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Clock in Port Angeles is halted for second time Timekeeper could restart this week BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — It’s five o’clock somewhere, including the Clallam County Courthouse. The iconic courthouse clock in Port Angeles is out of commission for the second time in as many months — stuck at 5:26. If repairs go as planned, the century-old timekeeper will be up and running again by the end of this week, said Joel Winborn, Clallam County Parks, Fair and
Facilities director. “We’re still having issues with it,” Winborn told commissioners last week. Winborn on Friday said a damaged bushing, part of the clock’s inner workings, has been shipped back to a manufacturer in Missouri. “It will be refabricated and shipped back and hopefully will solve our issue,” Winborn said in an email. “I think it will.” The century-old clock stopped working in April when a bushing failed.
A custom-manufactured replacement part was installed and the hands began to turn in early May.
The clock in the Clallam County Courthouse tower is shown Saturday stopped at 5:26.
Stopped May 27 Winborn said the clock stopped working again May 27. “We’re ferreting the problem out and we’re going to get it fixed,” Winborn told Clallam County commissioners Tuesday. “Hang in there.” Winborn said the ongoing saga of the historic clock “seems to be on everybody’s mind lately.” TURN
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A behind-the-scenes look at the new Discovery Channel program “Dark Woods Justice” shows a camera operator filming Sean Gow as he investigates a cedar theft site.
Jefferson is central to new Discovery Channel show Jefferson and Mason counties. Most of their investigations in the show, said Discovery Channel’s Samantha Coria, center around illicit natural resource thefts. The black market for exotic hardwoods, she said in a news release, is so rich that poachers risk prison time and BY MARK SWANSON their lives to steal from both public and PENINSULA DAILY NEWS private forests. “Known for their intricate pattern of PORT ANGELES — A new Discovery Channel program, “Dark Woods Jus- wood, trees like the Western Big Leaf Maple bring in millions,” said the televitice,” will peel back the bark on forest poaching and other issues of the Olym- sion channel in the release. The dwindling supply has triggered pic Peninsula when it premieres at 10 a black market — one that also spurs a p.m. Tuesday night. variety of criminal behavior. “Dark Woods Justice” focuses on “The story line shows that it fuels a investigations by sheriff’s deputies from
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lot of criminal stuff,” said Coria. “Bad things.” Deputies on the show also pursue investigations into drug sales and a murder, said Coria. During the course of the first season, which was filmed on the Peninsula between August 2015 and April 2016, deputies take part in an active murder investigation, according to Coria. The story line details a human body that has been hidden in the woods of the Olympic Mountains. “I’m just the guy who gave permission,” said Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Stanko. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — The Wednesday edition of the Port Angeles Farmers Market, which in the past has opened mid-June and run through September, won’t open at all this year. The farmers market board voted May 19 to discontinue it. The farmers market will continue to operate at The Gateway transit pavilion at 123 E. Front St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays year-round. Discontinuing the Wednesday market “was a very difficult decision to come to,” said Manager Cynthia Warne. “The board has been mulling over making this decision for a long time,” she added. “We tried for a number of years to increase interest and sales on Wednesdays, but we just weren’t able to bring it into the black.” The decline of the Wednesday market has been an issue for years, she said. Before its close, the Wednesday market had four or five farmers, several prepared food vendors and a couple of others. She estimated the Wednesday market had a total of 10 vendors. The farmers market organization was paying for an assistant to help vendors set up. “It didn’t make sense,” she said. The two markets cost between $15,000 and $20,000 a year to operate, she said. “The board thought it best to focus our attention on growing and improving the Saturday market, building it into an even bigger and better downtown event,” Warne said. The Saturday market has a growing income, she said, and that will allow the organization to use marketing and advertising. The market has not had advertising since the end of a 2012 grant to support it, she added. The board might reopen the Wednesday market again someday, said Warne, “but for now, we’re going to let it go.” For more information, contact Warne at 360460-0361.
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