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Traffic flows past Fort Worden State Park’s entrance almost like any other street in Port Townsend.
No fee to Worden on business Extra time for details acknowledges role By Arwyn Rice
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PORT TOWNSEND — A temporary agreement between Fort Worden and State Parks will allow customers and workers to access businesses without a Discover Pass for at least the next year. “We have one year to work out how to manage the particulars,” Fort Worden State Park Manager Kate Burke said Thursday. Business customers and employees on the upper campus will not need to purchase passes for access to businesses and schools located within the park’s boundaries. Visitors using the lower park day-use parking area for access to the beach, trailhead and lighthouse will be required to have the permits. The park rangers and businesses know what parking areas are used by the patrons and students, Burke said. Turn
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State parks, lands fees begin Friday By Arwyn Rice
Peninsula Daily News
FORKS — Woodcutting on state lands is one activity that will no longer be free beginning Friday. Visitors must purchase a Discover Pass to explore the more than 7 million acres of lands managed by State Parks, the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Fish & Wildlife. Any recreational Trettevik activity — including hiking, picnicking, camping, fishing, hunting, water access, plant gathering and woodcutting — will require the pass, Sue Trettevik told about 25 members of the Forks Chamber of Commerce last week. “Woodcutting is recreation?” an audience member asked, spurring laughter. Turn
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Beth McBride of Port Angeles holds up a copy of a 1921 news article and fare stubs relating to her grandmother’s adventure during the sinking of the steamship SS Governor off Port Townsend. Below, a close-up of the ticket for the ill-fated cruise.
PA woman’s relatives survived PT shipwreck By Philip L. Watness
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Beth McBride of Port Angeles remembers her grandmother as “a tiny little lady with a lot of spunk.” Florence Hawthorn demonstrated that spunk with courage and the conviction of her Christian faith the night she and her sons survived the wreck of the SS Governor, when eight souls met their fate in the chilly spring waters of Admiralty Inlet. The Governor sank after being hit by the West Hartland in the wee hours of April 1, 1921. Hawthorn had in tow her two sons — McBride’s late father, Franklin, and uncle, Felix — then just 4 and 7. She was taking them to see her sister, Katie, in Powell River, B.C. McBride, who lives between Port Angeles and Sequim, said her grandmother wasn’t even supposed to have been on the fated ship, having booked passage to Victoria from San Francisco. But Hawthorn was denied entry into Canada because she had only $20 on her.
The customs office in Victoria told her she would have to have $250, so she had to return to the Governor for the final leg of its journey to Seattle, where she arranged for her husband to wire the required funds.
Ominous signs The long voyage started out with ominous signs that could be easily brushed off as mere coincidences but when taken together seemed like warnings to Hawthorn against making the journey. But she hadn’t seen her sister in 20 years, and she was determined to introduce her young sons to their aunt. This in spite of stepping on an 8-penny nail that nearly thrust completely through her foot while getting coal for her house heater, despite Franklin’s rash that was feared to be measles; despite the flat tire of her neighbor’s car when they gave her a lift to the train station in Tulare, Calif.; despite not having a sleeper cab after changing trains; and despite the boys’ seasickness once they boarded the Governor. Turn
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Fence won’t look like a border fence Agency to soften peripheral look around new HQ By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — The streetscape of a commercialresidential neighborhood east of downtown will likely be spared a facade of prison-like barbed wire atop a chain-link fence. The Border Patrol has
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agreed to soften the appearance of its yet-to-be-built, fenced-in North Olympic Peninsula headquarters at 110 Penn St., which borders East Front Street, officials with the city of Port Angeles, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Border Patrol said last week. “At this point, we are not planning on using barbed
wire,” Border Patrol spokeswoman Jenny Burke confirmed Friday, adding that the final design still must be approved by agency officials. The construction project is being overseen by the Corps of Engineers. “We are going to modify the contract to provide a much more visually appealing fence,” Corps Project Manager Michael Sangren told Public Works Director Glenn Cutler in an email. He cited the Clallam County Public Utility District fence at
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the utility’s Carlsborg storage facility — the former Costco store — as an example of a more acceptable structure. “The design build contractor is actually taking pictures of the PUD fence as an example,” Sangren wrote. “In conversation with the Office of Border Patrol, they have done these ‘nicer looking’ fences at other locations and understand the need to do so in Port Angeles.
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