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June 3, 2012
TOWER of POWER Peninsula death leads to new rules Forest Service distances from Border Patrol PENINSULA DAILY NEWS NEWS SOURCES
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Lyle Hagen, Sequim Valley Ranch manager, stands in front of the ranch’s new 100-foot wind turbine, which will power farm maintenance facilties. It’s highly visible from Schmuck Road north of Washington Harbor.
Sequim-area ranch turns to wind for its electricity BY JEFF CHEW PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
wind-energy turbine — the first of its kind on the North Olympic Peninsula — was erected last week, towering 100 feet over its relatively small space on the sprawling Sequim Valley Ranch. “It will turn all the power out for the maintenance facility here,� ranch manager Lyle Hagen said Friday as West Seattle Natural Energy owner Keith Hughes put finishing touches on the computer control panel installation at the base of the tower topped by a rotor blade of about 20 feet long. Once the tower was erected using a large crane Thursday, it became a highly visible landmark from Schmuck Road and the grain and grass fields surrounding it north of Washington Harbor. The 700-acre ranch northeast of Sequim, which sits in the grazing path of Sequim’s elk herd, is at 184 Coulter Road. Hagen said the wind turbine is another step in “going green� at the ranch, which already is using biodiesel from used food oil it buys from Las Palomas Mexican Restaurant in Sequim, which makes for about 80 percent of the ranch’s fuel needs. He said there are plans to grow vegetables that produce oil for making biodiesel, such as Jerusalem artichokes and radishes, at the ranch that grows timber for buildings on the ranch, and crops including wheat, grass hay, lavender and iris bulbs.
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SEATTLE — A complaint from a Forks woman has changed the national policy of the U.S. Forest Service in its use of Border Patrol agents for translation services. A Latino woman from Forks who accompanied Benjamin Roldan Salinas of Forks on May 14, 2011, before his fatal flight from a Border Patrol agent has played a pivotal role in a federal decision on translation-assistance practices such as those that the U.S. Forest Service had requested from the Border Patrol before Roldan Salinas died. The woman’s complaint, filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on her behalf by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, led to a ruling by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that was made public Thursday, Matt Kemp, the organization’s legal
director, said Friday. The USDA, which oversees the Forest Service, said the Forest Service’s use of Border Patrol agents as language interpreters and for law enforcement in stops involving Latinos on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula is discriminatory. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights within the USDA has ordered the agency to establish a new national policy so non-English speakers can use national forests and parks without an “escalated risk of harm,� The Seattle Times reported.
Elements of new policy The Forest Service was ordered to institute civil rights training, develop a policy on data collection regarding traffic stops, report annually to the USDA civil rights office and provide bilingual staff and telephonic and radio interpretation services. Specifically in Forks, the Forest Service office within three months must publish a notice that affirms its commitment to civil rights and informs people how to file civil right complaints. TURN
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Local agencies seek to assuage Latino fears BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The new turbine tower becomes the Dungeness Valley’s tallest structure, eclipsing the landmark former grain elevator in central Sequim.
FORKS — North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement officials and Mayor Bryon Monohon sought to assuage the fears of members of the West End Latino community regarding interactions with the Border Patrol at a Friday night panel discussion and meeting of the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs. The officials told more than 80 people at the Forks Community Center that they rarely use the
Border Patrol for translation assistance during investigations and traffic stops. They spoke in response to more than an hour of public comments and questions posed at the meeting. “It’s very rare that the Sheriff’s Department uses any Border Patrol services,� said West Endbased Sgt. Brian King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. “We really, truly want to maintain that trust with the community,� King said. TURN
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Competition starts early at liquor outlets BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT HADLOCK — Kathryn DeBernardi was in the new liquor aisles at QFC at 4:30 a.m. Friday, writing down the prices of specific items and then returning to her own store to lower the prices on the same items there. DeBernardi, who has managed the Port Hadlock package store at 690 Ness’ Corner Road for the past two years, is one of the independent liquor store owners who arose with the passage of Initiative 1183 in November.
Supporters said the initiative, which was backed by Costco Wholesale Corp., was a free-market reform for an industry monopolized by the state since the end of Prohibition. It allows stores larger than 10,000 square feet to sell liquor. Staff at Costco, as well as Safeway, Walmart, Albertsons, QFC and Rite Aid stores in both Jefferson and Clallam counties, confirmed the Friday opening of liquor sales at their stores earlier last CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS week, while directing further Kathryn DeBernardi rings up the first sale at the Port Hadlock package store Friday inquiries to corporate offices.
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