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Amy McIntyre, president of the Port Angeles Arts Council, writes down ideas for the shuttered Lincoln Theater during a community forum at Studio Bob in Port Angeles.
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PORT ANGELES — We’re about to envision — not debate — the future, Cathy Haight told a roomful of artists, dancers, actors, business people and
three City Council members. Envision they did, in Wednesday night’s public forum on the fate of downtown’s shuttered Lincoln Theater. The Port Angeles Arts Council, a nonprofit, nongovernmental group, hosted what became a unified conversation at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., with Haight keeping some 40 attendees on topic: What are the best possibilities for the 98-year-old cinema, which closed March 2? “Think of sitting around with friends at a dinner table,” she began. Then Haight, an artist and teacher, grouped
attendees into clusters and invited them to voice their ideas about what the Lincoln might become. A performing arts center, a classicmovie venue, a concert hall, a dance center, a space for lectures, author readings and even touring shows: These reincarnations rose to the top of the ensuing discussion while Amy McIntyre, Arts Council president and facilitator of one of the clusters, reported that her group wanted the new Lincoln to be “the heart of the community.” TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — A search of a Port Townsend parking lot and bus stop has turned up a missing Sequim woman’s backpack but no sign of what happened to her. “Our level of concern is pretty high,” said Officer Patrick Fudally, Port Townsend Police Department spokesman. Lauryn R. Garrett, 23, was last seen at 7:30 p.m. May 1 at the Haines Place Park and Ride in Port Townsend, where she was to catch a bus to a family home Garrett near Sequim. Garrett borrowed a bystander’s cellphone to call home and walked across the parking lot to the nearby Port Townsend Safeway, Police Chief Conner Daily said. She left both of her backpacks at the park and ride, and the witness never saw her return for them, Daily said. Safeway employees reported that Garrett attempted to cash a check in the store but didn’t have proper identification and left, Daily said. TURN
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Welcome awaits Sequim auction is delayed set today, cruise ship in PA First grain elevator sale Oosterdam expected at Terminal 1 now due June 6 between 25 and 35 volunteers to PENINSULA DAILY NEWS be on hand to great the Oosterdam passengers, which he estiPORT ANGELES — Everymates to be at least 1,800. thing’s on schedule to welcome the massive cruise ship ms Oosterdam Statendam into Port Angeles later today, according to the Port Angeles Regional A second large Holland AmerChamber of Commerce director. ica cruise ship, the ms Statendam, The 950-foot-long Holland is expected in Port Angeles on America cruise ship is expected to May 17 after a journey bringing it dock at Port of Port Angeles’ Ter- from San Diego to Vancouver, B.C. minal 1 at noon today, chamber Veenema said he would “not Director Russ Veenema said, and turn anybody away” if they is slated to leave port for Seattle wanted to volunteer for welcomat about 11 p.m. ing the 710-foot, 1,258-passenger “Everything’s still on track,” he Statendam. said. Veenema said he expects TURN TO CRUISE/A8 BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ
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SEQUIM –– The auction of the foreclosed historic Clallam Co-op grain elevator, originally planned for today, has been postponed until June 6. Bill Foster of the Lynnwood law firm Hutchison & Foster, which is trustee for Whidbey Island Bank, said late Thursday afternoon that the bank had decided to push back the date of the auction that had been scheduled for 10 a.m. today at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles. Foster did not say why the bank decided to postpone the
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An auction of Sequim’s landmark grain elevator has been delayed. sale or whether the decision was related to a request by trustees of the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley to delay the auction. The museum officials had sent a letter to the bank last
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