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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS October 2, 2014 | 75¢
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Port Townsend Marine Science Center Executive Director Janine Boire presents the 2014 Eleanor Stopps Environmental Leadership Award to Ray Lowrie on Wednesday.
Retired Chimacum teacher receives Stopps award Ray Lowrie’s work to restore creek’s salmon is honored BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A retired science teacher whose efforts were instrumental in the rehabilitation of Chimacum Creek was honored Wednesday with the 10th annual Eleanor Stopps Environmental Leadership Award. Ray Lowrie, who taught in the Chimacum School District for 30 years, was
given the award at a fundraising breakfast for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. “The main theme of the breakfast today is learning,” said Janine Boire, the center’s executive director. “This is learning that changes lives, intergenerational learning and taking it to the next level to ‘go blue’ and support our oceans.”
$50,160 raised The center raised a total of $50,160 at the breakfast at Fort Worden Commons that was attended by about 165 people. An anonymous donor gave $25,000 of that through a matching grant.
Stopps, who died of cancer in April 2012 at the age of 92, was responsible for the 1982 establishment of the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge, the only refuge created by public initiative Stopps during the Reagan administration. Lowrie, 82, began teaching in Port Townsend in 1957 and moved to the Chimacum School District in 1960. He retired in 1992. TURN
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PORT HADLOCK — Two people arrested near Old Tarboo Lake Road with a cache of stolen property that included cars and electronics were the topic of a Washington’s Most Wanted episode. Kristofer T. Nickerson, 32, of unincorporated Kitsap County and Ericka L. Nitz, 25, of Bainbridge Island remained in the Jefferson County jail in Port Hadlock on Wednesday after they were arrested Tuesday.
Theft ring Jefferson County Sheriff Joe Nole has said the arrest broke up a theft ring. The Washington’s Most Wanted segment, taped on Bainbridge Island on Sept. 14, aired that day and Sept. 24, according to David Rose, its executive producer and host for Q13 Fox News of Seattle.
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The show, which Rose said has led to the capture of 571 fugitives since 2008, gets requests for help from local police departments. In addition to the property officials believe was stolen in Jefferson County, the two are wanted in the investigation into a Sept. 13 car prowl in Bainbridge Island, according to Washington’s Most Wanted, which added that Nickerson also has an arrest warrant on theft in Thurston County. TURN
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Tidal power test nixed amid funding woes Admiralty Inlet project’s cost soared THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EVERETT — A utility has pulled the plug on a project that would have tested generating electricity from tidal waters flowing in and out of Admiralty Inlet off the coast of East Jefferson County. The Snohomish County Public Utility District said Tuesday that it can’t move forward with putting two turbines under water off the west shore of Whidbey Island because the U.S. Energy Department decided not to share in the rising costs. The project would have installed two 65-foot-tall turbines
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about 200 feet in Admiralty Inlet to test whether energy from underwater currents could be a viable long-term power source, The Daily Herald of Everett reported. The initial project estimate in 2006 was about $20 million.
Price tag doubled A lengthy permitting and licensing process and unexpected costs nearly doubled the price tag to about $38 million, said Steve Klein, the utility’s general manager. The utility was preparing to get final construction bids when it learned that the federal govern-
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ment wouldn’t increase its share of expenses for the research project. Initial preparation of the site was slated to start next year. Officials with the Department of Energy’s Water Power Program declined comment Tuesday. In a statement, the department said it awarded a maximum of $10 million for the Snohomish County project through a specific funding opportunity in 2010, with the understanding that the utility would cover at least half the expense. The project was the first of its kind in the Northwest and one of the few in the world, so prelimiThis Snohomish County Public Utility District rendering nary cost estimates were edushows what one of the turbines would have looked like cated guesswork, Klein said.
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