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Peninsula Daily News August 8, 2016 | 75¢
Port Angeles-Sequim-West End
Park to stay in facility through ’17
‘For the veterans’
Water plant will be run by Park Service for now BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Irene Wyman, seen here at her home east of Port Angeles, has taken responsibility for the late Mari Andrus’ sizable doll and toy bear collection. Andrus is seen in the black and white photo held by Wyman.
Woman’s doll collection to be sold to aid others
Friend fulfills wishes after her passing in May BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — When Marilyn “Mari” Andrus of Sequim died of leukemia May 19, she left behind an extensive collection of antique dolls and teddy bears with explicit instructions that the majority be sold and the proceeds given to veterans organiza-
tions in Clallam County. That wish now is being carried out by Andrus’ longtime friend Irene Wyman, a fellow member of the Olympic Peninsula Doll Club. “We collected the same kind of dolls,” Wyman said recently at her home east of Port Angles while sitting on a couch surrounded by a selection of Andrus’ vast collection. “That were her wishes: that I keep what I wanted and sell the rest of her collection.” Hundreds of Andrus’ dolls and teddy bears are stored in about 15 tubs awaiting sale,
Wyman said. While it may be sad to sell off the collection, “I am fulfilling Mari’s wishes,” Wyman said. “I just hope that a lot sell and make a lot of money for the veterans.” From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 13, Wyman and a cadre of volunteers will sell items in the collection at the Clallam County Veterans Center, 261 S Francis St., in Port Angeles. The money will be given to Northwest Veterans Resource Center for dispersal to veterans organizations, Wyman said. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — The National Park Service will continue operating the Elwha River Surface Water Intake facility past Oct. 1, breaking an impasse with the city, officials with both the Park Service and city said. That spares the city — for now — the expensive quandary of operating in about eight weeks the $25 million diversion system that was built as part of the Elwha River dam removal-river restoration project. The NPS will keep running it until the end of 2017 while they continue talking about who will pay for what and continue to disagree over the intake system’s long-term functional integrity.
Federal money Brian Winter, manager of the Elwha dam removal and river restoration project, said Friday that the NPS will spend federal funds on continuing to operate the intake system. The money was set aside for a potential settlement agreement for a transfer pact with the city. “We are looking to put out a scope for bids on a contract to operate the facility,” Winter said. But what to do about a defunct $50 million water treatment plant built to treat sediment-laden water from dam removal is still up in the air and part of ongoing discussions between the city and the Park Service. “We’ve been having monthly meetings with the [Lower Elwha Klallam] tribe, the city and the NPS to work through these
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ity officials disagree with the Park Service that the impacts of dam removal have ended, and at the City Council’s direction have hired the Seattle law firm Lane Powell PC a to press their case.
issues,” Craig Fulton, city public works and utilities director, said Friday. “Part of our discussion is, what to do with it,” Fulton said of the treatment plant. “We’d like to have it demolished and removed. “The city does not want to have the facility sitting there and the city has to pay to remove it.” The treatment and intake facilities were built to mitigate impacts of the historic $325 million tear-down of the Glines Canyon and Elwha dams — completed in 2014 — on the city’s water supply while the damdepleted river habitat is restored to resurrect several fish species. The intake structure diverts water for a state Department of Fish and Wildlife fish-rearing channel, the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe’s fish hatchery and Nippon Paper Industries USA’s Port Angeles mill. City officials disagree with the Park Service that the impacts of dam removal have ended, and at the City Council’s direction have hired the Seattle law firm Lane Powell PC a to press their case. TURN
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Boat at Port of PT is central to man’s life Savings gone; agency holds vessel BY ERIK LACITIS
THE SEATTLE TIMES
PORT TOWNSEND — There is something about old, historic wooden boats that, for some, turns them almost into living beings. Says Mike Luis, former executive director at the Center for Wooden Boats, “They stir your soul. Boats are inherently emotional. They are beautiful things. They have interesting stories, they did interesting things. They’re not a neutral object.” This is the story of Patrol No. 1, a little-known but significant Seattle tugboat that a century ago
guarded and watched our waters for more than four decades, reported The Seattle Times. It’s not an overstatement to say Patrol No. 1 ended up taking over the life of its last owner. Marc Landry, 58, has used up his savings trying to restore it over the past eight years. He’s now homeless, staying with various friends in town, going to the food bank. Since the boat left service, he’s been among three owners of the boat who have spent some $300,000 in total restoring it. But only Landry has had this much emotional investment. The other two
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knew when enough was enough. Now, Patrol No. 1 is headed for demolition; the Port of Port Townsend took possession of the boat after Landry didn’t move it when given an eviction notice in January. It’s been at the port for five years. Port officials say they have had numerous problems with Landry, from late rent payments, to living aboard the boat in a “cocoon” of boards and plastic without proper permission. People with the kind of passion shown by Landry don’t do very well with bureaucracies. They don’t — or forget to — conform to the rules. Their work areas are messy and cluttered.
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Marc Landry, who purchased the Seattle Harbor Patrol Boat No. 1 in June of 2008, spent over $185,000 and between 7,500-9,000 man hours restoring the wooden ship, which now sits at a shipyard at the Port of Port TURN TO BOAT/A5 Townsend.
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