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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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Olympic Medical Center explores SARC expansion Partnership would include addition to SARC structure as part of OMC’s shift of focus from ‘sickness’ to ‘wellness’
by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Throughout the next six months commissioners from Olympic Medical Center and the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center will discuss the
possibility of a partnership. If pursued, a partnership likely would include an addition to the existing SARC structure. As health care shifts from a “fee for service” to a “wellness, prevention and chronic
disease management” model, officials with OMC are seeking ways to transition, Eric Lewis, OMC chief executive officer, said. “We’d like to convert from sickness to a wellness focus,” he said, “SARC is a natural
partner for these goals.” The similarity between the SARC and OMC missions is “really driving the desire for an interlocal agreement,” Frank Pickering, SARC board
See SARC/OMC, A-8
Landmark barn comes down
Stars, Stripes
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The barn owned by Ray and Roger Fasola just south of the U.S Highway 101/Sequim Avenue off-ramp comes down earlier this week. Photo by Bob Lampert
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Above, Don Hyatt with VFW Carlsborg Post 6787, on left, places flags on veterans’ graves at Sequim View Cemetery with Don Schriener of American Legion Post 62. Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash
Hailey Collier, 11, of the Sequim Rainbow Girls, along with with Coast Guardsmen from Everett and members of the VFW in Carlsborg and the American Legion in Sequim, helps place American flags at the Sequim View Cemetery on May 23.
Owner says structure was ‘becoming a liability’ by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
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ifferent service groups helped prepare Sequim’s cemeteries with U.S. flags on veterans’ graves on May 23 for Memorial Day weekend. Carl Bradshaw, commanding officer for American Legion Sequim Post 62, said his group places flags annually at Sequim View, Jamestown, Blue Mountain and Dungeness cemeteries. They also led the Memorial Day services this year and switch annually with Sequim VFW Post 4760. Also helping with flags were representatives with Sequim Rainbow for Girls No. 57, Carlsborg VFW Post 6787, Coast Guardsmen from Everett and the Sequim VFW.
Time finally took its toll on a historical barn settled between U.S. Highway 101 and Brownfield Road. The sky visible through the shingles of the barn’s aging roof and its weathering support structure spurred co-owner of the barn Ray Fasola to knock it down. Given location of the old barn and its visibility to all those
See BARN, A-3
Senate resolution honors Tribe eyes replacing damaged trestle ‘Classy Bob Massey’ Design contract A Sequim radio broadcaster who airs old-time hits from the 1940s and 50s on his weekday program was honored by the state Senate MASSEY recently for being the oldest active on-air broadcaster in America. A resolution honoring Bob Massey, who turned 90 in March, passed the Senate on April 22. Known by his listeners as “Classy Bob Massey,” he begin his radio ca-
reer while in high school, setting up a hobby radio station in his family’s home in Nashville, Tenn. He was a U.S. Army broadcaster for the Armed Forces Radio network in Europe during World War II. After the war he worked at stations in Florida, Alaska, Yakima and Tacoma before retiring in Sequim in 1992. He rekindled his broadcasting with community radio network KSQM 91.5 Radio after its founding in 2008. Massey can be heard from 9 a.m.noon on KSQM Monday-Friday.
for new bridge is awarded, under way by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
With enough funding, a new “river-worthy” bridge will replace the damaged trestle at Railroad Bridge Park. The trestle spanning the Dungeness River was damaged in early February when heavy rains that caused rapid currents, high flows
and loose debris loosened piers holding up the trestle. Since then, the trestle — and the corresponding portion of the Olympic Discovery Trail — has been closed. “If the river wants to go somewhere else, either the trestle isn’t going to let it or the river is going to take the trestle,” Randy Johnson, habitat program manager for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, said. Heightened river conditions negatively impacted the trestle, but the century-old, 150-foot bridge on the structure’s east end remains undamaged and will connect to another bridge aimed
at replacing the trestle. As owner of the park and its facilities, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe has taken the lead toward replacing the damaged trestle and reopening the trail. “Whether we start with a temporary fix or can begin construction of a new bridge this year will depend on funding, expedited design and permits and on whether contractors will be available for this ambitious project,” Annette Nesse, chief operations officer for Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, said.
See TRESTLE, A-11
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