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The program began in 2003 to honor local teens for outstanding leadership and service to their community. Ninety-four teens have been recognized over the past eight years. Nominees must be residents of East Jefferson County and be between the ages of 13 and 19. The period of community service must have occurred during 2011. Suggested activities might include a project benefiting the community, an individual or a nonprofit group; performing an act of heroism; outstanding leadership in school, church or service organizations; or other activities that demonstrate the teen has gone above and beyond for the community. Pictures or news articles of the nominees involved in their community service are encouraged and
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Kiwanis Club is seeking nominations for its Thomas J. Majhan Teen Leaders Awards program, which recognizes teenagers for volunteer service and leadership in schools. Nomination letters must be submitted by Jan. 31. Teens from all areas of East Jefferson County are eligible for the awards, said Melanie Bozak, program chairwoman. The nominees, their families and the nominators will be the guests of the Port Townsend Kiwanis Club at a special ceremony and reception to honor them in February. Community leaders to present the awards.
All Hazard Alert Broadcast System warning sirens will sound in communities along the North Olympic Peninsula coast at noon today. Sirens will sound at three sites in Port Townsend — the Port Townsend marina, Point Hudson and Fort Worden — and in LaPush, Neah Bay, Clallam Bay, Lower Elwha, West Port Angeles, Dungeness
and Diamond Point. Winchester chimes will sound for 10 seconds, followed by a recording saying the alert is only a test. In an actual emergency, those indoors should check for messages from the Emergency Broadcast System on their radios or televisions if possible. The Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management urges people to purchase a National Oceanic and Atmospheric
will be returned to the nominators. Nomination letters must include a complete description of the services performed, along with the following information: ■Name, address, telephone number, email address if known and age of the nominee. ■School and attended and grade level. ■Name or names of parents or guardians. ■Name, address, telephone number and email address of the person making the nomination. Letters should be marked “2011 Teen Leaders Awards� and may be mailed to Bozak at 1307 25th St., Port Townsend, WA 98368. For more information, phone Bozak at 360-385-4871 or 360-5311329 or email craftscottage@ cablespeed.com.
Administration weather radio for use in emergencies. The department will program the radio for free. For more information, phone the department at 360-385-9368. Clallam County would like residents who hear the test to call in information regarding the sirens, the voice announcement and where they were when they heard the test siren. Phone 360-417-2525 or
Wildlife Corridor. Attendees will meet at Hendricks and 49th streets at 10 a.m. The Quimper Wildlife Corridor is a ribbon of public and private land across No new year babies the north Quimper Peninwere born in Clallam or Jefferson counties Sunday, the sula that provides safe passage for native wildlife, first day of 2012, according maintains a natural floodto representatives from water control system, proOlympic Medical Center, Forks Community Hospital tects existing habitat and and Jefferson General Hos- water quality, and provides open space and recreation pital. opportunities. Port Angeles is eagerly The walk is described as awaiting the first baby of “easy,� but it is on uneven the city’s Sesquicentennial year, said Cherie Kidd, Port terrain. Attendees are asked to Angeles city councilwoman wear weather-appropriate and co-chair of the Sesquifootwear and clothing. centennial Committee. The event is free and “This baby is going to be open to the public. a celebrity,� Kidd said. For more information, Once the first birth in phone 360-379-9501. the city is confirmed, the child and his or her parents will receive gift baskets and Checkpoints group a $150 savings bond, courPORT ANGELES — The tesy of several Port Angeles Stop the Checkpoints group businesses, she said. will meet from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Guided nature walk The meeting will be in the Port Angeles Library PORT TOWNSEND — Archives Room, 2210 S. Jefferson Land Trust will Peabody St. offer a guided nature walk The event is free and with Stewardship Director open to the public. Erik Kingfisher from 10 For more information, a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday. phone Lois Danks at 360Kingfisher will present “Listening to Winter in the 452-7534. Wetlands� in the Quimper Peninsula Daily News
No babies arrive on first day of 2012
Hazard-alert siren tested today PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
360-417-2483 today and Tuesday to leave information. The Clallam County Emergency Management’s Team Tsunami provides free preparedness trainings to service groups, schools and neighborhoods. Contact the department for more information about these programs. Tsunami information is PENINSULA DAILY NEWS available at http://tinyurl. SEQUIM — Two pedescom/6awfvr6. trian walkways will be dedicated with ribbon-cutting ceremonies on Tuesday. The first will be at 10 a.m. to celebrate the opening 6000, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 of a new pedestrian pathway p.m. Monday through Fri- along Brackett Road. The ceremony will be on day (closed on holidays and from noon to 1 p.m.) and the pathway just west of the leave a detailed message, Vintage Apartments, 1009 which will be emailed to Brackett Road. The city of Sequim built Van De Wege, Tharinger or the pathway to provide Hargrove, or to all three. Links to other state offi- pedestrians with safer access cials: secstate.wa.gov/ to the Walmart store across elections/elected_officials. Priest Road. Lakeside Industries aspx. began construction of the Learn more pathway Dec. 12, and comWebsites following our pleted the job Dec. 14. The project was made state and national legislapossible by a $20,000 donators: ■Followthemoney. tion from Walmart to the city org — Campaign donors by of Sequim. The second ribbon-cutindustry, ZIP code and more ■Vote-Smart.org — ting will be at 2:30 p.m. for a How special interest groups new sidewalk on Third Averate legislators on the nue between Spruce and Fir streets. issues.
Ceremonies to be held for two new Sequim walkways
Congress breaks until later this month PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Eye on Congress
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WASHINGTON — Congress adjourned for 2011. The 2012 session is scheduled to begin Jan. 17 in the House and Jan. 23 in the Senate.
Contact legislators (clip and save) “Eye on Congress� is published in the Peninsula Daily News every Monday when Congress is in session about activities, roll call votes and legislation in the House and Senate. The North Olympic Peninsula’s legislators in Washington, D.C., are Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Mountlake Terrace), Sen. Patty Murray (D-Bothell) and Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Belfair).
Contact information — The address for Cantwell and Murray is U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510; Dicks, U.S. House, Washington, D.C. 20515. Phone Cantwell at 202224-3441 (fax, 202-2280514); Murray, 202-2242621 (fax, 202-224-0238); Dicks, 800-947-6676 (fax, 202-226-1176). Email via their websites: cantwell.senate.gov; murray. senate.gov; house.gov/dicks. Dicks’ North Olympic Peninsula office is at 332 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, WA 98362. It is open from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays and by appointment. It is staffed by Judith
Morris, 360-452-3370 (fax: 360-452-3502).
State legislators Jefferson and Clallam counties are represented in the part-time state Legislature by Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, D-Sequim, the House majority whip; Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Sequim; and Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam. Write Van De Wege and Tharinger at P.O. Box 40600 (Hargrove at P.O. Box 40424), Olympia, WA 98504; email them at vandewege. kevin@leg.wa.gov; tharinger. steve@leg.wa.gov; hargrove. jim@leg.wa.gov. Or you can call the Legislative Hotline, 800-562-
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PT Kiwanians to honor outstanding area teens PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2012
The ceremony will take place on the sidewalk on the north side of Fir Street. The 450 feet of sidewalk connects the existing sidewalk on the east side of Fir Street to the Sequim elementary and high school grounds. C&J Excavating was the contractor for the $55,000 project, which was funded by the Transportation Benefit District sales tax approved by voters in 2009.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012 • 6:30 - 8:30 PM Port Angeles Library - Carver Meeting Room – 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles, WA In order to protect, improve & support its ecological integrity & aquatic-life, shellfish harvest & recreation.
Can a community control stormwater naturally and economically without combining sewer and stormwater systems that create overflows?
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Reduce Stormwater Runoff Conserve and recharge Groundwater Reduce Surface and Groundwater Pollution Encourage sustainable Land-Use Practices Utilize Public Resources effectively and efficiently
Dr. Christopher W. May is a freshwater ecologist and environmental engineer with expertise in urban watershed assessment and management. He is Senior Program Director, Kitsap County Public Works SSWM Program, and adjunct faculty at Western WA University Huxley School of Environmental Studies and the University of WA Environmental Science Program. Dr. May was a Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory senior research scientist and engineer and University of WA Applied Physics Laboratory research engineer researching cumulative impacts of urbanization on native salmonids in Puget Sound lowland eco-region small streams. His interests include stormwater management, low impact development (LID), watershed analysis using geographic information systems (GIS), salmonid habitat assessment, urban stream rehabilitation, water quality monitoring, stream biological assessment, and watershed restoration. Sponsors: Olympic Environmental Council, Sierra Club’s North Olympic Group, Sierra Club Water Sentinels, NW Fund for the Environment, and the University of WA Superfund Research Program.
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