KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Woodworker Michael Clemens, left, with help from Christine Loewe, executive director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, and fourth-grade teacher Tony Seidl, right, erect a dragon-themed arbor at the student garden at Dry Creek School on Thursday in Port Angeles.

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Wendy Bart, the CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA was the MC at a Ground Breaking Ceremony Wed afternoon. The new Early Learning Center (child care) is to be built in the area just west of the YMCA's current parking lot off Francis Street. Over 40 dignitaries and interested people came for the introduction and the ground breaking photo op. Bart in her opening remarks said the idea for the project was formed during COVID when they realized the Olympic Peninsula was a “child care desert”. Soon was formed the money raising and architectural drawings. “The people of the Olympic Peninsula are magical” when explaining that $7 million of the needed $9 million have been promised. “We have a trajectory for success from a caring community” she continued. The 8000 sq foot building will break ground next month with a finish date of opening in September of 2026. The facility designed for children under age 5 will have hours of 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. The general contractors is G.L.Y. of Bellevue. WA. Ground Breaking Op — L to R are Randy Johnson, Virginia O’Neil, Steve Tharinger, Mike French, Mark Ozias, LaTrisha Suggs, Drew Schwab, Glenn Smithson, Lori Robbin, John Vorhees, And a host of “special guests” who perhaps will get to use the new facility when opened. (call Jody Minker for more info at 360-301-3221) dlogan

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Eamon Myers, age 10 of Port Angeles, feeds some of the Shetland Sheep at the 42nd annual Shepherd’s Festival, held Monday at the Sequim Prairie Grange — both inside and out. It included many vendors with sheep, goats, llamas and related products. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)
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Port Angeles Fire Department Capt. Travis McFarland, left, and firefighter/EMT Tom Muir spread landscaping bark as part of a project to beautify the landscape around the fire hall. Fire department personnel spent time on Tuesday sprucing up the station grounds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Colleen Williams of Port Angeles won a Toyota Corolla donated by Wilder Toyota in the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby. She said Tuesday she was shocked when Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, called her Sunday to tell her she won. “All I could say is, ‘You’re kidding me. What

 

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KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Woodworker Michael Clemens, left, with help from Christine Loewe, executive director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, and fourth-grade teacher Tony Seidl, right, erect a dragon-themed arbor at the student garden at Dry Creek School on Thursday in Port Angeles.

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