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Spirit of the ‘Strong People’
ELIZABETH BECKER
Paul and Elizabeth Eisenhardt of Port Townsend shop downtown during Small Business Saturday.
Elwha Heritage Center Manager Suzie Bennett examines a selection of Klallam artifacts found at the Tse-whit-zen village site that will soon go on display at the center in Port Angeles. Included are a maul, several blades and a harpoon piece.
Early shopping results brisk, retailers report
More Klallam antiquities from Tse-whit-zen revealed
PT merchants enjoy sunshine, card promotion
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BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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lk teeth pendants, tools, a stone bowl: These artifacts, the mute evidence of an ancient culture, will lend eloquence to the telling of two Klallam tales in a new exhibit of Tse-whitzen treasures opening this week. Fifteen more artifacts unearthed at the ancient Klallam village discovered in 2003 on what is now Marine Drive in Port Angeles will be revealed in an exhibit opening at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Lower Elwha Heritage Center, 401 E. First St. They will share the stage with artists who will attend a reception as a new exhibit, “Spirit Unleashed,” opens at the center. The artifacts will join the 13 Tse-whit-zen objects that were returned home in July — the first to be brought back to Port Angeles from storage at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington in Seattle — and which are now on permanent display at the heritage center. Among the newly returned artifacts are four pendants, some made of elk teeth; a maul, or
hammer, with a design that looks much like a flower; an arrowhead; tools; and a “really beautiful bowl” made of stone, said Suzie Bennett, heritage center manager. Some 80,000 artifacts from Tse-whit-zen are stored at the Burke.
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f the hundreds of boxes of artifacts in storage at the Burke, the archaeology department had pulled about 30 for Bennett to examine, she said. She chose the artifacts with an eye toward presenting them in concert with two Klallam stories: “Nahkeeta,” which tells of the creation of Lake Sutherland west of Port Angeles, and “The Strong People,” which tells how the Klallam tribe got its name. “I was looking for objects to complement traditional Klallam stories,” Bennett said. The stories aren’t only the Lower Elwha’s tales, Bennett said, but apply to all Klallam people, who include the Jamestown S’Klallam and Port Gamble S’Klallam. TURN
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out of the weather, too.” Customers were weather-conscious, too, buying gloves, mittens, slippers and pajamas, he said. “November is up substantially, and it looks like today will follow that trend. The economy is heading in the right direction.”
Saturday sales
Retailers across the North Olympic Peninsula reported brisk sales the weekend after Thanksgiving, traditionally a time of shopping splurges. Some reported better sales and a new, more positive mood among shoppers than last year. Sequim and Port Angeles customers visited Quimper Mercantile Co. at 1121 Water St. in Port Townsend on Friday, store manager Sheldon Spencer said. He also had people from the Seattle area who were making day trips to the Victorian-themed city. “The customer count is up quite well,” Spencer said. “I think, for one thing, they get a little cabin fever when the weather is not that pleasant. “Shopping is something you can do to get out of the house and
Many merchants in Port Townsend focused on Saturday sales as part of Small Business Saturday. Under the program, American Express card holders who spend $10 or more at a participating small business receive a $10 credit for up to three separate purchases. Wild Rose Chorale carolers sang on the streets of Port Townsend, and many shops offered late hours and specials in a promotion sponsored by the Port Townsend Main Street program. For every $500 spent at participating businesses starting Friday, customers can pick a $25 gift certificate from the wall of gift certificates at the Main Street office at 211 Taylor St., Suite 3. TURN
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Public to weigh in on Brinnon-area resort Comments taken on development’s impact statement BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
BRINNON — Jefferson County is taking public comment on a draft supplemental environmental impact statement for a
long-planned 252-acre Pleasant Harbor master planned resort on the Hood Canal. The Jefferson County Department of Community Development released Nov. 19 its draft of the Pleasant Harbor supplemental environmental impact statement. The document includes a development agreement between the applicant for a county permit, Statesman Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, and the county.
Public comment will be taken on the draft statement until Jan. 5. The resort is planned about 2 miles south of Brinnon. It was proposed in 2006. Plans have been streamlined during the extended approval process, according to David Wayne Johnson, DCD associate planner, who is managing the project. “As time goes on, we are developing ways to have a less signifi-
cant environmental Johnson said.
impact,”
Open house Wednesday An open house is planned from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Brinnon Community Center, 306144 U.S. Highway 101, and will be followed by a county Planning Commission meeting on the draft document at 6:30 p.m. in the same location.
Planners, representatives of the applicant for a county permit and consultants are expected to discuss the plans. Written comments will be accepted at the open house. Verbal and written comments will be accepted at the planners’ meeting, which will not be the final chance to comment, county staff said. TURN
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