Sequim Gazette, November 26, 2014

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Shopper’s haven in Sequim this week Free dinners, Santa and more come to town Sequim Gazette staff

Whether you prefer to brave the lines for a deal on Black Friday or to stroll into a shop on Small Business Saturday, Sequim’s retailers seem ready to try to accommodate shoppers

this holiday season. On Thanksgiving two businesses and a As custom, several businesses are church are offering free dinners for those opening early on Nov. 28 for the post- in-need and/or as a benefit. Thanksgiving shopping rush while See HAVEN, A-6 other national chains start sales on Thanksgiving night. Several local busiGarnet Charles of Port Angeles searches nesses extend their hours on Saturday for the right sheets inside JCPenney on in conjunction with Santa Claus and the Monday. She’s not sure if she’ll participate Sequim tree lighting, too, at Centennial in Black Friday shopping but when she does she prefers to go to small shops. Sequim Place, the northeast corner of WashingGazette photo by Matthew Nash ton Street and Sequim Avenue.

Braving the waters Sequim High diver conquers fears while honoring her brother

Signs of the Season At left, Linda Schulz (far left) and Jodi Minker from the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce decroates trees at the Bank of Amercia Park. Below, Capt. Crystal Stout of Morning Star Balloon Co. puts the finishing touch on Sequim’s downtown Christmas tree.

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Recent efforts to repair two tennis courts at Sequim High School might not be enough to reopen them for play this spring due to unsafe conditions. After maintenance crews placed placed a tennis court repair material in October, cracks and holes remain in the lower courts. John McAndie, maintenance and operations supervisor, said he’s noticed weeds

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Halfway down the pool on her first day with the Sequim High School swim team, freshman Anna White, 14, began to panic. “I could swim perfectly fine coming from the 12 feet into the four but going from the four feet into the 12 feet I would lose control and panic,” Anna said. “I couldn’t go past (halfway). I would just stop myself.” WHITE Anna was scared, she said. It had been more than a month after her 18-year-old brother Calvin Josiah “CJ” William White drowned July 19 in Lake Cushman. He drowned going from the shallow water to deeper water, his mom Peggy Roedell said. Anna was on her way to the water at the time of the accident with towels for everyone. Her family searched for CJ and about three hours after their 9-1-1 call CJ was found in 12-foot-deep water. Since then, family and friends remember him for his faith, friendliness, selflessness and much more. Anna said his death hit her hard. She spent the rest of the summer with her

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Hydrotherapy to remain an OMC service Community support stops pool closure by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette

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Geoduck farm proposed for Dungeness Bay Geoduck farmers typically use PVC pipe to raise their geoducks in until they reach a size large enough to evade predation. Submitted photo

Cracks keep Sequim High tennis courts closed

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The largest producer of farmed shellfish in the United States, Taylor Shellfish Farms, recently began the permitting process to establish a 30acre geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay. Although the world renown shellfish farm includes 11,000 acres of tidelands along the Washington coast and British Columbia, with numerous farms around the Puget Sound,

the proposed geoduck farm would be the first shellfish farm operated by the company in Clallam County. “We have a pretty robust permitting and review process, but would love to start farming as soon as possible,” Diani Taylor, fifth generation farmer for Taylor Shellfish Farms, said. Although Taylor said they’ve been working toward a potential geoduck farm in Dungeness

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A fter a n a nonymous $25,000 donation, a fundraiser and months of gathering community contributions, officials with the Olympic Medical Center Foundation have collected the $50,000 required to reline the center’s hydrotherapy pool. “We’re obviously very happy we were able to do it,” Bruce Skinner, executive director of the OMC Foundation, said. “These are the types of projects we like to do.”

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