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City Public Works Director is stepping down W Haines to keep key position through November City of Sequim Public Works Director Paul Haines has announced he will leave the city at the end of November. In a letter to Sequim City Manager Steve Burkett, Haines said, “There are other personal
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challenges, adventures and professional opportunities I need to develop and now is the time for me to start that next chapter.” He also added, “I cannot say enough about our hard work-
ing Public Works staff and their personal efforts to maintain a well-kept, attractive, award-achieving and safe place for residents and visitors. Their efforts to treat our customers as if they were neighbors show
up in our ‘small-town’ friendly service. I have really appreciated this opportunity.” “Paul has accomplished everything that I was expecting when I hired him as our Public Works Director four years ago. I appreciate everything he has done to improve the public
works organization and the city,” said Burkett. Haines began working for the City of Sequim in April 2010. He will continue to work for the city until the end of November. Contact Burkett at 681-3440 or sburkett@sequimwa.gov with questions.
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stalled irrigation sleeving and underground infrastructure while the Clallam PUD worked to relocate power poles. This week both crews will continue their work and prepare the west side of the building for the remainder of the concrete slab.
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G Preliminary work on the foundation of Sequim’s Civic Center begins in June, as seen from this aerial photo. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell
settlement. Burkett told the Gazette last week that the city has “received the appraisal on that house and it came in at $92,000 so we are hopeful that we can settle with the
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From page A-7 aircraft, thereby significantly increasing the number of aircraft arrival and departure sequences, reducing the likelihood of aircraft runway incursions, eliminating dangerous intersection takeoffs and conserving jet fuel.” Gellert expects to find out next summer if his plans are approved. He said in addition to satellite GPS navigation, pilots would have visual contact with planes in front of, behind and alongside them, which isn’t always the case now. Some of the costs of implementation would be extending existing runways from 8,000 feet or 12,000 feet to 15,000 feet, he said. U.S. airport runways are configured differently, but most have incoming planes and outgoing planes on side by side runways,
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From page A-7 she began looking for employment and that turned up surprising results. As she began to realize that she was not going to find comparable employment in Sequim, she started thinking more about what she could do, bake! Her neighbor introduced her to a woman named Cathy Collins, a baker in town. Cathy was baking in a church kitchen and
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Burkett told city councilors at the July 28 meeting that city staffers remain “somewhat optimistic” that the bank will allow the sale to go through burkett on an adjacent property at 191 W. Spruce St. to the new civic center for parking. On July 14, City Attorney Craig Ritchie reported the bank of homeowners Steven and Peggy Sutherland of Renton requested a
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bank somewhere between $90,000 and $92,000.” City councilors voted unanimously on June 9 to enforce a short sale on the property, which Ritchie said came two years after the sale
landing and taking off in rapid succession from opposite directions. It’s also common to have planes taxiing across active runways to line up for takeoff. Usually long after the fact, the FAA will announce an incursion or near miss between incoming and outgoing planes. “With our system, landing and taxiing planes are moving away from arriving aircraft, so it’s a lot safer,” Gellert said. “My idea started in the 1950s and 1960s in bush flights in Alaska. I came up with a number of procedures and they worked and saved fuel and time by shorter taxiing. It’s in the interest of airlines to cut the time they’re on the tarmac. The benefit is that an airport could double the number of takeoffs and landings. It could be a real money saver and money maker.” However, Gellert hasn’t been able to convince the FAA director, “with no pilot or air traffic experience”
had various wholesale accounts. She took Linda on as her apprentice and after few months declared that she was ready to retire from baking. Fortunately for Linda, Cathy gave her all her wholesale accounts and passed everything on to her. Linda hoped to expand the business and contacted the Sequim Farmers Market in 2010. The market, of course, was thrilled to have her. I asked how the market shaped her start. “It gave me the confidence to open
he noted, to take a look at his plan, even though his company is willing to pay for a demonstration. “Our plan is to take it to Europe and Singapore and work with Airbus (Boeing’s manufacturing competitor),” Gellert said. “I would like to work with Boeing but so far we’ve not been able to strike up a deal with the FAA but I’m still trying.”
Douse, don’t delay For his third proposition, Gellert wants to change the mindset and the methods of the powers that be in state and national fire services in fighting wilderness fires. He maintains dropping water and/or flame retardants between firefighters and flames once fires have exploded into raging infernos is reactive when it should be proactive. His concept is to attack the fire directly in its early stages, putting it out well before it scorches miles of land —
my own place, to launch my own bakery,” which opened in 2011. After almost three years in the shop she realized that again, it was time for a change. So early in 2014 she closed the shop. “I enjoy the market so much more, I love this! I can do this! I am outside, I love the music.” She tells me the long hours running the bakery wore her down and this was the best thing she could have done for the business. While I am talking with her, a favorite customer
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approaches for her anniversary cake and gives Linda a heartfelt hug. This is one of many loyal customers who gratefully have found her at the market. She regularly takes special orders for anything from wedding cakes and pies to catering meals. You can pick up orders at her certified home bakery just two blocks from the market during the week or Saturdays at the market. Her approach at the market is, “I honed in on what sells best, the favorites of my customers which
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The music will be the fabulous Buck Ellard on Aug. 9 and the outstanding band Still Kickin’ on Aug. 16. Live music is every Saturday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. In the Suzanne Arnold Community booth on Aug. 9 will be the Rotary selling tickets for its Salmon Bake and on Aug. 16 it will be the Gem and Mineral Club. Hosting the Family Fun Booth on Aug. 9 will be Olympic Nature Experience and on Aug. 16 the Sequim Library. See you at the market!
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If the sale goes through, the city requests “immediate use and possession” of the property. For more updates on the civic center project, visit www.sequimwa.gov.
critical time frame. Once it’s growing, there are too many flames and too much smoke, so planes then can’t fly low enough, and then the fire starts covering a bigger and bigger area.” Gellert said another advantage of striking proactively is that the scene is preserved for investigators to determine the fire’s cause — lightning, human carelessness or arson. He noted that individual wilderness firefighters favor his proactive concept but it’s bogged down in the inertia of bureaucracy. But Gellert is not discouraged. “I keep on prodding and I think it will come to this (proactive method). I can’t imagine another option.” For Gellert’s background, see www.aerospacesafetyandsecurity. com.
includes a variety of berry hand pies, mud bars and lemon bars.” Each week she brings a beautiful selection of cookies, pies, bars, savory quiches and more. Finally, she adds, “The people at the market, the other vendors, they are wonder ful people. The vendors here all help each other, there is a huge sense of family and friendship among the market community. I love everything about the market and the new location is fabulous,” she says with a big smile on her face.
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if the house is not obtained by the end of the year it could delay the civic center project and cost more than anticipated to bring back the subcontractors for demolition and construction.
to drench and quench in the first “Golden Hour.” “The problem with fires having fuel is they kind of explode. What I’ve been suggesting to fire service officials is to buy large airline aircraft and convert them into firefighting airplanes that can stay up in the air longer, fly low and carry a heavy load, like we did in Vietnam with Agent Orange,” Gellert explained. “These wide body refitted jetliners can drop 12,000-24,000 gallons on a fire compared to a mere 800 gallons by helicopter. We need heavy lift, heavy hit — timely intervention in the first hour of an identified fire. These aircraft can cover the nation, dump a heavy load and stay on station (in the area) for extended periods,” Gellert said. “This way we can put out a fire at its inception by dousing the fire itself. National Guard pilots could get to a fire in less than an hour, a
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was agreed upon. He added that the bank loaned the Sutherlands more ($140,000) than what the city is buying it for now, which likely was holding up the sale. City staff indicated that
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