PORT ANGELES — Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer will share groundbreaking duties today at the future Composites Recycling Technology Center.
Inslee is scheduled to visit Stevens Middle School this afternoon for a live interview with students. Kilmer might also attend.
Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the North Olympic Healthcare Network Clinic’s designation as a federal health center.
Kilmer represents the 6th Congressional District which includes the North Olympic Peninsula.
Their schedule:
■ 11 a.m. — Inslee, Kilmer and other dignitaries will break ground for the composites recycling center, 2220 W. 18th St. at William R. Fairchild International Airport.
A building at the port’s composite manufacturing campus will be transformed into an estimated $6.5 million facility.
Visitors should look for the port’s Composite Manufacturing Campus sign to turn.
■ 1:45 a.m. (approximate) — Inslee and Kilmer will visit Stevens Middle School, 1139 W. 14th St., where leadership students will conduct a tour and interview Inslee live on Stevens News Network, an in-school radio program.
■ 4 p.m. — Kilmer will join the ribbon-cutting at North Olympic Healthcare Network Clinic, known by its former name of Family Medicine of Port Angeles, at 240 W. Front St., to mark its designation as a federal health center.
Kilmer, plus U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, supported the designation as a federally qualified health clinic, meaning Clallam County no longer will be the sole county in Washington without such a facility.
The recycling center, with funding from the Port of Port Angeles and Clallam County plus state and federal grants and contributions from the city of Port Angeles and Peninsula College, is expected to receive scrap carbon-fiber from aerospace manufacturers, recycle it and market it for remanufacturing.
It also will house the college’s Advanced Manufacturing-Composite Technology training program and hopes to spin off new jobs both as a nonprofit corporation and through private firms.
The health center, with the aid of a $700,000 federal grant, will allow the practice to expand with five new doctors and 10-15 advanced care professionals and case managers.
The clinic also will be eligible to offer residencies in rural family medicine and to treat an estimated 4,626 new patient at the end of its first year.
