Monday Seahawks stomped A damp start to workweek Rams deliver worst loss of Carroll’s tenure B1 is expected A8 P D N Port Angeles-Sequim-West End December 18, 2017 | 75¢ An adoption journey State ends lease for PA fish farm Meetings expected for Cooke shutdown plans BY PAUL GOTTLIEB outside its authorized area, was PENINSULA DAILY NEWS maintaining an unsafe anchoring system and was failing to prevent PORT ANGELES — Meetings nonbiodegradable, petroleum-based are expected to begin this week Styrofoam it uses in flotation mate- between the state Department of rial from leaching into the water. Natural Resources and Cooke Franz announced the lease ter- Aquaculture Pacific on plans to mination Sunday. shut down the company’s Atlantic Cooke’s Ediz Hook office was salmon fish farm off Ediz Hook open Sunday. after DNR terminated Cooke’s A worker there referred ques- lease. tions about the lease termination “I don’t see that there is any to company spokesman Joel Rich- opportunity to fix this,” Commis- ardson. sioner of Public Lands Hilary ERIN HAWKINS/OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP Franz said Sunday in an interview. Assessing notice Chelsea Dutta stands in her and her husband’s fair trade boutique, Amma’s Umma, in DNR notified the company Fri- Richardson said in an email Port Angeles where the proceeds go to families who wish to adopt and adoption day that its aquatic lands lease to efforts. Sunday that he will comment operate in Port Angeles Harbor, “after we have assessed the good until 2025, was cancelled as notice.” of Friday, according to the agen- He told the Seattle Times in an cy’s notice of default and termina- email that the notice was unex- Sequim couple looks tion of lease. pected. The agency determined Cooke to add boy to family was operating the fish farm 500 feet TURN TO LEASE/A5 to name “Ian” home from India, works at the Sequim Fair trade shop India. Safeway pharmacy and “Amith and I decided even together they opened a fair aids others in before we got married that trade boutique at 123 E. First adoption would be the way we St., in Port Angeles and online their endeavors start our family,” Chelsea said. at https://www.ammasumma. “And if we were able to pur- org/ called Amma’s Umma or “a sue that we would, and we mother’s kiss” that donates 50 BY ERIN HAWKINS percent of the proceeds to fami- LYMPIC ENINSULA EWS ROUP are.” O P N G lies wishing to adopt. The Duttas and the Sequim SEQUIM — Chelsea and Amma’s Umma Amith Dutta want to start their community have been sponsor- young family with an interna- Chelsea is a Sequim native ing a child in India for the tional adoption. who works for a nonprofit in past three years providing In order to make this dream Bellingham called A Family for $300 to cover medical costs, clothing or everyday expenses PAUL GOTTLIEB/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS a reality, the Duttas must Every Orphan that helps the child might have. Cooke Aquaculture Pacific’s work area and office west of raise $28,000 to bring a orphans find families. Her hus- the Coast Guard station on Ediz Hook serves the 9-year-old boy who they plan band, Amith, who grew up in TURN TO ADOPT/A5 company’s salmon farm that the state Department of Natural Resources said last week must be shut down. Sequim youth continues her donation drive lection boxes for items such as River Jensen gathers the essentials socks, gloves, soap bars, hairspray, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hats and BY MICHAEL DASHIELL distributed through organizations more at various local businesses. OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP such as Serenity House, the Sal- Along with the items, Jensen vation Army, TAFY (The Answer includes hand-written notes of SEQUIM — This winter, a For Youth) and local food banks. support such as, “You are loved.” Sequim girl is once again seeing to it Following a bag-stuffing Those bags will go out to local homeless advocate groups and that those without a home this holi- “party” at Eastern Hills Commu- Seattle’s Pioneer Square starting day season are getting some essen- nity Church on Dec. 9, Jensen and this week. tials and some love along with it. a number of community volun- River Jensen, a sixth-grader at River and her mother had vol- teers packed 1,536 bags full of unteered at the Salvation Army in Sequim Middle School, drew the items, River’s mother Anna said. Port Angeles each Christmas Eve community’s attention last year “I received a few more dona- since she was 6. The Sequim youth when she collected items for tions afterwards and have been got the idea to make donation almost 1,300 bags to hand out to putting together bags,” Anna Jen- bags last year to make her contri- various organizations that help sen said. “I have about 30 or so bution a little more personal. the homeless on the Olympic Pen- more to put together. But we defi- The effort didn’t go unnoticed: MICHAEL DASHIELL/OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP insula and beyond. nitely hit our goal of 1,500, so that Jensen was selected a finalist for Sequim youth River Jensen, center, gets plenty of help in This year, Jensen and com- makes us pretty happy.” the Sequim-Dungeness Valley making donation bags at Eastern Hills Community Church pany set the bar a bit higher, aim- The Sequim youth and family Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 on Dec. 9. ing for 1,500 bags that will be oversaw a campaign that put col- Citizen of the Year. 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