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Second Strait swim
Commissioner eyes ‘loophole’ BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Andrew Malinak finishes his swim around Bainbridge Island on Aug 8.
Seattle man to try crossing from B.C. again today After derailed try, Andrew Malinak will aim for Elwha BY MARK SWANSON PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Seattle man will make a second attempt to swim the Strait of Juan de Fuca today. Andrew Malinak, 28, a Seattle long-
distance swimmer by hobby and civil engineer by profession, plans to leave Beechy Head west of Victoria in East Sooke Park at the southern tip of Vancouver Island at about 6:45 a.m. He’ll be swimming without a wetsuit — only a swimsuit and goggles, and perhaps a little Vaseline to prevent chafing — in water temperature anticipated to be 50 to 52 degrees. He expects the 12-mile crossing to the North Olympic Peninsula to take between five and six hours and hopes to step onto the sandy beach near the
mouth of the Elwha River between noon and 1 p.m.
2013 attempt Malinak attempted to swim across the Strait in July 2013 but was undone by adverse currents, fog and cold water. The swimmer left the water about a mile off Crescent Beach, having made no progress for over an hour as he fought the currents. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Millions of dollars can be transferred from one area to another in the Clallam County budget without a vote of the commissioners. Although the money can’t ALSO . . . be spent without a vote of com■ Treasurer missioners, Commissioner lets go of Mike Chapman said there is a appointed “loophole” in county budget attorney/A5 policy that needs to be fixed. Chapman on Monday said it was “inappropriate” for County Administrator Jim Jones to sign a $3 million budget modification, redesignating 2015 funds for the delayed Carlsborg sewer project to other projects within the Opportunity Fund, in May without a board vote or public discussion. “That’s just wrong for a lot of fundamental reasons,” Chapman said in a work session. “We’ll find out from a court whether it’s legal. Just because something’s legal doesn’t make it right.” Commissioners Jim McEntire and Bill Peach voted Aug. 25 — with Chapman opposed — to seek a declaratory judgment and order from a Superior Court judge to force County Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis to release warrants for $1.3 million in Opportunity Fund grants to the port and city of Port Angeles. TURN
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Paint the Peninsula colors canvas all week 26 artists to create out in open air BY DIANE URBANI
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PORT ANGELES — Out in the wild Pacific Northwest, you don’t have a lot of control. As locals well know, the atmospheric conditions can change in a matter of minutes. So painting plein air — outdoors — is a particular kind of thrill, said Susan Ogilvie, one of 26 artists coming to the North Olympic Peninsula this week. “You’re so alive, you’re so in the moment when you’re out there,” she said, that “you can lose yourself in the subject that you’re painting.” Ogilvie should know. The winner of the Port Ange-
can watch the painters in action, whether they’re at Hurricane Ridge, Marymere Falls, the Dungeness Spit or Port Angeles’ waterfront esplanade. The public is also invited to free receptions Tuesday and Wednesday evening at the fine arts center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., where the newly framed paintings will be on display, snacks will be laid out and Camaraderie Cellars’ Plein Air red wine will flow.
les Fine Arts Center’s inaugural Paint the Peninsula competition in 2013, the Port Ludlow artist is back for this year’s third annual contest. The weeklong Paint the Peninsula event will have plein air artists from across the continent working in Olympic National Park, the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge and points west, from Sequim to Kalaloch — and showing their fresh work to the Monday in the park public. Monday is the day devoted to Olympic National Park. All 26 Watch painters at work artists will take their easels out to It’s an uncommon experience: its beaches, waterfalls, forests and This Monday through Friday, mountainsides. anyone interested in art, nature TURN TO PAINT/A6 and the intersection of the two
Susan Ogilvie of Port Ludlow is among 26 artists coming to this week’s Paint the Peninsula competition.
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