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Jefferson expected to OK affiliation at meeting this week By Leah Leach
Peninsula Daily News
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A car stuck in the mud at low tide Sunday night was floating in Dungeness Bay near Cline Spit on Monday morning when Clallam County sheriff’s deputies were notified by neighbors and the car’s owner. The owner of the 1994 Subaru station wagon, Chris Conrardy, who is in his 20s, told deputies that the car became mired after he drove it onto the beach at low tide Sunday night. He abandoned it, thinking he would tow it out Monday, said Detective Sgt. Lyman Moores. The car was empty when deputies found it, and Conrardy told them that he was the only person in the car at the time. The matter was turned over to the Coast Guard and the car was expected to be towed out at low tide Monday.
Interfaith rites on Sunday will celebrate the many cultures with traditions that weave into the Thanksgiving spirit
In praise of the harvest By Jennifer Jackson
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Ed Haber, a Zen Buddhist, will open and close the Nov. 20 interfaith Thanksgiving service by sounding the Han, on which the calligraphy says, “Don’t waste time — awake.”
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PORT TOWNSEND — The American tradition of Thanksgiving dates back to a communal dinner on a rocky coastline almost four centuries ago. But the tradition of celebrating the harvest, of thanking the creator for the gifts of the earth, goes back thousands of years and has roots in every culture. On Sunday at 4 p.m. a community Thanksgiving service will be held at the Northwest Maritime Center that brings together traditions from the four corners of the world. Sponsored by Interfaith in Action, the service is not a blending of spiritual practices, but a weaving of cultural and religious threads. “We are bringing from our individual traditions various components that relate to the Thanksgiving theme,” said the Rev. Bruce Bode of Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Bode is a member of Interfaith in Action, a group of local ministers and congregational leaders who came together to start an Earth Day service two years ago. Held at the Northwest Mari-
time Center, the first Earth Day observance drew 250 people, he said. The group planned a community interfaith Thanksgiving service last year, but it was snowed out.
Music, poetry The Thanksgiving service is appropriate for all ages, and consists mainly of music, plus poetry and readings. Mason Stanculescu, a Chimacum student, will play the cello, accompanied by pianist Nan Toby Tyrrell and Teren MacLeod on violin. Centrum director John MacElwee, who plays jazz bass, will accompany vocalist Robin Bessier. Walter Vaux, a member of First Presbyterian Church, will play the ukulele and sing “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with Art Carpenter from Peninsula United Church of Christ. “It’s a secular song, but it is one of the best examples of expressing gratitude for God’s creation,” said Barb Laski, a leader of Peninsula United Church of Christ, a recentlyformed home-based church. Turn
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PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare commissioners on Wednesday are expected to become the second public hospital board on the North Olympic Peninsula to approve an affiliation agreement with Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. The agreement is on the agenda for 3:30 p.m. when commissioners meet in the hospital’s auditorium at 834 Sheridan Ave., Port Townsend. If the agreement is approved, then Jefferson Healthcare would join the Swedish Health Network probably Buhler sometime after the first of the year, said Jill Buhler, president of the hospital commission. More work would need to be done to mesh the systems of the 25-bed Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend and the giant Seattle medical complex, Buhler said Monday. “We want to do it right so that when the day comes, it will be seamless and our patients will have the benefit of everything from Day One,” Buhler said. The day will be marked with a celebration, she added. “We want to have a rollout for the community to welcome Swedish and have an open house,” Buhler said Monday. She said that one of the key benefits for Jefferson Healthcare would be access to Swedish Medical Center’s best practices procedures. Turn
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Remap plan puts port commissioner out of his district By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — A new redistricting plan would move Port of Port Townsend Commissioner Dave Thompson out of his district. All three alternatives of the plan would move Thompson, who lives on Jacob Miller Road, from District 2 into District 1. “With this plan, I will no longer live in the district I now represent,” Thompson said. The three Jefferson County commissioner districts — which also are used for the port and can be used for the Jefferson County Public Utility District — will be redrawn slightly to accommodate new census numbers and equalize the population in the districts. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Jefferson County’s population increased 15.1 percent from 2000 to 2010, from 25,953 to 29,872. None of the proposed plans for changing boundaries of the districts would affect representation for the county board or the PUD commission.
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