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Putting a new spin on alpacas
Scam targets Skype users Infiltration uses video call service BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Anne Olson of Seattle fluffs alpaca fleece before pulling dirt and hay from it at Dyefeltorspin at Happy Valley Alpaca Ranch on Sunday near Sequim. Below, Franc Winkley of Battle Ground sheers an alpaca at the festival Sunday.
Dyefeltorspin festival offers insight on trade Third annual event takes visitors from shears to clothing BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — The third annual Dyefeltorspin festival offered a unique opportunity for the public to see alpacas shorn and the process of turning their fleece into yarn and clothes over the weekend. Dyefeltorspin celebrates the fiber industry at Mike and Linda Gooch’s Happy Valley Alpaca Ranch, which hosted the event Saturday and Sunday. Like last year, the event focused on fiber arts, with artisans from Clallam and Jefferson counties demonstrating how to take fleece — and even hair from dogs and rabbits — and turn it
into wearables from head to foot. During the event Sunday, alpacas were shorn and volunteers helped clean the fleece of hay, dirt and guard hairs so it could be spun into yarn.
Among the volunteers handpicking the fleece clean was Anne Olson of Seattle, who said she has spun wool for many years. TURN
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SEQUIM — Quality Assured Computer Services — which has offices in both Port Angeles and Sequim — has identified a method that allows hackers to infiltrate personal computers through a popular application. Hackers are able to infiltrate personal computers through Skype, an internet-based telephone service provider offering free calling between subscribers, said Jim Manderscheid, who co-owns Quality Assured Computer Services with Steve Saiz. Skype enables file transfers, texting, video chat and videoconferencing. Manderscheid said the hacking method was discovered when his company serviced a customer’s computer in Sequim. Sheri Crain, Sequim Police Department deputy chief, said so far the Skype hack has not been widespread in the area. “This is certainly a new spin but we have no reports of it happening here,” Crain said. Chief Criminal Deputy Brian J. King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said no reports of the scam have been given to his office. And while this method of hacking has a new twist, similar scams have been ongoing for years, said Port Townsend Police Department Detective Luke Bogues. “Many people leave Skype running in the background,” Manderscheid said. “This allows friends and family to video or audio call — in most cases for free. “But here is the new twist. The user may get an incoming video call from what looks like a Microsoft Support Tech.” This method tricks the operator into believing the call is from a legitimate source, Manderscheid said. “To be clear, Microsoft will never call you by Skype or regular landline,” he said. TURN
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Lauridsen traffic plan still alive — for now Council members come to tied vote BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Longheld plans to increase traffic on increasingly residential Lauridsen Boulevard barely survived last week when the City Council voted 3-3 on a motion to remove it from the existing city comprehensive land-use plan. The tie vote Tuesday during a first reading of a newly amended plan doomed the motion by City Councilwoman Sissi Bruch. Councilman Dan Gase, who was excused from the meeting because he was working, could have broken the tie.
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He said Friday he will consider revising those sections of the existing plan that mandate further developing the broad thoroughfare just south of downtown Port Angeles. Bruch and Councilmen Lee Whetham and Michael Merideth had voted to send Sections 3-7 of the transportation element back to the planning commission, which will be reviewing them in January. They could not muster a majority against Mayor Patrick Downie, Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd and Councilman Brad Collins. Council members will conduct
a second reading of the land-use blueprint at their June 21 meeting. Under state law, by June 30 the City Council must approve the plan, which will not undergo City Council public hearings.
1994 plan Tuesday’s vote means the direction of developing the city’s widest street as a cross-town route for truck traffic stays intact for now, a policy that appeared in 1994 in the first comprehensive plan. But that directive’s days might be numbered. The planning commission, which recommended the council approve the revisions, in January
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will take a new look at sections related to the truck-routing of Lauridsen Boulevard, which would include improving the intersection at Lauridsen and Lincoln Street. Trucks now make their way west down U.S. Highway 101 — also referred to by the city as Front Street — to the downtown core. They travel along retail-heavy Front Street where 101 turns south at Lincoln, connect with Marine Drive as it becomes more industrial, and course up Tumwater Truck Route to reconnect with 101. Lauridsen bypass plans were established to lessen downtown traffic. That route would turn south at
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More than two decades later, those plans are striking a negative chord among residents, Gase said. TURN
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Race Street, which also is being developed as an entry corridor to Olympic National Park, before turning west at the Pe a b o d y Creek bridge Bruch onto Lauridsen Boulevard.
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