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Third-grader Sawyer Duval, 8, of Port Townsend receives art instruction from Morrea Henderson at the Port Townsend School of Art. The school is expected to be an anchor for a Maker’s Square.
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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
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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Makers Square topic of meeting BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A meeting Tuesday will hear from members of the public about a proposed Makers Square, an area at Fort Worden that would be dedicated to arts, cultural and educational programming. Tuesday’s public meeting, hosted by the Fort Worden Lifelong Learning Center Public Development Authority, will be at 7 p.m. at Fort Worden Commons. During the meeting, staff with the public development authority and a team of design consultants will lead attendees through the visioning process for the proposal, according to PDA spokeswoman Megan Claflin. The meeting is meant to answer questions from the audience and record public feedback, which Claflin characterized as “the next step in a visioning process that has been under development for more than 10 years.” Claflin estimates the project could cost about $7.5 million, with $4 million in grant funding already secured. TURN
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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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