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Navy unfazed toward West End State’s opt-out doesn’t deter plans on electronic warfare BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIA — The state Department of Natural Resources’ decision not to be involved in a Navy proposal to conduct electronic warfare training on the West End of the North Olympic Peninsula
won’t delay the project, the Navy says. DNR announced the last day of February that it wasn’t interested in allowing its land to be used for the training. Three of the 15 sites the Navy had tagged in the Olympic Mili-
tary Operations Area for the $11.5 million project are on forested DNR land in West Jefferson County southeast of Forks. The Navy will make do with 12 locations in Olympic National Forest in western Clallam, Jefferson and Grays Harbor counties if a permit is issued for their use, according to Liane Nakahara, Navy public affairs officer. The Navy will not apply for a permit on DNR land for the sites identified in Navy documents as 3, 12 and 14.
The project would use mobile emitters of electromagnetic radiation for training that Boeing EA18G Growler crews stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island currently simulate with internal aircraft controls. Aircraft from NAS Whidbey Training enhancements Island would target electromagnetic radiation from emitters “The other enhancements to affixed to up to three camperthe training are proceeding ahead sized vehicles that would move as planned,” she said. from site to site. The Navy wants to use the TURN TO NAVY/A6 sites beginning this September.
“We believe the three sites identified on DNR land would add value to our ability to train more effectively, but use of the mobile signal transmitter vehicles on DNR lands was only one part of the proposal,” Nakahara said.
Kayaker reported missing Coast Guard copter, boat leading search PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — The Coast Guard was searching Saturday afternoon for at least one kayaker who was reported missing off Three Crabs Road east of Dungeness Spit. The missing person was described as a woman wearing an orange jacket. Reports were conflicting. Earlier, the Coast Guard said that three kayakers, two men and one woman — all in blue kayaks — had been reported missing at about 2:24 p.m. At 5 p.m., Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross at 13th District Coast Guard headquarters in Seattle said the Coast Guard was seeking one person. She could not explain the original report. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and a 45-foot medium response boat were sent to the area from Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles, Norcross said. Small-craft warnings had been posted by the National Weather Service for the Strait of Juan de Fuca at about the time of the missing person report. The kayaker’s identity and age were not immediately available.
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Following their performance on the 9/11 Memorial plaza in New York City are Port Angeles High School choir members, from left, Briana Hughes and Sonia Witczak, both 16; Beth Ann Brackett and Ethan Hoch, both 17; Clare Wiswell, 18, and Hudson Soelter, 14.
A special song for Ground Zero with 120 Port Angeles High School students to New York City to perform in three cathedrals last week, also shepherded her singers onto the plaza BY DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ where the Twin Towers stood. PENINSULA DAILY NEWS On Friday afternoon, the 48-voice Port Angeles High Symphonic Choir formed a NEW YORK — The choir director from Port Angeles had a plan for bringing semicircle near one of the plaza’s deep pools. song to the 9/11 Memorial. Jolene Dalton Gailey, who traveled The coordinator of musical
performances at the 9/11 Memorial had said 120 singers was too many, so Gailey tapped just one of the five choirs and asked the rest — the Men’s and Women’s choirs, the Bella Voce ensemble and the Vocal Unlimited choir — to stand by. To the Symphonics, Gailey said: You cannot sing quietly here. This is where your song can touch people.
Peninsula vocalists at NYC’s 9/11 Memorial
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Stationary warm ocean pool tied to region’s odd weather BY SANDI DOUGHTON
vinced global warming is to blame, which puts them at odds with other experts who suspect Arctic melting SEATTLE — A gargantuan upset the “polar vortex” and conblob of warm water that’s been tributed to the misery on the East parked off the West Coast for 18 Coast the past two winters. months is part of a larger pattern that helps explain California’s Scientist’s offshore ‘blob’ drought, Washington’s snowUniversity of Washington clistarved ski resorts and record blizzards in New England, according mate scientist Nick Bond coined to new analyses by Seattle scien- the term “The Blob” to describe the pool of water, up to 7 degrees tists. The researchers aren’t con- Fahrenheit hotter than usual, that MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
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