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The base of a new bridge over Ennis Creek at the former Rayonier mill site in Port Angeles is defaced by graffiti.
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Port Angeles sees boost in graffiti across city erty in past weeks. “I would say especially the [last] couple of months, it’s definitely increased,” Delikat said. “It tends to come in waves.” Delikat said the city has spent about $20,100 repairing vandalism, which includes cleaning graffiti, so far this year and about $72,300 since 2009. “It seems to us there has been a recent uptick in graffiti
BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — City police report a recent uptick in graffiti spray-painted on walls of city and personal property — and not only is it unsightly, but it can be expensive. Corey Delikat, the city’s parks and recreation director, said his crews have seen more tags on city park signs, in bathrooms and on other city prop-
around town,” Police Chief Terry Gallagher said Friday. Among the places hit is the city’s newly installed downtown waterfront esplanade. That area has been tagged at least twice since it opened to the public in late August, Gallagher said. “I assure you, we find that as aggravating as citizens [do],” he said. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Deborah Kelly, Clallam County’s elected prosecuting attorney since 2003, has announced that she will step down for personal reasons at the end of this year. Kelly, 60, made the announcement in a Friday letter to the Board of County Commissioners. Her term was scheduled to expire at the end of 2014. “It has been an honor and privilege to serve this community as prosecuting attorney for the past 11 years but it is time for me to step down,” Kelly wrote. Prosecuting attorney is one of two partisan positions in county government, the other being commissioner. Since Kelly is a Republican, the Clallam County Republican Party will select three candidates for the commissioners to interview after Kelly’s resignation. County Administrator Jim
Jones said the commissioners’ tentative plan is to interviews candidates at the Jan. 6 work session and make an appointment Kelly at the Jan. 7 board meeting. The person appointed to serve out the remainder of Kelly’s term will face election in November 2014 or step down Dec. 31, 2014. Kelly recently prosecuted the seven-week retrial of Darold Stenson in Kitsap County Superior Court in Port Orchard.
Stenson found guilty Stenson was found guilty last Tuesday of two counts of aggravated murder for the 1993 shooting deaths of his wife and business partner near Sequim. Meanwhile, Kelly’s husband has been battling health problems. “As you are aware, personal matters developed last year which competed for my focus on the job and community,” Kelly said in her letter to the board.
1,390 get ‘Obamacare’ on Peninsula in first month Police hold man
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and 39 others found a private plan with no tax credit. In Jefferson County, 424 signed up through Medicaid, 69 received a tax credit for a qualified health plan, and 22 found a plan without financial assistance. Statewide, 57,730 insurance sign-ups were completed. Of those, 51,368 signed up for Medicaid.
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Nearly 1,400 early birds on the North Olympic Peninsula signed up for health insurance on Washington’s health care exchange in October, according to data released by the state Friday. In the first ALSO . . . month after ■ Q&A health care on latest reform changes to launched Oct. health care 1, a combined act/A9 1,390 in Clallam and Jefferson counties completed new insurance sign-ups through Washington Healthplanfinder. Most of those sign-ups were for the free insurance offered for low-income individuals through Medicaid. Health care plans under the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” take effect Jan. 1. In Clallam County, 691 signed up for insurance through Medicaid, 145 received a tax credit for a private policy,
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State officials predict those numbers will spike, with 72,136 applications somewhere in the process and 21,671 who have chosen a plan but still need to pay for it. “Those numbers are growing every day,” Washington Health Benefit Exchange spokesman Michael Marchand told The Associated Press. The Washington Health Benefit Exchange said nearly 500,000 individuals visited www.Wahealthplanfinder.org in October. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man wanted since Wednesday evening for firstdegree robbery when a pursesnatching ended in a woman’s injury turned himself in after a police manhunt and foot pursuit failed to catch him. Police say Michael Thomas Riley, 25, took a woman’s purse as she was loading groceries into her car in the Port Angeles Walmart parking lot at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. The owner of the purse, a 30-year-old woman, was cut and bruised after she chased down the man who had grabbed it, said Detective Sgt. John Keegan with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. She ran after him as he headed for his pickup truck and tried to slam his arm in the door as he
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was getting in, Keegan said. She hung onto the steering wheel for a while as he drove away. Her injuries made the crime more Riley serious, Keegan said. “That elevated the crime to robbery,” he said. Police identified Riley after an investigation and began searching for him.
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QHP* QHP** Medicaid % enrolled King 1,271 581 12,647 25.10% Pierce 420 100 5,786 10.90% Spokane 384 101 5,415 10.20% Snohomish 452 142 4,401 8.70% Clark 291 71 3,402 6.50% Thurston 216 54 2,066 4.00% Whatcom 234 53 1,977 3.90% Yakima 101 28 1,902 3.50% Kitsap 181 51 1,754 3.40% Benton 94 35 1,249 2.40% Cowlitz 57 15 1,031 1.90% Skagit 118 31 912 1.80% Clallam 145 39 691 1.50% Chelan 76 19 669 1.30% Lewis 66 10 671 1.30% Island 88 29 609 1.30% Franklin 46 12 617 1.20% Mason 47 17 590 1.10% Grays Harbor 54 9 555 1.10% Grant 33 4 485 0.90% Jefferson 69 22 424 0.90% Kittitas 40 15 443 0.90% Stevens 41 4 408 0.80% Okanogan 48 18 379 0.80% Walla Walla 30 15 337 0.70% Douglas 31 11 313 0.60% Pacific 68 9 222 0.50% Whitman 18 1 263 0.50% San Juan 38 6 210 0.40% Klickitat 17 5 202 0.40% Adams 9 1 162 0.30% Asotin 11 4 153 0.30% Pend Oreille 9 1 127 0.20% Lincoln 5 2 80 0.20% Skamania 8 1 61 0.10% Wahkiakum 10 0 56 0.10% Ferry 3 0 49 0.10% Columbia 5 0 38 0.10% Garfield 1 0 12 0.10% Total 4,835 1,516 51,368 = 57,719 * tax credit ** no tax credit QHP = qualified health plan Source: The Associated Press
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