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Bid to cut Gales neighborhood bulldozes back port terms underway Commissioners would serve 4 years under proposed ballot item BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Should Port of Port Angeles commissioners serve four-year terms instead of six-year terms? Voters throughout Clallam County could be asked that question in the Nov. 5 general election — and their answer could have an impact on the countywide port commission race between Colleen McAleer and Del DelaBarre. Longtime commu- Turner nity activist Norma Turner has help from four dozen volunteers who are gathering names on a petition to put a measure on the ballot that would shorten port commissioners’ terms, she said Friday. If enough signatures are gathered and if the measure is then approved in November, whoever wins the port commission election for Paul McHugh’s seat — McAleer or DelaBarre — would serve four years, not six. It would not have an effect on sitting Commissioners John Calhoun, whose term is up in 2015, and Jim Hallett, whose term is up in 2017, but they or their successors would serve four years in subsequent elections.
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Dan Davis, left, watches friend Tom Duce install a manufactured home on Davis’ property Friday, three months after a bulldozer was used to destroy a house on the same property.
Residents, properties rebound from rampage BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ
Allowed under state law A ballot proposition to reduce the term of office of port commissioners from six years to four years is allowed under RCW 53.12.175. It must be approved by a simple majority of voters if the measure qualifies for the ballot. According to state law, Turner needs 2,700 signatures — a total equal to 10 percent of the vote in the 2011 election — by Sept. 2 to be successful. “For me, this is simply saying, ‘Let’s put it on the ballot and discuss it,’” Turner said. TURN
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A firefighter examines wreckage of a bulldozed home on Davis’ property last May 10.
PORT ANGELES — Three months after a man Barbara Porter had known since he was a boy allegedly drove a bulldozer through her backyard, noises from passing trucks still sometimes startle her awake at night. “If I hear a diesel pickup [truck] at night, it will wake me up, and you immediately think ‘Barry,’” Porter said Friday in an interview at her North Pioneer Road home in Gales Addition, just east of Port Angeles. “But then you think, ‘He’s not here,’ and you go back to sleep.” Porter, 72, is referring to Barry Swegle, a 51-year-old Port Angeles man
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accused of using a bulldozer he owned to tear a swath of destruction through the neighborhood where he had lived for decades. “You still have the fear when you hear noises,” Porter said of the May 10 rampage that left four homes in her neighborhood damaged or destroyed. “It’s not as bad as it was.” Swegle now sits in the Clallam County jail in lieu of $1 million bail, while those impacted by what Swegle allegedly did continue to recover. TURN
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The supermodifiedclass sprint boat Obsession, piloted by the husband-wife team of Robert and Aimee Cox of Hayden, Idaho, rounds a tight corner in a qualifying round Saturday at Extreme Sports Park in Port Angeles. See Sports, Page B1
Restaurateur now posts sign that stirred past fine BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM –– After a battle with the city that ended in a fine, Randy Wellman, owner of Tarcisio Italian Place, now has a sign near the street to advertise his restaurant’s specials. “The first day I put it out, I had people come in and say, ‘Oh, I saw the special on your sign,’” Wellman said. A new city ordinance restricting signs outside of Sequim’s
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downtown core meant Wellman was violating the rules by placing a sign declaring his specials next to the sidewalk on West Washington Street. The rules said he could put a sign next to his restaurant, but Wellman said that placement would not be visible to passing traffic because his restaurant is set off the street in the Sequim Village Plaza shopping center. TURN
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