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Port Angeles residents discuss 10 elements of the city plan in a comprehensive planning workshop Wednesday evening at the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center. Each table of participants graded elements of the community and suggested where the city should put its resources.
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Carolyn Flint, a board member of the Juan de Fuca Scenic Byway Association, points out some of the decorative tiles created by area schoolchildren that adorn pillars of a shelter and interpretive center currently under construction just off state Highway 112 at Lower Dam Road southwest of Port Angeles.
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May 1 opening planned for roadside facility BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The final pieces of the Elwha River interpretive center, a project some five years in the making, are being put in place.
On Thursday, crews with Interwest Construction Inc. of Port Angeles — headquartered in Burlington — began to install the interpretive panels for the $145,000 center and rest stop at 66 Lower Dam Road just off state Highway 112. Installing 24 panels — an increase from the original 16 — is the last step in construction of the 30-foot-by-30-foot wooden structure that will mark the $325 million dam removal and restoration of the Elwha River.
The work will be finished by the grand opening May 1, said Caroline Flint, assistant project manager and a board member for the Juan de Fuca Scenic Byway Association, which led the effort to build the center. Watching crew put up panels was “sort of like having your wife in the delivery room, [with you] pacing up and down, and you can’t help but they’re doing a great job,” Flint said. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Jobs and the outdoors were the only elements of Port Angeles living in which participants in a city exercise found common ground this week during a study being conducted for a city comprehensive plan update. Port Angeles’ comprehensive plan establishes long-range policies for nearly everything the city does, including land use, parks, transportation, housing and other services. The update is expected to be complete by June 30, said Nathan
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Ward, Perry move up at Sound Publishing BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Taking on the mantle of Sound Publishing West Regional Publisher, Terry R. Ward says the state of the local newspaper industry is strong. “This is such an exciting time for the newspaper industry,” Ward said this week. “Our strong, community-oriented newspapers are growing by leaps and bounds at a time when many newspaper companies are shrinking.” Ward — group publisher of the Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum — has been promoted to regional publisher and will now oversee all of Sound Publishing’s Kitsap County
publications in addition to the publications on the North Olympic Peninsula. In addition, Steve Perry — Olympic Peninsula News Group advertising director — has been promoted to general manager of the PDN, Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum. “I’m glad these two fine gentlemen will be working together to continue building the legacy of these quality newspapers and websites,” said Gloria Fletcher, Sound Publishing president, when she announced the promotions this week. “Both are tremendous leaders and they truly understand the deep connection between our business and the communities we serve.” Said Ward: “I take on this new
role with a great appreciation for the support and enthusiasm Sound Publishing offers to the communities it serves, and I will continue to honor that tradition.” Publications under Ward’s leadership now include the Bainbridge Island Review, Bremerton Patriot, Central Kitsap Reporter, Forks Forum, Kingston Community News, North Kitsap Herald, PDN, Peninsula Homes-Land Magazine, Port Orchard Independent, Sequim Gazette and Kitsap Military Times. Ward said he will continue to engage heavily with the PDN news team “because that is really a publisher’s role: to make sure we are presenting ourselves well to the community.”
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