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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Chimacum students give Bike: Reflects sneak peek into the future city’s efforts
to be rideable
BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — While no one can accurately predict the future, a group of Chimacum Middle School Students have projected that in 150 years, Port Townsend could be a 150,000-person metropolis called Port Hamokin. The four students addressed the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce on Monday, displaying for about 60 people the scale model that they entered in the Future City competition in Seattle in February. The students — eighth-grader Micah Heemstra, 14; seventh-graders Joanna Sanok and Aubry Botkin, both 13; and sixth-grader Annelise Heemstra, 12 — created the model based on their projections of technology that could be available in 150 years. They also estimated what issues would be most important to the region. The name of the town, Port Hamokin, is a combination of their last names. The model portrays what the downtown area could look like, with the Jefferson County Courthouse remaining as the only recognizable CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS structure. There are a few downtown build- Chimacum Middle School students Micah Heemstra, left and ings that only have a few stories, but Aubry Botkin discuss the details of their Port Hamokin model a Port Hamokin skyline also rises up, with Port Townsend Deputy Mayor Kris Nelson at the Jefferson dominated by a hospital in the Port County Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Hudson area and a Space Needlestyled city hall where Memorial Field be banned and organic waste will be imaginary, but came out of research consumed by larval insects that can on what technologies could possibly is now. develop in the future, said the stuThere are some social fabric pre- then be fed to livestock. dictions in the model as well: cars will The predictions aren’t completely dents’ instructor, Bernadita Sanner.
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City officials said the distinction reflects an effort to make the city more rideable for bicyclists. “It’s something we’ve found when we do surveys about what people want in regards to activities recreation,” City Manager Steve Burkett said. “And obviously, Sequim is a good place for bike riding, because it’s relatively flat and the sun likes to shine.” Communities that make the cut are given either bronze, silver, gold or platinum awards and are provided with sets of brochures that can be displayed around the city, as well as a posting on the League’s website. “It’s something that we’ve always checked when we go to places,” Chandler said. “I know a lot of people look to it when figuring out where to stay.” Port Townsend is a silver level community, holding the distinction since 2008, and Sequim was designated bronze. Eleven other Washington cities and 303 across the U.S. hold the distinction. The league also ranked Washington as the nation’s most bicycle-friendly state for the seventh year state law. Incumbent Position 3 straight. state Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst of Tum- ODT key water also filed for re-elec“It’s been really great to tion, as did incumbent Posi- see how the trail has been tion 4 state Supreme Court improved and gotten more Justice Charles Johnson of use,” said Jeff Bohman, Olympia and incumbent president of the Peninsula Position 7 Supreme Court Trails Coalition. Justice Debra Stephens of “We’re kind of attached Seattle. to it.” Challenger Eddie Yoon The coalition is a group of University Place filed for dedicated to maintaining Johnson’s position. and improving trails for All are six-year terms. bicyclists, hikers and horse Mary Yu of Seattle, riders on the North Olymappointed May 1 to pic Peninsula. Supreme Court Justice Position 1, also filed for election to the seat’s twoyear unexpired term. Thurston County Superior Court Judge Lisa Sutton of Olympia also filed for CONTINUED FROM A1 state Court of Appeals, Division 2, District 2 judge, The utility decided to a six-year term. The Appeals Court and split the cost of the BPA Supreme Court positions increase over two years in an effort to maintain stable are nonpartisan. Two, two-year 24th Dis- rates. “Rate stability is importrict legislative seats held by Sequim Democrats tant to us, meaning we try Kevin Van De Wege and to avoid extreme measures Steve Tharinger also are on and instead give some certainty to our customers for the ballot this year. planning purposes,” said ________ Will Purser, PUD commisSenior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb sioner for the 1st District. can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. The PUD has enlisted 5060, or at pgottlieb@peninsuladaily Utility Financial Solutions news.com.
Filings: Hopefuls ready to run CONTINUED FROM A1 of community development, or DCD, director position in Bruch has said she will the nation. Prosecuting Attorney withdraw her name if Doherty runs for a fifth William Payne of Sequim, appointed earlier this year four-year term. Republican Bill Peach of to the position, filed as a Forks also filed for Doherty’s Republican, filed for the four-year short and full seat. Candidates also include term. Incumbent Clallam political newcomer and Clallam County Elections County Public Utility DisSupervisor Shoona Riggs of trict Commissioner Hugh Port Angeles, who is run- Haffner also filed for rening for county Auditor election to his six-year DisPatty Rosand’s four-year trict 2 countywide position. Forks-area District nonpartisan position. Court 2 Judge John Doherty of Beaver, who was Set to retire appointed to the position, Rosand has said she is also filed as a candidate for retiring. the four-year short and full Clallam County incum- term for the West End posibents who filed for nonpar- tion. tisan four-year countywide Congressional candidate offices included Director of McPherson, 74, a retired Community Development service engineer, has lived Sheila Roark Miller of in Clallam County for about Sequim, Sheriff Bill Bene- seven years and never held dict of Sequim, Treasurer public office, he said MonSelinda Barkhuis of Port day. Angeles, Assessor Pam He voted for Green Party Rushton and Clallam candidate Jill Stein in the County Superior Court 2012 presidential election. Judge Chris Melly of Port “There so much corrupAngeles, who would fill a tion in our government in two-year unexpired term. [Washington], D.C., that it Architect Mary Ellen no longer functions propWinborn filed to oppose erly,” he said. Roark Miller. If elected, McPherson Roark Miller’s position is said would initiate major the only elected department campaign finance and lob-
bying reform and concentrate on “just getting the insane amount of money out of politics.” Candidates also filed for 15 available seats on the county Charter Review Commission, a one-year position. The top five vote-getters in each of the county’s three county commissioner districts will be selected to the charter review commission in the Nov. 4 general election. District 1 candidates who filed Monday were Nola Judd, Anita Ready, Ted Miller, Sue Forde and Brandon Janisse, all of Sequim. Miller is a Sequim City Council member and Forde a former Clallam County commissioner candidate. Andrew May of Port Angeles, Connie Beauvais of Joyce and William White of Beaver also filed for a District 3 seat on the charter commission. Charter commissioners are elected every eight years to consider putting ballot measures before voters that apply to county government operations beyond those required by state law. Any changes approved by voters must comply with
The Peninsula Trails Coalition’s 25th annual meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Dungeness River Audubon Center at Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road in Sequim. “I have to say the number of volunteers that help maintain that trail was a big piece of our application,” Chandler said. “You can always build something, but it takes a whole lot more to keep it up.”
More work to do Chandler said the limited signage of bike routes through Sequim put it in the bronze class. Last year, the city painted chevrons on the incomplete portions of the trail that run along Blake Avenue, Fir Street and Sequim Avenue in Sequim. Burkett said the city would like to improve the trail through the city with more bike lanes and signage, but funding is limited. “As you know, with any public works project, funding is an issue,” Burkett said. He hailed the efforts of volunteers like the trails coalition and Chandler submitting the Bicycle Friendly Community application as helping pick up some of that slack. “It’s another example of volunteers stepping up to do things that help make the city a better place,” Burkett said. Chandler noted the city received the distinction just before the league’s annual Bike to Work Day push which encourages workers to ride bicycles in lieu of driving to work this Friday.
________ Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Joe Smillie can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or at jsmillie@peninsuladailynews.com.
Rates: Splitting LLC of Holland, Mich., as a consultant to undertake a study of how much it actually costs to run the electric utility. Howe said that study should be finalized this fall and will be considered when the utility’s commissioners consider next year’s rates as part of the 2015 budget process.
_______ Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Joe Smillie can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or at jsmillie@peninsuladailynews.com.
Missing: Police say woman’s checks uncashed First reports last week had erroneously stated that Garrett had tried to cash the check herself May 1. An FBI agent based in Poulsbo and eight law enforcement personnel from Clallam and Jefferson counties’ sheriffs departments and the Port Townsend Police Department brainstormed for almost two hours Monday afternoon, Fudally said. They then returned to
CONTINUED FROM A1 It was the last contact he had with her. She was headed back to her home in Sequim after a stay in a rehabilitation clinic in Skagit County. The father said his daughter had two checks in her possession when she vanished, Fudally said. Neither one had been cashed as of Monday, police said.
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Full-scale search Options include a fullscale search of the park, further questioning her family and friends, and conducting more detailed interviews that go further back into her history, Fudally said. “That’s why we are
bringing together this task said Saturday. The missing woman’s force, to come up with the best plan for going forward.” mother, Eleana LivingstonChristianson of Sequim, found one of the two duffle Duffel bags bags in bushes near the A witness whose phone park and ride Wednesday, Garrett borrowed the eve- Fudally said, but the other ning of May 1 to call her bag has not been found. father told police he saw Police found Garrett’s her walking toward the personal items and a receipt Safeway after she left two for the Safeway purchase in duffle bags in a tree-lined the recovered bag, Fudally area near the park and ride. said. Garrett was last seen “We knew she went back that evening on Safeway to the park and ride. We surveillance video buying a just don’t have video evibottle of vodka and a dence or witnesses,” he said. Garrett is 5 feet, 7 inches bottle of soda, Fudally
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tall; weighs between 120 and 130 pounds; and has brown hair and hazel eyes. She has a tattoo of a bird behind her left ear and a tattoo of Washington state on her right wrist. Anyone with information about Garrett’s whereabouts should call Port Townsend police at 360385-3831, ext. 1, or if it’s an emergency matter, 9-1-1.