🌱 How one Sequim volunteer built a 478-strong disaster response force
Sequim, Washington Patch AM: a 3 min readGreetings Sequim! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How one Sequim volunteer built a 478-strong disaster response force
- How will Sequim handle public defense once the county steps back?
- Hunting for that elusive LP? Try this weekend’s Sequim Record Show.
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Cooler with variable clouds, with a high of 65 and low of 49 degrees.
- Thursday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 62, low: 49.
- Friday: Cloudy with a few showers, with a high of 57 and low of 44 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. CERT co-founder receives lifetime achievement award (peninsuladailynews.com) — Sequim’s longtime Community Emergency Response Team coordinator Cindy Zechenelly has earned a national Lifetime Achievement Award after logging more than 4,000 volunteer hours building the local CERT program. She now oversees 17 teams and nearly 500 trained volunteers, whose work is valued at about $4.9 million in community benefit. Residents can still join upcoming Saturday trainings to prepare for disasters. 
2. Port Angeles, Sequim to pay for defense contacts in 2027 (peninsuladailynews.com) — Sequim city leaders are negotiating new criminal justice contracts with Clallam County that will require Sequim to arrange and pay for its own public defense services starting mid‑2027, instead of relying on the county as middleman. Talks are running up against a June 30 deadline, with language largely modeled on Port Angeles’ contracts. Commissioners also advanced funding agreements for an affordable housing project in Port Angeles.
3. Record show set for another spin in Sequim (sequimgazette.com) — Vinyl lovers can dig for musical treasures at the fourth annual Sequim Record Show this Saturday, June 6, at the Guy Cole Event Center in Carrie Blake Park. More than 30 vendors will offer LPs, CDs, cassettes, and memorabilia, while a live DJ spins records and one Port Angeles family begins rehoming a beloved, globe-spanning collection.
4. Fishermen take interest in federal marine carbon dioxide removal research bill (nationalfisherman.com) — Sequim’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory site is drawing attention from West Coast fishing leaders who recently toured its marine carbon dioxide removal pilot project. Their visit is part of a broader push to shape a new federal bill guiding ocean-based carbon removal research. Local readers should know Sequim’s lab is quietly helping test technologies that could affect fisheries and coastal communities.
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What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- I live in Dungeness and I was wondering if there is anybody who has some unwanted art supplies for a 6-year-old My daughter is really getting into making pictures gluing things on paper drawing cutting things out so if there's anything laying around
that you just have no use for anymore please let me know I would be happy to come pick it up (Nextdoor Dungeness Bay) - Just watched a couple of doe with their new fawns, one with twins.
Please slow down and give them time to get off the roads. They're too tiny to be road wise yet. I am hearing of too many being killed by careless… (Nextdoor Diamond Point)
- Disabledperson, Inc posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate at Walmart in Sequim, Washington in Sequim. Apply here.
- CDS (Club Demonstration Services) posted a job opening for Part Time Weekend Product Demonstrator in Costco in Sequim. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Sequim here.
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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