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No avian flu spread in first Agnew tests Federal inspectors go door to door in quarantine area

Gondolas rising up to ONP would face federal, state hurdles BY PAUL GOTTLIEB

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PORT ANGELES — An entrepreneur who once dreamed of a $1.8 million zip-line park in the Olympic foothills now seeks support for a much bigger project: a $200 million aerial passenger tram from downtown Port Angeles to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. Information from city, state and federal officials shows the project would face extensive environmental review and perhaps an act of Congress to get off the ground. Dan Williams, who lives in Port Angeles, will host four weekly meetings on his pro- Williams posed Port Angeles aerial tram from Thursday through Feb. 21 to gauge public opinion before he makes a decision on moving forward with the plan in March. Williams hopes to see the tram operating by 2020. “We are looking for the welcomeness of the community to get behind this,” he said.

So far, tests have found no avian flu at residences neighboring an Agnew-area backyard flock that was destroyed last week because some of the birds were infected with the virus. Test results are available for the 22 samples taken from poultry in the area through last Thursday, Dr. Alan Huddleston, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said Saturday. “All [tests] were negative” for the avian flu virus, he said. Two more samplings were taken Friday, he said. The initial tests — which are only for the presence of avian flu, not the actual strain of the flu — take at least three days, so more results will be reported in the next few days.

‘That’s good news’ But so far, there is no sign of the illness other than the initial cases at 92 Cosmos Lane. “That’s good news,” Huddleston said. At least five birds owned by Sherry and Gary Smith on Cosmos Lane died of the infection, prompting the destruction last Sunday of their remaining 118 geese, ducks and chickens. A 6.2-mile — or 10-kilometer — quarantine area circling the Smiths’ property was established Tuesday. Federal inspectors began their work Monday, even before the quarantine was put into place, going door to door within a KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS 1.9-mile (3-kilometer) radius of the initial Alan Huddleston, public information officer of the U.S. Department of case to talk with people and, if they owned poultry, ask that they allow tests of the birds. Agriculture response team investigating an outbreak of avian flu in the TURN

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Kilmer faces foes of Navy plans again lege’s Little Theater in Port Angeles on Friday during a town hall meeting for Clallam residents. At the outset of his presentation, the Gig Harbor Democrat who represents the 6th Congressional District invited protesters — more than a dozen of whom greeted him with posters at the building’s entrance — to hold up their signs. But when he repeated his assertion made last Friday at a town hall meeting in Port Townsend that North Olympic Peninsula residents and the Navy are neighbors, several yelled, “No, we’re not.”

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PORT ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer told an auditorium full of angry constituents he’ll be a willing conduit for their concerns over the Navy’s electronic warfare range. “I get the concern that people have raised,” he told about 200 restive listeners in Peninsula Col-

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