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Residents could be paying hundreds more in 5-year plan BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — City Council members in a work session Tuesday will reconsider 2015 utility rate increases that are part of five-year plan that would see average residential users pay $936 more annually by 2019. Average commercial rates for all utilities would increase $1,843 in five years under the plan. The work session at 5 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St., will focus on monthly hikes in 2015 that would equal a $182 annual increase (rounded off to the nearest dollar), or 7.1 percent, in average residential electric, water and wastewater rates.
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Autumn officially begins with the fall equinox at 7:29 p.m. Monday. The summer expanse of Lake Crescent stretches out below Tim Hawkins of Forks from the summit of Mount Storm King. On his hand, looking for a snack, is a “camp robber” — a gray jay.
Commercial rates for those utilities would increase an average of $191 annually, or 5.2 percent, for 2015. The council rejected the proposed 2015 increase last Tuesday on a 4-2 vote after hearing vigorous opposition from eight residents who said the increases would be too burdensome on low-income ratepayers. But the council decided it would go over the proposed rate schedule again this Tuesday. TURN
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‘Young Turks’ trio swims Strait 56-60 age range no issue as they brave big chill BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Standing on the deck of the support boat Isle of Shoals back in Port Angeles, Ken Goodman, Orlando Boleda and Paul Webber, from left, are all grins after swimming across the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Friday.
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PORT ANGELES — The worst part of the 12.5-mile swim across the Strait of Juan de Fuca was the cold. But even to the very end, each of the three swimmers could say the word “yellow.” That was a test for hypothermia none was sure he would pass, even while wearing a wet suit. “An hour in, we were all wondering if we were going to make it because of the cold,” said Paul Webber, who swam the Strait with fellow Bainbridge Island residents Orlando Boleda and Ken Goodman on Friday.
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They struck out from Freshwater Bay west of Port Angeles at 6:55 a.m. and didn’t touch the ground again until they reached Canada about seven hours later. They came ashore slightly west of Beechy Head on Vancouver Island. Boleda was the first in at 1:53 p.m., accomplishing the longdistance swim in 6 hours and 58 minutes, according to Heather Burger, who was in the lead support boat, the 32-foot Isle of Shoals. Webber arrived 12 minutes later, at 2:05 p.m., and Goodman reached shore at about 2:40 p.m. They returned to Port Angeles on support boats; posed for photos on the deck of the Isle of Shoals, owned by Kristin Capaccioli and George Fleischfresser of Port Angeles; and cracked geezer jokes. Webber is 56, Boleda is 59, and Goodman is 60.
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