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Customers line up Friday morning waiting for Sea Change Cannabis in Discovery Bay to open for its first day of business.
Peninsula pot store is all sold out
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An artist rendition of an expanded outpatient services area at Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend.
Hospital expansion’s cost spike accepted Commissioners keep size intact for PT project BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Construction of an expanded outpatient services area at Jefferson Healthcare hospital will cost more and take longer to complete than expected, but the scope of the project will remain as originally planned.
were from all over the map — not only locals but visitors from Canada, California, Florida and WisPENINSULA DAILY NEWS consin. DISCOVERY BAY –– The first Brotherton expects to have recreational marijuana store to about the same amount on hand open on the North Olympic Penin- when he reopens at 10 a.m. this sula sold out in its first day. coming Friday. Sea Change Cannabis in Discovery Bay opened at 10 a.m. Fri- ‘Buy as much as we can find’ day, more than two weeks after “But we’ll be looking around the state’s first pot shops began and will buy as much as we can sales. Its inventory was sold out by find,” he said. Like other pot retailers stateabout 7:30 p.m., owner Greg wide, Brotherton is facing a shortBrotherton said. The store at 282332 U.S. High- age of legal marijuana. The state Liquor Control way 101, the first to be licensed Board has approved fewer than and open in either Clallam or Jef100 growers, and supply can’t ferson counties, had 2½ pounds to meet demand. sell, about 320 packets of oneAbout 60 people had lined up eighths of an ounce each. at the store, a converted espresso “It was a great first day. All of stand, before it opened. our systems worked well,” BrothTURN TO POT/A5 erton said, adding that customers BY CHARLIE BERMANT AND JOE SMILLIE
Commissioners unanimously decided July 16 to pay more for the Emergency and Special Services addition at the hospital at 834 Sheridan St. rather than scale back plans.
project and authorized an increase in the budget.” The hospital will move ahead on a new $26 million, 50,000-square-foot wing that would include upgrades to the emergency room and more room ‘Other alternatives’ for the oncology, orthopedics and cardiology departments, as well as “In April, we learned that the give the hospital a remodeled cost estimation of the project had main entrance on Sheridan Street. increased, so we needed to explore CollinsWoerman, the Seattle other alternatives,” said hospital architecture firm hired to design CEO Mike Glenn last week. the new building, reported in “We presented an alternative April that estimates for constructhat reduced the size of the tion were as high as $18 million. building, but the board decided TURN TO COST/A6 that we should not reduce the
Wedding wishes once lost now are found Bottle cast adrift in 2006 returned BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The couple never saw it coming. Never did Christine Loewe and Ian Miller, both of Port Angeles, think that either of two bottles filled with guests’ messages from their Crescent Beach wedding eight years ago and tossed into the Strait of Juan de Fuca would find their way back to the couple. But the better part of a decade and some 230 miles later, one did
return via mail from a woman who found it while walking along an Oregon beach April 27. “I was thrilled,” Loewe said upon getting the email from Chris Webber, who discovered the bottle. “To be perfectly honest, I never thought I’d see it again.” Webber, 47, found the bottle along Oregon’s Arcadia Beach, near the city of Cannon Beach, while she was on a pleasure trip along the scenic stretches of U.S. Highway 101 that hem the Oregon coast.
Webber said she first thought the bottle rolled about by the waves must belong to a nearby couple. When no one claimed it, Webber picked it up. “It was in perfect condition. The cork was in place,” Webber said.
From the sea Then it hit her: She was holding a bottle cast into the sea. “I am staring at a bottle that KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS came in from the ocean,” Webber Christine Loewe, Ian Miller and their children, McHenry said. “It was like out of movie or Miller, 4, left, and Theodore Miller, 7 months, examine a something.”
bottle returned to them after it was cast adrift in the
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