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Concert to aid young cancer survivor Drew Zeppa returns home from Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seven-year-old Drew Zeppa’s favorite activity at the Boys & Girls Club is building things at the Lego table. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
In response to Drew’s return home and to health, and to assist with expenses associated with his diagnosis, officials with the Boys & Girls Club, When: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Saturday, April 11 members of the Trey Green Guild and Where: Boys & Girls Club Sequim, 400 individuals from the Greywolf PTA W. Fir St. have collaborated to host a benefit conCost: $10 per person or $20 per family cert, “Zap Cancer,” Saturday, April 11. Tickets: At the Boys & Girls Club or online “We’re expecting a really fun, family at www.gofundme.com/drewzeppa event,” Janet Gray, a Trey Green Guild More info: Boys & Girls Club 683-8095. member, said. “The partnership between the organizations helps to leverage the “He’s almost completely back to community awareness.” normal,” Andrew Zeppa, Drew’s father See SURVIVOR, A-3 and single parent, said.
Zap Cancer: Drew Zeppa benefit concert
by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
A second-grader at Greywolf Elementary, Drew Zeppa recently returned home from Seattle Children’s Hospital where he fought and won against a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
State of the Arts
Educators seek COLA after sixyear suspension School staff salaries lag behind cost of living by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Art enthusiasts fill Colors of Sequim during the First Friday Art Walk on April 3. The art store is currently for sale after operating for more than two years on Washington Street. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
An inside look at Sequim’s art galleries, artists by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette
Your local arts and entertainment scene is in flux and has been for a while. From going to see a play to buying a piece of artwork to
visiting a lavender farm, your discretionary spending options continue to grow but so is the competition for your dollar. Sequim may be best known for its summer attractions, specifically lavender, but year-round Sequim’s arts community is in
full swing with plays from Olympic Theatre Arts and Readers Theatre Plus, live music at 7 Cedars Casino and small brick-and-mortar stores looking to make a living in the industry.
See ARTS, A-4
Blood Moon Rising Early risers in North America were treated to a lunar eclipse in the early hours of April 4. The moon slips fully into Earth’s shadow at 4:58 a.m. Pacific Time, starting a total lunar eclipse for nearly five minutes. NASA officials say it will be the shortest such eclipse of the century. Lunar eclipses are called “blood moons” because, as the moon moves deeper into the planet’s shadow, the Earth’s atmosphere filters out most of the blue light. The space agency predicts the next one will come Sept. 28. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series about different aspects of Sequim’s arts community from the painters to musicians to lavender farmers. Look next week, April 15, for Part 2.
Across the state, the salary of public school staff and educators, including those at the Sequim School District, have stayed stagnant while the cost of living continues to increase. “The average senior teacher has lost something like $30,000 over the last six years,” Brian Berg, chief negotiator for the Sequim Education Association, teacher and secondary math professional development coordinator, said. “At BERG our meetings, we’ve pretty much agreed we need to reinstate the COLA (cost-ofliving-adjustment).” Despite passing in 2000 by 63 percent, since 2008 the state Legislature has paused Initiative 732 that allowed teachers and other school district employees to receive COLA. Now, looking ahead to what would be the seventh year without salary adjustments, many school personnel statewide, including Sequim School employees, are feeling impacts from the suspension and seek to restore the COLA.
COLA support “It seems to me that the voters want to have fully funded education,” Elizabeth Joers, paraeducator and Sequim Association of Paraeducators president, said. “That’s what the McCleary
See COLA, A-6
Sequim ed foundation gets $630K+ gift for scholarships Bequest comes from believer in education
Jane “Juana” Q. Miller, who died in April 2014 at the age of 91, left a number of large donations to community groups, including a $637,000 bequest to the Sequim Education Foundation. Sequim Gazette staff The money will be used as an endowA lifelong passion for learning has given ment to generate scholarship money for local students help in pursuing their Sequim youths, foundation president Jodi career dreams. See GIFT, A-6
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