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Man’s body is found in lake
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61-year-old had drowned Friday BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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From left, Chattanooga, Tenn., radio and television personality James Howard, Port Angeles Mayor Patrick Downie, Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd and Leslie Kidwell Robertson on Sunday unfold a banner thanking Port Angeles for the city’s support after a shooter killed five servicemen in Chattanooga last year. Below, Howard talks about flying to Port Angeles after landing at William R. Fairchild International Airport.
Emotions soar when memorial flight lands in PA BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Yelled for help
PORT ANGELES — A Chattanooga, Tenn., man who flew to Port Angeles on Sunday in memory of the five servicemen killed in Chattanooga last year was overcome with emotion when his plane touched down at William R. Fairchild International Airport. “I couldn’t help but think of what happened a year ago in Chattanooga and what the people here in Port Angeles did for our community,” said Chattanooga radio and television personality James Howard, who started the one year anniversary memorial flight to Port Angeles from Chattanooga on Saturday. TURN
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PORT ANGELES –– Divers on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of 61-year-old Wales resident Stephen Thomas Turner, who reportedly drowned in Lake Sutherland on Friday. Crews from surrounding counties used sonar equipment provided by the state to locate Turner’s body about 85 feet deep, near the bottom of the lake shortly after 2 p.m., said Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Cameron. “Recovery has been made,” he said at about 3 p.m. “We’re with the family now.” Mike DeRousie, Clallam County Fire District No. 2 assistant chief said he hopes the recovery of Turner’s body provides at least some closure for his loved ones. A dive team from Mason County used the sonar equipment to quickly locate Turner, Cameron said. Search and rescue teams from Clallam and surrounding counties began the search for Turner on Friday.
Turner was at Lake Sutherland while visiting his girlfriend, who lives in Clallam County, when he went swimming Friday. Turner was about 150 yards south of the shoreline at Critter Crossing Road on the U.S. Highway 101 side of the lake west of Port Angeles when he started yelling for help. His girlfriend’s daughter and a Clallam Fire District No. 2 paramedic who was already at the lake paddled out in kayaks to try to save the man. Throughout the search, residents nearby offered help to divers and law enforcement, DeRousie said. They provided food for those on scene and offered places to stay for personnel from out of county, he said.
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PA native details ‘faith journey’ of solo race DeCou cycled 3,069 miles of U.S. BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Be safe, build community and keep riding. Rob DeCou stayed focused on those three goals during his solo bicycle race across the country last month. The 34-year-old Port Angeles native finished the arduous Race Across America in 11 days, 21 hours and three minutes. Solo riders had 12 days to pedal 3,069 miles from the Oceanside, Calif., pier to the Annapolis, Md., docks to make the final cutoff time. “I knew I’d get to the finish,”
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DeCou told a Port Angeles audience last Monday. “I didn’t think I’d get there in 12 days.” Race Across America (RAAM) finishers crossed a dozen states and climbed more than 170,000 vertical feet.
A faith journey “For me, this was a faith journey,” DeCou said in Independent Bible Church’s Upper Room. “If God wanted me to get to the end, he was going to get me there.” DeCou, who now lives in west Los Angeles, dedicated his race to
former Port Angeles High School classmate Christina Jo (Ahmann) Nevill, who died of brain cancer in 2014. DeCou and his supporters raised $21,870 for brain cancer research through the charity 3000 Miles to a Cure. The goal for the fundraiser was $20,000. “[Nevill] was so joyful, and she was so joyful in the midst of trial, in the midst of struggle,” DeCou said. “She was faithful. She loved God through all of it. “I wanted to share her message in the way that she lived, and 3000 Miles to a Cure gave me ROB OLLIKAINEN/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS a platform to do that, which was Rob DeCou speaks about the Race Across America at the incredible,” he added.
Independent Bible Church’s Upper Room in Port Angeles
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