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The Roosevelt High School (Port Angeles High School) Class of 1952 held their 70th class reunion recently at the home of Fred Sullivan in Port Angeles. The class went to school in a building where the present day City Hall now sits. It was called Roosevelt High School then. The current high school on Park Ave was built the next year. Only 15 were able to attend from a class of 160 plus back in 1952. Each of the classmates are around 88 years old. ID: front row l to r: Merle Bailey, Gwen Fairchild Potterfield, John Rife. 2nd row: Dick Hopkins, Carol Macklin Moffat, Marilyn Halberg Hill, Lois Grady Edwards, Grey Tozier Pohl, Pat Dotson Stamateou, Mel Kobel, 3rd row: Don Walken, Fred Sullivan. Top row: Dick McLean, Scooter Chapman, Ire Beadle. dlogan
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Class of 1952 holds 70th class reunion

The Roosevelt High School (Port Angeles High School) Class of 1952 held their 70th class reunion recently at the home of Fred Sullivan in Port… Continue reading

The Roosevelt High School (Port Angeles High School) Class of 1952 held their 70th class reunion recently at the home of Fred Sullivan in Port Angeles. The class went to school in a building where the present day City Hall now sits. It was called Roosevelt High School then. The current high school on Park Ave was built the next year. Only 15 were able to attend from a class of 160 plus back in 1952. Each of the classmates are around 88 years old. ID: front row l to r: Merle Bailey, Gwen Fairchild Potterfield, John Rife. 2nd row: Dick Hopkins, Carol Macklin Moffat, Marilyn Halberg Hill, Lois Grady Edwards, Grey Tozier Pohl, Pat Dotson Stamateou, Mel Kobel, 3rd row: Don Walken, Fred Sullivan. Top row: Dick McLean, Scooter Chapman, Ire Beadle. dlogan
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Pedestrians and bicyclists make their way arcoss a pair of new spans crossing the newly-restored flood plain of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park on Wednesday. The two spans, which opened this week, eliminate a long detour for users of the Olympic Discovery Trail by restoring the link across the river. An additional walkway, which is still under construction with an opening scheduled for later this fall, will link the trail to the outdoor patio of the recently-opened Dungeness River Nature Center.
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Building bridges at Railroad Bridge Park

Pedestrians and bicyclists make their way across a pair of new spans crossing the newly-restored flood plain of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Pedestrians and bicyclists make their way arcoss a pair of new spans crossing the newly-restored flood plain of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park on Wednesday. The two spans, which opened this week, eliminate a long detour for users of the Olympic Discovery Trail by restoring the link across the river. An additional walkway, which is still under construction with an opening scheduled for later this fall, will link the trail to the outdoor patio of the recently-opened Dungeness River Nature Center.
A crew from Bothel-based Grand Event Rentals erects a dining tent in the parking lot of the 48 Degrees North restaurant along the Port Angeles waterfront on Wednesday. The tent will serve as the focal point for food and entertainment for this weekend’s three-day Port Angeles Crab Festival, which begins Friday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Festival preparation

A crew from Bothel-based Grand Event Rentals erects a dining tent in the parking lot of the 48 Degrees North restaurant along the Port Angeles… Continue reading

A crew from Bothel-based Grand Event Rentals erects a dining tent in the parking lot of the 48 Degrees North restaurant along the Port Angeles waterfront on Wednesday. The tent will serve as the focal point for food and entertainment for this weekend’s three-day Port Angeles Crab Festival, which begins Friday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Rocky Wisniewski of Sequim, a member of the North Olympic Shuttle Spindle Guild, demonstrates how to spin fiber on a walking wheel during Saturday’s Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The two-day event featured a wide variety of demonstrations, exhibits, workshops and a marketplace showcasing all things fiber. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Fiber exposition

Rocky Wisniewski of Sequim, a member of the North Olympic Shuttle Spindle Guild, demonstrates how to spin fiber on a walking wheel during Saturday’s Pacific… Continue reading

Rocky Wisniewski of Sequim, a member of the North Olympic Shuttle Spindle Guild, demonstrates how to spin fiber on a walking wheel during Saturday’s Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The two-day event featured a wide variety of demonstrations, exhibits, workshops and a marketplace showcasing all things fiber. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department workers Kimberly Noble, left, and Destiny Walters add autumn plants to a decorative basin at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain on Friday in downtown Port Angeles. Plants at the fountain and at other locations in the downtown area are periodically replaced with vegetation appropriate to the season.
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Fall flowers at Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain

Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department workers Kimberly Noble, left, and Destiny Walters add autumn plants to a decorative basin at the Conrad Dyar Memorial… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department workers Kimberly Noble, left, and Destiny Walters add autumn plants to a decorative basin at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain on Friday in downtown Port Angeles. Plants at the fountain and at other locations in the downtown area are periodically replaced with vegetation appropriate to the season.
John Zuermer, 86, of Sequim plays his saxophone on the patio plaza at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. Zuermer, who regularly performs at the center from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays, said he decided it would be a fun thing to do, keeping up his musical skills while playing for anyone who happened by. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Music at the Nature Center

John Zuermer, 86, of Sequim plays his saxophone on the patio plaza at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. Zuermer, who… Continue reading

John Zuermer, 86, of Sequim plays his saxophone on the patio plaza at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. Zuermer, who regularly performs at the center from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays, said he decided it would be a fun thing to do, keeping up his musical skills while playing for anyone who happened by. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS A construction worker welds support pieces for a new pedestrian bridge connecting the historic railroad trestle over the Dungeness River to the Dungeness River Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Wednesday. The work is part of a project to restore part of the original Dungeness River floodplain while providing better access to the Olympic Discovery Trail.

Railroad bridge park gets new pedestrian walkway

A construction worker welds support pieces for a new pedestrian bridge connecting the historic railroad trestle over the Dungeness River to the Dungeness River Nature… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS A construction worker welds support pieces for a new pedestrian bridge connecting the historic railroad trestle over the Dungeness River to the Dungeness River Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Wednesday. The work is part of a project to restore part of the original Dungeness River floodplain while providing better access to the Olympic Discovery Trail.
The U.S. Coast Guard and East Jefferson Fire and Rescue assisted a fishing trawler that began taking on water shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Port Townsend Bay. No more information was available Thursday afternoon. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Trawler takes on water

The U.S. Coast Guard and East Jefferson Fire and Rescue assisted a fishing trawler that began taking on water shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday in… Continue reading

The U.S. Coast Guard and East Jefferson Fire and Rescue assisted a fishing trawler that began taking on water shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Port Townsend Bay. No more information was available Thursday afternoon. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles, shown on Wednesday, will be closed starting today through Sunday for maintenance, including replacement of a torn section of play surface and installation of donor-sponsored bricks around the gazebo.
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Dream Playground to close for maintenance

The Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield will close for maintenance from Thursday through Sunday, according to the city’s parks and recreation department. All other amenities… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles, shown on Wednesday, will be closed starting today through Sunday for maintenance, including replacement of a torn section of play surface and installation of donor-sponsored bricks around the gazebo.
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Workers move materials on Wednesday at the site of a future planned four-story, 106-room hotel being built by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe between First Street and Railroad Avenue at Laurel Street in downtown Port Angeles. Work resumed on the project this week after delays in the permitting process and reassessment of the hotel plans to account for inflation and other factors. Construction is expected to last from 18 to 24 months.
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Work resumes

Workers move materials on Wednesday at the site of a planned four-story, 106-room hotel being built by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe between First Street… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Workers move materials on Wednesday at the site of a future planned four-story, 106-room hotel being built by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe between First Street and Railroad Avenue at Laurel Street in downtown Port Angeles. Work resumed on the project this week after delays in the permitting process and reassessment of the hotel plans to account for inflation and other factors. Construction is expected to last from 18 to 24 months.
Jackson Chapman, 3, of Sequim plays with a model train display during the 22nd annual Train Show and Swap Meet on Saturday at the Home Arts Building at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles. The two-day event, hosted by the North Olympic Peninsula Railroaders, featured a variety of model railroad sets and accessories for sale or trade, as well as operating train layouts on display. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Model trains

Jackson Chapman, 3, of Sequim plays with a model train display during the 22nd annual Train Show and Swap Meet on Saturday at the Home… Continue reading

Jackson Chapman, 3, of Sequim plays with a model train display during the 22nd annual Train Show and Swap Meet on Saturday at the Home Arts Building at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles. The two-day event, hosted by the North Olympic Peninsula Railroaders, featured a variety of model railroad sets and accessories for sale or trade, as well as operating train layouts on display. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Ralph Parsons of Port Angeles, an employe of the Clallam County Parks, Fair and Facilities department, scrapes sand and gravel from the public boat launch at Cline Spit County Park. Parsons said readying the ramp is part of an effort to facilitate boaters and anglers during fishing season. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Readying the ramp

Ralph Parsons of Port Angeles, an employe of the Clallam County Parks, Fair and Facilities department, scrapes sand and gravel from the public boat launch… Continue reading

Ralph Parsons of Port Angeles, an employe of the Clallam County Parks, Fair and Facilities department, scrapes sand and gravel from the public boat launch at Cline Spit County Park. Parsons said readying the ramp is part of an effort to facilitate boaters and anglers during fishing season. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Max Albert Ruffo, 4 1/2 from Port Townsend, rides the anchor fluke like a bucking bronco while visiting Point Hudson with his grandma on Tuesday.
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Imaginative play at Point Hudson

Max Albert Ruffo, 4½, from Port Townsend rides the anchor fluke like a bucking bronco while visiting Point Hudson with his grandmother.… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Max Albert Ruffo, 4 1/2 from Port Townsend, rides the anchor fluke like a bucking bronco while visiting Point Hudson with his grandma on Tuesday.
Port Townsend Mayor David Faber signs a ceremonial shovel used in the groundbreaking ceremony for six permanent, affordable housing units being constructed by East Jefferson Habitat for Humanity at 18th and Landes Streets in Port Townsend. This shovel and others will be given to each homeowner upon receiving the keys to their new home. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Habitat for Humanity ceremonial signing

Port Townsend Mayor David Faber signs a ceremonial shovel used in the groundbreaking ceremony for six permanent, affordable housing units being constructed by East Jefferson… Continue reading

Port Townsend Mayor David Faber signs a ceremonial shovel used in the groundbreaking ceremony for six permanent, affordable housing units being constructed by East Jefferson Habitat for Humanity at 18th and Landes Streets in Port Townsend. This shovel and others will be given to each homeowner upon receiving the keys to their new home. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement in the Media Tech and Stagehand Training School with KING-5 television interviewer Eric Wilkinson and camera operator Robin Lile during a taping session at Field Hall Arts & Events Hall on Thursday in Port Angeles. The training school, which features a new media technicians certificate program, will be hosted by Field Hall and accredited by the college. The program will be funded through a $1 million grant by the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to develop skills that can be put to living-wage jobs on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Tech talk at Field Arts & Events Hall

Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement in the Media Tech and Stagehand Training… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement in the Media Tech and Stagehand Training School with KING-5 television interviewer Eric Wilkinson and camera operator Robin Lile during a taping session at Field Hall Arts & Events Hall on Thursday in Port Angeles. The training school, which features a new media technicians certificate program, will be hosted by Field Hall and accredited by the college. The program will be funded through a $1 million grant by the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to develop skills that can be put to living-wage jobs on the North Olympic Peninsula.
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Julie Moen of Port Angeles, right, points the quirks of a "rat rod" built from a 1928 Ford Roadster by Dennis Broderson of Port Angeles, in drivers seat, during Saturday's Kiwanis Car Show at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles. The event a fundraiser hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles, featured more than 70 vintage and customized autos and trucks.
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‘Rat rod’ at Kiwanis car show

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KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Julie Moen of Port Angeles, right, points the quirks of a "rat rod" built from a 1928 Ford Roadster by Dennis Broderson of Port Angeles, in drivers seat, during Saturday's Kiwanis Car Show at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles. The event a fundraiser hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles, featured more than 70 vintage and customized autos and trucks.
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Marlene McCurdy of Port Angeles, left, purchases coffee mugs from Gary Gort of Port Angeles at a sale table in front of the Crescent Grange Hall in Joyce on Saturday. The location was one of dozens of garage and yard sales taking part in the Great Strait Sale, stretching along and near State Highway 112 from Port Angeles to Neah Bay.
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Shopping Great Strait Sale

Marlene McCurdy of Port Angeles, left, purchases coffee mugs from Gary Gort of Port Angeles at a sale table in front of the Crescent Grange… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Marlene McCurdy of Port Angeles, left, purchases coffee mugs from Gary Gort of Port Angeles at a sale table in front of the Crescent Grange Hall in Joyce on Saturday. The location was one of dozens of garage and yard sales taking part in the Great Strait Sale, stretching along and near State Highway 112 from Port Angeles to Neah Bay.
Laurie Nichols of Port Angeles examines a display of gems and pendants at the Rock, Gem & Jewelry Show at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The show, hosted by the Clallam County Gem & Mineral Association over the weekend, featured a wide variety of rocks, minerals, crystals and fossils from around the world for sale and for show. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Finding gems

Laurie Nichols of Port Angeles examines a display of gems and pendants at the Rock, Gem & Jewelry Show at Vern Burton Community Center in… Continue reading

Laurie Nichols of Port Angeles examines a display of gems and pendants at the Rock, Gem & Jewelry Show at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The show, hosted by the Clallam County Gem & Mineral Association over the weekend, featured a wide variety of rocks, minerals, crystals and fossils from around the world for sale and for show. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Classic wooden boats on display during the 45th Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson Marina, in Port Townsend, on Friday. The festival will run until Sunday.
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Celebrating boats in Port Townsend

Classic wooden boats on display during the 45th Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson Marina, in Port Townsend, on Friday. The festival will run until… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Classic wooden boats on display during the 45th Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson Marina, in Port Townsend, on Friday. The festival will run until Sunday.
Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group Before the Autograph and Photograph Event on Friday, the Forever Twilight in Forks (FTF) committee had a group photo taken with actors Billie Burke and Erik Odom. From left are Teresa Aldrich, Shannon Damron, Rob Hunter, Burke, Lissy Andros, Kelly Grable, Odom and Kim DeMaria. The festival continues today and Sunday. It highlights the town in which author Stephenie Meyer set her four novels released from 2005 through 2008, about a romance between 17-year-old Isabella Swan, a mortal, and 104-year-old vampire Edward Cullen — all of which spawned five movies.
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Forever fans in Forks

Before the Autograph and Photograph Event on Friday, the Forever Twilight in Forks (FTF) committee had a group photo taken with actors Billie Burke and… Continue reading

Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group Before the Autograph and Photograph Event on Friday, the Forever Twilight in Forks (FTF) committee had a group photo taken with actors Billie Burke and Erik Odom. From left are Teresa Aldrich, Shannon Damron, Rob Hunter, Burke, Lissy Andros, Kelly Grable, Odom and Kim DeMaria. The festival continues today and Sunday. It highlights the town in which author Stephenie Meyer set her four novels released from 2005 through 2008, about a romance between 17-year-old Isabella Swan, a mortal, and 104-year-old vampire Edward Cullen — all of which spawned five movies.