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Child abduction: Close call reported in PT BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Police are looking for a man who reportedly approached a sixth-grader on his way to school, offered him candy, told him to come to him and scared the boy. Child abductions haven’t “happened around here, but it could,” said the boy’s mother.
“We are sleeping, and we need to wake up.” Port Townsend Police Deputy Chief Mike Evans said that since the Wednesday incident, the department has been seeking a man with a white goatee and missing front teeth who drives a white rusty panel van without windows. Police want to question him about what might have been a child-abduction attempt.
Evans said he and Police Chief Conner Daily drove through several neighborhoods Friday searching for a van with that description but with no results. Ashton Hoye, 11, was riding his bike from his home through the woods to Blue Heron Middle School, 3939 San Juan Ave., on Wednesday morning, according to his mother and police.
When he emerged from the path onto the area around Haines and 35th streets, a man was blocking the path. According to an account supplied by Ashton’s mother, Shannon Callahan, the man asked Ashton whether he wanted some candy. The boy replied, “No, thank you,” and the man asked, “Are you sure?” The man then told Ashton to
“come here,” and the boy rode away, Callahan said. When he arrived at school at about 8:30 a.m., he reported the encounter to counselor Pam Rogge, who calmed him before calling police at about 9:40 a.m., according to Diane Lashinsky, school principal. “He did exactly what he was supposed to do in this situation,” Lashinsky said. TURN
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Counties may take money hit Nutrition program in crosshairs of impasse BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Racing Bird, from Portland, Ore., speeds down the ramp at the Northwest Maritime Center into Port Townsend Bay on Saturday as part of the floatation test for the Kinetic Skulpture Race in Port Townsend. Story, more photos on Page C1
Sanctuary draws global criticism Forks operator says he saves condemned dogs
PORT TOWNSEND — A prolonged shutdown of the federal government would hit Clallam and Jefferson counties’ Health and Human Services Department the hardest, officials said. In particular, the conALSO . . . gressional impasse that ■ Accord began Monday threatens on back-pay the Women, Infants and bill fails to Children’s nutrition proclose D.C. gram, known as WIC. chasm/A3 County health departments distribute the fed■ Kilmer eral funds to low-income gets earful mothers, pregnant women, at telephone babies and young children town-hall within their jurisdictions. session/A8 “It’s a huge deal,” Clallam County Administrator Jim Jones said. WIC provides close to a $1 million per year in benefits to Clallam County families. Jefferson County Public Health serves 840 families on WIC. “It’s quite a few dollars a month in groceries,” department Director Jean Baldwin said.
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FORKS –– Four knocks on the door jamb from Steve Markwell’s big right hand quiets the barking dogs inside the pink warehouse that houses his Olympic Animal Sanctuary. Inside the door is 125 dogs, many of which have been condemned to death. “We save dogs you’d rather see dead” is the motto of the sanctuary. Criticism over the condition in which those dogs are being kept has fallen hard on Markwell over the past year. A petition has been circulated to city, county and state officials demanding the sanctuary’s closure. A Facebook page contains pictures reportedly from the sanctuary along with thousands of comments calling its closure at 1021 Russell Road, in the Forks city limit.
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Steve Markwell interacts with dogs at his Olympic Animal Sanctuary in TURN TO SANCTUARY/A6 Forks during a recent visit by the Peninsula Daily News.
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Federal funding for WIC was set to expire Wednesday. Clallam County Health and Human Services Director Iva Burks said the funding has been temporarily extended “while they work things out in Washington, D.C.” “The state is reallocating funds and is planning on carrying it for a week,” Baldwin said. “At the end of a week, the feds are saying that they will reallocate funding to carry it until the end of October.” If the government shutdown lasts into November, however, the program will shut down, Baldwin said. “The actual other cuts in terms of [U.S.] Fish and Wildlife and federal EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], all of those are just slow-downs and kind of messes we’re trying to figure out — who we call and how we interact with them,” Baldwin added.
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