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The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division announces that as of September 25, 2004, it shall be lawful in waters under the jurisdiction of the Marine Resources Division to use a vessel to sell live saltwater bait, excluding shrimp. Such vessel must be licensed as a place of business under the Live Saltwater Bait Dealers License (§9-12-54.1) Regulation 220-3-.01 Shrimping, effective September 25, 2004, provides that a vessel may routinely sell live or dead saltwater bait, excluding shrimp, to the public as a place of business if the vessel has a live saltwater bait dealers license. To do this the individual must have an established and inspected shore facility, meet the requirements for a boat facility, provide a physical address where vessel will be docked or stored, and makes vessel immediately available for inspection. A vessel that is a place of business under the live saltwater bait dealers law can not take, possess, or sell live or dead shrimp. No live bait catcher boat or transport truck that is licensed under a vessel that is a place of business may transport or possess live or dead shrimp. Contact: Maj. John Thomas Jenkins - (251) 861-2882


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STAUNTON -- Staunton City Council voted to move precinct four. Voters in the past voted at Robert E. Lee High School. This coming election season, voters in the precinct will go to the Seventh Day Adventist Church located near the high school.
The chairman of the Staunton Electoral Board, Jim Kivlighan, said that Robert E. Lee High School wasn't a bad location, but Staunton could do better.
"My main concern is, handicap parking. Another area of concern for Lee High School is, high schools like all high schools in the whole country are busy. Sometimes those activities clash with the voting," said Kivlighan.
Voters should soon receive notice that their precinct has changed.
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Crohn's disease, which is also known as Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a condition which causes chronic swelling and irritation in the intestines. When the condition affects only the large intestine, it is called ulcerative colitis. When it strikes different parts of the digestive tract at different times, it is known as Crohn's disease.
Symptoms of IBD may be mild or severe and may include:
Based on your symptoms, your doctor may be able to diagnose Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis without testing. Or, laboratory tests may be ordered to check your stool for certain bacteria or blood. A sigmoidoscopy, a colonoscopy or X-rays may also help your doctor diagnose of your symptoms.
Treatment for Crohn's disease or colitis often begins with dietary changes. If dietary changes alone cannot manage symptoms, medication is often prescribed. Sometimes severe Crohn's attacks require hospitalization or surgery.
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Two new polls released yesterday show a race that has yet to have a definite leader in the fight to represent Massachusetts in the Senate.
While a new poll from WBUR and MassINC of 501 likely voters conducted between October 5-7 shows Senator Scott Brown leading Elizabeth Warren 48 percent to 45 percent, a new UMass-Amherst/YouGov America poll of 500 registered voters taken between October 2-8 gives Warren a 48 percent to 46 percent lead.
The margin of error is +/- 4.4 percent in the WBUR poll and +/- 5 percent in the UMass poll.
The new WBUR poll shows a seven point swing since the last WBUR/MassINC poll. In the previous poll taken between September 26-28, Warren led 49 percent to 45 percent.
Based on the WBUR poll, Senator Brown continues to have a high difference in his favorable rating with a difference of plus 23 percent in his favorable (54%) and unfavorable (31%) ratings. Warren, however, continues to have a smaller gap with her favorable rating of 47 percent and unfavorable rating of 38 percent giving her a difference of plus nine percent.
When asked how important the issue of Warren's claim to Native American ancestry is in deciding whom to support, 49 percent said it was not at all important, 18 percent said it was not too important, and 30 percent said it was either somewhat important or very important.
In the UMass poll, voters were also asked how much the possibility of the race deciding which party will control the Senate influences their vote. When Brown supporters were asked if they would still vote for Brown if a Brown win meant that Republicans would have a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate, 86 percent. said yes, three percent said no, and 11 percent were not sure.
When Warren supporters were asked if they would still vote for Warren if a victory by her allowed the Democrats to keep their majority in the Senate, 94 percent said yes, two percent said no, and four percent were not sure.
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After months of construction, GetGo from Giant Eagle opened its newest location Thursday morning along Route 228 in Cranberry.
Located in the Cranberry Crossroads shopping plaza, near the new Dick's Sporting Goods, the 5,500 square foot convenience store and gas station features a variety of foods, including subs, Angus burgers, breakfast sandwiches, sushi prepared on-site, salads, wraps—and a place to eat them.
The GetGo has a sit down café able to seat 25.
Open 24 hours, seven days a week, the location has 16 fuel pumps, four of which are diesel. All are eligible for redeeming fuelperks! and earning foodperks!, according to press release from Giant Eagle.
Other on-site conveniences include a WetGo car wash, two surcharge-free ATMs, free air for tires and free WiFi. Cranberry GetGo customers also may utilize lottery services, a Red Box kiosk and retailer gift cards.
"Our new Cranberry location brings customers the latest features of our GetGo format, including delicious old-fashioned subs and breakfast sandwiches, and convenience offerings such as a WetGo car wash and free air for tires, all at the convenient confluence of Route 228, I-79 and I-76," said GetGo Senior Vice President Kevin Srigley. "The store is the first of several upcoming new GetGo locations, including one on McKnight Road in Pittsburgh's North Hills in 2013."
The grand opening celebration began with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 8. Special events continue throughout the day, including an in-store appearance by Pittsburgh Penguins hockey star Pascal Dupuis from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Isaac Redman also will make an appearance at the station from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17.
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Interesting study in the Indiana Business Journal from IU finance professor Ryan Brewer, who gave a valuation to college football programs as if they were a business for sale. Brewer valued the 100...
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D is for: Dansons - My mother was Kathleen Danson and I have traced the family back six generations to the baptism of John Danson in 1736, son of Peter - a family at the centre of my blogging stories.
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Directories give little more than a name, brief address and confirmation of status or occupation, yet, as with all archives, there is a fascination in discovering the name of your ancestor in a publication written in his lifetime. A page in Mannex Directory of 1851 for Amounderness (the old name for the Fylde, Lancashire) lists my great great grandfather Henry Danson at Trap Farm, Carleton, his neighbour and brother in law John Bryning, and under Poulton-le-Fylde Inns and Taverns two relations by marriage William Gaulter of the Golden Ball and Cornelius Cardwell of the Kings Arms, plus watchmaker James Brownbill.
Diaries - if I had a touch of genealogical envy, it would be for family historians who have a diary written by their ancestor. What a wonderful piece of personal history.
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A Geocache consists of a container and a good hiding spot.
A Geocacher will learn of the general location of a Geocache, and he/she will proceed to search for the cache.
When the Geocacher finds the cache, he or she will sign a log, and depending on the size of the cache, will take or place an item in the cache.
A Hitch hiker may be taken from or placed in a cache.
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Funeral services for Barbara K. Beutel, 67, of Utica, will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, at E.M. Coots' Sons Funeral Home in Jeffersonville, with burial in Utica Cemetery. She died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at Clark Memorial Hospital.
She was a native of Utica, a former employee of Kroger and a member of Utica Baptist Church.
Survivors include her brothers, David R. James, of Utica, and Lee A. James, of Utica; sisters, Janet Morman, of Charlestown, Doris Snelling, of Utica and Terry Eddings, of Memphis.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John R. Beutel; her parents, Philmore and Rudella James; brothers, Clifton James and John "Jackie" James; sisters, Ethel Russell and Nellie Justice.


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CNN Article:Koop enraged the powerful tobacco industry and lawmakers grateful for the industry's generous campaign funds with his insistence that smoking kills and should be banned.
Then, in the midst of a heated national debate about how best to halt the spread of AIDS, Koop blocked the Reagan administration's plans for extensive testing. To the applause of gay rights groups, Koop said the disclosure of the test results, intentional or otherwise, could ruin the careers of those tested.
He was also well-known for his work around tobacco, calling for a "smoke-free" society. His 1986 surgeon general's report on the dangers of secondhand smoke was seminal.
"That was the shot heard around the world, and it began to change public policy everywhere," said John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society.
The report started the move toward prohibiting smoking on airplanes, restaurants and at workplaces.NYT Article:"A pioneer in the field of pediatric surgery, Dr. Koop's contributions include advances in complex surgical procedures, such as the separation of conjoined twins, establishment of the nation's first newborn surgical intensive care unit and the implementation of Children's Hospital's surgical fellowship training program," the hospital said in a statement.
Dr. Koop issued emphatic warnings about the dangers of smoking, and he almost single-handedly pushed the government into taking a more aggressive stand against AIDS. And despite his steadfast moral opposition to abortion, he refused to use his office as a pulpit from which to preach against it.
These stands led many liberals who had bitterly opposed his nomination to praise him, and many conservatives who had supported his appointment to vilify him. Conservative politicians representing tobacco-growing states were among his harshest critics, and many Americans, for moral or religious reasons, were upset by his public programs to fight AIDS and felt betrayed by his relative silence on abortion.


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The Advocate Safehouse Project's mission is to promote healthy relationships free from violence through education, advocacy, empowerment, and safehousing.
The 15th Annual Mother's Day Mile will be held on Sunday, May 11, 2014 with opening ceremonies beginning at 1 pm. The one mile race benefits the domestic and sexual violence programs of Advocate Safehouse Project. This premier community event attracts elite men and women competitors, recreational runners, and a host of community walk and run completers who complete the one mile course just for fun. The Mother's Day Mile is as much a celebration as it is a race. A celebration of Moms, fitness, and community. Of course, men, women, and families invited.
This is a one mile, yes just one mile, out and back race course that begins and ends at Glenwood Medical Associates, 1830 Blake Avenue, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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McKenzie Harris is not a soft-spoken little girl.
"She's loud and proud, and when Kenzie is in the room, the party starts," Sara Harris said of her 7-year-old daughter.
That's why the ventilator that helps Kenzie breathe and makes her voice almost inaudible is one of many unimaginable challenges the Harris family has faced in the past month.
A New Year's Day crash near Eatonville left Kenzie quadriplegic, and also injured her mother, father, brother and two cousins.
Doug and Sara Harris, their two children and two nieces were 100 yards from the couple's driveway when their pickup was hit head-on by another pickup that had crossed the center line of state Route 7 near 316th Street East near Eatonville.
The second driver, 48-year-old Glenn Fitting, who State Patrol troopers said might have had a medical emergency behind the wheel, died at the scene.
Before the crash, the cousins had come over to play, and had slept over because the family decided it wasn't safe to drive on New Year's Eve, Sara said.
The Harrises, whose injuries put them in separate hospitals, were recently reunited. They haven't yet seen the nieces, who were treated for broken bones and released early on.
"That'd be too much," Doug Harris said about an extended reunion.
The emotional wounds are fresh, as are the physical.
Wyatt, Kenzie's 3-year-old brother, had plastic surgery for facial injuries from the crash. Doug, 37, had rib and femur fractures and a broken foot, which has him healing in a wheelchair. He also lost peripheral vision in his right eye.
Sara, 34, is using a wheelchair too, and says it'll be a year before she's driving and walking on her own again. Her injuries include liver and spleen lacerations, tibia fractures, a fractured sternum and a displaced lumbar spine. Her heel bone also was broken, and she'll have a roughly five-hour surgery this week to fix it.
She and Doug don't know when they'll be able to return to work. That's not what they're thinking about now.
They're staying with Wyatt at the Ronald McDonald House, housing for families with patients at Seattle Children's Hospital. Relatives have been helping take care of the Harrises as they recover from their own injuries while supporting Kenzie with her treatment at Children's.
Kenzie is doing speech, occupational and physical therapy. That includes playing games, her favorite of which is a "Shrek" memory challenge. Connect Four is also pretty fun, she said.
Last week, she got into a medical chair from her hospital bed for just the third time. That's been scary, and uncomfortable because of the neck brace she wears in the chair. A "My Little Ponies" show distracted her.
She was especially nervous about the lift the hospital uses to get her out of the bed. So before she used it for the first time, a nurse hopped in it to show her how it worked, her mom said.
The family is grateful to the many first responders and hospital staff members who have helped them.
But Kenzie did raise an issue with one of her therapists.
The woman tried to say she was wearing a pink shirt, when clearly, Kenzie and her family said, it was brown. Compared to the pink decor plastering the walls of Kenzie's room, it was.
The 7-year-old has lovingly been dubbed the "pink police" by some. It's her favorite color. She even has a pink Seattle Seahawks jersey and is on the list for a visit from quarterback Russell Wilson.
While her ventilator will keep her voice small for a while, her smile is about as big as they come.
It's there when she talks about cuddling with her kitty Max at home, who she says is fluffy and black. And when she brings up her friends at school. She must have a lot of them — her hospital room is covered with cards wishing her well.
And she definitely has the grin of a big sister when she talks about what a troublemaker Wyatt is. (He seems to run things at the hospital, last week racing between Kenzie's bedside and a playroom with a ninja turtle in hand and an uncle chasing behind.)
Wyatt gets angry and sad sometimes as he starts to remember things about the crash, his mother said.
When the doctors and nurses help Kenzie, he asks what they are doing, and they tell him. Sometimes he gets to take mom's and dad's blood pressure.
He loves being with his sister, and is especially gentle with her now, sometimes rubbing her feet, their mom said.
"He said he doesn't want his sister to be in the hospital," she said.
Being a family helps Kenzie and the rest of the Harrises smile and joke together through such difficult circumstances.
But their situation is still raw.
Kenzie's loved ones weep when they talk about the crash and the following weeks.
Initially, Doug, Sara and Kenzie were not awake after the wreck. Kenzie was at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, while her parents were unconscious at Tacoma General Hospital.
Friends and relatives stepped in. Kenzie was "basically in a coma," said Amy Peterson, who is married to Sara's father, and that the Harborview doctors told them they didn't think it was "a survivable event."
But five days after the wreck, the 7-year-old opened her eyes. And a little more than a week later, she and her mother woke up and started responding on the same day.
Family friend Betsy Harris said she couldn't help thinking "that maybe they were in the same place."
Kenzie was able to hear her parents on the phone, and Skype with her mom. Then, about three weeks ago, they were reunited for the first time since the crash.
Now, Kenzie and Wyatt can and do cheerfully stick their tongues out at each other. And Mom gets to fawn over Kenzie's bangs, to ensure they're done just right. They got to lie next to each other for the first time last week.
And the 7-year-old is starting school at the hospital with a teacher.
The Harrises will be at Children's for about three months for Kenzie's therapy.
"I can't even imagine the bill," Sara said about what the family's combined medical expenses will be. Doug is a foreman at Seattle Electric; Sara is a business manager supporting the physicians in Tacoma General's Emergency Department.
Everyone is hoping for the best – she gets a little more movement every day – but they believe Kenzie will need 24-hour care indefinitely.
"McKenzie has a long journey ahead of her," Peterson said. "Bigger than I think any of us realize. We need all the support we can get. We're a strong family. It's just going to be a different journey for us."
She and Kenzie's grandfather, Brian Peterson, are part of a small army of family members who have constantly been at her side. Amy sleeps in the hospital room.
She said Kenzie has a new favorite song, and a motto of sorts. It's from the movie "Frozen," called "Let it Go."
One verse: "It's time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through."
Her family lovingly calls her both a little diva and a little miracle.
"She's very brave," her dad said. "She's been very, very brave."
Alexis Krell: 253-597-8268
Donations can be made at any KeyBank branch. The fund is under the name "Harris Family." Family and friends are raising money for the Harrises online at bit.ly/1fFFrif. Other fundraisers are in the works.


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Patrick Buchnowski
A man was jailed Thursday after police said he burglarized a home in Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, and stole items valued at more than $1,000.
Joseph Daniel Wurth, 23, of the 1300 block of Coon Ridge Road in the township, was charged with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property, criminal trespass and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In a criminal complaint, township police alleged that Wurth burglarized a home in the 2500 block of Somerset Pike on Thursday. He is accused of making off with a $900 large-screen television and a $200 camcorder.
Police said that when officers stopped his vehicle on Route 985, they found the TV in the back seat.
Wurth was arraigned by on-call District Judge Susan Mankamyer of Boswell and sent to the Somerset County Jail after failing to post 10 percent of $40,000 bond.
Patrick Buchnowski is a reporter with The Tribune-Democrat. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PatBuchnowskiTD.


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IBD - Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care Practitioner
Patient Guide for Preparing to Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care Practitioner
New Resource for Older Teens with IBD
Children's Digestive Health & Nutrition Foundation (CDHNF) and Starlight Children's Foundation announced the launch of IBDU: Graduating to Independence – a new resource for young adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) who are preparing for college, vocational training, entrance into the workforce or living independently. The site provides answers for older teens and young adults to real life challenges and educational resources.
For additional information and resources on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, please visit our Foundation (CDHNF) website: www.kidsibd.org


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The Saturday Club will host its popular fall and winter consignment sale at our historic clubhouse on Friday, October 12, 2012 from 5-9pm and Saturday, October 13, 2012 from 8am-12pm.
Preview Sale: Friday, October 12, 2012 5-9pm, $10 admission, free for consignors
Sale Hours: Saturday, October 13, 2012 8-11am, 1/2-price sale from 11:10am-12pm
The public is invited to join Saturday Club members and friends to shop new and gently used women, teens, toddlers, and baby items. Past consignment sales included name brand items such as Tory Burch, Juicy Couture, Lilly Pulitzer, J Crew, Pottery Barn Kids, Janie and Jack, Baby Lulu, and more.
Interested in getting rid of unwanted clothes, shoes, and accessories? Consignment is open to the public. Consignors earn 60-70% on the sale of their items. For more information about the fall and winter sale, or about becoming a consignor, please visit our website at www.saturdayclub.org, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 610.688.9746.
About The Saturday Club:
The Saturday Club of Wayne, Pennsylvania was established in 1886 and is among the oldest women's clubs nationwide. A non-profit organization, The Saturday Club is dedicated to providing philanthropic support to women's and children's charitable organizations in the greater Philadelphia region with both financial contributions and volunteer service hours. The group celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2011.


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People really freaking out in a haunted house
>Nightmare Fears Factory in Niagra Falls does us all a favor and takes pictures of people being scared out of their minds in one of the haunted house's rooms. Enjoy.
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When Mitt Romney barnstorms Florida Monday, he will wade into a state where the Medicare debate carries the highest stakes.
No battleground state in the 2012 presidential election relies more heavily on Medicare than Florida does. With Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate on the Republican ticket, the Wisconsin congressman's plan to transform Medicare has quickly become one of the hottest topics in the campaign.
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Two women delivering newspapers were shot at more than 100 times by police.
The city of Los Angeles has tentatively agreed to pay $4.2 million to two women wounded when police officers filled their vehicle with bullets as they drove along their morning newspaper delivery route.
Emma Hernandez, 71, and her daughter Margie Carranza, 47, were slowly driving in their blue truck delivering papers on February 7 when they approached Los Angeles police guarding the home of an LAPD captain whose daughter and her fiance were shot and killed by cop-killing fugitive Christopher Dorner, who remained at large. Dorner was believed to be driving a truck.
Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich said Tuesday, "We got out of this thing pretty cheaply, all things considered," noting that "the costs were going to skyrocket" without a settlement, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Attorney Glen Jonas, who represents the women, said that police gave his clients "no commands, no instructions and no opportunity for surrender." Jonas said he started settlement negotiations at $15 million or $16 million, the Times reports.
Hernandez was shot twice. A bullet punched through her back and came out her chest, coming perilously close to her heart. Carranza miraculously only received cuts to her hands. Neither woman was permanently injured.
"I have a 71-year-old client," Jonas said, according to the Times. "You think she wants to risk the appellate court reversing it for one reason or another? $4.2 million means a lot more to her today than potentially $7 million 10 years down the road."
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The Los Angeles City Council must approve the settlement.
After the incident, the city also paid $40,000 to replace the women's destroyed Toyota Tacoma truck. The vehicle Dorner was supposedly driving at the time was a gray Nissan Titan. Dorner was found dead February 13 after a cabin fire in Angelus Oaks, Calif.
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West Virginia University's bowl-bound football team was spotty at times and lacking consistently, especially during the five-game losing streak, while posting a 7-5 record.
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"Our guys didn't quit," Holgorsen said. "They finished strong. These kids played very well. We wanted to finish strong and did."
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Guy C. Mickley, director of the board of elections, expects an 84 percent turnout among the county's 188,000 registered voters.
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cheeze74 Posts: 30If that's the case then I would lean toward the fuel pump. My son's quit like about a week after I replaced the crank sensor. It didn't give any warning of it going. When I pressed on the valve in the fuel rail it had no pressure which further showed the fuel pump being bad.
I have a 2005 Dodge Stratus. Not sure if you knew this but there is another way of checking codes. Turn ignition on and off 2 times then to the on position. (Put key in ignition, turn to on position without bumping the engine then off, then on then off then on (quickly). Look at your odometer and it will read off codes from the computer then it will say "done" after it has ran through the codes. Hope this helps.
My Stratus runs rough and gives the code for random, multiple misfires. I replaced the plugs, wires, cap and rotor but the problem persists. I was told to check the connection for the coil, which I did and it looks pristine at the distributor, are there any other connectors I should inspect? Any other ideas?
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My advice to anyone else is to use synthetic oil and engine sealant additives. Also the transmission sensor is known to go bad on this car.
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OLYMPIA - Telling a Thurston County Superior courtroom "I screwed up," former Olympia City Councilman Joe Hyer was sentenced Monday to 10 days in jail with work release and 240 hours of community service for selling marijuana to a confidential informant.
Hyer pleaded guilty to one felony charge of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance as part of an agreement with prosecutors, who had earlier sought three felony charges. In a late addition to the plea deal announced Monday, Hyer agreed not to name the informant.
"I screwed up," Hyer said in his remarks to Superior Court Judge Richard Strophy. "I want to spend the rest of my life making up for that" by "making atonement and making amends."
Later, in an interview with The Olympian, Hyer said he has been a longtime marijuana user and intends to use his political skills to ensure that drug laws are changed.
It capped a fall from grace that saw Hyer go from being poised to serve in two offices – as city councilman and Thurston County treasurer – to being a felon forbidden from public office or from even voting.
"Will it mean I'll never run for office again? I don't know," he said in an interview.
Hyer will report to the Thurston County Jail in the next couple of days, his attorney, Ken Valz, said. Under work release, Hyer can work during the day at his downtown businesses, including Olympic Outfitters and Alpine Experience. But he must spend the night in jail.
"Mr. Hyer's political career, I think is over," said Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Scott Jackson, who had sought that Hyer be sentenced to 60 days of work release.
"Mr. Hyer held a specific public trust as a public official to uphold the law and hold himself to a higher standard," Jackson said.
Valz argued that his client should be sentenced to community service, which is what defendants with a first drug offense would get. "He's not a drug dealer by any stretch of the imagination," Valz said. "He's no longer in public office."
Strophy's sentence fell somewhere in the middle. He noted that 21 people had sent letters to the court arguing on behalf of Hyer, including notable public officials such as state Sen. Karen Fraser and state Rep. Sam Hunt, Thurston County Commissioners Sandra Romero and Karen Valenzuela, and some members of the Olympia, Tumwater and Lacey city councils.
But Strophy said Hyer deserved jail time, saying that Hyer abused his public office. "What this proceeding is not is a referendum on whether marijuana" should be illegal. "It is illegal," he said.
The judge instructed Hyer to spend his community service telling his story to middle and high school students, and to submit a plan to do so in three months. Within nine months, the service should be finished, he said. Hyer will also face 12 months' supervision.
Hyer asked if he could also speak to groups outside of schools, such as the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and Strophy said yes.
The Thurston County Narcotics Task Force arrested Hyer on Feb. 18 at his home in the 1000 block of Legion Way. There were about six to eight guns drawn on him, Hyer said in an interview.
The task force was acting on information that a confidential informant wearing a wire bought marijuana from Hyer twice during controlled buys at Hyer's home in February, according to court records. Valz initially claimed Hyer was entrapped by someone he thought was his friend.
"This 'friend,' over a period of several months, lured and induced Councilman Hyer to commit a crime that Hyer would not otherwise commit except for the influence of this 'friend,'" according to court papers.
Hyer said he knows the informant, that he was a friend, and that he is the only person he has sold to. But he said that six to eight years ago, "I would buy an ounce and I would split it between three of us or four of us," he said.
He said he was prepared to tell the identity of the informant until the ban from doing so was added to his plea deal at 1:30 Monday afternoon.
"I should never even have considered transferring, selling, delivering to a close friend," he said. "I still don't know what I was thinking. It was just sheer stupidity."
Hyer declined to identify the supplier when asked by The Olympian. He said investigators never asked him the identity of his supplier.
Thurston County Sheriff Dan Kimball has said two people told him that Hyer might be involved in drug activity. Kimball provided the name and number of the confidential informant to Lt. Loreli Thompson, who supervises the task force, during a Jan. 6 meeting, according to records obtained by The Olympian. It's unclear if the informant is one of the two people who tipped off Kimball.
The buyer, identified as Confidential Source No. 759, according to the records, purchased $40 in marijuana from Hyer on the afternoon of Feb. 4. The buyer purchased $80 in marijuana during a second controlled buy Feb. 11. The buyer wore a recording device during both buys.
On Feb. 18 Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor signed a search warrant, and task force detectives executed it that afternoon. Hyer was placed under arrest. He was booked at the Thurston County Jail and released that evening after posting bail. Detectives sought the search warrant after they were unable to arrange a third controlled buy, records say.
The task force declined to release any records sought by The Olympian that would identify the confidential source, citing an exemption to the state public records act for documents "essential to effective law enforcement or for the protection of any person's right to privacy."
During a interview Feb. 2, two days before the first buy, task force detectives asked how the buyer knows Hyer. The buyer responded, "Ah, we served, he works in the business community and we serve together on a government body," according to the transcript.
The name of the informant was blacked out on the transcript.
Hyer has used drugs for years, he said in an interview. He used mushrooms and tried cocaine when he was 19.
"I think I first tried marijuana when I was probably 21 or 22," he said.
Suffering from chronic insomnia since he was boy, Hyer said he started using marijuana in 1996 to help him fall asleep. He did so without a prescription. In 1998, voters approved a statewide initiative that allows the use of cannabis to treat specific debilitating and terminal illnesses.
Eventually, he said, he had it in his home all of the time and would use it three to four times a week – both to fall asleep, and occasionally, recreationally.
If he had it to do over again, he said he would have gotten a prescription for medical marijuana.
"It was just stupidity," he said. "If I would have just put my head to it and done it, I probably could have had a prescription."
Hyer said he offered marijuana to the informant in 2006 during Lakefair because "I was worried about his depression and I was worried about his state of mind," but never sold to him in the meantime until the recent buys.
He said he doesn't know why the person he considered a friend informed on him, and isn't sure if it was politically motivated. "It's been a question plaguing my mind," he said.
It ended, for now anyway, what seemed like a promising political career. Days before his arrest, the Thurston County Commission had informally picked Hyer as the next county treasurer, filling a vacancy, and Hyer was mounting a campaign to be elected treasurer this fall.
But he resigned his council seat and ended his campaign for Thurston County treasurer before his attorney filing paperwork April 13 that he would enter a guilty plea as part of a plea agreement.
Hyer said he'd like to stay in politics, and indicated he would petition to get his right to vote back eventually. He would advocate for a change in drug laws, he said.
"I did something unlawful," he said. "I don't think I did something immoral.
"I think that marijuana has no greater health risk than alcohol or tobacco."


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There's something for everyone as hosts its 16th annual on Sunday, July 1.
"As everyone knows, this is a free event and we are expecting a record crowd," said parade chairman, Ross Commissioner Jerry O'Brien.
The festivities begin with the 10th annual . Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. at the high school.
At 4 p.m. the Independence Day parade steps off on Perry Highway in front of . Marchers will head north to the parade's end point at Lindley Lane. (Note: Perry Highway will be closed from Rochester Road to Three Degree Raod from 3-5 p.m.)
Following the parade, the celebration moves to the , where there will be arts and crafts, face painting, inflatable activities, a petting zoo, various games and a concessions stand.
The band, Kardaz, will be playing classic rock hits from the 60's and 70's from early evening until the beginning of the fireworks show.
Something new this year is the "Utlimate Gaming Trailer," sponsored by Ridgewood Church.
"It's a 30 foot trailer with 16 play stations that can all be used at one time, it should be a very interesting experience," said O'Brien.
Fireworks are scheduled to begin between 9 and 9:30 p.m., courtesy of .
The evening ends with a movie in the park, the Steven Spielberg blockbuster The Adventures of Tintin.
Shuttle service will be provided all day and into the evening from the community center to the and .
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On a wall at Rae C. Stedman Elementary School are rows and rows of red, brown and orange construction paper bricks – each boasting a student's name. The bricks are a representation of accomplishment for the Reading with a Meaning campaign, and they also mean the promise of building new classrooms for a kindergarten in Ethiopia.
"By the end of the month, this whole wall will be covered," said fifth grade teacher Greg Kowalski, motioning to the space above several students who sat at long tables, hunkered over lunch trays. The bricks symbolize the building of two new classrooms at Lando Kindergarten in Petersburg's African Sister City, in Wondo Genet, Ethiopia.
Students at Stedman have spent the month of February reading for a good cause; for each five, 20-minute block of time a student spends reading, they get a brick for the wall.
"Each year the students participate in a month of reading and charitable giving," Kowalski said.
Last February, the students raised $9,000 for Heifer International, a charitable organization that provides livestock to impoverished families.
How the campaign works is, students read as much as they can during the month. The page-turning marathon is sponsored by individuals and businesses in the community. At the end of the month, the student with the most sponsors, the student with the most time logged reading, and the student who raised the most money will be recognized.
"The school [in Africa]currently seats four students per desk," Kowalski said. The students need to raise a total of $5,000 to reach their goal. "We are hoping any additional money will go toward bringing running water to the school," he added.
A relationship with Stedman and the kindergarten, located more than 7,000 miles away, began with Petersburg's Karen Dillman. An ecologist for the U.S. Forestry Service, Dillman spent six weeks in Wondo Genet, working in botany, she said.
Dillman met Peace Corps volunteers, Robert and Nancy Stutevant, a retired couple from Fort Collins, Colo. who told her about the cramped conditions at Lando Kindergarten. The Stutevants are working on a matching grant for construction of new classrooms and already have grants for desks, books and other items, Dillman said.
"The government in Ethiopia doesn't fund kindergarten, but many of the churches have taken on that task," Dillman said. "The school is so over-crowded [there are] 150 kids in three classrooms."
If children can start off school with kindergarten, they will have a better chance of learning to read early, and sticking with their education. "I'm always looking to making things better in little ways, little increments that's all it takes," said Dillman, a former Peace Corps volunteer.
Half-way through February, the students at Stedman had already received pledges of $500 each from The Trading Union, Wells Fargo Bank and Hammer & Wikan. And several businesses around town have Reading with a Meaning donation boxes on their counters. At the $5,000 mark, Kowalski said, the students will be hosted to a pizza party.
"The campaign is going all month-long, until the 29th," he said.


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Todd Woody, Forbes Staff
I cover environmental and green technology issues from San Francisco.
In the biggest green-tech flameout yet, Silicon Valley solar panel maker Solyndra shut its doors and laid off 1,100 workers Wednesday after raising more than $1 billion from investors and securing a half billion dollar federal loan guarantee to build a state-of-the-art robotic factory that opened less than a year ago.
In a statement, the Solyndra said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while exploring a sale of the business or licensing its thin-film photovoltaic technology.
"Despite strong growth in the first half of 2011 and traction in North America with a number of orders for very large commercial rooftops, Solyndra could not achieve full-scale operations rapidly enough to compete in the near term with the resources of larger foreign manufacturers," the company said. "This competitive challenge was exacerbated by a global oversupply of solar panels and a severe compression of prices that in part resulted from uncertainty in governmental incentive programs in Europe and the decline in credit markets that finance solar systems."
Solyndra's crash will almost certainly intensify a debate in Washington over whether the federal government did its due diligence in vetting Solyndra for a $535 million loan guarantee – or whether it should even be in the business of subsidizing new renewable energy technologies. Solyndra had become something of a poster child for the promise of the new clean green economy and the company's Fremont, Calif., factories became a favored backdrop for visiting dignitaries, from former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to President Obama.
But the real take-away is this: Can U.S. companies developing advanced solar technology compete against low-cost Chinese manufacturers who benefit from state support and a government policy to create markets at home and abroad for their products?
And given the shellacking taken by Solyndra's investors – who include Richard Branson, the Walton family and Silicon Valley venture capital firms such as CMEA and US Venture Partners – will VCs be willing to place future bets on high-tech renewable energy startups or continue to back companies such as Nanosolar and MiaSolé?
I raised those issues in a story I wrote last October for The New York Times about Solyndra and other Silicon Valley solar startups:
Founded by veterans of the Valley's chip and hard-drive industries, these companies attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment on the hope that their advanced "thin film" technology would make them the Intels and Apples of the global solar industry
But as the companies finally begin mass production — Solyndra just flipped the switch on a $733 million factory here last month — they are finding that the economics of the industry have already been transformed, by the Chinese. Chinese manufacturers, heavily subsidized by their own government and relying on vast economies of scale, have helped send the price of conventional solar panels plunging and grabbed market share far more quickly than anyone anticipated.
As a result, the California companies, once so confident that they could outmaneuver the competition, are scrambling to retool their strategies and find niches in which they can thrive.
"The solar market has changed so much it's almost enough to make you want to cry," said Joseph Laia, chief executive of MiaSolé. "We have spent a lot more time and energy focusing on costs a year or two before we thought we had to."
Three weeks after that story was published, Solyndra announced it would shut an older factory, postpone plans to expand another plant and lay off workers.
"Solyndra was born in an era of undersupply, expensive polysilicon, and still-shaky reputations for major Chinese manufacturers," Nathaniel Bullard, a solar analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in an email. "It grew, however, in a market that was the opposite of all of those factors. That means it had to be much more efficient, lower cost, high volume, and well regarded than even its most optimistic backers probably expected."
Solyndra's shutdown is a stunning reversal of the bright future the company represented when I first met the startup's top executives in October 2008 before they publicly revealed their technology.
At a lunch at One Market in San Francisco, Chris Gronet, a Solyndra founder and then-chief executive, pulled from a case a long cylindrical tube that was coated in thin-film solar cells. While less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional photovoltaic cells, the promise of thin-film solar was that it could be manufactured much cheaper as cells are printed on glass or long rolls of thin metal.
The Solyndra incident hits close to home since I work in the valley and have been at two solar startups, one in CIGS (thin-film). From what I have seen, they have pulled-off some stunning engineering to get reasonable efficiency on glass tubes. However, they also had an extreme budget, so they had a big advantage compared to everyone else.
But I ask, why throughout the whole process of funding did no one ask an objective engineer or technical leader about their technology? Most consensus in the solar engineering community was that the Solyndra product would just be way too expensive, even if you take Chinese silicon off the table. It really does not take much time to figure out how the design is fundamentally flawed from a cost perspective (the only one that really matters) because of its form-factor.
I think part of the answer is denial, not wanting to know the real truth and buying into the hype. The other part is that they had close connections to the right people in Washington.
My motivation for writing this is that I think we should not rush to judgment about government support of developing new industries and jobs. But the system of giving out funds, as usual, seems to be corrupt. China is investing huge sums for new factories to make a traditional solar product. The US cannot compete with their strategy because they have so much capital to give away. If we have a longer-term strategy as opposed to the VC/IPO investment cycle, that invests more soundly in innovative solar technologies, then we may have a chance of developing new jobs at home.
Actually the Chinese competition blame is not the whole story
Basic due diligence on its competitive edge would have revealed
Solyndra depended on
1. High Silicon prices ( they have crashed )
2. Modular flat roof installation ( Now many manufactures do this )
3. Government subsidies at all levels in all markets ( they are evaporating both in Europe and in the US )
With premium prices at twice and three times industry norm it was a train wreck waiting to happen.
Sad because a bit of simple innovation looking at the whole picture and life cycle of the product could have saved them
Don't think its bad news its simply the result of an industry starting to mature that needs to get its act together which sadly Solyndra did not.
The Chinese competition blame is not the whole story and is misleading and if they did not build this threat into their business plan that says very poor management and guidance from the directors and board and advisers ( i would want my money back for that )
Basic due diligence ( which again should have been in there business plan ) on its alleged competitive edges would have revealed that
Solyndra depended on
1. High Competitor Silicon prices to support Solydras expensive costs ( they have crashed and prices of any material always fluctuate why no game plan to offset or plan a reaction to this )
2. Modular flat roof installation ( Now many manufactures do this , what was Solyds plan when this was obviously going to happen. Construction installations of any type are a 0 productivity game in a brutally competitive market)
3. Government subsidies at all levels in all markets ( they are evaporating both in Europe and in the US and you can never base a solid long term business plan on a subsidy )
With premium prices at twice and three times industry norm for a product that only performed at 60% of its competitors it was a train wreck waiting to happen.
Most of the subsidies and investments of Solyd went into an expensive robotic plant that without a huge market for its product was in deep trouble to begin with. As many have found to their cost the building ( albeit the showiest and the most visible ) is only part of the product and never forget what you are really trying to do which in this case if it was compete with china's cheap manufacturing using robots that's suicidal but might make a great fiction novel .
Sad because a bit of simple innovation looking at the whole picture and life cycle of the product and what it was intended to do could have saved them
Political Hubris before the fall indeed and when the political establishment falls in love with an idea ( sic ) without a good ( constantly reviewed ) plan then the business types need to run for the exits.
I would suspect in the C11 review that the pressure to build the huge facility came from the gov backers who wanted a showpiece to touch and tour and that simply drained the cash from where it should have been deployed . " the master plan " if they had one.
Lets hope someone can sort out something from the lesson wreck as the opportunities are boundless
Can anyone say Synfuels Corporation? While there is a role for government funding of basic research that the private sector cannot or will not fund (and that will produce technological advances for entire industries), time and again we have seen government fail when it tries to finance the commercialization of specific technologies and/or specific companies. This is because government subsidies only serve to distort the price signals required for rational economic decisions. (How many private investors, for example, were enticed by the fact that the government was on the hook at Solyndra for half a billion dollars?) The government should focus on creating the conditions for accurate price signals that are essential to rational decision-making in a free market. That means eliminating subsidies and externalities that hide the true costs of a product or technology, not piling on more subsidies.
John Howley
SOLAR PANELS Cost so much, even with government help!!! Solar Panels are a RIP-OFF!!!
Technology advances is a good strategy in any industry but in this period of globalization, lowering the production cost is even a better market-driven strategy. Many countries are indirectly subsidizing greeen technologies because it is good for all of us ! Lower costing solar panels increases its volume demands and lowers the consumption of fossil fuels. Still good for almost all of us !
Solyndra was an easy pass in 2008 but not for a bunch of VCs without any energy know-how proselytizing technology they didn't understand…they were drinking the cool-aide and convinced the DOE to join the party. Symptomatic of a need for actual energy investing talent…. so it goes.
I had thought the way forward for the US, as a first world economy, was going to be innovation … starting new ideas and riding the first wave before the developing nations took over. Having spent the first ten years of my career in telecom, and now in solar, (with overseas CM's) I'm not so sure there is an payoff for the US with this strategy. Whatever industry is started is immediately jumped on by China with massive subsidies, and the ability to direct massive ammounts of labor and capital to the task. It happens too fast to make any profit. This process only accelerates as their industry clmbs the food cain. Any hope for millions of green manufacturing jobs is a fantasy.
Basic research, in say materials, is not the answer, either (sadly). You have to have some window where US companies can capitalize on the investment of US taxpayer $$ to make money and provide jobs.
In a free market, we would just invest in their companies, and ride with them. However, their economy is closed, and has very little transparency, or recourse to a legal system.
IP protection is critical to play in China, but since theirs is not a nation of laws, I do not think many Chinese business or government leaders take this seriously. They are not bad people, but their system makes them very cynical. Examples are the wind turbine companies and high speed rail companies that set up operations in China.
I agree with other poster that VC funding is not providing adequate time and resources to get things right before ramping (like adequate yields and reliability testing). The pressure is too great, and the hype factor they generate always blows it up. (They have too much fun playing company. Why do testing? .. its boring). Many VC firms realize this. They prefer to invest in software companies which mainly seem to give us new and better ways to send each other pictures of our junk.
If automation is not the answer, then US manufacturing is doomed. I will say the 'test' and 'automation' engineers I have seen in industry are not our 'first-string' of talent. However, these positions are not usually as recognized and rewarded by silicon valley management as well as design and 'operations' are.
The loss of 1100 jobs and $ 500 million of taxpayers money that should not have been spent of a private industry………. I am sure that the $ 1 Billion USD investors must be tickled pink