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PT store might be replaced by retailer from off-Peninsula U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head by a gunman who opened fire outside a Tucson supermarket.A federal judge and five others died, including a 9-year-old girl and a congressional staffer. An official described the gunman as mentally unstable and said he might have had an accomplice.
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PORT TOWNSEND — Swain’s Outdoor, which has offered sporting goods, housewares and clothing in downtown Port Townsend since 1996, will close its doors. “I’ve had customers crying at my checkstand today,” said store manager Grant Cable on Saturday after a liquidation sale began. “They’re really upset that there’s not going to be a store anymore.” The closure has no effect on Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles, which is under different ownership with a similar name. Cable said the decision to close Swain’s Outdoor, 1121 Water St., was made Friday “after a company that was going to buy us out decided against it.” “We have exhausted all the possibilities,” he said early Saturday. “We couldn’t make it work.”
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May find buyer However, later in the day, Cable said that he had word that some kind of sporting goods and housewares store might replace Swain’s Outdoor. He said two companies, neither now based on the North Olympic Peninsula, had expressed interest in purchasing the lease on the building and the fixtures. He did not know when that might happen. “There’s uncertainty if we will find a purchaser for it,” Cable said. “I just want to give a little hope.” Cable manages the store for his parents, Glenda Swain Cable and Dick Cable, who had also owned the Swain’s Outdoor store in Sequim. Turn
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Richard Pharr, left, chief executive officer of a company that delivers medical marijuana, shows one of his products to employees Rob Johnson, center, and Kiah Roberts in the dispensary’s Port Angeles office.
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The departing executive director of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce will begin leading the Camarillo, Calif., chamber Jan. 17. Jennifer Wells MacGillonie has served as the executive director of the Jefferson County chamber for about two years. She announced in November that she would step down. Her last day in that position will be Tuesday, she said Saturday. Wells The next day, she will begin the move to California, where she will be known as Jennifer Wells, having reverted to her maiden name after her divorce from Martin MacGillonie. Turn
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PORT ANGELES — The storefront is, by any standard, obscure. No neon signs, or any sign for that matter, mark its location, and two streetside windows peer into an office that would make a minimalist grin with approval. For the three men who run Olympian Canna LLC — the North Olympic Peninsula’s first established medical marijuana disChamber/A4 pensary — a little discretion goes a long way.
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“I’m walking a thin line,” CEO Richard Pharr acknowledged. The 31-year-old Port Angeles resident opened the dispensary at 303 Tumwater Truck Route with his two employees, Kiah Roberts and Rob Johnson, on Dec. 1.
Relief for ailments Their goal is simple, they say: make marijuana easily accessible for those in need of relief from their ailments. “There’s no reason those people have to suffer,” Pharr said. Typically, the drug is used to ease physical pain or increase appetite. One customer even found it helped reduce “fullbody convulsions” that kept her from get-
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