Debate Between City Council Candidates This Thursday
This Thursday, July 30th, the candidates for City Council Position 2 will be at the City Council Chambers — 321 East Fifth Street — at 7 p.m. They’ll be debating and taking questions from the audience. This information was in Monday’s PDN but isn’t on the PDN website.
As you probably know, the four candidates are:
Rick Burton
Max Mania
Edna Petersen
Peter Ripley
This event is sponsored by the Clallam County League of Women Voters.
As you probably know, the four candidates are:
Rick Burton
Max Mania
Edna Petersen
Peter Ripley
This event is sponsored by the Clallam County League of Women Voters.
posted by Tom Harper at 3:28 PM
8 Comments:
Did anyone see the PDN's poll today? Over 90% of people up here think they're a safe driver. Ha! That's hilarious. Sure doesn't match what really happens on the Peninsula.
As for the debate, I wonder if Edna and Max are going to use the same kind of superlatives that's used in this blog. That'd make for a long meeting.
Go, Max, go!
Job opportunities available for older workers
Aug. 5 meeting in Port Angeles covers Goodwill program
PORT ANGELES – When Alana Collins of Forks needed to go back to work at age 61, she had the education but lacked experience to get a job. Through a Goodwill program for older workers, Colllins is paid for training at the Forks Clothing Bank, supervising volunteers, taking in donations and handling the cash register as she looks to become a manager.
“Goodwill opened the door for me,” Collins said. “I’ve been telling my friends Goodwill can help. They have a very worthwhile program and if you’re honestly intent on going back to work and it’s been a while since you’ve had a job, then the program is what you need.”
An informational meeting on the program, the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), will be held Aug. 5, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Port Angeles YMCA, 302 S. Francis St. For information, call Walter Schoenhofen, SCSEP Northern coordinator for Tacoma Goodwill, 360.456.0273 or wschoenhofen@tacomagoodwill.org.
The meeting is for participants and public and non-profit employers, who have wages subsidized through the program.
“In these tough economic times, many older Americans have to work longer to earn enough money to support themselves,” said Terry A. Hayes, CEO of Tacoma Goodwill, with a 15-county service area that includes Clallam County. “Goodwill provides the opportunity for seniors to not only upgrade their skills but also learn new ones to remain competitive in the workplace.”
Without SCSEP, Collins said she would “probably be on the streets.” “I don’t think I could get a position,” she said.
Program participants must be at least 55 and have low income. Enrollment priority is given to persons over age 60 and individuals with disabilities or other barriers to employment.
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About Tacoma Goodwill
Goodwill is a unique nonprofit business. It turns donations and business revenue into programs that change lives by helping people with disabilities or disadvantages go to work. This year, Tacoma Goodwill Industries will help more than 5,000 people with education, job training and placement so they can become independent self-supporting citizens. Of these, 1,500 people with barriers to employment will be placed in jobs in the community. Job-training services are funded through financial gifts, grants, fees, commercial services and the operation of 22 thrift stores throughout Western and Southcentral Washington. Please visit our Web site at www.tacomagoodwill.org.
Max Mania is Today's candidate for the Future and Max know that elections have consequences.
For your consideration: One of these four candidates could become mayor of Port Angeles. Which candidates will be weighed in the balance and found wanting?
Rick Burton: No one knows why Rick Burton is running for city council and he's certainly not saying. There's a chance that he's for change, but there's also a chance that he's a stealth candidate for the powers that be. Why roll the dice and come up snake eyes?
Peter Ripley: Perennial candidate Peter Ripley's ideas on government are a dusty throw back to the 1980s. Government bad! Must crush Government! Cut all budgets! Urrrrgh! Let's keep Peter as the beloved Perennial Candidate that he is. It's safer that way!
Edna Petersen: "Mayor Edna." Two words which will turn your blood cold! The very thought of sour, dour Edna and her no-vision beliefs and in-with-the-in-crowd behavior is like your worst nightmare come to life. We don't need any more behind-closed-doors shenanigans with the good old boys, certain council members and various corrupt civic institutions!
Max Mania: If the signal honor of Mayor of Port Angeles shall fall to Max, he will accept it with the grace and humility for which he is already noted through out the city. Max will cast out the corruption in our civic institutions, keep a vigilant eye on the city budget to prevent secret slush funds, give voice to the citizens at city council meetings, work tirelessly to further the potential for the downtown area and liaison with the various arts and business communities to make Port Angeles a viable, vibrant to live, work and visit. Yes, citizens of Port Angeles can feel safe with, should it so happen, "Mayor Max" at the wheel of city government!
Remember, elections do have consequences!
*sigh* I'm voting for Rick Burton. I wish Edna and Max well (and Peter, too, for that matter), but they each have polarizing personalities and I think this would cause friction on the council and within the city.
Rick has some great ideas for the city without the personality issues and I think he'd do a good job on the council and for the city.
With all the problems facing the city the last thing we need is a council person that one half of the council and city can't stand and all the stone throwing and name calling that's going to happen. I don't want to see us go through two years of arguing and bitterness.
Well said, Anonymous 6:29 AM.
Petersen: Does not seem to take a stand on anything... except she wants transparency and that she thinks the harbor is a goldmine. Nothing specific.
Someone should ask what she has done specifically to tap the resources of our city to better it. Certainly she should have made some headway towards her main stated goal.
Ripley: Wants a railroad along the waterfront... to?
Mania: Thinks Rayonier is a "shrinking piece of the pie" because of rising tides from global warming. Does that mean we should abandon all improvement to our (soon to be underwater) downtown?
The Fine Arts Center is a tourist destination? Someone should tell the tourists that.
Burton: Says the city needs to do more with its current staff and not spend money on capital projects unless it is something that the majority of people want. What a novel concept! Some ecology is bunk? What a breath of fresh air!
I saw someone wrote he is a stealth candidate for the current crop of council people. Does that sort of fellow take the sort of swipes at those folks that this guy does?
Burton gets my vote. I will take honest, straightforward, and common sense any day.
Wasn't Edna Petersen one of the business people who fought to move our town's farmer's market out of our downtown?
I think I am through with the people who are flagrantly self interested.
Also, can someone please ask why the county has more stringent code than the city. Derelict vehicles and over-sized vehicles parked on city streets overnight. It looks trashy, encourages people to not care about their surroundings and (o/s vehicles) is dangerous and is bad for the roads.
We want people to come here, spend money and think nice things about our town... maybe want to invest in it, we have to show we give a rip about it.
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