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Taking wing, with a little help
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Peninsula Trails Coalition member Jeff Selby, left, and Freddy Pink lead singer Gordon Yancy rest at the end of the Larry Scott Trail.
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Shortly before releasing them into the woods west of Port Angeles, Chuck Burnell and Merryn Welch cupped two northern saw-whet owls rehabilitated at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center.
Port Angeles volunteers nurse owls back to health Happy and Grumpy released after aid from raptor center BY DIANE URBANI
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PORT ANGELES — In the woods around her home west of Port Angeles, she could hear the saw-whet sound. It’s the owls’ call, like a blade on a
whetstone, through the early morning air. Merryn Welch recognized it, having cared for two of its sources at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center. Welch and her husband, Chuck Burnell, volunteer at the Sequim center, where wild things — bald eagles, redtailed hawks, barred owls, young deer — recover from gunshot wounds and car strikes. Last spring, two northern saw-whet owls were brought in, one badly hurt by a motor vehicle, the other in better
shape but also downed by an apparent collision with a car. The first “was pretty dinged up. I didn’t think it was going to make it,” said Jaye Moore, the director of the center at 1051 W. Oak Court in Sequim. But when the two saw-whets were housed together, they became buddies — inseparable as they convalesced. Welch and Moore watched over them for some seven months, naming them Grumpy and Happy for their facial expressions. TURN
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Effort to grow PT trail rides on BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Right now, the Larry Scott Trail isn’t much of a workout for committed bicyclists. The walking and bicycling path that connects the Port Townsend Boat Haven and Four Corners is only 8 miles long, 16 miles round trip. “For serious bike tourists, it really isn’t much of a ride,” said Jeff Selby, Jefferson County vice president of the Peninsula Trails Coalition. Doubling the trail’s length, and extending it to Discovery Bay to connect with another portion of the Olympic Discovery Trail would increase regional bicycle tourism and “generate millions of dollars” for local merchants as well as provide tax revenue, Selby said. TURN
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Rains no match for Dungeness fever in PA Crab festival draws in thousands You have no peer.
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PORT ANGELES — Hoods went up, hats went on and some folks even flouted local custom and shamelessly unfurled umbrellas. Besides their wet-weather gear, thousands of people still crowded downtown Saturday for All the crabs were on the boil the 14th annual Dungeness Crab Delighting every boy and goyl While grown-ups set aside their & Seafood Festival, which will continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. toil today. To quaff a beer. It was the “Dungeness” event for most visitors. But volunteers All hail the noble Dungeness! wore misprinted T-shirts that Despite your crusty ugliness, For succulence and tenderness proclaimed it was the “DungeI joined the happy weekend throng Content as it moved me along Through scenes of art and sounds of song At City Pier.
nous” festival. Scott Nagel, the event’s executive director, said he’d missed the misprint when he proofread the logo at 2 a.m. one night. Although they weren’t for sale, he said, they’d doubtless become collectors’ items. Whatever the spelling, it was the seafood folks were after. “We were totally full at noon when we opened, and we were wondering, ‘How are the Canadians going to get in?’ because a thousand people just arrived on the Coho,” Nagel said early Saturday afternoon. KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS “Fortunately, most of them went to the crafts area for a while, Crab festival volunteer Julian McCabe pulls live crabs from a shipping crate filled with iced-down crustaceans in and now we have a good line.”
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