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Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader Wednesday, June 8, 2011 • A 3
The race is on – at least for seats on the Port Townsend City Council and the Quilcene School Board.
Election season can’t begin until the candidates put their names on the line – which started Monday and continues through Friday here in Jefferson County.
The majority of seats on many nonpartisan boards and commissions are up for grabs in the Jefferson County primary election on Aug. 16; some candidates and races will be decided in the November general election.
Candidates must file for office by Friday, June 10, with the auditor’s office at the courthouse in Port Townsend. File in person between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
The auditor’s office updates candidate filing daily, http://tinyurl.com/nhow2a.
Here are the candidates from only the Jefferson County positions who put their names on the line a of 1 p.m. Tuesday:
Port Townsend City CouncilTwo of the four incumbents with their positions on the 2011 ballot filed on Monday for re-election: George Randels for Position 4 and David King for Position 6.
Two newcomers filed on Tuesday for Position 3: Paul Richmond (who has been an unsuccessful candidate
for county prosecutor and U.S. Congress) and Pamela Adams. Laurie Medlicott is the Position 3 incumbent.
Port of Port Townsend
Steve Tucker has filed for the seat representing District 1. Tucker was the first candidate in line Monday morning to file.
Jefferson County Public Hospital District 2
Tony DeLeo has filed for re-election.
Quilcene School District
Incumbent Lorna Ward and Gene D. Long have both
filed for the No. 4 at-large position. Two other posi-tions are also on the ballot.
Chimacum School District
David Robocker has filed for re-election. One other posi-tion is also on the ballot.
Port Townsend School District
Anne Burkart has filed for re-election. Pamela Daly has filed for one of the two other positions on the ballot.
Quilcene Fire District
Herb Beck, former port dis-trict commissioner, has filed for the position now occu-pied by appointee Debbie Randall.
Brinnon Fire District
Ron Garrison has filed for re-election.
Brinnon Water District
Daniel Carlson has filed for Position 2.
Coyle/Thorndyke Parks & Recreation District
Gary Elmer has filed for re-election.
Queets Fire District
Jim Stehn has filed for re-election.
Quillayute Valley School District
David L. Dickson has filed for re-election.
Sequim School District
(Residents of Gardiner in Jefferson County are part of
this Clallam County school district.)
Incumbents Sarah Bedinger and John Bridge have filed for re-election. Incumbent Walter Johnson has two challengers so far: Richard Fleck and Stephen Rosales.
Clallam Fire District No. 3
(Residents of Gardiner in Jefferson County are part of this Clallam County fire district.)
Richard Houts has filed for re-election.
Jefferson County Public Hospital District 1 (West End)
Kathy Dickson has filed for re-election.
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By Nicholas Johnson of the Leader
The council chambers were quiet Monday evening after Deputy Mayor George Randels, sitting in for Mayor Michelle Sandoval, opened the floor to public comment.
Following brief coun-cil discussion, the Port Townsend City Council made a unanimous show of support for the city’s annexation into Jefferson County Fire District 1 (East Jefferson Fire Rescue). In real terms, the council chose to take action on the draft “pre-annexation” inter-local agreement at its next regu-lar meeting on June 20.
Once the council approves the agreement, it goes to the district’s three fire commis-sioners for acceptance. Both the city and the fire district must agree to annexation before Aug. 16 in order to get the question before city vot-ers on the Nov. 8 ballot. If it fails there, the question gets a second chance in February 2012. If voters approve, the annexation agreement goes into effect in 2013.
Currently, Fire District 1 (Port Hadlock, Chimacum, Irondale, Marrowstone
Island, Kala Point, Cape George, Center) taxpayers contribute $1 per $1,000 of assessed property value through a specific fire levy.
The city does not have a fire levy; it pays for fire ser-vice out of its general fund. Annexation would require that city taxpayers pay the same fire levy as the fire dis-trict’s rural residents. (Both city and fire district resi-dents currently pay an equal level of emergency medical services levy).
East Jefferson Fire Rescue was created out of what once was the Port Townsend Fire Department. In lieu of a fire levy, the city currently contributes $831,138 annually to EJFR for fire services via a general fund allocation.
Doing the math, that comes out to city property owners now paying about 57 cents per $1,000 of assessed value for fire services. Annexation must equalize these contributions, effec-tively increasing property taxes on city taxpayers by about 43 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.
Also, the city has com-mitted to fire service half of
its share of voter-approved Proposition 1 sales tax rev-enue. This money, an esti-mated $225,000 a year, goes toward the fire district’s $320,000 capital bond debt. The city committed to paying the district’s bond as part the city’s fire service share. The difference between $225,000 and $320,000 originally was to be made up through other city sources. This city pay-ment ends with annexation.
FIRE HALLThe agreement outlines
levels of service within the city as well as non-city areas, discusses the use and loca-tion of the fire hall uptown and proposes an increase in the district’s board of com-missioners from the current three to five.
“What gives me comfort is that if annexation passes, whether or not it’s a five-member board or a three-member board, there will be a board that is elected by the voters of the district and the voters of the city,” Randels said. “As an elected official, I would imagine that the voters in the city – who are really good at voting – will insist on having a say as
to what the fire department does. It will be their fire department.”
Councilmember Kris Nelson raised concern over the potential location of a fire hall intended to primar-ily serve the city. After 20 years the district may choose to sell the existing city fire hall and relocate it. The draft agreement says that the location of the fire hall may be “in or near” the city.
“I think the word ‘near’ is way too vague and, by not specifying it be within the city, causes great alarm,” Nelson said.
By the end of council’s discussion, the phrase “or near” was struck from the agreement. Otherwise, all present councilors expressed support for annexation and applauded both David King and Catharine Robinson on their work with the district to produce the agreement.
“Annexation was not my first choice,” Nelson said. “But, in reading through it, I think everyone did a really good job of addressing all of our concerns. Every concern we brought up is addressed and the document is put together really well.”
Council supports fire annexation
Candidates put names on the line
Steve Tucker, candidate for the Port of Port Townsend’s District 1 com-missioner’s seat, was the first local candidate to file for the 2011 election season. Candidates have until 4:30 p.m., Friday, June 10 to file for local school board, fire district, cemetery district, City Council and other posi-tions. Photo by James Robinson
Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader Wednesday, July 6, 2011 • A 3
By Gina Cole of the Leader
Chimacum High School alumnus Simon Rowe, 23, has won a national skills competition in collision repair technology.
Rowe took home the gold on June 23 at the 47th annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City, Mo., after previous wins at the regional and state lev-els. He competed against 28 other state champions in the college/postsecondary cat-egory.
This is the first time Rowe has competed in this national competition, but he has been working on cars for almost a decade.
A new skillRowe’s sister, Randi, said
he has always been into cars – but not necessarily fixing them. In fact, he started out destroying them.
He and his high school buddies used to bring vehicles into his family’s horse arena on their Marrowstone Island property, turning the arena lights on so they could tear around their self-made mud bogs and jumps all night.
“I think he started learn-ing how to fix cars out of necessity, since they would run them into the ground (literally),” Randi said.
Simon Rowe is a senior studying civil engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He took some automotive technology class-es at Cuesta College dur-ing the past year, because its tuition is cheaper. That’s where he got hooked on colli-sion repair.
“I think what set him apart, in my view, was his determination and high stan-dards,” said Cuesta auto body professor Ron McDonald. “He was meticulous and always had a curiosity of why and how things worked.”
Rowe’s sister didn’t even know he could do auto-body repair until she heard he was competing at the state level.
“It makes sense, though,” she said. “Everything Simon does, he is good at.”
Rowe taught himself
about engines and car inte-riors, using his 1991 Acura Integra as a guinea pig.
“Most of the time, he only had the two front seats in his car,” Randi said. “The back of his car was always in disar-ray, with whatever project he was working on at the time.”
The compeTiTionMcDonald, who is Rowe’s
adviser, encouraged him to enter the regional competition in Salinas, Calif. Rowe won that as well as the state com-petition in San Diego.
“He already had a very competitive side of him, and
with his high intellect, drive and newfound skill, I knew he would be a good candidate for this competition,” McDonald said.
When he won state, he wasn’t sure if he could afford to go to Missouri to compete at nationals – and his best friend was getting married on Marrowstone Island the next day.
“I told him, ‘Why not? It’s a great opportunity. It would be a good experience and proba-bly a lot of fun!’” Randi said. “I kind of just told him to go for it, and I would help him figure out the rest. Little did I know that meant I would be pick-ing him up from the airport at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday and driving him over to the pen-insula so he would be there in time to get ready for the wedding.”
More than 5,600 career and technical education stu-dents competed in timed events in 94 fields during the weeklong competition. All the students won state con-tests before moving on to the national competition.
Rowe said his relative inex-perience actually might have helped him.
“I went into the competi-tion not expecting much, and that’s ultimately what prob-ably led me to be calm and relaxed and do well,” he said.
He completed four 90-min-ute hands-on events in the collision repair technology competition: a structural dam-age analysis, a plastic bumper repair, metal refinishing on a fender and sheet metal weld-ing. The week also included written tests, interviews and an estimating report.
Spring-loaded hammers created a variety of identical dents for competitors to repair.
The students did not work on complete cars; sponsors donated individual fenders and other parts.
SkillsUSA, which held the competition, is a national organization that helps pre-pare students for careers in technical, skilled and service fields.
Rowe was shocked to find out he had won. He didn’t even suspect it as he continued to do well through all the events.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I thought it was a joke.”
This is the second time Rowe has won a national championship – in high school, he won gold in an archery competition in New York.
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Collision repair technology was one of 94 competitions held for students at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City, Mo., June 19-24. Simon Rowe, left, of Jefferson County, won with a score of 874 points out of a possible 1,000. Photo by John Stokes
Chimacum High School alumnus Simon Rowe took home a national gold medal in collision repair technology. Photo by Rob Thoresen
Simon Rowe, a 2007 graduate of Chimacum High School, won a national competition in collision repair technology. He is working on an engineer-ing degree at California Polytechnic State University and only recently became interested in collision repair. Photo by John Stokes
“I went into the competition not expecting much, and that’s ultimately what probably led me to be calm and relaxed and do well.”
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Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader Wednesday, August 3, 2011 • A 3
By Nicholas Johnson of the Leader
A demonstration against city police planned for Aug. 1 was canceled the night prior without setting a date for a future gathering.
The Port Townsend Brutality Facebook page announced Sunday evening, July 31, “We are postpon-ing the demonstration until a later date. We ran out of time to do this right.”
Meanwhile, Mayor Michel le Sandoval announced July 27 the city’s intention to compile informa-tion about the police depart-ment for public dissemina-tion.
In a response to a
July 20 letter from the Port Townsend Brutality Facebook page, Sandoval wrote, “I take all of your assertions very seriously and as such have asked for an inquiry into several areas of the police department through the city manager.”
City Manager David Timmons said he has been working for the past week with fellow city staff as well as Police Chief Conner Daily to compile police activity data, a department profile and history, as well as pos-sible trends and patterns.
Timmons said the city plans to release that infor-mation in an accessible bro-chure format this week. He
said the city’s effort to com-pile data about the police department would make it easier to provide people with key information when requested.
In her letter, Sandoval also asked that demonstra-tion organizers provide information about specific cases of possible police mis-conduct or abuse of force. To date, no complaints have been made.
“Please don’t make alle-gations unless you can and do back them up,” Sandoval wrote. “Please come forward with facts and information.”
The “brutality” Facebook page was created in response to the June 25 police tas-
ing and punching of Port Townsend resident Travis Moegling. The incident escalated after an officer requested identification in order to cite Moegling for a seatbelt infraction. (See this story on ptleader.com for a link to a cell-phone video showing part of Moegling’s arrest.)
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By Nicholas Johnson of the Leader
The Port Townsend City Council voted 5-1 on Aug. 1 to send a letter to sena-tors and Pentagon officials urging they block proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act.
Those changes would allow the U.S. Department of Defense to withhold safe-ty information regarding Indian Island explosives. Councilor Laurie Medlicott opposed the letter.
Deputy Mayor George Randels said a half dozen
people spoke in favor of the letter. One of them was Glen Milner of the Seattle area, who won a U.S. Supreme Court case earlier this year over how the Navy was with-holding specific informa-tion about Naval Magazine Indian Island, the ordnance handling and storage depot across the bay from Port Townsend. The Navy has since proposed FOI changes that Milner said constitute an end-run on the Supreme Court decision.
“The council was well informed on this issue
and emphasized that they were for open government,” Milner wrote in an email to the Leader.
Randels said councilors plan to submit any edits during the next several days before Mayor Michelle Sandoval approves a final version.
The letter targets Section 1014 of the National Defense Authorization Act, Senate Bill 981.IS, which would prevent the release of infor-mation about possible safety risks surrounding explosives at Indian Island.
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Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader Wednesday, August 17, 2011 • A 3
By Allison Arthur of the Leader
Jefferson County’s con-tentious Critical Areas Ordinance survived another legal challenge – but more challenges may lie waiting upstream.
The state Court of Appeals on Aug. 5 agreed with the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board on channel migra-tion zones, concurring with the hearings board that the county’s controversial code complied with state laws.
Jefferson County’s Chief Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney David Alvarez said the appeals court also concluded that any claim that the rules constituted an unconstitutional taking without just compensation, as banned by the U.S. Fifth Amendment, “was not yet ripe.”
“A case that is not yet ‘ripe’ has not yet matured into an actual case or con-troversy where someone has truly been aggrieved or injured, what the law calls an ‘injury of fact,’” Alvarez wrote in an email explain-ing the decision. In layman’s terms, it means there is no evidence any particular property owners’ rights have been damaged by the law.
Seattle attorney Brian Hodges of the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is rep-resenting the Olympic Stewardship Foundation against the county, disagreed Aug. 15 with that conclusion and said he intends to file a motion for reconsideration with the appeals court by Aug. 25.
Hodges said the appeals court decision not to deal with the constitution-al question is in error
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Dennis Schultz, president of the Olympic Stewardship Foundation, said Aug. 15 the group would “take it to the next level,” meaning the case could eventually go to the state Supreme Court.
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“In sum, the county is very pleased with the results
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McKenna is scheduled to speak around noon, present-ing his ideas to reform the education system, get people
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The city has given the Port Townsend homeless shel-ter housed at the American Legion Post 26 one year to install a sprinkler system in order to quell recently discov-ered life-safety concerns.
The good news: Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) had already planned to install a sprinkler system this year, and likely will before the start of the winter shelter’s seventh sea-son in Port Townsend.
A lack of sprinklers and exit options for roughly 20 homeless people who seek winter refuge in the base-ment of the American Legion hall downtown led an East Jefferson Fire Rescue inspec-tor to declare the basement site a life safety hazard on Aug. 8.
Despite those concerns, Port Townsend and fire dis-trict officials plan to give the shelter’s conditional use per-mit the go-ahead for another year, meaning the shelter is on track to open for its sixth season in the Legion Hall basement this November. In its first season, the shelter was hosted by area churches.
“All of a sudden, [our plan to open the shelter] was fall-ing apart like a $2 suitcase in the rain,” said Legion Post Commander Joe Carey. “But, it all came together in the last week.”
The catch is a new set of conditions aimed at prevent-ing potentially life-threat-ening fires. Both volunteer and paid shelter monitors can expect to receive train-ing from fire district person-nel, who retain the ability to inspect the building anytime, unannounced. The shelter
also must have a working cell phone in case landlines go down, a designated smoking shelter outside and a smoke alarm inside.
“The city has really been supportive of the shelter over the last five years,” Carey said. “This is another example of their willingness to work with us to keep it open.”
Rick Sepler, Port Townsend’s Development Services director, said East Jefferson Fire Rescue “took a more focused look than in past years.” Sepler also said the fire district acknowledged the shelter’s community importance and the potential
impact of shutting it down.“Springing this on folks
with weeks to go seemed unreasonable,” Sepler said. “We were unsure they would be able to get a sprinkler sys-tem by the time the shelter opens.”
But OlyCAP’s Chief Financial Officer Les Rubin, who manages money for shel-ter projects from a Jefferson County homelessness fund, said a $100,000 plan to make electrical upgrades and install showers and toi-lets this year also included installation of a sprinkler system expected to cost about $40,000. Rubin said that
money has been approved by county commissioners and the sprinkler work has a project manager in Little & Little Construction, who has already bid out the project.
(The state Legislature has added fees to most docu-ments filed at a county audi-tor’s office: $48 of a $62 fee goes into a fund to deal with homeless issues. The city and county signed an inter-local agreement to have OlyCAP manage that fund.)
OlyCAP has made it pos-sible for Marvin G. Shields Memorial Legion Post 26 to make more than $100,000 in improvements to the 70-year-old building. A quar-ter of that amount, $25,000, has funded improvements to the shelter, including plumb-ing, painting and drywall, as well as installation of an electric furnace.
“The shelter really has come a long way in the last five years,” Carey said while mentioning plans to install showers, toilets, sinks and appliances, as well as interior electrical upgrades.
As in years past, the shelter expects to open its doors the weekend following Thanksgiving and remain in service for 110 days. It intends to serve three meals, many of which are hot, and provide a safe, warm place to sleep. Check-in is 4-5 p.m. daily; guests are expected to leave for the day by 8 a.m. the next morning.
Carey said the shelter serves 20 percent of the area’s homeless population, at the most, although many take advantage of the sack lunch to-go option. Of the average 20 or so who stay, about 30 percent are veter-ans, he said.
Homeless shelter gets sprinklersLegion Hall prepared to host shelter for sixth year
Legion Commander Joe Carey has seen major improvements over the last five years at the 70-year-old Port Townsend American Legion hall, includ-ing upgrades to a winter homeless shelter. He said more improvements are in the works thanks to the help of Olympic Community Action Pro-grams and Community Outreach Association Shelter Team.
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This weekend brings the ceremony that triggers the $350 million federal project to remove the Elwha Dam in Clallam County.
The dam, completed in 1912, blocked one of the great salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest. The structure is now obsolete as a power-gen-erating station, and removal is expected to allow the salm-on run to rebuild itself.
The 11 a.m. ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 17 marks the project’s start, but there is room for invited guests only, not the general public. A simulcast is broadcast at Elwha Central at the Port Angeles City Pier and the Mountaineers’ OutdoorsFest in Seattle.Wednesday, sept. 14
1-3 p.m. • Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe fish hatchery nam-ing ceremony, 700 Stratton Road, Port Angeles.
3:30-5:30 p.m. • Elwha sto-rytelling with Jamie Valadez and Roger Fernandes, Heritage Center, 401 E. First St., Port Angeles.
6-8 p.m. • Elwha open mic with poetry, songs and storytell-ing, Heritage Center.
7-9 p.m. • Elwha River sto-ries, Holiday Inn Express, 1441 E. Washington St., Sequim.
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5-7 p.m. • Elwha storytell-ing with Elaine Grinnell and Ben Charles, Heritage Center.
7-8:30 p.m. • Presentation by Yvon Chouinard, found-er of Patagonia, Peninsula College. Register at celebrateelwha.com.
Friday, sept. 168 a.m.-3:30 p.m. • Elwha
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5-9 p.m. • Tribal Gala Fundraising Dinner, Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. Purchase tickets ($150 and $300) at Heritage Center or brownpapertickets.com.
5:30-8:30 p.m. • Coastal jam session, Heritage Center.
7:30-9 p.m. • Dana Lyons concert, Port Angeles Fine Arts
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saturday, sept. 1710 a.m.-9 p.m. • Elwha
Central, live music and demon-strations, Port Angeles City Pier.
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. • Dam removal ceremony, Elwha Dam (invitation only).
3-5 p.m. • VIP reception, Lake Crescent (invitation only).
5 p.m. • Potlatch dinner, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Center, 2851 Lower Elwha Road.
sunday, sept. 189 a.m.-3 p.m. • Guided hike
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10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2-4:30 p.m. • Guided hike to Hurricane Hill, take Hurricane Ridge Road past the visitor center.
By Allison Arthur of the Leader
Luke Bogues was on duty in his patrol car on Upper Sims Way around 4 a.m., wait-ing for a speeder. It was quiet. So he picked up the Leader, and read a story about the senior meal program ending in Port Townsend and church-es coming to the rescue.
The City of Port Townsend patrol officer thought about community service, a ser-vice he considers he’s in, and decided to shoot off an email to his boss the next morn-ing, asking if it would be OK to organize other officers to take a turn making and serv-ing meals for seniors, just as churches were doing.
“They said, ‘Let us know how we can help,’” Bogues said of administrative ser-geant Ed Green’s reaction.
Firefighters/medics with East Jefferson Fire Rescue, all about coming to the rescue, wanted in on the operation. They got permission from their union to contribute.
So last week, dozens of police officers and firefight-ers met at the Port Townsend Community Center and spent four nights cooking and serv-ing dinner for seniors – on their own time.
The menu one night includ-ed baked ham with cranberry mustard sauce, homemade applesauce, roasted broccoli with lemon sauce and bread pudding with pear sauce.
“Everyone has been doing wonderfully,” beamed senior Harriet Small, praising all the organizations, including the Port Townsend Rotary Club, for taking turns mak-ing meals after Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) ended the supper program in July as a cost-
saving measure. “But these guys are too much. They are wonderful, polite. We had bread pudding that was unbe-lievable.”
“I was classically trained by my grandma in Louisana,” Bogues boasted, adding later that his girlfriend, Krystal Benson, volunteered too and made the biscuits that received rave reviews.
After putting away beans from the evening meal last Wednesday, Sept. 7, Bogues sat down with Small and City of Port Townsend Councilor Laurie Medlicott, who had her own 4 a.m. epiphany after volunteering to help with the meal when the Rotary Club took its turn a week earlier.
Turns out Medlicott, who admits she’s fond of bossing
people around, still has the heart of a nurse, one of her former occupations.
The idea of seniors dining on cold cuts did not sit well with the nurse in Medlicott. So when she arrived to help with Rotary, Medlicott refused to serve “deli meats with sodium” to the seniors, many of whom have diabetes.
“We had a pot of chicken soup instead,” said Medlicott. “We crutched through it.”
Medlicott went home that night and “at 3:30 a.m., I was still printing out diabetic reci-pes.”
And then she had yet another oh-well-why-not moment. She had already offered to take over planning meals on Jan. 1, 2012, when she will have retired from city
council service.“I said ‘Why wait?’”
Medlicott said.So she didn’t. She took
over managing the meals program under the auspices of the senior association with Patty Ragan volunteering to take charge of the front end of things, making the sure the evening meal looked nice and was served properly.
“For some, it’s their pri-mary meal of the day. It’s our responsibility to feed not only their bodies, but their spirits,” Medlicott said.
That said, Medlicott also took a survey of seniors and asked them their five favorite meals.
“Of course meatloaf and mashed potatoes was on it,” Medlicott said. Then she made a sourpuss face, pinched her nose and said, “More than half of these people like sau-erkraut, so we’ll serve sauer-kraut, but I’m going to hold my nose.”
While Medlicott was busy working up recipes and real-izing she feels at home in the kitchen, bossing the likes of
Bogues around, Bogues took up a collection from fire and police officers of $305 and made a Costco run.
“I said [to Medlicott], ‘You’ve been bossing me around for years, why stop now?”
So Bogues bought what Medlicott asked him to buy.
Bogues noted that all the money came from firefighters, police officers and volunteers – including two high school students who just happened to walk in one night – were on their time off, not on the public’s clock.
A fire Sept. 5 at Beckett Point last week meant fewer firefighters were available than had been expected.
But Christian Dubois of East Jefferson Fire Rescue, a volunteer resident, was on hand to bus tables and chat with seniors, including Bea Tyner, who thanked the young man for coming.
Seems the seniors were giving firefighters and police officers something they don’t get much these days – a gen-erous helping of praise.
“These people all do com-munity service, but no one ever sees that,” said Medlicott of police officer and firefight-ers, including Bogues, who started a week’s worth of volunteering by reading the Leader in the wee hours of the night, while waiting for a speeder.
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City of Port Townsend police officer Luke Bogues puts away leftovers af-ter helping prepare a meal for seniors at the Port Townsend Community Center. City police officers and East Jefferson Fire Rescue crew combined to make meals for the seniors. More organizations are needed to help; call Eleanor Stickney of the Port Townsend Senior Association at 385-9007.
Photo by Allison Arthur
More help neededMore organizations are need-ed to help prepare and serve meals for seniors four nights a week at the Port Townsend Community Center. Anyone interested can call Eleanor Stickney of the Port Townsend Senior Association at 385-9007.
United Good Neighbors of Jefferson County and Jefferson Community Foundation orga-nized a Senior Meals Task Force, and helped organize churches to take over preparing meals while a long-term solu-tion is sought. Churches still are involved, but more organi-zations are being sought out to help take a turn.
Dam removal ceremony is Saturday