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Check your Smoke Detectors, Carbon Monoxide Detectors and your All Hazard Weather Radios!

Posted by David Haviland

on October 23, 2009 at 5:07 am (739 social interactions)

GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY, Wash. - The Emergency Management Department of Grays Harbor County is asking that all citizens become pro active in protecting your family from harm. All households and businesses are being asked to:

1) CHANGE the batteries in their Smoke Detectors, Carbon Monoxide detectors and your All Hazard Weather Radios at the same time you change your clocks. Also, please test the alarm to make sure they work properly.

2) Check the status of any portable indoor heaters and remember to NEVER refuel indoors. If you use kerosene heaters, remember to leave a window open no less than 1” for ventilation. If you or any family member begins to feel ill or is not acting in a normal manner, LEAVE THE PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY AND CALL 911! Carbon Monoxide is odorless and can cause death!

3) Check the status of your generators.

4) Check or begin to assemble your 72 hour supplies in the event of a power outage. You will need non perishable food and water for your family and pets, blankets, bedding, flashlights and the location of the closest shelter in the event you must leave your home.

5) In the event of severe weather or disaster, remember to check on your neighbors.

The Grays Harbor Department of Emergency Management suggests that all residents visit our website at:

http://www.co.grays-harbor.wa.us/info/DEM/Index.asp

Longtime Washington state Patrol Communications Officer Retiring

Posted by David Haviland

on October 22, 2009 at 8:51 am (1347 social interactions)

Grays Harbor County - A long time Washington State Patrol Communications Officer is set to retire after dedicating more than 37 years to the agency.

Communications Officer 3 Lawrence “Larry” Evans began his career with the patrol on July 24, 1972. He sat behind his console accompanied by a boom mike, one telephone and a mechanical teletype terminal. No computer screens, no printers - just a pencil and pad of paper to take calls.

Larry started his communications career in Everett as a Communications Officer 1. On January 1, 1977 he promoted to Communications Officer 2 and transferred to Bellevue Communications. In March 1978, he transferred back to Everett.

WSDOT Completes 50th Project Funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Posted by David Haviland

on October 22, 2009 at 6:08 am (784 social interactions)

WSDOT and local governments have now completed 50 highway projects receiving American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. A ribbon cutting ceremony will celebrate the completion of two Recovery Act projects and one state-funded project in Moses Lake on October 22. Nationwide, over 8,000 highway projects are now approved for federal stimulus funding and nearly 4,700 are under way.

Washington Target of "Dirty Little Secret" Tour

Posted by David Haviland

on October 22, 2009 at 5:54 am (847 social interactions)

SEATTLE - Using electricity in Washington has impacts as far away as Montana and Wyoming. That's the message from a Wyoming rancher, LJ Turner, who is in the Northwest this week to tell people about the damage done to his area by coal mining. Turner has joined what's called the "Dirty Little Secret Tour," organized by the Sierra Club's Northwest office, which estimates Washington utility companies get about 20 percent of their power from coal mined in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. It's where Turner's family has ranched since 1918.

"We're losing the pasture, we're losing our air, we're losing our water. I don't know what else there is going to be left for the coal industry to take from us."

In-person voter registration deadline nearing

Posted by David Haviland

on October 22, 2009 at 5:13 am (707 social interactions)

OLYMPIA, Wash. - If you have never registered to vote in Washington and want to cast a ballot in the November 3 General Election, do it soon.

Monday, October 26, is the last day for in-person registration for citizens not currently registered to vote in the Evergreen State. People should go to their county elections office to register in person. To visit a county’s elections Web page, click on this state map and then click on the county you want.

Secretary of State Sam Reed is urging unregistered Washington residents to sign up soon so they can vote on local races, as well as two highly publicized and hotly debated statewide ballot measures:

● Initiative 1033 aims to cap the annual growth of state, county and city general funds at the rate of inflation plus population growth. Revenue above the cap would be used to reduce property taxes.

● Referendum 71 asks voters to weigh in on a bill passed by the Legislature this year that expands domestic partnership rights and responsibilities.