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Vol. 42, Number 37
SARC’s future remains unclear Board, director make changes to keep facility open through Sept. 2016 by MICHAEL DASHIELL Sequim Gazette
Before they consider going back to voters with another levy proposal to keep the facility open, Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center leaders want to see what kind of partnerships they can form. Unfortunately, SARC board directors say, there is little paperwork to back up talks of partnerships with city, county and the Olympic Peninsula YMCA.
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SARC leaders announced a Sept. 30, 2016, closure date for the facility earlier this year. Last week, with a proverbial eye on a possible February 2016 levy proposal, the board of directors brought reports of meetings with various local agencies but no concrete proposals to help secure SARC’s future.
See SARC, A-10
Early learning through nature
City officials purchased background signs to make the motorist information signs along the South Sequim Avenue exit more attractive and conform to state requirements. See more news from the City of Sequim on page A-9. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
Commissioners OK rules to regulate recreational pot by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
Classmates of Owl’s Hollow Nature School Lucy Greenwalt and Finn Curran, investigate the different plant species surrounding their all-outdoor classroom with teacher Joshua Sylvester. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
All-outdoor school grows into its 2nd year
said. “I think there’s been a shift away from education in a traditional sense to experience.” by ALANA LINDEROTH a learning opportunity at Owl’s Hollow Although Owl’s Hollow Nature School Sequim Gazette Nature School. is centered on providing a personalized “Everything we do blossoms from the free-flowing educational experience for Something as small as a raindrop to forest,” Sarah Salazar-Tipton, executive as large as a towering tree can inspire director of Olympic Nature Experience, See NATURE, A-14
New publisher takes lead with Peninsula newspaper group
Clallam County Commissioners adopted local rules to regulate recreational marijuana nearly three years after Washington voters legalized it. Since last October and until the commissioners’ vote on Tuesday, Sept. 15, officials within the county’s Department of Community Development have relied on temporary guidelines to incorporate those wanting to process, produce or sell recreational marijuana within Clallam County. The ordinance passed in a 2-1 vote with Clallam County commissioners Jim McEntire and Bill Peach supportive of the Clallam County Planning
See POT, A-8
Habitat for Humanity seeks to help Downtown Sequim Neighborhood Revitalization surveyors hit streets Sept. 19
Ward succeeds retiring Brewer
Born after his father died in a car crash, he was the youngest of four children who helped his family make ends meet in towns across California, Oregon and by MICHAEL DASHIELL Washington state. Sequim Gazette The lessons he learned were Terry Ward, the new publisher of the Peninsula Daily News, obvious. Before he was old enough to Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum, checks out the falls in Sioux “If you work hard, you will Falls, S.D., with wife Quinn and children Violet, 3, Dawson, attend school, Terry Ward was working. See PUBLISHER, A-11 7, and Eleanor, 1. Photo courtesy of Terry Ward
by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette Community members will patrol the streets of Downtown Sequim on Saturday, Sept. 19, looking for ways to help. Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County is organizing a survey of the condition of streets, homes and the general area of four downtown quadrants as part of its initial Neighborhood Revitalization plan.
See HABITAT, A-9
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