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Port Angeles-Sequim-West End September 3, 2012 | 75

2 local Democratic delegates go to N.C.

BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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A hot-air balloon soars before the Olympic Mountains on Saturday at the Sequim Balloon festival, which wraps today. See story on Page A5.

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Two Clallam County Democrats will help nominate Barack Obama this week at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Sylvia Hancock of Sequim and Joe McGimpsey of Neah Bay are among the 120 delegates from Washington including two from Jefferson County who will nominate the president to a second term.

Both are eager to witness pic Peninsula]. Its very rare for someone Obamas acceptance speech from Clallam County to go. Thursday night. It is also unusual in Jefferson County, said Teri Nomura, JefferFirst time at convention sons countys Democratic Party This is my first chance to go as chairwoman after the news was a delegate, said Hancock, one of announced that Eli Waite, 32, an four woman selected from a field unemployed economic analyst, of more than 100 at the 6th Con- and Emilia Navazio, 23, a college gressional District Caucus in May. student, would serve respectively Im very excited about it. as a delegate and alternate to the She added: Tacoma kind of convention. dominates [the 6th District, TURN TO DELEGATES/A4 which includes the North Olym-

Clallam gets $980,000 for Olympic trail

Federal grant comes from Highway Administration
BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Life on the mountain

PORT ANGELES Go west, Olympic Discovery Trail. Clallam County this month received a $980,000 federal grant to continue the westward expansion of the multi-use trail west of Lake Crescent. A new 5-mile segment on a restored Forest Service road will make it possible for cyclists and others to bypass U.S. Highway 101 from Fairholm Hill to Sappho. The grant comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration under the Public Lands Highway discretionary program.

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Pave center of service road

Clallam County will use the money to pave the center 12 feet of the remote Forest Service Road 070 leaving 4 feet of gravel on each shoulder for equestrians and to build 1.4 miles of new trail on an undeveloped railroad grade. The paving will take place next year. The new segment will connect a Merrill & Ring bridge over the Sol Duc River and Forest Service Road 2918 to West End civilization via Cooper Ranch and Mary Clark roads. This is going to get us within 10 miles of Forks, said Rich James, Clallam County transportation program manager. The trail really is coming out west.
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Rusty Young of Lake Stevens, left, and Rick Anderson of Forks demonstrate blacksmithing.
CARLSBORG In the foothills above Carlsborg, time turned backward this weekend for the annual Green River Mountain Men Rendezvous hosted by the Peninsula Long Rifle Association on Saturday and Sunday. About 100 flintlock rifle enthusiasts, archers, craftsmen, and period re-enactors settled in a clearing for the weekend, re-creating a trading post meeting, circa 1820-1840. A grizzled 81-year-old dressed in buckskins who called himself Ram shared stories of hiking in the back country with an American Indian guide, as groups of flat-landers listened raptly and took pictures with him. Ram first joined the re-enactments more than 40 years ago, he said. It began as an interest, then became a hobby. Now its a way of life. All of these people are my family. Arwyn Rice

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Job of repaving trail gets only single bid

BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES Clallam County commissioners Tuesday opened a $225,275 bid from Lakeside Industries to pave the Olympic Discovery Trail from Kacee Way west of Port Angeles to the 10th Street trailhead inside the city. The popular 2.5-mile segment will be paved later this construction season, County Engineer Ross Tyler said after the commissioners meeting. The lone bid from the Port Angeles contractor was referred to the road department for a review and a recommendation back to the three-member Board of County Commissioners.
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J.J. Hutto, 5, of Port Angeles, above, learns how to shoot a flintlock rifle (overseen by grandpa Jack Hutto of Port Angeles, not pictured). Far left: A blanket trader known only as Scratch displays his handcarved walrus scrimshaw, as, left, mountain man Ram enthralls flat-landers with tales of backwoods adventures.

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