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Brian Olson and Sam Dunn look on as Randy McAvoy helps Glen King position the forklift to unload a huge pallet of potatoes at the Forks Food Bank. The Lions Club members made short work of unloading the many pounds of eastern Washington produce. Photo by Christi Baron
Lions Club’s friendship benefit the West End hungry For the past 35 years the Forks Lions Club has traded firewood for produce with the Quincy Lions Club. This friendship and camaraderie between the two groups speaks volumes of each group’s dedication to their communities. The Quincy Lions sell the firewood to raise money for scholarships and local projects. The Forks Lions donate the produce to local food banks in Forks, Clallam Bay and LaPush. The annual exchange took place last weekend. The Forks Lions were lucky enough to unload the food in the sunshine Sunday morning.
Lions Club members Tim Fletcher and Bert Paul help unload some of the Quincy produce last Sunday at the Forks Food Bank. Photo Christi Baron
Larry McClanahan recovering from accident
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hopefully meet up with emergency responders which he did and guided them back to the ravine. A Life Flight helicopter was called but once it landed in a clearing 300 feet from the ravine it suffered a breakdown and couldn’t take off. McClanahan eventually was brought off the mountain in a special trailer towed by an ATV. It was now 11:30 p.m., he was loaded in to a waiting ambulance and taken to the medical center. Larson said, “I was in the right place at the right time. I think this all happened for a reason. There was a reason I was up there, it just wasn’t the reason I thought.” McClanahan is a long time Forks resident. He and his wife, Judy, operate McClanahan Lumber.
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slipped off the trail and down a 30-foot ravine. He and the ATV rolled down the steep embankment and the vehicle ended up landing on top of him. The impact severely injured McClanahan’s head and neck. The good news is that although he spent most of Wednesday, Oct. 22, in surgery at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, he’s expected to recover, said his son, Ray McClanahan of Scappoose, Ore. After Larson found McClanahan he realized he had forgotten his cell phone. Telling McClanahan he would have to leave him, Larson returned to his home, called 9-1-1 and got some blankets. By the time Larson returned, McClanahan had taken a turn for the worse. Larson decided to leave McClanahan to
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Swanlake, Idaho, resident Aaron Larson is being credited with saving the life of Forks resident Larry McClanahan. Thankfully for McClanahan, Larson decided to go hunting Tuesday, Oct. 21, in the mountains east of his Swanlake area home in southern Bannock County. Although Larson had bagged a three-point, he decided to look around for additional game. The 25-year-old Larson was riding his four-wheeler when something caught his eye in the ravine adjacent to the mountain trail he was taking to Stockton Road. It’s likely that because Larson stopped to investigate a dull light he saw shining at the bottom of the darkened ravine, McClanahan, 74, is alive today. McClanahan’s all-terrain vehicle had