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Alleged killer stabs sex offender in jail BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Sequim man accused of double murder, who allegedly told police he was targeting sex offenders, was placed in a segregated cell last week in the Clallam County jail after he stabbed a man serving time for failing to register as a sex offender, said jail Superintendent
Ron Sukert. Patrick Drum, 34, stabbed Joseph W. Recoy, 19, of Port Angeles with the sharpened handle of a plastic utensil, Drum Sukert said last week. Recoy received minor puncture wounds from the combina-
tion fork-spoon allegedly wielded by Drum and was not hospitalized, Sukert said. Drum is awaiting an Aug. 6 trial on two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of Jerry W. Ray, 56, of Port Angeles and Gary L. Blanton Jr., 28, of Sequim, Drum’s housemate. The bodies of Ray and Blanton were found inside their
homes June 3, the same day Drum was arrested. Drum told authorities he shot Blanton and Ray multiple times “because they were sex offenders� and that he was planning to drive to Quilcene to kill another convicted sex offender. The fight in which Recoy was hurt occurred Monday morning in the recreation area in the
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presence of jail staff, Sukert said. Another prisoner discovered Recoy’s offense and pointed him out to Drum, Sukert said. “[Drum] had help in figuring out what this kid was about and chose to attack him,� Sukert said. “Staff were immediately able to intervene and stop the attack.� TURN
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CARLSBORG — Residents such as Scott Frederick and Jim White are among those who are highly skeptical of Clallam County’s plans to find financing to construct a multimillion-dollar sewage-treatment plant in Carlsborg. “We don’t want the sewer system because we know we can’t afford it,� said Frederick, a resident for five years on Smithfield Drive, part of Carlsborg’s designated urban growth area. His neighbor, Jim White, a retiree living on Bennetts Place, agreed. “Nobody asked if the citizens wanted anything,� White said, adding that he would prefer an improvement district that left the industrial park business owners, not the residents, paying for a new sewer system. The county plans to build a Class A wastewater-treatment and water-reuse system for the unincorporated community of roughly 900 residents west of the Dungeness River. North on Carlsborg Road,
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Ken Osborne, co-owner of Red Carpet Car Wash on U.S. Highway 101 in Carlsborg, says a sewer system would allow his business to expand. Red Carpet is now on a septic system. Gabby’s drive-through restaurant owner Brian Magner, who has lived in Carlsborg much of his life, clinched his fists while his face turned red when he described his frustration over the sewer proposal — the cost to residents that no Clallam County official has yet specified.
“The residents have already spoken,� Magner said, recommending against an urban growth area for the rural village west of Sequim. “There are alternatives,� Magner said, advocating a cluster system that would allow sewage treatment onsite at the industrial park to the east of
northeast of his home and business. Residents should be kept out of what will mostly benefit industries and their future growth, which Magner firmly believes will ultimately destroy Carlsborg’s rural character forever. TURN
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Fireworks start seasonal pop Already legal in unincorporated areas BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Firework stands have been popping up all over Clallam County in the past week. By Saturday, fireworks violations already were showing up on police dispatch logs in Port Angeles and Sequim. The statewide legal fireworks season opened Thursday, when fireworks stands opened for business, and setting off fireworks has been legal since then throughout the county except within the Port Angeles city limit. Legal fireworks are known as “consumer fireworks� said Chief Criminal Deputy Ron Cameron of the Clallam County KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Sheriff’s Office, and do not include fireHannah Watson, 9, and her brother, Colby Watson, 4, prepare price labels crackers, bottle rockets or sky rockets. at their family’s Olympus Fireworks tent at First and Washington streets TURN TO FIREWORKS/A6 in Port Angeles last week.
Water rule flap floods Ecology Agency officials hear from dozens in Sequim BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — State officials got an earful last week from citizens vehemently opposed to a proposed water management rule for the Dungeness Valley. More than 200 attended Thursday night’s state Department of Ecology open house, presentation and public hearing on a rule that would set minimum in-stream flows for the Dungeness River and its neighboring streams. If approved, the rule would create a water exchange and require the owner of a new well to “mitigate� the use of water by buying credits. Existing wells and water rights would be unaffected by the rule, Ecology officials said. The state-initiated rule applies to the eastern half of Water Resource Inventory Area 18, from Bagley Creek on the west to Sequim Bay on the east. “Ecology has proposed a solution in desperate search of a problem,� said Dick Pilling, Realtor and Clallam County Republican Party chairman. He was one of several dozen who spoke against the rule in a 90-minute questionand-answer session and two-hour public hearing. TURN
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