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46 flu cases crop up in area
Seahawks rise in rap
Officials expect more to come BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Rodney Just, a grocery worker who moonlights as a hip-hop performer, has produced a rap-based tribute to the Seattle Seahawks.g
PT man’s lyrics honor team The two-minute 23-second approached Queensryche slow groove is not a fight song guitarist Parker Lundgren, and would not be appropriate who also hails from Port stadium music fare, and there Townsend. are no plans by the team for its Lundgren in turn conuse, said Just, a grocery team tacted Pemberton who then leader at the Food Co-op. recruited local musician/pro“I sent it to a few radio staducer Pete Lack to create the BY CHARLIE BERMANT tions, but it’s not really going beat-heavy “We Are the MarPENINSULA DAILY NEWS anywhere at this point,” said iners,” which will be played Pemberton Just, 33. as background for in-staPORT TOWNSEND — A North “But I put it on my website dium highlight reels during Olympic Peninsula man has recorded a so people could hear it.” the 2014 season, Pemberton said Frirap song commemorating the Seattle Just is the second Port Townsend day. Seahawks. resident to write and record a tribute The song was previewed at a Dec. 20 Unlike fellow Port Townsend musisong for a Seattle team. event in Port Townsend, which also feacian Brett Pemberton’s “We Are the tured a performance by Just. Mariners,” Rodney Just’s “12th Man Theme song After some final remixing, the song Stand” won’t be heard at CenturyLink will be delivered to Mariners’ manageField. Pemberton, who is both a musician ment by the end of January, Pemberton But it is available online at http:// and a model, became involved in creatsaid. tinyurl.com/PDN-Seahawks-Rap, where ing a Seattle Mariners’ theme song it is tentatively titled “Seahawks Song.” when the team’s management TURN TO RAP/A6
Just is 2nd resident to craft a tune for a Seattle sports team
PORT ANGELES — Health officials have confirmed 46 influenza cases, and figure many more exist, on the North Olympic Peninsula as flu season roars into full form. “We’re definitely in this rapid upswing in the flu outbreak,” Dr. Tom Locke, public health officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties, said Friday. “We’re in a stage where it’s going to get worse because it gets better.” The good news is this year’s vaccine matches cir- Locke culating strains, and there’s plenty to go around. Flu shots are available at pharmacies, doctors’ offices and other locations across the Peninsula. Locke said that there were 39 laboratoryconfirmed flu cases in Clallam County as of Friday — up from four cases the week prior.
H1N1 in positive samples All of those positive samples were H1N1 swine flu, which caused a pandemic in 2009. H1N1 tends to affect more young people than last year’s predominate H3N2 strain, Locke said. Jefferson County had seven lab-confirmed flu cases as of last check Monday, Locke said. Those tests did not distinguish between the strains. TURN
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Less time in Olympia Mobilisa to hire Lawmakers start 2014 session BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIA — North Olympic Peninsula legislators are looking forward to spending less time in Olympia than they did in 2013 as the 2014 session of the state Legislature opens today. The 24th Legislative District’s three voices in the state capitol are gearing up for a session they all hope will be considerably shorter than last year’s. “The atmosphere in Olympia is to go in there and get done and move on,” said House Majority Whip Kevin Van De Wege, a Democrat from Sequim. “We spent too much time in there last year.” The 2013 marathon had a
regular session from January to April and two special sessions that extended into June, called to pass a 2013-2015 biennium state budget. The 2014 session is slated to run from today to March 13.
‘Busy two months’ “It will be a busy two months and not a long four months,” said State Rep. Steve Tharinger, also a Sequim Democrat, who has been newly appointed this year to the House General Appropriations Committee. Sen. Jim Hargrove, the ranking Democrat on the budget-writing Senate Ways and Means Committee, expects work to begin in earnest quickly, with
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committees likely starting to hear bills this week. “I think everyone’s No. 1 priority is to be done on time, after last year spending six months over there,” said Hargrove, a Democrat from Hoquiam. The 24th Legislative District is composed of Clallam and Jefferson counties and a portion of Grays Harbor County. Tharinger said he expects to keep busy in the next week or so learning the ins and outs of the House General Appropriations Committee, the main budget writing committee for the House. TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — Intellicheck Mobilisa Inc. plans to hire 10 sales people after a public stock offering last week grossed about $4 million before fees are deducted. The Port Townsend-based company — which sells wireless technology and identity systems to government, military and commercial markets — offered 7,780,000 shares of its common stock to the public at $0.45 per share through
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