I see the response of the entire Olympic Peninsula community to COVID-19 and know that we are all working together to help everyone who lives here in uncountable ways. We will survive.
Please join me in telling your stories in Washington D.C. through the voices of Representative Derek Kilmer, Senator Patty Murray, and Senator Maria Cantwell.
As our representative, Kilmer is the most knowledgeable in terms of what’s happening here, so I am writing these words with him in mind but sending the same message to Murray and Cantwell:
As individuals, we are working together to help everyone who lives in the Olympic Peninsula community by opening our hearts and our wallets to care for others, and to fill the coffers of the COVID-19 Relief Fund set up by our local newspaper and administered by Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) to those in need because of COVID-19 precautions.
We are staying home and rely on our first responders who also serve on emergency management teams from both counties — medical providers, caretakers, local, county, and state police, EMTs, fire departments, food bank volunteers, staff in rehab, assisted living and retirement facilities.
Businesses are contributing in innovative ways, and our pharmacies and grocery stores are open.
Our governor and our state legislators are providing guidance and assistance.
You are one of 535 people who must unite to courageously support everyone’s best interests by producing legislation that protects the workforce that produced the wealth of corporations and the one-percent.
Joy Beaver
Sequim