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Best of the best ALL O OF THIS month’s North Olympic Peninsula high school graduates who received scholarships and awards for their achievements are pictured in a 28-page tribute section appearing today as a special magazine supplement. In addition to the hundreds of photos and award profiles, Students of Distinction: Class of 2013 also lists the names of graduates in the keepsake magazine in this edition.
Budget deal means state ‘will continue to operate’ BY MIKE BAKER AND RACHEL LA CORTE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers reached a long-sought accord on a new state budget Thursday and hurried to schedule votes that would avert a widespread state government shutdown. At a news conference flanked by lawmakers from both parties, Gov. Jay Inslee said the Legislature hoped to approve the measure before state
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employees leave work today. Political leaders declined to discuss details of the plan or to make the $33.6 billion spending proposal available for public review, as it was still being drafted Thursday afternoon. “The deal reached today makes it clear that state gov-
ernment will continue to operate,” Inslee said. Democratic Rep. Ross Hunter, the top negotiator in the House, said he and Republican Sen. Andy Hill finalized the new spending plan Thursday morning and shook hands on an agreement. Budget negotiators said they were confident the measure would swiftly make it through the Legislature, though Hunter indicated lawmakers simulta-
neously were discussing a variety of peripheral issues. “It’s a delicate agreement,” he said.
$1 billion more for schools Hill said the final plan puts an added $1 billion toward the education system in response to a state Supreme Court ruling that said lawmakers weren’t adequately funding schools. TURN
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Olympic National Park’s Diamond Jubilee 75th birthday celebration is ‘the new 40’ BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The North Olympic Peninsula’s national park is celebrating its diamond anniversary this weekend. And ONLINE . . . those who oversee ■ Video scenes Olympic of Olympic National National Park Park agree at peninsula that it dailynews.com looks pretty good for its age. “Seventy-five is the new 40,” National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis said Wednesday from his office in Washington, D.C. “We look forward to her next 75” years, he said. As the park, signed into existence June 29, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, steps into its next 75 years, Jarvis and Park Superintendent Sarah Creachbaum agreed that two of the biggest challenges it faces is climate change and keeping the national park relevant for
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Visitors park at the La Poel Forest Camp near Lake Crescent in the mid-1930s. The campground now is a day-use area. For a timeline of key events, see Page A6. younger generations. Creachbaum said she is undaunted. “I think what this last 75 years has shown us is that, as an agency and as a country, we are up to this challenge,” she said Thursday. “We’ll go forward and continue to protect our parks, and our visitors will continue to come and be inspired.” Global climate change has
the potential to have drastic, far-reaching effects on many of the country’s national parks, especially those that include glaciers within its boundaries and those whose borders include ocean coastal areas, Jarvis said.
A changing climate What this means for the 922,650-acre park depends on how the maritime environ-
ment is affected, Jarvis said, and how the wildlife that calls the park home, such as the weasel-like fisher and the Roosevelt elk, will react to a changing climate. “[The challenge is] how we adapt to that, how we mitigate, how we manage for [the impacts] and how we communicate with the public on that,” Jarvis said. TURN
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Kit Cramer of Winthrop pets a mule this week at the park’s Whiskey Bend Road corral.
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OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Entrance fees will be waived Saturday and a special breakfast and picnic offered to the public to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the national park that dominates the North Olympic Peninsula. TURN
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‘Center of information’ blossoms Native plant arboretum opens in H.J. Carroll Park in Chimacum BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — A 1-acre portion of a popular county park has been converted to an arboretum that showcases native plants as a way for visitors to gain a scientific perspective about area vegetation. “This is a center of information about native plants,” said Linda Landkammer, the garden’s designer and project coordinator.
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“It is a place where you can see all the plants in the flesh, so to speak, and learn about them at the same time.” A grand opening is planned from 5 this afternoon to 8 tonight. A plant sale, music, food carts and a raffle are planned. The space, which is located inside H.J. Carroll Park at 9884 state Highway 19, just north of the Chimacum crossroads, has been christened the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Demonstration Garden.
It is named in honor of the lastknown chief of the Chimakum tribe who, in the 1850s, lived not far from the present gardens and used the native plants for food, clothing and medicine.
Display of hundreds of plants The park includes 900 feet of pathways that lead through displays of 240 species of plants that are labeled and cross-referenced. TURN
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Linda Landkammer prepares the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Demonstration Garden in H.J. Carroll Park for its opening today.
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