Port of Port Angeles Executive Director to speak at Chamber of Commerce Luncheon
At tomorrow's Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon, the guest speaker will be Ken O’Hollaren, executive director of the Port of Port Angeles.
posted by Tom Harper at 11:00 AM
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Look at your car before you drive, and see the ash from the forest fires that has fallen on them.
Long, hot summer ahead.
From the Sequim Gazette a few days ago:
"Typically, the fire season for Clallam County is from July through the end of September, but “all bets are off this year” as the season is getting an early start, Bryan Suslick, Olympic Region Fire District manager with Department of Natural Resources, said.
“Clallam County has the highest existing risk of catastrophic losses in the event of a major wildfire in all of Washington and is fifth of 413 counties in 11 states in the western U.S.,” he said."
And from the PDN :
" “However, we will almost certainly see more early fire, more late fire, and more area burned as the climate continues to warm,” he said.
“If this is going to be the new normal decades into the future as the climate warms, it will be more difficult to resist it,” Peterson said.
“It probably makes more sense to adapt to it.”.
Yeah. Move to a safer place.
That was informative....NOT!
I brought the rain to Texas with me, raining so much the fucking trees are falling over (soil too wet to hold them) and trying to kill me.
Yes, but don't you dare use the words "climate change". This is all just "normal cycles".
I see the City has found another reason to cry poor, and apply for more grant money. The water issues.
No reason to look ahead, and plan ahead. Why bother. Just let it become a crisis, and then cry poor. "Pity poor Port Angeles. Can you spare a couple million to help us out?"
It is the way things are done here.
Now that it has been more than a week since BOTH the Attorney General's office and the State Auditor's office have directly told our County Treasurer that our Prosecutor was correct, our Commissioner's did follow the law AND all County policies in awarding the grants to the Port and City of Port Angeles, why has she not done her sworn duty and honored the warrants? Where is her apology for wasting all that taxpayer money on her personal vendetta? It is time for Ms. Barkhuis to step down and let someone who will work more than 10 hours per week do the job!
Big rain coming
Listening to the radio, I hear the Canadians are banning smoking in the forests, have a tip line for people to report jerks who throw cigarettes out car windows, and are closing trails in parks to try to keep down fires.
They have tips on how to save water, discussions on how to use "gray water", how to deal with neighbors who are still watering lawns and washing their cars, and otherwise educating the public about the serious water situation in our area.
Here in Port Angeles, we hear virtually nothing.
I can only think of one reason why the Commissioners would not invite the State to step in and give them the absolute authoritative unarguable answers on all the warrant issues. And to boot, they turn the 2 grants back to the Advisory Board for a re-do. It's because the Commissioners know they've been naughty, and don't want the State's attention.
It's adding up for me anyway.
Ms. Barkhuis responded to the public who objected to the spending of a million dollars of tax money by Republicans who campaigned on fiscal conservancy, who required no business plan, no anything but a lot of self serving assurances everything was going to be great, and who held no public hearings despite the public's outcry.
Maybe, technically, McEntire and Peach had the legal authority to rail road the spending of all that money without any public hearings or business plans. I don't know, and I don't care. These elected people said they were going to be careful about spending our money. They said they would listen to us. They lied.
When are they going to listen to us? Is this only convenient campaign talk?
3rd time getting fuel at the Chevron station by Swains where I've been approached by drunk or drugged up folks asking for a handout only to get rude and threatening comments and telling me to f*** off when I didn't hand over money to them. Tonight the guy was holding a beer all messed up. This town is getting more and more like a rat infested ghetto of drugged out wackos. Disgusting.
They get some sketchy-acting foot traffic at that Chevron. I have used that station at least once a month since 2011 & I have never been jacked with there nor seen it happen to anyone else. Sorry to hear you're having trouble, hope you've complained to the store also.
Ah, yes. The Elwha made it into the 200s before the second week of July.
Friday, Dept of Ecology guy said it was at 350. As of 9 this morning, 48 hours later, it is at 296 cfs.
Where will it be July 31st?
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