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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
Preparing to celebrate Girls’ Night Out in downtown Port Townsend on Thursday afternoon are, from left, Holly Erickson, Lorilee Houston, Eryn Smith, Sue Arthur and Mari Mullen. After a hiatus, the Main Street Program-hosted annual event returned to distribute goodie bags, encourage women to shop local and raise funds for the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation. The foundation helps provide free breast/cervical cancer screenings for women in need. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)
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Shopping locally

Preparing to celebrate Girls’ Night Out in downtown Port Townsend on Thursday afternoon are, from left, Holly Erickson, Lorilee Houston, Eryn Smith, Sue Arthur and… Continue reading

Preparing to celebrate Girls’ Night Out in downtown Port Townsend on Thursday afternoon are, from left, Holly Erickson, Lorilee Houston, Eryn Smith, Sue Arthur and Mari Mullen. After a hiatus, the Main Street Program-hosted annual event returned to distribute goodie bags, encourage women to shop local and raise funds for the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation. The foundation helps provide free breast/cervical cancer screenings for women in need. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)
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)
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Sequim High’s royalty reigns

Sequim High School celebrated its 2022 Homecoming in style last week, with a key win in the football game and crowning of royalty at halftime… Continue reading

  • Oct 6, 2022
  • By Emily Matthiessen Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
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Port Townsend Main Street Program Promotion Committee members Sue Arthur, left, and Jennifer Wake help make 500 goodie bags filled with donations from local merchants and sponsors to be sold at Thursday’s Girls’ Night Out headquarters at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards, 725 Water St., starting at 11 a.m. Proceeds from the goodie bag sales support the nonprofit Main Street Program and the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation’s fund to help people in need receive breast and cervical cancer screenings and other services. The event will feature a day and night of shopping at 38 businesses with many open later than usual. The theme is the 1960s “You Go Go Girl!” The wrap party will be at 6 p.m. at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards. For more, see ptmainstreet.org.
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Girls’ Night Out

Port Townsend Main Street Program Promotion Committee members Sue Arthur, left, and Jennifer Wake help make 500 goodie bags filled with donations from local merchants… Continue reading

Port Townsend Main Street Program Promotion Committee members Sue Arthur, left, and Jennifer Wake help make 500 goodie bags filled with donations from local merchants and sponsors to be sold at Thursday’s Girls’ Night Out headquarters at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards, 725 Water St., starting at 11 a.m. Proceeds from the goodie bag sales support the nonprofit Main Street Program and the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation’s fund to help people in need receive breast and cervical cancer screenings and other services. The event will feature a day and night of shopping at 38 businesses with many open later than usual. The theme is the 1960s “You Go Go Girl!” The wrap party will be at 6 p.m. at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards. For more, see ptmainstreet.org.
In the Port Angeles Symphony’s season-opening Family Pops concert Saturday, Lisa Bergman narrates — and demonstrates a cat walking through the forest — in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” with music director Jonathan Pasternack conducting beside her. The next concert of the season will be Chamber I: Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale on Oct. 14-15. Tickets and more information are available at http://portangelessymphony.org. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)
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Narrating the symphony

and demonstrates a cat walking through the forest — in Prokofiev’s… Continue reading

  • Oct 3, 2022
  • By Diane Urbani de la Paz For Peninsula Daily News
  • Clallam County
In the Port Angeles Symphony’s season-opening Family Pops concert Saturday, Lisa Bergman narrates — and demonstrates a cat walking through the forest — in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” with music director Jonathan Pasternack conducting beside her. The next concert of the season will be Chamber I: Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale on Oct. 14-15. Tickets and more information are available at http://portangelessymphony.org. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For 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)
A crew from the Northwest Maritime Center facilities department, Sam Trocano, Jeff Hogue, Shane Meyer and Mike Conklin, work on the removal of the floating dock on the center’s pier in preparation of winter winds and weather. In the background, work continues on the deconstruction of the entrance to the Point Hudson Marina by Orion of Tacoma. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Floating dock removal at Northwest Maritime Center

A crew from the Northwest Maritime Center facilities department, Sam Trocano, Jeff Hogue, Shane Meyer and Mike Conklin, work on the removal of the floating… Continue reading

A crew from the Northwest Maritime Center facilities department, Sam Trocano, Jeff Hogue, Shane Meyer and Mike Conklin, work on the removal of the floating dock on the center’s pier in preparation of winter winds and weather. In the background, work continues on the deconstruction of the entrance to the Point Hudson Marina by Orion of Tacoma. (Steve Mullensky/for 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.
Port Townsend artist Rebecca Welti records the installation of her concrete climbing sculpture, Pluteus, at a new playground area at HJ Carroll Park in Chimacum. The sculpture, in the shape of a baby sea urchin, is totally accessible and represents dependence on life in the Salish Sea. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Sculpture installation

Port Townsend artist Rebecca Welti records the installation of her concrete climbing sculpture, Pluteus, at a new playground area at HJ Carroll Park in Chimacum.… Continue reading

Port Townsend artist Rebecca Welti records the installation of her concrete climbing sculpture, Pluteus, at a new playground area at HJ Carroll Park in Chimacum. The sculpture, in the shape of a baby sea urchin, is totally accessible and represents dependence on life in the Salish Sea. (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.
ECHHO chair David Whitney (left) listens as volunteer Roger Horner describes his experiences driving Jefferson County care receivers to their medical appointments at the non-profit organization’s 25th anniversary celebration. The Port Townsend-based ECHHO (Ecumenical Christian Helping Hands Organization) has assisted more than 9,000 Jefferson County residents.
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ECHHO anniversary in Port Townsend

Roger Horner and Margie Gormly celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Ecumenical Christian Helping Hands Organization, a Port Townsend-based nonprofit. The organization has assisted more… Continue reading

ECHHO chair David Whitney (left) listens as volunteer Roger Horner describes his experiences driving Jefferson County care receivers to their medical appointments at the non-profit organization’s 25th anniversary celebration. The Port Townsend-based ECHHO (Ecumenical Christian Helping Hands Organization) has assisted more than 9,000 Jefferson County residents.
Ray Grier, a 30-year resident of Port Townsend, looks at the Halloween display set up by the park host at the entrance to the RV park at Point Hudson Marina while on his daily 2- to 3-mile walk on Tuesday afternoon. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Halloween show

Ray Grier, a 30-year resident of Port Townsend, looks at the Halloween display set up by the park host at the entrance to the RV… Continue reading

Ray Grier, a 30-year resident of Port Townsend, looks at the Halloween display set up by the park host at the entrance to the RV park at Point Hudson Marina while on his daily 2- to 3-mile walk on Tuesday afternoon. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Claire Africa, along with husband Kit, owners of Sailor Vineyard, inspects some of the Marechal Foch grapes grown on their 3 acres in Port Townsend. The Marechal Foch is a hybrid grape named after the famous French general known for his short stature and robustness. The grape is resistant to disease and known for its cold weather hardiness. The vineyard was on the 20th annual Jefferson County Farm Tour celebrating locally grown food. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Farm tour

Claire Africa, along with husband Kit, owners of Sailor Vineyard, inspects some of the Marechal Foch grapes grown on their 3 acres in Port Townsend.… Continue reading

Claire Africa, along with husband Kit, owners of Sailor Vineyard, inspects some of the Marechal Foch grapes grown on their 3 acres in Port Townsend. The Marechal Foch is a hybrid grape named after the famous French general known for his short stature and robustness. The grape is resistant to disease and known for its cold weather hardiness. The vineyard was on the 20th annual Jefferson County Farm Tour celebrating locally grown food. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
The Quilcene High School cheer squad practices a routine before the start of the Quilcene Fair parade on Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Quilcene fair

The Quilcene High School cheer squad practices a routine before the start of the Quilcene Fair parade on Saturday.… Continue reading

The Quilcene High School cheer squad practices a routine before the start of the Quilcene Fair parade on Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for 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)