PDN Clallam County Edition, 9/4/12
PDN Clallam County Edition, 9/4/12
PDN Clallam County Edition, 9/4/12
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The third and final day of the Sequim Balloon Festival, after a successful Balloon Glow event at Grant Field the night before, got off to a late start Monday due to weather conditions. The scheduled Hare and Hound hot air balloon race was canceled because of early ground fog, said Susan Hedding, festival spokeswoman. But some balloon
pilots made the choice to take their balloons up late, after conditions improved, she said. The Luna II hot air balloon, above, was one whose pilot decided to make the late-morning trip. It landed at about 9 a.m. in a farmers field on Meadowmeer Lane in Sequim, where its chase vehicle helped the pilot and passengers exit.
PORT ANGELES The Peninsula Housing Authority will celebrate the building of eight new homes at Peninsula Village on Thursday at 6 p.m. Construction has started on four of the homes, said Carolyn Stimbert, Mutual Self Help group coordinator at Peninsula Housing Authority. Thursdays gathering will be the formal celebration of the construction of this third group of eight homes at the site at Village Circle off Lindberg Road, just south of Peninsula Golf Course in Port Angeles, Stimbert said. Its mostly a celebration for the families, she said. Along with a ground-breaking ceremony, food will be available, and visitors can tour the homes that are under construction, she added. KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Thats the part thats especially neat this time, Stimbert said. People can look at the Kayla Gould, right, and Sky Boulton apply siding to the house they are helping build through the Peninsula Housing Authoritys Mutual Self Help Program in quality of the homes being built.
pleted under the Mutual Self Help Program. Instead of a down payment, families who will live in the homes must promise to put in 32 hours a week working on their home and their neighbors homes until all eight are finished. These hours are in addition to their regular jobs and caring for their families, Stimbert said. They commit to working every week, no matter what the weather does. Friends and extended families can help by
putting in up to 17 hours per week, reducing the familys hours to a minimum of 15 hours. Experts do some of the work, such as pouring foundations and installing electrical and plumbing work, as well as putting up dry wall and roofing, Stimbert said. The work of the families gives them equity in their homes before they ever move in, she added.
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OLYMPIA Rob McKenna is siding with Native American tribes and against some fellow Republicans in the Legislature who look to the nontribal gambling industry as a potential jackpot for the state budget. On several fronts, in fact, McKenna has become an unlikely ally of the tribal governments
that have helped maintain Democratic Party control in Olympia. As attorney general, he has visited every reservation in the state an outreach effort that even a tribal leader who supports rival Jay Inslee called unprecedented. Tribes have rewarded him with a share of their campaign contributions. The money he has received is
far less than Democrat Inslee but still vastly more than other Republicans who have run for governor in the recent past.
didates, said the Inslee backer, Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown SKlallam tribe and president of the Washington Indian Gaming Association. Tribes are being like a lot of special interests out there, and theyre hedging their bets. Native American tribes havent abandoned the Democrats by any measure. Inslee, with more than $50,000,
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has outraised McKenna more than 5-to-1 among tribes. Predominantly, Allen said, I think the tribes are still going to lean toward Jay and the Democratic Party. McKenna said he thinks contributions have actually been pretty balanced in this election, and I think theyll continue to be balanced.
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