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The future’s so bright ... Reason to smile? Absolutely. At left, Sequim High School senior Wyatt Billings gets ready to accept his diploma and congrats from Sequim School Board president Bev Horan (left lens) and SHS principal Shawn Langston (right lens) at the high school’s graduation ceremonies on June 12. Below, Syndney Hastings and classmates share a laugh and breathe a bit easier, as more than 220 Wolves took part in Sequim High’s commencement. See story and more photos on B-1 and an online photo slideshow at www.sequimgazette.com.
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Sequim sets six candidates for city manager Selection could come Friday Sequim Gazette staff
Ceremonial welcome for new civic center Dignitaries and residents gather to see totem, 9/11 memorial
Mary Whitmore, on left, and Pat Molatore admire the new 9/11 memorial in the City of Sequim’s Civic Center community plaza on June 13. “The totem pole is phenomenal,” Molatore said after the dedication ceremony for the center. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
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It was a milestone weekend in Sequim. Hundreds of Sequim High School students celebrated their academic careers on Friday before hundreds of residents and dignitaries took in the dedication of the City of Sequim’s new Civic Center on Saturday. People packed the nearly Serenity House Thrift Store Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe over the plaza near flag finished community plaza at used to stand. Now a strik- called “Why the Sun Always poles separated by a steel 152 W. Cedar St. where the ing totem pole from the Shines in Sequim,” towers See CENTER, A-13
Six finalists for the City of Sequim’s City Manager position come to town on Thursday, June 18, for a meetand-greet. The candidates — Charles Bush of Issaquah, John DuRocher of Des Plaines, Ill., Belinda Graham of Riverside, Calif., Kandis Hanson of Mound, Minn., Yvonne Kimball of Dewey-Humboldt, Ariz., and William Kohbarger of North Las Vegas, Nev. — will be available from 5:307 p.m. at the new Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St. On Friday, Sequim City Council members and city staff will interview the candidates to replace retiring City Manager Steve Burkett. His last day is June 30 after serving since October 2009. Burkett said a decision on the hiring may be made on Friday.
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Creating a metro park district SARC prop awaits voter response by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
The potential of a new tax district hovers in the near future. Pending on voters’ approval in August during the Primary Election, the SARC (Sequim Aquatic
Recreation Center) Metropolitan Park District could be the 18th metropolitan park district within the state following the recent development of the Seattle Park District last year. If approved, the new
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County controls for recreational cannabis still undecided Commissioners may look to voters for guidance by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
How recreational cannabis is locally managed could be up to the voters. Following a Clallam County Board of Commissioners work session June 8, the commissioners opted to seek the steps needed to place two ordinances outlining
county controls for recreational cannabis on the November General Election ballot. The act of asking the voters to decide between the differing ordinances comes at a price. “It’s going to cost a lot of money to do this when it’s their (commissioners’) job to vote on it,” Mary Ellen Winborn, Clallam County Department of Community Development
director, said. “It will cost between $20,000 and $80,000 depending on how many other measures on the ballot.” Since last October, WINBORN county officials have relied on a temporary ordinance to address Initiative 502 (legalized recreational cannabis) applications or inquiries. To allow the Clallam County Planning Commission and
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Department of Community Development staff more time to create a permanent ordinance, county commissioners extended the interim ordinance once in March, but those controls (Ordinance 900) expire Sept. 17. After 14 planning commission work sessions and ongoing revisions to the draft ordinance the planning commission failed to get the necessary vote to recommend the draft to the county commis-
Voters to decide Turning from Winborn’s and the DCD staff’s recommendation to support the most recent draft ordinance, county commissioners
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