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Report in on PA businessman area survival purchasing Lincoln conditioning Air Force program ongoing recent interview. Forks city officials did not comment to the Air Force on the FORKS — Stories have circu- study. lated for decades about residents stumbling across Air Force crews Essential training engaged in survival training in “It’s kind of an essential thing rugged forests of the West End. The schooling — part of the we need for our airmen going into Survival, Escape, Resistance and war zones overseas,” Fleck said. The assessment determined that Evasion (SERE) training program coordinated out of the Fairchild training in areas of Clallam and JefAir Force Base — was the subject ferson counties resulted in no sigof a draft environmental assess- nificant environmental impact and recommended it continue. ment released in February. Report coordinator John Guerra, Forks Mayor Bryon Monohon and City Attorney-Planner Rod an Air Force program manager for the National Environmental Policy Fleck reviewed the report. “We flipped through it and Act, said Friday the training has been taking place since the 1980s. said, ‘Oh, now we know what the stories are about,’ ” Fleck said in a TURN TO TRAINING/A5 BY PAUL GOTTLIEB

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Jake Oppelt, co-owner of the Next Door Gastropub, and a silent partner have signed a purchase agreement for the shuttered Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles.

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PORT ANGELES — A purchase agreement has been signed that will revive the shuttered Lincoln Theater as a music and theater venue — and keep it in local hands. Next Door Gastropub restaurant co-owner Jake Oppelt and a silent partner signed the contract-for-sale pact Thursday with building owner Wenatchee Productions Inc., doing business as Sun Basin Theatres, Sun Basin General Manager Bryan Cook

and Oppelt said Saturday. Oppelt said his partner in the purchase is a Port Angeles businessman who does not want to be identified “as a personal preference.” Cook said a land-transfer document will be recorded with the Clallam County Auditor’s Office once Olympic Title works through details. “In 30 to 45 days, after things get finalized, Jake will get the keys and take over and go to work,” Cook said. Oppelt and Cook said the purchase price was $225,000 for the 132 E. First St. landmark.

Earnest money was put down as part of the no-contingencies contract last week, Oppelt added. Oppelt said a for-profit limited liability partnership is being formed to own the building and renovate it as a music and theater production venue. “I fully anticipate it being renovated and in working order within a year,” Oppelt said, adding it will retain the Lincoln Theater moniker. “We don’t foresee it taking longer than that.” TURN

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TV logger Rygaard to run for county seat PA native famed for ‘Ax Men’ role BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — A homegrown reality TV star wants to go into county politics. Port Angeles native Gabe Rygaard, whose family-owned Rygaard Logging Inc. is featured on History Channel’s “Ax Men,” has announced he will run for Clallam County commissioner. Rygaard said Friday he will run as a Republican for the District 2 commissioner seat being vacated by Mike Chapman, who plans to run for a 24th Legislative District seat as a Democrat. Filing week for the Nov. 8 gen-

ground to meet the goals that need to be met.” Rygaard said the county could create jobs by promoting tourism. He criticized escalating county assessments of property values, including those for land he owns, as being out of sync with reality. “If that’s not a tax raise, I don’t know what is,” he said.

eral election is May 16-20. Rygaard, 44, is co-owner of the company founded in 1991 by his father, Craig. He said Friday his political priorities are creating jobs, keeping property taxes steady, fighting drug abuse and changing the culPromote timber industry ture of county government.

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