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Peach selected to represent state’s forest counties

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Commercial crab fishing to open Jan. 4

Washington’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open in coastal waters Jan. 4 after a monthlong delay, state shellfish managers announced Monday, Dec. 21.

Fishery managers for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved the opening in coordination with fishery managers from Oregon and California.

Washington’s commercial fishery opening includes the waters from the mouth of the Columbia River north to Destruction Island as well as Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay. Crabbers can set their pots in this area on Jan. 1. The area north of Destruction Island will open later in coordination with tribal co-managers.

WDFW delayed the fishery opening, initially scheduled Dec. 1, to conduct additional marine toxin testing and coordinate coastal openings with Oregon. Results from these tests continue to show domoic

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acid levels below the health-safety threshold set by state public health officials, said Dan Ayres, WDFW coastal shellfish manager.

“We understand the hardship that this delay has caused the coastal crab industry,” Ayres said. “However, it’s important to help make sure that the crab going to the marketplace is safe to eat.”

Domoic acid, a natural toxin produced by certain types of marine algae, has disrupted shellfish fisheries this year along the West Coast. The marine toxin can be harmful or even fatal if consumed in sufficient quantities. Cooking or freezing does not destroy the toxin in shellfish.

The Washington commercial crab fishery has an average annual value of $38 million.

Recreational crabbing is open in all of Washington’s coastal waters and in Puget Sound, where marine toxins in crab have not been a problem.

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If it already isn’t disgusting enough, when parking at the Elk Creek Conservation Trail parking lot, amid the litter that is dumped there on a daily basis, on Christmas Day potential recreaters were greeted with animal carcasses.

Apparently a West End “Sportsman” was just to tired after hunting to discard the bones in a responsible way … and is it even hunting season?

Residents from all over town have complained about this sort of thing happening in their neighborhoods as well. The WDF&W contacted the Forks Forum on Monday morning and said that there is a late bow season at this time, and it is also possible that the animals could have been hunted elsewhere. They also said it is illegal to dispose of game in this manner. If anyone has any further information on who dumped these animals in a public parking area please contact WDF&W. Photos Christi Baron

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The Washington State Association of Counties announces the selection of Clallam County Commissioner Bill Peach to represent Washington’s forest counties on the Washington State Board of Natural Resources.

Peach will replace outgoing Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire as the county representative on the Board of Natural Resources.

Peach will serve as the county’s representative on the Board of Natural Resources through Dec. 31, 2019, unless he leaves office prior to that.

The six-member Board of Natural Resources is comprised of the following: • The governor or designee; • The Superintendent of Public Instruction; • The Commissioner of Public Lands; • The director of the University of Washington School of Forest Resources; • The dean of the Washington State University college of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences; and • A member of a county legislative authority that represents counties that contain state forest lands acquired or transferred under RCW 79.22.010, 79.22.040 and 79.22.020.

The BNR sets policies to guide how the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages the state’s lands and resources. The board was formed when DNR was created in 1957.

The BNR is a significant group which has policy authority over the state forest lands held in trust for counties and taxing districts. Income flowing from these lands is distributed to the counties based on various formulas and results collectively in millions of dollars to support county programs and services.

The BNR has the following responsibilities: • Approve trust land timber sales • Approve sales, exchanges or purchases of trust lands • Establish the sustainable harvest level for forested trust land • Harbor Line Commission — Establishes or relocates harbor lines to define boundaries for commerce and navigation in the state’s navigable waters.

• Board of Appraisers — Carries out the Washington constitution’s requirement that no lands granted to the state for educational purposes be sold except to the highest bidder at public auction unless improvements have been established by a board of appraisers.

• Board on Geographic Names — Hears and considers recommendations from the committee on geographic names for naming lakes, mountains, streams, places, towns and other geographic features within the state.

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Court Report The following people were fined $100 or more and/or received jail sentences when they appeared in Clallam County District II Court in Forks: Kelsey Breedlove was fined $250 and was sentenced to 364 days of jail with 362 days suspended for Assault Fourth Degree-Domestic Violence.

Casey Ward was fined $150 and sentenced

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Daily Calls for Service Forks Police Department

Dec. 21-27, 2015 Date High 12/21 40 12/22 40 12/23 39 12/24 39 12/25 42 12/26 38 12/27 43

12/16/15 Frequent patrols requested, S. Forks Ave., following vehicle prowls and evidence of trespassers

Low Rainfall 34 0.51 33 0.64 34 1.30 32 0.96 29 0.03 28 0.01 34 0.52

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Forks Dec. Weather Facts: High Temp 71° on Dec. 21, 1972 Low Temp. 3° on Dec. 28, 1968 Average High Temp. 46° Average low temp. 35° High Rainfall 40.12 in 1979 Low Rainfall, 4.33 in 1914 Average Rainfall 18.82 High Day Rainfall 8.00 Dec. 9, 1956 High Snowfall 36.00 in 1964

LILY ANN NOEL LEONS Lily Ann Noel Leons was born at Forks Community Hospital on Dec. 24, 2015, at 3:04 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces. Her parents are Sapphire Price and Cameron Leons of Forks.

CALLS ON 12/17/2015 Time Detail 07:02 Burglary 351 JULIA WAY 09:30 Follow Up 500 E DIVISION ST 10:00 Follow Up 500 E DIVISION ST 10:30 Disturbance S SPARTAN AVE 12:16 Animal Abuse CEDAR AVE 12:27 Traffic Stop ANDERSONVILLE AVE / HWY 101 12:47 CP 621 CALAWAH WAY 15:20 Erratic Vehicle 171 N FORKS AVE 15:27 Follow Up EAST E ST 15:43 Traffic Stop 2ND AVE / WEST A ST 16:08 Citizen Contact 162 S FORKS AVE 17:22 Follow Up S FORKS AVE 19:00 Prisoner Transport 500 E DIVISION ST 20:51 Follow Up 287 FOUNDERS WAY 20:54 Info Misc S FORKS AVE 21:08 Vehicle Prowl S CAMAS AVE 21:38 Suspicious Person Vehicle JERRYS RENTALS 21:40 Domestic Violence E DIVISION ST Total Calls on 12/17/2015: 18 CALLS ON 12/18/2015 Frequent patrols requested, Russell Rd., following vehicle prowl and stereo taken Time Detail 03:53 911 Hangup S FORKS AVE Total Calls on 12/18/2015: 1 CALLS ON 12/19/2015 05:37 Community Patrol N FORKS AVE 06:07 Traffic Stop 17 S FORKS AVE 06:18 Business Check S FORKS AVE 11:25 Community Patrol 950 S FORKS AVE 11:37 Check Welfare S FORKS AVE 12:56 Citizen Motor Asst N FORKS AVE 14:18 911 Hangup PAGE RD 15:34 Abandoned Vehicle CALAWAH WAY 16:06 Follow Up S FORKS AVE 16:16 Theft S FORKS AVE 16:17 Warrant Attempt 1405 PAGE RD 16:21 Alarm S CAMAS AVE 517:42 Follow Up 500 E DIVISION ST 18:21 Request Frequent Patrol 351 BOGACHIEL WAY 18:39 Check Welfare S FORKS AVE 19:28 Community Patrol S FORKS AVE 21:18 911 Hangup Total Calls on 12/19/2015: 17

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CALLS ON 12/20/2015 06:56 Traffic Stop 530 BOGACHIEL WAY 07:36 Suspicious Person Vehicle 187205 HWY 101 08:19 Business Check 21 KINGS RANCH RD 10:01 Suspicious Person Vehicle S SPARTAN AVE 10:21 Burglary KINGS RANCH RD 10:42 Abandoned Vehicle 1750 CALAWAH WAY 13:19 Civil Standby KINGS RANCH RD 13:19 911 Hangup 13:22 Traffic Stop S FORKS AVE 13:51 Parking Complaint BOGACHIEL WAY 14:35 Traffic Stop S FORKS AVE 15:40 Civil Standby KINGS RANCH RD 16:18 Alarm S CAMAS AVE 16:52 Theft G ST 17:24 Disturbance HWY 101 18:38 Prisoner Transport FORKS JAIL 20:34 Follow Up BOGACHIEL WAY 20:37 Citizen Motor Asst FOUNDERS WAY 22:03 Follow Up BOGACHIEL WAY 22:05 Traffic Stop F ST / 5TH AVE 23:42 Follow Up G ST Total Calls on 12/20/2015: 21 CALLS ON 12/21/2015 00:29 Other Agency Assist CALAWAH WAY Total Calls on 12/21/2015: 1 CALLS ON 12/21/2015 06:42 911 Hangup BOGACHIEL WAY 09:27 Request Frequent Patrol 351 BOGACHIEL WAY 11:04 Other Agency Assist BOGACHIEL WAY 12:30 Trespass S SPARTAN AVE 12:58 Theft S FORKS AVE 14:02 911 Hangup 16:39 Theft BOGACHIEL WAY 17:22 Alarm S FORKS AVE 19:12 Neighborhood Oriented Policing KINGS RANCH RD 19:16 Neighborhood Oriented Policing CALAWAH BOAT RAMP 22:27 Traffic Stop 100 W A ST 23:45 Criminal Traffic HWY 110 Total Calls on 12/21/2015: 12 CALLS ON 12/22/2015 00:20 Disturbance S FORKS AVE 00:40 Assault Misdemeanor HWY 101 Total Calls on 12/22/2015: 2

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Forks Forum December 1936 Accused of drunkenness and using vulgar language in the presence of ladies, Louis “Happy” Malling, a worker in Camp Two, Clallam Bay, was arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff W.T. Holenstein and brought before Judge Bowlby’s court Monday morning. He was fined $10 and costs, and sentenced to serve 30 days in jail.

Andie Anderson was arrested Friday by Deputy Sheriff Holenstein on a charge of being disorderly. Tried in Judge Bowlby’s court Monday he was fined $10 and sentenced to 30 days.

Both fine and sentence were suspended, on Anderson’s promise of good behavior.

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An angel we never got to know

Zayden and Jennifer.

She loved her new home. She loved Forks. Zayden started pre-school.

On Dec. 18, 2015, at about 10:25 p.m., at less than a month past her 35th birthday, my baby girl, wife to Kyle, mother to little Zayden, now not quite 3 years old, lost her battle with cancer.

I wanted the Forks Community to know a little about an angel who never really got the chance to become a true part of your beautiful area. She was a newbie but truly loved it there.

I also wanted to offer my sincere thanks and appreciation to the Forks Ambulance crew and especially the nurses and doctors at the Forks Hospital who all took such wonderful care of my baby in her final hours.

As you can imagine, the loss to our family, and especially Kyle and little Zayden, is immeasurable. What you might not imagine is how much of a loss this is for Forks.

Thank you.

Rob Stephenson Woodland

Thoughts on WDF&W rule changes Dear Editor, I recently submitted the following letter to the F&W Commission. I thought this might be a timely topic for Forks Forum readers.

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as a food fish while steelhead were managed by the Washington State Department of Game, as a game fish.

In today’s climate of catch and release, it is important to remember that many anglers still rely on fish, predominately salmon, as an important source of protein for themselves and their families.

The perceived panacea of catch and release has a dark side that is not often discussed.

Fish mortality. Fish mortality is caused by stress and hemorrhaging associated with hooking, landing and releasing fish, all in the name of sport.

The rate of mortality has many variables but is thought to range somewhere between 10 percent (Mike Gross, Fisheries Biologist, WSDFW) and as high as 40 percent (Jeff Cedarholm, Fisheries Biologist, WSDNR).

It seems intuitive that fishing seasons and gear regulations should reflect fish run strength determined by quantifiable data.

Political correctness relative to catch and release is a poor substitute for science.

Hatchery-raised winter steelhead return to the Quillayute River system from mid-November until the first or second week of January. This return migration is followed by wild steelhead that begin entering the rivers during the first part of January and continues until the end of April. Aside from the current one wild steelhead annual catch limit, the steelhead caught during this four-month period of time are wild fish that are required to be released.

The question that begs to be asked, is the run strength adequate to allow a catch and keep fisheries? If so, why not?

Conversely, if the run strength is not adequate to allow a catch

and keep fisheries, is it strong enough to provide a catch and release fisheries, considering anticipated mortality and wastage issues?

My primary objection with the current proposals developed by the North Coast Steelhead Advisory Group revolve around requiring barbless hooks, at all times in all North Coast rivers.

If you subscribe to the assumption that wild steelhead stocks are threatened on the Northwest Olympic Peninsula and barbless hooks will assist with their release, then this will only have a benefit during the four months annually that adult wild steelhead are occupying the rivers.

Why would WDFW impose a barbless hook rule during the remaining eight months? From Sept. 1 through Nov. 30 the primary food fish, the salmon, return to the peninsula’s streams.

Current data indicates that fall returns of both coho and chinook salmon are strong. I have fished streams with both barbed and barbless hooks and have found my success in landing salmon drops significantly when using barbless hooks. Barbless hooks have a direct impact on my ability to provide salmon for myself and my family. Fishing for us and our neighbors is more than sport.

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Wildlife Commission have an obligation to represent all anglers.

Please look closely at run strength data provided by both state and tribal fisheries biologists before imposing a yearround barbless hook rule.

Richard Cahill Port Angeles SEE MORE LETTERS, page 6

In July 2015, McClanahan Lumber fulfilled Larry’s partially prepared dream!

When he left for his hunting trip on October 2014, he was almost ready to start Sawing Trim Packages and flooring for sale to his customers.

Most of you know he did not finish his dream so Judy, Ed and Zane did it for him!

It was that important to Larry!

In July, a special Moulder-Planer Trainer, from Maine, was hired and flown to Seattle to spend a solid week in training in Forks at the mill.

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Dear Editor, I would like to tell you all about my beautiful daughter and her family.

Jennifer (Stephenson) Forgey was married to Kyle Forgey.

They met each other many years ago when they both worked at the Columbian newspaper in Vancouver. They both grew up in southwest Washington.

Jennifer trained as a chef and Kyle was training in the hospitality profession. The kids ended up moving to Yellowstone National Park where they both worked for a few years.

Eventually, they moved outside of the park to West Yellowstone, Mont., where Kyle became the general manager for Delaware North Corporation hotels and restaurants in that tourist community.

While in West Yellowstone, they “finally” got around to getting married. Also, having a few miscarriages, and being not even sure she would be able to have a baby, Jennifer became pregnant.

Little Zayden was born in April 2013. They were the proudest parents you could ever imagine.

Jennifer began not feeling well the summer of 2014 and in August was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer.

She was only 33 years old and had a just over 1-year-old son.

In the ensuing months, Jennifer came back home, so to speak, and began cancer treatment at the Oregon Health Sciences University hospital in Portland, Ore. Also during that time, Kyle sought, obtained and accepted a work transfer to Kalaloch Lodge where he is now the general manager.

In April 2015, the kids purchase their first home in Forks.

They were both so excited and happy and loved their new place.

Jennifer’s treatment was going exceptionally well. Even her doctors kept saying that they almost never saw the kind of positive progress she was making in someone with her kind of cancer.

It went so well that she got to the point that they were willing to do potential curative surgery to remove her cancer.

She went in for surgery on Oct. 23. The surgery failed because they found that her cancer had spread beyond her pancreas.

After the previous few months of temporarily staying down south for her treatment, coming “home” to Forks when she could for short stays, she came home to Forks permanently.

Dear Commissioners, Nov. 8, 2015 The following comments are directed at proposed rule changes developed by the North Coast Steelhead Advisory Group. I would like to make it clear that this ad hoc advisory group does not represent myself or the majority of the anglers residing on the Northwest Olympic Peninsula. Notification and participation in this group’s rule change efforts has been limited at best.

The truth is, most anglers are unaware that rule changes have been proposed and are likely to be adopted. The unfortunate history of public participation with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife requires access to a computer or a willingness to drive to Olympia to attend a public meeting.

Grassroot participation is important to the public process when major rule changes are being proposed. A fresh new approach might involve meetings in rural communities like Forks where people who live closest to the resource have an opportunity to participate.

I have been a lifelong resident of the Northwest Olympic Peninsula and have lived next to the Sol Due River for the past 30 years. Prior to my retirement, I worked as a Forester/Local Manager for The Washington State Department of Natural Resources in the Hoh and Clearwater River basins located in West Jefferson County.

My duties consisted largely of forest management and resource protection, which provided a unique opportunity to interface with tribal and state fisheries biologists. Although I am not a biologist, the valued interaction that I had with many of these individuals is a basis for my opinions.

The importance of differentiating between salmon and steelhead is key. Before the agencies were combined, salmon were managed by the Washington State Department of Fisheries,

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Not everyone has a chainsaw, you know

By Christy Rasmussen-Ford After our latest super storm, a lady from Port Townsend posted a picture on Facebook of her “storm damage.” Miss Port Townsend’s picture showed a tree branch, roughly the size of the perfect marshmallow roasting stick, that had fallen across her driveway. She captioned the picture with the following: “I called the WSDOT about this, but they said they are too busy! I can’t even get out of my driveway!”

Silly WSDOT, working on getting ginormous trees off of power lines and off the highways … why didn’t you have time to lift a twig for this lady??!!

Surprisingly, no one advised the lady to make some s’mores with her “storm damage,” but someone did nicely suggest that she take care of the problem herself. She responded with, “Not everyone has a chainsaw, you know!” At first, I thought to myself, “You don’t need chainsaws, just your fingers … maybe a knee at most.”

More importantly though, I thought to myself, “Are you trying to tell me that there are people in this world who do not have at least one chainsaw in their house? Where is this crazy place you speak of?”

Ironically, I basically had the same exact reaction when I first watched Bambi at age 6. While many children cried their eyes out when Bambi’s mother was shot by a hunter, I was thinking to myself, “Where is this crazy place you speak of where female deer can legally be shot?! This movie is so fake!

Everyone knows you can’t shoot if there aren’t horns!”

As it turns out though, there are places where female deer can legally be shot. Fun Fact: there also are places where deer travel in herds, specifically Pennsylvania. It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever witnessed.

Much like the legalized shooting of Bambi’s mom, I’m sure there also are places where people do not own chainsaws, but the thought of that still blows my mind. No chainsaws? How do these people even live? That is not the kind of life that I am looking for.

A few weeks ago, there was another huge storm near my work place. A co-worker, who left work early, called my work to let everyone know that there was a tree across the highway nearby. Another co-worker commented that SHE was not worried because SHE had a chainsaw in the trunk. As I was driving my husband’s vehicle, I also had a chainsaw that I could use. I’ve never actually used it before, but the keyword there was “could” … as in, worst case scenario I probably could figure it out.

I’m guessing that most people around here carry a chainsaw and could remedy a tree across the road situation themselves.

Miss Port Townsend needs to invest in one. That way, if there is a stick in her driveway, she doesn’t need to burden the WSDOT with such a thing. They have better things to do … such as helping me start my chainsaw.

For questions, comments or more weird facts about the Pennsylvania area (shopping carts are called buggies there), please e-mail me at christyrasmussen@yahoo.com.

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Birthdays and baby Jesus found … sort of …

If you are reading this and today is Dec. 31 … it is my Birthday!! I know what you are thinking … how cool is that, a birthday on News Year’s Eve … everyone is celebrating … well you are wrong — it is not a good day to have a birthday. If you have a December birthday or a birthday on a holiday you know what I mean.

While it may not be the best day of the year to celebrate a birthday, this date does afford me one distinction that nobody else in the entire world can claim … I was the last baby born in Clallam County for 1955.

This tidbit of history landed me on the front page of the Port Angeles Evening News in January 1956. Actually the tidbit was about the first babies born in 1956 but I was mentioned as the last and as a tax deduction.

This little newspaper clipping sat yellowing in my baby book for many years and I always wondered about those other two babies … one was the first born in the West End and the other the first born in Port Angeles.

A couple of years ago I thought I would go looking for them … I wondered how their lives had been? The clipping didn’t have their names but it did have their parents’ names, so I went searching and now with things like Facebook I found the West End baby in a couple hours.

Her name is Pam Eaton Price and this is what she said regarding her historical status as the first West End baby born in Clallam County in 1956.

“I was born in the Forks hospital. My grandmother was the postmaster in Sappho for

a very long time — We left Sappho when I was 9 months old. I grew up in Seattle where my parents stayed until they retired. They then moved to Satsop, WA. My mom passed away several years ago and now my dad lives in Arizona. My husband and I also moved here when he retired so we now live in Bullhead City, Ariz. I did know I was the first baby born in Clallam County in 1956. Also, in 2006 someone sent me the article out of the Peninsula Daily News from the “50 years ago today” column — lol! It was something I have always known though.”

The search for the other baby was not as easy … I just could find nothing on her so I resorted to searching newspaper archives … and I found the sad news. Her name was Janie Logelin and on Friday, Oct. 7, 1977, at the age of 22 she was struck by a vehicle and killed.

The newspaper story said Miss Logelin had crossed Highway 101 near the Hi-Way Market one mile east of Port Angeles, to make a phone call. When returning to her friends on the other side of the highway she was struck. She died about an hour later never regaining consciousness. Her life never even got started.

So I guess even if New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day is not the perfect day to celebrate a birthday at least Pam and I have celebrated 38 more than Janie Logelin ever got to celebrate. Now on my birthday I think of Janie Logelin.

And speaking of birthdays I’d like to welcome Lily Ann Noel Leons, my new great-niece, to the family, see page 2, and Lily was born on Christmas Eve!!

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FOLLOW-UP ON WHERE IS BABY JESUS Linda Wells has solved the mystery of where baby Jesus and the nativity scene went … Wells said, “The Church of the Nazarene displayed the nativity scene for many years for the Garden Club after they could not put the scene in the triangle but the plywood finally gave up. At the time we didn’t have the funds or the expertise to make another one. Perhaps someone could make a new one and donate it to the cause. We would be glad to display it again on our property.”

Christi Baron, Editor

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Community News MARATHON BINGO The fourth annual Marathon Bingo is planned for New Year’s Day at the Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchant Road, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

FAFSA INFORMATIONAL EVENT On Jan. 7 from 6-7 p.m. there will be a FAFSA presentation in the high school library.

During this time there will be a short presentation and a chance to begin your FAFSA. The FAFSA is the Federal Application for Free Student Aid and all seniors who are interested in attending college

next fall are encouraged to go to this event and/or complete their FAFSA. The application opens on Jan. 1 and funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you want to attend the event, check with the high school counseling center to determine what is needed to bring to the event.

Call 360-374-6262 ext. 263 with any questions or concerns.

NO NOTARY SERVICES AFTER MARCH 1 Mary Howell, Howell Business Services, no longer will provide Notary Public services

as of March 1, 2016.

PEAK 6 BURGLARIZED Peak 6 gift store, Hoh Rain Forest Road, was burglarized during the night of Dec. 23.

Items taken were turquoise necklaces, moonstone pendants and Boma, Far Fetched and Vinces brand sterling silver earrings and necklaces. Please call the police immediately if you recognize any jewelry that fits this description or Olympic National Park coats.

TAX-AIDE SCHEDULE The TAX-AIDE program will offer free tax preparation and

• W-2s, 1099s, and all documents necessary to complete the 2015 tax return • A check or bank document with account numbers, if direct deposit desired • The 2014 tax return The TAX-AIDE program is sponsored by the IRS and the AARP Foundation. The service is free of charge and available to taxpayers of all ages.

e-filing Feb. 6-April 18, 2016.

Volunteers will be at Forks City Hall every other Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 6 and 20, March 5 and 19, and April 2 and 16.

First-come, first-served. No appointment is necessary.

Taxpayers must bring the following information to the TAX-AIDE site: • Photo ID • Social Security cards for taxpayer, spouse and dependents • Documentation of health care coverage for everyone on the tax return. Bring Form 1095, if received.

HISTORY TALES TO EXPLORE THE WRECK OF THE SV. NIKOLAI Rod Fleck, City of Forks attorney/planner, will explore CONTINUED on page 6

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COMMUNITY, from page 5 the fascinating story of the wreck of the Sv. Nikolai at the Clallam County Historical Society’s History Tales presentation.

The program is at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 3, at the First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St., Port Angeles. Parking and entry to the church’s social hall are on Laurel Street.

In September 1808, the Russian brig Sv. Nikolai sailed from New Arkhangel (now Sitka, Alaska). The ship wrecked about 1.5 miles north of the mouth of the Quillayute River on Nov. 1, 1808, and thus began a landmark incident in Clallam County’s history.

The wife of the ship’s captain is one of the passengers, and 18-year-old Anna Petrovna Bulygin becomes the first European woman known to set foot in what is now Washington.

The survivors clash with the Hohs, Quileutes and Makahs and then live with them as captives until 1810.

The event has been documented by the written account of one of the survivors, Timofei Tarakanov, and the oral narrative of Quileute member Ben Hobucket.

Fleck has a passion for history, particularly West End history. Shipwrecks, cemeteries, the Quillayute Air Station,

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and family history — particularly military ancestors — are all subjects of great interest to Fleck.

An interpretive monument commemorating the 1808 shipwreck is at 5333 Upper Hoh Road, just past the Hard Rain Café on the way to the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center.

Anna Petrovna is one of the featured women in “Women to Reckon with: Untamed Women

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Dear Editor, Put duck eggs under a setting hen! When the “chicks” hatch, they head straight into the nearest water.

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I can’t promise what the mamma hen will do. One of mine just raced around the pond, squawking loudly. But I am told some will at least go wading to “save” their “chicks.”

Please have a great holiday season!

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by Glynda Schaad and Gary Peterson. And Kenneth Owens and Alton Donnelly provide a thorough account in their book “The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai.”

History Tales is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the Clallam County Historical Society’s office at 452-2662 or e-mail artifact@olypen.com.

Saturday night, Dec. 12, folk gathered to enjoy the “Holiday Ho Ho Down” ably directed by Jerry George and Barney Munger.

Both men are keenly attached to the presentation of social fun that music and dance bring to community spirit.

Barney, now a resident of Clallam Bay, was celebrating his retirement and a new home by the beach.

Jerry, also enjoying the whale watching from his kitchen window in Sekiu, joined up to present our Holiday Ho Down.

The event was wonderful, folk came from all over and the Community Center was again filled with the wonderful smells of home-cooked potluck dishes, the happy smiles of folk dancing and singing and the spirit of home town entertainment.

Loose Gravel draws a crowd wherever they go and Texan Dean played with the band. Way to go Tex! The best part for me is the generational aspect. The floor covered with happy youngsters from 4 years on pairing up and showcase their fine outfits.

Dancing couples interweaving and sharing the space.

The singles going “Small up, simple down!” and now the Virginia Reel.

What fun for everyone, good spirits, good memories, good music, good friendship.

The Virginia Reel, now well known by some and called

by Terry, held the excitement as 32 folk of all ages took the floor.

Watch the Forks Forum for the next appearance of the Virginia Reel in Forks or Clallam Bay! Get those dancing shoes ready.

Watch the Forum for the next dance class in Forks in January.

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Above: Lady Reds from left, Holly Greene, Gina McCaulley and Vonte Aguirre compete with Tulalip’s Aliya Jones for ball control during a recent game played in Neah Bay. Tulalip defeated Neah Bay 51-46.

Photo by Lonnie Archibald At right: Neah Bay’s Ryan Moss (24) is in action in the lane against Tulalip. Also in on the action are Red Devils Reggie Buttram (30) and Tulalip’s Willy Enick (23) and Bobby Jeter (34). Neah Bay defeated the Hawks 81-63.

Photo by Lonnie Archibald

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Lady Spartan Brittney Woodruff (35) rebounds against Tenino in league action in the Spartan Gym where the Beavers defeated Forks 56-42. Photo by Lonnie Archibald

Spartan Cort Prose came to a quick stop against the Tenino defense in the Spartan Gym where the Beavers defeated Forks 49-45. Three games in one week was too much to handle for the weakened Spartans, especially after the run and gun affair the night before with Neah Bay. Photo by Lonnie Archibald

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Mt. Baker Justin Compton Memorial Invite Mt. Baker Justin Compton Memorial Invitational

Team Scores: Forks 199.5, Sultan 188.5, Glacier Peak 121.5, Concrete 114, Lynden 104, Sehome 87, Darrington 86, Mount Baker 79, Nooksack 76, Friday Harbor 35.5, Lakewood 25.5, LaConner 15 120 Alvaro Ortiz first in his season debut after being injured during the beginning of the season.

145 and 160 Garrison Schumack and Joel Mohn picked up their first championships of the season.

195 Jack Dahlgren remained undefeated and picked up his second championship of the season.

Forks wrestlers traveled to Mount Baker High School and came back with a victory at the 12-team Justin Compton Memorial Invitational.

The Spartans claimed four individ-

The Spartans lost their fourth straight game but didn’t go down easy after a long trip to face-off with the Cruisers.

“It was a great high school game,” Forks coach Rick Gooding said, “Went right down the wire. We were back and forth with leads all through the fourth quarter.”

“Obviously, they got the final lead. We had several chances to tie or take the lead in the game; didn’t execute very well, but that’s basketball. The team that

ual title winners Tuesday, Dec. 22.

Senior Reece Moody was runnerup in the 170-pound class. Freshmen Josue Lucas (106 pounds) and Colby Demorest (132) also finished

second for the Spartans. Saul Avila was third in the 126-pound division and Joseph Mariner placed third at 160 pounds.

PLACERS 106 Josue Lucas 9

120 Alvaro Ortiz 12 126 Saul Avila 11 Keith Thompson 9 132 Colby Demorest 9 145 Garrison Schumack 11 152 Gavin Palmer 11 160 Joel Mohn 12 Joseph Mariner 170 Reece Moody 12 182 Kenny Gale 11 195 Jack Dahlgren 11 Luke Dahlgren 9 220 Nathan Flores 10

Eatonville 65, Forks 62 executes and takes care of the ball is going to win.”

“It was a great game.”

Marky Adams scored 22 and Parker Browning had 21 for the Spartans on Monday.

“He shot very well from the free-throw line and finished strong, too,” Gooding said of Adams.

“Parker and Marky both were themselves. They had 21 and 22, so 43 of our 62 (points).

Everyone else chipped in a little bit here and there.”

Gooding said Eatonville’s press defense didn’t bother the Spartans as much as other teams’ presses have in the past few weeks.

“We broke the press a lot better,” Gooding said. “They tried jumping out on us in the second half with a press, but we broke it a couple times and made them get out of it, which was nice to see after our last couple of games.”

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The Spartans will face Taholah on Tuesday and Central Kitsap Academy on Wednesday.

Both games are at 2:30 p.m. at North Beach High School in Ocean Shores.

“Obviously, we’ve still got a lot of things to learn,” Gooding said. “We’re right there in a lot of these games, we’re just right there.”

“We got to figure out how to win, we got to execute a little bit better when it matters, and early in the game for that matter, do all the small things so we don’t put ourselves in a back and forth game. We have to learn not to shoot ourselves in the foot but turning the ball

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over and refusing to block out.”

“We have so much talent and potential as a team, we just have to turn our practice habits into game habits. Play hard, play smart and play together,” Gooding concluded.

Eatonville 65, Forks 62 Forks 10 15 19 17 — 65 Eatonville 15 13 17 19 — 62 Individual scoring Forks (62) Schumack 4, Ramsey 3, Baysinger 5, Browning 21, Prose 6, Adams 22, Pegram, Tejano.

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Going off the Grid Part 2: What a Week

By Jaymi Goetze

Living off the grid is much harder than I ever imagined. I’m not out breaking my back or getting stuck in the sticker bushes yet; it’s still storm season. It’s hard because I have no Internet and no Direct TV … that means no Facebook, no Pinterest, no “Days of Our Lives” and no CNN! Have I mentioned that we jumped into this off-grid business during the shortest days of the year like morons?

We literally moved on the day of the winter solstice.

I love electricity; I love to have every light in the house on like a jerk, and I LOVE to fall asleep with the TV on. This is not possible out here on the 20 acres of Rough Branch Farm. Everything we own, even our TV, is all run off DC power and everything has a DC plug.

If our solar power gets below 23 volts, we have to kick on our generator. I have never felt

more reliant on the sun. We are constantly checking to see where our voltage is standing.

And don’t get me started on the composting toilet. Phil fixed the drain for the “liquid.” Going to the bathroom outside was starting to get old. Yes, I definitely said composting toilet.

I’m struggling a bit trying to adapt. I had to call my other half, Alajiah, for a little pep talk while I was rushing to town to charge my laptop. She even talked to me during the middle of a Seahawks game! She shaped me right up with some encouragement.

I can do this!

I’m quick to pull away if something is not working in my favor (right now I’m positive solar power is trying to kill me with its kindness) but let me tell you what it is in my favor, my family.

This last week without the warm glow of the laptop and TV while I sleep, I have watched and listened to my kids play with their toys and use their imagination.

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My oldest daughter Riyan is even more interactive than ever with her little sisters, Harper and Daphne. They build monstrous Lego creations, play in the ball pit and pretend. At some point during the day I always hear “FE FI FO FUM!” along with little screams and giggles.

Phil, Ed and I have impressive conversations about plans for the garden, orchard and green houses, future trips and hikes that we should take. What should we can, what can we can … I don’t even know how to can! Ha!

We have every intention of building a network of trails (art trails) throughout the property and an entire treehouse community for the girls. Here I am thinking about my own things to build and create. This is where I would sit for a couple hours on Pinterest finding things to mimic.

I think I may have lost my creativeness because of all the wonderful and absolutely perfect things on Pinterest.

I found aprons at Thrifty Mart!

I would have made them but I

can’t sew, yet. The girls and I wear them and turn into little Betty Crockers. We made sugar cookies, frosting, crepes and pizza from scratch.

I know I know it’s not a big deal, but IT IS! I am the first one to buy frozen and premade everything. Unless it’s soup; I make a mean soup. The girls are so excited to cook; it’s becoming something we do together just about every meal!

I’m setting them up to be more self-reliant. I can’t wait to cook what we grow!

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Seeing Through My Finger: Part Two

By Chiggers Stokes Special to the Forks Forum

Last week we took a fantastic journey into a hydrogen atom and learned that what appears to us to be the hard shell of the atom was actually a probability cloud — not a defined orbit, but the rapid and random firing of the electron from a state of existence to a state of non-existence.

To say that this is how the atom appears is to go around the issue that we can’t see anything that is smaller than an ultraviolet light wave which has a wave length of 4 billionths of a meter. Nothing smaller than that is visible to the human eye regardless of magnification.

Because, as everyone knows, light is a wave and it can not carry data shorter than its wave length. That light is composed of waves was proven by Thomas Young in 1803 who projected light through two slits and demonstrated an interference pattern, like dropping two stones into still water cre-

ates waves that interfere with one another, amplifying and canceling out the crests.

But in 1905, an obscure eccentric, working in a patent office in Zurich, Switzerland, published a paper on the photoelectric effect of light and proved that light was a collection of tiny particles or photons. Seeing refracted light was the effect of these tiny little particles being bounced from matter into out eyes … like billiard balls.

It likewise proved out experimentally and eventually won the Nobel Prize for young Albert Einstein. It was the beginning of spooky science.

Light can’t be both a wave and a particle … but it is.

With Special Relativity, which came a few years later, Einstein deals with the special condition of speeds approaching light. He embraced another aspect of spooky science which was proven by Mickelson and Morley by accident who were trying to prove the existence of a cosmic ether.

They proved: Regardless of the observer’s state of motion, the velocity of light always will be measured at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) a second. If you are traveling toward a star at half the speed of light, you should measure the speed of light as 1.5c and it you are traveling away from the star at half the speed of light, you should read the star’s light at 0.5c … but you don’t. It’s always 186k miles/ second.

To appreciate the implications of this cosmic phenomenon, Albert Einstein takes us to a train platform and rides by in a train car dropping a ball so that we can watch. From his perspective in the train car the ball falls straight down, regardless of the speed of the train as long as it remains consistent.

But we see the falling ball as a parabola. As the ball falls faster, it cuts a straighter arch to the floor of the moving train. Graphs on paper use this parabola to project the shift on your watch and the watch of Albert Einstein dropping the ball on the train.

Reality, as we know it, is much more eloquently described in math, then in any spoken language. Einstein proved mathematically that the parabola at the speed of light always will remain beyond the material world, since this is the threshold from mass to energy.

We are all manifestations of intense energy.

To see what it means, please

grab your chiggoggles and come out for a star walk with me. With your goggles on, see on the control panel at the filter button on the lower right of your view. Go to the big red button that says Filter Everything and push it. Good. Now me and the rest of the universe should disappear and you are alone in space.

The temperature in this dark emptiness is absolute zero.

But, undaunted, you use the Radar Telescope feature of your chiggoggles to look around the universe to make sure that you are alone. Due to a defect in your pair of chiggoggles, the Filter Everything function missed a mini-asteroid, which slipped through filter and, big whoops! — it’s heading at you at the deadly speed of 0.5c (93,000 miles/ sec) You’re able to use all the calculator functions (sine and cosine) that always baffle me and you expertly use classic Newtonian physics (which is what I got a D in) to draw your projections. There is no denying that the steroid will hit you.

With no ground to walk on, you’re pretty much stuck as you stand and there is no getting out of the way. As surely as cancer resides in my lymph glands, that asteroid will make a mess when it hits you at that speed. So you do whatever you can to get your affairs in order there in space and as the moment of collision draws near you pull yourself into the

tightest point facing the incoming and, without a so much as a whooosh, the asteroid is going away from you. You realize it’s passed. It missed you.

All your calculations were correct but by Lorentz Contraction, at the speed of 0.5c, drug the asteroid across time/ space so fast that it contracts in a material way. From our perspective, the asteroid gets smaller.

From the asteroid’s view we get smaller. From the asteroid’s view you were coming at it at 0.5c. The asteroid’s standpoint is that it was standing still, minding its own business, when you almost hit it in a near miss where you fled the scene.

Either case will stand up in the court of Relativity.

The court of Relativity is open to reference point. The court of Einstein’s Relativity holds that the universe unfolds differently from the perspective of different coordinate systems and reference points.

Are we not each of us with senses and consciousness reference points? And, if I am a reference point, has not the universe revolved around me for the last 65 years? Stephen Hawkins says that the math and gravity behind the universe revolving around the Earth works the same as the Earth revolving around the sun. It’s just harder to draw.

The court of Relativity rules that, far more than material beings, we are energy. We are starlight!

Shake the Cage: An Apologia Dear Forks Forum reader, I shake the cages of beasts.

I roust the animals that sleep deep inside — the sleeping huskies, bears, elk, coyotes, cougars, wolves. I shake their

outer bars — those tame, bored animals exhibited for matters of humanity and civility and society — I reach through their bars. I slap these beasts on their faces and haunches.

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Bare your teeth.

You are people of the Pacific Northwest. Its outdoors is yours. It is your thirsty roots grown firmly forever into its moist soil. Your stories are here. You are a major tradition going all the way back to your ancestors, whether they be true stories or fables like that of Aesop’s, Hans Christian Andersen, Grimm Fairytales,

the oral traditions of the First Nations, or of many more. You remain the human experience.

You are weather and temperature affecting the sanguine blood in other veins. You are storm and drive, stress and urge, laughter and tears.

Have you ever wanted to share an experience that made your blood go hot or cold?

Live. Experience. Relive. This is communicable experience.

Telling of all lessons and things is how we relive and understand and help others live.

You haven’t forgotten the spirit and scent of the wild

have you? No, of course not.

You live in Forks, Washington.

You live in the spirit of the Northwest. You know its wild smell.

I’m telling you now — You are wild. You are free. The cage door is open and the outdoors is your backyard. Live for the outdoors. Then relive for the outdoors. Don’t worry about releasing all chaos and calamity. The desire to be wild and free growls inside you. Be wild, be free.

Sincerely, Josh Miles

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Missing persons — Dangerous GPS

By Jane Hielman On Saturday, Dec. 19, at 2 p.m., five well-dressed and polite young Asian folk walked into the Co-op. Dampened by the rain, they obviously had a story to tell, but they were distant and reserved.

They asked me to call the State Patrol because their rented vehicle needed to be towed.

After a long conversation, their thoughts quite distant and themselves a little distracted, I worked out that they had walked from Shi-Shi Beach, their car was behind a locked gate and they had walked to the Co-op.

My math went wild! 16 miles to Neah Bay, another seven to Shi-Shi, another two to the beach. Ay! No wonder they were distracted. Only six hours of walking!

I looked at their shoes … no mud!

This story was looking confusing!

I phoned around to Gary’s Towing, Cain’s Towing, West End Motor’s Towing and Sol Duc Towing but found no help.

I started thinking, “Behind a locked gate, at Shi-Shi? It didn’t add up.”

So I called the non-emergency Sheriff’s number.

Apologizing for my non-urgent call, I started to explain to the operator that I couldn’t find a tow truck to help my five new Asian friends. The operator quickly asked me to relax, “You have done the right thing,” she said. “Where are they now?”

“Here at the Co-op,” I replied.

“They are missing persons, you have done the right thing, we are pleased to know of their whereabouts. Are they injured?”

“No,” I replied.

This done, we waited for Deputy Ron Cameron.

Their story grew from here…

The five young people are from China, four of them went

to school together in Wuhan in Hubei Province. They all go to universities here in the states: UW, UCI, Northwestern and University of Missouri. The other young man they met here is from Liaoning Province, a place called Dalian. They currently live in Seattle, California and Chicago.

Renting an SUV in Seattle with a GPS, for safety, they headed for Shi-Shi but the GPS told them to turn off HokoOzette Road and then take Campbell Properties Road, and so they did.

That was when they met the mud. The mud stopped the journey. They could not get the vehicle out.

This was Friday while the gate was open. They spent the night in the car, there was no phone service.

So at 8 a.m. on Saturday, they started to walk and arrived at the Co-op in Clallam Bay at 2 p.m., dampened by the rain and with a story to tell.

They each spent an hour and a half on our Wi-fi contacting

Like brother, like sister: Making a difference in Peace Corps one Verhulst family member at a time As a child, Johannah Verhulst looked up to her big brother Eduard “Eddie” for almost everything. The siblings shared a special bond growing up on a homestead in Forks — getting dirty, riding bikes or hanging out in their treehouse reading and eating.

When Eddie left for Peace Corps service in 2011, family and friends figured Johannah wouldn’t be far behind — and they were right. This January, Johannah will embark on her own journey with the Peace Corps as an environmental extension and forestry volunteer in Ethiopia, following her big brother’s lead.

“He has been an important role model throughout my life, including Peace Corps service,” said Johannah. “His passion and excitement about the Peace Corps, as well as his help through the process, have been incredibly important for me.”

After graduating from Capital High School in Olympia, she attended the University of Washington where she earned a Bachelor of Science in biology.

After college, Johannah studied penguins as a field researcher in Argentina.

With generations of teachers

and community leaders woven throughout, service seems to be in the genes of the Verhulst family. Their father volunteers at a local hospice and they have an uncle who works in international program development and HIV/AIDS education.

Johannah initially took an interest in the Peace Corps from a teacher at Capital High School who also served as a volunteer.

But as older siblings do, Eddie reached the milestone first; he applied while Johannah completed college.

“By the time my sister told me she was interested in the Peace Corps, I had been trying to talk her into it for a long time. I was so excited she was seriously considering it,” said Eddie.

During the first three months of her service, Johannah will live

with a host family in Ethiopia to learn the local language and integrate into the local culture.

After acquiring the language and cultural skills that will help her make a lasting difference, she will be sworn into service and assigned to a community in Ethiopia where she will serve for two years.

Johannah and her family got a taste of the Peace Corps life during a 2012 visit to Eddie in Zambia.

“I could only comprehend a small portion of my brother’s experience even with his stories and pictures and our visit to his community,” said Johannah.

“But his passion and excitement about the Peace Corps, as well as his help through the process, have been incredibly important for me.”

Eddie’s passion for the Peace Corps continued after he returned home from service in 2013. He became a recruiter in New Mexico for the Peace Corps’ Southwest Regional Office, helping others launch their careers in international service.

“It is weird to help so many people apply for the Peace Corps and have your sister do it without asking any questions,”

friends and family, trying to contact the rental company. There was lots of excited chatter.

Ron, our deputy, arrived and the story started again.

The GPS had led them onto this logging road, the mud had enveloped the wheels and the phone did not work!

They, as I, are concerned as to the value of GPS in rural areas.

This is not the first story I have heard of folk getting lost in the terrain not suited to their needs of vehicles.

Let’s do something about it!

A happy ending for Bowei, Yuele, Yi Yi, Ben and Luyao.

said Eddie.

While Eddie didn’t think his sister relied much on his recruiting expertise, Johannah said her role model was integral in helping her become a volunteer.

“We talk pretty regularly and each time we end up talking for probably an hour about the Peace Corps,” said Johannah.

“He has helped me every step of the way. I am so glad that I have had him as a resource and that he has been willing and excited to help me.”

As an environmental extension and forestry volunteer, Johannah will work with rural communities and farmer training centers to develop more reforestation and sustainable farming practices, design environmental protection policies and develop environmental awareness education for the community and local schools.

She will work in cooperation with the local community

and partner organizations and develop leadership, technical and cross-cultural skills that will give her a competitive edge when she returns home.

Peace Corps volunteers return from service as global citizens well-positioned for professional opportunities in today’s global job market.

“I really hope I am starting a trend,” said Eddie. “My sister will make a great volunteer and I think she will absolutely love her service. It would be great to get more family members to go. I’ve been hinting to my mom that she should consider the Peace Corps, but I don’t think she’s ready to be out of the country for too long. We will see.”

Johannah joins the more than 300 Washingtonians currently serving in the Peace Corps and more than 9,300 Washington residents who have served in the Peace Corps since 1961.

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Driver Licensing Office, 421 Fifth Ave. Open Wednesday and Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., closed for lunch 1-2 p.m. 374-6440.

FORKS

EVERY SUNDAY

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open Jam - All are welcome at the Three Sisters of Clallam ( the big green building)

FIRST MONDAY

6:30 p.m. – Quillayute Valley PTA, FMS library.

7 p.m. – Emblem Club 488, Forks Elks Lodge.

SECOND MONDAY

4 p.m. – Prevention Works! Telelink to Forks, mental health facility, Bogachiel Way. 5:30 p.m. potluck - Quillayute Valley Grange, 130 W. Division St. Questions, 374-6054 6 p.m. – B.R.I.D.G.E.S. to Parents Voice, West End Outreach, 530 Bogachiel Way. Vienna Medina, 374-9691.

7 p.m. – West End Youth

League, Pacific Pizza back room, public is welcome.

7 p.m. – Klahanie Koi Club, various locations, 374-6843.

7:30 p.m. – Forks City Council, Council Chambers, Forks City Hall.

THIRD MONDAY

6 p.m. – Friends of Forks Library – Forks Library.

FOURTH MONDAY

7:30 p.m. – Forks City Council, Council Chambers, Forks City Hall.

EVERY MONDAY

6:30 p.m. – Fletcher-Wittenborn Post #9106 Bingo, Post home on Spartan Ave.

FIRST TUESDAY

6 p.m. – QVSD Board of Directors, District Office board room.

6 p.m. – Forks Elementary School PTO, Elementary School Lunchroom. Public welcome!

SECOND TUESDAY

Noon – West End Historical Society, JT’s Sweet Stuffs, 327-3318.

6:30 p.m. – Piecemakers Quilt

Calvary Chapel

1209508

Church Service D I R E C T O RY Church of the Nazarene

Clallam Bay Church of Christ

First Baptist Church

1209510

Meeting at 451 5th Street, Forks

F F 374-5077 • Pastor Bob Schwartz B C Sunday School������������������������9:30 AM

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Mission

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Communion, Singing, Prayer

Pastor Warren Johnson 374-5319 Church Adult Sunday School ..........10:00 AM Worship Service ................. 11:00 AM

52 Pioneer Street • Clallam Bay 374-9184 • Fr. Paul Brunet, Pastor Mass • Sunday, 11:00 AM Holy Days, 5:00 PM

St. Anne Catholic Church - Forks

Worship Service �������������������10:45 AM Sunday Evening Worship ��������6:00 PM Wednesday Prayer Meeting����7:00 PM Awanas, Thursdays �����������������6:30 PM

First Congregational Church (U.C.C.)

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Sunday Bible Study ��������������� 9:45 AM Worship������������������������������� 11:00 AM

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Forks Bible Church

St. Swithin’s Episcopal Church

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church

Sunday morning Holy Eucharist �������10:30 AM Meeting at Long Term Care, Forks Hospital Sunday Evening Holy Eucharist & Potluck 5 PM Meeting at 250 Blackberry Ave. (Prince of Peace)

Adult Education ����������������������9:00 AM Family Worship ���������������������10:00 AM Children’s Sunday School ������11:15 AM

Forks Assembly of God 81 Huckleberry Ln. • 374-6909 www.churchinforks.org

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Sunday School ������������������������9:45 AM Sunday Morning Worship �����11:00 AM Sunday Evening Service����������6:00 PM Wednesday Kids Programs �����6:30 PM

Clallam Bay Presbyterian Church 1209517

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Clallam Bay Assembly of God

Pastor Rick Hull • 963-2857 Sunday Service/ Children’s Church �����������������11:00 AM Wednesday Bible Study���������7:00 PM P.O. Box 336 • Hwy. 112 Clallam Bay, WA 98326

1209526

1209529

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George Williams, Pastor-Teacher • 374-5339 Sunday School������������������� 9:30 AM Sunday Worship ������� 11 AM & 6 PM Christ - Centered • Bible - Based 7th and G St. S.W.

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Fr. Paul Brunet Saturday/Sabado Misa en Español 6:00 PM 374-9184 Sunday ........................................... 8:30 AM 511 5th Ave. Wednesday .....................................5:30 PM Thursday .......................................12:05 PM Friday .........12:05 PM Adoration following Benediction ....................................5:45 PM Holy Days ........................................7:00PM

Pastor Pamela Hunter 374-6343 • 250 Blackberry Ave.

THIRD TUESDAY

11:30 a.m. – Forks Timber Museum, Umpqua (Sterling Bank), Linda 374-9663.

6:30 p.m. – Relay for Life, Forks Hospital Adminstration Conference Room.

1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. - North Pacific Coast Lead Entity for Salmon Restoration (NPCLE), U. W. Olympic Natural Resources Center, Hemlock Forest Room, 1455 S. Forks Ave., Forks, WA

FOURTH TUESDAY

5 p.m. – The Board of Commissioners of Clallam County Hospital District 1, FCH conference room.

EVERY TUESDAY

11:30 a.m. – The Caring Place, a pregnancy resource center, 3745010.

Noon – Free Lunch, Forks Church of the Nazarene, served at Forks Community Center.

1 p.m. – Women’s support group, resource room at Forks Abuse Program facility, Linda, 374-6411.

6 p.m. – Bingo Forks Elks Lodge, Merchant Road 7 p.m. – Fire Dept. volunteers, Forks, Beaver and Quillayute fire halls.

FIRST WEDNESDAY

Tom Lafrenz, Pastor • 374-6798 Located B St. N.W. and Sol Duc Way Sunday School��������������������������9:45 AM Morning Worship �������������������11:00 AM Prayer & Praises������������������������6:00 PM Wednesday is Family Night

Pastor Nathan Abbate 374-3298 Sunday Morning Worship ��������������������������10:30 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Study ����������������������7:00 PM

Club, Forks Baptist Church. No meetings in December.

963-2436 Worship Service �������������� 11:00 AM Sunday School������������������� 9:30 AM

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9:30 a.m. – MOPS (Mothers of Pre-schoolers), Forks Assembly of God. 11 a.m. – Friends of Forks Animals, Forks Library, 171 S. Forks Ave. 374-0747.

7:30 p.m. — Mt. Olympus Lodge, Masonic Temple, 130 W. Division St.

SECOND WEDNESDAY

5 p.m. – Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition, 71 N. Spartan Ave. 6 p.m. – QVPRD meeting, Community Center.

7 p.m. – Boy Scout Troop 1467, Forks Congregational Church, Scoutmaster Ron Anderson, 3742489.

THIRD WEDNESDAY

1:30 p.m. – Bogachiel Garden Club, Community Center, Forks, 374-2437.

7 p.m. – West End Sportsmen Club, Sportsmen Club Road. 6401497

EVERY WEDNESDAY

7:30 a.m. – West End Business & Professional Association, DNR Conference Room.

FIRST THURSDAY

5 p.m. - West Olympic Council for the Arts, ICN Building.

5:30 p.m. – Soroptimists of the Olympic Rain Forest business meeting, Forks Congregational Church.

7 p.m. – West End Thunder Car Club, Forks Fire Hall.

SECOND THURSDAY

Art League, Forks Library.

11:30 a.m. – The Caring Place, pregnancy resource center, 3745010.

5-7 p.m. – Thursday Night Knitters, Forks Library.

6 p.m. – Hoh Healing Circle and potluck, Hoh Tribal office.

7 p.m. – Forksestra Rehearsal, Forks Library, 374-6233.

7 p.m. – Sportsmen’s Club bingo Noon – Women’s suppor t group, Hoh Tribal Center. Forks Abuse Program, Linda, 374-6411.

7 p.m. – Overeaters Anonymous Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 250 N. Blackberry, Forks.

7 p.m. – Rainy Day Gamers, ICN Building.

6 p.m. – Music Jam at the Co-op.

EVERY THURSDAY 6 p.m. – Learn Guitar tabulator at the Co-op.

EVERY FRIDAY Noon – West End Seniors potluck lunch, Sekiu Community Center.

SECOND SATURDAY 11 a.m. – C.A.T. Community Action Team, Sekiu Community Center.

EVERY SATURDAY

EVERY FRIDAY

2 p.m. – Team Work, N.A., next to West End Outreach. Contact Ashley 360-207-9346

9 - 10 a.m. Hatha Yoga class at Seiku Community Center. The cost is $2 per person — bring a yoga mat if you have one.

7 p.m. – Texas Hold’em Tournament, Clallam Bay/Sekiu Lions Club.

SECOND FRIDAY

SECOND FRIDAY

7 p.m. – Forks American Legion Post 106, Old Forest Service Building, Division and Maple

SECOND SATURDAY

3:30 p.m. – B.R.I.D.G.E.S. to Parents Voice, West End Outreach.

THIRD SATURDAY

Emblem Club Prime Rib dinner third Saturday of each month Forks Elks Lodge.

CLALLAM BAY/SEKIU

EVERY MONDAY

3 p.m. – T.O.P.S., Clallam Bay Presbyterian Church.

7 p.m. – Texas Hold’em Tournament, Clallam Bay/Sekiu Lions Club.

FIRST TUESDAY 7 p.m. – West End Youth & Community Club, Sekiu Community Center kitchen, 963-2438.

SECOND TUESDAY 4 p.m. --- Clallam Bay Friends of the Library. Clallam Bay Library, 963-2946

EVERY TUESDAY 10 a.m. – Messy Palette Art League, Sekiu Community Center, 963-2221.

FIRST WEDNESDAY Noon – Clallam Bay-Sekiu Chamber of Commerce, business meeting, Sekiu Community Center.

7 p.m. – Clallam Bay Lions.

SECOND WEDNESDAY Noon – Clallam Bay-Sekiu Chamber of Commerce, speaker meeting, Sekiu Community Center.

10 a.m. – noon – New Hope Food Bank is open.

5 p.m. – Co-op Board open to members at the Co-op Eatery.

6 p.m. – Clallam Bay-Sekiu Sewer Advisory Board, Cape Flattery School District Administrative Office, Snob Hill.

Noon – West End Historical Society, JT’s Sweet Stuffs.

7 p.m. – Fletcher-Wittenborn Post #9106 & Aux., Post home on Spartan Ave.

THIRD WEDNESDAY

EVERY THURSDAY

10 a.m. - noon – New Hope Food Bank is open.

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. – Far West

EVERY WEDNESDAY

1:30 p.m. – Bogachiel Garden Club, Community Center, Forks, 374-2437.

FOURTH WEDNESDAY

7 p.m. – Forks American Legion, VFW, 110 S. Spartan Ave.

NEAH BAY

EVERY THURSDAY

Noon – Women’s suppor t group, Forks Abuse 374-2273.

12-STEP MEETINGS

SUNDAYS

7 p.m. — New Beginnings, Forks Masonic Hall.

MONDAYS

7:30 p.m. – Narcotics Anonymous, Hope in Recovery, First Baptist Church, South Forks Ave.

TUESDAYS

7 p.m. — Al-Anon, First Congregational Church.

WEDNESDAYS

8 p.m. — Sekiu AA, Sekiu Recreation Center.

THURSDAYS

7 p.m. — How It Works group, Forks Senior Center.

7-8:30 pm — Overeaters Anonymous, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 250 N. Blackberry Ave., Forks, 327-3323.

FRIDAYS

6:30 p.m. – Narcotics Anonymous, Forks Masonic Lodge, 130 W. Division St.

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY

7 p.m. — Narcóticos Anónimos en Español, Cada jueves y viernes.

Narcóticos Anónimos en Español.

West End Outreach Services, 551 Bogachiel Way. Llama al 274-6271 extension 117 para más información.

SATURDAYS

7 p.m. — How It Works group, Forks Senior Center.

8 p.m. — Sekiu AA, Sekiu Recreation Center.

7:30 p.m. – Miracles Happen group, West End Outreach Center conference room, 530 Bogachiel Way.

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Fun-A-Day in January The Rainforest Council for the Arts invites everyone to participate in Fun-A-Day for the month of January.

Explore your creativity every day in January by working on a project of your choice.

You can write, journal, sew, craft, etc., every day of the month. All who want to display their wares will gather from noon-3 p.m. Feb. 20, at the Forks Library.

If you have questions, call or e-mail Kathi Whitworth at 374-2661 or hipkip1954@yahoo.com.

Information also can be found by searching Fun-A-Day on the Internet for ideas and inspiration. You also can follow activities on the RCA Facebook page.

Dance Lessons Return Through Umpqua program grants, Umpqua provides funding to organizations across its footprint that fit within the target areas of giving including low-income residents and children. Making up the majority of community giving, these grants support programs that show a strong community impact. The Forks Umpqua Store was pleased to award the Community Giving Grant to Soroptimist International of the Olympic Rainforest at its Dec. 3 meeting. Presenting the check to the group were LaDawn Whidden and Lisa Thomas of the Forks Umpqua Store. Also pictured are Pat Kain, LaDawn Whidden, Lisa Thomas and MaryAnne Earley. Submitted Photo

Rainforest Council for the Arts sponsored dance lessons will resume on Jan. 15 at the Congregational Church, 280 S. Spartan Ave., from 7-9 p.m.

The lessons are free and all levels of dancing ability are welcome.

The Prince Arthur

by Christi Baron My Norwegian grandfather was a seafarin’ man, he served as First Mate on a sailing ship called the St. Paul, also called the “Hell Ship” for reasons I have yet to uncover.

He sailed out of Ballard for the Bering Sea many times, the last time was in 1910. For me the seafarin’ gene never kicked in.

I like the dry land, but I am continually fascinated by those that have made their living on the sea and the many shipwrecks that have occurred along the coast of the West End of Clallam County.

THE PRINCE ARTHUR On the evening of Jan. 2, 1903, a ship’s officer aboard the Prince Arthur, a Norwegian bark that had been at sea 50 days from Valparaiso and on its way to Port Blakeley, most likely mistook a light on shore for the Tatoosh Island Beacon, causing the ship to turn east into what he thought would be the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Instead the ship turned into the rocky shoreline of Clallam County at about 5 p.m. that afternoon in heavy weather — the ship had no chance.

In spite of her iron construction, the ship began to break up. An attempt was made to

lower the ship’s lifeboats but it was useless, waves were breaking over most of the vessel. Of the 20 men on board — 18 Norwegians and two Danes — only two men made it off alive.

Sixty years later in an interview survivor Christopher Hansen, living in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the time, could still recall hearing the voices of his fellow shipmates calling for help from the foamy surf, and knowing there was nothing he could do. After dragging himself away from the waves hitting the shore, he fell asleep on the beach near what he described as a primeval forest.

It would be the next day when Hansen would discover that also surviving the wreck was the ship’s carpenter, a Dane named Knud Larsen.

Walking along the isolated beach the two found some barrels of flour and butter washing up in the surf, they also eventually found the 18 deceased crew members.

Hansen also sadly remembered removing a pair of boots off of one of the departed. His own boots had been lost in his swim ashore and he knew he would not make it far in the rough terrain without suitable footwear.

After heading inland and then deciding their best bet for rescue was along the beach, they spotted smoke from a

Norwegian timber cutter’s cabin. After a perilous ride in an Indian canoe and several other modes of transportation Hansen was back in Norway promising his mother he would never go to sea again, within a year he was back on another ship. Hansen and Larsen never saw each other again.

It took five days for news to get to Clallam Bay that the Prince Arthur had foundered.

The Norse Club of Seattle launched a delegation to go retrieve the bodies and return them for proper burial, but due to advanced decomposition it was decided the dead should be buried near the beach and a location for a monument was chosen on the Norwegian timber cutter’s claim.

A few months later the 10foot tall granite monument was put in place with the epitaph “Here lies the crew of bark Prince Arthur of Norway foundered January 2, 1903,” and the names of the dead sailors; also included were the names of the two survivors.

Eventually one of the Norwegian timber cutters left the area and the other died in 1933 but his family continued to pay taxes on the property, where the monument was placed, until the Olympic National park took over the property.

Through the years various groups and local residents have worked to keep the moss and brush from overtaking the monument.

Initially, the National Park Service designated the grave site as the Swedish Memorial,

but later corrected it to the Norwegian Memorial, when in fact it maybe really should be the Norwegian/Danish Memorial or maybe it should just serve as a reminder to all that just like the weather life and death are unpredictable.

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Rents ranging from $500 – $650 per month.

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PACIFIC MARINER 1964 15’, ‘79 ez-loader trailer, 25 hp Johnson, 4 h p J o h n s o n k i cke r. $900. (360)452-6900.

CHRY: ’04 PT Cruiser 77K Miles, loaded, power roof, new tires, looks great, runs great, clean, s t r o n g , s a fe, r e l i a bl e transportation. call and leave message $5,200.

(360)457-0809 HYUNDAI: ‘09 Sonata, 79K miles, Auto, 1 owner, no smoking. $6,800.

(509)731-9008 Hyundai: ‘97 Sonata, 4 door sedan, clean, $1,800. (360)379-5757 MITSUBISHI: ‘93 Eclipse, nice wheels, needs lots of work. $800. (360)683-9146 Yo u c o u l d s ave o ve r $500 off your auto insurance. It only takes a few minutes. Save 10% by adding proper ty to quote. Call Now! 1-888498-5313

TWIN V: ‘95, 18’, Fiberg l a s s , l o a d e d , V H F, GPS, fish finder, Penn downriggers, Bass chairs for comport. 45 hp Honda 4 stroke, Nissan 4 stroke kicker, electric crab pot puller, all run great. Boat is ready to go. $7,000. (360)6813717 or (360)477-2684 Motorcycles

SUZUKI: ‘05 Boulevard C50. Like new. 800cc, extras. $4,250.

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You’ll give thanks for the splendid river views & access from this spacious and very well maintained home. $369,000

This lower Sol Duc River area is known for some of the best fishing on the Olympic Peninsula! Two separate parcels, for a total of 10.02 acres, that have low bank frontage, mature timber and open pasture land.

In addition to the easy access frontage, this property is located within a short drive to Mora Beach as well as La Push and it’s world famous beaches. If you’re tired of the rat race and want to get away and relax, this rare opportunity won’t disappoint! Includes parcel 142820120100. MLS#877131 ...$175,000

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Needs lots of work (roof, decks, etc.), but has lots of potential!

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(907)209-4946 or (360)504-2487

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Forks Outfitters GingerBread House Contest

Gingerbread houses were displayed all in a row.

The Forks Outfitters Gingerbread House contest had a total of 17 entries from builders of all ages. The entires were displayed in the deli/bakery section and winners were selected last Saturday, Dec. 26.

First place went to Brynley Ponton who won a $50 gift card. Second place went to Zoie Davis, she won $25, and third place was awarded to Ramona Oakes, and she received a $15 prize.

Zoey Davis with her secondplace winning house and deli/bakery manager Dan Trickey.

Brynley Ponton’s first place house. Brynley’s entry as well as Zoie’s even had twinkling lights.

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