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Historic Burned PA house razed museum gets 2nd chance Elwha tribe to lease; May reopening eyed BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Historical Society museum has a new lease on life and could be reopened in May. The Museum at the Carnegie, located in the city-owned historic Carnegie Library, was in an extended seasonal closure and was in danger of shutting down permanently until the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe offered to take over the historical society’s $1-a-year building rental agreement with the city. The City Council approved ALSO . . . the lease transfer Tuesday in ■ Port a 4-2 vote on the recommenAngeles’ ad dation of Nathan West, comhoc fluoride munity and economic develcommittee opment director, and Corey report /A6 Delikat, director of parks and recreation. In leasing the 97-year-old building at 207 S. Lincoln St., the tribe also will take on the utility payments that were breaking the organization’s bank, Kathy Estes, historical society executive director, said Wednesday. “We are happy about it, particularly because they are interested in maintaining the museum aspect of it on the upper level,” said Estes, the organization’s only paid employee. “It would have been difficult to remain open.” Councilman Lee Whetham, who voted against the transfer, said the change should be discussed in a public hearing. He said other organizations should have a chance to rent the building and continue to keep the museum open as the tribe has pledged to do in taking on the remaining years of the 20-year agreement. Councilman Michael Merideth also voted against the transfer, while Councilwoman Sissi Bruch, a tribal planner, recused herself. Councilmen Patrick Downie, Dan Gase and Brad Collins as well as Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd voted for the new lease arrangement, which expires in December 2023. Estes said the museum was in trouble. TURN
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Judy Galgano holds a copy of the Bible, still in shrink wrap, that was salvaged from her home Wednesday after it was burned by fire Tuesday and subsequently razed. She said it was the possession pulled from the wreckage that she prized the most.
Firefighters turn off hoses to save falling bluff BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A 116-year-old home was reduced to a pile of rubble Wednesday afternoon as firefighters and city engineers worked to keep the bluff behind it from collapsing. Firefighters had to let the two-story wooden home at 715 Caroline St. burn Tuesday after city engineers said that the amount of water needed to extinguish the blaze would weaken further an already eroding bluff that had poured soil and trees onto the Waterfront Trail below. As of about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, no flames had been seen since 6:30 a.m., said Capt. Jamie Mason of the Port Angeles Fire Department. The cause of the blaze is unknown, The remains of a house that burned Tuesday at 715 E. Caroline St. in said Port Angeles Fire Chief Ken Dubuc. Port Angeles sit precariously close to the edge of a bluff that was TURN TO FIRE/A4 partially destabilized by water used to extinguish the fire.
Trial set for charges of attempted murder Robbie Davis, 40, rejects plea deal attempted aggravated murder, three counts of first-degree aggravated assault-administers a PORT ANGELES — Robbie destructive or noxious substance Wayne Davis, a Port Angeles man and two counts of harassmentwho allegedly tried to kill a rela- threats to kill. tive with insulin injections in 2013 and 2014, has rejected a plea Lethal doses offer. Port Angeles police allege that “We are on for trial in July,” said Michele Devlin, Clallam Davis tried to murder his nonCounty chief criminal deputy diabetic stepuncle, Richard Haynes, by administering lethal prosecuting attorney. doses of insulin in December 2013, March 2014 and June 2014. Charged with murder The harassment charges are Davis, 40, is charged with related to intercepted jailhouse three counts of first-degree letters in which Davis threatened BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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a deputy prosecuting attorney and a caseworker, according to the affidavit for probable cause. Davis, who is being held in the county jail on $50,000 bail, faces a three-week trial beginning July 18 in Clallam County Superior Court. An initial plea offer was submitted to the defense in April 2015. Davis had been considering a second plea offer since Jan. 15. Superior Court Judge Brian Coughenour on Friday scheduled a June 23 hearing for pretrial motions. Davis’ trial has been postponed several times since his arrest because of delays with DNA tests and a conflict with a
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judicial conference. Davis was booked into jail June 26, 2014.
Reported by nurse The third alleged murder attempt was reported by an Olympic Medical Center nurse, who told authorities that Haynes had dangerously low blood sugar after being visited by Davis in the hospital. Haynes died of an unrelated illness in October 2014 at the age of 57.
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Robbie Davis enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles for an appearance last fall.
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