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KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Chris Fidler, project director of the Field Arts and Events Hall, points out features of the under-construction building during a tour with members of the Clallam County Economic Development Council on Friday. The building, part of the much larger Port Angeles Waterfront Center project, will feature a performing arts center, a convention hall, meeting space, a coffee shop and art gallery. PDN Publisher Terry Ward, is chairman of the Clallam County Economic Development Corp. board of directors.
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High point of Field Arts and Events Hall tour

Chris Fidler, project director of the Field Arts and Events Hall, points out features of the under-construction building during a tour with members of the… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Chris Fidler, project director of the Field Arts and Events Hall, points out features of the under-construction building during a tour with members of the Clallam County Economic Development Council on Friday. The building, part of the much larger Port Angeles Waterfront Center project, will feature a performing arts center, a convention hall, meeting space, a coffee shop and art gallery. PDN Publisher Terry Ward, is chairman of the Clallam County Economic Development Corp. board of directors.
Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel works in a lift bucket while the downtown Christmas tree at the Conrad Dyar Memoral Fountain is dismantled on Wednesday. Branches from the tree and the lights that entangled them were to be disposed of and the main trunk donated for firewood. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Tree removal

Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel… Continue reading

Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel works in a lift bucket while the downtown Christmas tree at the Conrad Dyar Memoral Fountain is dismantled on Wednesday. Branches from the tree and the lights that entangled them were to be disposed of and the main trunk donated for firewood. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. The newly opened nature center has moved its bird displays from the former Dungeness River Audubon Center on the same site and has plans for additional educational displays to teach about the flora and fauna of the Dungeness Valley. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Nature center

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge… Continue reading

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. The newly opened nature center has moved its bird displays from the former Dungeness River Audubon Center on the same site and has plans for additional educational displays to teach about the flora and fauna of the Dungeness Valley. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Climber Levi Craze sawed limb after limb off a 115-foot cottonwood tree in Uptown Port Townsend. A Darrell Emel’s Tree Service crew spent two full days with a crane and a large wood chipper on the site behind Cathy Traut-Hessom’s Clay Street home. She was apologetic about having the tree cut, but wanted to remove it before a winter storm blew it down onto nearby homes and cars. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Treetop trim

Climber Levi Craze sawed limb after limb off a 115-foot cottonwood tree in Uptown Port Townsend. A Darrell Emel’s Tree Service crew spent two full… Continue reading

Climber Levi Craze sawed limb after limb off a 115-foot cottonwood tree in Uptown Port Townsend. A Darrell Emel’s Tree Service crew spent two full days with a crane and a large wood chipper on the site behind Cathy Traut-Hessom’s Clay Street home. She was apologetic about having the tree cut, but wanted to remove it before a winter storm blew it down onto nearby homes and cars. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Rafe Thornton, left, and Lane Dotson, both with the City of Port Townsend Street, Sewer and Storm department vacuum sewage out of the manhole and into the truck, on Thursday, in order to facilitate repairs to the broken sewer line at Gaines and Water Streets in Port Townsend, on a newly installed sewer line damaged by recent storm and tidal activity.
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Sewer repair in Port Townsend

Rafe Thornton, left, and Lane Dotson, both with the City of Port Townsend Street, Sewer and Storm department, vacuum sewage out of the manhole and… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Rafe Thornton, left, and Lane Dotson, both with the City of Port Townsend Street, Sewer and Storm department vacuum sewage out of the manhole and into the truck, on Thursday, in order to facilitate repairs to the broken sewer line at Gaines and Water Streets in Port Townsend, on a newly installed sewer line damaged by recent storm and tidal activity.
Natalie Calcote of Port Townsend exercises her dog, Davy Jones, by jumping over concrete barriers used to close off Washington Street, the main road through the Port Townsend Boat Haven Marina, which remained closed on Wednesday after severe flooding by the high tide and tidal surge on Tuesday. The drains were full and it was unknown what the effect of the anticipated 9.5-foot high tide at 9:44 a.m. today would be on road conditions. The road may be re-opened this afternoon during the falling tide. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Washington Street closed

Natalie Calcote of Port Townsend exercises her dog, Davy Jones, by jumping over concrete barriers used to close off Washington Street, the main road through… Continue reading

Natalie Calcote of Port Townsend exercises her dog, Davy Jones, by jumping over concrete barriers used to close off Washington Street, the main road through the Port Townsend Boat Haven Marina, which remained closed on Wednesday after severe flooding by the high tide and tidal surge on Tuesday. The drains were full and it was unknown what the effect of the anticipated 9.5-foot high tide at 9:44 a.m. today would be on road conditions. The road may be re-opened this afternoon during the falling tide. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Pictured, from left to right, are Janet Picolla, Barb Brabant, Sheri Whetstine and Mel Marshall.
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Gallery donates to animal protection

Blue Whole Gallery, in Sequim, donated $2,830 to the Welfare for Animals Guild. The donation represents the proceeds of the gallery’s October art sales. The… Continue reading

Pictured, from left to right, are Janet Picolla, Barb Brabant, Sheri Whetstine and Mel Marshall.
Sarah Winfield, on left, accepts the Patriot Award from Phil Sanders, Washington state chair of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.

Patriot award for OMC staffer

Sarah Winfield recently received a Patriot Award from the Department of Defense’s Office of Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. Winfield, the manager of… Continue reading

Sarah Winfield, on left, accepts the Patriot Award from Phil Sanders, Washington state chair of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
Members of the Admiralty Audubon Society, from left, Wendy Feltham, Monica Fletcher, Steve Evans and Jan North — recording what is spotted — take part in the annual Christmas bird count at Point Hudson. The team started about 7:45 a.m. and by 8:30 a.m. they had spotted and recorded more than 20 different species. An early migrating Brant was the most uncommon for this time of year. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Christmas bird count

recording what is spotted — take part… Continue reading

Members of the Admiralty Audubon Society, from left, Wendy Feltham, Monica Fletcher, Steve Evans and Jan North — recording what is spotted — take part in the annual Christmas bird count at Point Hudson. The team started about 7:45 a.m. and by 8:30 a.m. they had spotted and recorded more than 20 different species. An early migrating Brant was the most uncommon for this time of year. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Musicians Jonathan Doyle and Corinne Adams, play a duet during the last day of the Saturday Farmers Market in Uptown Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Last farmers market of the season

Musicians Jonathan Doyle and Corinne Adams, play a duet during the last day of the Saturday Farmers Market in Uptown Port Townsend.… Continue reading

Musicians Jonathan Doyle and Corinne Adams, play a duet during the last day of the Saturday Farmers Market in Uptown Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles firefighters stage for entry into the former Bushwhacker restaurat during a fire training session on Friday. The exercise included filling the building with smoke to simulate the experience of a real fire and the use of a mannequin for rescue drills. Fire department Capt. Kelly Ziegler said the building would not be intentionally burned, but indicated that it was slated for eventual demolition.

Restaurant training site

Port Angeles firefighters stage for entry into the former Bushwhacker restaurant during a fire training session on Friday. The exercise included filling the building with… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles firefighters stage for entry into the former Bushwhacker restaurat during a fire training session on Friday. The exercise included filling the building with smoke to simulate the experience of a real fire and the use of a mannequin for rescue drills. Fire department Capt. Kelly Ziegler said the building would not be intentionally burned, but indicated that it was slated for eventual demolition.
Pictured, from left to right, are Don Droz, Marca Davies, Astrid Raffinpeyloz and Mike Mudd. --
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Swain’s donates to volunteer hospice

Swain’s General Store recently donated $2,000 to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County.The donation will help the organization to provide hospice and palliative care to county… Continue reading

Pictured, from left to right, are Don Droz, Marca Davies, Astrid Raffinpeyloz and Mike Mudd. --
Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Santa, played by Beau Gibson, greets the children and their parents on the shores of Lake Crescent after his arrival by canoe to the Lake Crescent Lodge on Saturday. In the canoe is his paddler Cody Fisher and the elf on the shore is Vera Tambunan. The historic lodge on Barnes Point at Lake Crescent kicked off the season with holiday lights Saturday evening.
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Santa arrives at Lake Crescent

Santa, played by Beau Gibson, greets the children and their parents on the shores of Lake Crescent after his arrival by canoe to the Lake… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Santa, played by Beau Gibson, greets the children and their parents on the shores of Lake Crescent after his arrival by canoe to the Lake Crescent Lodge on Saturday. In the canoe is his paddler Cody Fisher and the elf on the shore is Vera Tambunan. The historic lodge on Barnes Point at Lake Crescent kicked off the season with holiday lights Saturday evening.
Tony Genovese, left, of Port Townsend and Dave Rojcewicz of Petersberg, Alaska, stop to admire the Christmas decorations on a fir tree along the Larry Scott Trail. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Trail decorations

Tony Genovese, left, of Port Townsend and Dave Rojcewicz of Petersberg, Alaska, stop to admire the Christmas decorations on a fir tree along the Larry… Continue reading

Tony Genovese, left, of Port Townsend and Dave Rojcewicz of Petersberg, Alaska, stop to admire the Christmas decorations on a fir tree along the Larry Scott Trail. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS An excavator picks up woody debris for loading onto a nearby truck for disposal on Tuesday at the site of the former aquaculture site near the boat ramp on Ediz Hook in Port Angeles. The Ediz Hook Shoreline Restoration project, conducted by Western Marine Construction, Inc. in conjunction with the Navy Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Northwest, is designed to return a section of shoreling on the harborside section of the hook to its former condition with the removal of an area formerly used for maintining fish pens in Port Angeles Harbor.
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Ediz Hook restoration

An excavator picks up woody debris for loading onto a nearby truck for disposal on Tuesday at the site of the former aquaculture site near… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS An excavator picks up woody debris for loading onto a nearby truck for disposal on Tuesday at the site of the former aquaculture site near the boat ramp on Ediz Hook in Port Angeles. The Ediz Hook Shoreline Restoration project, conducted by Western Marine Construction, Inc. in conjunction with the Navy Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Northwest, is designed to return a section of shoreling on the harborside section of the hook to its former condition with the removal of an area formerly used for maintining fish pens in Port Angeles Harbor.
In honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, about 75 people paraded up Harrison Street in Port Townsend toward St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Monday afternoon. The police-escorted procession marked the day on which Roman Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, an indigenous man, in 1531. Mary, known as Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, is the patron saint of that country and “the Mother of us all,” according to a handout at the parish. St. Mary Star of the Sea, the only Catholic church in Jefferson County, celebrates Sunday masses in Spanish and in English. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

In honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, about 75 people paraded up Harrison Street in Port Townsend toward St. Mary Star of… Continue reading

In honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, about 75 people paraded up Harrison Street in Port Townsend toward St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Monday afternoon. The police-escorted procession marked the day on which Roman Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, an indigenous man, in 1531. Mary, known as Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, is the patron saint of that country and “the Mother of us all,” according to a handout at the parish. St. Mary Star of the Sea, the only Catholic church in Jefferson County, celebrates Sunday masses in Spanish and in English. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
Featured soloist Stephen Schermer smiles at the audience during Saturday’s public dress rehearsal with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which brings musicians from across and beyond the North Olympic Peninsula to the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center. The symphony celebrated its 90th anniversary over the weekend with the world premiere of the specially commissioned Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra by Seattle composer Sarah L. Bassingthwaighte. (Diane Urbani de la Paz for Peninsula Daily News)
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World premiere

Featured soloist Stephen Schermer smiles at the audience during Saturday’s public dress rehearsal with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which brings musicians from across and… Continue reading

Featured soloist Stephen Schermer smiles at the audience during Saturday’s public dress rehearsal with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which brings musicians from across and beyond the North Olympic Peninsula to the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center. The symphony celebrated its 90th anniversary over the weekend with the world premiere of the specially commissioned Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra by Seattle composer Sarah L. Bassingthwaighte. (Diane Urbani de la Paz for Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Molly Brown of Port Angeles, and her children, Lucy Brown, 3, and Oliver Brown, 5 months, examine a display of loally-produced art items for sale as gifts on Thursday during the holiday Makers Market at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The market, open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and Dec. 16, will observe extended. hours of 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. during the Wintertide Festival of Lights on Saturday..
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Makers Market open in Port Angeles

Molly Brown of Port Angeles, and her children, Lucy Brown, 3, and Oliver Brown, 5 months, examine a display of locally-produced art items for sale… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Molly Brown of Port Angeles, and her children, Lucy Brown, 3, and Oliver Brown, 5 months, examine a display of loally-produced art items for sale as gifts on Thursday during the holiday Makers Market at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The market, open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and Dec. 16, will observe extended. hours of 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. during the Wintertide Festival of Lights on Saturday..
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Sophia McKee, owner of Rainier Reindeer Ranch in Buckley, directs the nose of Bunny, an 8-year-old reindeer, to the raisin treat offered by a young girl during the first Magic of Christmas event that opened on Thursday night at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend. Although reindeers were onsite only for opening night, a myriad of free activities are planned from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. through Tuesday, with special events planned on Christmas Eve. For more information, see https://jeffcofairgrounds.com/.
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Making deer friends in Port Townsend

Sophia McKee, owner of Rainier Reindeer Ranch in Buckley, directs the nose of Bunny, an 8-year-old reindeer, to the raisin treat offered by a young… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Sophia McKee, owner of Rainier Reindeer Ranch in Buckley, directs the nose of Bunny, an 8-year-old reindeer, to the raisin treat offered by a young girl during the first Magic of Christmas event that opened on Thursday night at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend. Although reindeers were onsite only for opening night, a myriad of free activities are planned from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. through Tuesday, with special events planned on Christmas Eve. For more information, see https://jeffcofairgrounds.com/.
Pictured in the front row, from left to right are Bella Sains, Ana Gustafson, Leyla Price, Brenna Murphy, Michael Aranda and Andrew Corson. Back row, left to right are Sea Scout leader Jared Minard, Elliot Dahlin, Rynn Hays, Adian Carlquist-Bundy and Michael Rodgers. Not pictured are Dean Spaulding, Ella Schulz, Ozzy Minard and Jonathan Bridges.
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Sea scouts serve

Port Angeles Sea Scouts recently served up a Thanksgiving meal for an Olympic Medical Center inpatient and their family. The Sea Scouts is a program… Continue reading

Pictured in the front row, from left to right are Bella Sains, Ana Gustafson, Leyla Price, Brenna Murphy, Michael Aranda and Andrew Corson. Back row, left to right are Sea Scout leader Jared Minard, Elliot Dahlin, Rynn Hays, Adian Carlquist-Bundy and Michael Rodgers. Not pictured are Dean Spaulding, Ella Schulz, Ozzy Minard and Jonathan Bridges.