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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS August 5, 2015 | 75¢
Port Angeles-Sequim-West End
SARC park district measure is defeated
Election results Tuesday night results from contested elections in the primary:
Clallam County County Commissioner, District 1 Bryan D. Frazier (D) 842 12.87% Mark Ozias (D) 2,472 37.78% Jim McEntire (R) 3,229 49.35%
Port of Port Angeles, Commissioner, District No. 3 Rick “Doc” Robinson 374 Connie Beauvais 615 Michael Breidenbach 461 Lee Whetham 430
19.89% 32.71% 24.52% 22.87%
City of Port Angeles, Council Position No. 5 Michael Merideth Marolee Smith Shan Pak
822 618 322
46.65% 35.07% 18.27%
Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center (SARC) Proposition 1 (create metropolitan park district) For Against
3,198 40.26% 4,745 59.74%
SARC metropolitan park district commissioner (provisional) Position No. 1 Warren Pierce Eckart Mildenstein
2,827 62.02% 1,734 37.98%
Position No. 2 Ken Stringer 2,749 70.02% Bill Wrobel* 1,177 29.98% *withdrew candidacy
Position No. 3 Gayle Baker Paul Gruver Dick Neal Virginia O’Neil
908 619 712 2,620
18.69% 12.74% 14.65% 53.92%
Position No. 4 Rich Bemm 2,349 50.71% Fritz Gruetzmacher 716 15.46% Susan Sparks Smith 1,567 33.83%
Position No. 5
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Citizens for SARC spokeswoman Virginia O’Neil, left, and chairwoman Susan Sorensen look over election results Tuesday at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles. BELOW: Port of Port Angeles commissioner District 3 candidate Connie Beauvais, left, looks at results with campaign supporters Laurel Black and Clallam County Commissioner Bill Peach at the Clallam County Courthouse.
Clallam/Jefferson Sequim School District, Director, District No. 1
McEntire, Ozias headed for fall commissioner race PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center metropolitan park district measure failed by more than 19 percent in early returns in Tuesday’s primary election. The primary election also pared down candidates in races with more than two hopefuls to the top two voter-getters who will face each other Nov. 3. Incumbent Jim McEntire and Mark Ozias are headed for a November face-off for the Clallam
County commission seat representing the east side after early returns gave both big leads over Brian Frazier. Connie Beauvais and Michael Breidenbach are the top choices as votes were counted on Election Night to go head-to-head to represent the West End on the Port of Port Angeles commission. Michael Merideth and Marolee Smith appear to be the competitors for the seat now held by Mayor Dan Di Guilio on the Port Angeles City Council. Heather Short and William
2,987 60.04% 1,988 39.96%
Heather Jeffers Robin Henrikson Rebecca Bratsman* Willard Naslund* *withdrew candidacy
1,808 1,777 653 802
35.87% 35.26% 12.96% 15.91%
Director at large Heather Short William Payne Charles Meyer
3,520 56.87% 1,532 24.75% 1,138 18.38%
Fire District No. 3 (Sequim area, Gardiner) Commissioner No. 1 Sean Ryan Alan W. Slind G. Michael Gawley
2,580 40.71% 967 15.26% 2,791 44.04%
Jefferson County City of Port Townsend, Council Member Position No. 6
Payne were the top-voters in ers will choose between for the Tuesday’s returns for Position 5 Clallam County Fire District 3, on the Sequim School Board. commissioner 1 seat. Michael Gawley and Sean TURN TO BALLOTS/A4 Ryan are the two candidates vot-
Paul S. Rice Amy Smith Todd Wexman
514 23.45% 1,241 56.61% 437 19.94%
Fall ballot for school bond Police eye report Sequim measure set for November BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — Voters will decide during the Nov. 3 general election whether to approve a $49.3 million bond to fund construction work throughout the Sequim School District. On Monday evening, the School Board approved 4-0 a resolution placing the measure on the
ballot instead of scheduling at a future meeting a special election for Feb. 9, 2016. The four board members present voted yes on the resolution; John Bridge was out of town. If the measure garners a 60 percent supermajority — the amount needed for passage — the bond money would go toward building a new elementary school,
renovating and expanding four existing facilities, and demolishing a fifth one. Two previous attempts to pass a construction bond failed. Voters defeated a $154 million measure by a 56-44 percent margin in April 2014. A $49.2 million bond last February received 6,691 yes votes to 5,026 no votes — 57.11 percent to 42.89 percent — but fell short of the required 60 percent supermajority. TURN
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Police Chief Bill Dickinson told the Peninsula Daily News. “Everything doesn’t line up real well, so we’re investigating it pretty critically to try to figure out what the real story is here.” He declined to say how old the boy was, describing him only as a juvenile.
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