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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS September 19-20, 2014 | 75¢
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Sides to be examined in Sequim ballot case BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Gary Enbrecht, left, and Owen Rowe instruct a roomful of volunteers about the operation of the digital projectors that will be used at the Port Townsend Film Festival, which begins today.
Director: Anticipation builds for film festival familiar with independent films, according to the festival’s executive director. “I never in my wildest dreams imagined that our phone could ring that often,” Janette Force said Thursday. “We’ve gotten calls from people saying, ‘We’re from Dallas. We used to go to South by Southwest, but it’s gotten too busy, so we went online to look at film festivals, and we chose you.’ “We hear that over and over again, and it’s very exciting,”
Movies start in PT today, run through Sunday BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — The 15th annual Port Townsend Film Festival, which begins today, is generating more excitement than in the past because it features an icon among those
Force said. The excitement is over the appearance of director John Sayles and his partner, producer Maggie Renzi, as special guests to the film festival, which will showcase some 80 films at six venues through Sunday, according to Force. While Sayles, 63, has never had huge commercial success, his movies have resonated with audiences who aren’t necessarily attracted to mainstream fare. TURN
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PORT ANGELES –– Saying they are up against a pending ballot deadline, attorneys Thursday implored Clallam County Superior Court Judge Erik Rohrer to order a pair of initiatives to change Sequim’s dealings with municipal employee unions be put on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. “The timing is critical,” said Shawn Newman, attorney for Susan Brautigam of Sequim, who filed a lawsuit against the city Sept. 3 because it did not respond to the local initiatives within the legally prescribed time frame. Responding that voting will begin as soon as Friday, city and county officials said that deadline has already passed. “It’s impossible to get the ballots printed in time,” Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Will Payne told Rohrer. Rohrer said he needed to read more about each side’s case and pledged to offer a written ruling soon. The initiatives, presented to the city of Sequim on July 28 through a pair of petitions organized by Susan Shotthaffer of Port Angeles, seek to open contract negotiations with municipal
employee unions and allow city workers to opt out of union representation. Thursday’s hearing was on Brautigam’s lawsuit, which claims state law that allows municipal initiatives spells out a time frame the city did not meet.
State law City Attorney Craig Ritchie argued the state law that lays out election timelines required issues for the November ballot be submitted to the county auditor by Aug. 5. “That is when you have to have a resolution for a ballot issue,” Ritchie said. Newman said the county’s contract with Everett-based K&H Printers specified a Sept. 22 deadline for ballots to be produced. That date is only the last day it could be done, and the ballots are already printed, Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand said after the hearing. Rosand also noted that each election must have its own separate database that corresponds with ballots and is set up well before the ballots are printed. The Nov. 4 database, she said, already has been set. TURN
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Three men eye Sacred site scrubbed clean Tamanowas Rock swimming Strait scoured by tribe Attempt at crossing might be today after vandalization BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The three Bainbridge Island men, ranging from 56 to 60 years old, had talked for years of swimming across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from the North Olympic Peninsula to Vancouver Island. If the weather seems right and the waves aren’t too high, today is the day. “We tossed the idea around for a couple of years,” said Ken Goodman, 60, an attorney. “Early last spring, six to seven months ago, Paul said we should do that this year.”
Financial adviser Paul Webber, 56, Orlando Boleda, 59 — who is vice president of operations for KP LLC in Seattle — and Goodman will check it out at Freshwater Bay at about 6:45 a.m. Their best hope is for a sunny day with no wind and a smooth, glassy water surface, but they’ll settle for waves they can handle. “If the wind wave is more than 2 feet, it’s too difficult to swim, too tiring,” Goodman said. “We may even start and get out there and, if weather conditions deteriorate,” give it up. TURN
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BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM –– With a team of five and a special product known as “Elephant Snot,” workers for the Jamestown S’Klallam have removed a pink-and-white “I ♥ Miranda” graffito from Tamanowas Rock, one of the tribe’s most sacred sites. “It was very tiring,” said Bill Laubner, manager of the tribe’s facilities. “The crew applied the Elephant Snot, scrubbed extremely hard with handheld wire brushes and then washed off the residual graf-
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INSIDE TODAY’S PENINSULA DAILY NEWS 98th year, 223rd issue — 4 sections, 42 pages
BUSINESS CLASSIFIED COMICS COMMENTARY/LETTERS DEAR ABBY DEATHS HOROSCOPE MOVIES NATION/WORLD
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