In Memory of Dr. Eloise Kailin

Dr. Kailin at Sequim City Council meeting with daughter Janet by her side, Nov.13, 2018. Photo: Sharle Osborne

Eloise Kailin, M.D. died June 1 2019, leaving us with her legacy of tenacious environmental activism and an expressed desire to continue such efforts through the organization she long led—Protect the Peninsula’s Future (PPF). To help assure PPF will be able to pursue its non-profit mission for protecting local quality of life, PPF’s Board is reaching out and asking for support from its members as well as from non-members who knew Eloise and held her in high esteem. Indeed, Eloise wanted continued attention to two of her ongoing issues: ensuring Clallam County enforces its Critical Area Ordinance (which PPF succeeded in strengthening), and preventing public/environmental risks regarding measures associated with the County adopting 5G wireless (electro-magnetic radiation emitting technology).

Additional efforts/issues of concern pursued by PPF Board Members include:

• defending our coasts from industrial shellfish farms and other aquaculture projects, which ravage native marine and beach life (and add plastic to our marine ecosystems);
• tracking and commenting on the County’s proposed Shoreline Master Program (still needing major changes);
• working towards the prevention of toxic sewage wastes ending up on farm, forest and residential soils;
• stopping pollution and acidification of our waters by toxic sewage effluent from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants;
• supporting protection of forests and watersheds from being damaged by roads;
• engaging in/supporting local watershed protections by retaining a member on the Dungeness River Management Team;
• attending jurisdiction meetings to express concerns that can lead to better compliance and better protections for environmental and human health.

Link to the Kailin family’s lovely obituary of their mother. You can view, and add remembrances of Eloise. She accomplished so much. Only Eloise could have written the complete list, but never took the time—instead she continued to seek better governance of our natural resources. Please take a moment to reflect on what she meant to you. If able, please make a donation to PPF in her honor: Protect the Peninsula’s Future, PO Box 1677, Sequim, WA 98382, or online by clicking below:

Sincerely,
Steve Koehler, President

Olympic Peninsula newspaper articles on Dr. Kailin compiled by Dr. Darlene Schanfald
City of Sequim Honors Dr. Kailin—November 2018