Exemplary leader
We have a valuable opportunity to re-elect a proven leader during these extremely challenging times for our local hospital.
Commissioner Ann Marie Henninger has served our community as an OMC hospital board member for six years, as well as the board president in 2025. She has proven to be a selfless, calm, steadfast public servant who has demonstrated experience, integrity and important leadership during these trying times for our community hospital.
She is not only a compassionate nurse of 35 years, but she and her husband have raised their family and served our community in Sequim for the past 29 years.
Here are just a few of Commissioner Henninger’s accomplishments while in office: developed job description for hospital commissioners; revised the commissioner vacancy process; created a CEO succession plan; re-initiated board rounding on hospital units and clinics; runs timely meetings on task sticking to the agenda; enhanced the OMC Commissioner webpage with additional information; and made board education a priority.
Ann Marie understands that the board is responsible for governance and the executive team is responsible for managing day-to-day operations.
I trust her to be our fearless advocate for OMC at the local, state and federal levels and to uphold her oath of office.
Please vote to re-elect Ann Marie as she’s an exemplary leader, and she wants to continue to serve our community, which she loves.
Barbara Barry
Sequim
Trump’s wreckage
We may ask ourselves over and over again why we have a noxious president.
His jealous insecurities infect us, spread suspicion, bullying, hateful bigotry, and violence with an epidemic of scurrilous propaganda — now using our civilian military to deaden our natural inclination for independence, fairness and justice, and ability to speak freely and protest without retribution.
Trump destroys self-governing rights. We must protect our liberties, especially the Constitutional mandate that ordinary people are able to rule ourselves effectively through public ethical debate and guaranteed fair, easy voting.
My European ancestors immigrated for personal success opportunities, away from oppressive regimes and stymied life circumstances, just like today’s immigrants. I dare say most people prefer cooperation, sharing resources, and a common understanding that promoting world human dignity is key to our species’ survival.
Meanwhile, Trump joins wealthy swindlers and oligarchs, who’ve bamboozled us for decades, hidden behind their buffered lifestyle of private security forces and lawyers, to expand their territories into western states’ public lands, media monopolies, hiding the Epstein files, and other harmful maneuvers.
Their conniving gamesmanship buttresses the brutal civilian domination of autocratic governments.
After suppressing fusion, solar, and wind research and development, some Trump-supporting oligarchs lure people toward fantastical space travel escape on Mars, or another planet “just like Earth,” while propelling our beautiful planet into cataclysmic climate change by dumping fossil fuel garbage into air, water and soil.
We won’t succumb. Together, we will stop this havoc.
Gayle Brauner
Port Angeles
Stand with immigrants
Sequim residents and visitors will soon begin to notice new, colorful signs in business windows that say “We Stand with Immigrant Families.” Distributed by members of Indivisible Sequim, these Signs of Solidarity help businesses demonstrate support for our immigrant neighbors, who help keep the community functioning and flourishing.
When you see these signs, please thank the businesses displaying them; and where you don’t see them, encourage the proprietor to join this effort. Courage is contagious; the more signs we see, the more signs we will see.
Signs can be obtained through info@indivisiblesequim.org.
We will also be reminding business owners that they can easily post signage indicating private employee space — lunchroom, supply room, behind a counter etc. — to which Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agents harassing immigrants are not allowed without a judicial warrant.
Immigrants are the backbone of the American workforce, often performing work that others disdain. As we see in the headlines and social media every day, the White House has made immigrants targets of injustice, violence, and even terror. These neighbors only want what we all want — a chance to thrive, free from fear. Let’s show them the support and compassion they deserve.
Janine Blaeloch
Sequim
