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Backers not giving up on Redskins for PTHS School Board sets meeting to launch new mascot search BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Sen. Jim Hargrove, whose 24th District includes the North Olympic Peninsula, speaks on the Senate floor June 28 as the top budgetwriter for Senate Democrats.
Hargrove: Roughest session
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Rebecca Logue, far left, collects signatures from Linda Lingfelter and Dick Lingfelter, from left, outside a Water Street pharmacy while Arina Gooch gets the support of Anita Lockhart to retain the Redskins team name at Port Townsend High School.
Senator, other state lawmakers recall their frustrations PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
For the vast majority of this year’s regular legislative session and the entirety of the two 30-day special sessions that followed, Hargrove worked with both Democratic and Republican lead budget writers from both chambers to develop priorities for the state’s 2013-2015 biennium budget. Hargrove said challenges were present from the very beginning, with budget negotiators contending with an initial $900 million budget shortfall and a state Supreme Court mandate to increase state education funding by $1 billion. As the months rolled on, Hargrove said negotiators drilled through the budget line by line, pulling out and discussing portions that should either be kept or tossed away. “It was pretty much everyone wanting to stick to their position until the last possible minute and wait for the other people to give,” Hargrove said. TURN
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Eye on Olympia
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BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ OLYMPIA — Although the North Olympic Peninsula’s elected voices under the state Capitol dome described this year’s legislative session as onerous and frustrating, all three legislators counted some successes of their own for 2013. But it wasn’t easy. “This was the most difficult session I’ve been through,” said state Sen. Jim Hargrove, a Hoquiam Part 1 Democrat and 28-year veteran of the Legislature. “I was just buried in the budget process.” Hargrove, along with state Reps. Steve Tharinger and Kevin Van De Wege, both Sequim Democrats, serve the 24th Legislative District, which comprises Clallam and Jefferson counties and a portion of Grays Harbor County.
PORT TOWNSEND — Two weeks after voting to retire the Redskins team name at Port Townsend High School, the School Board will begin to discuss the process of selecting a new mascot. In the meantime, those who favor retaining the name haven’t given up. The School Board meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Monday at the Gael Stuart Building, 1610 Blaine St. Board member Anne Burkart said the specifics of the plan for selecting a new mascot have not been discussed but will emerge during meetings over the summer. “I expect the board, the superintendent and the high school administration will come up with some kind of process in meetings over the summer, but I don’t think we will take any action until after school starts in the fall,” Burkart said.
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Jason Gorss of Port Angeles is organizing a benefit concert with his metal band Dying To Bleed to help defray medical expenses incurred with the unexpected death of former bandmate Robert “BJ” Annette, pictured.
PORT ANGELES — When Dying to Bleed takes the stage for one last time July 20, the Port Angeles-based death metal band will shred in honor of late frontman Robert “BJ” Annette, whose untimely death led to life for a friend. Annette, a well-known vocalist, concert promoter and children’s advocate, died in April after suffering a heart attack at his Spanaway home. He was 40. Annette was an organ donor, and one of his kidneys went to his friend Randy Kastner, a fellow New York Death Militia music club regional president from Watertown, Wis. TURN
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Homicide charge linked to heroin PA man accused of providing deadly dose to teen, faces 10-year sentence BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — An 18-year-old Port Angeles man has been charged with controlled substance homicide. The Clallam County Prosecutor’s Office charged David Zavodny, 18, on Friday with one count of controlled substance OLYMPIA/A6 homicide after he allegedly pro-
vided 17-year-old Maceo Niehaus with a dose of heroin and Niehaus died. Ann Lundwall, the Clallam County deputy prosecuting attorney assigned to the Zavodny case, has said in past court hearings that she was waiting for the toxicology results from Maceo’s autopsy to
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decide whether she would charge Zavodny with controlled substance homicide. She could not be reached for comment Friday. The homicide charge carries a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and a maximum fine of $20,000. Zavodny remained in the Clallam County jail Friday in lieu of $250,000 bond. Zavodny will next appear in Clallam County Superior Court
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for a July 19 status hearing. The new charge joins one count of maintaining premises for drug trafficking tied to Zavodny’s allegedly giving Maceo heroin May 14 at a home on Ennis Street where Zavodny was staying. Nearly two months after Port Angeles police and medics found Maceo dead in the Ennis Street home, his grandmother, Ricki Niehaus, still describes his death as “like a train wreck.” TURN
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