PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

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Port Townsend-Jefferson Countys Daily Newspaper April 27-28, 2012

YOUR FRIDAY/SATURDAY WEEKEND PLANNER

OUTLOOK:
Chance of showers this weekend
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FUN FOR ALL:

Races, activities at Jefferson Expo
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OUTDOORS:
Lowland lakes open for fishing
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DRAMA:
Paragon Springs on Sequim stage
PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT

From one teen to another . . .

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Forks High School student Ismael Ramos Contreras has joined the ACLU lawsuit against the U.S. Border Patrol.

Border Patrol is accused of racial profiling

Two from Forks plus man from Neah Bay join lawsuit
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEATTLE The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol that focuses on the agencys actions on the North Olympic Peninsula and seeks to bar agents from making traffic stops. The lawsuit says people are being pulled over and questioned without reasonable suspicion. Jose Sanchez and Ismael Ramos Contreras of Forks, and Ernest Grimes of Neah Bay, are the complainants in the lawsuit, which was filed in federal District Court in Seattle.

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Amber Garner, left, and Brittani Mellard use a black lung prop during their presentation Thursday at Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend to discourage kids from smoking.

Kids learn smoking kills

PT high school seniors give graphic demonstration
ing them around the room and then collecting them in a small tub. There are about 600 ingredients in tobacco that, when burned, create over 4,000 chemicals, Garner said. Tobacco is the only product that if used as intended can kill you. Another exercise required students to run in place until they were winded, then hold their noses and breathe through a narrow straw. This was a demonstration of what it was like to have a diseased lung.
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Expanded Peninsula presence

The suit stems from tensions between immigrants and an expanded Border Patrol presence on the Peninsula, which, the lawsuit points out, doesnt share a land border with Canada. The ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed the lawsuit on behalf of the three Peninsula residents. Two are Clallam Bay Corrections Center prison guards one Latino, one African-American while the third is a Latino Forks High School senior. All are U.S. citizens, the suit says. People are being stopped based solely on their appearance and ethnicity, said Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, which also joined the suit.
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everything about the topic already. The kids in eighth grade are at the top of the school and have an attitude, PORT TOWNSEND Talking to Brittani said afterward. the fourth grade was a whole lot easier, I know, because it wasnt so long said three Port Townsend High School ago that I was in eighth grade. students who addressed an eighthEventually, though, the high school grade class on the dangers of smoking. students got the attention of the class. Brittani Mellard, Amber Garner and Abigail Noeldechen made an anti- Rat poison, formaldehyde smoking presentation to a class at The high school seniors illustrated Blue Heron Middle School on Thursday some of the ingredients in tobacco as part of a senior project but found that many of the students werent smoke such as rat poison, candle really listening or thought they knew wax and formaldehyde by distributPENINSULA DAILY NEWS

BY CHARLIE BERMANT

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Alert store manager saves woman from being scammed out of $1,900
BY JEFF CHEW
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEQUIM Jeff Lundstrom thought it was a little suspicious when a 79-year-old woman approached him to ask how she could wire $1,900 to her grandson who was in trouble and at the American embassy in Barcelona, Spain. She already had made a withdrawal from the bank and had cash in hand. As soon as I hear that, its just a big red flag, said Lundstrom, who has worked as an assistant store manager at the Sequim QFC supermarket in Bell Creek Plaza on East Wash-

ington Street for more than two years. QFC is a Western Union outlet that wires money for a fee. Lundstrom, who also owns Nelsons Duckpond & Lavender Farm in Carlsborg and has worked for QFC stores for 20 years, talked her out of it last week. Before she forked over the money, Lundstrom recommended she find her grandsons real whereabouts. While she was here, she was able to call her son and found [her grandson] was not in Barcelona, Spain, Lundstrom said. She was so upset and rat-

tled by the whole thing. A similar scam was attempted in Port Townsend six months ago or longer, said Port Townsend Sgt. Ed Green. They averted it, he said. When they got off the phone, they called their grandson and found out he was fine.

Port Angeles Deputy Chief Brian Smith said its a common scam but was not aware of a recent occurrence in town.

Learned to be suspicious
The woman targeted at the Sequim QFC, Sylvia Latshaw of Sequim, said she has learned to be suspicious in the future of those who ask for money. Latshaw said she was victimized two times before for more than $50,000, one being an investment scam and the other a phone scam of a few thousand dollars.
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Wrote a search warrant

Green wrote a search warrant to track it down, found out when the call came in, contacted the phone company and was told the call was untraceable. He hasnt heard of any other attempts since, he said Thursday.

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Jeff Lundstrom, assistant manager of the Sequim QFC, was asked by a 79-year-old woman to wire money to Barcelona, Spain.

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