SEQUIM — Members of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe will place a time capsule in the wall of the entry of the Jamestown Medical Clinic under construction on Fifth Avenue on Saturday.
Tribal members will place the at 3 p.m.
The time capsule will be opened in 50 years, said Elaine Grinnell, tribal member and storyteller.
“All of our goals, all of our desires for our tribe are contained in that capsule,” she said, without providing details.
“We’ll have young people there who will be back in 50 years to see if we have met our goals,” Grinnell added.
The 34,000-square-foot clinic at 808 N. Fifth Ave. will replace the much smaller Jamestown Family Health Clinic at 777 N. Fifth Ave.
The two-story building is expected to be opened by June, said Bill Riley, director of heath services.
Like the family health clinic, which has about 8,000 patients, the new facility will be open to the public, he added.
The two-story project includes 21,000 square feet of clinic space on the ground floor, 9,894 square feet for tribal offices upstairs and a 3,731-square-foot fitness center for tribal members and clinic staff.
It’s on 2.5 acres of land donated by Olympic Medical Center.
It will cost $7 million to build and equip the facility, Tribal Chairman Ron Allen has said.
J.M. Grinnell Contracting, owned by Jamestown tribal member Jack Grinnell, is the project’s general contractor.