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Peninsula Spotlight
Why do we allow our pets to sleep with us in bed? Could it be . . . unconditional love?
Masters of the bedroom By Bob Morris
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very night for the past year, Kathy Ruttenberg has been taking a bath, putting on pajamas, turning on CNN and getting into bed with a little pig named Trixie. “She’s a great cuddler if you lie still,” said Ruttenberg, a 53-year-old artist who lives near Woodstock, N.Y. “But if you’re restless, she gets annoyed, and her hooves are very sharp.” Ruttenberg has the black-and-blue marks to show for it. Still, of all the animals she has in her bed (there are also two kittens and three terriers, to be precise), Trixie, a 16-pound Vietnamese potbellied pig, is her favorite because of the way she spoons. “I have an Angora rabbit, too,” Ruttenberg said. “But he’s on the floor running around because
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the other animals don’t allow him up. We have a hierarchy in our bedroom.” Ruttenberg’s habit of sleeping with pets mirrors that of Paris Hilton, who has slept with a pig — of the four-legged variety — and was once bitten at her home at 3 a.m. by a kinkajou, a tiny raccoon-related creature. Keeping that sort of menagerie may be unusual, but the habit of allowing animals in bed is not. Figures vary, but according to a recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 14 percent to 62 percent of the 165 million dogs and cats in this country sleep in bed with humans, with other surveys skewing higher.
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Patricia Garcia-Gomez and her Rhodesian ridgeback, Turn to Pets/A5 Sylvie, in her bedroom in New York City.
PA police interns hail from near and far
Police, two other departments OK’d for Facebook pages By Tom Callis
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Facebook users will soon be able to “fan” three city of Port Angeles departments. After the City Council adopted a social media policy this week, the Police Department, Economic and Community Development Department and Recreation Division have been given the go-ahead to start their own Facebook pages to better communicate with Port Angeles’ Internet-savvy residents. Deputy Chief Brian Smith, who is setting up the page for the Police Department, said he should have it launched next week. The police will use the page to post alerts and news releases, he said. No comments will be allowed. “We don’t have time to maintain postings,” Smith said. “What I want them [Facebook users] to do is be able to find us,” he added.
Major projects The Economic and Community Development Department will use a page to post information about major projects, such as the waterfront development plan, said assistant planner Roberta Korcz. Korcz said it hasn’t been determined when that page will be launched or whether comments will be allowed. “We haven’t developed a plan of action yet in our department,” she said. Richard Bonine, recreation services manager, said it’s also unknown when his division’s page will be made. City Manager Kent Myers told the City Council that the city may expand its Facebook presence after six months. Port Angeles is not the first public agency on the North Olympic Peninsula to embrace social media. There are Facebook “fan” pages for Clallam County, the Clallam County Courthouse, Clallam County parks, the Clallam County Public Utility District, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office and the Clallam County Auditor’s Office.
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Port Angeles Police Department interns Matt Wolff and Claudia Schulz pause while at the Clallam County Courthouse on Thursday.
Learning from the ground up Students from PA, Germany given behind-scenes experience By Paige Dickerson
began his internship in September. Schulz contacted Deputy Chief Brian Smith last year asking about internships, PORT ANGELES — Two interns at which she needed to fulfill an internathe Port Angeles Police Department this tional internship required by her univeryear hail from home and abroad. sity’s public administration department. Last week, Claudia Schulz, 23, who Wolff, meanwhile, applied last year as comes from Germany, began familiarizing a way to get his foot in the door to his herself with the department to prepare preferred profession in police work. for projects during her three-month The program has benefits for both the internship. students and the department, said Smith. Matt Wolff, 28, a 2001 graduate of “They, of course, are the top priority — Port Angeles High School and current helping them reach their goals, learn for student in the Bachelor of Business Man- their profession and ultimately, we’ll become references for jobs,” he said. agement program at Peninsula College, Peninsula Daily News
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“But for us, it is also helpful — they get to work that we aren’t able to and can really be a benefit to the department.” Schulz will work on the Police Department’s website to see what is most userfriendly, determining what kinds of documents could be uploaded and helping the department make its Facebook debut, she said. (See story at left.) Wolff has been working with the detectives division and as one of his required projects completed the Police Department’s annual report, Smith said. Turn
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