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SEQUIM — The bridge carrying the Olympic Discovery Trail over the Dungeness River is expected to be closed for weeks — if not months — after floodstrength waters knocked loose several support pilings, threatening collapse of the span’s western walkway. The bridge, on JamesALSO . . . town S’Klallam tribal ■ Swollen property and the centerriver floods piece of Railroad Bridge homes in Park, will be repaired Brinnon “within the next couple of area/A8 months,” tribal Chairman Ron Allen said Saturday. Concern is focused not on the iconic steel railroad bridge itself across the Dungeness — it is anchored in concrete at both ends — but on the former railroad KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS bridge’s old trestle portion, which continues across the west side of the river. Bill Laubner, left, facilities manager for the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, and Dave Hartman, the tribe’s “We’re gonna take a very active leader- construction manager, erect barricades across the trestle on the west side of the Railroad Bridge Park span ship on repairing it,” Allen said. over the Dungeness River on Friday after high water damaged support columns beneath the approach.
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park and over the bridge are part of the Olympic Discovery Trail. “We’ve already alerted [state DepartThe trail will eventually run from Port ment of] Transportation folks and are try- Townsend to the Pacific Coast, but for now, ing to access emergency money to make it most of it is about 60 miles in and around available as soon as possible. Port Angeles and Sequim. “We’re definitely moving as fast as we can.” Detour to highway bridges Allen said tribal Chief Operating Officer Walkers, horse riders and bicyclists Annette Nesse and representatives of the tribe’s excavation company were at the site using the trail will now need to detour Saturday morning, as well as Clallam around the Railroad Bridge Park area by using the nearby U.S. Highway 101 and County Engineer Ross Tyler. “This is not repairable in the short Old Olympic Highway bridges, Jones said. “You’re talking about a mile of trail term,” Tyler said. Railroad Bridge Park is also home to that’s been cut off,” he said. Repairs cannot begin until the end of the Dungeness River Audubon Center. Powell Jones, director of the center, said the rainy season, Allen said. Permitting also is complicated because that as of Friday night, six bridge piles had the river is home to endangered fish speCLALLAM COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE been torn away by debris and the rushing cies, Tyler said. river. Planking on the former train trestle that’s part of Olympic Discovery Trail The walking and bike paths through the TURN TO STORM/A8 is shown uprooted after pilings were damaged by floodwaters below.
Man found dead in ONP described as ‘hermit’ BY JAMES CASEY
Measles victim’s trail traced while he remains in hospital
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JOYCE — You could tell from the sound of the late Chris Boysen’s voice that the man was far from his home, his landlord said. The 54-year-old New Jersey native, who was found dead last week at the Heart o’ the Hills campground after leaving to go camping Jan. 22, spoke with a distinctive East Coast accent. His speech, together with a big-city boy’s distrust of strangers, helped make him a loner in this Clallam County hamlet, said Al Morrison, who rented Boysen an apartment in his Seal Rock Road home above the Strait of Juan de Fuca. “He was about as close to a hermit as anyone I’ve ever seen,” said Morrison, who reported Boysen missing Monday to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. TURN
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“We believe ALSO . . . he is going to make Human Services had sought doses
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■ Places listed where measles Public health authorities have victim went/A10 traced the movements of a man ■ Schools exempt students who was contagious with measles from vaccines/A10 when he was admitted to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles ■ Questions and answers about measles/A11 one week ago. The unidentified middle-aged man from the Port Angeles area a complete recovery,” said Dr. Tom remained Saturday in OMC’s Locke, health officer for Clallam intensive care unit, where health and Jefferson counties. officials said he was recuperating Locke said Friday the Clallam County Department of Health and from the illness.
of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine from other counties. The department will conduct immunization clinics Monday and Tuesday at 111 E. Third St., Suite 1-A, Port Angeles. Call 360-4172274 to schedule an appointment. “We’re planning on those clinics for however long the need exists,” Locke said. “We’re trying to get 500 or so doses.” TURN
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