SEQUIM — They say friends have asked if they’re nuts.
But Bill Littlejohn and Liz Beth Harper are both optimistic about their future on Sequim’s most embattled board.
Littlejohn and Harper are among the eight newly elected members of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce’s governing panel.
“People have said, ‘You’re crazy to get involved in that,'” acknowledged Littlejohn.
“But I’ll give it a try. I would like to see some stability.”
It has been a rough ride to this point.
After the chamber board fired executive director Lee Lawrence on Jan. 18, an opposition group, the Concerned Chamber Committee, called for an overhaul of the organization’s leadership.
Most of the board members resigned in February — responding to the CCC’s demands — and chamber members nominated 25 people for the eight open seats.
Arguments ensued as the CCC questioned the fairness of the nominating and balloting processes.
But on Thursday, the election results were at last announced.
Littlejohn didn’t seem too surprised that he’d won.
The owner of Sherwood Assisted Living, Olympic Ambulance and a handful of other Sequim businesses, he has lived here all of his life.
And this year, Littlejohn was the recipient of a humanitarian award named after him and his wife, Esther.
