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February 21, 2011
Brinnon realty owner dies in one-car crash Wife in critical condition in Seattle hospital
At right, Maureen Pfaff models a wedding dress before the audience during the annual Peninsula Daily News Bridal Show at the Elks Naval Lodge Ballroom in Port Angeles on Sunday.
By Paige Dickerson Peninsula Daily News
Drilling, Brinnon General Contracting and Brinnon Mini Storage, according to his realty website. State Patrol gave this account of the crash: Candis Johnston was driving north on U.S. Highway 101 near Milepost 320 when she left the road to the right. The road curves to the left slightly in the area where the crash occurred. The 2003 Toyota Highlander left the roadway just before the Hamma Hamma bridge and struck a tree. Johnston was pronounced dead at the scene, and his wife was flown to Harborview for her injuries. Both of the Johnstons were wearing their seat belts. The cause of the crash was still under investigation Sunday. No charges or citations had been filed. The Highlander was destroyed.
HAMMA HAMMA — A Brinnon man was killed and his wife was injured in a one-car crash near Hamma Hamma at about 5:46 a.m. Sunday. Stanley Johnston, 66, of Brinnon, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was killed in the crash, State Patrol said. His wife, Candis Johnston, 64, suffered leg, torso and head injuries and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where she was in serious condition Sunday night, a nursing supervisor said. Stanley Johnston had owned ________ Johnston Realty for more than 30 years. Reporter Paige Dickerson can be He also owned and operated reached at 360-417-3535 or at paige. Jefferson County Escrow, Olympic dickerson@peninsuladailynews.com.
Hijacked yacht moving closer to Somali coast Chris Tucker (2)/Peninsula Daily News
At left, Sarah Shea models a bridesmaid’s dress at the annual bridal show Sunday.
Fashions, florals, food, more presented at annual show By Paige Dickerson
“It has gone really excellent,” said Sue Stoneman, the newspaper’s advertising operations PORT ANGELES — The Pen- manager and one of the coordiinsula Daily News Bridal Show nators of the event. was an extravaganza drawing “It is a great combination of about 300 people to plan the big- everything you would need to gest day of a bride’s life. plan the perfect wedding.” Caterers, florists and even interior designers flooded the Latest fashions Elks Naval Lodge Ballroom, 131 E. First St., in downtown Port Two fashion shows displayed Angeles while two fashion shows the latest designs from Black detailed the latest in wedding Diamond Bridal, The Toggery dresses. and Necessities & Temptations. Peninsula Daily News
Rain Alberti and her fiance, Jet Myers, both of Port Angeles, attended the show to get some ideas for their May 7 wedding. “We already had a florist, but we didn’t have someone to do the cake,” she said. “I think we really liked one of them here, and although I think I have a dress picked out, I thought it might be good to look at the fashion show and see what they had that was different.” Turn
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Seattle couple aboard vessel
The pirate’s claim could not be independently verified, and U.S. officials Sunday did not release any information about the yacht. A U.S. Embassy spokesman Saturday said officials were assessPeninsula Daily News ing options and “possible news services responses.” Hassan told the AP he was MOGADISHU, Somalia — A warship is shadowing a sailing speaking directly with the pirates yacht with four Americans on aboard the hijacked yacht. board, including a Seattle couple, that was hijacked by Somali Headed for pirate haven pirates, a pirate said Sunday as A second pirate who gave his the vessel was reported to be mov- name as Bile Hussein and a ing closer to the Somali coast. Somali official in Puntland who The yacht Quest was hijacked asked not to be named both said Friday off the coast of Oman but the Quest is between Yemen and is now in the waters between Somalia and heading closer to Yemen and northern Somalia, two Puntland, a haven for pirates on pirates and a Somali government Somalia’s northern tip. Pirates have increased attacks official told The Associated Press. One pirate, who gave his name on ships off the coast of East only as Hassan, said a warship Africa, but Americans have rarely been targeted. with a helicopter on its deck was near the Quest. Turn to Hijack/A7
Schools can’t hide from state budget ax Lawmakers seek to cut $2 billion from education
but that doesn’t stop lawmakers from cutting the money they spend on schools. In fact, education spending as a percentage of the state budget has been declining for years. In the past decade, education spending has gone from close to By Donna Gordon 50 percent to just above 40 perBlankinship cent of the state budget, despite The Associated Press the fact that some education OLYMPIA — The state Consti- spending is protected by the contution makes education the high- stitution. est priority of state government, The key to understanding state
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On the table Here are the education cuts already on the discussion table for the next biennium, most of which are part of the governor’s budget proposal: ■ A total of $1 billion from two different class-size reduction programs, one of which was authorized by voters in 2000. Turn
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spending on education lies in national board certification: not knowing what qualifies as basic basic. ■ Half-day kindergarten: education and what does not. basic. Full-day kindergarten: not. ■ The list of education proDefining basic education grams that can be cut by the LegThe definitions — some obvi- islature because they do not fall ous, some less so — have been under basic education is relacrafted over the years by state tively short, but they add up to lawmakers, with pressure from billions of dollars. the state Supreme Court: Lawmakers this year want to ■ Paying classroom teachers: cut nearly $5 billion from the budbasic education. get for the next two years. ■ Teacher bonuses for earning Nearly $2 billion will likely
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