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Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper

May 31, 2012

The BLITZ is on

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An Elwha River Casino shuttle bus drives a wavy stretch of Lower Elwha Road on Wednesday.

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Participants at a Habitat for Humanity kickoff event lift a ceremonial wall frame to begin the first East Jefferson County “Builders Blitz.”

Habitat for Humanity vows new house in just 11 days BY CHARLIE BERMANT

local,” said Fred Kimball of Kimball Woodworks of Port Townsend, who is one of several contractors working on the home. PORT TOWNSEND — A “Builders Blitz” that “With this project we have shown people how began Wednesday aims to erect a Habitat for to build local.” Humanity home in just 11 days. The new 1,000-square-foot home will be occuHabitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County pied by T. J. Quandt and Hollis Rothrock and has built two clusters of seven homes each in resi- their children, Grayson, 10 and Bristol, 3. dential neighborhoods. “I want to thank all of the people who have volThe stakes increased this month with the orga- unteered,” Quandt said. nization’s participation in the nationwide “blitz,” “This really means a lot to us.” in which a single home is constructed in a short period of time, in contrast to Habitat’s usual proGroup photo cess of building a home on the weekends using Photographers took a group picture atop the volunteer labor. site’s concrete slab on Tuesday, and hope the same Construction began on the house at 1319 21st people will show up for an “after” picture at the St., on Wednesday and is expected to be finished in 11 days, with a dedication ceremony scheduled dedication ceremony. The construction coincides with 200 other Habat 1 p.m. Monday, June 11. itat Builders Blitz homes to be built across the About 65 people attended a construction kicknation during the same time period. off ceremony Tuesday afternoon. TURN TO HABITAT/A4 “There is a big push to shop local and eat PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Elwha work buckles road — who pays? reaches of the sediment-filled Elwha River. So far, Olympic National Park officials have said they are under no obligation to help pay for the repairs. “At this point, we’re concerned that it [the road] is going to fail BY ROB OLLIKAINEN catastrophically unless somePENINSULA DAILY NEWS thing is done,” Tyler said in a Tuesday briefing to the Board of PORT ANGELES — Lower Elwha Road is on the verge of County Commissioners. crumbling because of a high volume of heavy vehicles in use for ‘Big chunk of asphalt’ Elwha River restoration projects, “One of the trucks could knock Clallam County Engineer Ross out a big chuck of asphalt and Tyler has told county commission- somebody could drive into it in ers. the middle of the night and lose The county arterial road pro- control or whatever, so there’s a vides the only access to the Lower concern for public safety here. Elwha Klallam tribal reservation “It also becomes a lot more west of Port Angeles. costly to repair a road once it has It serves a new fish hatchery gone past a certain point, and that was built as part of the $325 we’re pretty much there.” million federal project to restore Based on an estimate from the Elwha River to its natural Lakeside Industries, Tyler said it condition. would cost at least $200,000 to The road also is being used by repair Lower Elwha Road. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers TURN TO ROAD/A4 to improve a dike on the lower

Estimated cost for repairs at least $200,000

Contemporary store rivals former tavern Ex-Town Tavern space brightened BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — A lot of the people who walk into Conservatory Coastal Home ask for a beer. “This was a bar for a really long time,” said Heather Pollock, owner of the store at 635 Water St., in Port Townsend. “So I get a lot of people coming in here telling me stories about how much fun they had here.” The store, which is an expansion of a smaller space that Pollock has run for a year, contains Northwest-style crafts and furnishings, and its light, high-ceil-

inged atmosphere is about as far from a dark bar as you could get. Still, the memories of Water Street Brewing, the Town Tavern or any other name by which the place was known gets conversations started. Water Street Brewing closed in June 2010, and the space in the N.D. Hill Building — which was built in 1888 and is on the National Register of Historic Places — has been vacant since then. Pollock was doing well in her old location, the former Christian Science Reading Room, when landlord Chris Sudlow approached her about renting the former bar. Along with her husband, Sam, Pollock set about renovating the space.

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Conservatory Coastal Home owner Heather Pollock polishes a one-of-a-kind chair made TURN TO STORE/A4 by River Casey before putting it on the display floor. 14706106

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