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KT2000

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45. I see -

Wed Mar 26, 2014, 06:20 PM

Mar 2014

I guess I should be more specific as it is our local S'Klallam tribe in Sequim, Port Gamble and Port Angeles, especially the Sequim Jamestown. They are restoring the Elwha and Dungeness Rivers as well as some creeks and the bay at Port Gamble. They opened a large medical clinic that serves everyone and they take on Medicaid patients where other clinics will not. They have set up several businesses to assure employment for the tribe members and others - they are actually the second largest employer here, behind the hospital. They are front and center in protection of salmon.
Their many buildings are beautiful and artistic as opposed to the big box and hastily built metal structures that are going up.

They have a tribal leader, Ron Allen, who is a business genius in my opinion.
http://www.jamestowntribe.org/

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