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Passers-by credited with alerting mom, tot to fire ‘For some reason, God had us go down [that] road’
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BLYN — To Taya Dancel, Bill and Sherry Evans are heroes. The couple happened to drive past her Old Blyn Highway home a little before 11 a.m. Friday and spotted smoke venting from the roof. “They banged on the door and said, ‘Get out, get out,’ and they got everything out,” said Dancel after a chimney fire spread to the roof of her home. “They were awesome.” Sherry Evans quickly phoned PenCom emergency 9-1-1, and Bill Evans beat on the door of the home owned by the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe where Dancel, a tenant, was asleep. Her 8-month-old baby was in the house with her, while her 8-year-old son was at school. Dancel, who has lived at the home in the 1700 block of Old Blyn Highway for six years, said she was awakened and startled by the noise but soon realized there was smoke. The Diamond Point couple helped mother and child safely escape the fire. Bill Evans then helped her pull baby furniture out of the house, family pictures off the wall and anything else they could grab before Clallam County Fire District 3 personnel arrived at 11 a.m. to chop holes in the roof and douse the blaze, completely extinguishing it shortly after noon.
More N. Peninsula foreclosures in 2010; not like elsewhere By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News
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Clallam County Fire District 3 firefighters mop up after a mother and her infant child escaped when alerted by passers-by on Old Blyn Sherry Evans believes it was a little Highway.
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divine intervention that led her and her husband northbound on Old Blyn Highway following breakfast at 7 Cedars Casino. “For some reason, God had us go down East Sequim Bay Road,” she said of the cruise they took down the scenic stretch on a sunny fall morning. On their way back, they decided to
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swing up Old Blyn Highway to head “We certainly are not heroes,” she said. home. “We’re just two senior citizens. “We haven’t been on that road in three “It was wonderful that it all worked years,” she said. out. We had a chance to be angels today. Annette Nesse, Jamestown S’Klallam “We were just fortunate to be there and tribal chief operations officer, agreed that be of help.” the Evans acted heroically. Sherry Evans was humble. Turn to Heroes/A7
Lenders have seized nearly twice as many homes on the North Olympic Peninsula this year than they did in first three quarters of 2009 — but foreclosure activity remains lower here than the state and national average. A total of 176 foreAlso . . . closed homes in Clallam ■ Jefferson and Jefferson counties County ... have been repossessed by the this year compared with foreclosure 100 for the first nine numbers/A6 months of 2009. Clallam County’s rose from 89 to 129 while Jefferson County’s spiked from 11 to 47 in the first nine months of this year. Thirty-six foreclosed properties were seized on the Peninsula in September, compared to 15 in July, according to Realty Trac, a national foreclosure listing service. “We think we’re kind of in the middle of this foreclosure cycle, maybe just past the halfway point,” said Daren Blomquist, RealtyTrac spokesman, in Irvine, Calif. “We’re going to have a couple more years of high foreclosure levels.” Overall, Washington ranks No. 14 in foreclosure activity. Turn
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Ghostly tales for your special day
Alice the Goon said to haunt Chimacum lake
Van Trojan Road itself is kind of spooky. Parts of the well-packed gravel road are lined with second-growth cedars, their bare lower branches blackened by deep shade and moisture, dripping with the kind of ragged moss often found in By Julie McCormick deep rain forests or swamps. For Peninsula Daily News There is a bear crossing sign. Eerie. Stories of spooks and ghosts are rampant in Port Townsend, where it is easy to envision the face of a Abandoned farmhouse disappointed lover driven to suiAt the end is the sort of abancide peering from the upper stories doned rural farmhouse that is a of the city’s historic downtown magnet for those with active brick buildings, or an elegantly imaginations and a taste for the clothed apparition in the attic win- supernatural. dow of any stately Victorian. The little red house has Especially late on a rainy, blus- slumped into the hillside, its darktery night. Port Townsend shuts ened upper windows looking out down early and even the streets blankly like the eyes of the risen can look haunted if the fog is in. dead. But you have to go to ChiIt was a perfect site for a macum to learn about Alice the haunted house fundraiser for the Goon. Esquire Car Club, which Tom She was said to haunt a little Ammert, whose parents ran the Julie McCormick/for Peninsula Daily News lake on the old Elk Horn Ranch, a Elk Horn Ranch, set up one year children’s camp once run by the This abandoned “haunted house” was once used by East Jefferson County teens for in the early ’70s. Ammert family at the end of Van Halloween parties and as a base for their ventures to a small lake near Anderson Lake Trojan Road. Turn to Ghostly/A7 to hear the legendary ghost, Alice, lamenting her drowned child as she rowed across.
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