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Barn again? Branding Sequim Barn owner Mark Smith poses in front of the 1940s-era barn. Sequim Gazette photos by Patricia Morrison Coate
Owner of old barn invites options to rehab, repurpose or even recycle by PATRICIA MORRISON COATE Sequim Gazette
Some barns are beautiful with intricate cupolas and shapely gambrel roofs. Others are just plain Janes, built for function only, without an eye to the esthetic. Such is a barn that Mark Smith acquired in September on Harrison Road. Recently he posted fliers through the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce which in effect say, “Take my barn — please!” The family company, JOJACO Properties, owned by
Smith, his wife Aleta and daughters Jode Beauvais and Jacquie Wilskey, has several adjoining parcels on Harrison Road and as good neighbors, its owners are committed to cleaning up the neighborhood. “The new owners say blow it up, burn it down, get it out of our sight!” reads Smith’s flier. He may not be looking for such drastic measures, but Smith certainly wants some good use to come of the barn — by someone else. “We removed two 20-yard dump trucks of junk out of
See BARN, A-4
How do we name people from the city of sunshine? How do you feel about being a Sequimite? How about a Sequimarian? Or a Sequimmer or Sequimian? When I first started with the Sequim Gazette, I wrote a column that asked “What are the people of Sequim called?” Following a bad joke about sequins and disco, the column alluded that by definition a Sequim resident is a Sequimite. A few days after that column ran, a reader phoned me to say I was incorrect. She said a newcomer was a Sequimite and after a certain amount of time they become a Sequimarian. But, two children later and countless stories written, I can’t recall if it was the other way around or not. What we do know is that there are some definites — Seattle people are
Reporter’s Notebook Matthew Nash Seattleites and Portland residents are Portlanders. But not much credence goes into naming the people of smaller cities like Sequim. Do you refer to your grandmother in Gig Harbor as a Gig Harborian or Uncle Stu in Sammamish as a Sammamishian? Probably not.
Doug McInnes, who publishes “The Ditchwalker” for Sequim Old-Timers and Sequim Schools Alumni, wrote a tongue-and-cheek column on the subject of who we are in November 2005. “Having to say you are ‘from Sequim’ hasn’t got any real class or rhythm to it, like saying you are Parisian or Laplander,” he wrote. McInnes considered several options including the popular Sequimite which he said “conjured up visions of small burrowing creatures that eat your house.” He discards a few other choices, too. Sequimlandian: too long. Sequestiran: too horse-related. Sequimmer: “too much like swimmer and the town isn’t even on the water.”
See SEQUIM, A-4
PUD approves 3.5% electricity rate increase for 2015 General manager gets pay increase; district’s capital projects under way by MATTHEW NASH
customer can expect to pay about $3.35 more per month. Utility district commissioners Starting April 1, 2015, the aver- unanimously approved the 3.5 age Clallam Public Utility District percent electricity rate increase Sequim Gazette
on Dec. 15, following a 3.5 percent increase in July, which was the fourth time in five years the commissioners agreed to raise rates. Also impacted are the utility district’s water and sewer users, with more than 900 in the Sequim area, who will see a 6 percent increase on Jan. 1, 2015. Utility district officials
say the increase equates to about $2.50 per month to water bills and $2.40 per month for sewer bills. Dave Papandrew, utility district treasurer/controller, said the electricity rates stem from anticipated 8 percent wholesale rate increases from the Bonneville Power Administration every two years.
Utility District General Manager Doug Nass said at a recent Sequim informational meeting about the increases that Bonneville has its own rising costs with replacing aging infrastructure and machines so it is passing on some of its costs
See PUD, A-9
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