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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS November 22, 2012 | 75¢
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Local retailers readying for busiest shopping day Many retailers will have special sales that will extend into the weekend. Among those who open early Friday will be Swain’s General Store at 602 E. First St. in Port Angeles. BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ The doors will open bright and AND ROB OLLIKAINEN early at 5 a.m., and the first 100 PENINSULA DAILY NEWS people through the door will be rewarded with a $10 gift card, said Clallam County businesses plan a Don Droz, store manager. number of special offers and one-dayonly deals in store for shoppers who Loyal customers want to brave the crowds the day after Thanksgiving. Droz said Swain’s loyal local cusThe day after Thanksgiving is tra- tomers have made the Friday after ditionally the biggest annual shop- Thanksgiving one of the store’s best ping day of the year. retail days of the year, even during
Variety of deals, specials planned
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Don Droz, general manager of Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles, prepares for Black Friday.
the recent economic struggles. “We have been very fortunate, and [customers] have supported us throughout this economic downturn,” Droz said. A special coupon that takes $15 off any purchase of $75 or more will be available Friday, Droz added. Droz said Swain’s has been holding its own in competition with large stores for Friday-after-Thanksgiving dollars. “Gimmicks are a dime a dozen, but if people have friendly, knowledgeable staff, I think that’s what defines us and keeps people coming back,” Droz said. TURN TO SALES/A5
2012 PDN Reason to give thanks Home Fund Salvation Army’s dinner drive opens turkey feeds 150 people
Most vulnerable count on community support PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
A grandmother caring for two small children received help with her utility bills. An out-of-work logger in Quilcene got money to obtain prescribed medicine. A fourth-grade student got the glasses he needed to do his schoolwork in Port Townsend. Material was provided to help a volunteer group assist a Port Angeles woman with repairs to her mobile home. A Forks woman received a load of wood to heat her house. Using a record-breaking $254,593.73 given in 2011, more than 2,700 individuals and households in Jefferson and Clallam counties have received help so far this year from the Peninsula Daily News’ “hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund. ALSO . . . From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, the ■ $254,593 Peninsula Home Fund worth of thanks — a safety net for to 2011 Home North Olympic PeninFund donors/C1 sula residents when ■ Tough times there is nowhere else compounding to turn — is seeking Home Fund contributions for its challenges/A7 annual holiday season fundraising campaign. Beginning Sunday, the Peninsula Daily News will publish stories every Wednesday and Sunday during the campaign listing contributors and reporting on how the fund works.
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Peninsula’s safety net Peninsula Home Fund is a unique nonprofit program: ■ No money is deducted by the Peninsula Daily News for administration fees or any other overhead. Every penny goes to OlyCAP — nonprofit Olympic Community Action Programs — the No. 1 emergency-care agency on the Peninsula. TURN
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BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Wednesday’s pre-Thanksgiving dinner at the Port Angeles Salvation Army soup kitchen was a family affair — one that required 10 turkeys and hundreds of pounds of gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables and pie. The 150 people served Wednesday afternoon were in many ways a family. They said they often eat together at the soup kitchen at the Salvation Army soup kitchen, which is open from noon to 1 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and have gotten to know each other very well, said head cook Norma Davis. After the meal was served, the dining room remained open so the diners could relax and chat with friends and loved ones, like any other family after their Thanksgiving meal, Davis said. Given a struggling economy and high unemployment, the need for free meals has remained high for the past few years, with between 50 and 100 people eating at the soup kitchen almost every day it’s open, she said. “It’s been more difficult for people,” Davis said. Threatening clouds held back while a long line of people snaked up the driveway to the front door of the dining room at 206 S. Peabody St., then — just as the last of them filed inside for the opening blessing and grace given by Salvation Army Major Kathleen Johnson — the rain began to fall.
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Harry Henningsen of Port Angeles watches as volunteer Christa Scott fills his plate during Wednesday’s community dinner at the Salvation Army kitchen in Port Angeles. ALSO . . . ■ Where free public feasts will be held in Clallam County today/A5
Volunteers help More than 25 volunteers helped prepare and serve the meal, Davis said. “I had great help today. People were calling a week ahead to reserve a spot,” she said. Victor Carter, a volunteer from Lake Stevens, helped serve coffee and other hot drinks to the long line of diners. Several members of his family were volunteering at the Salvation Army dinner, and many more would be arriving for the family Thanksgiving,
according to Carter. “We are showing the love of God to people who need help, who need food. We’re showing that there are people who still care,” he said. Sisters Mary and Ronda Meech, 20 and 23, of Port Angeles ate together at one of the tables. Ronda said that having free hot meals has been very helpful for low-
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income and homeless members of the community. Mary said she has a disability and lives on assistance, so she eats some of her meals at the soup kitchen to help make ends meet. Mary and Ronda were planning a family Thanksgiving today with their parents, but Wednesday was about being with the community they have come to know at the Salvation Army, they said. “All the people here are really great,” Ronda said. TURN TO MEAL/A5
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