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Serina Fast Horse, of Sicangu Lakota & Blackfeet Tribes, left, talks with Jacy Bowles, of Xicana and Diné descent, as they walk to the former Elwha Dam site during the 2023 Tribal Climate Camp on the Olympic Peninsula on Aug. 16 near Port Angeles. Participants representing at least 28 tribes and intertribal organizations gathered to connect and share knowledge as they work to adapt to climate change that disproportionally affects Indigenous communities. More than 70 tribes have taken part in the camps that have been held across the United States since 2016. (Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press)

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Tribes consider how to combat climate change

Native nations gather west of Port Angeles to discuss practices

Alden Inman, 7, of Port Angeles gets his face painted by Ailey Thibeault during Sunday’s First Federal centennial celebration and community party in downtown Port Angeles. The event featured a day of food, music and children’s activities in honor of the organization’s 100 years as a community bank. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Centennial celebration

Alden Inman, 7, of Port Angeles gets his face painted by Ailey Thibeault during Sunday’s First Federal centennial…

Personnel from East Jefferson Fire and Rescue (EJFR) and Port Townsend police investigate the scene where a Toyota driven by a Quilcene woman crashed into the doorway of Papa Murphy’s pizza shop at 1220 W. Sims Way in Port Townsend before noon on Tuesday. She was not injured, but she was shaken up by the incident that occurred when her foot slipped off the brake pedal and hit the accelerator, according to EJFR Chief Bret Black. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Accelerated instead of braking

Personnel from East Jefferson Fire and Rescue (EJFR) and Port Townsend police investigate the scene where a Toyota…

Addison Bell, 9, tries to drum up business for her lemonade stand at Fourth and Race streets in Port Angeles. The youngster said she had taken in about $70 before running out of product. She said a portion of the proceeds were slated to go to the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society with some set aside for herself. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Open for business

Addison Bell, 9, tries to drum up business for her lemonade stand at Fourth and Race streets in…

Active crew members rescue loggerhead sea turtles that had become tangled in fishing gear during their 58-day counternarcotics patrol.

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Coast Guard cutter Active returns to Port Angeles

Crew back from 58-day patrol that included counternarcotics

A mural by Craig Robinson in downtown Sequim represents a new partnership between Olympic Angels and Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County. Executive director Morgan Hanna with Olympic Angels, left, said they seek volunteers and mentors to help foster families. Colleen Robinson, chief executive officer for Habitat, said people are welcome to take photos on the wall of Habitat’s Boutique Store and they’ll place a sandwich board sign with information outside, and provide pamphlets about Olympic Angels during business hours. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Olympic Angels, Habitat partner on family support systems

New mural a vision leaders hope to bring to Peninsula

Jefferson County Public Works employee Monte Reinders, center, project manager Samantha Harper and county commissioner Greg Brotherton stand above the percolation pond for the new Port Hadlock sewer treatment facility that will be built along Loperman Road in Port Hadlock. The pond will treat, at its maximum, 700,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day. By the time the wastewater is treated and sent to this pond, it will be classified as class A reclaimed water, the highest category. The groundbreaking was held on Tuesday evening with about 35 guests on hand for the groundbreaking. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Kickoff celebrates Port Hadlock sewer

Construction on facility 20 years in making

A line of Canada geese floats past family members, from left, Maisie Christison, 8, Apollo Christison, 3, grandmother Elizabeth Keitel of Wallace, Idaho, and mother Megan Christison of Port Angeles, on a warm day on Ediz Hook in Port Angeles. The group was enjoying cooler temperatures near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Just passing through

A line of Canada geese floats past family members, from left, Maisie Christison, 8, Apollo Christison, 3, grandmother…

Demolition began Monday morning on the derelict two-story brick building at 204 E. Front St. in Port Angeles. A 300-foot section of Front Street will be shut down while the work is being done, and that could stretch into next week. The developer has said he has plans for an apartment building on the site. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Building demolition

Demolition began Monday morning on the derelict two-story brick building at 204 E. Front St. in Port Angeles.…

Zumba dancers perform on Lawrence Street during the Uptown Street Fair parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Saturday. Seventeen marching units, including this one, paraded down Lawrence Street in front of hundreds of spectators lining the sidewalk. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Uptown Street Fair

Zumba dancers perform on Lawrence Street during the Uptown Street Fair parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Saturday.

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Sequim graduate loses home in Maui fire

‘Lahaina’s just not there anymore’

“Jammers” Cindy Kelly, left, and Shelly Romero prepare freshly baked scones for distribution on Wednesday in the scone kitchen at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dry Creek Grange celebrates 60 years of scones

Sales are primary fundraiser, help with scholarships

Sen. Patty Murray, center, listens to Olympic National Park Superintendent Sula Jacobs, right, explain the ongoing investigation into the cause of the fire that destroyed the Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge on May 7 and the park’s efforts to maintain visitor access this summer and possibly into the winter. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Murray vows for help in rebuilding lodge

Senator tours sites in Olympic National Park

Eugenia Vargas is among the performers who will perform Japanese Butoh in Port Townsend this week.

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Butoh Fesitval begins with free performance

Japanese art form to be seen also Wednesday, Saturday

This agave plant, pictured in 2020, was bought nearly 30 years ago by Isobel Johnston when it was about the size of a baseball, and it's now preparing to bloom with a sprout that could grow more than 25 feet tall. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Agave plant getting ready to bloom after nearly 30 years

Large succulent could reach heights more than 25 feet

Thousands of seagulls roost and fly near a log boom inside the Port Angeles Harbor earlier this week. This view is looking south from Ediz Hook toward the city. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Birds on a boom

Thousands of seagulls roost and fly near a log boom inside the Port Angeles Harbor earlier this week.…

Carol and Greg Shinsky of Port Angeles take an afternoon break on a picnic table at the Port Angeles City Pier with visiting friends. Gay and Russ James, right, are visiting from Orland, Calif., where the temperature has been over 100 degrees. They rested at the pier after visiting Hurricane Ridge and the Dungeness Spit. The couples have known each other for years from when they both lived in Arizona. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Catching up with friends

Carol and Greg Shinsky of Port Angeles take an afternoon break on a picnic table at the Port…

A bright sun shone Tuesday afternoon on Kevin Mason and his Raccoon Lodge in Uptown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Raccoon Lodge to stay for at least two years

Whimsical art piece to be loaned to city

Stephen Fisher, from the Kenmore area, tows 2-year-old Juniper and pugs Jackie and JoJo, with wife Catherine Creason following. They participated in the couple’s sixth Tour de Lavender this weekend. Creason said they were married during the event five years ago. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Tour de Lavender enjoys its biggest turnout to date

More than 900 people register for annual bike ride

Blackberry pie contest winners, from left, Rachel Rice of Joyce (second place, adult), Audry Rice, 11, of Joyce (third place, youth), Janice Harsh of Port Angeles (third place, adult), Haylie Tenneson, 11, of Port Angeles (first place, youth), Tamara Stephens, Clackamas, Ore. (first place, adult) and Ariana Varholla, 15, of Sequim (second place, youth) display their pies and ribbons at the end of judging on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Joyce Daze

Blackberry pie contest winners, from left, Rachel Rice of Joyce (second place, adult), Audry Rice, 11, of Joyce…