NEWS BRIEFS: Ediz Hook closure starts this evening . . . and other items
Published 12:01 am Friday, June 5, 2015
PORT ANGELES — Ediz Hook will be closed to vehicular traffic from 5:30 p.m. today until about 6 p.m. Saturday.
City workers will repair bridge abutments on a 25-foot-long, 27-foot-wide span on Marine Drive near the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill.
Vehicles will not be able to access or depart Ediz Hook during the closure. Any vehicles on the Hook prior to 5:30 p.m. today will remain there until the road is reopened.
Ediz Hook will remain open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic via the Waterfront Trail.
Coast Guard personnel will park on Nippon property and be shuttled to the station at the end of the Hook.
Nippon’s 160 hourly and salaried workers will park on the eastern side of the bridge and walk over a pedestrian walkway to the plant.
The city-owned bridge, which spans a former log canal, was built by previous mill owner Crown Zellerbach Corp.
It is being undermined by soil erosion on the north side of the span closest to Nippon.
The eroded portion will be backfilled as a temporary fix until 2016, when the abutments would be rebuilt under a $600,000 project in the city’s proposed capital facilities plan.
Trail closure
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Hot Springs will be closed Saturday through Wednesday while Olympic National Park crews replace a deteriorated bridge over Boulder Creek.
The bridge provides access to the hot springs, which are within the park’s backcountry in the Elwha Valley west of Port Angeles.
Access to the hot springs area and the pools will be closed.
The bridge will be replaced with a new foot log, according to the park.
The Boulder Creek camping area and the Appleton Pass and Boulder Lake trails will remain open.
Outage planned
PORT TOWNSEND — A power outage is planned Saturday for Indian Island and Marrowstone Island.
The outage will be from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Jefferson County Public Utility District said.
The outage is to allow replacement of the last power pole before Indian Island.
The work is necessary to prevent a major outage similar to last winter when another pole failed, the PUD said.
For updated information, see www.jeffpud.org.
Power outage hits residents in Sequim
SEQUIM — About 105 Clallam County Public Utility District customers lost electrical power at about 3:25 p.m. Thursday.
As of 5 p.m., crews were investigating the outage off West Fir Street, said Mike Howe, PUD spokesman.
At that the time, the cause and an estimated time of power restoration were unknown, he said.
WAVE survey
PORT ANGELES — The deadline for participating in an online survey on the future of Wave Broadband cable TV services has been extended to July 15.
“The city did not get the number of responses we were looking for,” Gregg King, city power resources manager, said Thursday.
The city had about 400 responses as of the former May 31 deadline and is looking for 500 or more.
Residents who fill out the survey can give their opinions about the adequacy of current cable services and potential future services, such as local community channels and a community media center.
The survey is part of the city’s cable-franchise renewal process with Wave Broadband. The city is updating the current franchise, granted in 2002.
The survey is available at www.cityofpa.us under “Latest News.”
For more information, call King at 360-417-4710.
Pinning ceremony
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College will host its inaugural graduate pinning ceremony for the medical assisting program at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 20.
The ceremony, which will be free and open to the public, will be in the Little Theater on the Port Angeles campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Graduates from 2013 to the present are encouraged to participate.
Graduates or current students who want to be in the ceremony must RSVP by 5 p.m. Monday and should plan to arrive at least a half-hour prior to the start of the ceremony for rehearsal and staging.
Participants will wear office-appropriate dress.
RSVP to Rachel Pairsh at rpairsh@pencol.edu or Alicen Egnew at alicenlynn@hotmail.com, or call 360-452-9915.
For more information, contact Pairsh by email or at 360-417-6414.
PA Christian Women set luncheon
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Christian Women’s Connection will host an “Island Joy” buffet on the second floor of the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St.
The event is 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Admission is $16.
Nak’i will sing.
Roberta Morin of Hereford, Ore., will share her story of “Unfailing Love: My Faithful Animals.”
Child care is available.
For reservations, phone 360-452-4343 or 360-457-8261.
Class of ’75 reunion
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School Class of 1975 is celebrating its 40th reunion Aug. 7-9.
That Friday night, members will meet at the Peninsula Golf Course Clubhouse. On Saturday, the event is in the Elks Ball Room, and Sunday is to be determined.
Class leaders are looking for classmates and their contact information.
Contact Damaris Rodriguez at nw.rain@yahoo.com or phone 360-457-1392.
McTakeover set
SEQUIM — The Klahhane gymnastics team will have a McTakeover at McDonald’s, 107 S. Seventh Ave., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 17.
A portion of the proceeds will help finance a gymnastic camp.
For more information, email hebrews12@live.com or phone 360-477-9133.
Unity speaker
PORT ANGELES — Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle St., will hold a 10:30 a.m. service Sunday featuring John Wingfield, whose lesson will be “The Key to Happiness and the Truth of God.”
Wingfield will speak on the lifetime search for meaning and how to discover it.
Child care is available during the service.
A brief time for silent meditation will be held from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
All are welcome to attend all church activities.
