PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
July 6-7, 2012 | 75¢
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PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT
Light at The capped crusader the end of the tunnel ‘Hard Hats & Carhartts’ to celebrate Saturday BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Cap Man’s bottle-cap truck has garnered attention in front of Pygmy Boats on Point Hudson, above. On Saturday, Cap Man (alias Jimmy Straehla) will park it downtown for Port Townsend’s Gallery Walk.
Art on wheels drives in All the way from Georgia, Cap Man’s ‘living the dream’ BY MARGARET MCKENZIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — People around here, especially at the Point Hudson RV Park, might have noticed a vehicle cruising around that looks a little — well, the word “different� doesn’t even begin to do the bottle-cap truck justice. Picture, if you will, a Ford pickup almost entirely covered with bottle caps (7,000 and counting). Not only that, but they all seem to be beer bottle caps. Not only that, they even spell out the words “Cap Man�
on the truck’s tailgate. It truly is a work of art. That being said, the truck will have a place of honor at Saturday’s monthly Gallery Walk in Port Townsend. It will be parked in front of Holly Green and Max Grover’s Sideshow Variety at 630 Water St. from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. But there’s more to the story than that. A quick spin around the Internet using the search term “Cap Man� sends you to a website — www.thecapman.us — and then to a Facebook page. TURN TO CAP MAN/A4 The Straehlas at Seattle Art Car Blowout in June.
PORT TOWNSEND — It’s time to celebrate: The Taylor Street revamping project is drawing to a close. “We’re excited to truly see the light at the end of the tunnel for this project,� said Mari Mullen, executive director of the Port Townsend Main Street Program. “Downtown is going to be beautiful when the construction is completed, and we want to celebrate Mullen with the community.� The celebration, a “Hard Hats and Carhartts Party,� will be from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and overlaps with the monthly gallery walk starting at 5:30 p.m. The party was originally scheduled for June 2 but was postponed because the renovation project was behind schedule, and the weather forecast was grim.
Reopened to cars late last month Taylor Street in downtown Port Townsend was reopened to vehicular traffic June 26 after a four-month $3.5 million project in which sidewalks were shored up, the street was repaved, and utility wires on one side of the street were moved underground. It opened about a month behind schedule and has restored an important link between Washington Street and Water Street to the local traffic flow. Two components of the project are not complete: the removal of utility poles from the west side of the street and the installation of a wooden walkway on either side of the street between Water Street and Union Wharf. The utility poles held electricity and cable wires on the east side and phone wires on the west side. City officials had hoped to remove the poles from both sides of the street simultaneously, but phone provider CenturyLink did not order the needed cable in time. TURN
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New Peninsula College president on the job BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Luke Robins’ office, situated in a corner overlooking the main entrance to Peninsula College, is large and on Tuesday, mostly empty. It was officially Robins’ third day on the job as the new president of Peninsula College, and he was still working on getting his home and family moved to Port Angeles. “We’re waiting for the moving van,� Robins said, noting that while he and his family haven’t selected a permanent home, they have found an interim home to rent until they decide on a neighborhood. Meanwhile, he spent his first week getting to know his staff and the instructors at Peninsula College.
“It’s a really outstanding institution.� LUKE ROBINS Peninsula College president He said he wanted to get a feel for the school’s culture before making any changes to an institution that has been on the same path for a decade. Robins is Peninsula College’s sixth president in its 50-year-old history. He replaced Tom Keegan, who left in February to be Skagit Valley College’s new president after 10 years of leading Peninsula College. Brinton Sprague, a retired community-college leader, served as interim president March 8 through June 30. Robins will earn $175,000 in his first year at Peninsula College.
Keegan was earning $204,434 in the 10th and final year of his tenure. Robins spent the past six years as chancellor of Louisiana Delta Community College in Monroe, La., where he built up the college from an unaccredited school offering classes in a converted university cafeteria to an accredited institution with a brandnew campus. Louisiana Delta is a two-year college with 2,700 enrolled students. There are several clear differences between the school he is coming from and Peninsula College, Robins said. First is that Peninsula College is an established school with traditions of its own, Robins said, offering humanities, the arts and sports. “It’s a more comprehensive colKEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS lege,� he said. Luke Robins, who became Peninsula College’s TURN TO ROBINS/A4 sixth president, arrived on campus this week.
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