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Memorial Day Ceremony 2014
Forks City Attorney/Planner Rod Fleck along with Scout members of the Forks Elk Pack 4467 take part in the Memorial Day services at the Forks transit center raising the flag to half staff. A wreath also was set at the Blue Star Memorial Highway marker at the transit center. Photo by Lonnie Archibald
About 60 people took time out Monday, Memorial Day, for a short ceremony at Forks City Hall. With showers staying away for the time being the group formed a half circle around the flag pole and monument. A couple of very new Cub Scouts did a fantastic job presenting the colors, their first time ever, with City of Forks Attorney/Planner Rod Fleck directing the program. Archer Preston was called upon to do a reading before the crowd, a wreath was placed at the flag pole and several songs were sung, before the Scouts lowered and raised the flag back to half mast. Even on duty FPD Sergeant Mike Rowley stopped his police car, got out and saluted the flag before getting back in his vehicle and exciting the parking lot. At the end of the ceremony at city hall the flags were retired and the Scouts traveled to the transit center for a short ceremony there.
Gary Fernandez gave free plane rides at the annual Sekiu Fly-In, Saturday, May 24. From left are: Skyler Schoonover and Damien Fosdick. Photo by Donna Barr
he flew low until he came in at the Sekiu Airport. Brocksmith was accompanied by his son James A., along with Jason Berde and his son Chase, all of them from Maple Valley.
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by Donna Barr The Sekiu Fly-In was a success for the ninth consecutive year at the Sekiu Airport, Saturday, May 24. The Clallam Bay/Sekiu Chamber of Commerce sponsored the flyin and also offered a taco lunch, with all proceeds from attendees going to the chamber’s scholarship fund. As every year, attendees went up for free rides in Gary Fernandez’s little Cessna. He only takes one adult at a time, or two children, to make sure he doesn’t over load his plane. The flight over the Strait of Juan de Fuca and nearby hills and towns makes for a very enjoyable, scenic ride. Chamber President Trish Hutson said attendance at the Fly-In “depends on the weather.” Pilot James Brocksmith commented on dealing with the low cloud cover. Starting from the airfield in Auburn in his Beechcraft Sundowner, Brocksmith flew over the clouds until he could pick up the Port Angeles Airport Beacon. Dropping below the clouds,
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Above, Forks City Attorney Rod Fleck along with Scouts from the Forks Elk Pack 4467 take part in the Memorial Day services at Forks City Hall. Photo by Lonnie Archibald