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Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Deadline today for freeholder filings County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St. Today also is the last day that candidates for proposed parks districts in Port Ludlow and Kala Point can file. Fifteen freeholders — five people from each county commissioner district — will be elected during the Nov. 5 general election to create the charter if voters also approve the process with a separate vote at the same time. Each voter will be allowed to select five individuals.
BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — After two days of a special three-day filing period, 29 people had filed candidacy papers hoping to become freeholders and guide the process of creating a Jefferson County charter. The last filing opportunity for the position is today. Candidates can file between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Auditor’s Office in the Jefferson
Agents nab customs officer, wife at PA ferry
The top five vote-getters will take office as freeholders. If voters approve, the freeholders will be charged with creating a county charter and would have until June 20, 2015, to develop a charter, which then will be approved or rejected by voters.
Charters permitted Home-rule charters are permitted by the state constitution as a way for counties to provide forms of government that might
differ from the commission form prescribed by state law. Jefferson County now has three elected commissioners. Home-rule charters, such as that in Clallam County, also can provide the powers of initiative and referendum to the voters of their counties. The issue drew a lot of interest at a presentation held Monday night about how to run for office. Some 60 people attended, and the most popular topic was how to run to be a freeholder.
So far, 13 people have filed for freeholder positions in District 1, five in District 2 and 11 in District 3. They are: District 1: Former County Commissioner Richard Wojt, Peg Furey, Douglas Milholland, Jim Rough, Richard Coker, David Goldman, Dennis Schultz, Gary Embrecht, John Wood, Julia Cochrane, Joan Best, O’Neill Louchard and Raven (no other name given). TURN
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A different kind of picnic
BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who is based in Victoria and lives there was taken into federal custody earlier this week in Port Angeles on a charge of fraud. John E. Weaver, his wife and their three children were disembarking from the MV Coho passenger ferry’s late-afternoon Tuesday sailing from Victoria to Port Angeles when he was arrested by federal agents who were waiting for him at the ferry dock, said Andrew Munoz, spokesman for U.S. Customs and John and Joy Weaver Immigration Enforcement, which investigated the case. Weaver spent the night in the Clallam County jail and was formally charged with fraud in federal court in Tacoma on Wednesday. His wife, Joy Weaver, was not taken into custody in Port Angeles but was charged Wednesday with the same felony as her husband. It is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. John Weaver allegedly submitted more than $8,000 in false claims for fictitious expenditures for his children’s publicly paid education allowance, Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle, said in a statement. TURN
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Judith Alexander and Danny Milholland meet Thursday at the Port Townsend Food Co-op to discuss last-minute details for Sunday’s inaugural All-County Picnic in Chimacum.
Disaster preparedness H.J. Carroll Park event to serve up information — and corn BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — A traditional community picnic brings neighborhoods together for music, food and games. The All-County Picnic will use the neighborhood structure for emergency planning. The first All-County Picnic is set from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at H.J. Carroll Park, 9884 state Highway 19.
“We were told years ago that neighborhoods will be on their own after a disaster or an earthquake and that emergency providers might not arrive on-site for seven to 14 days,” said Judith Alexander, one organizer.
getting the tools they need to live through a disaster.” Along with entertainment and networking, the picnic will include a series of educational presentations. They are: ■ “Organizing Your Neighbor‘Responsibility for preparedness’ hood,” 11:30 a.m. ■ “Involving Children in Emer“We are hoping that we can get people together to take responsibility gency Preparedness Efforts,” noon. for preparedness by collaborating and TURN TO PICNIC/A6
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Jumping in the lake for charity Quartet hopes to swim length of Crescent “It’s just one of those bucket list things I think we all kind of had, and we said, ‘Let’s do it,’” said Ruddell, owner of LAKE CRESCENT — Four Port Ruddell Auto Mall in Port Angeles. Angeles endurance athletes will attempt “We’ve been planning on doing this to swim the length of Lake Crescent on swim for a real long time.” Sunday to accomplish a collective personal goal while raising awareness for a Benefiting Captain Joseph House good cause. Another motivator for the 8.9-mile Kathy Beirne, Shawn Delplain, Howie Ruddell and Todd Clayton will adventure, Ruddell said, is to “bring a plunge into the east end of the iconic little extra attention and a little extra lake from East Beach just before sunrise focus” to the Captain Joseph House Foundation, a nonprofit established by at 6 a.m. They expect to arrive at Fairholme at Gold Star Mom Betsy Reed Schultz. Schultz is converting her former bedthe west end of the lake at about noon. BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
and-breakfast at 1108 S. Oak St. in Port Angeles into a place of comfort and healing for families of service members killed in action. The Captain Joseph House was named in honor of Schultz’s son, Army Capt. Joseph Schultz, a Green Beret who was killed in action in Afghanistan on May 29, 2011. “This is a great way to combine our passion for swimming while supporting a great new local nonprofit,” said Ruddell, who lives near the Captain Joseph House. “We are very thankful for and respectful of our servicemen and -women and their families. ” TURN
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The swimmers make their way down the length of Lake Crescent west of Port Angeles earlier this summer.
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