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Court rules doctor failed to properly diagnose in his arm and no one came to see him for 6½ hours” on Feb. 3, 2011, Pluard’s second night at HarborPORT ANGELES — The Uni- view. versity of Washington will not appeal a $1.57 million medical Deformed limb malpractice verdict reached by a Resultant surgeries “have left King County Superior Court jury and awarded to a Port Angeles him with a useless and grotesquely deformed limb,” accordcarpenter and his wife. John Pluard, 56, lost the use of ing to Pluard’s complaint. “The jury found that that delay his left hand and suffered permanent damage to his left arm in was not acceptable,” Roberts said February 2011 due to negligence Wednesday. Roberts said Lisa Pluard had, after a Harborview Medical Center resident failed to properly without success, asked repeatedly diagnose Pluard’s injuries, the for several hours for a doctor to examine her husband the night of jury decided. Pluard was airlifted to the Feb. 3, 2011. “[The Pluards] were happy the Seattle hospital Feb. 2, 2011, after falling 16 feet from scaffold- jury saw it for what it was and ing onto concrete at the work site sent the correct message to Harof a Port Angeles boatbuilding borview that that level of care in not acceptable,” Roberts said. company. Roberts said Pluard’s left arm The University of Washington now “serves as a helper” to stabiruns Harborview. On Monday, a King County lize objects while he grips with his Superior Court jury awarded Plu- right hand but he can’t, for examard $1.3 million in economic and ple, grip a steering wheel with his non-economic damages and his left hand. wife, Lisa Pluard, $275,000 in Not working non-economic damages. “We are not appealing,” UW For the past four years, Pluard Medicine spokeswoman Tina Mankowski said Wednesday in an has not worked. Roberts said Pluard’s longemail. In an earlier email following term goal is to start a charter the verdict, Mankowski disputed fishing service to primarily serve disabled individuals. the jurors’ decision. “That would give him a chance “We believe our care was not negligent, but we respect the to be back in the outdoors,” he said. jury’s verdict,” she said. Pluard fractured his leg and Personal injury lawyer Nathan left elbow when he fell. Roberts of Tacoma said Pluard, His leg was repaired Feb. 3. who would not be interviewed for this article, had “significant pain TURN TO VERDICT/A6

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BRINNON — There is this hug that happened. After half a century separated, a brother put his arms around his sister. Violence, war, relocation and loss had torn these siblings apart. This embrace represents healing, something Don Skanchy of Brinnon regards as a Christmas gift he was afraid to wish for. Born in 1954 in a village near Ba Ria, Vietnam, Skanchy reunited last month with the siblings he left behind when he was a boy of 11.

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PORT TOWNSEND — This Christmas, Carole Marshall of Port Townsend is one of the chosen few. Her story, “Eggnog with Pickles,” was selected for the 2015 Chicken Soup for the Soul: Merry

Christmas! collection, released this fall to a ravenous reading public. Knowing she was among the multitude of writers hoping for inclusion in a million-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul anthology, Marshall submitted the holiday story anyway. It’s a tale about a cat, her father,

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Swede added to Golden Globes list SWEDISH SINGERSONGWRITER Tove Lo has been added to Golden Globe nominations list for her work on Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” from the “Fifty Shades of Grey” soundtrack. Lo, who co-wrote the song, was not originally listed as a nominee for best original song when the Globes announced its nominations earlier this month. But the Globes said that Lo will now compete for the award because she wrote the pop hit along with nominees Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Ali Payami. Neither the Globes nor the label that released the song immediately responded to emails asking why Lo had originally been

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Tove Lo performs at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2015 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The Swedish singer-songwriter has been added to the Golden Globe nominations list for her work on Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” from the “Fifty Shades of Grey” soundtrack. left off the list. “Love Me Like You Do” became a multi-platinum success this year and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. It earned Lo and her songwriting collaborators a Grammy nomination for

best song written for visual media and Goulding a nod for best pop solo performance. At the Globes, which airs Jan. 10, “Love Me Like You Do” will compete with Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again.”

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Forbes ranked him 236th on its list of richest Americans. Joseph Dahr Jamail Jr. was born Oct. 19, 1925, a son of Joseph and Marie Anton Jamail. His father was a Lebanese immigrant who arrived in Houston as a boy, sold food from a cart in a farmers’ market and eventually built a chain of 28 grocery stores. The younger Joseph graduated from St. Thomas High School in Houston and attended the University of Texas at Austin, joining the Marines in 1943. After serving in the Pacific in World War II, he returned to the university, earned a bachelor’s degree in 1950 and married the former Lillie Mae (Lee) Hage. She died in 2007. The couple had three sons: Joseph Dahr III, Randall Hage and Robert Lee. In law school at the university, he flunked his first course on torts, the field in which he would excel. Classmates recalled him as a gregarious, story-telling saloon companion and a brilliant but indifferent student. Months before receiving his law degree in 1953, he took the Texas bar exam on a $100 bet, cramming over a weekend and scoring 76, one Seen Around point over the passing grade. Peninsula snapshots His first job was at Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, LOCAL CRABBER Bates & Jaworski, a poltiRAVING about how his cally connected white-shoe pots are always full inside Ediz Hook in Port Angeles. law firm in Houston, whose best-known partner, Leon He credits El Niño for the bumper crops and is giving Jaworski, was later the specrab as Christmas presents cial prosecutor in the Watergate scandal. this year . . . Mr. Jamail and his wife gave millions to the UniverWANTED! “Seen Around” items recalling things seen on the sity of Texas, the Texas North Olympic Peninsula. Send Heart Institute, the Museum them to PDN News Desk, P.O. Box of Fine Arts in Houston, Rice 1330, Port Angeles WA 98362; fax University, Baylor College of 360-417-3521; or email news@ Medicine and other philanpeninsuladailynews.com. Be sure thropies. you mention where you saw your “Seen Around.” His name is a fixture on

JOE JAMAIL, 90, a celebrated Texas lawyer who had flunked civil negligence in law school and barely passed the bar exam but went on to dazzle his profession by winning gargantuan judgments, including Pennzoil’s $10.5 billion award against Texaco in 1985, then the largest in history, died Wednesday in Houston. Mr. Jamail’s specialty was personal injury cases — people hurt in accidents or by commercial products — and over five decades, he won more than 500 lawsuits and $13 billion in judgments and settlements for his clients. The defendants were mostly insurance companies and, in cases of product liability, corporations like Firestone Tire & Rubber, General Motors, Eli Lilly, RCA and Remington Arms. Long known as the King of Torts, he worked on a contingency fee basis, usually one-third of the award, and earned $10 million to $25 million a year. In 1994 alone, he earned $90 million (about $145 million in today’s money), according to Forbes magazine, and had amassed $1.5 billion by 2009, when

the University of Texas campus in Austin, where a swim center, the football field, a law school pavil- Mr. Jamail in 2002 ion and a legal library and research center have been named for him. Mr. Jamail lectured at colleges and universities, and was the recipient of numerous awards. His autobiography, Lawyer: My Trials and Jubilations, written with Mickey Herskowitz, was published in 2003. His office in Houston had many mementos, including a glass paperweight encasing the bank-deposit slip for the $3 billion that Pennzoil had collected from Texaco.

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■ The Port Angeles Salvation Army Major is Sabrina Tumey. Her surname was misspelled in a caption on Page A5 Wednesday.

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so many Clallam County With Christmas shopping residents have been employed as steadily as they having reached high tide have this winter. last night, the Olympic PenMills and camps are takinsula prepared today to ing but brief shutdowns to observe Christmas amid give workers an opportunity spring-like weather and to observe the holiday. snow only on the higher mountain slopes. 1965 (50 years ago) Not in years has the Winners in The [Port shopping peak of this year Angeles] Evening News chilbeen reached, and it has dren’s Christmas card combeen many years also since petition have been announced. The cards appear in Laugh Lines today’s issue in greetings ACCORDING TO from local merchants. THE Wall Street Journal, This is the third year this people in China aren’t that program has been in effect. familiar with the “Star Competition was split Wars” movies. into three groups: first- and Though they might be second-graders, third- and familiar with some of the fourth-graders, and fifthtoys. and sixth-graders. Spoiler alert: The elves Winners of the $5 award don’t make them. in each division were Tanya Stephen Colbert Senz, Sequim (1-2), Carmel

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1990 (25 years ago) If there aren’t any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle products under your tree this year, you must not have been listening to your child’s conversation with Santa. Allen Smith, the weekend Santa at the Port Angeles K Mart, says the green, pizza-loving, sword-toting reptiles are hot. Smith, who usually manages the home care center department, has donned Santa’s white beard, red suit and black boots for two years. Both years, requests have run high for any turtle paraphernalia, including the 10 or 12 action figures, games, sleeping bags, lunch boxes and storage containers.

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TODAY IS FRIDAY, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2015. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On Dec. 25, 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. On this date: ■ In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned king of England. ■ In 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J.

■ In 1926, Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito. ■ In 1931, New York’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast an entire live opera over radio for the first time: “Hansel and Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck. ■ In 1940, the Rodgers & Hart musical “Pal Joey” opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 374 performances. ■ In 1961, Pope John XXIII formally announced the upcoming convocation of the Second Vatican Council, which opened in October 1962. ■ In 1973, “The Sting,” starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a pair of 1930s grifters,

was released by Universal Pictures. ■ In 1990, the World Wide Web was born in Geneva, Switzerland, as computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the world’s first hyperlinked Web page. ■ In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. ■ Ten years ago: Pope Benedict XVI marked his first Christmas as pontiff, calling for concrete actions to back up “signs of hope” in the Middle East and urging peace in Darfur, Sudan and the

Korean peninsula. ■ Five years ago: The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, crisscrossed the country, making a Christmas visit to coalition troops at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the tenth year of the war against the Taliban. The West Bank town of Bethlehem bustled with its biggest crowd of Christian pilgrims in years. ■ One year ago: The black comedy “The Interview” opened in 331 locations in the U.S., culminating in the truly unprecedented move by a major studio to release a film in theaters and on digital platforms simultaneously.

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Briefly: World ert Seldon Lady’s sentence to seven years from nine. Mattarella also wiped out BEIRUT — Syrian activist the entire groups say government air raids penalty — on a rebel-held suburb of the three years — Mattarella capital, Damascus, have killed faced by at least 20 people. another American convicted in The Britain-based Syrian the case, Betnie Medero. Observatory for Human Rights The palace statement noted said Thursday’s attacks targeted that “neither of the two is curthe suburb of Hammouriyeh. rently in Italy.” The Observatory, which They are among 26 Ameritracks the Syrian conflict cans convicted in absentia in the through a network of activists, said there were women and chil- kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, dren among the casualties. The group had no estimate available. also known as Abu Omar, from a The Local Coordination Com- Milan street. mittees, another activist group, Shiites march in Nigeria said raids hit residential areas, killing 23 and wounding dozens. KANO, Nigeria — Hundreds The discrepancy in the death of Shiite Muslims marched tolls could not immediately be through Nigeria’s northern city reconciled but different accounts of Kano to mark both the birth are common in the chaos of Syr- of the Prophet Muhammad and ia’s civil war. the killing of hundreds of ShiGovernment warplanes and ites by Nigerian soldiers nearly helicopter gunships often attack two weeks ago. opposition-held suburbs of Human rights activists say Damascus, which is President Nigerian troops killed many Bashar Assad’s seat of power. hundreds of Shiites in raids in the northern town of Zaria over Italy cuts sentences three days Dec. 12 to Dec. 14. The army said it acted after ROME — In an act of clemShiites tried to block the convoy ency, Italy’s president has of Nigeria’s army chief — a shaved two years off the sentence of a former CIA base chief charge the Shiites deny. The government said it is convicted in absentia in the investigating the incident. 2003 extraordinary rendition Thursday’s procession was abduction of an Egyptian terror led by Abdulhamid Bello, who suspect. said justice must be served. With the decree, President Sergio Mattarella reduced RobThe Associated Press

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Phyllis Evans gets a hug from Harvey Payne early Thursday after he stopped by to check on her and her home on Kathy Road in Holly Springs, Miss., following a severe winter storm on Wednesday.

Weird winter storms destroy cars, homes At least 10 died as tornadoes marched through three states BY PHILLIP LUCAS AND ERIK SCHELZIG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — Bobby Watkins and his wife huddled beneath their old oak dining table for shelter as storm winds roaring outside their Mississippi home tossed a barn onto their truck outside, tore the steeple off a nearby church and reduced a neighboring building to rubble. “Santa brought us a good one, didn’t he?” Watkins said Thursday as the couple took a Christmas Eve stroll amid the destruction in rural Benton County, Miss. “I may have lost some stuff, but I got my life.” Others were less fortunate. At least 10 people were killed in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas as spring-like storms mixed with unseasonably warm weather and

spawned rare Christmastime tornadoes in the South. Emergency officials blamed the severe weather for injuring scores of others Wednesday and destroying dozens of cars, homes and businesses. The threat of tornadoes eased as the line of storms moved east Thursday and brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to Atlanta and the Carolinas. In the worst-hit communities, search parties hunted for missing people and volunteers helped clear debris on a day often reserved for gift wrapping and last-minute shopping. In Linden, Tenn., Chris Shupiery wore a Santa hat as he cut fallen trees with a chain saw not far from a home in which two people died in the storm. “I figured I’d come down here with my hat,” Shupiery said. “I’ve

been wearing it for Christmas, and this was just the right thing to do, come help a family in need. Suit up, try to cheer people up, and try to make them feel a little better with Christmas coming around.” From Alabama to New York, much of the country felt unusually warm temperatures in the 70s on Christmas Eve and thousands were without power from Mississippi to Michigan. The storms killed at least six in Mississippi, including a 7-yearold boy in Holly Springs who died when the storm picked up and tossed the car he was in, officials said. Three were killed in Tennessee and one in Arkansas. In Benton County, Miss., where at least four deaths occurred and people were missing, crews searched house-by-house to ensure esidents were accounted for. The threat of severe weather just before Christmas is unusual, but not unprecedented, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at the national Storm Prediction Center.

Chicago officer asked for Taser before shooting teen BY MICHAEL TARM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Recordings of Chicago police radio traffic surrounding the shooting of a black teenager 16 times by a white officer show that at least one of the officers who was there asked for a Taser and offer a partial glimpse at what they were discussing, as none of the police dashcam video included audio. The recordings obtained Wednesday by WMAQ-TV through a Freedom of Information Act Request show that one of the officers pursuing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on that October 2014

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night asked if any other officers in the area had a stun gun, which would be used to subdue a suspect with non-lethal force. “Someone have a Taser?” he asked. “This guy is walking away but he’s got a knife in hand.” A dispatcher responded that one was on its way, then immediately asked if any units closer to the scene could help. “All right, anybody have a Taser — help out . . . Looking for a Taser, armed offender,” she said. None of the officers who spoke appeared to be anxious until one radioed, “Shots fired by police, get an ambulance over here.”

“You guys OK?” a dispatcher asked. “10-4, everything is fine — roll an ambulance over here,” one officer answered. One of the officers, Jason Van Dyke, opened fire on McDonald and kept shooting after the teen crumpled to the ground. Police only released dashcam video of the killing last month after being ordered to do so by a judge and prosecutors only charged Van Dyke hours earlier, leading to allegations of an attempted cover-up, a federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department and a series of protests.

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Nation: Officials allege ice pick hidden in cane handle

World: New York man charged in machete attack

World: Coalition captures Islamic State group areas

World: Faithful gather in Bethlehem despite violence

AUTHORITIES SAID A New Jersey man tried to bring a cane with a concealed ice pick in its handle through security at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said the Maplewood man was arrested Thursday morning at the New York City-area airport. They said the steel ice pick was concealed in the handle of the old wooden cane. A TSA officer staffing an X-ray monitor detected something unusual in the cane’s handle and twisted and pulled it off to find the ice pick. The TSA didn’t give his name but said he faces state weapons charges.

A NEW YORK City man has been charged with attempted murder in a machete attack in downtown Toronto, police said. Arlington Thompson, 35, appeared in court Thursday morning wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans. He said only his name and thank you after the brief appearance. He was remanded into custody with a hearing set for Dec. 30. Police said the attack against a 30-year-old man occurred around 5 p.m. Wednesday, near the Eaton Centre, Canada’s largest retail mall, on the busiest shopping day of the season. The victim suffered serious injuries to his head and leg.

A U.S.-BACKED COALITION of rebels in Syria — including Syrian Kurdish, Arab and Christian groups — captured several areas in the country’s north from the Islamic State extremists as government air raids on a rebel-held Damascus suburb killed at least 20 people on Thursday. Government warplanes and helicopter gunships struck the suburb of Hamouriyeh, which over the past weeks has been subjected to intense government airstrikes like other oppositionheld areas near the Syrian capital. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said women and children were among the casualties.

CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL FROM around the world descended Thursday on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations at the traditional birthplace of Jesus. Before the celebrations began, Israeli authorities said three Palestinians involved in attacks against Israelis were killed in violence across the West Bank. Another Palestinian was killed in clashes with Israeli troops, a Palestinian hospital official said. Bethlehem has been a focal point for clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters during the threemonth-long wave of violence that has gripped the region.

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Story: ‘Joy of Family’ addition Verdict: Court 15 years ago. She’s also the author of articles for American Profile and had two of those reprinted in the 2007 book Hometown Heroes. One was “The Bird Lady,” about the late Eleanor Stopps of Port Townsend, who was instrumental in turning Protection Island into a wildlife refuge. Today, Marshall is a prolific writer on her own website, spiritexplored.com.

CONTINUED FROM A1 In it, the present she gave — the cat — is returned, and “people don’t always talk about that,” Newmark said. “You give a gift that was well-meaning,” so if the recipient hands it back, well, this can mean a difficult conversation. In Marshall’s story, the conversation helps father and daughter understand one another better. “Eggnog with Pickles” depicts a relationship many of us can recognize, Newmark added. “It’s a really good window into the situation a lot of us have: worrying about our elderly parents.” Turns out Marshall’s father, who is recently widowed, has something to teach his daughter and her family.

Other books There, readers can find out about her books: her novel Dearest, an inspirational book titled Reading to Jane and Maximum Fitness, Minimum Risk: A Simple How-To Wellness Guide for Folks with Heart Disease, Diabetes or COPD. On spiritexplored.com, Marshall has a page called “The Tea Room,” where she offers her inspirational poetry and photography. “Over the years, I’ve learned about aging well from some very joyful ninety-plus people,” she writes. “I’d like all of us who are discovering streaks of gray, creaky bones . . . and a completely inaccurate bathroom scale, to find some fun along the way. “So I happily welcome you to the Spirit Explored Tea Room and to my Aging in Good Spirits poetry series. If we are fortunate enough to get old, let’s go for some feel-good moments and a daily giggle.”

‘Joy of Family’ Marshall’s work is in the book’s “Joy of Family” section. Other categories include “A Different Kind of Christmas,” “Traditions Worth Sharing,” “Holiday Shenanigans” and “Around the Table.” “We read every single story,” added Newmark, and that’s quite a job, with as many as 6,000 submissions sent in for just one Chicken Soup series edition. To introduce each piece, Newmark has chosen a quotation; these inspirational comments add to the book’s spiritual flavors. In front of “A Progressively Good Time,” a story about a progressive Christmas dinner by Ava Pen-

nington, we find the words of Cesar Chavez. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him,” the United Farm Workers founder wrote. “People who give you their food give you their heart.”

Adams’ quotation The quotation for “Eggnog with Pickles” comes from Douglas Adams, the late author and humorist best known for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so,” he writes. For her story, Marshall received $200 and 10 copies of the Chicken Soup book. “I simply logged on to their website submissions page” at chickensoup.com, said the writer, who penned ________ “Port Townsend Neighbor” Editor Diane Urbani columns and “Peninsula de Features la Paz can be reached at 360Woman” features for the 452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane. Peninsula Daily News some urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.

CONTINUED FROM A1 Pluard’s complaints of pain. Pluard’s lawsuit also That night, he devel- alleged that UW was neglioped compartment syn- gent in improperly superdrome, according to court vising and training firstyear residents on its orthodocuments. The condition occurs pedic surgery trauma serwhen swelling compresses vice such as O’Donnell, then muscles, nerves and blood an R-1 intern. Trial evidence showed vessels within a compartment of the body — in Plu- that the university was relying on R-1 interns such ard’s case, his left arm. The compressed blood as O’Donnell to provide vessels cannot deliver oxy- overnight coverage that gen, leading to the destruc- required them to work tion of nerves and muscles shifts of more than 24 hours if untreated for more than and be responsible for 20 to six hours, according to court 60 patients at a time. In an emailed statedocuments. Court documents gave ment, the university rejected Pluard’s claim of the following time line: At about 7:45 p.m. Feb. 3, negligence. “We are very sorry for Lisa Pluard asked that her husband be examined by a this patient’s injury caused by a fall at his workplace, doctor. The nurse notified Dr. and do not believe the resiCourtney O’Donnell, then a dent’s work hours were a first-year orthopedic resi- factor in his care,” Mankowski said. dent. “The resident was workO’Donnell did not examine Pluard until 2:24 a.m. ing as part of a team and Feb. 4 and failed to correctly was working within the diagnose his malady when allowed hours at the time of she examined him at about his care. “Mr. Pluard had an 6 a.m. presentation, In the interim, Pluard unusual was given morphine, which which made a diagnosis masked the pain, according extremely difficult.” In its defense brief, the to court documents. During a 7 a.m. exami- university contended that nation by a supervising sur- “there is no objective test for geon, it was discovered that compartment syndrome” Pluard’s left hand was com- and that Pluard failed to show “classic signs” of the pletely numb. At 9 a.m., to relieve the condition, such as pain out pressure in his arm, fibrous of proportion to his injures. O’Donnell, who works at tissue enclosing a muscle or organ was cut to relieve Children’s Hospital Colopressure resulting from loss rado in Aurora, Colo., could not be reached for comment of circulation. Roberts said in an email Thursday. that the jury found that ________ O’Donnell, who no longer is Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb at the University of Wash- can be reached at 360-452-2345, ington, committed malprac- ext. 5060, or at pgottlieb@peninsula tice by failing to respond to dailynews.com.

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Briefly . . . Coast Guard rescues two fishermen PORT ANGELES — Coast Guard personnel from Port Angeles rescued two fishermen from a 28-foot recreational vessel when it became stranded with a disabled engine and grounded due to shoal water near Everett. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles hoisted the men and transported them safely to Paine Field in Snohomish County on Wednesday night, the Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported, but Coast Guard personnel were concerned about the risk of hypothermia due to cold weather. The men reportedly had no cold weather survival gear on board aside from one blanket, which was already wet from rain. Emergency dispatchers transferred a call for help, made on a cellphone, to watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound at 1:25 p.m., the Coast Guard said. Sector watchstanders contacted other local agencies to tow the vessel, but none was able to respond due to shallow water. The air crew launched in response and arrived on scene at 8:10 p.m. The weather at the time of the hoist was reported to be raining with an air temperature of 38 degrees and 16 mph winds.

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“I wasn’t paying attention [to him],” Skanchy recalls. “I didn’t want to leave the game,” even when the American asked to speak to him. He asked the boy if he was interested in adoption. Then he disappeared — to return four months later.

His father was a harsh man, Skanchy remembers, and “when he drank, he would lose control.” Speaking in a soft voice, he adds that his father beat him, sometimes so badly that he couldn’t leave his bed for some days afterTeen adopted ward. The captain did adopt Another beating the teenager. He named One morning, after him Don and, along with another beating — he his adopted Vietnamese remembers his head snap- daughter, Nancy, brought ping back and forth as his his new family home to the father hit him again and United States. They arrived again — the boy left home. Feb. 29, 1968. Don and Nancy grew up He caught a bus and rode to as the children of Robert the last stop: Saigon. It was 1964, and the Skanchy and his new wife, youngster lived on the Ann, who gave up her streets for four months. He career as a lawyer to become knew it was that long a full-time mother. While his adoptive because he watched four father served in the Army, full moons wax and wane. There were times when the family moved around he awoke to sharp pain in the country, from New Jerhis fingers and toes. Rats sey to Texas to Logan, Utah. Skanchy remembers a had bitten him. One day, while walking day in 1971 when he, at 15, with his head down, the boy had to say goodbye to his bumped into a police officer father. The captain had who asked where his family been called to Vietnam again for a second tour of was. I have none, he said. The duty. “I was devastated. My officer placed him in an father was my best friend,” orphanage, where he was to Skanchy said. live for nearly four years. “I was really fearful for him, and for me.” U.S. serviceman Skanchy remembers sitAn American service- ting on the grass in the man, an Army captain backyard, weeping, when named Robert Skanchy, vis- his mother came to his side. “She let me cry. Then she ited the place in late 1967, and noticed the now-13- asked: ‘What’s wrong, year-old kid, who was play- son?’ ” He said that he missed ing kick-the-can with the his father, and then asked a other boys.

Don Skanchy, far right, poses for a photo with his family in Vietnam circa 1964.

question he said he’s still ashamed of. “Mom, if Dad doesn’t come back from Vietnam, would you still love me?” “No matter what,” she answered, “because you are my son.” “From that moment on, I gave my heart to my mother,” Skanchy said. When he met his siblings again, they asked a painful question. Why didn’t you search for us before now? Skanchy’s response was that he did not want to hurt his parents, Robert and Ann. “I was adopted into a family that loved me and cared for me. They sacrificed for me . . . “I’m not going to say, ‘Thank you very much, but I’m going to look for my family now.’ ”

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of Ba Ria, the city nearest where he had lived as a child. “All I could remember was a Buddhist temple, a bridge and swampland,” he said. The temple still stands, while the swamp has been filled in with buildings. The Google Earth view provided just enough information for Skanchy to think about traveling to Ba Ria. This fall, he and Kaylene bought airline tickets from Seattle to Ho Chi Minh City. But even days before the trip, Skanchy felt sure of nothing. “Looking for my siblings was like looking for a needle in a haystack — a haystack the size of Texas,” he said. “If I do find them, will they accept me?” If you don’t go, Kaylene reminded him, you may never learn what happened to your brothers and sisters. They spent the first day recovering from the long flight. The next morning, Nov. 19, they set out for the Buddhist temple. Before leaving their hotel, Kaylene looked at her husband’s attire — shorts and a T-shirt — and asked if he wanted to be wearing that when meeting his family. That’s a highly unlikely scenario, he replied. But at the temple, Skanchy prayed: “I am back,” he said. “Help me.” Some minutes after, he met a man who went with him into the streets, where they began asking stranger after stranger if they knew of Skanchy’s siblings. No one did. Finally they went to the police station, where the supervisor said no, can’t help you, come back tomorrow. But a young woman working at the front desk overheard the conversation. She knew one of the sisters’ names — and was a friend of her daughter. Next thing Skanchy knew, a staffer from the police station left on his motor scooter to find Skanchy’s sister.

Like his father, Skanchy served in the U.S. Army, with postings in Fort Sill, Okla., and Hanau, Germany. He ultimately reached the rank of captain. After leaving the service in 1989, he became an estate planner working in King County until eight years ago, when he and his wife, Kaylene, moved to Brinnon, where they are closer to many of his clients. The couple took their children on a mostly sightseeing trip to Vietnam in 2006, but Skanchy wasn’t yet emotionally ready to search for anyone. Though Skanchy’s adoptive father died relatively young — at 61 — of complications from multiple sclerosis, in 1990, his mother lived into her 80s, dying four years ago. Don and Kaylene Skanchy, who were high school sweethearts in Utah, have been married 37 years now. They have brought up a family of their own: sons Robert and Eric and daughters Tonya and Jennie. This year, the family has faced an unthinkable tragedy. Last winter, Eric was driving to Brinnon and his car began leaking carbon monoxide. The Skanchys’ youngest was just 26 years Finds sister old when he died Feb. 3. The loss of his son made Not much later, Tuyet Skanchy want to find his burst in to the station, her birth family members — if eyes wild. She didn’t believe they were still living. this man was her brother. So she quizzed Skanchy: Begins search What were your VietnamSkanchy began his ese parents’ names? He knew, of course: search using Google Earth, the global mapping pro- Duong Van Khoat was our gram. He pored over images father; Nguyen Thi Nhat

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hopes to come to the United States and get to know her American cousins. She also hopes to find work so that she can send money home to her parents, who are struggling.

Father’s poem Skanchy experienced another life-changing thing while in Vietnam. His siblings showed him a poem his father had written in 1980. It was a remembrance of his lost son, a kind of prayer that he would be safe. The poem ended with his father’s plea “for a little boy . . . Heaven above, please help.” As he read this over and over, Skanchy’s heart changed. “I realized that he had missed me, longed for me. My tears of anger became my tears of gratitude. “For the first time in my life, I could say I loved my father.”

That first reunion day was an overwhelming one. He and Kaylene had planned to spend a few weeks in Vietnam, searching. Instead they found his siblings within four hours. “I wrote in my journal: ‘I’m drinking water from a fire hydrant,’ ” Skanchy quipped. A few days after that, the Skanchys took a trip to the beach with their Vietnamese family. They played some music together, with Skanchy playing the harmonica as his Vietnamese father once had. ________ During that jam session, Features Editor Diane Urbani “I just felt the love in that de la Paz can be reached at 360room,” said Kaylene. 452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane. One of Skanchy’s nieces urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.

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Free public Christmas dinners are scheduled today across the North Olympic Peninsula. Here is the list:

PORT TOWNSEND Community center meal PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., will be the site of a dinner from noon to 3 p.m. Jefferson Healthcare hospital will donate food for the Port Townsend meal, with the hospital’s chef, Arran Stark, leading the cooking team. The traditional menu items include turkey, ham, salad, rolls, vegetables, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, coffee, tea and dessert. For more information or to volunteer, call Bill Kraut, Hadlock Building Supply owner, at 360-385-1771.

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River Jensen, 9, and her brother, Canyon Jensen, 5, both of Sequim, arrange trays of desserts to be served at Thursday’s Christmas Eve lunch at the Salvation Army’s soup kitchen in Port Angeles. Dinners on Christmas Day are planned elsewhere on the North Olympic Peninsula. Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, will have a Christmas dinner from noon to 3 p.m. For the Tri-Area feast, Olympic Community Action Programs has recruited Gabe Santiago, a Port Angeles-based chef who has previously worked with the nonprofit. Featured menu items include turkey, ham, salad, rolls, carrots, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, coffee, tea and dessert. For more information or to volunteer, call Bill Kraut, Hadlock Building Supply

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Chef Bob Goldberg slices the turkey to be served at today’s community Christmas dinner at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St. The dinner, which takes place from noon to 3 p.m., is the first such event in that location. Another dinner will be served at the TriArea Community Center, 10 West Valley Road in Chimacum (see story at left).

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Traditional dinner FORKS — The Feeding Five Thousand weekly lunch program will provide a free dinner at the community center, 91 Maple Ave., from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Local churches have donated food for the dinner. Although the dinner is free, donations of cash or food are welcome. Phone Laura LaFrenz at 360-374-4093.

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PORT ANGELES — The west Eighth Street bridge over Tumwater Truck Route — and the truck route itself — was closed for a short time Wednesday because a man sat on the railing and threatened to jump, Port Angeles police said. Police Cpl. David Dom-

browski, a trained negotiator, talked the man off the railing at 5:39 p.m., Police Sgt. Joshua Powless said. The man, who was not identified, was detained under the Involuntary Treatment Act, police said. Police were notified by a family member that during a cellphone conversation, the man had threatened to jump off the 98-foot-tall span.

The man repeated the same threat to Powless and Officer Allen Brusseau as he sat on the north railing, Powless said. The bridge was closed at 5:07 p.m., and the truck route closed at about 5:20 p.m., Powless said. The truck route reopened at 5:43 p.m., and the bridge reopened at 5:52 p.m., he said.

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Santa (Roger Parkins) surprises Marion Downing at Crestwood Health & Rehabilitation Center in Port Angeles with a Christmas present Wednesday. Gifts were provided by a variety of community groups, said Lily Carignan, life enrichment director. They included the Veterans Administration, Salvation Army, First Christian Church, Girl Scout Troop 42291, Port Angeles Garden Club and KeyBank’s giving tree, along with family members and individuals from the community who wanted to “adopt a senior” or just give.

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The oil drilling platform Polar Pioneer sits atop the semi-submersible heavy-lift transport ship Dockwise Vanguard on Wednesday in Port Angeles Harbor.

Oil rig’s departure Sunken sailboat is date is uncertain raised from area bay BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — The Polar Pioneer and MV Dockwise Vanguard remained in Port Angeles Harbor on Thursday afternoon. Officials could not be reached Thursday to determine a new schedule for the outsized vessels that have dominated the harbor in recent weeks. The Dockwise Vanguard will leave as soon as it is ready, but the departure time was uncertain, officials for the U.S. division of Dockwise Shipping of the Netherlands said earlier this week. The ship initially was scheduled to depart Monday, but the departure was

PA police arrest man in hit-run BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — City police on Thursday arrested Michael O. Burrow for investigation of hit-andrun and reckless driving after witnesses said he drove his dark-gray truck into property near the Peninsula Golf Course and then sped off. W i t nesses identified Burrow as the driver of a lifted 2002 Ford F-150 p i c k u p truck that Burrow hit a fence and other property at about 12:03 p.m. The witnesses told police that Burrow, 30, left the scene at a high rate of speed with children inside the vehicle. A witness who followed the truck lost sight of it as it sped toward Hurricane Ridge, police said.

Investigators Port Angeles police, Clallam County sheriff’s deputies, Lower Elwha police and national park rangers investigated. Burrow turned himself in shortly after 3 p.m., said Sgt. Josh Powless of the Port Angeles Police Department. “We’re going to have to question him to finish the investigation,” Powless said. Police were still looking for the truck, which had oversized tires, a marooncolored front bumper and a grille with a temporary license tag, 2139818A.

________ Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5072, or at rollikainen@peninsula dailynews.com.

delayed each day as the ship’s crew and local welders worked to compete the job of fastening the oil platform to the deck, officials said. As soon as the adjustments were complete, the ship would fire up its engines and depart for Norway, they said. The 902-foot semi-submersible heavy-lift ship’s itinerary will take the Polar Pioneer to Norway by following the American coastlines to the Strait of Magellan at the tip of South America before

crossing the Atlantic. The Dockwise Vanguard is the largest ship of its type in the world and can lift more than 120,000 tons of cargo. Transocean Ltd. of Zug, Switzerland, which owns the oil platform, donated about 15 tons of food to local food banks and soup kitchens earlier this month in preparation for the trip.

________ Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arice@peninsuladaily news.com.

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SEQUIM — A sailboat that sank in Sequim Bay last month was expected to be salvaged and hauled to Port Angeles on Thursday night. Salvage work began on the ferrocement-hulled sailboat Wednesday, said Ron Amundson, harbormaster for the John Wayne Marina, which is owned by the Port of Port Angeles. Vessel Assist Port Hadlock owner Roger Slade said he hoped to complete the

salvage operation at low tide Thursday night. High winds blew the vessel from its anchorage onto the rocks near John Wayne Marina’s south parking lot Nov. 12. There was no fuel on board, and the vessel leaked no oil, Coast Guard officials have said. The Port of Port Angeles, which owns John Wayne Marina, summoned Vessel Assist to salvage the damaged sailboat and haul it to port facilities in Port Angeles.

“The owner didn’t respond,” Amundson said. “Somebody has to take action, so here we go.” The owner has not been identified. The state Department of Natural Resources determined that it could not salvage the vessel because it was abandoned on port property. “We are taking care of it,” Amundson said. The owner has several months to pay for the salvage before the vessel is declared derelict, he said.

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A10 $ Briefly . . . 30-year fixed mortgage rate dips WASHINGTON — What Fed rate hike? One week after the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates slightly from record lows, the average on a 30-year fixed mortgage went the other way: It dipped to 3.96 percent this week from 3.97 percent last week, mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday. The drop is a reminder that the Fed has only an indirect effect on longterm mortgage rates, which more closely track the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury. And that yield, in turn, tends to stay down as long as inflation remains low and investors keep buying Treasurys. The 10-year Treasury yield has declined slightly since the Fed’s hike last week. “The Fed raising shortterm rates by itself doesn’t have a very profound effect on mortgage rates,” said Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Back in the mid-2000s, when the Fed raised rates at 17 straight meetings,

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Eighth U.S. death tied to the Takata air bag explosion ID’d BY JOAN LOWY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A boy who was driving a car that crashed near Pittsburgh has been tentatively identified by the government as the eighth death in the U.S. due to an explosive air bag inflator made by auto parts maker Takata, according to federal transportation officials and a

state police report. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials also announced an expansion in the recall of vehicles with Takata airbags, already the largest and most complex recall in the agency’s history. The latest findings could result in the recall of several hundred thousand additional vehicles, officials said. The appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the company’s compliance with a government consent order on the recalls was also announced. NHTSA learned of the

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Crowding a topic of concern INCREASINGLY CROWDED CONDITIONS in and along West End rivers and banks are another challenge to the recovery of wild steelhead stocks. Forks is well known for its Michael Old-Fashioned Carman Fourth of July Parade, but there are other times when drift boat traffic on nearby rivers turns into a glorified piscatorial procession. Peak wild steelhead season in February and March brings the most anglers to the rivers. “There will be like 30 boats all in a line from the hatchery drift [on the Sol Duc River] all the way to the Whitcomb-Dimmel [launch],” said Jerry Wright of Jerry’s Bait and Tackle (360-457-1308) in Port Angeles. It’s not just boat-bound anglers flocking to Forks. “The rivers are pretty slammed in February and March,” said Mike Zavadlov of Mike Z’s Guide Service (360-640-8109 or Mike@mikezsguideservice.com. “You go down the Hoh in early March and it’s really busy. “You go gear fishing and you feel like an outlier — everybody is casting flies.”

Listing causes blow back It’s not just the scenery attracting anglers — a fish management problem serves to draw visiting fishers. Naturally spawned Puget Sound steelhead were listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in May of 2007. The listing covers wild steelhead from river basins in Puget Sound, Hood Canal and the eastern half of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, including the Dungeness River. Plants of Chambers Creek-reared hatchery steelhead smolts continued in many of those rivers and through 2013. A lawsuit brought in March 2014 by the Duvall-based Wildfish Conservancy sought to block the release of these hatchery steelhead “without the evaluation and legal permission required under the Endangered Species Act.” The state settled with the group within a month, agreeing to stock just one river, the Skykomish, with winter-run hatchery steelhead and also establishing a 12-year moratorium of such hatchery plants in the Skagit River system, the largest Puget Sound river system. Last spring, the National Marine Fisheries Service found that putting the young steelhead into the Nooksack, North Fork Stillaguamish and Dungness Rivers “would not appreciably reduce the likelihood of survival and recovery” of wild fish. But the service backtracked from that position in favor of drafting an environmental impact statement, and the Skykomish was again the only Puget Sound river stocked with winter-run hatchery steelhead. With no plants for two years there will be few hatchery steelhead returning this year, and none coming during the 2016-17 fishing season. The Wild Fish Conservancy again muddied the waters by filing a notice of an intent to sue NOAA for failing to complete and implement a recovery plan for Puget Sound steelhead. This inability to act by the state, the federals and the rigid belief that hatchery steelhead are more of a problem than part of the solution by wild fish advocates are all driving more and more anglers to the West End. “I started seeing that when they started shutting down the seasons on the Seattle-area streams 15 years ago,” Wright said. “The past five years I’ve seen a big, big change. All the pressure came to us.” TURN

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New Orleans Saints running backs coach Joel Thomas, right, a Port Angeles High School graduate, puts Tim Hightower (34) and Toben Oburum (44) through drills during training camp in August.

From PA to the pros Former Rider Thomas makes his way to NFL BY LEE HORTON PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

The path to the NFL starts in Port Angeles and goes through places such as Moscow, Idaho, and West Lafayette, Ind., and Fayetteville, Ark. Finally, more than 20 years later, Joel Thomas made it to New Orleans. The 1993 Port Angeles High School graduate is in the final two weeks of his first season as the running backs coach for the New Orleans Saints (5-9), who host the Jacksonville Jaguars this Sunday. After graduating from high school, Thomas played at the

University of Idaho, where he ended his playing career in 1998 as one of the best running backs in school Thomas history. He then became a college coach, serving stints as an assistant at Purdue (twice, 2000-01 and 2006-08), Louisville (200203), Idaho (2004-05), Washington (2009-12) and Arkansas (2013-14).

In February, he was hired by the Saints, his first NFL gig. And he was ready. All of his experiences and everything he had learned from all of the coaches he served under during his 15 years as a college assistant made him so. For instance, Thomas learned a mantra while he was an assistant at Washington to former USC head coach Steve Sarkisian, who was once an assistant at USC to current Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll. “Sark always had this saying and, I think he got it from Pete: preparation will set you free,” Thomas said. “If you’re prepared at whatever job you have — whether it’s football, accounting, whatever you’re doing, if you’re prepared, you’re going to go into any situation with the next step already

laid out, even though you may not know that. “You’ve prepared to have that path to go that way.” So the kid who grew up in Port Angeles was undaunted when it came to start telling NFL players what to do. “I don’t think it’s any different than when you’re a player, you know, you act as if you already are there,” Thomas said. “You know, I didn’t just get hired because they needed a college guy. I got hired because, in their eyes, I was the best guy for the job when it got presented. “And to answer the question, I belong there. In my mind there was nothing that said, ‘Hey, you should worry about this and that.’ “You know ball or you don’t know ball, and you go from there.” TURN

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Preps Underdog Rams will be chasing down Wilson Huskies DISREGARD THE FACT that the Seattle Seahawks are favored by nearly two touchdowns over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, it’s likely going to be a very tough game for Russell Wilson and his offensive line. No team in the league Dave has sacked Boling Wilson so many times — nor taken such delight in process — as the Rams. And although Wilson is on one of the hottest streaks since the invention of the forward pass, and the offensive line has improved his protection to an immeasurable degree, Sunday’s game may be the best test they’ve seen in a long time. The Rams have sacked Wilson 31 times in his career, highest of any opponent. San Francisco is second at 25 and Arizona third with 21. “Preparing for the St. Louis Rams is one of the tougher things to do,” Wilson said. “Their defense is extremely talented . . . so it’s going to be a good challenge. I love these

will miss Choate BY CHRISTIAN CAPLE MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE

DALLAS — Kickers, Cameron Van Winkle explains, have a tendency to be overlooked, even by their own special-teams coaches. Kickoff coverage? That deserves attention. Kickoff return? Definitely. Field-goal formation? Of course. But the kicker himself? Well, Van Winkle said, “in my position, some special-teams coaches I’ve met, recruiting-wise, the kicker’s just there.” And that is why he will miss THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jeff Choate, Washington’s defensive line coach and specialSeattle’s Russell Wilson (3) tries to scramble away teams coordinator who will from St. Louis’ Aaron Donald (99) last year. coach his final game for the Huskies on Saturday before types of weeks, because you get since Wilson has been in the to study a ton. You get to try to league, the Hawks are a modest leaving to begin his full-time duties as the head coach at figure out what their defense is 4-3 against them after having Montana State. lost two of the last three meetdoing, and that’s a chess game “He’s one of those guys who ings. in itself. So that will be a cool cares about every little detail,” On Sept. 13, in the seasonthing.” Van Winkle said. opening 34-31 overtime loss at Getting slammed to the turf “When Choate is working St. Louis, Wilson attempted a by hostile defenders, though, is with us, he’s encouraging us to career-high 41 passes and was not such a cool thing. get better, he’s pushing us.” sacked six times. Although the Rams haven’t TURN TO DAWGS/A13 put together a winning season TURN TO BOLING/A13

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Players and families of the Port Angeles Girls Basketball Association AAU club teamed up with Your City Sports to donate approximately 75 pairs of socks to The Answer For Youth, an organization that works to meet the nutritional, spiritual, physical and emotional needs of homeless and at-risk youth and young families in Clallam County. Your City Sports is a sports organization that donates one pair of socks for each pair purchased to a homeless shelter of your choice. Players from fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades participated in the effort. Delivering the socks are, top row, from left, Kinnley Brady, Mikkiah Brady, Catie Brown, Anna Petty and Jayde Gedelman; and bottom row from left, Bailee Larson, Keira Gedelman and Jenna McGoff.

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Transactions BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned RHP A.J. Achter outright to Salt Lake (PCL). Released C Rafael Lopez. Claimed LHP Bobby LaFromboise off waivers from Pittsburgh and 2B Rey Navarro from Baltimore. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Assigned RHP Brandon Cunniff outright to Gwinnett (IL). MIAMI MARLINS — Claimed LHP Tim Berry off waivers from Baltimore. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Claimed C Josmil Pinto off waivers from San Diego. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned RHP Jorge Rondon outright to Indianapolis (IL).

Carman: Pressure, impact high on West End CONTINUED FROM A11 don’t go through golf courses, housing developments and past Fishing regulations that close shopping centers and near fourlane highways.” steelhead fishing at the end of When those anglers come out January on those Puget Sound west to fish, they are often fishrivers also contribute to the ing on guided trips. crowds. Guides have more experience “If they can get the Skagit and can send anglers to producand Sauk [rivers] open that will tive holes, upping encounters help,” said Bob Kratzer of with wild steelhead, which can Anglers Guide Service (360-374stress the fish and potentially 3148) in Forks. decrease reproductive productiv“Unless the state starts getity. ting those other fisheries going, The North Coast Steelhead you’ll see more guides and more Advisory Group looked at proposanglers heading here, and the als aimed at limiting fishing crowding issues might get worse.” from floating devices on West Kratzer understands the End Rivers. thinking of conservation groups “We battled hard, hard, hard in wanting to protect the Puget on that issue,” Kratzer, a member Sound streams, but believes such of the advisory group said. an approach isn’t the best for “There were some who favored West End rivers. no floating devices above the “Those [Puget Sound] runs salmon hatchery on the Sol Duc, are all depressed,” Kratzer said. the [U.S. Highway] 101 bridge on “Some of these groups, that’s the Calawah and above the their greatest concern, they don’t hatchery on the Bogachiel.” want to see these [West End] rivEventually, a proposal to proers go the way of what’s haphibit fishing from floating devices pened in Puget Sound. on the Hoh River from Morgan’s “But it’s kind of like comparCrossing to the Olympic National ing apples to bananas. Those riv- Park boundary was advanced ers and our rivers are both wet and approved by the state’s Fish and run downstream, but ours and Wildlife Commission earlier

this month. Even then, Kratzer objected to the rule. “I didn’t vote for it because I didn’t feel comfortable making a rule without any scientific data to back it up,” Kratzer said. “I think we need to have a full creel sample from Morgan’s Crossing all the way up to the park. We need to check the boats, check the number of bank anglers, then we’d have data and something to compare it to. “If this rule creates more bank anglers on that stretch then we didn’t create a refuge, we just transferred the pressure and the impacts are the same.” Another member of the advisory group, Beaver-based guide JD Love (360-640-2654), also is concerned about the uptick in anglers, guides and fish encounters. “I think the crowding is a huge issue on our rivers,” Love said. “They did do a small step, limiting the fishing from boats on the Hoh. “But I’m not sure there’s a regulation that we can do to really address the crowding.”

Plenty of Canal crab State shellfish managers are extending the sport crabbing season in Marine Area 12 (Hood Canal) and a portion of Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet) until Feb. 28. All other Puget Sound marine areas will close at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31, as scheduled. The only portion of Admiralty Inlet that will remain open until Feb. 28 is the area north of the Hood Canal Bridge to Foulweather Bluff to the Olele Point line north of Port Ludlow. The department is extending the sport crab fishery in Hood Canal and a portion of Admiralty Inlet because there are plenty of crabs remaining in those areas, said Rich Childers, shellfish policy lead for Fish and Wildlife. “We’re seeing a lot of crab, especially in the northern section of Hood Canal,” Childers said.

Coyotes year-round Coyotes are an animal that hunters with small- or big-game licenses can target year-round. “One thing of interest to hunters might be that the male

coyotes are already starting their territorial mating howls in our local area,” said Ward Norden, owner of Snapper Tackle Company and a former fishery biologist who lives in Quilcene. “Seems a bit early to me. “Those interested in hunting varmints might consider adding a submissive female coyote howl to their call list along with the usual cottontail [rabbit] distress calls. “The coyotes I have seen lately have particularly beautiful pelts this year, so it is sad most of them have mange, making the hides worthless.”

Send photos, stories Have a photograph, a fishing or hunting report, an anecdote about an outdoors experience or a tip on gear or technique? Send it to sports@ peninsuladailynews.com or P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

________ Outdoors columnist Michael Carman appears here Thursdays and Fridays. He can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5152 or at mcarman@peninsuladailynews.com.

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NFL: Work, connections help Thomas’ rise CONTINUED FROM A11 and he got me on points,” Thomas said. “It was just a sickening Getting to “know ball” has been a constant learn- feeling that you never want ing and growing experience to have again. And that wasn’t a team deal, it was for Thomas. He participated in foot- my inability to mentally ball, wrestling and baseball place it right. “And I think I carried for Port Angeles High School, and during sum- that over to college, that mers, he played baseball for loss, as far as preparation Aggies (now Wilder) and and trying not to let down Domino’s (now defunct). anything. Two sports memories “I still carry it. It’s somestick out from his time in thing that, you have these Port Angeles. little lessons throughout The first is helping the life and you don’t know why Roughriders win the Olym- they happen at the time, pic League his senior sea- but that one, it’s clear why son. it happened to me, and it “I mean, Port Angeles was to help me out down was never picked to win the road in other situachampionships in football. tions.” It was always a North Kitsap, Olympic . . . or a ‘It’s the relationships’ Bremerton,” Thomas said. What Thomas remem“We had a pretty solid team, and we ended up bers and values the most about Port Angeles, how[winning] the league.” Port Angeles, 9-2 that ever, are the people. “You have your recollecseason, then made one of the school’s four state post- tions, whether it’s a home run in a baseball tournaseason appearances. The Riders traveled to ment or a big game in high face Auburn and lost 28-12. school, you remember those Thomas ran 75 yards for a things, you have those little touchdown on the first play flashbacks,” he said. “But, you know, it’s the from scrimmage to give Port Angeles an early 6-0 relationships that you crelead. He finished the final ate, whether it’s your old game of his high school coaches or friends or people career with 148 yards rush- that you met through the time that have helped you ing on 24 carries. “They were a better get to this point.” Thomas’ ability to make team, but we gave them a little run for their money,” connections has been valuable as he has made his Thomas said. Thomas also was a way through his coaching three-time state placer in career. His first coaching job wrestling. His highest finish was second place as a was as a graduate assistant senior. But that 190-pound for Joe Tiller at Purdue in championship match also 2000. The Boilermakers’ staff was a low point for him. “I learned a lesson in that year was stacked. For that moment: don’t ever instance, the wide receivers underestimate your oppo- coach on that coaching staff nent. Because, it was a guy was Kevin Sumlin, who is that I should have crushed, now the head coach at and I underestimated him Texas A&M.

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Joel Thomas, right, watches running back Mark Ingram (22) run a drill during the New Orleans Saints’ training camp in late July. The quarterbacks coach was Greg Olson, now the offensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who was the quarterbacks coach at Idaho when Thomas played for the Vandals. “He’s the one that got me there. We always stayed in contact. He’s the one that really got my foot in the door,” Thomas said. The offensive coordinator on that Purdue staff was Jim Chaney, who was the offensive coordinator at Arkansas when Thomas was hired as running backs coach in 2013. Chaney also knows Saints head coach Sean Payton and served as a connection when Thomas was hired earlier this year. All of the college coaching staffs Thomas was on had familiar faces, either from his playing days or his previous coaching stops. But also, all along the

way, Thomas was making a name for himself as a coach and a recruiter. He also put himself on the NFL radar while he was still a college coach by serving two offseason NFL internships with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Saints. “It’s something that, you know, I’ve aspired to do,” Thomas said of coaching in the NFL. “Each year as college coaching has gone on, and visiting various pro teams and seeing the style and what’s entailed, you know, I always felt it’s something I can do.” Things really got busy for Thomas in the four months after he was hired in February. He had to move his family to Louisiana, learn an offense, learn a defense, go to the NFL scouting combine, scout 25 potential

draft picks, go through offseason football school and coach at the Saints’ OTAs. He finally took a break in late June and early July when he and his family came back to the Pacific Northwest for a vacation, which included some time in Forks and LaPush to visit his mother, Brenda Gedlund.

Family of four

“They’re off the charts,” Thomas said of his sons. “They’re blessings that, I wish everybody could meet them because they’re fun, they love life. “Their momma’s taught them well.” Even Teyo and Niko have helped Thomas’ career. “I think I’m a better coach because of it,” Thomas said. “You think about it, with infants and toddlers and little kids, you have to be super-detailed when you’re explaining something to them for the first time — you know, whenever they have an experience or they see something the first time. “Well, football, I’m at the top level here, and it’s got to be detailed. I think it’s just, you’re always practicing being detailed.” The coaching life never stops — the working, the learning, the evolving, and even the moving around. Thomas has gone from Civic Field to the MercedesBenz Superdome, and said he isn’t thinking about what is next. Instead, right now, he’s focused on helping the New Orleans Saints have the best group of running backs in the NFL. “I love to coach football. I love to be on the field. I love to work with players,” Thomas said. “And the cool thing about is I’ve got a real pool of . . . professional football players that, you know, this is their livelihood, they love to play football and they know how to do it with a professional attitude.”

Thomas’ stints at Purdue obviously impacted him professionally — he kickstarted his coaching career there and went to the Rose Bowl — but he also made a personal connection with a Big Ten-record-setting pole vaulter named Ebbie Metzinger. She eventually became ________ Ebbie Thomas, his wife, and the couple are now parents Sports Editor Lee Horton can to two sons, Teyo, age 4, and be reached at 360-417-3525 or at Niko, 2. lhorton@peninsuladailynews.com.

Boling: Rushing Rams Dawgs: Special teams CONTINUED FROM A11 much like we see at the Cardinals. There’s all kinds of stuff for us, and hopeTwo of those were by fully we handle it really nose tackle Aaron Donald, well.” who made life difficult for Barron was converted to center Drew Nowak, who was making his first career weakside linebacker from safety when injuries hit the start. Rams, and since he’s been Patrick Lewis has a disruptive force as a replaced Nowak, and his rusher. steady play in the middle Right tackle Garry Gilhas helped the line solidify liam has only played the its protection. Rams once, the first time Donald, growing into in September, so he isn’t one of the game’s elite interested in the history of defenders, is going to be tough against anybody, but the troubles caused by the he’s going to be without fel- St. Louis defensive front. “If you make it bigger low rush ace Robert Quinn, than that, you just mess who is out for the remainyourself up; personally, I go der of the season with a up against somebody and I back injury. see them as my next obstaThe aggressive defencle, the person I have to sive scheme remains, block on that play,” Gilliam though. said. “It’s an attacking front, But? pressure wise, scheme “They bring a lot of wise,” coach Pete Carroll pressure and you have to said. make sure you’re targeting “The mixed fronts that things right,” Gilliam said. they do cause problems. “They try to confuse you They have really interestand overload one side and ing personnel. bring it from the other side, “What they’re doing so it’s a matter of slowing with Mark Barron is a down a little and trying to really cool thing . . . we’ve find out where they’re comgot to come up with a plan ing from.” because he’s a fantastic Right guard J.R. Sweezy athlete playing linebacker, has faced the Rams seven

times, though, and understands the significance of Sunday’s game. “First off, these two teams match up very well,” Sweezy said. “We know we’re going to play each other twice each year and we know it’s going to be a real battle. They have a great defensive front. They have a few guys banged up and out for the year, and that’s made them change a few things, but they still have guys in there who are playmakers.” Effective protection has played a huge part in Wilson’s streak of five games with 19 touchdowns and no interceptions, with an extraordinary 143.6 passer rating over that span. That may only make him an even more attractive target for the Rams. “You know it’s going to be a hard-fought game,” Wilson said. “So we have to get ready for that.” Especially the guys up front who are paid to protect him.

________ Dave Boling is a sports columnist for The News Tribune. He can be contacted at dave.boling@ thenewstribune.com.

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made 33 of his 41 field-goal tries the past two seasons. And Dante Pettis became the first Washington player to return a punt for a touchdown since 2003 — and he’s done it three times in two seasons, and needs only one more to tie the Washington career record. “It’s exciting,” said Pettis, a sophomore receiver. “Special teams is the most exciting part of the game, I feel like. There’s nothing more exciting than a blocked kick, [or a] kickoff return. So when [Choate] is bringing in all this energy and all this new stuff for the game plan, everyone’s like, ‘OK, what’ve we got this week? Let’s see what we can do now.’ ”

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CONTINUED FROM A11 season that wound up performing better than some “It’s something that’s might have expected. really unique with just him. For that reason alone, And I can tell with kickoffs the Huskies will miss him. and all of that — punts, But his contributions to field goals — he deeply Washington’s special-teams cares about it. He’s not shouldn’t be forgotten, some guy who’s just going either. through the motions. He “He’s one of the better just cares about every per- special teams guys in the son on the team.” country,” Washington coach Most positive reviews of Chris Petersen said earlier Choate’s two-year stint at this month. Washington center around In Choate’s two seasons the work he did with the at Washington, the Huskies Huskies’ defensive line, and returned two kickoffs for rightfully so — after an all- touchdowns, and did not senior group anchored a allow a touchdown on a defense that totaled 52 kickoff or punt. sacks in 2014, Choate They allowed 4.17 yards helped develop a younger, per punt return in 2014, deeper defensive line this and 6.7 in 2015. Van Winkle

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ROBABLY NO ONE tracks concussions among young athletes in the United States more closely than Dawn ComFrank stock, and in Bruni many ways, she’s encouraged by what she sees. It’s now less common for a player whose head has collided violently with a ball, a wall, the ground or another player to return to competition right away. It’s now more common for him or her to get medical attention. But Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health, is frustrated by stubborn gaps between truly safe behavior and the status quo. She told me that more than half of the high schools with football teams don’t have a full-time athletic trainer, so there’s no immediately available person with the specific mission of preventing and treating injuries.

HERE ARE ALSO sports other than football — and trauma other than concussions — that don’t attract nearly the vigilance they should, she added. Above all, there’s an enduringly strange, dangerous relationship between parents and sports, specifically between parents and coaches. “What I would love to see is parents taking as much time to investigate their child’s coach, the league that they’re putting their child into and the

officials officiating the game as they do a day care center when their child is young,” she told me. “They don’t have trouble challenging a teacher, even a pediatrician. But somehow they have trouble challenging a sports league.” This coming week, the major Hollywood movie “Concussion” opens. It stars Will Smith as a scientist who sounded the alarm about the long-term impact of repetitive head injuries in professional football. And it reflects a storm of attention over the last decade to the serious, sometimes fatal damage done to the vulnerable brains of football players of all ages — and of soccer players, too. We’ve learned, for example, that soccer carries a greater risk of concussion for girls than it does for boys.

UT THE TALK OF a “concussion crisis” and the pronounced concern about football and soccer are blinding us somewhat to a larger picture, a broader lesson: Our veneration of sports, our adulation of athletes and our ethos of toughing it out put kids needlessly at risk of all sorts of preventable injuries in all kinds of improvable sports. “I worry that we’ve been so focused on football that parents are pushing their kids out of that and into something else and not realizing that there are dangers there, too,” said Kevin Guskiewicz, one of the directors of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We need to improve safety in all the sports that children play.” Did you know that while the incidence of injuries in

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cheerleading is much lower than in the majority of high school sports, nearly a third of those injuries are concussions? The reason, Comstock explained, is a shocking lack of common sense and caution in monitoring an activity that isn’t automatically associated with violence. “We’ve seen cheerleaders who’ve sustained concussions because they were practicing on the asphalt in the parking lot or on the cement sidewalk — or in the school cafeteria on a tiled floor,” said Comstock, adding that grass or mats would be infinitely more appropriate. “Why on earth would parents let that happen?” Guskiewicz drew my attention to a study published just a few months ago in The American Jour-

Peninsula Voices than assimilation. In this regard, it is simiIn 2001, Islamic extremlar to communism. ists destroyed the World Our response to commuTrade Center buildings. nism was capitalism, which In 2009, President has proven superior to Obama received the Nobel communism. Peace Prize in part because We do not have an of his effort to “build ties agreed-upon response to with the Muslim world.” radical Islam. In 2015, kidnappings, I believe the migrants beheadings, bombing the Russian passenger plane, a from Syria are disregardjihadist attack in Paris and ing the immigration laws of the European Union and the terrorist attack in San demanding entry and beneBernardino, Calif., are the fits. breaking news. Once “settled,” they will The effort to build ties make other demands. to the Muslim world has This is happening in not or will not prevent terEuropean cities with large rorist attacks by radical populations of Muslims. Muslims. Although many MusObama does not seem to lims do not share the goals take seriously the stated goal of radical Islam to con- of radical Islam, unfortunately they are not in convert the rest of humanity trol of what is happening. (by force if necessary) to Many fear being in accept their God (Allah) opposition to radical Islam. and the practice of Sharia “The fear of man brings law. a snare” (Proverbs 29:25). Obama has stated it is What would that be? “un-American” to not Are you afraid to speak? accept immigrants from Terry Trudel, Syria. Port Angeles It is the philosophy of radical jihadists that is unFluoride vote American. They do not advance Would someone please religion but a social-politiexplain why taxpayers’ cal philosophy masquerad- money and time were ing as religion whose wasted on asking us aim is domination rather whether we wanted fluori-

nal of Sports Medicine that determined that among college athletes, concussions were most likely in wrestling, followed by men’s ice hockey and then women’s ice hockey. And women’s soccer and women’s basketball, in that order, were right behind football in terms of the danger of concussion.

OMSTOCK, WHO supervises an ongoing national inventory of athletic injuries among high school students, said: “I have 22 sports in my surveillance system, and concussions have been reported in all but one of them. That includes swimming.” A distracted kid will swim head-on into the wall or into someone coming from the other direction. The sport without con-

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cussions, she said, was tennis. But head injuries are just one peril, and not necessarily the chief one, even in football. There are many more deaths among football players of all ages from indirect trauma, including heatstroke and cardiac arrest, than from such direct trauma as head and spinalcord injuries. Douglas Casa, the chief executive officer of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, said that from 2000 through 2009, which was the last full decade studied, such indirect-trauma deaths outnumbered direct-trauma deaths by 108 to 41. Casa, who monitors and compiles that data, told me that he knows of 14 deaths among football players below the college level since July 1, which is about when practice for the fall season usually begins. Four were from cardiac arrest and two were from heatstroke. “Anytime you hear about a kid dying from heatstroke in high school football, it was 100 percent preventable,” he added. And he said there are an even greater number of preventable cases of severe heatstroke that leads not to death but to prolonged or permanent health complications. Last August, for instance, a 16-year-old in Riverhead, N.Y., who developed heatstroke during practice ended up in the hospital, where he spiked a 108-degree fever, was treated for serious kidney damage and spent the next five weeks. Casa said heat acclimatization — or the incremental acceleration of practices during a season’s start — can guard against heat-

stroke. But while many leagues and teams have implemented that, many haven’t. Players’ posture can affect the likelihood of head injury but often isn’t studied and adjusted. And Comstock said there’s no widespread, dependable monitoring of the nature and incidence of injuries among athletes in elementary and middle school. “Don’t get me wrong: I’m not against sports,” she said. “I was a three-sport player. And I played contact sports. I played rugby for 13 years.” She and Guskiewicz both stressed that, at a time when too many kids are obese or diabetic, they want more of them to play sports. But they also want more prudence in the mix. Some parents obsess about a high school’s success or failure in getting kids into Ivy League colleges but know nothing of the school’s athletic teams’ safety protocols.

OME QUESTION the amount of homework more readily than the number of laps athletes run on a 95-degree day. Some shop for lenient physicians who will declare their child healed and let him or her back out on the field. Athletic glory beckons. “Sports has achieved an almost mythologized place in our country,” Comstock said. She’s wrong about the “almost.” She’s right about this: It’s not concussions per se but an unquestioning worship of sports that puts young lives in jeopardy.

_________ Frank Bruni is a columnist for The New York Times.

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dated water here in Port Angeles? Deputy Mayor Patrick Downie, along with council members Brad Collins, Dan Gase and Cherie Kidd clearly think they know better. Kidd’s peculiar logic that all surveys not returned must have had “no problem” with fluoridation is completely bogus. Perhaps the surveys

were never received or thrown out with other junk mail. The fact that a clear majority — 56.64 percent — of those who did return the survey did not want fluoride seems to be completely irrelevant to this foursome. How is this representing the voters who put them in office? I have posted the Dec.

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The Donald Trump days of Christmas HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I say this with some trepidation, because Donald Trump has vowed that when he is president, “We’re all going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.” That was awhile ago, dur- Gail ing his war on Collins the Starbucks coffee cup design. So very much water has run under the Trumpian bridge since then. But I’m still trying to figure out exactly how a universal “Merry Christmas” mission would be accomplished. Would there be a “holiday” gag order? Seasonal salutation checks at the border? This is supposed to be a down period for presidential campaigning, since most of the population is focused on celebrating you-knowwhat with friends and families. But Trump has given us such a not-normal year that people will be drinking eggnog by the fire and discussing the proper use of the word “schlonged.” The happiest holiday parties should be with Team Clinton, which clearly believes that going to war with Trump is good for her cause and that having Trump as the Republican nominee would be even better. Their current fight began when Hillary, in the last Democratic debate, said ISIS was “going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.” There is actually no specific evidence this is happening, although it certainly seems probable. For the sake of perfect accuracy,

Clinton should have said that ISIS “is bound to start going.” We would dwell on imperfect verb choice longer if PolitiFact hadn’t just announced that out of 77 Trump statements it looked into, 76 percent were rated Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. The Trump campaign is a new phenomenon. He mainly flies around on his planes, speaks at big rallies and calls into radio and TV news talk shows. Trump brags about his lack of interest in fundraising, but he doesn’t seem to be spending much of his own money, either. This is a guy whose great keys to fortune were inheriting real estate and putting his name on things that other people often paid for. Maybe he figures he can become president just by branding it. After the Hillary diatribes, Trump told a howling audience this week that he hates journalists, and he appeared to be mulling the idea of killing some of them. To be fair, he did conclude by announcing he wouldn’t do that. For which I presume we’re supposed to be grateful. Once, long ago, I was the subject of Trumpian ire — I had referred to him as a “thousandaire” — and his response was to send me a copy of the column with a couple of insults written over my picture and a note in which he misspelled the word “too.” So really, he’s not all that threatening. As long as he remains a private citizen, the worst he can do is to throw up an ugly apartment building or hotel in your neighborhood. But the president thing is no longer a joke. You may have noticed that the competition is starting to fall away. This week, Sen. Lindsey Graham threw in the towel, or, in polite

political-speak, “suspended his candidacy.” Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul and John Kasich seem likely to be consigned to the loser’s section when the Republicans have their next debate. That brings us down to six people, one of which is Ben Carson, who’s fading fast. Also Jeb Bush, who was last seen wandering around New Hampshire, reminding people how many times he’s been there. At this point in the political cycle, if you’re a desperate candidate, you go somewhere cold and try to get the population to fall in love with you just because they’ve had so many opportunities to shake your trembling, frostbitten hand. Ted Cruz is doing something along that line in Iowa, where he’s ahead. But he’s also moved into a clear second place in the polls, terrifying the party establishment and many Republican billionaire donors, who regard Cruz as an obnoxious, selfpromoting egomaniac. There is nothing the oligarch class hates more than egomaniacs. The big donors appear to be particularly fond of Sen. Marco Rubio, the attractive, 44-year-old Floridian who has done very well in the debates. The other candidates find Rubio’s popularity irritating, particularly since he hasn’t been campaigning all that hard. Or doing anything else, it appears. Trump called Rubio a sweaty underachiever “with no money, zero.” This is, if nothing else, a campaign where the insults are meeting a new norm. Thanks almost entirely to the front-runner.

________ Gail Collins is a columnist for The New York Times. Her column appears in the PDN every Friday.

Bogus hate crimes against Muslims HOW TO MANUFACTURE an anti-Muslim hate-crime “epidemic”:’ ■ Step one: Find an expert Michelle with an impressive-sounding Malkin academic title to legitimize shoddy advocacy propaganda. Meet Brian Levin. He’s the oneman band behind something called the “Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism” at California State University, San Bernardino. The “center” (that is, Levin) claims to be “nonpartisan” and “objective.” But he is a former top staffer of the militant, conservative-smearing Southern Poverty Law Center, leaving in 2002. SPLC was forced to apologize earlier this year after including famed black neurosurgeon and GOP 2016 candidate Ben Carson on its “extremist watch list” of hate groups. At SPLC, Levin infamously posited that the 2002 Beltway jihad snipers were Angry White Men, a fatal error echoed by politically correct law enforcement officials whose wild-goose chase needlessly cost lives. A decade later, the SPLC’s target map and list of social conservative groups were used by convicted leftwing domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins to shoot up the Washington, D.C., office of the Family Research Council. The radical left-wing SPLC, whose annual “hate and extremism” report spawned Levin’s sham “center,” brazenly declared that its mission is to “destroy” its political opponents. Harper’s Magazine writer Ken Silverstein called the SPLC and its work “essentially a fraud” that “shuts down debate, stifles free speech, and most of all, raises a pile of money, very little of which is used on behalf of poor people.” ■ Step two: Enlist gullible, lazy, biased and complicit journalists who recycle the “expert’s”

sweeping pronouncements as proven facts, backed up by other ideologically vested advocacy group spokespeople. NBC News, The New York Times, the Daily Mail and Slate all quoted Levin over the past week hyping his new “study” (published in esteemed academic journal The Huffington Post) on an alleged “increase,” “surge” and “spike” in “crimes against Muslims and mosques” this year. Levin’s “methods” of “analysis”? Stringing together “apparent hate crimes reported in the media and by civil rights groups across the United States.” The Council on AmericanIslamic Relations’ jihad-apologizing frontman, Ibrahim Hooper, was quoted by both NBC and The New York Times as backing Levin’s “research.” “We’re seeing so many of these things happening that it’s unbelievable,” Hooper told the Times. Indeed, it is. In his list of “Suspected Hate Crimes Directed at Actual or Perceived Muslim Institutions or Individuals Since Paris Attacks,” Levin cites a Nov. 26 incident in Pittsburgh, noting, “Cab driver shot. Attempted Murder.” The rest of the story: The suspect is 26-year-old Anthony Mohamed, whose father is Muslim. Authorities have so far refused to press hate crimes charges despite CAIR’s demands. At a hearing this week, the cabdriver denied in court that he had been subjected to negative comments about his religion before Mohamed allegedly shot him in the back. Court filings fail to mention any evidence of anti-Muslim bias in the case. Or take a look at Levin’s No. 23: “12/6 Buena Park, CA. Sikh Temple. Vandalism, Crim. Mischief.” CAIR’s Los Angeles office publicized vandalism at an Orange County Sikh temple, immediately condemning a “tiny minority of bigots who violate our nation’s longstanding principles of religious tolerance and inclusion.” The rest of the story: Authorities arrested a local, 20-year-old Brodie Durazo, after he admitted spray-

painting the temple, a tractor trailer and other property in the gang-infested neighborhood. “I have lived alongside this temple for many years of my life and have never once seen you as anything but a peaceful people,” he told the temple-goers in a personal apology at the house of worship. “I just hope that you will see by my presence that all I want is for peace as well.” Not a menacing “bigot.” Just a bored punk. Or consider Levin’s No. 33: “12/10 Tampa, FL. Rocks/shots at 2 Muslim drivers. Assault, Threat leaving relig. service in hijab.” Both women are unidentified. Their unvetted stories were immediately publicized by, you guessed it, CAIR. “Both incidents were investigated by Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies,” according to local Florida media, “though investigators said neither case involved definitive proof of a hate crime.” In one case, the sheriff’s office spokeswoman said, “It could have been road rage or just a misunderstanding.” In the second case involving alleged shots fired at a vehicle, investigators said the woman “was not sure where or when” a bullet hole found on the car was made. ■ Step three: Attack the messenger. After I published a lengthy post on my blog outlining an epidemic of Muslim hate-crime hoaxes at colleges, mosques and businesses dating back to 2001, Levin took to Twitter to accuse me of “smears.” The facts, which the rest of the media failed to inform readers about while hyping Levin’s work this week, speak for themselves (see www.michellemalkin.com). ■ Step four: Classify this article as “hate” and any media outlet that publishes it as a “hate group” so that other journalists shun the truth and continue perpetuating the hoax.

________ Michelle Malkin’s nationally syndicated column appears in the PDN every Friday. Email malkinblog@gmail.com.

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SEQUIM — In anticipation of the annual event known as Handel with Care — a sing-ityourself Handel’s “Messiah” — Shirley Anderson cuts straight to the chase. Everyone, she said, be they singer, listener or both, is invited to partake in the music this Sunday afternoon at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave. There’s no admission charge, while donations are accepted for Sequim Community Aid, the venerable charity serving needy local people. This year’s sing-along, “Messiah,” will begin at 3 p.m. with the man who has led its singers and orchestra for 14 years now: maestro Dewey Ehling. Copies of the score will be handed out, even as some bring theirs from past years. “It’s a great opportunity for all singers and non-singers to participate,” said Ehling, who is interested in one quality among the singers: enthusiasm. Because it’s not practical to perform Handel’s oratorio in its entirety, Ehling makes selections.

Solo parts His choices for 2015 reflect the feeling of the work, with solo parts including “Every Valley Shall Be Exalted,” “For Unto Us a Child Is Born,” “Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion,” “He Shall Feed His Flock” — and that’s just in the first half. After intermission come more than a dozen other pieces including “And with His Stripes We Are Healed,” “Behold, and See,” “I Know that My Redeemer Liveth” and “Behold I Tell You a Mystery.”

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Musicians from across the North Olympic Peninsula, under the baton of Dewey Ehling, play in Handel with Care, Sunday’s sing-along “Messiah” in Sequim. “Hallelujah!” chorus. John Melcher, a cellist in the 20-piece “Messiah” orchestra for the past several years, offered a review of the singers. “They sound great,” he said, adding that the voices, and this music, lift him up. “You can wear yourself out if not careful,” said Melcher, who also plays in the Port Angeles Symphony. With the “Messiah,” “I get carried away with it. I want to play as loud as I can” — this is a celebration, after all. Singers are invited to sit in sections labeled for sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, but everyone is welcome to sit wherever they feel comfortable.

Ehling will have soloists: Vicki Helwick of Port Angeles and Karen Pritchard of Sequim, both members of the Peninsula Singers choir, among them. Also scheduled to appear are soprano Jaie Livingstone, back in town from Oregon where she’s studying for a master’s in music and choral conducting at Portland State, and tenor Nick Fritschler, a Port Angeles High School graduate home from Spokane, where he studies at Gonzaga University.

flutist Lesa Barnes. “As a violin player, I play every piece, and I enjoy every one of them,” Berg said “We look forward to playing the ‘Messiah’ sing-along all year . . . Playing under Dewey’s baton is a privilege and always a delight.” Barnes feels the same, adding that although the flutes play fewer than half of this year’s pieces, she’ll savor the chance to just listen. Jasmine Gauthun, 16, of Sequim sits in the violin section with Berg. Pearl Harbor survivor She played in the “Messiah” The “Messiah” orchestra’s musi- orchestra for the first time last cians also include Tom Berg, a year, and this month, she’s eager 93-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor to rejoin the diverse group of musifrom Port Townsend, and his wife, cians.

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A motorist drives down Hurricane Ridge Road in 2010.

Hurricane Ridge snow conditions are ‘epic’ BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Once the gifts are open, dinner is done and the family gathering is winding down, one possibility for entertainment is to celebrate a white Christmas weekend at Hurricane Ridge. “It’s epic. It’s pretty much as good as it gets out there,” said Frank Crippen, member of the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club and owner of North By Northwest Surf Co. More than 5 feet of snow had settled on Hurricane Ridge at the snow stake as of Wednesday afternoon, park officials said. An additional foot of the white stuff was expected to accumulate by the weekend’s Saturday opening, according to the National Weather Service. The snow conditions on Hurricane Ridge produce one enthusiastic reaction from Crippen: “epic.” “If people are going up for the views, it’s going to be epic. If they’re going up for the powder, it’s going to be epic,” he said. Hurricane Ridge Road is scheduled to be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and remain open daily through Jan. 3. Amenities at the Ridge will not be open Christmas Day. The road might close without warning if weather or road conditions are determined to be hazardous or if the parking lot is full. The National Weather Service forecast is

for mostly blue skies and extremely chilly temperatures — in the low 20s — on Saturday at Hurricane Ridge. Snow showers and continued cold temperatures are forecast for Sunday and through Thursday. Hurricane Ridge is located at an elevation of 5,242 feet — and the mile-high mark at 5,280 feet is just a snowshoe walk up the trail.

Ski and snowboard The Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area is scheduled to open with two rope tows — the bunny tow and the intermediate tow — Saturday, Sunday and Monday and this coming Friday, Jan. 1, through Jan. 3. A Poma ski lift, the terrain park and the snow tube areas were still being prepared this week, and it was not certain when they would be opened, said Russ Morrison, past president of the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club, which manages the ski area. “We’re a small ski area, and we do what we can,” Morrison said. If enough lift operators can be hired for Tuesday through Thursday, the ski area might open during the week, he said.

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Anderson, likewise, is relishing the preparations for this 16th Handel with Care.

Sequim Community Aid Many thousands of dollars have been raised over the years for Sequim Community Aid, which is sustained by its local donations. The organization, which also receives contributions via SCA, P.O. Box 1591, Sequim, WA 98382, can be reached at 360-681-3731. Along with the pre-Christmas “Toys for Sequim Kids” giveaway, Sequim Community Aid provides emergency assistance with rent and utility bills. TURN

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Album to remind of ‘beauty and wonder’ Away,’ ” Rankin said, alongside the dark “Dreadful Wind & Rain,” a number recorded a cappella at a single microphone with Rachael’s mother, Susan. Guest musicians Cort Armstrong and Dave Keenan add their flavors to the record, which is available at www.CDBaby.com and by emailing thesweetevangelines@gmail.com.

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SEQUIM — The Sweet Evangelines, the Sequim country-bluegrass duo of Donna Rankin and Rachael Snyder, have unleashed on the world a self-titled CD full of songs about life: its ups, downs, laughter and sorrows. The album ranges from traditionals like “The Blackest Crow” to freshly written songs such as “Homesteading the Snake,” about Rankin’s grandmother, who grew up in the forbidding reaches of Hell’s Canyon in Idaho. “There are songs that are downright funny like Rachael’s ‘Pretty Things’ and the Delmore Brothers’ ‘Singing My Troubles

Sweet samples Samples of the Sweet Evangelines album, recorded by Bill Yates at Dungeness Community Studios here, also can be found on CDBaby and YouTube. Snyder and Rankin met at a harmony workshop a few years back and discovered at least two things:

They plain enjoyed singing together — and their blend of voices was easy on the ears. Why “the Sweet Evangelines”? They simply liked the sound of it.

Debut album This debut album, Rankin said, is the result of their shared passion for oldtime music and harmonies. “Music lifts our spirits in times of trouble and helps us celebrate the good,” she adds. “We hope this album reminds you of the beauty and wonder of this world.”

________ Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane. urbani@peninsuladaily news.com.

The Sweet Evangelines of Sequim — Donna Rankin, left, and Rachael Snyder — have released a self-titled CD full of old-time country and bluegrass.

PA college students get Donors fill firetruck with Longhouse Scholarships eatables for PA food bank bachelor’s degree. “I never thought I would be in college,” Horejsi said. “I took the wrong path for too many years. “I’m so thankful to be a part of the Longhouse Scholarship Program and Peninsula College. Thanks for giving me this opportunity to get back on the right path to success.” Venske, a member of the Makah tribe, plays for the Peninsula College basketball team and has taken an active role in the college literary magazine Tidepools. He is pursuing an associate degree with the goal of transferring for further study at the baccalaureate level. Trainor, a member of the Quileute tribe, is studying multimedia graphics. This is his first year in college, and he said he is inspired by the idea of gathering skills that will help him make short films. Obermiller, a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, will complete her associate degree this spring.

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PORT ANGELES — Five Peninsula College students have been awarded the Longhouse Scholarship. James Horejsi, Abraham Venske, Michael Trainor, Kriska Obermiller and Alisa Lawrence were recently honored in the House of Learning Longhouse at Peninsula College’s Port Angeles campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. The Peninsula College Longhouse Scholarship was established in 2012 to support the academic success of tribal students. It is a one-year scholarship that provides tuition and fees for full-time students. The annual scholarship is awarded to one member of each of the North Olympic Peninsula tribes.

Positive changes Diversity Alliance Club She was recently elected vice president of the student-run Diversity Alliance Club. She also volunteers with The Buccaneer student newspaper, in the Longhouse and in other ways on campus.

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She also is working with faculty and others to plan a Dream Month focused on social justice-related events that will occur through the month of January. Lawrence, a Lower Elwha Klallam tribe member, is also active in the Diversity Alliance. She recently earned a quarterly grade-point average of 4.0 in the college’s bachelor of applied science in management program. Lawrence is interested in a career in management. “The House of Learning brings many opportunities to our campus,” Lawrence said. “The Longhouse Scholarship helps native students’ aspirations. “Personally, it’ll help me attain smaller goals against the bigger picture of my life, and I am truly grateful.” To find out how to apply or contribute to the scholarship fund, see http:// tinyurl.com/PDN-long housescholarships or email Leora Gansworth at long house@pencol.edu.

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PORT ANGELES — Filling a fire engine filled the Port Angeles Food Bank with a ton of provisions and $771 in donations. The results of last Saturday’s drive will help bridge the food bank’s need for a few days, according to food bank officials. The agency at 402 S. Valley St. still needs donations of edibles and money to counter a shortfall that nearly halved its annual Thanksgiving dinner giveaways, officials said.

Volunteer and paid firefighters and emergency medical technicians of Clallam County Fire District No. 2 called Saturday’s drive “a resounding success.” “This is over 1 ton of food that our community generously gave to support the less fortunate,” said Lt. Patricia Reifenstahl, who coordinated the event at the downtown Safeway at Third and Lincoln streets. A dozen District No. 2 personnel and their family members staffed the collection, which lasted four hours.

The firefighters say they see daily the need to support people in need. District No. 2 surrounds the city of Port Angeles and serves Deer Park, Gales Addition, Black Diamond and Dry Creek. Executive Director Jessica Hernandez said monetary donations are especially welcome but that eatables most sought include sources of protein such as canned meats and peanut butter, plus pop-top containers of fruit. For more information, call 360-452-8568.

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SEATTLE — The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation is seeking nominations to its 2016 Most Endangered Historic Properties List. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18. Nomination forms can be obtained through the trust’s website at www. preservewa.org. The 2016 list will be announced at the annual RevitalizeWA Preservation and Main Street Conference, to be held in April. Inclusion in the list is an

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“I am so thankful to [have been] selected,” Obermiller said. “This allows me to make school my top priority.” Following graduation, she is considering entering Peninsula College’s bachelor of applied science in management program.

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Diana came to Crestwood post surgically for removal of a left frontal lobe brain tumor. She was experiencing progressive weakness and confusion, along with word finding difficulties when she was hospitalized. She arrived with weakness specifically on the side of her body; she was unable to write or tie her shoes as she once had. Within days, Diane was able to maneuver in her wheel chair around the facility, always smiling and willing to work with her occupational, speech and physical therapists. She eventually graduated to using a rolling walker, improvising her balance and endurance in standing to complete valued tasks such as jamming with her husband, Ron, as he would frequently bring in their music book and play Bluegrass tunes. They have spent many years together attending Bluegrass festivals and it was evident that as Diane progressed in her therapy, she was able to easier engage in playing her baritone ukulele or guitar as Ron strummed his mandolin by her side, both singing to their hearts content, bringing smiles and tapping toes to those who stopped to listen. Within a few weeks, Diane progressed to walking without an assistive device and was found many times in occupational therapy doing the “electric slide,” confidently completing the grapevine with ease. By the end of her time at Crestwood, she easily was able to care for herself, completing her basic routine with independence, accessing medical appointments with her husband and socializing within the facility with ease. We wish her the best of luck and will miss her!!

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A 1-mile walk from the parking area leads to the beach at the mouth of the Lyre River at the conservation area that the North Olympic Land Trust is opening to the public on Saturday.

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completion of its 100th year at the black tie affair. Artwork and music are Dinner will begin at among the attractions 7 p.m. The gala will begin planned on the North Olymat 9 p.m. pic Peninsula this weekend. The dinner and gala are For information about $185 per person. The gala “The SantaLand Diaries,” only is $109 per person. opening this weekend at Reservations are required. Port Townsend’s Key City On Jan. 1, the lodge will Playhouse, and a roundup of serve a New Year’s Day New Year’s Eve events — brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. along with other arts and The cost is $39 for adults, entertainment news — see $33 for seniors and $18 for Peninsula Spotlight, the Penchildren ages 4 to 11. insula Daily News’ weekly It is free to children magazine included with younger than 4. Reservatoday’s PDN. tions are suggested. Information also is For more information, available in the interactive see www.olympicnational calendar at www.peninsula parks.com or www.facebook dailynews.com. .com/olympicnational park, or call 866-297-7367.

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PORT ANGELES — The winter Art in the Library show at the Port Angeles Library features the work of a variety of artists. On display at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St. is the work of Port Townsend illustrator, painter and sculptor Richard Jesse Watson; paintings and illustrations by Jesse Joshua Watson; a hand-printed quilt from Franklin Elementary School students; and the paintings of Derek Gundy. The library will be closed today but is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 8.

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The new 750-foot trestle connecting the Dungeness River Bridge to the western bank of the river opened to the public Thursday.

Trestle reopens SEQUIM — The Dungeness Railroad Bridge trestle reopened for foot and bicycle traffic Thursday and will be open through the weekend. The 750-foot trestle can be accessed from Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, and the Olympic Discovery Trail at the west end. A grand opening ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Jackson artwork SEQUIM — The Winter Art in the Library exhibit at the Sequim Library features the work of Jarrod Jackson. The library at 630 N. Sequim Ave. will be closed today but will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Jackson, a Sequim resident, graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. The show will be on display until March 1.

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The Marine Exhibit, which includes the touch tank and the orca exhibit, will be open at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center at Fort Worden State Park during Christmas weekend. The exhibit will be open from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. It is free for members, $5 for nonmembers and $3 for children. The public feeding of the aquarium animals will be at 2 p.m. Saturday. For more information, contact Alison Riley at 360385-5582 or ariley@ptmsc. org.

Conversation Cafe PORT TOWNSEND — Conversation Cafe will meet at Alchemy Restaurant at noon today. The topic for today’s gathering will be “Faith.” The restaurant is located at Taylor and Washington streets. Buying food is not required. The gatherings conclude before 1:30 p.m. All are welcome.

Artist and artisan Marine Exhibit PORT TOWNSEND —

PORT TOWNSEND — The work of Tom Jay is on

exhibit in “Artist and Artisan” at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History in historic City Hall, 540 Water St. The building is open daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum is a branch of the Jefferson County Historical Society. For information, contact Bill Tennent, historical society director, at 360-3851003 or email billtennent@ jchswa.org.

CHIMACUM Pie and Pommeau Sunday CHIMACUM — Finnriver Farm and Cidery invites the public for a warming winter treat of pie and pommeau from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Finnriver Farm, 62 Barn Swallow Road, will offer fresh-baked handpies from Crust Bakery in Port Townsend and sips of the cidery’s oaked apple pommeau, a French-style apple spirit. The public also is invited to wear boots and bundle up for a winter stroll around the farm. Admission is $5 per person.

For information, contact Crystie Kisler at 360-7324337 or info@finnriverfarm. com.

Potluck and folk jam CHIMACUM — An oldtimey music jam is planned at the Chimacum Grange Hall from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Attendees are invited to bring potluck dishes, personal beverages and musical instrument of their choice to join in the revelry at the grange, 9572 Rhody Drive. The event is free. Families, knitters and non-musicians also are welcome. Plates, spoons and napkins will be provided.

FORKS Family storytime FORKS — The Forks Library will host family storytime for preschoolers at 10:30 a.m. today. The storytime for children from infants to 5 years old will be at the library at 171 S. Forks Ave. For more information, phone the library at 360374-6402, ext. 7791.

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Set stage for happy ever after WHAT DO YOU want for Christmas? It is an important question to ask oneself. The specific answer has probably shifted and changed through the years. When young, it may have been toys and games. When older, one may have wanted clothes and gadgets. As an adult, the answer may range from things to relationships to health and healing to meaning and purpose. For primitive human beings in our hemisphere, Christmas occurred at the darkest time of the year. It was a time when one would really appreciate a little light and warmth. For us today, this time of the year can be challenging. We may become more introspective, melancholy and even depressed. In the words of Auntie Mame, we may be a little sadder and older. We need a little Christmas, but what does that mean to you? Perhaps like Mame, we would like a happy ever after, and we may have very specific ideas as to what that happy ever after should be. Sometimes, those specific ideas fail to deliver the happy ever after that we were hoping for. Then one has that letdown feeling. What do you really want for Christmas? What is the essence of your desire? The apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians, “And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (4:19). We are assured that every need will be met. God knows our hearts and what can best satisfy them. God is the original and premier giver. Our part is to receive, which is not as easy as one might think. We express our willingness and readiness to receive through our prayer requests, made in whatever manner feels appropriate to us.

ISSUES OF FAITH Jesus encourWilson aged us to ask that we may have joy in life. Do you know what to ask for this Christmas? To know what you want often requires a clear mind and heart. Resentments, disappointments and hostilities are a few things that can cloud the mind and heart. Perhaps that is one reason why A Course in Miracles states that forgiveness offers everything we want. Forgiveness sweeps away the dark clouds so that only love remains. We trade love and blessings for hate and curses. And as we give, we receive. Love shared is always multiplied. No other form of giving blesses us in this way. Most other forms involve sacrifice or, at most, a trade. When one loves, one always has more. Forgiveness and blessing are acts of faith in God’s infinite love and express confidence that our needs are met. Are you ready to receive? Then pray for others to experience the good you seek. Bless others with the happy ever after that you yourself desire. And you will know your oneness with what you really want. My prayer for everyone is that we know what we yearn for and offer it in love to all. A very merry little Christmas.

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__________ Issues of Faith is a rotating column by seven religious leaders on the North Olympic Peninsula. The Rev. Barbara Wilson of Port Angeles is an ordained Unity pastor-at-large.

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PORT ANGELES — The speaker at Unity in the Olympics’ 10:30 a.m. worship service this Sunday will be Niobe Weaver, whose lesson will be “Soul Energy 2016.” Weaver is a sound healer

and singer. A time for silent meditation will be held from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Child care is available. Fellowship time will follow the worship service. The public is welcome to all church activities.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has succeeded in getting a holiday display featuring some American Founding Fathers and the Bill of Rights in a manger removed from the state Capitol.

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The “winter solstice” display was created by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which promotes the separation of church and state. It showed Benjamin Franklin, the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington peering

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Family Flicks set at Sequim Library PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEQUIM — The Family Flicks movie series will kick off the New Year on Saturday, Jan. 2, with a screening of “The Boxtrolls” at the Sequim Library. Offered at 2 p.m. the first Saturday of every month through April, Family Flicks provides free family entertainment, popcorn and movie trivia at the library at 630 N. Sequim Ave. “The Boxtrolls” is a PGrated 2014 stop-motion animated fantasy-comedy that

tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trashcollecting trolls, as he attempts to save his friends from maniacal pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher. Upcoming films in the first Saturday series include “Charlotte’s Web” in February, “Up” in March and “Minions” in April. For more information, contact the Sequim Library at 360-683-1161, visit the library website at www. nols.org or email youth@ nols.org.

Messiah: First

took place in Sequim in 2001

Lyre: More than 1,700 native

CONTINUED FROM B1 “Aging adults and families are in need of the most help,” especially in January, Anderson said. The first Handel with Care took place in Sequim at Easter in 2001; the late Nico Snel, then conductor of the Port Angeles Symphony, led the orchestra and singers through the “Messiah.” Later that year, Anderson and the musicians decided to move the event to a date between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, so another was set for December 2001. Due to his ill health, Snel asked Ehling to conduct. He has done so ever since. “This is truly Christmas for us: a chance to help make our whole community stronger, and together looking after each other,” said Anderson. With the donations that come in, “we are able to give SCA enough money to respond to emergency needs in Sequim during the next few weeks. “The darkest and coldest time of our year [is] made brighter with the inspira-

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An aerial view shows forest meeting sea at the Lyre Conservation Area.

trees, shrubs left to be planted CONTINUED FROM B3 the Puget Sound Partnership and the Lower Elwha They joined Reed Wen- Klallam and Makah tribes. del, land trust board memThe land trust and local ber and former student in partners bought the propthe Franklin program, for erty with grants from the state’s Puget Sound Acquithe day of tree planting. “It was a great opportu- sition and Restoration fund, nity to be able to share both Marine Shoreline Protecmy passion for the outdoors tion fund, and Estuary and and my passion for science Salmon Restoration Prowith the students,” said gram. The land trust also conWendel, who is now inventory forester for Green tributed its own money, Sanford said. Crow. In addition, funding and DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ/ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Spring planting in-kind support for the restoration and long-term Dewey Ehling will This spring, more than stewardship of the property conduct Handel with 1,700 native trees and was provided by land trust Care, the sing-along shrubs will be planted on donors, the prior landowner “Messiah,” in Sequim the property through the and the tribes, Sanford said. this Sunday. Clallam Conservation DisA grand opening is trict, Sanford said. planned April 23 “when the tion of Handel’s ‘Messiah.’ ” The land trust was able weather is better,” Sanford ________ to acquire the property said Wednesday, adding through efforts with such that details of that event Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360- local partners as the North had not yet been finalized. The purchase of the area 452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane. Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity for Salmon Recovery, pushed the value of total urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.

To get there From Port Angeles, drive about 3 miles west on U.S. Highway 101 and turn right onto state Highway 112. Drive about 14 miles and turn right on Reynold Road. Within a half-mile will be a small parking area on the left side of the road. land conservation by the land trust to more than $14 million since 2007, agency officials have said. Other areas permanently conserved through land trust ownership are properties on Elk and Siebert creeks and the Pysht River. The Lyre Conservation Area is the largest land protection project in the land trust’s 25-year history, Sanford said. Founded by community members in 1990, the land

trust has conserved more than 3,200 acres of land across the North Olympic Peninsula working with willing landowners to conserve farms, waterways and forests. For more information about the North Olympic Land Trust, visit www. northolympiclandtrust.org or phone 360-417-1815.

________ Executive Editor Leah Leach can be reached at 360-417-3530 or at lleach@peninsuladailynews. com.

Ridge: Snowshoe walks, cross-country skiing CONTINUED FROM B1

The former ski lodge has Snowshoe walks are less public restrooms and is than a half-mile on mostly level terrain and last about “It’s absolutely gorgeous, heated. 90 minutes, with frequent even when it’s nasty out,” stops to enjoy the view and Snowshoe walks he said. for the ranger to talk with In addition to the ski Ranger-guided snowshoe the group. area, several snowshoe and Animal tracks are often cross-country ski trails walks will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and seen in the snow, including begin at Hurricane Ridge. The Hurricane Ridge continue Jan. 1-3 at the snowshoe hare, bird and Visitor Center includes a Hurricane Ridge Visitor weasel tracks, and sometimes winter animals as snack shop, gift shop and Center. Registration for the hike well, rangers said. snow gear rental shop, and The guided snowshoe is open from 10 a.m. to will begin at 1:30 p.m. each day at the information desk. walks allow people to expe4 p.m. The cost is $7 for adults rience walking close to or The visitor center will remain open daily during the and $3 for youths ages 6 to among the treetops of the week between Christmas 15, while children 5 and subalpine firs and mounyounger are admitted free. tain hemlocks and to see and New Year’s weekend. the effect wind has on how the snow drifts and deposIN MEMORY OF KEVIN BECK its, park officials have said.

1962-1983

Written by Wilma Murray

Cross-country skiing

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Your drums fell silent, the music is gone, but we do our best to “keep on keeping on”. We don’t understand why the God up above let your song in this world come to an end. But, still, we thank Him for the memories of your laughter and love. So may God rest you merry, my Son. Mom, Barry, Bonnie, Roxanne, Paul, and Gerry.

Opportunities for crosscountry skiers and snowshoers range from open, level meadows near the visitor center to extreme terrain in the park’s wilderness backcountry. Anyone skiing or snowshoeing beyond the immediate Hurricane Ridge area

should sign in at the registration box in the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center and be prepared for steep terrain and the possibility of avalanches. Information about ski and snowshoe routes and trails is available at park visitor centers, the Olympic National Park website at www.nps.gov/olym or the park’s visitor newspaper, the Olympic Bugler.

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565-3100 or 360-565-3130. Information about weather and avalanche risk is available from the Northwest Avalanche Center on the web at www.nwac.us or by calling 206-526-6677.

Park entry All vehicles traveling to Hurricane Ridge must carry chains. For road conditions and closures, call the road condition hotline at 360-5653131 or check the park’s Twitter account at www. t w i t t e r. c o m / H RWi n t e r Access. Entry to the park is $20 per vehicle for a seven-day pass. An annual pass is available for $40. A lifetime senior pass is available for $10 for park users 62 and older, and an active-duty military member or dependent pass is available for free.

elevation, All Points Charter & Tours provides a shuttle bus to Hurricane Ridge twice daily each day that the road to the Ridge is open. The shuttle departs at 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. from The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave, and at 9:05 a.m. and 12:35 p.m. from the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St. Return trips from the Ridge depart at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Shuttle rides are $20 for adults and $10 for children ages 7 to 12, with children 6 and younger riding for free. Olympic National Park individual entry is $7 per person 16 and older and is not included in the shuttle fee. For reservations on Hurricane Ridge shuttle buses, phone 360-460-7131.

Overnight wilderness camping is permitted in the Hurricane Ridge area with advance registration. Winter camps must be at least one half-mile from the Hurricane Ridge parking area. Overnight parking is not permitted at Hurricane Ridge; parking and shuttle options are explained at the time of registration. ________ More information is available by calling the Shuttle to snow Reporter Arwyn Rice can be Olympic National Park Visreached at 360-452-2345, ext. For those who prefer to 5070, or at arice@peninsuladaily itor Center & Wilderness Information Center at 360- leave their cars at a lower news.com.

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Carlee Monica Shute June 4, 1924 — Dec. 21, 2015

Former Sequim resident Carlee Monica Shute died of age-related causes in Spokane. She was 91. A complete obituary will follow. Services: To be announced. Heritage Funeral Home & Crematory, Spokane, is in charge of arrangements.

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DEAR ABBY: Over the years, I have come to realize that my fatherin-law is condescending toward women. He expects his wife will do all the cooking, cleaning and housework despite the fact that she has a demanding full-time job and he doesn’t work outside the home. When we go to dinner over there, it is expected that the women will clean up and do the dishes while the men sit and talk at the table. I have never seen him lift a finger to help, and he frequently makes demeaning comments about his wife’s cooking, among other things. He considers himself an expert on everything and frequently interrupts people (mostly women) to prove he “knows better.” His behavior is rude and I am offended by it. I am pregnant with my first child — a daughter — and I’m concerned about her growing up in this atmosphere. I don’t want her raised thinking that men know better than women and that women are supposed to wait on men. My husband doesn’t want to confront his father over this. How do we handle the situation? First-Class Citizen in Florida

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Dear Abby: While waiting for my chemotherapy to finish along with two other patients (all three of us have little time left), one of them made a comment about his wife. She was sitting next to him as a visitor, continuously using her cellphone. He said, “She always plays games or talks on her phone while I just sit here!” He looked so sad. I understand, because my husband does the same thing and has for years. Yesterday morning, my husband came out of the bedroom and said, “How are you this morning?” I turned around and asked, “Are you talking to me?” It took a moment for me to realize he was actually addressing me and not someone on the other end of the phone. How sad! Near the End Dear Near: I agree that it’s sad. Your spouses will have the rest of their lives to regret the meaningful conversations they missed having, and the important things that were left unsaid because they were too busy hiding from reality on their cellphones. To My Readers: A very merry Christmas to you all!

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committed to bringing about positive change. Showing good cheer, offering solid suggestions and contributing to the events of the day will help you avoid discord with someone you care about. 3 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Discuss your past achievements, your present TAURUS (April 20-May projects and your plans for 20): Travel and communicathe future and you will tion are highlighted. Enjoying impress everyone. Getting the company of friends and together with siblings or family members will give you spending time with youngsters the opportunity to impress the will spark your imagination. ones you love most. You’ll Romance is in the stars. receive something unex4 stars pected. 4 stars LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): GEMINI (May 21-June You’ll face opposition if you 20): Keep a smile on your face and do your best to con- are too open about the way tribute to the festivities. Don’t you feel or if you disclose your show disappointment if some- future plans. Keep a lid on your opinions and ideas and one doesn’t show up or you focus on helping elderly relahaven’t received something tives and youngsters in your you expected. A friendly demeanor will keep the party family enjoy the festivities. 2 stars upbeat. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. CANCER (June 21-July 21): Don’t forget about the 22): A touching and unexelderly or those less fortunate pected offer will make your than you. Your good deeds will day. Hosting an event or impress someone you love, attending a family gathering and the response and help will result in an unusual you receive will warm your encounter with someone. Romance is on the rise, and heart. Love, laugh and be good fortune is heading your grateful for what you have. 5 stars way. 3 stars

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Dear First-Class: It appears your husband is as cowed by his father as your mother-in-law is or this wouldn’t be happening. He could have put a stop to it years ago by simply getting up from the table and helping you and his mom clear the dishes while Dad kept himself company. If you prefer your little girl not grow up in an atmosphere like this, see less of your in-laws. Be sure to tell your mother-in-law why. And if you “must” subject your daughter to her grandfather’s presence, point out to her that “Gramps” acts this way because his thinking is outdated. Explain that it is his attempt to make himself feel important, even if

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mind and allow others to have their own opinions. You will avoid criticism if you refrain from being judgmental. Getting along with family isn’t always easy, but with a little effort and diplomacy, you can enjoy the festivities without controversy. 3 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your undivided attention and genuine offers of support and help will be welcome. You will impress others with your practicality and sincerity. Don’t worry about someone who is jealous and disgruntled because he or she expected more from you. 3 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Focus on children and family. What you do to encourage the ones you love will be appreciated. Your ability to make something special out of very little will win approval from someone you love. Favorable changes are heading your way. 3 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your entertaining and helpful demeanor will brighten the day for everyone you encounter. Spending time with children or your loved one will set the stage for good things to come. A day trip or vacation plan looks inviting. 5 stars

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Port Angeles 42/29

Olympics Freeze level: 1,500 feet

Forks 42/27

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Port Ludlow 41/30

Statistics for the 24-hour period ending at noon yesterday. Hi Lo Rain YTD Port Angeles 42 37 1.23 50.32 Forks 45 37 0.73 102.07 Seattle 41 36 0.31 50.10 Sequim 45 37 0.45 19.48 Hoquiam 46 37 0.36 63.62 Victoria 42 34 0.34 30.72 Port Townsend 41 37 **0.32 21.05

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Atlanta 76° | 66°

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Ocean: N morning wind 5 to 15 kt becoming E in the afternoon. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 10 ft at 12 seconds. E evening wind to 10 kt becoming SE 5 to 15 kt after midnight. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 8 ft at 11 seconds.

Seattle 41° | 36° Olympia 40° | 31°

Tacoma 39° | 33°

Astoria 47° | 36°

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8:18 a.m. 5.8’ 8:32 p.m. -1.8’

TOMORROW High Tide Ht Low Tide Ht 1:06 a.m. 8.3’ 6:37 a.m. 3.0’ 12:26 p.m. 10.0’ 7:21 p.m. -1.2’ 4:18 a.m. 7.8’ 1:55 p.m. 6.8’

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SUNDAY High Tide Ht Low Tide 1:49 a.m. 8.4’ 7:23 a.m. 1:09 p.m. 9.6’ 8:01 p.m.

Ht 3.1’ -0.9’

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5.6’ -1.1’

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9:31 a.m. 6.5’ 9:45 p.m. -2.0’

5:55 a.m. 9.6’ 10:26 a.m. 6.4’ 3:32 p.m. 8.4’ 10:26 p.m. -1.7’

6:34 a.m. 9.6’ 11:21 a.m. 4:19 p.m. 7.9’ 11:07 p.m.

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5:01 a.m. 8.6’ 2:38 p.m. 7.6’

5:40 a.m. 8.6’ 10:43 a.m. 3:25 p.m. 7.1’ 10:29 p.m.

5.6’ -1.1’

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9:48 a.m. 5.8’ 9:48 p.m. -1.5’

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Washington D.C. 71° | 60°

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GLOSSARY of abbreviations used on this page: Clr clear, sunny; PCldy partly cloudy; Cldy cloudy; Sh showers; Ts thunderstorms; Prc precipitation; Otlk outlook; M data missing; Ht tidal height; YTD year to date; kt knots; ft or ’ feet

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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS By DAVID OUELLET HOW TO PLAY: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle — horizontally, vertically, diagonally and even backward. Find them, circle each letter of the word and strike it off the list. The leftover letters spell the WONDERWORD. INUIT CUISINE Solution: 7 letters

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

48 Checkup request 49 Supply with, as carrots to a food processor 52 24-hour eatery, often 53 Medical support 54 Complicated 56 Big name in early computers 57 Expanse 58 Home filter target

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Ans. here: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: WEIGH MOOSE VIABLE UNRULY Answer: The fireplace in their new home made for a nice — HOUSEWARMING

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Clallam County Jascha and Harmony Kozelisky, 550 W. Runnion Road, attached garage, unheated, no plumbing, $31,004. Julia Johnson, 411 Livengood Lane, change of use, detached, unheated garage conversion to heated garage/shop with 157 sq. ft. of heated art studio and addition of 15 sq. ft. bathroom within existing footprint, $9,830. Scott and Jennifer Williams, 4006 Black Diamond Road, replacement of heat pump and air handler, $13,339. Richard Thompson, 651 Senz Road, replacement heat pump and air handler, $15,869. Damon and Stephanie Stamoolis, 31 w. Buena Vista Dr., wood stove installation, $4,563. Lloyd N. Lehman, Jr., 725 S. Alder Lane, 100 gal A/G propane tank & piping for gas appliance, $600. Louise and Natalie Pinnell, 29 Sherburne Road, new doublewide manufactured home placement, 40 x 56 Marlette, $139,000. Agness M. Johnson, 150 AldrickhLane, replacement of manufactured home with doublewide (24 x 56) 1982 Liberty SN 200840-20841, $22,717. John Jackson, 123 Pleasant Meadows Lane, Beaver, new ductless heat pump for main house, $3,550. 6KDZQ DQG 6DUDK &DQHSD :RRGFRFN 5RDG Ă&#x20AC; QLVKLQJ GRZQVWDLUV LQ H[LVWLQJ KRPH $82,982. Richard and Terri Meier, 411 Knutsen Farm Road, single family dwelling with attached garage, 120 gal. A/G propane tank placement, $297,128. Mike and Michelle Dees, 4665 Lost Mountain Road, new triplewide manufactured home placement: 2015 Marlette 40 x 56. William J. Roth, 221 Chickadee Lane, solar roof panel, install on existing home, $2,300. Brian Cyphers, 230 Vista VIew Dr., replacement heat pump and air handler, $6,682. Lyman Moores, 200 gal. A/G propane tank, piping, insert and range, $2,000. Paul Hornberger, 5219 S. Old Mill Road, new ductless heat pump in main house, $6,605.

Port Angeles Katharine Occhiogrosso, 1033 Fountain St., bathroom addition, $25,000. Ken and Kim Losterberg, 1521 O St., replace heat system, $7,425. School District No. 121 (Skill Center), 905 W. Ninth St., venting for composite oven, $1,675. Virgil M. and Sandra K. Goodman, 2130 W. Seventh St., tear off and install comp roof, $4,800. David and Kendra Waggoner, 422 S. Liberty St., wood burning stove insert, $5,051. Vandyken Properties LLC, 606 E. Eighth St., 2 ton heat pump system, $10,287. Public Hospital District No. 2, 939 Caroline St., pharmacy remodel, $120,000. Arland C. Elstrom, Jr. and Cynthi, 2302 W. 12th St., 1492 sq. ft. single family residence, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, $130,420. Margaret J. Levitan, 1048 Olympus Ave., 1922 sq. ft., single family residence, two bedrooms, 2 baths, $203,624. Donald R. Zanon, 1508 W. 12th St., ductless heat pump, $6,600. Sheila Adams, 1108 W. Eighth St., ductless heat pump, $4,875. Howard Ventures, 933 E. First St., re-roof, tear off, install comp, $34,349. Carol Liljedahl, 810 Golf Course Road, lpg insert, $4,775. Michael and Cheryl Halverson, 1121 E. Third St., remove heat pump system, install air handler only, $3,100. Pamela Boyd, 206-1/2 W. Seventh St., residential remodel: new plumbing, electrical, mechanical, siding, windows, $10,000. 9LUJLQLD 0DVRQ 0HGLFDO &HQWHU *HRUJLDQD 6W EDFN Ă RZ SUHYHQWRU Public Hospital District No. 2, 939 Georgiana St., plumbing for 15-1390 EO remodel, $0. Frederick Brent and Amy Denise Powell, 204 W. Second St., up, ductless heat pump, $6,280. McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corp., 1706 E. Front St., demolish building, parking lot, commercial rebuild, $1,250,000. Gary J. Holmquist, 1048 Grant Ave., construction of garage, $23,520.

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Department Reports Area building departments report a total of 45 building permits issued from Dec. 14 to Dec. 22 with a total valuation of $3,203,083.68: Port Angeles, 19 at $1,870,660; Sequim, 4 at $78,851.68; Clallam County, 16 at $777,169; Port Townsend, None issued; Jefferson County, 6 at $476,403.z

PLUMBER Journey / Specialty License req. New Const. exp. req. Holidays / Vacation, $25-$35 per hr DOE. (360)683-8336. SERVICE TRAINING SUPERVISOR Jefferson Transit is accepting applications for a FT Service Training Supervisor. This supervisory position requires at l e a s t 2 y r s o f fo r m a l training resulting in a degree or certificate. Send application, resume, cover letter, and a list of references to 63 4 Corners Rd, Port Townsend, WA 98368 or email to trubert@jeffersontransit. com. A complete job description and application can be found at jeffersontransit.com. CLOSING DATE: December 30, 2015 by 5:00 pm. EOE SWITCHBOARD / RECEPTIONIST / GENERAL CLERICAL Ve r s a t i l e a n d m a t u r e t e a m p l aye r fo r bu s y front office. Must have excellent interpersonal, customer service, and keyboarding skills. Recent exper ience in health care office preferred. F.T., with benefits. Some evening hours. $13.33 $14.00/hr to start, DOQ. Resume to: PBH, 118 E. 8th St., Port Angeles, WA. 98362. www.peninsulabehavioral.org EOE.

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Priced Below Assessed Value!! Enjoy all the benefits residential life in 4 Seasons Ranch has to offer when you purchase this lovely lot: community clubhouse with pool, golf course, beach, barn and more! Build a 2 or 3 story home to gain 3 views: Straits of Juan de Fuca, Hurr icane Ridge, and Ranch golf course. Water and power needed. Community drain field available. Excellent value, even if only used for the Ranch ammenities! MLS#290097 $25,000! Jean Irvine UPTOWN REALTY (360) 460-5601 Ready to live carefree? Yo u â&#x20AC;&#x2122; l l l o v e t h i s n e w Townhouse in the Fair We a t h e r s u b d i v i s i o n . Professional manicured front yards, open space areas, large sidewalks & exterior maintenance included in your homeowners association fee of only $146 a month. Spacious kitchen w/ stainless steel appliances, slab granite counter tops, isl a n d , b r e a k fa s t b a r & pantry; fully fenced back yard w/large patio and energy efficient ductless heat pump. MLS#292323 $254,000 Kelly Johnson (360) 477-5876 WINDERMERE PORT ANGELES

CUSTOM SUNLAND 3 br + den/office, 2 Â˝ ba home, additional lot in private location in SunLand with mountain and golf course views. Beautiful southern exposure. M a ny ex t r a fe a t u r e s, new roof, central vacuum, wet bar, island in kitchen. Enjoy all the amenities - golf, tennis, swimming pool, clubh o u s e, p r i va t e b e a c h and cabana. Additional lot can be sold separately. MLS#292325/878081 $375,000 Room to build! MaryAnn Miller Affordable building lot in 360-774-6900 desirable Diamond Point TOWN & COUNTRY neighborhood. This nice Exceptional City Lots! flat lot allows manufacTwo beautiful, partially tured homes. Enjoy all wooded building lots on this active community d e s i r a b l e D e l G u z z i has to offer: hiking, kayDrive. Both lots are con- aking, fishing, crabbing veniently located across or simply beach combing f r o m Pe n i n s u l a G o l f for miles from your priCourse and are adjacent vate community beach to a 47 acre wilderness which is within walking conservation area pro- distance. Miller Peninsutected from future devel- l a S t a t e P a r k j u s t opment. Water, power, o p e n e d w i t h m i l e s o f sewer, phone and cable walking and horse trails. are all at the road. Build MLS#292242 $34,900 Craig and Darel homes on both lots or Tenhoff build your dream home 206-853-5033 on one lot and save the Blue Sky Real Estate other lot as investment Sequim property! MLS#292285 $149,500 Spacious 3 Story Jean Irvine Home UPTOWN REALTY 3 br., 3.5 ba., Master, (360) 460-5601 kitchen, laundry, living and dining on main level. Location Means 100% yard maintenance. So Much! Nice quiet neighborhood Green part with garden in town, rambler with 3 community room. Paved bedrooms, 1.5 baths. w a l k i n g . E ve n a d o g Livingroom features fire- park! MLS#292318/877431 p l a c e t o k e e p c o z y. $385,000 Deck off back to overCarol Dana look great yard with eslic# 109151 tablished trees. Double Windermere attached garage, good Real Estate condition. Sequim East MLS#291952/851167 (360) 461-9014 $169,000 Cathy Reed #1 Online Job Site lic# 4553 on the Olympic Windermere Peninsula Real Estate www.peninsula Sequim East dailynews.com (360) 460-1800

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LEGAL ASSISTANT Jeff. Co. Prosecuting Atty. seeks Legal Assistant Mon-Fri 8am-5pm. Minimum A.A. degree and 5 ye a r s r e l a t e d ex p. o r equivalent combination. Computer skills required. Starting $17.14/hr. Job descrip and app. avail: Jeff. Co. Commissioners Office or http://www.co. jefferson.wa.us/ commissioners/ employment.asp. Closes 1/8/16.

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Duty ‘03, Dually V-10 Auto, cruise, incredible A/C, 11ft ser vice box,1,600lb Tommy Lift, all top quality, runs perfect always maintained with syn oil, set up to tow anything but never has. Truck belonged to 9292 Automobiles the owner of a elevator company so it’s had an Others easy life. 162K miles ACURA: ‘98 Model 30. uses no oil, truck needs 171K mi. Loaded. Runs nothing. $8,500. g o o d , l o o k s g o o d . (360)477-6218 Sequim $2,300. 681-4672 GMC: ‘91 2500. Long CHRY: ’04 PT Cruiser - bed, auto. 4x2, body is 77K Miles, loaded, pow- straight. $3,700 obo. (360)683-2455 er roof, new tires, looks great, runs great, clean, s t r o n g , s a fe, r e l i a bl e 9556 SUVs transportation. call and Others leave message $5,200. (360)457-0809

A Captains License No CG exams. Star ts Jan. 11, eves. 385-4852. FORD : ‘05 Focus Hatch www.usmaritime.us back. Clean and reliable, GLASSPLY: 19’ Cuddy 122K mi. $5,500 obo. (360)912-2225 cabin, inboard 470, 15 hp Johnson kicker, ra- HYUNDAI: ‘09 Sonata, dio, fish finder, $3,000. 79K miles, Auto, 1 own(360)457-7827 er, no smoking. $6,800.

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9817 Motorcycles H/D, ‘05 Dyna Wide Glide, blk with lots of chrome, lots of aftermarket stuff + extras. $9,500. (360)461-4189. H O N DA : ‘ 8 3 V F 7 5 0 , $1,500. (360)457-0253 evenings.

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Cause No. 14-2-00005-0 Sheriff’s No. 15000698 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON in and for the County of Clallam UNION BANK, N.A., successor-in-interest to the FDIC as Receiver for Frontier Bank VS KARL ALLEN, aka Karl W. Allen, et at., TO: KARL ALLEN, LINDA ALLEN, and the Marital Community Thereof, United Companies Lending Corporation , and Does 1-2, Unnamed Occupants of the Real Property Commonly Known as 163 River Road, Sequim, WA 98382 THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CLALLAM COUNTY HAS DIRECTED THE UNDERSIGNED SHERIFF OF CLALLAM COUNTY TO SELL THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED BELOW TO SATISFY A JUDGMENT IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION. IF DEVELOPED, THE PROPERTY ADDRESS IS: 163 AND 165 RIVER RD. SEQUIM, WA 98362 THE SALE OF THE DESCRIBED PROPERTY IS TO TAKE PLACE AT 10:00 A.M. ON FRIDAY, 1/8/2016 IN THE MAIN LOBBY OF THE CLALLAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ENTRANCE LOCATED AT 223 E. 4th STREET, PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON. THE JUDGMENT DEBTOR CAN AVOID THE SALE BY PAYING THE JUDGMENT AMOUNT OF $ 4 8 4 , 0 7 9 . 3 0 TO G E T H E R W I T H I N T E R E S T, COSTS AND FEES BEFORE THE SALE DATE. FOR THE EXACT AMOUNT, CONTACT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AT THE ADDRESS STATED BELOW. DATED 12/2/2015 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 2 AND 3 OF SHORT PLAT, RECORDED SEPTEMBER 19, 1991 IN VOLUME 22 OF SHORT PLATS, PAGE 36, UNDER CLALLAM COUNTY RECORDING NO. 657109, BEING A SHORT PLAT OF LOT 1 OF SURVEY RECORDED IN VOLUME 19 OF SURVEYS, PAGE 8, BEING A PORTION O F T H E S O U T H W E S T Q UA RT E R O F T H E S O U T H E A S T Q UA RT E R O F S E C T I O N 2 4 , TOWNSHIP 30 NORTH, RANGE 4 WEST, W.M., CLALLAM COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF CLALLAM, STATE OF WASHINGTON. W.L. Benedict, SHERIFF Clallam County, Washington

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By ___________________________ Kaylene Zellar, Civil Deputy 223 E. 4th Street, Suite 12 Port Angeles, WA 98362 TEL: 360.417.2266 Pub: December 11, 18, 25, 2015 January 1, 2016 GMC: ‘98 Jimmy SLE, Legal No: 671818 Great Deal. White, one owner, good condition, 9933 Sequim 9933 Sequim 213K miles, V6, 4WD, Legals Legals 4-speed Auto trans. with over drive, towing packCITY OF SEQUIM age, PS/PB, Disc ABS NOTICE OF APPLICATION & SEPA NOTICE OF DNS brakes, AC, $2250 o.b.o. DATE: November 27, 2015 Call (206) 920-1427 APPLICANT: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

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NO. 15-4-00410-7 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CLALLAM IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DENISE H. WESNER, Deceased. The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any persons having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and non-probate assets. Date of first publication: December 18, 2015 Personal Representative: John P. Wesner Attorney for Personal Representative: Curtis G. Johnson, WSBA #8675 Address for Mailing or Service: Law Office of Curtis G. Johnson, P.S. 230 E. 5th Street Port Angeles, WA 98362 (360) 452-3895 Pub: December 18, 25, 2015 January 1, 2016 Legal No. 674117

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DATE OF APPLICATION: October 23, 2015 DATE OF DETERMINATION OF COMPLETENESS: November 13, 2015 CASE FILE NUMBER: SHR15-001 & SEP15-006 PROJECT LOCATION: The property is located at the 2577 West Sequim Bay Road within the John Wayne Marina at Slip 46 on Float E. 48.062480 N lat. / -123.041233 W long. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Locate a FLUPSY, floating shellfish seed culturing device, consisting of seed containers attached to a float-like apparatus attached to a floating dock. Two, 20’ X 60’ FLUPSY structures are located in Slip 46 on Float. The City of Sequim requires the applicant to submit a Shoreline Master Program Substantial Development Permit application accompanied by an Environmental Checklist (SEPA) review. A Section 10 permit is required from the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Army Corp of Engineers. SEPA THRESHOLD DETERMINATION: Notice of Pending Threshold Determination -Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) – using the Optional DNS Process LEAD AGENCY: City of Sequim STATEMENT OF THE PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION OF CONSISTENCY: The proposal will be reviewed for compliance with all applicable codes and standards including the requirements of the Sequim Municipal Code for a Shoreline Master Program Substantial Development Permit, land use requirements and Wash. State Dept. of Ecology (ECY). DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS USED FOR PROJECT MITIGATION, KNOWN AT THIS TIME: Title 19 Shoreline Master Program, Title 18 Zoning, and RCW 90.58. COMMENT PERIOD: Persons wishing to comment on the application(s) and/or the SEPA DNS should submit written comments within thirty (30) days of the date of this notice, by December 27, 2015 at the address listed below. The Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on January 5, 2015 at 6:00pm in the City Council Chambers at 152 West Cedar Street. Any person has the right to comment on the proposal on or before the Public Hearing, receive notice of and participate in any hearings, request a copy of the decision once made, and any appeal the decision. PROJECT APPEAL PERIOD: All appeals of any final permit decision are governed by the procedures established in RCW 90.58.180, RCW 90.58.140(6), WAC 481-03, the rules and procedures of the Shorelines Hearing Board. Appeals must be made to the Shorelines Hearing Board within twenty-one (21) days after the City’s final decision concerning the Shoreline Permit or revisions of the permit. *All documents incorporated into the design review application record are available for review at the City of Sequim Planning Department, 152 West Cedar Street, Sequim, WA. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this matter, please contact the City of Sequim Department of Community Development at (360) 683-4908. RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Charisse Deschenes, AICP Senior Planner PUB:Dec. 25, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016 Legal No. 674969

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. TS No.: WA-15-668338-SW APN No.: 03 30 29 500470 Title Order No.: 02-15016979 Deed of Trust Grantor(s): JOHN C AHLES Deed of Trust Grantee(s): BANK OF AMERICA N.A. Deed of Trust Instrument/Reference No.: 2005 1171964 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the undersigned Trustee, will on 1/29/2016 , at 10:00 AM at the main entrance to the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. 4th Street, Port Angeles, WA sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of CLALLAM, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 47 OF EMERALD HIGHLANDS, AS RECORDED IN VOLUME 12 OF P L AT S, PAG E 3 2 , R E C O R D S O F C L A L L A M COUNTY, WASHINGTON, SITUATE IN CLALLAM COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON More commonly known as: 121 EMERALD HIGHLANDS WA, SEQUIM, WA 98382 which is subject to that certain D e e d o f Tr u s t d a t e d 1 2 / 2 1 / 2 0 0 5 , r e c o r d e d 12/22/2005, under 2005 1171964 records of CLALLAM County, Washington , from JOHN C AHLES, AN UNMARRIED PERSON , as Grantor(s), to PRLAP, INC , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of BANK OF AMERICA N.A. , as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by BANK OF AMERICA N.A. (or by its successors-ininterest and/or assigns, if any), to WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR Banc of America Alter native Loan Trust 2006-1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-1 . II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the follo wing amounts which are now in arrears: $17,903.47 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $195,631.16 , together with interest as provided in the Note from 11/1/2014 on, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 1/29/2016 . The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 1/18/2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and ter minated if at any time before 1/18/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 1/18/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME JOHN C AHLES, AN UNMARRIED PERSON ADDRESS 121 EMERALD HIGHLANDS WA, SEQUIM, WA 98382 by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. These requirements were completed as of 8/18/2015 . VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20 th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20 th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm . The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://por tal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Wa s h i n g t o n : h t t p : / / w w w. h u d . g o v / o f f i c es/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Te l e p h o n e : 1 - 8 0 0 - 6 0 6 - 4 8 1 9 o r W e b s i t e : http://nwjustice.org/what-clear . If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBTAND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. Dated: 9/25/2015 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, as Trustee By: Christina Contreras, Assistant Secretary Trustee’s Mailing Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington C/O Quality Loan Service Corp. 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 (866) 645-7711 Trustee’s Physical Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 202 Seattle, WA 98104 (866) 925-0241 Sale Line: 916.939.0772 Or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com TS No.: WA-15-668338-SW IDSPub #0092269 12/25/2015 1/15/2016 Pub: December 25, January 15, 2016 Legal No. 660161

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. TS No.: WA-15-674103-SW APN No.: 06-30-00-440310 Title Order No.: 150155185-WA-MSO Deed of Trust Grantor(s): GARY W NEWTON, Sharon L Jewett Deed of Trust Grantee(s): WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Deed of Trust Instrument/Reference No.: 2011-1264803 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the undersigned Trustee, will on 1/29/2016 , at 10:00 AM at the main entrance to the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. 4th Street, Port Angeles, WA sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real proper ty, situated in the County of CLALLAM, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 31 OF SECOND PHASE OF EAGLE’S LAIR, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 13 OF PLATS, PAGE 18, RECORDS OF CLALLUM COUNTY, WASHINGTON More commonly known as: 1620 S O ST, PORT ANGELES, WA 98363-1316 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 4/5/2011, recorded 4/7/2011, under 2011-1264803 records of CLALLAM County, Washington , from GARY W. NEWTON, A SINGLE PERSON , as Grantor(s), to NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES, LLC , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. , as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. (or by its successors-in-interest and/or assigns, if any), to Wells Fargo Bank, NA . II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the follo wing amounts which are now in arrears: $10,741.36 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $155,043.58 , together with interest as provided in the Note from 1/1/2015 on, and such other costs and fees as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 1/29/2016 . The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 1/18/2016 (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 1/18/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 1/18/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): NAME GARY W. NEWTON, A SINGLE PERSON ADDRESS 1620 S O ST, PORT ANGELES, WA 98363-1316 by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. These requirements were completed as of 8/11/2015 . VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20 th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20 th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/hom e o w n e r ship/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm . 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PORT ANGELES — Two new after-school clubs for children, with Port Angeles teacher, artist, actress and parent Sarah Tucker at the helm, will start in early January at the Camp Fire Club House, 619 E. Fourth St. First comes the Marine Debris Art Club, offered for fourththrough sixth-grad- Tucker ers every Monday beginning Jan. 4. These sessions will go from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Then another Marine Debris Art Club section, this one for first- through third-graders, will meet on Wednesdays starting Jan. 6, with sessions from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. In both clubs, Tucker, creator of marine-debris

sculptures for Port Angeles’ annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival among other events, will work with students on new marine-debris art projects. They will use beach debris already collected by Coastsavers volunteers, Tucker said. For information about the statewide organization and its efforts, see coast savers.org. Tucker will also welcome guest speakers, who will come to club sessions to talk about the impact of marine debris, as well as ways to solve the problem across and beyond the Peninsula. In addition, students will have a chance to prepare artwork for public display around Clallam County. “I’ve been talking to folks in charge of Rainfest 2016 in Forks, and the Rainforest Arts Center is already set to host the next Trashion Show on May 27,” Tucker said. TURN

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“Raven Strut” by Connor Stefanison is among the images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at Victoria’s Royal British Columbia Museum. They include “A Black Bear Looks In,” of a glossy beast Stefanison encountered while planning to photograph spotted skunks. There’s also “Raven Strut,” his picture of the black bird walking across a pristine snowscape. The third Canadian honoree is 10-year-old Josiah Launstein of Alberta. He was named a finalist for two shots, “Goose Attack,” taken at Burnaby Lake in British Columbia, and “Snowy Scene,” a ghostly image of a snowy owl in Calgary. Birds are big in this show. The winner of the age 10 and younger category, Carlos Perez Naval, captured an image of two emerald-green beeeaters; there are also whooper swans, penguins, geese, egrets, storks, dippers and a pelican photographed with a pouch full of leaping fish. Another aspect of this exhibition: the People’s Choice Award voting, on through Jan. 5. The public is invited to choose favorites from a group of 25 photos from the competition’s shortlist, which includes dazzlers of birds, fish and other creatures around the globe. The

voting site can be found on the Wildlife Photographer of the Year page on Facebook and at www.NHM.ac.uk. The winning image will be announced Jan. 11. While this exhibition stays on display through April 4, the museum will offer related activities. A “staff pick mingle,” in which visitors can converse with museum curators and specialists abut their favorite photos, is set for 1 p.m. Feb. 27 and March 15. And two 45-minute gallery tours, guided by Stefanison, are offered at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. March 18. These are included with museum admission, which is $16 for adults and $11 for seniors, students and youth ages 6 to 18. Children 5 and younger are admitted free. The Royal B.C. Museum, 675 Belleville St., is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Christmas and New Year’s Day. For much more about the museum, its IMAX theater and other offerings, see royalbcmuseum.bc.ca or phone 1-888-447-7977.

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VICTORIA — Walk in to the new exhibition at the Royal British Columbia Museum, and you enter a lush place populated by apes, geese, squirrels, sharks — and intrepid people with cameras. The 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest show, a collection of 100 winners and finalists, takes you deep into the oceans, deserts and forests of the world. Some are urban; others are a long way into wilderness. And the entrants in this international photography competition — including preteens and teenagers — have brought back pictures that will stay bright in your memory. In large, backlit displays, these photos fill one of the museum’s galleries, giving us a chance to see the top selections from a contest that attracted 42,000 entries from 96 nations. The 51-year-old event is showing its winners in Victoria for the fifth year in a row. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London, drawing entries from professionals, amateurs and young photographers. With each image on display, the entrant provides a description of how he or she got the shot, along with technical details about the camera, lens, aperture and exposure. The Royal B.C. Museum is noting that among the competitors from nearly every continent, three Canadians have won top honors. Dr. Don Gutoski of London, Ontario, is the overall winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest with his desolate photo, “Tale of Two Foxes,” taken at Wapusk National Park in Cape Churchill, Manitoba. Connor Stefanison of Burnaby, B.C., is the Rising Star Portfolio Award winner for his collection of six images.

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The Pipia Sisters — Phina, left, and Sophie — will bring their music and comedy to downtown Port Townsend’s Better Living through Coffee this Monday night.

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Time Chautauqua benefit show at Port Townsend’s Palindrome earlier this month. Now Sophie is about to move away, to take a job in January as a middle school music teacher in Madras, Ore. So this will be the sisters’ last local appearance for a while. “This is our way of bringing our friends together and celebrating community,” Phina wrote in a news release. “There’s nothing that makes us happier than sharing music and laughter.”

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PORT TOWNSEND — Harmonies, comedies and community: Such are the themes of the Pipia Sisters’ winter concert at Better Living through Coffee, 100 Tyler St., this Monday night. Admission to the 7 p.m. show is by donation and all ages are welcome at the BLTC cafe, where cocoa, tea and coffees will be available for purchase. “Take a break from the holiday hubbub,” instructs Phina Pipia, “with this funfilled evening of songs,” whose subjects range from prizefighters and typewriters to unrequited love. Some of her favorites are “I’m Gonna Ride the Bathtub Train,” a funky, Buddy Holly-style tune about taking a bath; “The Moon Scratched Its Chin,” about the moon trying to get some sleep, and “Sousa Lips,” which Phina calls “a goofy love song I wrote for a sousaphone player.” Phina and Sophie, meantime, accompany themselves on tuba, ukulele, harmonica and accordion. They are known in Port Townsend for their double-tuba duets, for founding the production company Generation Goat Rocket, which has performed at festivals around North America, and for producing and performing with the New Old Time Chautauqua. Besides traveling to southeastern Alaska for a five-week tour with the Chautauquans, the sisters appeared in a New Old

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PORT TOWNSEND — How would it be for a grown man to become Crumpet, the elf in Santa’s Village at Macy’s? It’s no cakewalk. Your coworkers are a small army of Santa Clauses, including one who takes himself a bit too seriously. The guests are children and their folks, bound and determined to snap darling photos. Your task is to facilitate the merriment, department-store style. Such are “The SantaLand Diaries,” David Sedaris’ bittersweet memoirs, and they’re arriving at the Key City Playhouse for a quick run this Saturday through Tuesday. Key City Public Theatre artistic director Denise Winter likes to offer Olympic Peninsula residents and their visiting family something to do after all the Christmas presents are open and meals eaten. So “SantaLand” is set for two matinees and two evening shows on the weekend, plus a couple of performances added Monday and Tuesday night. Chris Hawley portrays our hero, a writer who moves to New York City in hopes of getting into show business. When that doesn’t immediately pan out, he answers an ad in the paper for Macy’s Christmas elves. He gets the job, along with a set of insights to American culture. “I wear green velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock, and a perky little hat decorated with spangles. This is my work uniform,” the story begins. Crumpet finds Santa’s Village has many roles, among them Entrance Elf, Magic Window Elf, Photo Elf, Usher Elf and Emergency Exit Elf. The people portraying them come from all walks of life, he observes. The latest recession has hit New York hard. “Most of the other elves are show business people, but several of them had real jobs at advertising agencies and brokerage firms. Bless their hearts. These people never in their wildest dreams figured there was a velvet costume waiting in their future,” Sedaris writes.

Crumpet tells all “The SantaLand Diaries,” written by David Sedaris and directed by Denise Winter, starring Chris Hawley ■ Where: Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St., Port Townsend ■ When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 7 p.m. Saturday through Tuesday (Sunday performance is sold out). ■ Tickets: $24 at keycitypublictheatre.org and 360-385-KCPT (5278). one-man play has proved tough. “This is a difficult show for me, although it’s fairly short,” Hawley said. “A full-length, two-hour play is much easier to memorize,” especially when it’s a story that goes from point A to point Z. “This is different. It’s memoir,” said the actor, adding that seeing “SantaLand” is like watching a Sedaris radio play — with everything in full view. “I love connecting with the audience,” says Hawley, a native of Port Townsend. In the snug Key City Playhouse, “you’re picking up on their facial expressions; you’re aware of their body language. You start hearing them,” consciously and subconsciously. But Sedaris’ tart comedy won’t suit everyone. This SantaLand is laced with Crumpet’s observations of mean parents, a flirtatious male elf called Snowball and just plain vicious shoppers. And it is definitely not for children, Hawley noted. “It is an adult show,” with stories of apparent grownups, at their best and worst during the Christmas season. STEVE MULLENSKY In “The SantaLand Diaries,” Chris Hawley contemplates Christmas time in New York Crumpet skewers his fellow City in “The SantaLand Diaries,” opening in Port Townsend elves, his customers and himself. this weekend. In supreme Sedaris fashion, he describes Santa’s Village as a Hawley has always loved an excerpt on public radio’s tragicomic place, a place where Sedaris, with his nothing-sacred “Morning Edition” in 1992 — he holiday fantasies are concenbrand of humor. When Winter could scarcely contain himself. trated. told him she was thinking about So Christmas came early for Over the years, “Diaries” has presenting “The SantaLand Dia- the actor when, last spring, Win- become a Christmas chestnut on ries” — first unleashed on the lis- ter gave him the “SantaLand” public radio, and one of the most tening public when Sedaris read script. But memorizing Sedaris’ popular stories ever broadcast on

t’s no cakewalk. Your coworkers are a small army of Santa Clauses, including one who takes himself a bit too seriously.

NPR’s morning news show. It was many listeners’ introduction to Sedaris, who went on to gain tremendous popularity with story collections such as Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. When he goes on the road to do readings and signings, the writer sells out places such as Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. When Sedaris came to Port Angeles in November 2012, he filled the high school Performing Arts Center, entertaining the crowd with anecdotes about living in France — and going to Frugal’s for dinner. Sedaris is also a recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and was named 2001’s humorist of the year by Time magazine. He’s been nominated for three Grammy awards for his spoken-word albums, which include “David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall.” “The SantaLand Diaries,” meanwhile, has found much favor among theater companies around the nation, including Clallam County’s Readers Theatre Plus, which staged the show in 2013 with Richard Stephens as Crumpet. “I’m thrilled to be in it,” Hawley said of this December’s Key City production. “I’m really looking forward to bringing it to life.”

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New Year’s Eve is gaining on us, and so is a feast of live music, dancing and overall merrymaking to welcome 2016 on the North Olympic Peninsula. Here’s a sampling of musical events open to revelers this coming Thursday night.

Port Angeles ■ Barhop Brewing, 124 W. Railroad Ave., has Soul Machine, a five-piece band specializing in classic R & B, rock and soul. Singer Hannah Hockett, guitarist John Mangiameli and drummer Matt Forshaw of Time Machine bring lead guitarist-keyboard man Christian Jensen and bassist Josh Best along for the ride. The cover charge is $3 for the party to start at 9 p.m. ■ The Dam Bar, at the junction of U.S. Highway 101 and state Highway 112 west of Port Angeles, hosts Joy in Mudville for a night of progressive country, bluegrass and dance-driving folk rock from 9 p.m. until around midnight. Admission is $5. ■ The Eagles lodge, 2843 E. Myrtle St., has a 7 p.m. prime rib and salmon buffet, dancing to the Jimmy Hoffman Band from 8 p.m. onward and a champagne toast at midnight. Tickets in advance are $25 per person, $45 per couple, $180 for a table of eight or $225 for a table of 10 guests. At the door, admission will be $30 per person or $45 per couple. Details and reservations can be had at 360-452-3344. ■ Fanaticus Sports Grill, 1026 E. First St., will host a New Year’s Eve “Flapper Girls and Scoundrels” Speakeasy with appetizers, baked Alaska for dessert, music by Jeremy & Anna, dancing, late-night pizza and midnight champagne. Tickets to this 21-and-older party, sold in advance only, are $40 and include entry into the flapper/scoundrel costume contest. For details and reservations, phone 360-457-5555 or stop by Fanaticus. ■ The Metta Room, 132 E. Front St., will throw a bawdy party with the Nasty Habits, the all-out glam rock band, starting

The PT Songlines choir, seen here with cofounder Laurence Cole, center with drum, will lead a sing-along at the Cotton Building during Port Townsend’s First Night festivities next Thursday. at 9 p.m. Admission is $10. ■ Chantilly Lace, the venerable classic-rock band, will fill the Moose Lodge, 809 S. Pine St., with the music of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Elvis Presley and other greats from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. This dance party, open to members and guests, has no cover charge. ■ The Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St., presents a New Year’s Eve bash with Fat Chance, the classic pop and rock outfit, playing upstairs while DJ Tim Sanford plays more music downstairs; food and drink will be plentiful from 8 p.m. until the new year arrives. Prices vary for party-andovernight-stay packages. For information and reservations,

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Sequim ■ The Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, will pair a New York steak dinner with the dance music of Round Trip. The party starts with cocktails at 5 p.m.; dinner is at 6 p.m. and the band will play rock and pop from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Tickets are available only in advance, and range from $10 for just the dance to $30 per person or $50 per couple including dinner, dancing and party favors. To reserve, phone 360-683-2763. ■ Nourish, the restaurant at 1345 S. Sequim Ave., has the duo known as Naki’i — Mike and Erma Kuenzli — playing Hawai-

Port Townsend ■ Jim Nyby and the F Street Band will play New Orleans-style rhythm and blues and early 1950s soul — with emphasis on dance numbers — at the Hilltop Tavern, 2510 W. Sims Way. Singer-piano player Nyby, with his three-piece horn lineup and full rhythm section, will play from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. with no cover charge. ■ First Night, Port Townsend’s alcohol-free community party, will have activities, shows, an art project and fireworks at and around City Hall, 540 Water St. Festivities start at

6 p.m. and include Port Townsend Film Festival shorts, a Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue program with live animals, the “History Hunt,” a sing-along with the PT Songlines choir, dances at the Pope Marine Building and the Boiler Room, and music by The Twins and Airstream Traveler. All of this culminates in the fireworks display and anchor raising at 9 p.m. Admission is a suggested $5 donation per person or $10 per family, while proceeds benefit the year-round programs of the Jefferson County Historical Society, which presents First Night. For information, phone 360385-1003 or visit jchsmuseum.org. Participants are encouraged to buy passes in advance to avoid the rush on New Year’s Eve.

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Clubs: New Forte Drama set to start CONTINUED FROM 2 also a seasoned drama teacher. In the Forte club, she’ll help “So I will be helping the kids students develop communicato create magnificent fashions tion skills and increase their for this event, as well as helpconfidence in public speaking ing to make marine debris art and social interaction, all while for Fish on the Fence,” the pub- learning about the elements of lic art project at Port Angeles’ theater. City Pier. The fee for Tucker’s afterAlso in January, Tucker will school clubs — either drama or open the new Forte Drama marine debris art — is $60 per Club, with two sessions. month per child or $15 for dropFirst- through third-graders ins, including supplies, juice meet from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and snacks. every Tuesday beginning The Campfire House, adjaJan. 5. cent to Jessie Webster Park, is The fourththrough sixthbeing used many mornings, grade students then meet from afternoons and evenings by var3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays ious groups, Tucker noted. starting Jan. 7. She looks forward to it becoming a busy place, full of Seasoned drama teacher exuberant students. For more information about Tucker, whose recent work as an actress has included “The the Marine Debris Art Club and Nutcracker” in Port Angeles Forte Drama Club, contact this month and “A Chorus Line” Tucker at 360-775-4154 or at Peninsula College in June, is sarah@tuckerart.com.

Theatre is alive with “The Sound of Music,” the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, through next Sunday, Jan. 3, with matinee and evening shows nearly every day. The lavish production has in its cast Carol Swarbrick and Jim PORT ANGELES — Tidepools, Dries, actors, singers and the magazine showcasing art, cofounders of Readers Theatre poetry, short stories and music Plus in Sequim. Carol portrays made by the people of the North Sister Berthe, the nun who sings Olympic Peninsula, is accepting “How Do You Solve a Problem entries through Jan. 15. like Maria?” while Jim plays one Artists, photographers, writers of the guests at Capt. von Trapp’s and composers of all ages are elegant party. encouraged to enter and compete For tickets and more information, for cash prizes and publication in see www.5thavenue.org or phone the 2016 magazine. 206-625-1900 or 888-5TH-4TIX. For information about entry Prices range from $20 for fees, rules and ways to submit same-day children’s and student work, visit www.Tidepools tickets to $29, $60, $100 and up, Magazine.com or phone Michael depending on seating at the 5th Mills at 360-417-6462. Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave. Tidepools, soon to issue its 52nd in downtown Seattle. edition, is produced by Peninsula College students and cosponsored Art on sale in Sequim by the Peninsula Daily News and SEQUIM — The holiday art the Peninsula College campus and gift show continues at the newspaper, the Buccaneer. Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., through Monday. ‘Music’ plays on Original art made by members SEATTLE — The 5th Avenue of this artists’ cooperative awaits

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Coo Coo Nest (1017 E. First St.) — Monday, 9 p.m.: Open mic. Tuesday, 9 p.m.: Karaoke with Jared Bauer. Thursday, 9 p.m.: The Bangers. The Dam Bar (U.S. Highway 101 and state Highway 112) — Thursday, 9 p.m. to midnight: New Year’s Eve with Joy in

Mudville (bluegrass, folk rock, dance), $5 cover. Fairmount Restaurant (1127 W. U.S. Highway 101) — Sunday, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Open mic with Victor Reventlow. Fanaticus Sports Grill (1026 E. First St.) — Thursday, 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.: Jeremy & Anna for a “Flapper Girls and Scoundrels” New Year’s Eve party, $40 advance only. The Lazy Moon Craft Tavern (130 S. Lincoln St.) — Tuesday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Malcolm Clark & Friends, (jazz, blues), no cover. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.: Jason Mogi and Paul Stehr-Green (rock, blues), no cover. The Metta Room (132 E. Front St ) — Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: Rene

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PS At the Movies Port Angeles “Daddy’s Home” (PG-13) Brad Taggart (Will Ferrell) is a kindhearted radio executive who wants to be the best possible stepfather to his wife’s two children. When her freewheeling ex-husband Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) breezes back into town, Brad’s feeling of insecurity quickly develops into an inferiority complex. At Deer Park Cinema. Showtimes: 1:05 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 5:25 p.m., 7:35 p.m. and 9:50 p.m. today through Wednesday. “Joy” (PG-13) Jennifer

Where to find the cinemas ■ Deer Park Cinema: East Highway 101 at Deer Park Road, Port Angeles; 360-452-7176. ■ The Rose Theatre: 235 Taylor St., Port Townsend; 360-385-1089. ■ Starlight Room: above Silverwater Cafe, 237 Taylor St., Port Townsend; 360-385-1089. Partnership between Rose Theatre and Silverwater Cafe. A venue for patrons 21 and older. ■ Uptown Theatre: Lawrence and Polk streets, Port Townsend; 360-385-3883. Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper star in this multigenerational story of a girl who grows up to lead a busi-

ness dynasty. Our heroine Joy Mangano (Lawrence) faces betrayal, the loss of innocence and the scars of love; her inner

life and fierceness carry her through. At Deer Park Cinema. Showtimes: 1:15 p.m., 4 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. today through Wednesday. “Sisters” (R) — Two sisters (Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home. Showtimes: 2:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:15 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. today through Wednesday. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (PG-13) — Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Adam Driver costar

in this Episode VII of George Lucas’ immortal saga. No passes. At Deer Park Cinema. 2-D showtimes: 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. today through Wednesday. 3-D showtimes: 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. today through Wednesday.

Port Townsend “The Big Short” (R) — Four outsiders in the world of high finance, who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, decide to take on the big banks for their greed. With Brad Pitt, Steve Carell and

Ryan Gosling. At the Starlight Room. Showtimes: 4:15 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. daily, plus 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. “Joy” (PG-13) — See Port Angeles entry. At Uptown Theatre. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. daily, plus 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (PG-13) — See Port Angeles entry. At Rose Theatre. 2-D showtimes: 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily, plus 12:45 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 3-D showtimes: 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. daily, plus 1:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Night: More events, fun available around area CONTINUED FROM 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: Open mic Simons. Wednesday, 8 p.m.: open-mic jam hosted by Craig Logue. Thursday, 9 p.m.: New Year’s Eve with the Nasty Habits (glam rock), $10.

with Victor Reventlow. Signups at 6 p.m. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.: New Year’s Eve with Naki’i (Hawaiian music).

St.) — Thursday, 8 p.m.: Open mic. Sign-ups 7 p.m., all ages.

p.m.: Solvents (pop, rock, indie), 21+ venue.

tainment at nightspots in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Email live music information, with location, time and cover charge (if any) by noon on Tuesday to news@

peninsuladailynews.com, submit to the PDN online calendar at peninsuladailynews.com, phone 360-417-3527, or fax to 360-4173521.

This listing, which appears The Cellar Door (940 Water each Friday, announces live enterSt.) — Saturday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: The Party Club with DJ Rainforest Bar at 7 Cedars Jarrod Paul (variety, dance) all Casino (270756 U.S. Highway ages, $3 cover. Tuesday: Weeed 101) — Tonight, 7 p.m. to 10 (prog rock), no cover. WednesMoose Lodge (809 S. Pine p.m.: Buck Ellard (country, day, 9 p.m.: Karaoke with Louie St.) — Thursday 9 p.m. to 1 country rock). and Selena, no cover, 21+. a.m.: New Year’s Eve dance Thursday, 6 p.m.: New Year’s party with Chantilly Lace (rock, Wind Rose Cellars (143 W. Eve with Three Fox Silver and country rock, oldies), no cover, Alakis, no cover, all ages. members and guests welcome. Washington St.) — Saturday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Lush Life jazz Christmas Eve Buffet – December 24 trio, no cover. Thursday, 7 p.m. Hilltop Tavern (2510 W. Port Angeles Senior Cen- to 9 p.m.: Malcolm Clark Trio Sims Way) — Thursday, 8 p.m.: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM ter (328 E. Seventh St.) — (jazz, blues, funk), no cover. New Year’s Eve with Jim Nyby An evening with all the traditional favorites guaranteed Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 & the F Street Band (New p.m.: The Cat’s Meow (vintage to make your holiday memorable. After dinner, join us R & B, classic soul), music for dancers), $5, firstJefferson County Orleans for a nightcap in front of the warm crackling fire. no cover. timers free. Adults - $42, Seniors -$36, Children under 12 - $21, Pourhouse (2231 WashingChildren under 4 - Free Chimacum Sequim and Blyn ton St.) — Saturday, 8 p.m. to Chimacum Community 11 p.m.: Cold Comfort (folk, Christmas Day Brunch – December 25 Bell Creek Bar and Grill (707 E. Washington St.) — Grange (9572 Rhody Drive) — rock, blues), no cover, 21+ 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Sunday, 3 p.m. to 3 p.m.: Musi- Sunday, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.: venue. Thursday, 9:30 p.m.: Exquisite food presentations, action stations, and cal open mic hosted by Dottie Folk jam and potluck (bring Dirty Beat Duo (dance, funk, rock), no cover, 21+ only. all the fixings. food and instrument of choice; Lilly and Vienna Barron (variplates, utensils and napkins Adults - $39, Seniors - $33, Children under 12 -$18, ety). Sirens (823 Water St.) — provided), all ages. Free. Children under 4 - Free Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Fiddler jam Club Seven at 7 Cedars session. Wednesday, 9 p.m.: Port Townsend Casino (270756 U.S. Highway Open mic. Thursday, 9 p.m.: 101) — Tonight, 7 p.m. to 11 Karaoke with Louis World. Alchemy (842 Washington p.m.: Geoffrey Castle (ChristSt.) — Monday, 5 p.m. to 9 mas music), no cover. Saturday, p.m.: Trevor Hanson (classical The Tin Brick (232 Taylor 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.: Danny Ver- guitar). St.) — Monday, 6 p.m.: Open non’s “Illusion of Elvis” show mic hosted by Jack Reid. (classic rock, gospel), no cover, Better Living through Coffollowed by Gold Dust (FleetUptown Pub & Grill (1016 fee (100 Tyler St.) — Monday, wood Mac tribute band) at 10 7 p.m.: The Pipia Sisters’ vari- Lawrence St.) — Saturday, 9 p.m. No cover, 21+ venue. p.m. to 11:30 p.m.: Fowler and ety show, by donation, all Authorized Flowers (blues, soul, rock). ages. Concessioner Tuesday, 9 p.m.: Open mic with Nourish (1345 S. Sequim The Boiler Room (711 Water Jarrod Bramson. Thursday, 9 Ave.) — Wednesdays, 6:30

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