PORT TOWNSEND FREE PRESS Ana Wolpin Calls out the Port Townsend Leader. YAY YAY YAY. Now that's the Port Townsend I know and Love

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Below is an Article by Ana Wolpin, of the Port Townsend Free Press, a Voice of Reason, Fact, information and a Call out for Intellectual Humility for ALL.

'For nearly a year, the Leader, the Peninsula Daily News and other local media outlets have been censoring all voices challenging the official Covid narrative (see my February article “Of Covid Testing, “Misinformation” and Censorship”).

Then, on August 24, 2021 the Leader went a step further. Our local newspaper not only shut out civil, open discussion, it promoted demonization of and outright discrimination against the county residents it has been censoring:

“These dolts should be considered pariahs because of ignorance and intransigence. They should not work in offices or schools, should not be allowed in public places without proof of vaccination… Why is it taking so long to completely shut these knuckle-draggers out of civilized society?”

“Thanks, Spreadnecks, for our COVID miseries”—an admitted “rant” from columnist Bill Mann—was riddled with name-calling and inflammatory hate speech. With no science to support what is now a political narrative to demonize the healthy unvaccinated (see Stephen Schumacher’s letter below), Mann declared the “anti-vaxxers” in our community the enemy, a scourge responsible for the “miseries” that have befallen the good and righteous vaccinated.

In response, at least six people sent letters to the editor (LTEs) that we are aware of. They are printed below. None of their letters appeared in the September 1st edition of the Leader. However a concerned letter from Stacey McCarthy was published.

“This kind of talk is what incites violence…
You have an opportunity to create a space for meaningful
dialogue at a time when it is desperately needed.
Instead you choose name calling…”

Rather than embrace that opportunity for meaningful dialogue, the name-calling continued. The following week the Leader again chose to withhold all six letters below. Instead five letters were published on September 8th cheerleading Mann’s vile diatribe and calling for everyone to get the shots.

A health professional whose letter was not printed called the paper to inquire about being censored. Publisher Donna Etchey assured him that the Leader prints all the LTEs they receive, a patent lie. His and the other letters continued to be withheld from publication in the weeks that followed. In their place, the paper ran more “just get the vax” letters.

“Bill Mann is to be commended” began one of the opening salvos, calling those who refuse the injection “a real threat to society,” like “say, mass shooters.” Another writer provoked, “The time has come to make some hard decisions about what to do with these people.”

Is the newspaper’s management proud to be egging on this vigilante mentality?

The Leader couldn’t be a more blatant propaganda rag for pharma’s narrative that we must have never-ending shots in every arm on the planet or we’ll never be safe. Get your injection is the message in every opinion piece, every cartoon, every news story, every letter about Covid it publishes.

The unvaxxed are “endangering the lives of others” say these misinformed writers. No matter that even the CDC says the vaccinated spread Covid as much or more than the unvaxxed. Or that the estimated 80-100 million Covid-recovered Americans who are unvaccinated have far more robust and durable protection against future infection than the vaxxed.

When history is written, it will likely be these Covid-recovered unvaxxed who are the true heroes in this saga. In the face of this leaky vaccine, those who developed natural immunity after contracting the virus may be our only hope for ever achieving herd immunity. But forget balanced journalism; the Leader will not allow these truths to see print, bent only on pressuring, cajoling and coercing more people to get injected with a dangerous, failed experimental product wreaking havoc around the world.

Freedom of speech is a thing of the past in Jefferson County. In a month of newspapers since Mann’s incendiary diatribe was printed, except for the initial token letter calling for meaningful dialogue in our community, not a single letter has been published that represents the 50% of Americans who see through this divisive fear narrative based on lies.

Who are these despicable “spreadnecks” – the “boneheads” that Mann and others would like to see purged from (im)polite society? According to researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, the highest proportion of “vaccine hesitant”—23.9%—hold PhDs. Nearly 74% of those refusing have at least some college education."

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Why does the Port Townsend Leader (local newspaper) protect the Port Townsend Paper Mill to poison us? The SMELL in Port Townsend is POISON coming from the Port Townsend Paper Mill as far as I see it.

''The pond, the smell

PT mill's discharge permit, expired in 2009, now up for public review

A 33-acre pond – also known as an aerated stabilization basin – at the Port Townsend Paper Corp. is up for review this spring.

It is considered a source of odor that some in Port Townsend find offensive and others say is “the smell of a paycheck.” PT Paper has the largest industrial secondary waste permit in Jefferson County.

Allison Arthur, assistant editor

The first in a series of stories on the Port Townsend Paper Corp.’s proposed new discharge permit.
It’s affectionately called “the pond” at the Port Townsend Paper Corp. and less affectionately referred to as “the thing that stinks” by people who live near it or pass by it.

It is the largest industrial wastewater treatment plant in Jefferson County.

And starting April 24, paper company officials and the community have an opportunity to start discussing what conditions should apply to what is technically an aerated stabilization basin (ASB), when the state Department of Ecology issues a draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Waste Discharge Permit.

A public workshop and hearing follow, with comments taken through June 21.

The mill’s discharge permit, last written in 2004, expired in 2009. A new draft contains new requirements for monitoring groundwater, monitoring sediment under the outfall and well as studying the efficiency of the pond. These requirements are now up for public review, including at a public hearing likely to occur in late May or early June.

The mill’s permit to use, reuse, treat and then discharge more than 12 million gallons of water daily into Port Townsend Bay is likely to be controversial.

Both the PT AirWatchers and the Port Townsend Citizen Watchdogs, two organizations that have been critical of the mill’s practices, have been eyeing the state’s progress on the permit review for months.

It is the third permit in four years that Jefferson County’s largest private employer has had to review with the public watching and commenting.

A permit to build a $55 million electric-generating biomass project, approved by the DOE in 2010, has been appealed by a group of environmentalists to the state Supreme Court.

A permit to continue to operate a 23-acre landfill, contested in 2012, is headed to the state Pollution Control Hearings Board in August.

Jefferson County and the DOE joined hands and want the mill to seek a more environmentally stringent permit; the mill is happy with a permit it’s had for years that doesn’t require testing or proof it has the financial means to close the landfill once its full.

And now comes the discharge permit, a permit some believe is caused by the treatment pond.

Discharge permit delay

Although the mill’s discharge permit expired in 2009, both the DOE and the mill agree that the mill applied for a renewal on time.

“It’s a standard renewal,” said Kevin Scott, the paper company's new environmental director. “We applied in 2009 and Ecology is finally getting caught up with paperwork.”

“They regulate a lot of stuff. They are some busy people.”

Garin Schrieve, DOE industrial section manager who is in charge of the permit, said the permit has been routinely issued since national pollution laws were enacted in the 1970s.

Those permits typically are reviewed every five years.

“In this case, this permit was last written in 2004,” Schrieve said. “It should have been renewed in 2009 provided we had the resources.”

State officials say they didn’t have the resources and so didn’t review the permit until now.

DOE spokeswoman Lind Kent said it is not unusual for an expired permit to be extended. She likened it to a home lease that expires and converts to a month-to-month lease.

“We wish we could rewrite every permit before it’s expired,” Kent said.

The NPDES is under the federal Clean Water Act. Washington has an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer the program and oversee permits.

“If it’s not reissued in five years, provided the company had made an application for renewal on time, the permit stays in effect until it’s rewritten,” Schrieve said of where the permit is now.

So, until the permit is rewritten, which is happening now, the permit that was written almost a decade ago is still in effect.

Largest discharge

The draft permit spells out discharge limitations for pollutants into Port Townsend Bay. By volume, it is the largest permit of six in Jefferson County.

“Port Townsend Paper Company is the largest discharger by volume of six permittees in Jefferson County. Their average daily discharge is 12 million gallons,”

Schrieve said. “The City of Port Townsend is the next largest discharger in the county with an average discharge of around 1.4 million gallons per day."

Other permit holders include Fort Flagler State Park, New Day Fisheries, located at the Port of Port Townsend, Olympic Corrections Center in West Jefferson County and the Port Ludlow Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Although a new discharge permit wasn’t reissued in 2009, the mill continued to monitor and comply with the requirements of the old permit, Schrieve said.

And DOE has been conducting on-site inspections. It did three inspections in 2012 and did sampling as part of an inspection on Aug. 1, 2012, officials said.

The mill was found out of compliance with its old permit 12 times since 2004. 

A Leader story detailing those violations will be published later in this series.

 Studies sought

Some of the changes in the new proposed draft permit include requirements for studies on the impact of the mill’s discharge of water on Port Townsend Bay.

“One of the things we do in permit reissuances is to look at the environmental data surrounding the discharge,” said Schrieve.

In this case, DOE is proposing to require the mill to conduct a “receiving water study” at its discharge location, which is about 1,200 feet from the shoreline, out in Port Townsend Bay.

The data would be used to help determine if the water quality standards are being met.

In addition, DOE wants a sediment impact analysis, which would require the mill to take samples of sediment around the outfall, 40 to 45 feet below the surface of the bay.

DOE also is asking for a study of groundwater impact associated with the treatment pond. The mill would be asked to study groundwater adjacent to and under the pond. Such testing has not been done before, Schrieve said.

Perhaps the most potentially controversial area of the permit involves the removal of sludge, or buildup, inside the pond. It is that buildup that could be contributing to what many people associate with “the smell.”

DOE is asking the mill to do an engineering study that looks at the pond's efficiency.

“We’ve asked for a treatment efficiency study before, but what we’re asking for that’s new is that we’re asking them in this study to look at how well the pond is treating those odorous compounds,” said Schrieve.

Odors associated with the pond could be produced by a number of different things, Schrieve said. It could be that the bacteria that eat the waste in the pond aren’t getting enough oxygen, or it could be decaying bacteria decomposing and producing hydrogen sulfide.

Some of the mill’s processes also produce odorous wastewater that are routed to the pond for treatment. So it could also be that compounds coming off the pond are contributing to the odor problems.

“I think the goal here is to determine how well the pond is destroying those smelly pollutants,” Schrieve said.

Mill and opponents

Up until 1971, effluent from the mill went straight into Port Townsend Bay, Scott said. Now, there is a primary treatment system as well as a secondary treatment system, which is what the pond does, he said.
Scott said the mill spent $3.5 million in 2005-2006 to upgrade the efficiency of the pond.

Although the pond holds 60 million gallons of water, it discharges an average of about 12 million gallons of water a day – roughly the same amount of water as it takes in each day.

In January, Scott said he didn’t know what changes might be included in a new discharge permit.

“You get a driver’s license in the state of Washington and every so often you have to renew it,” Scott said. “We have an operating permit for a water treatment system and you have to renew it every five years.”

Scott said the DOE’s Marc Heffner pays the mill unannounced calls and everything has to be ready for those spot inspections, including the pond.

“We might get a call from the gate house that Marc Heffner is here and he wants to come in,” Scott said. “If you knew the IRS could come into your home at any day and review your information, would you have it ready? We have to make sure it’s ready.”

Environmental watchdogs aren’t so sure the DOE or the mill have taken the public’s interest as seriously as Scott portrays.

 Accountability

Gretchen Brewer, who founded PT AirWatchers, said she was told initially that air emissions from the pond are not regulated by the discharge permit, but that the pond itself, including what material goes into it, is covered by the discharge permit.

“Fumes from the ASB have not been included at all,” said Brewer. “I think it is very important. It gives us another piece of where are things being accounted for.

“If they aren’t accounting for air emissions from the pond in the air permit, then they should be accounting for them in the water permit. And likewise, if they aren’t accounting for sludge in the landfill permit, where are they accounting for it?”

Brewer, Dave McWethy and others say the mill hasn’t accounted for a lot of sources of pollution – and the discharge permit is where that could change.

Editor’s note: The Leader endeavors to follow this permit process as it did with a permit for the landfill in 2012.''

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Some brokers support rebate bans as a means of reducing price competition. For example, when the Kentucky Real Estate Commission surveyed brokers about lifting that state’s rebate ban, here is what some of them said:

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"Judge Harper takes office" "Harper won the four-year term with a November 2011 election victory over Peggy Ann Bierbaum. Judge Harper started work Jan. 14"

Seriously??  Judge Harper SAYS, "“I particularly want to be involved with young people.” 

You have got to be kidding. Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox says, what a Line of BULL that is. This man is EVIL when it comes to the "young people".

Judge Keith Harper ignores threats to children, gives rights to non-blood family for no lawful reason, ignores convicted rapists having access to victims, and rules in an extremely disrespectful and misogynistic manner.

Judge Keith Harper chooses who he "likes better" and deems more "credible" vs. actually ruling in a manner that applies to LAW and the Constitution of the United States of America.

Judge Keith Harper is NOT for the rights nor the best interest of the "young people". Judge Keith Harper is the whipping boy to Attorney Peggy Bierbaum and the "young people" are the collateral damage to this "cozy" connection, conflicts of interest in my opinion.

"It was standing room only Jan. 11 for the swearing in ceremony of Keith Harper as the fourth Superior Court judge in Jefferson County history.

Harper won the four-year term with a November 2011 election victory over Peggy Ann Bierbaum. Judge Harper started work Jan. 14.

“My goal is to make the Superior Court here the best it can possibly be and be a team player with the rest of the county departments,” Harper said, emphasizing, “It’s very important that people feel what’s going on is fair at all times.”

Harper follows Craddock Verser, who was appointed to the office in March 2004 following the death of Thomas Majhan. Verser won two elections, and initially reported that he would seek a third full term, but changed his mind less then a week later after fully considering his health complications from pancreatic cancer diagnosed in 2011.

“When I realized I could no longer serve, [Keith Harper] immediately came to mind and I asked him if he would run and I would back him,” Verser told the audience at the Jan. 11 ceremony.

Harper was the City of Port Townsend attorney when Verser moved here in 1986, and Verser said he quickly learned that “he is a man of integrity which is extremely important when dealing with a lawyer in a small town."

 Welcome, Judge Harper

Harper offered a long list of thank-you's, from his 2012 election opponents Bierbaum and Mike Haas, for running "positive and competitive" campaigns to his campaign managers, Bickie and Gary Steffan. He talked about lawyers who had helped shape his career, and expressed love for his wife of 33 and a half years, Jeinell, son Nick and daughter Melissa.

“Everything I’ve ever done in my life, my family and my extended family have always been very supportive of me,” Harper said. “I appreciate them very, very much.”

Harper's son, Sen. Nick Harper, D-Everett, spoke about his father.

“A father is [very] similar to a judge, I guess,” Nick Harper said. “And we couldn’t have been more fortunate to have that guidance throughout our childhood.”

Looking ahead

After being sworn in and donning his judge’s robe, Judge Harper named his three court commissioners to cover certain courts and fill in when he is out of county or has a conflict of interest.
“It goes without saying, all of these people are very intelligent,” Harper said.

The three new commissioners are Stephen Gillard, Richard Shaneyfelt and Harry Holloway III. Harper previously served as one of Verser’s three court commissioners, with Noah Harrison and Bierbaum.

Harper plans to be active in the county’s specialty courts, including drug court and juvenile court.

“I’m going to try to use the commissioners as little as possible,” he said. “I particularly want to be involved with young people.”

At the close of his remarks, Harper had some words of thanks and support for Verser, whose cancer treatments are ongoing.

“I wouldn’t be standing here now at the podium if it wasn’t for Crad Verser,” he said. “My family – all of our hopes and prayers – are with you.”

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