PORT ANGELES — The state’s top health officials spent the day with Clallam County government and tribal officials, Olympic Medical Center leaders and volunteers, broaching issues from volunteer health clinics to a more effective way to test for water pollution in Dungeness Bay.
“This is clearly a community full of working departments and collaborations,” said Secretary of Health Mary Selecky, who began her visit at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Selecky, who attended the Clallam County Board of Health meeting Tuesday afternoon at the Clallam County Courthouse, was joined by Maxine Hayes, state health officer, and Marie Flake, area health liaison.
Selecky, a member of Gov. Gary Locke’s cabinet since he appointed her in March 1999, praised county Clallam/Jefferson County Health Officer Tom Locke and Environmental Health Director Andy Brastad and his staff for their assistance to the state in looking for bacterial and biological agents in the investigation of an extortion note threatening food tampering at a Safeway store east of Port Angeles.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
