$30,000 available
 
Wealth of services provided
 
Upzoning of six-acre parcel approved by planning commission
 
Team from Grindline skatepark building company arrive
 
Numerous rescuers involved in search
 
Hearing held in Port Angeles
 
Forks Marine vet writes story of his heroic buddy
 
Hearing Thursday in Port Angeles
 
Work planned to start this month
 
Looks more urban than Forks
 
Attorney fees would be covered by city
 
Fired police officers, dispatcher to file appeal
 
Possible May burn dates may be set
 
West End Thunder joining forces
 
New facility is opening soon
 
Two officers, dispatcher fired
 
Report to be released in mid-March
 
Two police officers, one dispatcher complete hearings
 
Road closed since December storm
 
Obama wins big in Forks
 
Team takes Evergreen Division championship
 
Luke Dixon takes 189 pound championship
 
Recall of mayor sought
 
Number of homeless may be down
 
Educational Web site drawing radiology technicans
 
Museum helping local economy
 
CLOSER TO PORTLAND FILMING LOCATION
 
Stephenie Meyer Day invitation graciously returned
 
Robert Pattinson slated for role
 
Readers advised to check out ForksForum.com
 
Stephenie Meyer Day celebrated in Forks
 
Mayor leads meeting
 
Real-time demonstration of online learning
 
Living conditions described
 
County response to storm questioned
 
Fundraising efforts launched
 
Forks youth have place to skate indoors
 
Practice called legal
 
Now at JT's Sweet Stuffs
 
Vote possible in May
 
Support for new clinic offered
 
Alternative uses on agenda
 
Problems encountered leading to emergency management changes
 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation represented
 
Motorcyclists proposed summertime event
 
DSHS building fire under investigation
 
State representative looks ahead to 2008 session of Legislature
 
Dangerous conditions in forest
 
Forks Police Department working with other law enforcement agencies
 
Mustang goes off road near Lower Hoh

Community News

May 7, 2008

Letter carriers food drive
West End letter carriers from the U.S. Postal Service are holding their annual food drive on Saturday, May 10. Food collected is donated to local food banks. The letter carriers ask that only non-perishable food be donated, and that donations be left in a bag by a patron’s mailbox. The food is brought to the post office by the letter carriers, then delivered to the food bank.

West End Historical Society
The West End Historical Society is holding their monthly meeting at the new Forks Community Center on Tuesday, May 13 at noon. Sally Milici, Juanita Weissenfels and Mary Ann Halverson are providing musical entertainment with songs from the early 1900s. The public is invited and asked to bring a sack lunch. Cake, coffee and lemonade will be provided.

Planned power outage
Sunday, May 11 is the day the Clallam County PUD will be turning off the electricity in the Forks area for about six hours, from one minute past midnight to 6 a.m. PUD customers are to be affected in Forks, Sekiu, Clallam Bay, Neah Bay, Beaver, Sappho, Pysht and all areas west of Lake Crescent. The outage is required by the Bonneville Power Authority whose technicians will be upgrading transmission facilities at the BPA Sappho Substation during the outage.

Snuggly Bunny Storytime
at Forks Library

Children ages 3-5 are invited to attend storytime at the Forks Library on Friday, May 9 at 1p.m.  Stories, a craft, and a visit from an extra cuddly friend are all part of the fun.




 
The Seattle Times: Home
Avalanche, coach Joel Quenneville go their separate ways (posted ago)
The Colorado Avalanche said Joel Quenneville is out as coach after three seasons, a week after being swept out of the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings.
Experts: Myanmar cannot run aid effort alone after cyclone (posted ago)
With only a few aging helicopters and little disaster experience, Myanmar's junta is risking the lives of millions of cyclone survivors by running the relief operation alone, aid experts said Friday.
Treasurys mainly advance as AIG reports quarterly loss (posted ago)
Treasury prices mostly rose Friday after steeper-than-expected losses at insurer AIG stirred fresh concern about strains still taxing the global financial system and as stocks retreated following another advance in oil prices.
Gas jumps above $3.67, oil passes $126 on Venezuela concerns (posted ago)
Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10, as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut exports from the OPEC member. Gas prices, meanwhile, rose above an average $3.67 a gallon at the pump, following oil's recent path higher.
Auto parts supplier Delphi reports wider loss (posted ago)
Auto parts maker Delphi Corp. reported on Friday that it lost more money in the first quarter than it did a year ago, but that an increased credit line will still allow it to emerge from bankruptcy protection intact.
Renton Transit Center stabbing victims, 73 and 18, remain in hospital (posted ago)
Renton Transit Center stabbing victims, 73 and 18, remain in hospital after scuffle over stolen cellphone
Train quarantined in Ontario with mystery illness (posted ago)
Canadian authorities quarantined a train in northern Ontario Friday after a woman died and several other people came down with an undetermined illness.
Man questioned on potential links to Boca Raton mall murders (posted ago)
Police questioned a man arrested Friday at a Miami-area mall for possible links to the murders of a mother and daughter at a Boca Raton mall.
UN seeks $187 million to aid cyclone survivors in Myanmar (posted ago)
The United Nations is seeking $187 million from donor nations to help cyclone survivors in Myanmar.
 
UPDATED Thursday, May 8, 2008

Spartan soccer players head to state tournament

The Spartan boys soccer team is seeded second in their district in the 1A state tournament.

Who the team plays against on either Monday or Tuesday depends on who wins the 1A Northwest and West Central B-District tournaments. The trip to the state tournament is the first in the five years the sport has been played at Forks High School.

The Spartans (now 9-7 overall this season) lost to White Salmon 5-1 on Wednesday, with the match played at Kalama.

If the Forks High team had won they would have taken their first-ever Southwest Washington League District title.

Gibron Molina scored Forks only goal on Wednesday, with a head-in set up by a throw-in by Sean Weekes in the 17th minute of play.


Forks Logging Tours opens for new season


Chris Cook photo
Forks Logging Tours volunteer driver Mark Johnsen (left) took Forks visitors Jim and Linda Work of Livingstone, Texas on a Forks Chamber of Commerce-sponsored tour on Wednesday, May 7. The tour made stops at a logging site located above Oil City Road, and at Allen Logging in the Hoh River area. The popular tours started last week and run through the summer.


Kids Fishing Day fun



Chris Cook photo
Pre-schooler Kray Horton caught a big one at the Kid’s Fishing Day.


Spartan teams heading to playoffs, league meets

Playoffs, district meets and state meets are coming up as the spring high school sports season comes to a close. Forks High School Athletic Director Mark Brandmire provided this report on Friday, May 2. Watch for updates:

Soccer
The Spartans are in the play offs. The team travels to Kalama on Monday to take on LaCenter at 5:30 p.m. Soccer playoffs continue in Kalama on Wednesday, with a game at either 5:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.

Baseball

The Spartans were eliminated from the playoffs on Thusday due to a 6-0 loss to Montesano in the first game of a home doubleheader. Many of the varsity players are returning next year. The team is at 3-8 in Southwest Washington action, and 3-11 overall.
 
Fastpitch
The Lady Spartans varsity and junior varsity teams play Rainier on Tuesday, May 6 in a rescheduled game. The team lost both games of a doubleheader on Thursday to Montesano. The Lady Spartans will be seeded either #3 or #4; playoffs begin Wednesday, May 14 at Fort Borst in Centralia;  #3 plays at noon,  #4 would be at 2 p.m. and each team would play again two hours later. Games on Saturday will at 3 p.m.
 
Track
An MS track meet at home is scheduled for Wednesday. The league meet is scheduled for Rainier on Friday, May 9 beginning at 4 p.m.;  the district meet is set for Friday, May 16 at Stevenson.






MSNBC.com: U.S. news
1 dead as severe storms sweep across Southeast (posted 1 hours ago)

Doublehead employee Melissa Tucker talks on her cell phone after a tornado ripped through the resort outside of Town Creek, Ala.. on Thursday, May 8, 2008. Strong winds in northwest Alabama overturned a mobile home on Thursday and an apparent tornado damaged a Mississippi shopping mall as a line of severe storms swept across the Southeast. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Brennen Smith)**ONLINE OK**A line of severe storms swept across the Southeast on Thursday, damaging homes and businesses in at least four states. One person was killed by a tornado in North Carolina.


Panel: Rework 'confrontational' MLK statue (posted 10 hours ago)

**FILE ** In this undated photograph released by the MLK National Memorial Foundation, sculptor Master Lei Yixin of China looks at a scale model of the "Stone of Hope," a piece he has created which will be the centerpiece of the new memorial for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced a gift Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008 to help push to completion the long-planned memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall. (AP Photo/MLK National Memorial Foundation) ** NO SALES **A federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.


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Mom pregnant with 18th child (posted 6 hours ago)

May 9: Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar make an exclusive TODAY announcement about their family, just in time for Mother's Day. (Today Show)The Duggar kids planned a big Mother's Day surprise for their mom this year ? but the surprise was on them when Michelle Duggar announced on the TODAY Show that they were soon to welcome an 18th sibling.