If you only scroll the official pages, Clallam County looks like a calm place of pamphlets, collaboratives, and “no stigma.” Read the fine print and it looks like something else: a health department telling children they can get pregnancy care without a parent, a city that treats a harbor dump as an “oopsie”, and a Democratic headquarters willing to host the people who want to ruin the economy. This week’s Social Media Saturday is anything but subtle.
A brochure for kids, and a bypass for parents
The Clallam County Health Department was handing out the usual freebies at this year’s fair — foam balls, stickers and a brochure that says to “talk to someone you trust.” Fair enough. Then it listed places to get an abortion and reminded fairgoers that “no matter your age, you can make your own decisions about pregnancy and care. Anyone, at any age, can make their own decision and get care confidentially.”
That is not a vague slogan. Washington law lets a minor of any age consent to contraception and abortion without a parent. So yes: a 12-year-old can walk into the system, get birth control, and be connected to an abortion provider, and the household that is raising her does not have to be told. Is that really the county health department’s job — to route minors around the parents who still have to live with the result? If you are a parent, would you want to know if your daughter was pregnant and weighing an abortion, or if your minor son was seeking birth control? The county’s brochure already answered that question for you.
Sexual Health Awareness, brought to you by “she/they”
The same department is out with a new Facebook campaign. September was Sexual Health Awareness Month. The post says sexual health is physical, emotional, and mental health, healthy relationships, and mutual respect, then asks the county to “break the silence”: routine STI testing, prevention, consent, and open talk with partners and providers. “No stigma. Just education, prevention, and empowerment.”
Remember who is steering this. County health officer Allison Berry has publicly treated “she” and “they” as interchangeable. That is the office offering to teach kids about empowering their sexual health. Parents can decide whether that is the messenger they want.
The emperor has no clothes
Jake Seegers posted that he had just read The Emperor’s New Clothes with his daughter Lux. Two fraudsters sell the emperor a suit no one unfit or stupid can see. There is no suit. Everyone pretends, until a child says what is obvious.
Seegers’ version of the parade: Housing First, harm reduction, and “compassion” that tolerates outdoor living and open drug use; an economy relying on government and NGO jobs paid for with grants and taxes. He argues those policies have cost public safety, opportunity, affordability, and freedom, that current leadership will not admit the failure, and that leaders who still cannot see it will be replaced. Change, he wrote, is coming.
Another collaborative, same saturated county
The Sequim Gazette reports that the Sequim Health & Housing Collaborative, formed in 2018 because city leaders wanted agencies to share a limited pot of legally restricted money for “the poor and infirm,” is still meeting twice a month and still centered on food insecurity. Core funded partners include the usual list of NGOs dependent on taxpayer funding.
So we have another NGO coordinating social services provided by NGOs. How is this different from Olympic Community of Health, which is already taking Recompete federal dollars to “connect people” to NGOs? It is another layer in a county already saturated with NGOs, nonprofits, grants, and meetings. Coordination is not the same thing as results.
Your local Democrats, now with socialism
Mitch Zenobi noted that the local Democratic Socialists of America were scheduled to present at Clallam County Democrats headquarters.
Hopefully the slideshow included the parts that never make the flyer. Socialism has a record, and it is not theoretical:
Shortages, because prices are no longer allowed to tell anyone what is scarce.
Inflation, because the state prints or borrows what it will not produce.
Bread lines and empty shelves beside official claims of abundance.
Black markets, the only place the real price still exists.
Collapsing productivity once the reward for working harder is taken away.
Political repression, because a system that cannot deliver has to punish the people who say so.
That is the local Democratic Party platforming socialism. Where is the moderate middle of Clallam County? It might be worth 24 minutes with John Stossel’s The Complete Guide to Socialism vs Capitalism.
Hand the refuge to a sovereign nation, then try to sue
Al Bergstein of People for Protection Island and Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge pointed readers to the Capital Press and a live fight in Snohomish County Superior Court between a farmer and the Stillaguamish Tribe. His point was simple: if Protection Island and Dungeness are turned over to a tribe, every later dispute over access, management, or neighboring land can land in the same place.
Sovereign nations can claim sovereign immunity. That does not make every tribal government wrong. It does make a legal challenge slower, harder, and far more expensive once the transfer is done. Ask the questions before our elected leaders sign off on it, not after.
Upcoming public Seegers/French forum
This will also be streamed live on PABA’s Facebook page.
Your septic is a crime scene. The city’s is a weather event.
Clallam County Environmental Health put out a no-contact advisory for Port Angeles Harbor from September 25 through September 28 after two treatment bypasses: 3,655 gallons and 4,200 gallons. Untreated or partially treated wastewater, including sewage, went into the harbor. The public was told not to swim, wade, or get the water in the mouth, nose, or eyes.
Now run the same facts through a private septic. A minor leak, and code enforcement shows up. The house can be red-tagged. Repairs and fines run into the tens of thousands. Port Angeles gets a little rain, sewage hits the harbor, and the paperwork calls it a bypass. Meanwhile the city and county just added a 36-unit “luxury” homeless project called North View, and Commissioner Mike French, who calls himself an urbanist, wants more density in the cities — that’s adding more strain to a system that can’t handle an autumn rain storm. When it rains in the rural parts of the county, sewage does not go into the bay. It is only fine when the government does the polluting.
Fox wants the conversation Randall has been skipping
Teresa Fox, the Republican candidate for U.S. House in Washington’s 6th District, is holding a town hall on public safety and the transfer of public lands.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 6:00 p.m., Sequim Prairie Grange at 290 Macleay Rd. She will open, then turn it over to the room. Incumbent Emily Randall is invited. Fox’s case is that Randall has been missing local forums while campaigning for candidates outside the state, and that the district deserves someone who shows up. She is running as a business professional and emergency manager, not a career politician. Details at foxforwa.com or info@foxforwa.com.
The jail is short. The pipe kit is not.
The Sheriff’s Office says Animal Control Deputy Ed Bauck, a corrections deputy, has been pulled back to the jail through January 1, 2027, because staffing there is critical. Animal calls will still be taken by patrol.
Bauck is doing what a short-handed department asks. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could fully fund and staff the sheriff’s office instead of making sure every drug user in Clallam County had a clean meth pipe and a boofing kit?
A permit to fish a navigable river
The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation are requiring non-tribal anglers to buy a permit on about 10 miles of the Chehalis River between Oakville and Helsing Junction: $45 to fish from the bank, $500 from a boat. The tribe has said it will cite people who do not pay, and gear or boats can be seized. WDFW disputes the claim.
The stretch is a federally navigable waterway, state law generally protects public use below the ordinary high-water mark, and obstructing lawful fishing is itself a crime. The department is talking to the tribe, the attorney general, and local law enforcement, and for now is telling anglers to avoid the section or float through without anchoring, wading, or fishing from shore. There is no reason this fight stays in Grays Harbor. The same theory can be tried on rivers in Clallam County.
Keep the sidewalk clear, and smile
The weekly Friday Indivisible protests in downtown Sequim are wearing on locals and on the businesses that have to live with them. Internal notes show members asking protesters not to block the sidewalk, and reminding each other to stick to “positive messages instead of more hateful, negative ones.”
If the organizers already know the tone is the problem, the sidewalk is not the only thing that needs clearing.
“Generic,” says the man who wants residents evicted
Indivisible has put Jake Seegers under the microscope for supposedly not supporting public schools.
Alan Clark — Commissioner Mike French’s appointee to the Marine Resources Committee, and a voice for evicting residents from the Three Crabs neighborhood — calls Seegers’ answer “generic” and blames a “lack of experience with public schools.”
A generic answer is not the same thing as a wrong one. And a coastal eviction advocate is an odd choice for arbiter of who cares about local kids.
Also, Jake Seegers is no stranger to public schools.
Inclusive, except for you
Indivisible’s mission statement promises “a real democracy” that is “inclusive, responsive, open, and respectful,” where the rule of law beats any one person’s whim and where “caring, compassion, and common decency” guide officials. Note the word inclusive. The same group posted “Vote Clallam Local, not Texas Local,” a slap at Jake Seegers.
So inclusive does not mean actually including people. Got it.