“We certainly understand that poverty is a main driver of poor health outcomes in our community,” County Health Officer Dr. Christopher Frank said in a Thursday interview."  You think Dr. Frank?

So, tell us, what has Clallam County, the EDC, the Chambers of Commerce, the Port Angeles Business Association or any other nonprofit or local non-governmental agency done in the past 30 years to provide job opportunities that would lower the poverty rate in Clallam County?  Tell us, I'll wait.

Maybe, just maybe, if all those involved in Clallam County Economics would concentrate less on "timber" and more on the basic infrastructure like our Port and transportation that would support new industry and living wage job opportunities we could begin to get a handle on the local poverty rate.

But, what we have here, is an entire class of people who have lost their jobs, been forced out with no real opportunities for re-employment, lost everything, no way out and some have just given up.