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April 15, 2012
Cruise ship set for Wednesday 1,800 visitors expected in PA BY ARWYN RICE AND LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — More than 1,800 visitors are expected to dock in Port Angeles on Wednesday when the Holland America Line cruise ship ms Oosterdam makes a Port Angeles visit, the first cruise ship visit in two years. As in past cruise ship stops, the tourists will be greeted at Terminal 1 adjacent to Westport Shipyards by volunteers who will direct them to shuttles for shopping and cultural tours of Port Angeles.
The ship is expected to dock at 10 a.m., and depart at 11 p.m. Lower Elwha Klallam dancers will present a welcoming ceremony reminiscent of the annual canoe journeys, said Mary Brelsford, communications manager for the Olympic Peninsula Visitors Bureau. Ship’s officers will issue a formal request to come ashore and passengers and crew will be welcomed with song and dance. Many Port Angeles downtown businesses will offer extended hours to welcome the hundreds of visitors that will come in on the ship, said Barb Frederick, execuKEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS tive director of the Port Angeles A Coast Guard patrol boat is dwarfed by Holland America Line’s ms Zuiderdam during Downtown Association.
the cruise ship’s visit to Port Angeles in 2010. The Zuiderdam returns May 11, less than
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Her vision DAM! . . . it’s almost gone! for park focuses Play equipment for west-side PA arrives BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Now resembling a highway construction site more than a former river dam, bulldozers push dirt into what was once the spillway of the Elwha Dam west of Port Angeles on Friday afternoon.
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Lake Aldwell to be history May 1; Elwha Dam components ‘buried’ BY ARWYN RICE
Construction, which has removed Elwha Dam and is dismantling Glines Canyon Dam upriver in Olympic National Park. Lake Aldwell is expected to be gone by The spillway and channel “are going May 1, said the contractor who is rebuild- to be completely buried,” Krohmer said. ing the hillside that was dug out nearly a century ago for the now-dismantled Tons of dirt Elwha Dam. By Friday, much of the lower spillway The last remnants of Elwha Dam, had disappeared under tons of dirt. once 108 feet tall, were removed in midWhere Lake Aldwell once lapped March, and the soil and sediments from behind the former dam are being used to against the dam is now a canyon of rock restore the hillside that will serve as the walls and mud. Receding water, which has been drainwest bank of the Elwha River. ing from the lakebed since September — The walls of the former spillway and divergence channel on the west side of the when dam demolition began — has left behind a muddy landscape with silty dam site will remain and are acting as a retaining feature on the hillside, said Brian water flowing sluggishly through a narrowing channel. Krohmer, project manager for Barnard PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Crews hope to have the last 30 feet of sediment and soil removed from the narrow canyon upriver from the old dam site by the end of the month, Krohmer said. That should lower the river to approximately its natural riverbed, he said. How much lower the river will dig its own channel from there is unknown, Krohmer said Friday. “It’s hard to say where it will stabilize,” he said. Currently, the river’s natural dredging of the sediments behind the dam site is being controlled by the careful adjustment of large boulders placed in the narrow canyon, allowing the water level to fall by an average of 1½ to 2 feet a day. TURN TO GONE/A5
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PORT ANGELES — Janet Young’s dream playground for Shane Park is finally tangible. Young, who started a community fundraising campaign to build a state-of-the-art play area for the park in west Port Angeles, got to see the disassembled playground equipment when it arrived at a city storage facility Monday. She was joined by dignitaries from the city of Port Angeles. The Shane Park Playground Committee still needs to come up with $15,000 for concrete and remaining safety tiles that will surround the 6,000-square-foot playset at the park between Sixth and Eighth streets and E and G streets. TO
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Congress hopeful savors his PA roots BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Derek Kilmer ALSO . . . says his passion for ■ Two GOP economic develophopefuls ment and approach who eye to public service was Congress shaped by Port vacancy/A6 Angeles. The 38-year-old 26th District state senator from Gig Harbor — and the only Democratic candidate so far for U.S. Congress in the 6th Congressional District — grew up on the North Olympic Peninsula at a particularly tough time. TURN
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