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Supreme subterranean?
Groups decide own procedures BY PAUL GOTTLIEB KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Don Perry, of Heritage Tours, left, explains the Port Angeles underground to visitors, from left, Kaila Calmel-Armantrout and Cody Cook of Port Angeles, and Kim Cook and Krisha Cook of Klamath Falls, Ore.
PA vies for top under-tour BY MARK SWANSON PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Social media is buzzing this week as online voting has propelled Port Angeles into a leading position for the right to the term Best Underground Attraction in a USA Today contest. Port Angeles will duke it out for the rights to the best underground in the nation until April 11 — just about the same time the city’s landmark underground tour will change hands from its current owner, Don Perry, to Black Ball Ferry Line and a contractor, Bruce Erlwein. Erlwein, a Port Angeles native, will take over operation of the tour from Perry on April 1. TURN
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Sequim Lavender Weekend was on Saturday in 15th place out of a list of 20 nominees vying for the honor of the Best Flower Festival in the USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice contest. The annual festival draws tens of thousands of visitors for three days of activities organized by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association and the Sequim Lavender Farmers Association. The festival, which will be July 15-17 this year, is touted as the largest lavender event in
North America. “Each July, Washington’s Dungeness Valley is blanketed in purple,” the website says at http://tinyurl. com/PDN-10bestlavender. “The fragrant Sequim Lavender Festival celebrates the Lavender Capital of North America with a range of events, including farm tours, street fair, kids activities, live music and all things lavender, including infused libations.” To vote for Sequim Lavender Weekend, go to http://tinyurl.com/ PDN-10bestlavender. Peninsula Daily News
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PORT ANGELES — A three-person city ethics board is stepping through uncharted territory as it reviews the first-ever complaint against a Port Angeles City Council member — Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd. “Basically, we have a blank page in front of us,” panel Chairman Frank Prince Jr. said Friday. “We are flying blindly, finding our own way through this. “We are taking it one step at a time with nothing to guide us but our own thoughts and our legal representation from Mr. [Bill] Bloor,” Prince added, referring to the city attorney. Three complaints have been filed against council members who in December approved continuing the practice of water fluoridation. The complaints say council members behaved unethically and disrespectfully at council meetings where the topic dominated public comment sessions. In response to the complaints, the City Council has formed three ethics panels from a pool of volunteers, all private citizens.
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Funds, plans in works for washout repair Bridge to be a temporary solution BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Funding has been requested and plans are under review for a temporary onelane bridge over a 60-foot washout near the Elwha Campground on Olympic Hot Springs Road. Once plans are approved by such agencies as the Army Corps of Engineers, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Fish and Wildlife, construction would take from six to eight weeks, said Barb Maynes, Olympic National Park spokeswoman. She didn’t know when plans would be approved or when con-
struction would begin. The washout has blocked access to the Elwha River Valley west of Port Angeles since November. Olympic Hot Springs Road is closed to vehicles at the Madison Falls trailhead, about a mile north of the washout itself.
Temporary bridge The temporary bridge would be in place for as long as five years before a more permanent structure is built. The Elwha Campground, which was severely damaged in fall and winter floods, isn’t expected to be reopened this year,
Maynes said. The National Park Service has requested emergency funds from the Federal Highway Administration to install a temporary bridge over the washout, National Park Service Director John Jarvis said last week. U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, questioned Jarvis about the status of the road in a House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee hearing on the National Park Service budget Wednesday. “We’ve got a lot of private landowners and park users and research scientists and park serROB OLLIKAINEN/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS vice staff who are very heavily This section of Olympic Hot Springs Road washed out in a impacted by the loss of this single November flood. National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis access point,” Kilmer said.
told U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer that a one-lane bridge would
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