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Sounds heard in PA and beyond BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Jamie Lynn works on his new mural in downtown Port Angeles.
Mural in downtown PA envisions Elwha River Snowboarder, artist crafts his work on 40-foot expanse BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Seattle, has been creating the mural on the side of the building at 123 W. First St. over the past week. The mural, 9 feet high and more than 40 feet long, is located inside a pedestrian tunnel that leads from a parking lot on West Front Street to stores on West First Street.
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PORT ANGELES — A fanciful vision of the Elwha River from the mountains to the sea is taking shape in a downtown “tunnel,” with only a fringe of fir trees peeking out of the entrance to alert First Street pedestrians to its existence. Jamie Lynn, a snowboarder and internationally known artist based in
It is barely visible to the casual observer on the street. The painting was arranged by Scott Sullivan, a snowboarder and internationally published photographer who plans to open a pizza restaurant, Strait Slice, in May at 121½ First St.
His shop will be inside the building on which the mural is being painted. Sullivan said he contacted building owner Lisa DelGuzzi to get permission to add the mural, and Lynn the idea was met with enthusiasm. Permits are not necessary for murals in Port Angeles as long as they do not include business logos, according to Sue Roberds, city planning manager. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — The source of homerattling booms heard from Joyce to Deer Park Road on Wednesday remained a mystery Thursday. “We’re not finding anything,” said Ron Cameron, chief criminal deputy for the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. Several who reported hearing the booms on Facebook said the sounds seemed to be coming from the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Spokesmen from the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy each said Thursday their units have not taken part in any activity that could produce loud booms in the Strait on Wednesday. They said they had no knowledge of any event on the Strait that could explain the explosions. The first report appears to have been placed at 2:40 p.m. to Clallam County emergency dispatchers from a resident on Strait View Drive, east of Port Angeles, who reported several loud booms. At the same time, Michelle Kaake heard two booms while in her home on O Street in west Port Angeles. “It vibrated the floor and rattled windows,” Kaake said of the first boom. The second boom came about five minutes later, she said. Facebook postings told of people hearing the booms from Deer Park to Joyce. The 129th EOD Company from Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, which on Feb. 12 destroyed several pieces of naval ordnance that had washed ashore on the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge — which was suspected to be from Canada — was not in the area and has received no calls for similar services in the Port Angeles area, said Joe Kubistek, base spokesman. TURN
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Money being returned after exchange error Insurance customers’ accounts hit BY DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — Money will be returned by this morning to about 13,000 Washington health exchange customers who had double or triple their insurance premiums withdrawn from their bank accounts — four days after the problem was discovered,
exchange officials said. It will take longer to understand the full impact of the latest computer problem at the state’s health insurance marketplace and to arrange for reimbursement of other associated costs, such as bank overdraft fees. The problem was discovered Tuesday morning, when someone
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MacEwan said at a meeting of the their bank accounts. exchange board Thursday. Exchange board member Teresa Mosqueda jumped in to Back into bank accounts comment that there have been effects on consumers, even if their She said the state had been insurance wasn’t affected. working around the clock to fix it “They might not have been and put money back into people’s able to put food on their table or bank accounts. put gas in their car to go to work,” When asked if anyone lost Mosqueda said. their insurance coverage or medi“I do think we have a major cal care because of the problem, concern here.” MacEwan said there was no TURN TO EXCHANGE/A8 impact on consumers other than
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