SEQUIM — A planned four-day retreat for Sequim School District administrators at a Hood Canal resort has been replaced with a three-day workshop at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Center in Blyn.
Schools Superintendent Mike Joyner said the change was forced by what he termed “misinformation about hot tubs, fine dining and golf” reported in a Peninsula Daily News article about the retreat July 19.
Joyner said the report “led people to believe that was the kind of things we were going to be doing” and “led to an uproar in the community.”
PDN Executive Editor Rex Wilson said the published information about amenities available at Alderbrook, about 80 miles from Sequim, came from the resort’s Web site, www.alderbrookresort.com.
The Web site says Alderbrook guests can “play tennis, relax in the indoor, heated pool and Jacuzzi, enjoy a relaxing lobby, play horseshoes, volleyball or hike through the miles of forest,” among other attractions.
Several letters published in the PDN and in the weekly Sequim Gazette criticized the district for spending taxpayer money on the retreat.
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