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Peninsula VA clinic services will triple Sen. Murray to cut ribbon on new site BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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The new North Olympic Peninsula Veterans Affairs Clinic at 1114 Georgiana St. in Port Angeles will add a doctor, a full-time mental health provider and other offerings to military veterans.
PORT ANGELES — The doors of an expanded outpatient clinic for North Olympic Peninsula veterans will open Tuesday. The new North Olympic Peninsula Clinic at 1114 Georgiana St. replaces the former Veteran
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Affairs clinic one block away at 1005 Georgiana St. It will triple the primary care and mental health service offerings to Peninsula veterans, according to the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s office. “It’s adding significantly to current offerings” with an additional doctor, a full-time mental health provider and a host of new
services, said Chad Hutson, public affairs officer with the health care system. Murray, D-Bothell, will cut the ribbon at the clinic Wednesday to formally open it with a ceremony at 1:30 p.m. “We’ll have a full day on Tuesday, an event with Sen. Murray on Wednesday, and then it’s back to work,” Hutson said. Murray has paved the way to ensure funding was available to expand the clinic and its medical and mental health treatment services, Hutson said. TURN
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Navy plans return to Port Angeles Peninsula thrift
may do business with pot industry First Fed mulls accounts after U.S. clarifies rules PENINSULA DAILY NEWS AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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$15 million dock project on Ediz Hook under study ship visits that have dwindled since the 1990s — in decades. Blocking vessels, which are rectangular in PORT ANGELES — The Navy has initiated shape and 250 feet long by 60 feet wide, are long-range plans to build an estimated $15 million piloted by civilian mariners and protect submadock and shoreside facility on Ediz Hook. rines by interfering with waterborne attacks, DanThe 200-foot-long, L-shaped dock for Coast aher said. They are similar in size and shape to Guard escort and Navy blocking vessels for submarines would be built out from an unused barge land- oil-rig service vessels. The pier itself, which would be parallel to the ing within Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field shoreline, would be located a few hundred feet Office Port Angeles at the end of the Hook, Bangor inside the base entrance, base executive officer Naval Base spokesman Tom Danaher said Friday. Cmdr. Mike Campbell said. It would mark the Navy’s first return to Port Angeles Harbor — except for occasional anchored TURN TO NAVY/A7 BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
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At least one North Olympic Peninsula financial institution may be only weeks away from doing business with the newly legal marijuana industry after federal officials issued guidelines to clear hurdles that had been in the way. “It all comes down to understanding local laws,” said Larry Hueth, president and CEO of Port Angeles-based First Federal, which also has branches in Port Townsend, Sequim, Forks and Poulsbo. “We’re going to be looking over the next couple of weeks to see exactly what it means.” He said he is optimistic that the bank will be able to open accounts with legal pot stores. “We should be able to start doing business in a short while,” Hueth said. Guidance issued by the Justice and Treasury departments Friday is the latest step by the fed-
eral government toward enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in states that approve it. The Obama administration has given banks a road map for conducting transactions with legal marijuana sellers, which now must operate on a cash-only basis, so these new businesses can stash away savings, make payroll and pay taxes like any other enterprise. “It’s important, I think, that they have that access to banking,” Hueth said of marijuana entrepreneurs. “All we needed was guidelines,” he said.
State-based banks The guidelines do not carry the force of law, and the American Bankers Association issued a statement in response saying that guidance is not enough. Scott Jarvis, director of the state Department of Financial Institutions, told The Seattle Times that banks that operate only in Washington state, like First Federal, may have an easier time dealing with the marijuana industry than those with branches across the country. TURN
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Stalled Sequim subdivision sold for $2.7 million BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM –– Stalled since the 2007 collapse of the housing market, the Cedar Ridge housing development on Sequim’s east side may have a new hope. Two-thirds of the 64-acre sub-
division off Keeler Road were purchased for $2.7 million by Cedar Ridge Properties, a corporation formed by homebuilder Rick Anderson of Port Angeles and Brown Maloney, owner of KONP radio station and former owner of Olympic View Publishing Co., which once published the Sequim
Gazette and Forks Forum. “We’re excited about the potential. We’re excited about the location,” Maloney said. The sale was finalized in December. Maloney, managing partner of Cedar Ridge Properties, said the firm is assembling a business
plan to determine what it will do with the property. “We have a lot of checking left to do with the city, with architects, with our attorneys, with the banks,” Maloney said. “Stay tuned.” The property, north of Spyglass Lane and east of Lofgrin Road, has several roads built through it,
with utility extensions sticking up on several lots. The area is frequented by the Dungeness herd of Roosevelt elk. The Cedar Ridge subdivision was started by Allen Grant and Larry Freedman in 2006. TURN
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