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“I like working on them. These are my babies,” said Sally Giesler, a 20-year member of the Rat Island Rowing Club in Port Townsend, as she wipes down the club’s quad scull Buckley, a George Pocock boat built in the early 1960s after a row on Port Townsend Bay. Pocock is the builder of the famed Husky Clipper that was in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics that won the gold for the University of Washington rowing team and inspired the best-selling book “The Boys in the Boat” in addition to the 2023 movie by the same name. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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“I like working on them. These are my babies,” said Sally Giesler, a 20-year member of the Rat Island Rowing Club in Port Townsend, as…

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Hungry diners enjoy a hot dog from Dogs a Foot in downtown Port Townsend on a warm sunny day. The stand reopened after being closed for the winter. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Photo by Katie Newton The Sequim High School equestrian team won WAHSET’s District 4 Small Teams High Point championship. Next stop is the state finals. They include coach Corey Youngblood, Asha Swanberg, Kenzi Winters, Lucas Seeley, Kaija Johnson, Paisley Morris, Katelynn Sharpe, Lila Torey and coach Katie Newton.
Starley Flynn, left, and Michael Haberpointner are part of the Ludlow Village Players’ production of “Pets (And Their Humans).” The play will be performed at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.