This week in 2000 the hot pools at Sol Duc Hot Springs had been closed because of unacceptable water tests. Many community members had attended the new school addition dedication. A large Spartan carving, by Dennis Chastain, greeted those who visited. A virtual ribbon cutting, from the Department of Education in Washington D.C., had been viewed in the new high school commons.

This week in 1975 three former Vietnamese citizens had been welcomed to Forks. The three had been underwater demolition experts in the Vietnamese Navy. They were now temporarily working on a DNR fire crew but were looking for steady work in logging or construction (photo). In town council news Merritt Corbin refused to be annexed into the city limits but he might, “If good zoning ordinances and adequate regulation were adopted.” A small fire in the storage room at Washburn’s in Neah Bay had closed the store for a few days. Cadet Thomas D. Hedglin Jr. was attending summer training at Camp Buckner on the reservation of the U.S. military Academy at West Point, NY.

In 1968 several girls in 4-H had received high awards at the Clallam County Fair. Susan Shearer had won the J.C Penney Co. grant to the State 4-H conference for the three-piece outfit she had made (photo). The school had hired three new teachers: Betty Cogdill, Jean Dunlap and Diane Hollaway.

In 1953 in the Olympic Clinic news Mrs. Ed Beebe was doing well after surgery. A loaded log truck had been left unattended and rolled down the hill and over the bank and hit a cabin on Lake Sutherland. Eight people in and around the cabin all escaped injury. The driver had stopped for lunch. In court news, with Judge Katheryn Shearer presiding, William Adams had been fined $12.50 for “hot rodding”.