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Olympic love letter
Schools funding tops list for pols Lawmakers start in session today BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Filmmaker Eliza Goode shoots the sunset at Third Beach for her Olympic National Park movie, “The Smell of Cedars Steeped in Rain.” The short film will screen Tuesday in the Little Theater at Peninsula College.
‘Smell of Cedars’ film pays homage to national park Work to be screened Tuesday at college’s Little Theater in PA BY DIANE URBANI
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PORT ANGELES — The movie is not long, but its maker sought to go deep. Eliza Goode’s film, a visual love letter to Olympic National Park, will light the big screen in the Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., this Tuesday evening.
Along with a performance by the Bellingham band Rabbit Wilde, it’s January’s episode in the “Perspectives” speaker series, which the park will present free to the public at 7 p.m. Creating the film and premiering it in a particular way have, for Goode, been the realization of one fond hope after another. The Missoula, Mont., native had always heard about Olympic National Park. So, while completing a master of fine arts degree at Montana State University in Bozeman, she got in touch with Kathy Steichen, then the park’s chief of interpretation and education. Goode wanted to make a movie
about the beaches, the trees, the mountains — and how it feels to stand still among them. Steichen said “yeah, you’d be very welcome to come and do that,” recalled Goode, who proceeded to film many hours — more than 1,000 video clips — during October 2014 and in January 2015.
Immersion in park The edited result is “The Smell of Cedars Steeped in Rain,” 12 minutes and 25 seconds of immersion in the wild ridges, shores and forests of the 922,651-acre park. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Olympic Peninsula lawmakers will begin a 60-day legislative session today with an eye to education reform and projects specific to the 24th Legislative District. State legislators hope to use the short session — a biennial budget was passed last year — to address the McCleary decision, a Supreme Court ruling that said the state wasn’t spending enough on basic education. “What we’re hoping to do is end up with some kind of bipartisan bill that sets in Hargrove place a process that will actually allow us to pass ALSO . . . legislation in 2017, the bud■ Real ID, get year, to solve the prisoner McCleary issues,” said state releases also Sen. Jim Hargrove, legislative D-Hoquiam, whose 24th priorities/A5 District covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and much of Grays Harbor County. “We’re hoping to get that done.” The Legislature is being fined $100,000 per day for failing to fund public schools under the McCleary order. A bipartisan plan to finish paying for basic education by a court-imposed 2018 deadline could halt the sanctions on the Legislature, said Hargrove, a veteran lawmaker and lead budget writer for the Senate Democrats. TURN
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PT shelter for boat repairs turning heads Structure draws church comparisons BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A temporary structure intended to protect a boat from the elements during its repair has drawn comparisons to a church. “People around here worship their boats,” said Diana Talley, a self-employed marine tradesperson. “It’s either a religion or a sickness.” As a joke, Talley posted a picture of the structure on her Facebook page, saying there was “a new chapel in town” with services held Monday through Friday, depending on “the weather, my
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mood and the level of pain.” Despite jokes about the structure, Talley said it has a serious purpose. Talley built the 16-foot-high structure to accommodate the repair of a Thunderbird sailboat owned by Scott Walker.
Weather woes “It’s been really hard to do exterior work these days because of the weather,” she said. “It’s been brutal.” The design is a combination of Walker’s suggested design and a project she worked on 35 years ago.
It includes seven bows connected by cross planks and covered with the tarp, custom-made for the dimensions of Walker’s boat. Talley said the structure used $600 in materials before the tarp and labor are added into the total. That compares with the cost of permanent metal shelters which can cost several thousand dollars, she said. “This is cheap, easy to build and strong,” she said. The structure is high enough to accommodate the height of the boat and its trailer. The boat was backed into the work area and will stay on the trailer throughout the repair. TURN
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Diana Talley, left, discusses boat repair plans with boat
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