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Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014
Air Affaire wows Sequim crowd
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One man’s flight, a community effort A one-of-a-kind celebration Event seeks to unite cancer survivors by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Before takeoff, Lloyd Brown, 74, gives the thumbs up to family and friends. He was one of 31 veterans to fly with the Ageless Aviation Dreams program and was hoisted up by Clallam County Fire District 3 firefighters so he could fly. Photos courtesy of Jay Cline
Partial paralysis doesn’t deter Lloyd Brown by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette
A bum leg was the last thing that was going to hold back Lloyd Brown, 74, from returning to Sequim’s skies on Saturday. Paralyzed in the left leg from a 2002 construction accident, Brown, an aviation enthusiast and U.S. Navy veteran, found himself soaring the Sequim skies once again with the help of some new friends. Crews with Clallam County Fire
Dreams program, a nonprofit foundation that provides free flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane for seniors and veterans. To get Brown airborne, many people went to great lengths to get him there, his twin brother Lyle Brown said. First the brothers went to the Sequim Valley Airport the night before the Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire to see if it was even possible for Lloyd to catch a flight. At the airport Firefighters, from left, Capt. Marc Lawson, they met Captain-Crystal Stout, a hot Lt. Joel McKeen, Firefighter/EMT Kjel Skov air balloon captain, and Diane Winand volunteer firefighter Lee Oman hoist terboer, the tour coordinator for the Lloyd Brown into an airplane for his first flights program. ride over Sequim since 1961. “I told them I’d like to get (on the list), and from there it was Diane and CrysDistrict 3, Casey’s Kettle Corn and the tal’s mission to get me in the plane,” Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire helped See RIDE, A-6 Brown fly with the Ageless Aviation
Powell to serve six months in jail Former teacher set for sex offender rehabilitation Sequim Gazette staff
A Tacoma judge sentenced Meredith Powell, 25, a former teacher with Sequim roots, to six months in jail on Friday, Aug. 29, after she pleaded guilty to three sex crimes charges on July 23. Powell was facing up to five years for two counts of child
rape in the third degree and one count of communication with a minor for immoral purposes in Pierce County Superior Court. Her at tor ne y Wayne Fricke said after Powell’s plea that they were seekPOWELL ing six months in jail and three years of sexual offender rehabilitation. Once released from jail, Powell will register as a sex offender and
Susan Clements, patient navigator for Olympic Medical Cancer Center, claims she is not a grant writer by any means, but she decided to write a proposal for one of three grants nationally administered by the American Cancer Society from the Walgreens corporation. To her surprise, Clements received the $20,000 grant she submitted and now is working within the confines of that grant to organize a day to unite, celebrate and educate women cancer survivors and women with cancer. “I don’t think there has ever been anything like
Circle of Life Celebration
What: A day for sister cancer survivors to gather and share in the joy of life’s journey. When: 9:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 6. (Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.) Where: Sequim Middle School, 301 W. Hendrickson Road. Invited: Event is open to all women cancer survivors and women with cancer. Cost: Free More info: Call Olympic Medical Cancer Center patient navigator Susan Clements at 582-2845. this offered on the Olympic Peninsula that I’m aware of,” Clements said. “I wish I could have opened the event to men, too, but the grant is specific to women.”
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Clockwise, Olympic Medical Cancer Center staff Robin Moreau, D’Ann Gonzales, Sue Kenney, Susie Pearce and Susan Clements gather to discuss the upcoming Circle of Life Celebration. Clements received a $20,000 grant from the Walgreens corporation administered by the American Cancer Society to use for the event. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
County hearing examiner denies pot permit Cassidy Road remains free from marijuana processing, production
2 processing and production operation, Palmer Brothers Farms, was denied Wednesday, Aug. 27. Clallam County Hearing Examiner Mark Nichols denied the permit given Palmer’s proposal was “inconby ALANA LINDEROTH sistent” with county zoning code, Sequim Gazette the spirit and intent of the county Comprehensive Plan and land uses The conditional use permit re- within the zoning district. Despite quested by potential Initiative 502 having found the plan would have no licensee Travis Palmer for a Tier unreasonable adverse impact on the
surrounding land uses with proper mitigation efforts, Nichols denied the permit. Nichols’ decision is in agreement with the Clallam County Department of Community Development. DCD Deputy Director Steve Gray told Nichols the department suggested he deny Palmer’s request because of the scale of size and the “neighborhood
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