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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014 | Vol. 90, No. 28 | WWW.SOUTHWHIDBEYRECORD.COM | 75¢
Cammermeyer does it again Civil rights champion inducted into Nursing Hall of Fame
Proponents put brakes on fairground proposal By BEN WATANABE South Whidbey Record
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Grethe Cammermeyer stands in her office with a recent award inducting her into the Washington State Nurses Association Hall of Fame.
By CELESTE ERICKSON South Whidbey Record Alongside letters from former presidents, honorary certificates from several universities and movie posters depicting her life’s work, Langley resident Grethe Cammermeyer is adding yet another honor to the wall in her home
office. Cammermeyer was inducted into the Washington State Nurses Association Hall of Fame on Thursday, March 20 at a ceremony in Seattle. The honor is awarded to nurses who have achieved significant lifetime accomplishments in nursing.
For Cammermeyer, that includes 50 years of nursing, 30 years of service in the military as an army nurse, and 20 years of civil rights advocacy. “I was stunned, it was totally unexpected,” SEE CAMMERMEYER, A14
Governor Inslee signs second round of derelict vessel rules into law By JUSTIN BURNETT South Whidbey Record
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The Deep Sea is raised in Penn Cove in 2012. New legislation was signed into law this week aimed at derelict vessels.
The 2012 sinking of the F/V Deep Sea in Penn Cove is once again making waves across Washington. On Wednesday, Gov. Jay Inslee for the second year in
a row signed into law legislation aimed at combating the state’s ongoing derelict vessel problem. The bill, 2SHB 2457, follows on the heels of a bill passed in 2013 that addressed the same issue and was crafted in response to the Deep Sea’s sinking.
The new rules are an environmental victory for Puget Sound, said Rep. Norma Smith, R-Clinton, and sets an example for other coastal states struggling with the SEE VESSELS, A20
Opponents of a $10.12 million, 10-year plan to change the Island County Fairgrounds got what they wanted: a slower, more public approach to saving the property. After a final public presentation of the proposal, a hundred-plus page document outlining everything from the property’s history to its possible future of $3 million in revenue, members of a group opposed to the plan announced online that the proposal will not go before the county commissioners this month. Though one of the opposition’s more vocal members was not ready to call it a victory quite yet, noting that she agrees with the premise that something must change at the 12.8-acre fairgrounds in Langley. “I’m thrilled that they’re taking a step back, but I’m not sure what is next,” said Wendy Sundquist in a telephone interview Friday morning. Sundquist attended a Wednesday meeting in Oak Harbor and the two previous meetings on South Whidbey in February and March. She said the general consensus from the steering committee in Oak Harbor on Wednesday was that they were not going to take the proposal as it exists to the commissioners. “I don’t know at this time what they’re going to do,” she said. “They felt like they couldn’t present it, and needed to get together as a steering committee and talk about what their next step is.” “They have to do something,” she added. Commissioner Helen Price Johnson, who was on the steering committee and represents South and Central Whidbey, said SEE FAIR, A14