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37 storefronts open, remodel or relocate this year EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a twopart series on new businesses in Port Angeles. BY JAMES CASEY PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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The Dungeness River flows under the Anderson Road bridge near the Old Dungeness Schoolhouse north of Sequim on July 29, barely touching a river gauge attached to a bridge piling or registering on a nearby U.S. Geological Survey electronic gauging station.
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SEQUIM — Work could begin this week on creating as hospitable an environment as possible for hordes of pink salmon expected to return to the Dungeness River later this month. A preseason prediction that 1.3 million pinks will return to the Dungeness this year may not come to pass, said Mike Gross, biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, who is based in Montesano. That estimate was based on a run of 400,000 pinks in the Dungeness two years ago. Pinks are on a two-year cycle, and the large run in 2013 led to the forecast “on
paper” of about triple the number seen then, Gross said. But even if they don’t reach that number, “we’re expecting a large return,” he said Friday, adding the run is expected to peak mid-month.
Olympic National Park will close recreational fishing in most of its streams and rivers starting at 12:01 a.m. Monday. At the same time, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife will close the Clearwater and its tributaries, as well as all tributaries to the Queets River — including the Salmon River — outside the boundaries.
Hoping for 200,000 “The confidence is that there will be a lot of pinks coming in. Hopefully, we’ll hit at least 200,000,” he said. And the Dungeness, a small river that runs low every year, is in poor shape for the spawning pinks. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — The giant scissors are snip-snapping like castanets as red ribbons fall fluttering to the ground. If the Port Angeles Ambassadors’ calendar is any indication, new businesses are blooming around the city’s downtown. Some 37 businesses have opened, remodeled or relocated since late April. Meanwhile, the value of new commercial construction, buoyed by industrial projects at Nippon Paper Industries USA ($1.4 million) and the city’s combined sewer overflow project along Front Street and Marine Drive ($6 million), grew to nearly $8.8 million through June of this year. That’s nearly double the value of construction in the last six months of 2014, according to permits listed by the city’s Building Division. Other high-value permitted projects include: ■ Port of Port Angeles restroom remodels, $100,000. ■ Kokopelli Grill expansion into a second story, 203 E. Front St., $70,000. ■ Olympic Veterinary Clinic relocation to 1331 E. Front St., $500,000. ■ Harbor Freight remodeling at Port Angeles Plaza, 1936 E. First St., $220,000. ■ CenturyLink addition, 406 S. Laurel St., $119,000. And awaiting groundbreaking are Peninsula College’s Allied Health and Early Childhood Development Center ($23.8 million), Olympic Medical Center’s new medical office building at Race and Caroline streets ($15.6 million) and the Port of Port Angeles’ Composite Recycling Technology Center at William R. Fairchild International Airport ($4.3 million). TURN
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Cancer survivors Kathy Harris, left, and Beth Garifalos, right, both of Sequim, lock arms with American Cancer Society representative Megan Smothers of Port Orchard to lead the survivors’ lap around the Sequim Civic Center outdoor plaza during Saturday’s Relay For Life in Sequim.
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