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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS May 21, 2013 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Schools superintendent to be leaving Chimacum BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — Craig Downs, school superintendent for three years, will leave the district at the end of June to take a similar position at a private faithbased school in Arizona. “I am doing this for a lot of personal reasons,” Downs said Monday. “This is a great opportunity for me. CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS “I wasn’t looking to leave the district, but . . . I found Craig Downs is departing the Chimacum School that I wanted to get involved District on June 30 to head a school in Arizona. in the private side of educaDowns will leave Chima- superintendent of Joy tion as part of a faith-based community.” cum on June 30 to become Christian School in the
Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Ariz. Due to the timing of his resignation, the School Board will hire an interim superintendent for the next school year and begin the search for a permanent replacement for Downs in the winter, board President Ted Friedrich said.
Financial stability Downs, 53, helped return financial stability to the district after voters passed a levy lift in 2012. TURN TO DOWNS/A4
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1 killed, 5 hurt on U.S. 101 3 vehicles crash at construction zone by Sequim BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
AGNEW — A 52-year-old Port Angeles man died Monday, and five others were injured in a chain-reaction collision on a portion of U.S. Highway 101 between Port Angeles and Sequim that the state Department of Transportation is widening to improve safety. Bryan Crawford died at the scene of the crash at Cliff Robinson Lane near the intersection of Pierson and Dryke roads after his 2001 F-150 pickup truck, the last vehicle in a line of three, overturned when he tried avoiding hitting the vehicle in front of him, State Patrol spokesman Russ Winger said. John McMahon, 42, was transported to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles and then to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was listed in serious condition Monday evening. Nicholas Crawford, 19, who was in Bryan Crawford’s truck, was not injured. His relation to the deceased driver was not reported Monday afternoon.
Highway 101 closed The collision closed the highway between Port Angeles and Sequim from 8:30 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. Vehicles were detoured to Old Olympic Highway. Kayla Walls, 22, driving a 1991 Honda Accord, has a Utah driver’s license but her city of residence was unavailable,
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Above, the wreckage of a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup truck, a 2003 Ford flatbed truck and 1991 Honda Accord is seen hours after the 8:30 a.m. collision at the intersection of Pierson Road and U.S. Highway 101 west of Sequim. The driver of the pickup truck, left, died at the scene.
police said. She was taken to Olympic Medical Center as a precaution, Winger said. Stewart Wycoff, 28, of Poulsbo, who was driving a 2003 Ford flatbed truck, also was injured, Winger said. Wycoff was treated and released at Olympic Medical Center, spokesman Jeff Anderson said. Corbin Reneman, 20, a passenger in Walls’ car, was transported to Olympic Medical Center. His condition was unavailable late Monday afternoon. TURN
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High-speed Internet slow in arriving to users BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A broadband “backbone” bringing high-speed Internet to East Jefferson County will be in place by the end of the summer. But exactly when homes and businesses can enjoy the speedier service is still uncertain, according to a speaker at the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday.
About 70 p e o p l e attended the luncheon, which featured Jefferson County Public Utility D i s t r i c t Resource Graham Director Bill Graham, “If you want service, you will
need to contact some of these people,” Graham said indicating a list of companies that included Wave Broadband and Comcast. “They will be the ones to supply last-mile service.” Graham said the service in some parts of Jefferson County is “of diminishing quality” and that available broadband would create a competitive environment resulting in connected rural areas. The step scheduled for comple-
tion by the end of August is to Graham said. bring the service to more than 70 “High bandwidth will be criti“anchor institutions,” from which cal for advanced medical services,” service can be routed to private Graham said, homes and businesses. “We’ve heard of stories where a guy with critical injuries was airAnchor institutions lifted to Harborview [Medical The anchor institutions, which Center in Seattle], and he made it include schools, health care facili- faster than his medical file. “That’s inexcusable, especially ties and public buildings, will pay with the medical technology we wholesale prices for the bandhave.” width, and the consumer cost will be in line with current levels, TURN TO INTERNET/A4
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