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First Federal’s top structure realigns Ex-CEO at home in Indiana BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
FRANKFORT, Ind. — Levon Mathews, the former president-CEO of First Federal, said Friday he is working at a family business in Indiana and took issue with the notion his departure from Port Angeles in December was abrupt. First Federal announced his resignation Dec. 21 as “effective immediately� in a statement released the same day. TURN
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Interim chief in line to take helm of bank BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Larry Hueth, the interim presidentCEO of First Federal, is on track to step up to the position permanently as the bank realigns its top management team in the wake of former President-CEO Levon Mathews’ abrupt resignation, bank officials said. In addition, former PresidentCEO Karen McCormick has been hired by the bank to temporarily fill the position vacated by Chief Credit Officer Cliff Frydenberg,
who has retired, bank officials said. The bank announced the resignations of Mathews and Chief Banking Office-Senior Vice President Gina Lowman the same day, Dec. 21. Bank board of directors Chairman Richard Kott said that Lowman’s resignation was not related to Mathews’ resignation.
Left in November Lowman said Dec. 22 that she had been gone from the bank the third week of November and had left to spend more time with her family. She said the announcement of both resignations at the same time was “purely coincidental.� KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Hueth is First Federal’s execuLarry Heuth, interim president and CEO of First Federal, tive vice president and chief will present a report on his vision on how the North financial officer.
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Tamanowas Rock stands 150 feet from the ground east of Anderson Lake in Chimacum.
Jamestown tribe gets iconic monolith Gaten, governmental policy liaison for the tribe, said. PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Tamanowas Rock, shaped CHIMACUM — After decades like a pointed egg, stands more of work to preserve Tamanowas than 150 feet from the valley Rock, the ancient tribal site is floor to the east of Anderson now legally in the hands of the Lake State Park. Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, On Dec. 21, the 62 acres which plans to make one major around Tamanowas Rock, change in management: including the rock itself, were There will be no rock climbpurchased by the tribe for ing. Period. $600,000, the tribe announced. “It is like allowing people to TURN TO ROCK/A4 climb the Sistine Chapel,� Leo BY ARWYN RICE
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LAPUSH — Staff members from state and federal agencies have finished removing more than 400 pounds of non-native plant and animal life found clinging to a 64-foot dock that washed up on a remote Olympic National Park beach, the state Department of Ecology said. Experts are now analyzing marine life samples taken from the structure, believed to be from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, to determine what specific species made their home there, said Bill Tweit, invasive-species specialist and special assistant to the director of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, on Friday. A team of six researchers and invasive-species experts from the park, the Washington Sea Grant Program and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife hiked on more than 3 miles of old logging roads and maneuvered down a steep bluff Thursday and Friday to get to the dock between LaPush and the Hoh River.
Found in bumpers The workers cleared the dock of non-native animal life, most of which was found on 150-pound rubber bumpers that ringed the top portion of the dock, Tweit said. Crew members removed the bumpers and stored them for the time being in plastic bags inside the hollow spaces of the dock itself, which Tweit was confident would kill any organism left alive after the bumpers were unbolted from the dock. “I was just relieved that every-
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one [got back] safe and sound and that yesterday was as successful as it was,� Tweit said Friday. “They really decreased the risk [of contamination], and they really got a lot [of organisms] off.� Crews also took special care to recover or destroy any remains of the removed organisms so as to minimize native animals’ exposure to the non-native species. “We’re always keenly aware of where things go when we scrape off something,� Tweit said. Ecology said teams also used a
diluted bleach solution to wash the entire dock, a method approved as environmentally safe by the National Park Service and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. State and federal officials say the dock is a remnant of the estimated 5 million tons of debris swept into the ocean by a tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, though confirmation has not been received from the Japanese government. TURN
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