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    Articles by Christi Baron
    Mother: World’s toughest job
    Mother: World’s toughest job
    By Christi Baron • May 8, 2015 6:23 pm

    Recently I watched a video of a job interview that was done via a web cam. Potential candidates for the job listened to the interviewer

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    John Anderson in his yard in Forks
    Beach-combing museum closer to reality
    By Christi Baron • April 30, 2015 3:32 pm

    This past weekend volunteers from everywhere came to area beaches and picked up trash. But what is one man’s trash is another man’s treasure! For Forks’ retired plumber, John Anderson, picking up that trash

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    The new IOOF hall in downtown Forks 1925.
    Let’s Dance!
    By Christi Baron • April 16, 2015 3:41 pm

    Friday Jan. 9, 1925, many of the 300 or so Forks residents had gone to watch the Forks basketball team play Clallam at the IOOF Hall. The game got over around 10:30 p.m., many had barely gotten to

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    Forks High School Commons-the site of the 51st annual QVSA.
    The amazing gift — The QVSA
    By Christi Baron • March 20, 2015 3:22 pm

    The event now known as the Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction turns 51 this year. At its inception, it was known as the Quillayute

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    Elks member Paul Hampton assists local scout with a proper flag retirement ceremony.
    Happy Anniversary, Forks Elks Lodge
    By Christi Baron • March 13, 2015 6:07 pm

    On March 15 the Forks Elks Lodge will mark its 40th year in our community.
    From a front page story from March 13, 1975, Ed Marion

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    James Jaime addresses the Forks Chamber of Commerce and guests at the Roundhouse at the new Kit.la Center.
    Forks Chamber welcomed to the Kit.la Center
    By Christi Baron • March 6, 2015 6:37 pm

    It was a little chilly in the Roundhouse at the former 110 Business Park on Wednesday, Feb. 25, but the welcome from the Quileute Tribe was warm as the

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    Gordy creating a fly.
    Yella Dawg Fly Shop
    By Christi Baron • March 6, 2015 2:56 pm

    The summer of 2007, the life of Gordon Gracey changed forever. After a terrible accident that left his left arm permanently paralyzed

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    Simon Erickson
    Forks Loggers Memorial
    By Christi Baron • February 26, 2015 6:16 pm

    When you go to work today chances are you will return home tonight unscathed. The possibility that you will be injured or killed is in most cases the farthest thing from your mind. But if you work in the

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    Hello.......
    Hello Baby, is that you?
    By Christi Baron • February 5, 2015 5:37 pm

    Mondays are a very busy day here at the Forks Forum office, but I always try to answer the phone, just in case any big breaking stories are happening, because I don’t want to miss a thing. So,

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    EMS crews demonstrate one of Forks Community Hospital's ambulances.
    Forks Hospital looks to replace expired EMS levy
    By Christi Baron • January 27, 2015 5:13 pm

    Forks Community Hospital CFO Jim Chaney told the Forks Forum last week that the hospital district will be asking voters to approve a six-year emergency

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    West End pioneer Otis Crippen surveying the damage after the January 1921 wind storm.
    Remembering the ’21 Blow
    By Christi Baron • January 27, 2015 4:41 pm

    People love to talk about the weather. People talk about the weather on the phone and in person. Friends and family talk about the weather before they discuss what’s

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    The Gunter family about 1939
    Remembering Harold Gunter
    By Christi Baron • January 15, 2015 2:44 pm

    It would be hard to find someone that could say a bad word about Harold Gunter. He always seemed to be in a good mood and was always willing to help someone down on their luck.

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    Dr. and Mrs. Myers 1962.
    Dr. and Mrs E. W. Myers — good...
    By Christi Baron • January 9, 2015 4:12 pm

    The history of Forks is reflected in the lives of people who came here to settle from all over the world. Two of those people were Josephine and E. W Myers. The Myers came to Forks just after the big fire in January 1925, more…….

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