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Westport lays off employees Shipyard mum on number of PA workers now jobless BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
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Westport Shipyard, the luxury-yacht maker, imposed companywide layoffs Wednesday at its facilities in Port Angeles, Westport and Hoquiam because of a lack of work, a spokeswoman said. The company has a 100,000-square-foot plant at 637 Marine Drive and a twobuilding cabinet shop on West 18th Street in Port Angeles that it rents from the Port of Port Angeles for $14,000 a month. “Westport Shipyard Inc. made adjustments to employment levels at its yacht construction facilities [Wednesday],” company Human Resources Specialist Jennifer Swogger emailed Wednesday. “The reduction is reflective
of the ongoing current market conditions for premium luxury yachts,” Swogger said. In an interview, Swogger would not comment on how many employees were laid off or how many remained in Port Angeles.
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Coho ferry crashes into Victoria dock Boat sustains no damage PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
“They were terminated due to lack of work,” Swogger said, adding that she was the only one authorized to comment on the layoff. A spokeswoman at the company’s Westport plant also referred inquiries to Swogger. The email was almost identical to the statement the company issued March 18, when workers also were laid off.
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The MV Coho pulls away from a damaged floatplane dock in front of the Regent Hotel on Victoria’s Inner Harbor after the 341-foot ferry backed into the landing late Wednesday.
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VICTORIA — U.S. and Canadian authorities have begun an investigation into what caused the MV Coho ferry to back into a dock used to service seaplanes on its way out of Victoria’s Inner Harbour on Wednesday. The collision broke the floating structure into at least three pieces. No planes were tied to the dock, and no injuries were reported in the 7:30 p.m. crash, said Ryan Malane, director of
marketing for Black Ball Ferry Line, which operates the Coho. Capt. Elmer Grasser, an 11-year veteran of the Coho, immediately contacted Canada’s Harbour Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard, as ferry line procedure dictates, Malane said. The Coho wasn’t damaged, he said Thursday, and no damage estimate to the dock was available. “[Black Ball Ferry Line] will take responsibility for the damage to the dock,” Malane said.
happened,” Malane said. The Coho likely was going no faster than 2 knots (2.3 mph) when it backed out of its landing area and into the dock, Malane said, adding that it averages 15 knots (17.26 mph) when crossing the Strait of Juna de Fuca between Victoria and Port Angeles. Malane said he was on the ferry at the time and did not feel the boat hit the dock. After the ship’s crew inspected the ship, Malane said the captain followed procedure and continued out of the harbor, and Harbour Investigation started Patrol did not ask it to return. “[Harbour Patrol] was twice in Malane could not say when the contact with the captain, and they investigation by U.S. and Canadid not call for the ship’s return,” dian officials would be completed. Malane said. “At this point, we’re still investigating to determine exactly what TURN TO FERRY/A7
Stenson trial judge allows Robb: New job bloody jeans as evidence is a ‘whirlwind’ BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County Superior Court judge has denied Darold Stenson’s motion to suppress the bloodstained jeans he wore when he allegedly shot and killed his wife and business partner more than 20 years ago. Stenson, 60, will be retried on two counts of first-degree aggravated murder in Kitsap County in September. Judge S. Brooke Taylor denied a defense motion to suppress the pants and gravel evidence at trial — and ruled on several other motions — in a daylong pretrial hearing Wednesday. Stenson’s lawyers argued that the pants should be suppressed because they were mishandled by investigators. Clallam County Prosecut-
ing Attorney Deb Kelly said the motion to suppress the pants and gravel was one of the biggest, “if not the biggest, motion” that Taylor considered this week. Stenson is charged with double murder in the killings of his wife, Denise, and business partner, Frank Hoerner, at his bird farm on Kane Lane near Sequim in March 1993.
BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
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Stay of execution Convicted in Clallam County in 1994, Stenson spent 14 years on death row and was eight days away from being executed by lethal injection when a judge issued a stay of execution in late 2008. Stenson has maintained his innocence. TURN
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A Clallam County sheriff’s deputy is seen wearing Darold Stenson’s pants in this April 1993 photo.
SEQUIM — Former Port of Port Angeles Executive Director Jeff Robb has begun his new job as the port’s director of environmental affairs after two weeks off. “I’d like to tell you I’m doing well, but I’m not,” he said Thursday in a telephone interview after starting his new post Monday. Robb “I’m just recovering from a fair amount of stress. “I’m coming back into what a whirlwind looks like,” he added. On June 24, five days after port commissioners evaluated
Getting same salary He will still get the executive director salary of $138,000 a year, according to a contract commissioners approved 2-1 and signed at the June 24 meeting. Commissioner John Calhoun, who helped Robb write the statement, said it was “a mistake” for Robb to have used the word “agreed,” while Commissioner Paul McHugh said Robb “misspoke.” Robb would not comment Thursday in detail on the contract. TURN
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