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MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Car dealer event to aid PA students PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Price Ford Lincoln of Port Angeles will team up with Port Angeles High School for the fourth annual Drive One 4 UR School event Sunday. The fundraiser — set from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Walmart, 3471 E. Kolonels Way — will support the high school orchestra program. People can stop by and test-drive a new Ford or Lincoln vehicle, and for each test-drive, Price Ford Lincoln will donate $20 to the orchestra program. ARWYN RICE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The Port Angeles synchronized swim team demonstrates a routine during the William Shore Memorial Pool 50th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday afternoon, in front of a crowd of more than 100 spectators.
PA pool fetes 50th anniversary More than 100 people turn out for demonstrations, free swim BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — More than 100 swim enthusiasts attended William Shore Memorial Pool’s 50th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday. “I learned to swim in this pool. It is the heart and soul of our community,” said Mayor Cherie Kidd to open the ceremonies. The visitors were entertained by demonstrations from the many organized groups that use the pool and were fed hot dogs and cake on the patio before get-
ting to splash in the water themselves. U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmers demonstrated rescues from a life raft; Port Angeles High School swim team members did wind sprints; and the Port Angeles synchronized swim team performed a routine.
Lots to see Scuba divers, water exercise classes and parentchild swim classes also were showcased in the aquatic three-ring circuslike atmosphere. The 50-year-old pool is in
great shape, said Steve Burke, pool district executive director. When it was installed 50 years ago, it was “built like a bank,” he said. The pool, locker rooms and pool machinery underwent extensive renovations in July, resulting in what amounts to a brand-new pool facility, Burke said. The renovations will be completed after work on the air system this month, he said. Burke said that with voter approval, the next step for pool improvement will be the addition of a play and splash pool for kids and a “lazy river,” a tool for exercise and therapy where people walk against a current in a canyon of
Instructor from Madrid to teach Spanish at Peninsula College PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — When Spanish students at Peninsula College walked into their classroom in Port Angeles last week, they were greeted by Paloma Toledo de la Torre from Madrid. Toledo de la Torre will teach all 2012-13 Spanish classes on the Port Angeles campus at Toledo 1502 E. de la Torre Lauridsen Blvd., as she fills in for Reina Barreto, who is on a yearlong academic sabbatical focusing on women writers and artists of the Cuban diaspora who are continuing a tradition of Cuban literature in the United States.
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Her interests include writing, music, reading, singing, dancing, hiking and guitar playing as well as travel. For more information on other college courses, visit www.pencol.edu or www. facebook.com/Peninsula College.
Three hundred testdrives will earn $6,000 for the school. The car company has said there will be no obligation or pressure to make a purchase. All drivers must be 18 years or older and have a valid driver’s license. Car seats cannot be accommodated.
PA Oktoberfest scheduled PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A Downtown Oktoberfest event featuring the Freddy James Rocking Blues Band and microbrews from Port Angeles’ Barhop Brewery _________ will be hosted by White Reporter Arwyn Rice can be Crane Martial Arts, 129 W. reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arwyn.rice@peninsula First St., on Saturday. dailynews.com. The event will run from
8 p.m. to midnight. Karaoke will be available during breaks and after the band’s performance. Angeles Brewing Supply will give a presentation on home brewing. Admission is $8 for nondrinkers or $15 for thirsty patrons. For more information, phone 360-808-2271.
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Toledo de la Torre has been a professor of Spanish language and literature at I.E.S. Siglo XXI de Leganes in Madrid since 1990 and has served as its department head several times. She received her degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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There is a limit of one test-drive per address. Last year’s event and raised $7,830 for the career technical department at the high school. That year, the dealership, in addition to donating $20 per test drive, donated an extra $10 for each test drive of the new 2012 Ford Focus. Previous Drive One 4 UR School events raised $5,500 for the high school’s band program and more than $3,500 for its athletic department, Garry Cameron, high school principal, has said. Ford Motor Co.’s Drive One 4 UR School program began nationally in 2007 and since then has sponsored 1,500 events in 49 states, offered more than 275,000 test-drives and raised more than $5 million for before-school and after-school activities in high schools across the country. For more information, phone Joel Elliott at 360457-3333.
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