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Forums set for Clallam shoreline plan update Peninsula Daily News
What do you want to see in Clallam County’s updated shoreline master program? Are you concerned about protecting water quality and wildlife habitat? Are you concerned about the effect setbacks and buffer zones might have on developing private property? Do you want to promote recreational opportunities? Do have ideas for land regulations around the 800 miles of marine and freshwater shorelines in the county?
Week of April 11 Bring them to public forums scheduled in Port Angeles, Sequim, Joyce and Sekiu the week of April 11. County staff and advisory committee members will use ideas developed in small groups during the forums to develop detailed strategies to be offered for public comment in the fall. Each forum will begin with presentations of maps and information during a half-hour open house. County staff members will tell of the process of updating the shoreline master program and summarize the present floodplain management along rivers and streams, marine shoreline erosion and human efforts to protect property and aquatic habitat. Then participants can
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Matthew Randazzo of the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center releases a barred owl back into the wild in a wooded area near the Peninsula Golf Club in Port Angeles on Sunday. The animal was wounded when it was struck by a vehicle in November, and it has since recovered.
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Clallam County’s two electricity utilities will both PORT TOWNSEND — A consider whether to agree discussion on “Living Fully to a settlement with the at Life’s End� will be hosted Bonneville Power Adminisby the Hospice Foundation tration that would affect of Jefferson Healthcare at rates over the next 17 years. the Port Townsend Library, The proposed settlement 1220 Lawrence St., from is intended to resolve long7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, standing disputes over how April 12. much public utilities, which The free event will have preference for BPA’s include a discussion on the choices that are essential at low-cost hydropower, should life’s end. help subsidize the rates for Mary Ann Seward will residential customers of speak from the perspective private power suppliers. of a wife living with her Both the Clallam County husband’s illness and death. Public Utility District and Registered nurse Keri city of Port Angeles must Johns will discuss the choices that our medical system offers at life’s end, including Death with Dignity, hospice and full medical treatment. Fellow nurse Jackie Levin will explain how to have a conversation with family and a physician )LUVW about the decisions people 0DVVDJH face with a serious illness. Michael Kubec will explain how the Hospice Foundation of Jefferson Healthcare offers support and education. 7LQD 6SHUU\ 2ZQHU Refreshments will be provided. For more infor mation, phone 360-3851(: /2&$7,21 0610 or email dkaldahl@ : WK 6WH $ % 3RUW $QJHOHV jeffersonhealthcare.org. )RUPHUO\ -XVW Q /RYH
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The state-required shoreline plan updates have fanned controversy in other jurisdictions such as in neighboring Jefferson County, which sent its update to the state in 2009 and early this year received conditional approval of its plan. Much of the controversy has been due to buffers on land to protect waterways. Concerns about such setbacks were voiced during a Clallam County commissioners meeting in February. Shoreline plans are required by the 1972 Shoreline Management Act, which the state Department of Ecology said is intended to “prevent the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal development of the state’s shorelines.� The county received a $1 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency last year to define and achieve “no net loss of ecological function� of shorelines and to apply some of the groundwork to other jurisdictions in the Puget Sound basin.
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Forums are scheduled: ■  Monday, April 11 — 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., Port Angeles. ■  Tuesday, April 12 — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Sekiu Community Center, 42 Rice St., Sekiu. ■  Wednesday, April 13 — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Crescent Community Grange, 50870 state Highway 112, Joyce ■  Thursday, April 14 — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., John Wayne Marina, 2577 W. Sequim Bay Road, Sequim The state Department of Ecology requires all cities and 39 counties to update their shoreline master programs by 2014. Clallam County’s current plan was adopted in the mid-1970s. The county hired Consultants ESA Adolfson of Seattle last year to assemble focus groups, hold regional public forums, meet with commissioners and tribal councils and take shoreline inventories. The consulting firm, which is working under a
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PORT TOWNSEND — Key City Public Theatre will hold auditions for young actor roles in “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever� from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. The auditions will be held at Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St. Roles are available for youths ages 5 to 12.
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$599,930 agreement with the county, will incorporate public input and technical data to draft new regulations for shoreline uses. County officials hope to send a draft update of the shoreline plan to the Clallam County Planning Commission by April 2012.
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PORT ANGELES — The Volunteers — the Army’s premier touring show band — performs a free “sold-outâ€? concert tonight. The concert is free, but all concert-goers must have a ticket. The last of the free tickets were distributed Friday. Doors open for today’s concert at 6 p.m. Ticketholders need to be in their seats by 6:45 p.m. Unclaimed seats will be released to nonticket-holders at 6:50 p.m. The six-member ensemble will be on stage from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. in the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave., with a fast-paced, high-energy blend of popular American music — rock ’n’ roll, standards, country, jazz and patriotic selections. The performance is sponsored by the Peninsula Daily News.
Parents who are interested in participating in the show along with their children may audition for chorus roles at these auditions. For more information, visit www.keycitypublic theatre.org.
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divide into small groups to develop strategies for managing river floodplains, protecting both private property and environmental resources and ensuring public access to waterways.
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