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Port Angeles-Sequim-West End
June 15-16, 2012
YOUR FRIDAY/SATURDAY WEEKEND PLANNER OUTDOORS:
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Some sun today, then some rain
Port Angeles’ 150th fete starts
Where to go for shellfishing
Lively music at Fort Worden
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‘This place is pure adventure’
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Executive Director Jake Seniuk will lead his final Art Ranger tour this Saturday.
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Carlsborg refinding its future
n this part of the world, the spring-into-summer time intoxicates. The emerald forest canopy blossoms looking luscious as fruit — they beckon to passers-by all over the North Olympic Peninsula. And a most enchantALSO . . . ing place in Port Ange■23-year les, to lovers of art and arts center nature, is the deep green director refuge known as Webster Seniuk Woods. reflects/A7 This is the 5-acre art park outside the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, a place flowering now with new growth and fresh art. The 13th season of Art Outside — the display of mixed-media creations integrated into the woods — opens Saturday with a public party with the artists from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. and an Art Ranger tour at 2 p.m. with Jake Seniuk, the center’s executive director. The tour is a revelation: of the forest, the meadow, 100 pieces from past Art Outside seasons and, thanks to the recent work of 18 artists, the new crop.
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Building permit applications resume BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CARLSBORG — Now that Carlsborg is back in the good graces of the state Growth Management Act, Clallam County officials are zeroed in on building the long-awaited sewer and water reuse project for the unincorporated community west of Sequim. A state Growth Management Hearings Board on June 4 dismissed its 2008 finding of noncompliance and invalidity for the Carlsborg urban growth area that prevented business from expanding. Clallam County’s interim zoning controls, which restricted new development during the appeals process, automatically expired in 10 days.
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‘It’s all over’ “It’s all over,� Commissioner Mike Chapman said in a joint meeting with Clallam County Public Utility District officials Tuesday. “The order of invalidity has been lifted. The 10 days have passed. The way the ordinance was written, someone can walk in today and start their permit application.� The county still plans to build a $15.6 million Class A wastewater treatment and water reuse system for the hamlet of 867 residents on the west side of the Dungeness River. TURN
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Shelton artist — and avowed tree-hugger — Barbara De Pirro finished her artwork, “Roots and Vines,� this week in Webster Woods. She’s one of 18 artists whose work opens the season in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s art park Saturday.
It’s an exploration of art and nature together — and it is Seniuk’s swan song, as he’s retiring July 1 after 23 years. This week, he looked inside the center’s guestbook, where a May entry reflects the effect these woods can have. “This place,� Cindy White of Port Angeles wrote, “is pure adventure.� June, with its Art Outside activity, is Seniuk’s favorite time of year. He hails his last season opener with his usual enthusiasm, marveling at the park’s lushness. One creation newly nestled among the trees is “The Circle Completed,� a kind of three-dimensional architectural drawing made of wood. Vashon Island artist Matthew Olds’ sculpture looks unfinished, like the bones of a stage, Seniuk said. TURN
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Civic center on paper needs voters’ OK to make it reality BY JEFF CHEW PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Sequim City Engineer David Garlington points out the features of one of three building schemes proposed for a Sequim Civic Center on West Cedar Street.
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SEQUIM — Now that the city has basic design options on paper, Sequim events planner Pat Johansen has volunteered to coordinate a campaign to generate voter support for a sales tax to finance construction of a new police station. “I have a number of people who have stepped up or said they would be willing to help,� Johansen said, adding that she hopes to have a campaign committee of eight to 10 Sequim volunteers by next week to help her inform the
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community about Proposition 1 on the Aug. 7 ballot. “I hope to put together a speakers group that would include some of the� City Council members, she said. Those speakers, Johansen said, would approach civic groups and organizations to give them the facts about the proposal.
to a $10 purchase. Sequim now has the highest sales tax rate in Clallam County at 8.6 percent. The August measure, if approved by voters, would raise it to 8.7 percent. Clallam County sales taxes everywhere except Sequim are now at a rate of 8.4 percent. Jefferson County now has the highest sales tax rate on the North Details of proposal Olympic Peninsula at 9 percent. The new Sequim tax would genIf approved by voters, Proposi- erate about $240,000 per year to tion 1 would raise sales tax col- pay for the construction of the new lected within the city by one-tenth police station, city officials said. of 1 percent. The increase would add 1 cent TURN TO SEQUIM/A6
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