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Peninsula Spotlight

Today’s bonus Two magazines devoted to your better health — Healthy Living, focusing on the North Olympic Peninsula lifestyle, and Spry, great lifestyle tips for older adults — are added attractions in this Friday-Saturday edition of the Peninsula Daily News. Look for them inside, along with Peninsula Spotlight entertainment magazine, a roundup of things to do this weekend starting on Page C1, fishing and other outdoors tips starting on Page B1 — plus other features found only in the PDN.

Second medical pot site opens in Clallam Marijuana for legally afflicted at co-operative By Jeff Chew

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SEQUIM — With legal authorization from a state health care professional and an average donation of $320, Scott Finch will privately and discretely deliver an ounce of marijuana to a client. Finch, a 27-year-old Sequim-area resident, has opened the nonprofit Rain Shadow Cannabis Co-Operative for business, the second medical marijuana dispensary in Clallam County and on the North Olympic Peninsula, law enforcement officers say. “The purpose of Rain Shadow Cannabis CoOperative is to bring together medical marijuana patients so that they may obtain medical marijuana and cannabis products,� he said, with the primary goal to “help to improve the condition of people with terminal and debilitating conditions.�

Drug officers arrest eight across county By Tom Callis

Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula’s drug law enforcement team has netted eight people alleged to have sold methamphetamine or prescription drugs as part of an ongoing operation. Forks police, working with other Clallam County officers, arrested two men Thursday alleged to have sold meth, prescription pills or both. That followed the arrest of five alleged meth dealers in Port Angeles on Tuesday and March 4. A man who allegedly sold Percocet was arrested in Port Angeles last Saturday. The arrests were part of an ongoing operation by the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team, said Port Angeles Detective Sgt. Eric Kovatch, who is also an OPNET investigator. OPNET consists of officers from each of the law enforcement agencies in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Turn

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Sequim native Scott Finch has opened the Dungeness Valley’s first medical marijuana dispensary, Rain Shadow Cannabis Co-Operative. Here, he pulls an Afghan Goo bud from the medicine jar.

Finch — who grew up in Sequim, graduated from Sequim High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Washington — admitted he was nervous when speaking to a Peninsula Daily News reporter earlier this week. He chose his words carefully, saying he fears he might look as if he is lobbying for medical marijuana, when he is not. Finch said all the medical marijuana he will provide is produced in-state by those who carry the legal authorization to do so. While Finch is a provider, he declined to say if he grows medical marijuana. He said he doesn’t charge a fee. Instead, as a nonprofit, he requests a donation. Turn

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‘Shy’ PA author pens debut love story Book released by prestigious N.Y. publisher By Diane Urbani

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PORT ANGELES — She’s “saving the world,� according to her website, “one love story at a time.� Wendy Lester of Port Angeles has just released Falling Under, her debut novel. Her publisher is the prestigious Penguin Group of New York City, so she’s now swept up in the promotional whirlwind that includes a website, a blog, worldwide online chatting and a Seattle book signing — all while she works her day job at Windemere Real Estate and cares for her two teenagers. Yet Lester, a 1988 graduate of Sequim High School, isn’t terribly into all of the attention a hot young-adult novel about love can bring an author. “She is shy,� said April Bellerud, owner of Odyssey Books in Port Angeles. Lester is also a book lover

Wendy Lester aka author Gwen Hayes who’s shopped at Odyssey for years — so it’s fitting that she’ll celebrate the arrival of Falling Under with a party there at 4 p.m. Saturday. Readers won’t see Lester’s name on the book, though: In keeping with her desire for a low profile, she uses the nom de plume Gwen Hayes. On www.GwenHayes.com, there’s much for teenage-romance fans to devour: tantalizing text, a link to the Fictionistas, which Hayes calls “the coolest YA [young adult] blog in the whole universe,� and other authors hailing Falling Diane Urbani de la Paz (2)/Peninsula Daily News as “a lush, dark fairy tale� that is Julie Philby, left, stops in Thursday to buy a copy of her friend Wendy Lester’s new “utterly enchanting.� Turn

novel, Falling Under, from clerk Inga Sorensen at Odyssey Books in Port Angeles.

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