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1 critical after diving mishap Man sent to Seattle after accident off Green Point BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEATTLE — A commercial geoduck diver from Bremerton was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon after a diving accident in the water off Green Point that morning. Sam Silverstein, 23, was taken by boat from the dive location to Ediz Hook in Port Angeles and
then transported by ambulance to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles before being airlifted to the Seattle hospital, said Detective Sgt. Lyman Moores with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. Silverstein was in the intensive care unit at Harborview, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said Tuesday. “[There’s] nothing suspicious at all,” Moores said.
“It was just a tragic accident.” Moores said Silverstein was diving for geoducks in about 60 feet of water with fellow diver Robert Mead, 44, at about 8:10 a.m. The two were working from a 40-foot commercial fishing vessel, Gold Rush, owned by Mead’s company, Further Diving Co. of Olympia, Moores said. The two divers were getting air through 300-foot hoses connected to a compressor on the boat. Moores said the boat’s two deckhands heard Silverstein KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS radio from below that he had a problem and was coming to the Rescue workers and Coast Guard personnel race to the Dawn Breaker, left, to assist the victim of a diving surface.
accident on Tuesday as the boat arrives at the boat ramp
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Officials’ raises OK’d in Sequim
College serves as home once more
Totem pole stands again
Council, manager to see increases BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — Starting in January 2016, City Council members will make more money than they do now. City Manager Steve Burkett also received a raise Monday night. His 3 percent raise is retroactive to March 1, while the council raises will go into effect only after the Burkett next elections for the seats. The council voted 6-1 Monday night to increase compensation for the elected seats. Councilman Erik Erichsen voted against the increase. “I do not feel that serving on the City Council or any other public office as an elected official should be compensated at all,” Erichsen said. “I think by and large, the reason we have career politicians is because of compensation.” The change raises council member pay from $150 to $250 a month, with the mayor pro tem’s wages rising from $200 to $330 and the mayor from $250 to $410.
BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — More than 300 tribal, city, county and educational dignitaries took part in a rededication of a totem pole at Peninsula College on Tuesday afternoon. The totem pole created by the late Brick Johnson of the Jamestown S’Klallam and given to the college was erected and dedicated in 1971 in front of the old Maier Hall on the Port Angeles campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. When the hall was torn down in 2011 to permit construction of a new Maier Performance Hall, the pole was removed to prevent damage to it.
Regains its place Terry Johnson, nephew of the artist, and other members of the Johnson family worked for three years to restore the pole before it once again took its place in front of Maier Hall. On Tuesday, the accomplishment was celebrated with singing, dancing and a banquet. “I’m glad for the college. I am glad for teaching. I am glad for technology. I see our youth, our children, grasp onto that and sprout forth with their lives,” said Ben Charles, who spoke as the spiritual leader of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe. Guests included former Peninsula College President Tom Keegan, current President Luke Robins and representatives of six Peninsula tribes — the Hoh, Quileute, Makah, Port Gamble
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Totem pole restorer Terry Johnson pulls the cover from a totem pole during Tuesday’s unveiling ceremony near the Maier Hall on the Port Angeles campus of Peninsula College. S’Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam and Lower Elwha Klallam. Greig Arnold of the Makah tribe led the hourlong ceremony for the unveiling of the pole in front of the Maier Performance Hall. The covering of the pole ini-
tially resisted the efforts of Terry Johnson, who attended the 1971 dedication when he was 10. Johnson had to cut the ropes holding a cloth that covered the pole, revealing the vibrantly painted totem pole. The pole features an eagle, a
whale, a medicine man, a wolf and representatives of the soul and spirit.
________ Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arwyn. rice@peninsuladailynews.com.
Special meeting money The $20 council members receive for attending up to four special meetings per month has been deleted. Council raises would not take effect until the next election for individual seats: 2016 for those now held by Mayor Candace Pratt and council members Ken Hays, Erichsen and Laura Dubois; and 2018 for the seat now held by Mayor Pro Tem Dennis Smith and council members Ted Miller and Genaveve Starr. TURN
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