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City, county officials ink 30-year sewer pact Carlsborg wastewater to be treated in Sequim
A sneak peek at Sequim’s Community Plaza City officials host design workshop on Dec. 8 Sequim Gazette staff
Sequim City councilors are anticipated to make the final design decision for Sequim’s Community Plaza as part of the city’s developing Civic Center, Monday, Dec. 8. “We think the plaza will provide a unique community identity,” Steve Burkett, city manDollars, sense ager, said. City of Sequim readies Given the future Civic
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A 30-year interlocal agreement to allow wastewater from the county’s Carlsborg Urban Growth Area to be treated at the city’s wastewater reclamation facility was signed by Sequim’s mayor and county commissioners at a joint city and county meeting, Monday, Nov. 24. The agreement was a policy piece needed to move forward with the construction of a collection system and pump station in Carlsborg that will transport wastewater to the point of delivery (near 1453 W. Washington St.) where it will then be conveyed via gravity to the city’s wastewater reclamation facility. “This is not the beginning of the end, but the end of a beginning,” administrative director for Clallam County Public Works
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An artist’s rendering of Sequim’s Community Plaza, with a water feature. City officials host a public workshop to consider designs on Dec. 8. Graphic courtesy of the City of Sequim
Let the Holidays Begin
Audrey Strohbusch, 4, of West Seattle, gets a good look at Sequim’s Christmas tree at a tree-lighting ceremony at Centennial Place on Nov. 29.
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The SHS Jazz Band fills the streets of downtown Sequim with holiday classics while children meet Santa.
Shellfish harvesting in the 3 Crabs area. A proposed major restoration project there is expected to help improve water quality issues. Photo courtesy of The North Olympic Lead Entity for Salmon
Dungeness watershed projects get a funding boost Efforts to end homelessness continue
Samantha Wickert sits with her younger brother Kenny on Santa’s lap while he met the far-off Peyton (10) and Taylor (6) Hancock, both of Sequim, visitor from the North Pole for the first time in downtown Sequim on Nov. 29. Sequim Gazette photos look at Sequim’s Christmas tree at a tree-lighting by Alana Linderoth, Michael Dashiell ceremony.
State pledges $7.5 million Sequim Gazette staff
Efforts at the Dungeness River watershed to reduce flood risk, conserve water and restore habitat will push forward into next year after receiving $7.5 million in state funding through the Floodplains By Design initiative. The grant administered by Adam Sant
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Surveys suggest an overall decline in Clallam County
unanimous adoption of the Clallam County Ten-year Plan to End Homelessness by the board of county commissioners in 2005, Kathy Wahto, executive director of Clallam County Serenity House, said. by ALANA LINDEROTH Although the plan took two Sequim Gazette years to develop, according to A “significant decrease” in most recent point-in-time surhomelessness has occurred vey, 59 unsheltered individuals within the county since the were documented as compared
to 203 in 2006. “The point in time is a trend line for us and primarily represents individuals outside HMIS (Homeless Management Information System) and are really the most vulnerable,” Wahto said. “Overall we’ve seen about a 80-percent reduction.” Though, if homelessness is to be eliminated by the end of the county’s 10-year plan
timeline, a lot still needs to be accomplished, Martha Ireland, forum moderator and executive coordinator for Clallam County Serenity House, explained during a meeting on plan implementation to end homelessness Nov. 19. “We used to talk about sheltering the homeless,
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