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McDonald’s closing for '16 rebuild
Wonderland of snow
Plans call for closure in Jan.; reopening midyear BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK
Heavy early winter snow has blanketed Hurricane Ridge, as can be seen from this webcam shot from the visitor center.
Ridge snowfall leads to more skiing this week organizers plan to make up for it this week with additional days of rope tow operation. The Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area, which opened on Dec. 19, was closed Saturday while it was dug out and packed after the Ridge received some 4 feet of BY ARWYN RICE snow last week for a total of some PENINSULA DAILY NEWS 6 ½ feet of early season snow. The rope tows are expected to OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK be open today and Monday — as — A huge snowfall last week at well as Wednesday through next Hurricane Ridge delayed downhill skiing this weekend, but Sunday, Jan. 3.
This much early snow not seen since Dec. 1998
Members of the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club, which manages the area, changed their plans and added the days in light of the optimum snow conditions. They will add more if sufficient operators are found. Russ Morrison, past president of the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club, said he hasn’t seen such an early volume of snow since December 1998. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Talk about timing. Franchise owner Brian Beaulaurier said new McDonald’s golden arches could be planted at the current 1706 E. Front St. location by mid-2016 after a shutdown beginning in mid-January and lasting up to 120 days. Construction by Memorial Day would take the longtime Jefferson County resident close to the time for fulfilling a contractual obligation under which McDonald’s restaurants must be replaced every 40 years. The eatery on the edge of the eastern city limit was completed Dec. 16, 1976 — when Gerald Ford was president. Beaulaurier wanted to replace the restaurant this year.
Put off for a year But the international fast-food chain pulled the plug on the $2.5 million project last December after Beaulaurier had already started handing out consolation discount coupons good at other area McDonald’s restaurants to make up for the planned multimonth closure. City officials last week approved the same building permit for the project that had been submitted last year but was never
acted upon, Nathan West, city community and economic development director, said Thursday. Beaulaurier said corporate officials who last year cited a national construction slowdown in balking at doing “scrape and rebuild” of McDonald’s restaurants now seem primed to take the plunge. Beaulaurier, who lives near the Hood Canal Bridge, said the top executives will meet Jan. 5 at the company’s regional office in Kirkland to consider final approval.
Confidence in economy He said he’s “99 percent confident” they will give their consent, given the corporation’s renewed confidence in the economy. “They are back to building stores again, and that’s the truth,” Beaulaurier said. “I’m excited to finally get this completed.” Beaulaurier said the 5,000-square-foot, 122-seat restaurant will be about the same size as the current eatery, with construction and equipment costs pegged at $1.25 million each. West said the price tag for building it makes the new restaurant the highest-monetary-value building permit issued in 2016 to any private, non-public applicant. TURN
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Repaired bridge reopens for bikes, walkers Dungeness floods damaged trestle BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Jefferson and Clallam counties. The Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, which owns the bridge and adjacent Railroad Bridge Park at 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, has replaced a 570-foot-long wooden trestle with a 750-foot concrete trestle. A grand opening ceremony to commemorate the near completion of the $1.53 million construction project is tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
SEQUIM — Crossing over the recently reopened Railroad Bridge for the first time in 10 months was a great pleasure for Bob Anundson. The bridge had been closed to the public since February when the western trestle was damaged during a flood of the Dungeness River. That also closed a portion of the Olympic Discovery Trail. Open for use Until the closure, Railroad Bridge The bridge was reopened for was a well-traveled passage of the trail, a hiking-cycling-equestrian public use Thursday. “We can’t be more delighted,” path that runs through parts of
Anundson said Thursday. “We love that bridge.” Anundson and his friend Garland Frankfurth were among the first to cross the bridge when it opened, and probably the first to do so on bicycle, he said. Nordland Construction of Port Townsend was contracted by the tribe to complete the project using design and engineering schematics by Otak of Portland, Ore. Anundson, 73, of Sequim, has been riding across the bridge with his bicycle club, the Easy Riders, for the past six years. “We used to meet Monday and CHERYL GARLAND Friday on the bridge and go out to Garland Frankfurth and Bob Anundson were among the the Agnew Grocery Store,” he first bicyclists to cross the newly opened trestle said. Thursday. A bystander helped the two remove a fallen TURN
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