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Actor-writer Henry brings laughs to Port Townsend Film Festival
‘I never talk about what I’m working on’ By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — In accordance with what has become a Port Townsend Film Festival tradition, special guest Buck Henry made his first public appearance in front of a group of high school students. Henry, 80 — a writer, director and actor — is the special guest for the festival that began Friday and ends today. Seventy movies were scheduled for screening on screens throughout Port Townsend over the three days of the 12th annual celebration — and there’s a full day’s
lineup today, with ONLINE . . . screenings from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Henry spoke informally to a group of about 40 students in the Port ■ Today’s Townsend High slate of film School Library on Friday, telling showings: http:// stories about his tinyurl.com/ career as an pdnptfilm actor, writer and director. He was interviewed by Seattle film critic Robert Horton, often eliciting laughter with grumpy answers.
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Port Townsend Film Festival special guest Buck Henry pauses for a moment as he visits Port Townsend High School students. “So do you want to wrap things up by telling us what you are working on next?” Horton asked at the interview’s end. “No, absolutely not,” Henry said.
“I never talk about what I am working on because I won’t be working on it next week.” While Henry is perhaps bestknown for his screenplays for “The Graduate” and “Catch: 22”
and for a series of appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” high school students might recognize him as Tina Fey’s father on “30 Rock.” Turn
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Merrill & Ring still going strong after 125 years Timber company to fete anniversary Wednesday
and steadfastness in continuing to own and to manage these timberlands.” The 40 Merrill & Ring employees and their families will join customers, suppliers, contractors and elected officials at the 125-year celebration. By Rob Ollikainen The actual anniversary is in November. Peninsula Daily News Merrill & Ring and its partners hold 75,000 acres PORT ANGELES — Still managing timber after of productive timberland in Western Washington, all these years, Merrill & Ring is turning 125. British Columbia and New Zealand. The privately owned, Port Angeles-based company will celebrate the milestone Wednesday at its Pysht Tree Farm at 30,000 acres historic Pysht lodge. The largest tract is the 30,000-acre Pysht Tree The public is invited to attend the event from Farm on Clallam County’s West End, which Merrill 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Norm Schaaf, company vice president and timber- & Ring has owned since it was founded by T.D. Merland manager, said Merrill & Ring is among a shrink- rill, R.D. Merrill and Clark Ring in 1886. ing group of centenarian private timberland owners. Merrill & Ring is currently owned by the descen“There’s been an awful lot of turnover of forest dents of its founders in the family groups: R.D. MerDarius Kinsey/Merrill & Ring land,” he said. rill Co., Ring Family LP and JLCG LLC. A Merrill & Ring falling crew sit in a cut on an old-growth “I’d say as staff, we are just very, very grateful to the owners and to their foresight in management Turn to M&R/A4 fir on M&R lands near Pysht between 1915 and 1920.
$36 million college building dedicated By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News
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Peninsula College President Tom Keegan addresses the dedication ceremony Friday of the new Maier Hall, background, on the Port Angeles campus.
PORT ANGELES — Dignitaries armed with scissors stood before a crowd of about 100 on Friday and cut a ribbon to dedicate Peninsula College’s newest addition. The $36 million Maier Hall was christened in a sun-splashed ceremony at the Port Angeles campus. The building will house art, math, liberal arts and music programs when it opens for classes Monday. It also boasts a 131-seat performance hall, in which the inau-
gural concert was presented at 7 p.m. Friday. “I think it’s fitting on the college’s 50th anniversary that we celebrate our newest and most expansive building, named after our first president, E. John Maier, who led the planning and construction of the original campus,” said Tom Keegan, Peninsula College president. Speakers at the 45-minute ceremony included state Reps. Kevin Van De Wege and Steve Tharinger and Schuyler Hoss, Gov. Chris Gregoire’s Southwest Washington regional representative. Turn
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Inside Today’s Peninsula Daily News 95th year, 227th issue — 9 sections, 84 pages
Business/Politics D1 Classified E1 Clubs/Organizations C3 Commentary/Letters A10 Couples *PW Dear Abby C2 Deaths C7 Movies C5 Nation/World A3 * Peninsula Woman
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