year we looked at the more-than-80 percent reduction in literal home-lessness, accomplished since the county commissioners adopted the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness in 2005 and talked about getting to zero homelessness,” Kathy Wahto, executive director of Seren-ity House of Clallam County and chairman of the Network, said.

“This year we’re looking at the added challenges arising due to prolonged hard economic times.”

The number of households which qualified for and received help to either stay housed or to get housing in the first quarter of 2014 increased more than 50 percent, compared to the same period in 2013, she said.

“Our intent is still to have resources in place by the end of the 10 years, in 2016, to respond to housing crises as they arise, so no one in Clallam County gets stuck in

homelessness,” Wahto said, “but it takes jobs and employability to make housing sustainable.”

Presentations on building capacity to address the behavioral side of homeless-ness will come from Sally Beaven, director of Specialty Services’ proposed in-patient substance abuse treatment center in Port Angeles; Peninsula Behavioral Health’s Dee Dee Hansen on the coming Clallam County Respite Center; and Clallam Coun-ty Drug Court coordinator Stormy Howell.

Legislative action to preserve funding

for homelessness programs will be re-viewed, with special recognition of the key support provided by District 24 legislators, Sen. Jim Hargrove, Rep. Kevin Van De Wege and Rep. Steve Tharinger.

Registration opens at 8:30 a.m., with coffee, tea and light refreshments avail-able. Forum presentations begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn by 1 p.m.

To RSVP or for more information, call Shelter Providers coordinator Martha Ireland at 452-4737 or e-mail shelterpro-vidersnetwork@gmail.com.

Taking a tough look at end to homelessness plan

from the

police blotter

June 109:29 a.m. — Theft, 1200

block of West Washington Street

3:54 p.m. — Theft, 600 block of West Washington Street

4:19 p.m. — Theft, 100 block of Craftsman Court

5:09 p.m. — Theft, 100 block of East Fir Street

June 1110:20 a.m. — Warrant

arrest, 1500 block of Wood-cock Road

10:48 a.m. — Theft, 500 block of Toad Road

3:34 p.m. — Public drunkenness, 800 block of North Fifth Avenue

3:38 p.m. — Theft, 900 block of North Kendall Road

June 127:46 a.m. — Warrant

arrest, 1100 block of West Brackett Road

June 138:10 a.m. — Burglary,

261000 block of U.S. High-way 101

10:04 a.m. — Theft, 300 block of Fleming Drive

12:57 p.m. — Burglary, 700 block of East Washing-ton Street

June 158:48 a.m. — Burglary,

261000 block of U.S. High-way 101

6:05 p.m. — Theft, 700 block of West Fir Street

and existing interest, his response is “mostly for the environment and climate,” Humiston said.

Similar to most of western Washington, Sequim has mild weather patterns and a far from extreme tem-perature range. Because of the lack of extremes, unlike places like eastern Wash-ington with hot summers and cold winters, Humiston anticipates the area being a fairly energy and economi-cally efficient place for can-nabis production.

“With a mild climate you’re not having to dras-tically cool or heat your growing environment,” Hu-miston said.

However, as with any evolving industry there are a lot of unknowns and ques-tions as to how local cannabis production may impact the area, thus Humiston con-versed with the Dungeness River Management Team, which includes community and government officials, last week during a public meeting about the projected energy requirements for cannabis production and the water needs — a heightened concern since the Depart-ment of Ecology enforced the Dungeness Water Resources Management Rule.

WaterSo far the agency that dis-

tributes mitigation certifi-cates, the Dungeness Water Exchange, hasn’t had any request specifically for can-nabis irrigation, Amanda Cronin, administrator for the exchange, said.

“We don’t have a package for cannabis yet, but we’re flexible to put one together if someone has a request,” Cronin said.

Chances are with the large amount of land the Dungeness Water Rule en-compasses, most cannabis producers wanting to grow around Sequim will have to work with the Washington State Department of Ecol-ogy to adequately mitigate cannabis irrigation and associated water use. For-tunately for Humiston, the area within the Carlsborg Industrial Loop where he and his partners intend to establish Canna Organix already has existing irriga-tion rights and they will be able to hook up to Clallam County PUD.

How much water does cannabis need?

The amount of water per gram of product is the ratio used to quantify the amount of water cannabis produc-tion requires because of the wide age and size range a single plant can be harvested at, Humiston said. Addition-al factors that influence the amount of water and energy consumption for production includes the medium which the producer uses, such as soil or hydroponic and the style of operation, like indoor, outdoor or a hybrid of the two. Thus, depend-ing on the techniques used, Humiston predicts water usage being anywhere from 0.15-0.69 gallons per gram of product, or at an aver-age annual consumption rate of 100 grams that is 15-69 gallons per year per consumer. This amount of water consumption equates

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to flushing your toilet one to two more times a month, Humiston said.

Another way to look at the water needs of cannabis is to compare crop to crop. For example, Humiston said cannabis requires 16.5-20 inches of water annually per acre, whereas blueberries use about 18 inches water annually per acre.

However, it is important to note Humiston’s experience analyzing cannabis produc-tion has been in California for the past seven years and thus the natural resource needs of cannabis produc-tion locally may vary. But, with a milder climate than California, Humiston antici-pates cannabis production to be a more ecologically sound practice here.

Energy, greenhouse gas pollution

“I don’t think there should be concern over the amount of energy,” Humiston said. “It (cannabis production) is energy intensive, but the economic potential for cannabis versus other energy intensive industries like mining, for example, is much greater.”

According to University of California Berkeley analysis, Michael O’Hare for BOTEC Analysis Corporation’s 2013 study, Environmental Risk and Opportunities in Can-nabis Cultivation, “the most significant environmental effect of cannabis produc-tion, and the one that varies most with different produc-tion practice, is energy con-sumption, especially fossil energy use with climate effects from release of green-house gas.”

The analysis states indoor-grown cannabis is the most energy intensive production practice, using “2000 kWh per pound of product.” The study compares those en-ergy needs to aluminum pro-duction, which only requires about 7 kWh per pound.

However, after accounting for the value of the prod-

ucts with cannabis costing approximately $2,000 per pound wholesale and alumi-num costing about 90 cents per pound wholesale the “energy is a much smaller fraction of the product cost.” For example, based on those wholesale prices “it takes 8,000 kWh to make $1,000 worth of aluminum vs. 1,000 kWh for $1,000 of marijuana,” according to the analysis by O’Hare.

A lt hough Humiston doesn’t see the need for “concern” necessarily he does think “there needs to be a sense of awareness and room for improvement” as the industry develops and streamlines with bigger and more efficient production opportunities.

As it is now with a lot of small, indoor grows scat-tered about the county, it is difficult to get an accurate baseline for both energy and water demands, Humiston said.

As a result of the legaliza-tion many of the “small and inefficient” grow operations likely will fade away as the industry gets brought out into the light, Humiston said. Indoor cannabis pro-duction really became a method of growing in order to remain secretive. Now that the industry is being introduced into the main-stream, producers are more likely to invest, develop and improve the efficiency of production operations without the legal risks and potential of being shut down at any moment.

“We’re (Canna Organix personnel) trying to push public opinion toward a more natural production process which would reduce the carbon footprint of the whole industry,” Humiston said.

Waste, pesticides and fertilizers

The Liquor Control Board will use BioTrackTHC to pro-vide the software that will trace everything and any-

thing done to every cannabis plant grown under Initiative 502. The system will track the pesticides and/or fertil-izer used on the plant, which also must be approved by the Liquor Control Board, from start to sale, Humiston said.

“The tracking system doesn’t allow any waste to be easily discarded either,” Humiston said.

The idea behind the track-ing system is to enforce honest production and keep track of all produced product and waste so under ideal conditions products can’t leak out to the black market or pollute the surrounding environment.

However, there really isn’t much waste produced, Hu-miston said. The majority of the excess plant material can be processed to make things like oils and edibles.

Depending on the class of fertilizers, pesticides and solvents, if used, the Liquor Control Board will designate appropriate disposal.

Although any product produced by Canna Organix cannot be certified organic because that is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration certification, and cannabis is only legal on a state level, Humiston plans only to use and produce organic products.

As the cannabis industry continues to take shape, anyone involved at this point is really a spokesman for the industry given its re-cent legalization, Humiston said, and thus feels a respon-sibility to provide informa-tion to potentially alleviate any of the unknowns and allow individuals to make informed decisions about the industry.

The potential ecological impacts surrounding the recreational legalization of cannabis is just one of many ongoing and developing top-ics of interest as the industry begins to take hold.

After uncertainty over penalties for an alleged fake kidnapping in Carrie Blake Park on April 12, three relatives tentatively make their plea at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in Clal-lam County District Court.

Cousins Jason Holden, 25, and

Jesse Holden, 25, and relative Shellie Baskins, 34, could face up to 90 days in jail under state law or up to 364 days in jail or a $5,000 fine with charges of disorderly conduct by cre-ating a disturbance in the park under the City of Sequim’s municipal code.

They were scheduled to plead on June 12 but District Court Judge

Rick Porter postponed the hearings due to no determination on their possible penalties.

The trio filmed and/or partici-pated a video that later appeared on YouTube allegedly to create aware-ness about kidnapping. Sequim Police report Baskins was at the park with her 4-year-old son and

asked two women to watch him while she went to the bathroom and Jason Holden, wearing a mask, rode in a minivan and took the boy while Jesse Holden, also wearing a mask, drove away.

Madison said police interviewed several witnesses who either tried to stop the fake kidnapping, heard

screaming and/or were distraught by the experience.

The Holdens returned to the park with the boy and told officers that they were making an educational video and the Holdens have appeared on television saying their intention was to raise awareness and not to perform a prank.

Fake kidnapping court date postponed to June 19

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If you are new to Sequim or considering relocating to Sequim, the “New in Town Conversation” is the place to be.

The next event is from 3-5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25, at the Sequim branch of First Federal, 333 N. Sequim Ave.

All other dates — Aug. 27 and Oct. 22 — are also from 3-5 p.m. at First Federal.

It’s an opportunity to meet other people who are new to Sequim, for Sequim natives who will help tell the story of Se-quim and its history, rep-resentatives of nonprofits with ideas for volunteer-ing and more informa-tion about handling the stresses of relocation.

The “New in Town Con-versation” is a co-sponsored program of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce and Terrific-Transitions, a company fo-cused on facilitating success with major life changes.

Light refreshments will be served and prepared ma-terials will be available.

RSVP to Catherine Mich at 582-1081.

obituariesFred William Eckenberg

Port Angeles resident Fred William Eckenberg died June 9, 2014, in Port Angeles at the age of 93. A full obituary will run at a later date.

He was born Dec. 22, 1920. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Joseph Vernon DahindenPort Angeles resident Joseph Vernon Dahinden died June

12, 2014, in Port Angeles at the age of 65. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21, at Bethany Pentecostal Church, 508 Francis St., Port Angeles, with Omer Vigoren officiating.

He was born Sept. 3, 1948. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Dorothy CohenPort Angeles resident Dorothy Cohen died June 14, 2014,

in Port Angeles at the age of 97. At her request, there will be no services. A full obituary will run at a later date.

She was born April 13, 1917. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.