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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS October 19-20, 2012 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
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Voter Guide inside The P PDN’s North Olympic Peninsula Voter Guide, with information on local, regional, state and federal candidates, as well as the measures on the Nov. 6 ballot, is included with today’s edition. Voting is under way in the election ending Nov. 6. In addition to the Voter Guide, our Peninsula Voices letters to the editor are greatly expanded today — Pages A9-A12 — to accommodate readers’ election viewpoints. All this, plus Holiday Happenings, a special section focusing on the Peninsula’s myriad holiday-season bazaars, and Peninsula Spotlight, the region’s premiere entertainment magazine, appears in today’s PDN.
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Obamas get support from north of border BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Canadians have been visiting the Clallam County Democratic Party headquarters to stock up on Obama campaign buttons, bumper stickers and T-shirts, county party officials said. “Several couples a week have been coming in since we opened in May,” said Melissa Randazzo, the county party’s communications chairwoman. She is the wife of Matthew Randazzo, who is chairman of the county party but is on a leave of absence to be communications director for Derek Kilmer, Democratic candidate
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Staffer Bill Flint poses with a cardboard Michelle Obama at Clallam County Democratic headquarters. for the 6th Congressional District seat also sought by Repub-
U.S. 101 has now reopened
lican Bill Driscoll. Melissa Randazzo said that Canadians have been posing for photographs with cutouts of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, as well as collecting election items at the office at 124-A W. First St.. “They have been really enthusiastic about Obama stuff,” Melissa Randazzo said, adding that the office hasn’t tracked the numbers. “They have tried to give us donations,” she said. But “we can’t take donations from Canada.” TURN
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BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The link between east and west reopened Thursday evening. U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent, closed since Wednesday by a rock slide involving boulders the size of a small car, was reopened as dusk fell on the scenic lake. The reopening meant that traffic — including transit buses and commercial trucks — avoided a difficult 50-mile detour.
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Police nab PA fugitive Man on lam since Sept. 20 BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A man wanted for first-degree attempted murder returned to the scene of the crime — and was arrested, ending a four-week manhunt. After a 10-hour standoff, convicted felon and fugitive Mario Wayne Hackney, 45, was booked Wednesday evening into Clallam County Jail, with bond set at $1 million, after a multi-agency team of law enforcement officers found him in the attic of a home in the 200 block of Cameron Road west of Port Angeles. It was the same home where he allegedly stepped out from behind a shed on Sept. 20 with a shotgun and fired at a man in a pickup, peppering the side of the truck with buckshot but missing the driver, court documents said. While trying to escape, the driver crashed the pickup, author-
ities said, then fell while fleeing, injuring himself. The shooting led to the intensive hunt for Hackney by lawenforcement agencies. Hackney will be arraigned at 1:30 p.m., Oct. 26 at the Clallam County Courthouse, said John Troberg, deputy prosecuting attorney for Clallam County. His capture leaves one North Olympic Peninsula fugitive from an unrelated crime at large — Andrew David Nilsson, charged with numerous domestic violence offenses. He is believed to be in California. [See story, Page A4.] A “partnership” among law enforcement and area residents via social media such as Facebook, Nixle, the Sheriff’s Office website, local news media and citizens involved in local Block Watch programs was a major factor in the capture, Undersheriff Ron Peregrin said. The Sheriff’s Office got a tip he
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Convicted felon and fugitive Mario Hackney, above and below, is arrested at a home on Cameron Road west of Port Angeles after a 10-hour standoff. might have returned to the house. After the Sept. 20 shooting, Peregrin said, deputies nearly caught Hackney three days later after locating a minivan linked to him at a Diamond Point home. But Hackney evaded deputies, crashed the van on Woods Road and bolted into the nearby forest. Investigators kept watch at locations where Hackney had friends, Peregrin said. The Cameron Road house was the residence of Hackney’s friends and was being watched. TURN
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Lectern project a success at Chimacum school BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — An experiment that replaces standard school desks with lecterns has succeeded beyond the teacher’s expectations. “It’s worked better than anyone would have guessed,” said Mitch Brennan, the teacher who developed the experiment. “I was afraid that it would hurt
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the kids’ socialization, but it has really done the opposite.” Brennan — who teaches a combined class of third-, fourthand fifth-graders at Chima- Brennan cum Elementary School — began the project during the past school year in
directed toward the center of the room or each other. Brennan’s lectern, one that was constructed as a prototype by the Boeing Bluebills group of retired volunteers, is part of the circle. In this format, every student has eye contact with the other, Circular arrangement and none of them is stuck looking The lecterns are arranged in a at the back of another student’s circle around the edge of the class- head. room, with the students’ focus “I thought that if we took away order to help the students learn more naturally and in a more comfortable environment. The 30 lecterns were constructed over the summer and were waiting for the kids when they began school in September.
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the tables, kids wouldn’t get together, but that hasn’t happened,” Brennan said. “They go to each other’s stations and have a lot more freedom to work the way they want.” The lecterns were built in the school’s shop class and are available in four different heights. Kids can stand behind the lectern or sit on a stool.
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