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hopefuls differ on revamp Both want agency overhaul but show dissimilar styles BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Candidates for Jefferson County sheriff agree the department needs to be examined and its efficiency increased but disagree about the path, according to their remarks at a forum last week. Upon taking office, both Wendy Davis and Dave Stanko, who are vying for the office in the Nov. 4 general election, would conduct in-depth staff interviews to figure out how the department can be improved, they told more than 100 people at a Thursday night forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women. “My management style is to sit down and talk to everyone and determine the culture of the organization,” said Stanko, 66, a Cape George resident who retired as a lieutenant from the Fullerton Police Department in California. “I’ll decide what kind of changes are necessary based upon the input I get from the captains and the sergeants and the deputies, and get a bottom-up buy-in for the changes,” he continued.
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Olympic National Park biologist Heidi Hugunin, lower right, snorkels in the restored Elwha River just beyond the Glines Canyon Dam site. She and fellow biologist Anna Geffre confirmed that chinook rediscovered the river.
BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The sight of a chinook resting quietly by the bank of the Upper Elwha River was one that Mel Elofson had awaited for 56 years and worked toward for 20. It was the first sighting of a salmon above the Glines Canyon Dam site in 102 years. “It was awesome,” he said. The river’s once-legendary salmon runs had been blocked by construction of
the nation’s largest river restoration project. Elofson, assistant habitat manager ■ Rafting on the newly untamed with the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, saw Elwha River is an adventure/C1 the chinook, also known as king salmon, while he was conducting a juvenile fish the 108-foot Elwha Dam without fish lad- study for the tribe and for the National ders in 1912, blocking access to spawning Oceanic and Atmospheric Administragrounds. tion. The 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam also It was Sept. 2, a mere week after the was built without fish ladders in 1927. last 30 feet of the river’s last dam — Both of the dams, which once provided Glines Canyon — had been blasted out. electricity for a growing Port Angeles, So he was surprised by what he saw. were demolished in a $325 million project TURN TO SALMON/A7 that began in September 2011 as part of
PORT TOWNALSO . . . SEND — Jefferson ■ Eye on county commisJefferson: sioners are preparThe week ing to raise elected ahead/A7 officials’ salaries, while in neighboring Clallam County, a commissioner has broached cutting theirs. The three Jefferson County commissioners are expected to raise the pay for six elected officials when they meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St. The salary increases are on the consent agenda, meaning they may not be discussed before they are approved. TURN
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