Grays Harbor County

So that's the kind of thing that is available that we need to make sure both that everybody is aware of and also there's another – Another method of assisting through self-help centers that are located in courts.

And there have been a couple, one in Grays Harbor and one in Spokane, that have been really successful.

But we are hopeful that the legislature will see the value in self-help centers and expand them.

So that accessibility is one bucket.

Yeah, you know, and your three buckets covered quite a bit there.

And I had a few takeaways from each of those buckets.

I guess one of the things that stuck out to me is really is that kind of combination of taking, you know, proven stuff that we know works well, maybe like the self-help centers in Spokane and my humble home county of Grays Harbor.

and, you know, trying to expand these things that we know work, and also not staying happy with just that and using something like the study that you referenced and trying to find new ways of things you might not have considered.

Offshore wind in particular is actually perfect.

Ala Weinstein is founder and CEO of Trident Winds, a deep water wind exploration company that is proposing a wind farm about 50 miles off the coast of Grays Harbor and Pacific counties.

Come 2030, 2035, we're going to need a lot more energy.

Plus, the offshore wind is available on the west side, which is where most of the demand is.

Ham is still very active, but I'm only licensed for GMRS.

Cheers from Washington State, Grays Harbor County.

And that's from Droning the Northwest.

And...

Fast forward to this week, and somehow this is happening again.

Despite the issues in Spokane, voters in Pacific and Grays Harbor County received ballots with incorrect information as well.

In Hoquiam and Raymond, the Timberland Regional Library levy was left off, and in Montesano, the amount of the levy was wrong in the voter's pamphlet.

In Oakville, a fire district levy was excluded, marking the third mistake by the Grays Harbor Elections Office.

All four of these mistakes were caused by improperly updated records or records that never made their way into the election system.

In the case of Raymond, they voted to join the TRL system in 2015, so this data has been missing for over a decade.

The data is already available, it just needs to be used.

On the auditor's side, they would compare the list of certified propositions against all the relevant ballot variations to ensure accuracy.

So what happens is the state, they have this term they call them paper fish.

And all these forecasts, because just coincidentally today, they're closing all the Willapa and all the Grays Harbor streams.

And that's pretty monumental.

That's probably 30 different streams that they're closing down as of October 24th due to no rain because those fish, they're forecasted to come.

those counties again?

Grays Harbor, Mason, Lewis, Pacific, and Thurston County.

And so I would say if anyone's interested in donating time or materials or whatever, or even just learning more about the campaign, to go to the website, to sign up for the email newsletters, to even attend one of the Monday evening Zooms that we have at 6 p.m. where You know, all of the different teams kind of report out on what they're doing, what they've done in the past week, what their priorities for the upcoming week are.

And we don't expect everyone to be everything.

No.

And in the river environment, uh, as we get into mid to deep, uh, November, the big coho start showing up, especially out here in this Grays Harbor region.

And of course, the chum will be in in droves.

As we floated down, uh, river last week, got to the bottom end, them things were busting through the shallows.

Um, I'm very curious to see as we move into this, uh, next month what, what steelhead opportunities we may have on the forefront, albeit out on the coast-

Oh, boy

... or here in the Grays Harbor region.

We'll kind of see how those shape up.

Yeah, my sixth year, the superintendent of the Alma School District, we're a small rural district, 1,700 students, kind of between the Olympia, Washington, the state capital, and the Pacific Coast.

And it's in Grays Harbor County, a county I grew up in.

And I definitely wanted to come back because our whole goal was is how could we break – cultural norms on post-secondary going rate.

So I always like to tell a story.

Albino Bigfoot, 1988.

In the summer of 1988, in Grays Harbor County, at Little North River, southwest of Aberdeen, Washington, a 12-year-old boy was fishing for crayfish on a small creek.

He had arrived here on his motorcycle.

Feeling like he was being watched, he looked up to see a white Bigfoot standing 20 feet away on the opposite bank.