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Patient influx at Jamestown family clinic Facility reaches new patient capacity by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
In the past five months the Jamestown Family Health Clinic has experienced a 15-percent new patient increase which totals nearly 2,000 new patients. Because of the patient influx the clinic is experiencing it has had to stop accepting new patients with
The Jamestown Family Health Clinic has experienced a 15-percent patient increase in the past five months. The clinic opened in 2010 and now has more than 14,000 active patients. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
manager Gene Burwell said they anticipated an increase of new patients with the onset of Medicaid the exception of Medicaid insured expansion under the Affordable Care Act effective January 2014, but patients. “The demand of patients coming they thought the patient increase in was higher than the speed we would spread out over time. could ramp up,” Jamestown Family Health Clinic director of Health Large patient influx “All kinds of things fell into place Services Brent Simcosky said. “I think that did catch us by surprise with a couple of people closing their practices and retiring, an increase a little bit.” Simcosky and Jamestown Family See CLINIC, A-8 Health Clinic Budget and Planning
Gardiner man tops in Sequim’s pot lottery
MAKING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
City moratorium and occupancy issue may prevent opening by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette
Tiger Scout Jorel Bessey, 7, of Sequim, works on a “Straws and Connectors” project at the Family Fun Day on Washington Street on Saturday. Josiah Bates, 10, of Seattle, looks on. See more photos from the Irrigation Featival’s first weekend on B-1. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell
David Halpern of Gardiner and his Emanon Systems, Inc. could be Sequim’s first retail marijuana seller. The Washington State Liquor Control Board listed Halpern and its other top candidates on May 2 after a double-blind lottery the week before. Halpern sits as the only Sequim area applicant at 755 W. Washington St., Suite C. The Hidden Bush, in Port Angeles; High Grade Organics in Forks; and Weed-R-US in Port Angeles are frontrunners for the three
See LOTTERY, A-15
FOURTH IN A SERIES Museum board looks Parks Perspectives: Sequim’s ‘Pocket Parks’ to preserve grain elevator by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Bank holds decision on stopping auction Friday by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette
Whether or not the iconic Sequim Co-op grain elevator and El Cazador site at 531 W. Washington St. goes to auction remains up in the air.
See GRANARY, A-15
A mong Sequim’s larger parks, there are a few small city parks nestled into town dubbed “pocket parks” given their size and intercity locations. Instead of providing outstretching grassy space or playground equipment for children to play, pocket parks provide a place to take a quick breathier while walking through downtown, an area to host public events or simply a place to sit and wait for the next bus. Sequim’s pocket parks in-
clude Seal Street Park, Centennial Place and Heritage Park.
Seal Street Park
Once a through street off of Washington Street in central Sequim, Seal Street was established as a city park in 2003 as part of a Downtown Revitalization Project, according to Sequim City Council meeting minutes. The park was fittingly named in recognition of Charles Franklin Seal who was an entrepreneur within the area and built the Sequim Trading Company at the corner of Washington Street
See PARKS, A-9
From left, Greg Felando and Brian Buntain, artists and members of the Blue Whole Gallery, visit, relax and enjoy the sunshine at Seal Street Park across the street from the gallery. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
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