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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS April 23, 2013 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Anderson Lake gets OK to open Saturday PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
oversees Anderson Lake State cialist. “So it looks like it will open Park, located 10 miles south of on Saturday as planned.” CHIMACUM — Anderson Port Townsend. Anderson Lake is a popular Lake will reopen as scheduled Sattrout-fishing lake that has been urday for the beginning of the fish- No visible bloom plagued with high levels of blueing season, Jefferson County green-algae-produced toxins since health officials and state park “We looked at the lake today 2006, when two dogs died after staff said Monday. and didn’t see any visible [toxic “We will open this weekend algae] bloom, so we didn’t take a drinking water from the lake on with no restrictions,” said Mike sample,” said Greg Thomason, the Memorial Day weekend. TURN TO LAKE/A5 Zimmerman, the state ranger who county environmental health spe-
Dead man ID’d in PT
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Peninsula Daily News
Big wheels mark cycling grant
Richard Finn recalled as ‘really sweet guy’ BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — The man whose body was recovered from the waters of Boat Haven on Sunday morning was remembered Monday as a good friend and an essential part of the Port Townsend arts community. Authorities identified the man as Richard B. Finn, who had lived “I am deeply, intermittently in Port Townsend deeply since the 1980s. “He was great with kids and saddened.” JANETTE FORCE taught them a lot about music,” Film Festival according to Jarrod Paul executive director Bramson, who played with Finn as a teenager. “He was a really sweet guy and a very caring person,” Bramson said. Finn, 49, was residing on a friend’s 26-foot sailboat moored in the marina at the time of his death. “He’s been a great friend for a long time,” said Port Townsend Film Festival Executive Director Janette Force. “He continually struggled and eventually lost his fight with alcoholism, and I am deeply, deeply saddened.” During his time in Port Townsend, Finn worked as a candle dipper at Coyote Found Candles and as a salesman at Quimper Sound.
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ReCyclery’s Chauncey-Tudhope-Locklear, flanked by the Port Townsend nonprofit’s president, Kees Kolff, celebrates the Safe Routes to School grant money with Jefferson County Commissioners Phil Johnson, John Austin and David Sullivan, from left.
$21,175 for local riders
Body in water Port Townsend police Sunday morning received a 9-1-1 call, reporting that a body was floating in the water near the Linear Dock on the west end of the marina. Finn was last seen alive at around 5 a.m., when a police officer stopped to check on him in front of West Marine, 2428 Washington St., near the Boat Haven, according to a news release from the Port Townsend Police Department. Finn appeared to have been consuming alcohol, so the officer summoned a fire department ambulance for a medical evaluation. TURN TO FINN/A5
Bicycle program to encourage more kids to pedal “Getting kids to ride their bikes while they are in grade school can combat the epidemic of inactivity and CHIMACUM — Money from a obesity,” said Kolff, a retired doctor state grant will subsidize the redeand former Port Townsend mayor. sign of the area around the Chima“By the time they are in high cum schools campus to make it more ‘Epidemic of inactivity’ school the whole idea is out of their bike- and pedestrian-friendly, Kolff addressed a Jefferson County heads,” said Kolff, a biking enthusiast. The funds also will jump-start a countywide effort to encourage biking commissioners meeting Monday. TURN TO BICYCLES/A5 BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
and walking to school. “We need to make this crossing safer in order to encourage kids to not ride the bus or drive,” said ReCyclery board president Kees Kolff.
PA students sit out dances to protest rules school-sponsored dances. Saturday’s Spring Fling, the school’s only informal dance, was canceled after only 15 tickets were sold, Principal dozen students staged a walk- Garry Cameron announced. BY ARWYN RICE out to protest a new school PENINSULA DAILY NEWS rule banning back-to-front Third dance canceled PORT ANGELES — dancing, the majority of stuIt is the third dance that Shades of “Footloose.” dents at Port Angeles High has suffered from extremely Six months after a few School continue to spurn low attendance, threatening
Ban on ‘back-to front’ moves puts big chill on Spring Fling
student government coffers that depend on the dances as fundraisers for the senior prom and the projects that the classes sponsor as their “class gifts.” The issue is reminiscent of the 1984 blockbuster movie “Footloose” — remade in 2011 — in which high school students organize against a Mid14706106
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western town’s rules against rock music and dancing. The Port Angeles rules aren’t as restrictive, but they motivated a student walkout last October during which several said just before the 2012 homecoming dance that they would no longer attend school-sponsored dances. TURN
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