Kelly Hall, who had been missing for nearly four days in the northeast section of Olympic National Park, walked out to the Whiskey Bend Trailhead in the Elwha Valley. He is tired and has minor scrapes and bruises but is safe and well.
Last Thursday evening as black and gold balloons floated up in to threatening skies Debbie Scannell, Coordinator at the Forks Extension site, welcomed dignitaries and west end residents to the grand opening of the Peninsula College Forks extension site. The event which was held outdoors drew several hundred people.
In the fall of 1945 the Forks Spartans were perfect. They had won every game that season and on Thanksgiving Day they met North Kitsap in a battle to decide which would be the unofficial Tri-County champs.
Prince of Peace Fellowship Picnic
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 250 N. Blackberry Ave., Forks, is hosting a hamburger and hotdog summer picnic extravaganza. The community is invited to come to the Prince of Peace Barbecue and Fellowship Picnic, from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 30. All food will be provided and donations will be accepted, all funds raised will benefit Prince of Peace.
Dignitaries, a program and ribbon cutting, tours, music and great food will all be part of the Peninsula College grand opening celebration of its new Forks Extension Site at 481 S. Forks Ave. on Thursday, Aug. 28. The public is invited.
WET drag racers will attempt to get two full days of racing in this weekend as well as run the Arlen Pearsall Memorial Race which has been rained out twice. In addition to racing there will be a Show and Shine car show.
On Aug. 21 Ethan Gossard and Ryan Anderson both of Forks, will be honored as Sheriff and Chief for a Day, respectively, at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien.
Chief for a Day is about celebrating the lives of children who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening or chronic illness.
UPDATE 8/15/2014 9:50 a.m. Aaron Richard Brown III escaped from Olympic Corrections Center near Forks, Wash., the evening of Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014.
Aaron Richard Brown III is now in custody. Department of Corrections staff apprehended Brown just prior to 9:30 a.m., approximately 10 miles north of Olympic Corrections Center. Brown will be interviewed by local law enforcement and placed in administrative segregation.
It was about 10 years ago that Mark Klinger started perfecting his barbecue sauce for baby back ribs. As family and friends tried it, they all said “You should market this stuff.”
Klinger, who has lived in Forks for eight years, says he just likes to play around in the kitchen and has created a sauce for pork and one for chicken.
If Ella Hansson and Wilma Nasenius, of Stockholm, Sweden were to win a contest with a trip somewhere, that made all their friends jealous, what do you think the destination would be? London, Paris, no, they won a trip to Forks, Washington.
A contract to temporarily relocate the Enchanted Valley Chalet was awarded yesterday to Monroe House Moving, Inc. of Sequim, Washington. The award amount is $124,000. The move is tentatively set to occur during the first two weeks of September, as long as weather, visibility and trail conditions allow. Once all materials and personnel are onsite, moving the building will take about one week to complete.
Find out about: Kids Fishing Derby at Sekiu, Rainforest Run features lots of live entertainment, Forks High school students announcement, Historical Society doll clothes display, Clallam County District #1 fire report.
OLYMPIA – With dangerously hot and dry weather driving fire danger to a new high, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is expanding the current statewide burn ban to cover all outdoor burning on all DNR-protected lands, with no exceptions, the agency announced today.
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