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The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow.
Olympic National Park sees 10% jump in visitors area economy, according to a National Park Service report released Thursday. Spending by park visitors supported 3,592 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit of $365,559,900 to the economy, the report said. The study estimated that the 3,243,872 visitors spent $263,953,300 within 60 miles of the park boundaries, or about $81 each, in 2014. The increase in visitation was the second largest since 2002 and 10 percent over 2013’s total of 2.9 million. The park’s figure for visitation in
Report: Patrons lend $2.6 million to the Peninsula economy BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park saw 3.2 million visitors in 2014 — a 10 percent increase over 2013 — who contributed $2.6 million to the
2013 is different than the 3.1 million mentioned in the report, Barb Maynes, Olympic National Park spokeswoman, said Thursday. She attributed the difference to a typographical error that occurred when the Park Service computed total visitors for 2013. The total also is 7 percent higher than the increase registered at all 370 national parks, preserves and other areas managed by the Park Service that were reviewed for the study. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — A woman threatening to commit suicide was pulled to safety from the top deck of the viewing tower at Port Angeles City Pier, city police said. Officers Allen Brusseau and Brian Stamon made a “quick decision” to grab the woman and pull her over the railing to the floor of the observation deck Wednesday night, Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said. Brusseau and Stamon will each be nominated for the department’s Life Saving Award. “To me, it’s just doing my job,” Brusseau said Thursday. “I’m not one who worries about awards. That’s not what I do the job for.” Police and fire units were dispatched to City Pier after emergency dispatchers received a report of a suicidal woman at 9:25 p.m., Smith said.
9-1-1 report The 9-1-1 caller reported seeing a woman hanging onto the outside railing on the top deck of the three-story tower. When they arrived, Stamon and Brusseau heard a woman crying and screaming from the top of the tower. “She was pretty much incoherent,” Brusseau said. TURN
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Board suggests Beautifying area beaches Coast composites cash Washington Cleanup effort Commissioners to field suggestion is slated Saturday BY JAMES CASEY PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A proposed composites recycling center in Port Angeles will move $1 million closer to construction if a Clallam County advisory panel gets its way. The Opportunity Fund Advisory Board voted 4-1 Thursday to recommend that county commissioners advance that amount to finish a 25,000-square-foot shell building at William R. Fairchild International Airport. When commissioners will con-
sider the decision is uncertain. Advisory board members Mike McAleer, Dan Leinan, Joe Murray, Bill Hermann and Alan Barnard, chairman, voted to allocate the money, about half the balance of a fund the state Department of Commerce has returned to Clallam County from state sales taxes. Board member Sharon DelaBarre was absent because of a medical emergency but sent a letter casting the sole vote against the project. TURN
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Be brave, he said, and don’t let a little rainfall dampen your spirits this weekend. “The last couple years have KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS been rainy, and we’ve still gotten John French of Joyce, left, and Maurie Sprague of Port tons of trash off of the beach,” Angeles look for trash along the shore of Freshwater said Jon Schmidt, coordinator of Bay west of Port Angeles during the 2014 Washington the Washington Coast Cleanup, Coast Cleanup. the event encompassing more than 40 Olympic Peninsula sites This time out, of course, it Creek in Port Angeles to Rialto this Saturday morning. Beach near LaPush, from Sooes In April 2014, more than 1,000 could be sunny. Beach near Neah Bay all the way In any case, Schmidt hopes to volunteers took to the state’s south to Kalaloch Campground. beaches to pick up some 20,000 see volunteer beachcombers check TURN TO CLEANUP/A6 pounds of debris, Schmidt noted. in Saturday at sites from Peabody
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