Quilcene: Townsfolk razing buildings to spruce up downtown

Published 12:01 am Sunday, March 10, 2002

QUILCENE — Property owners and community volunteers have set to work tearing down several derelict buildings along U.S. Highway 101 as a means of sprucing up downtown Quilcene.

Armed with handtools, crowbars and elbow grease to remove a collapsed three-car garage at the southern end of town, a group of more than 20 people started working last week.

In the coming weeks, a burned-down house will be demolished, junked cars towed away and other garbage removed from the quarter-acre site that contains two rental properties abandoned for the last four years.

“As you enter town, its the first thing you see,” said Kit Siemion, a licensed massage practitioner who has a business next door. “It was an eyesore.”

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