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Deputy prosecutor from Jefferson picked BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A deputy prosecuting attorney from Jefferson County has been named to represent Clallam County Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis in her $1.3 million Opportunity Fund dispute with county commissioners and other county officials. Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols last week appointed Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney David Alvarez of Jefferson County to represent Barkhuis in matters regarding the disagreement. “Because my office is involved in advising the treasurer and the com- Barkhuis missioners, and because there is a clear disagreement, I felt it would be a service offered to the treasurer to provide this representation,” Nichols said.
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Darica Bertelson, 5, of Joyce is elated as a float created by Joyce Bible Church passes by during the 33rd annual Joyce Daze and Wild Blackberry Festival grand parade on Saturday. The berry festival also featured food, crafts, entertainment and, of course, blackberry pie. Related photo, Page A7
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Clallam seeks review of its timber management roots ance of county PENINSULA DAILY NEWS trust lands. PORT ANGELES — It’s If a time for Clallam County to transfer is take a good, hard look at how not recomits forests are being managed, mended, county commissioners say. the commitThe three-member board tee will plans to grant a request from help the the Charter Review Commisstate fulfill Kitchel sion to form a trust lands advi- its obligasory committee to study the tion to the county and its taxforces that influence timber ing districts. harvests and the possibility of Commissioners will discuss reconveyance from state man- the formation of the advisory agement back to the county. committee Aug. 10. “We’re going to be putting Clallam County and its our foot on the accelerator in junior taxing districts are losgetting the committee estabing millions of dollars a year in lished in the proper way and unharvested timber that the get them underway so that state Department of Natural they can do their work,” said Resources planned to sell, forboard Chairman Jim McEnmer County Commissioner tire, who also serves on the Phil Kitchel told the current state Board of Natural board Tuesday. Resources. Kitchel, who served from The Charter Review Com1995 to 1998 and has worked mission voted 10-4 on July 6 to closely with the timber indussend a letter to county commis- try, used a Treasurer’s Office sioners asking them to form a report to show precipitous committee within three declines in revenue from timmonths to examine the “hisber sales. tory, issues, benefits, challenges TURN TO TIMBER/A7 and advantages” of reconveyBY ROB OLLIKAINEN
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Livestock owner pleads not guilty in cruelty case BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Sequim man has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. John Dashti, 61, was charged with two counts of animal cruelty in the second degree when he appeared in Clallam County District Court on Friday. The Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed the misdemeanor animal cruelty charges against Dashti on July 13. Animal cruelty in the second degree is knowingly, recklessly or with criminal negligence inflicting unnecessary suffering or pain upon an animal under circumCHRIS MCDANIEL/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS stances not amounting to firstdegree animal cruelty, according to John Dashti, right, speaks to his court-appointed attorney, state statutes. Charlie Commeree, on Friday.
Public defender Charlie Commeree, a Clallam Public Defender attorney appointed by the court to represent Dashti, entered a not-guilty plea on his client’s behalf. Dashti was released on $250 bond, which he must pay in cash to the court by 10 a.m. Aug. 7 to avoid a warrant being issued for his arrest. If Dashti pays the bond on time, his next court date is scheduled for
Sept. 8 at 1:30 p.m. The charges allege Dashti failed to provide necessary medical care to two donkeys in his possession, according to a criminal complaint. Conviction of each misdemeanor could result in a fine of up to $5,000 and up to 364 days in jail, according to the complaint. The Sheriff’s Office had investigated allegations of animal abuse at Dashti’s property southwest of
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