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July 12, 2011
Kenmore says it’s in PA to stay Marketing director addresses port By Arwyn Rice
is committed to maintaining passenger service between William R. Fairchild International Airport and Seattle’s Boeing Field. PORT ANGELES – Kenmore Air is in Once the economy improves, the comPort Angeles to stay, Port of Port Angeles munity and airline will be able to work commissioners were told Monday. together for the benefit of both, O’Neill said. Craig O’Neill, Kenmore’s director of marketing and sales, said the small airline Turn to Kenmore/A4 Peninsula Daily News
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A Kenmore Air pilot, right, stands next two of the airline’s turboproppowered Cessna Caravan aircraft at William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles on Monday.
Charges made in looting
Pieces of history
Museums get Elwha River dams’ artifacts
Scrap recovered from New Peking
By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
By Rob Ollikainen
PORT ANGELES — Pieces of history are slowly making their way from the soon-to-be dismantled Elwha and Glines Canyon dams to Peninsula museums. Meanwhile, the ONLINE . . . federal Bureau of Reclamation will officially turn over the dams to Barnard Construction Co. of Bozeman, Mont., next week. A four-wheel trolley called a ■ See animated “spill-gate donkey” dismantling of — it opened and dam: http:// shut the 11-story tinyurl.com/ Elwha Dam’s spill damanimation gates — has been delivered to the Olympic Timber Town and Heritage Center site since the trolley’s removal last week, Kevin Yancy, the dam’s power plant supervisor, said Monday. In addition, giant wrenches from Glines that take two men to lift were gently dropped off at the Clallam County Historical Society Museum in Port Angeles.
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PORT ANGELES — The Sequim man accused of trying to loot copper from the charred remains of the New Peking restaurant Sunday told a State Patrol trooper that he took bottles of liquor from the ruins two days earlier, court papers show. Craig Steven Foster, 49, was charged Monday with second-degree burglary and criminal trespass for allegedly trying to loot the metal and other merchandise from the restaurant and lounge that burned down the morning of July 5. He posted $500 bail Monday and awaits a Friday morning arraignment in Clallam County Superior Court. The State Patrol said Foster was found in a white Cadillac Coupe de Ville on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 101 near River Road in Sequim early Friday morning. Foster, whose clothes were covered in soot and ash, admitted that he scavenged unopened bottles of liquor from the rubble at 2416 E. U.S. Highway 101 in unincorporated Gales Addition just east of Port Angeles.
Ownership questioned He was not charged, however, because the ownership of the restaurant was still in question, court papers show. The owner of the New Peking, Kevin Fong, told investigators later Friday that Woford Insurance was the legal owner of the building. The insurance company put up a 6-foottall chain-link temporary fence around the building Thursday. Deputy Michael Backes wrote in the arrest narrative that a citizen phoned the Clallam County Sheriff ’s Office at 7:09 a.m. Sunday to report a white Cadillac Turn
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Trolley’s new home
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Kathy Monds, Clallam County Historical Society executive director, holds an enormous, heavy metal wrench that was used at the Elwha Dam until recently.
“I don’t know how people picked them up to use them,” Kathy Monds, the Historical Society’s executive director, said as she lifted the giant end wrenches Monday. The trolley is “great to have,” said Bob Harbick, president of Olympic Timber Town. The museum is being established off U.S. Highway 101 just west of Port Angeles. Turn
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Inmate who aided escape attempt has recent bride Peninsula Daily News news sources
CLALLAM BAY — A woman married to a prison inmate who stands to be accused of aiding a Clallam Bay prison escape attempt last month said she knew nothing of an escape plot. Quynh Maldonado, who said she fell in love with Dominick Maldonado — convicted of a 2005 Tacoma Mall shooting rampage that wounded seven people — while seeing him in television news footage, said he might have wanted to escape to be free with her. “I guess from what I’ve heard, he just
wanted to see me,” she said in an interview. Maldonado, who has since been moved to a maxi- D. Maldonado Q. Maldonado mum-security prison near Aberdeen, joined convicted murderer Kevin Newland in trying to escape June 29 by taking a corrections officer hostage with scissors in the prison industries area while Newland used a fork-
lift to ram the perimeter fences, prison officials said. Another corrections officer shot and killed Newland, 25, after the inmate rammed the outer fence with the forklift.
Serving 163-year term Maldonado, serving a 163-year sentence for the mall rampage, then immediately surrendered, prison officials said. The prison ended a weeklong lockdown last week, although inmates remain on restricted-movement status and the industrial area remains closed. 14706106
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Quynh Maldonado was 17 in 2006 when she started writing Maldonado in prison, sending pictures of herself, many of them topless, to accompany the letters sent by U.S. mail. “I just felt so madly in love with him,” she told KOMO-TV in Seattle. Last spring, he and Quynh, now 22, married in a small ceremony at Clallam Bay Corrections Center. At least until the June 29 escape attempt, the Maldonados’ marriage consists of photos, phone calls, letters and occasional face-to-face visits. Turn
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