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Kids Derby Results
Clallam County Fair
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West End Thunder Drags this weekend
WET drag racers will attempt to get two full days of racing in this weekend as well as run the Arlen Pearsall Memorial Race which has been rained out twice. In addition to racing there will be a Show and Shine car show. Racing will take place at Forks Municipal Airport on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. Admission for spectators is $10 each day; children 12 and under are free. Registration for the Show and Shine is $15 each day and drag-race registration is $30 daily. WET will host Nostalgia cars at the club’s Everyone’s friend and TECH guy, the late Arlen Pearsall. Sept. 13-14 race weekend.
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On Aug. 21 Ethan Gossard and Ryan Anderson both of Forks, will be honored as Sheriff and Chief for a Day, respectively, at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien. Chief for a Day is about celebrating the lives of children who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening or chronic illness. Each law enforcement agency is providing their “Chief” or “Sheriff” with a hand-tailored uniform and a gift basket containing gifts for each child and their families. This year 34 law enforcement agencies sponsored a child to participate in the event. The two will be “sworn in” and then have lunch with all other attendees and academy recruits, and then participate in outside presentations provided by law enforcement agencies and criminal justice entities including K-9 units, bicycle patrols, SWAT, rifle units, aviation units and much more. This event is donation-funded and is open to the public, children and families are encouraged to attend. If you would like more informaSheriff for a Day Ethan Gossard poses with Forks Police Department Chief for a Day Ryan Anderson at the tion about the event, visit www. Forks Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Parade. Submitted photo chiefforaday.com.
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After spending only one day of incarceration at Olympic Correction Center, 37-year-old Aaron Richard Brown III saw an opportunity to escape and did so. Brown had arrived at OCC on Wednesday from the state prison in Shelton. He had been incarcerated at Shelton since June 27, when he began a 27-month sentence for drug possession. Brown, of Snohomish County, reportedly slipped away from custody after he was last seen at the Olympic Corrections Center’s dining hall at about 4:35 p.m. Thursday. A team of corrections officers found and arrested Brown, at about 9:30 a.m. Friday in a wooded area about 10 miles north of the corrections center, Department of Corrections spokesman Norah West said. After his capture, Brown was placed in segregation at the corrections center and corrections staff planned to interview him, West said. How he escaped is still under investigation. Forks Visitor Center staff thought Brown might have been their last “tourist” of the day on Thursday, when a person fitting his description stopped in just before closing and was evasive in his manner of speaking. VC staff notified local law enforcement, but it was felt the timing did not fit with Brown’s escape. The state Department of Corrections was the lead agency on the search, with assistance from Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Washington State Patrol and the Hoh Tribal Police. Olympic Corrections Center is a minimum security facility and is located about 27 miles south of Forks. It opened in 1968 and can house up to 381 prisoners.
Sheriff and Chief for a day!