This week in 2001, Y2K had happened …and …nothing really happened. It was reported that an OCC inmate had escaped from a timber thinning crew near the Sportsman’s Club Road. He was shortly taken into custody. Diane Schostak had won the quilt made by Martha Paul and raffled as a fundraiser for the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (photo).

This week in 1976 the new Sappho Substation was coming together and soon would take Bonneville power and change it to usable voltage for the west end (photo). Former Spartan Dan Shearer was playing college football. Elk hunters had rescued an elk calf that had fallen into an 8 foot hole.

In 1969 it was reported 1968 had been the third wettest year ever with 145.09 inches of rain, a photo of Forks weather observer Mrs. King was on the front page (photo). Rich Hsu’s DNR co-worker had come to the rescue to help roof his new home after he fell off the roof and broke an ankle.

This week in 1954 the Port Angeles Western Railroad (Spruce RR) was to be sold for junk as a group rallied to raise funds to save it and use it again. The PUD was planning to energize the new West End transmission lines. The Art Anderson had welcomed a son – yet to be named. In La Push news, Korean veteran Theodore Eastman was getting married.

This week in 1940 it was reported longtime West End resident John Eddington Lloyd James had died after suffering a stroke. J.E.L. was born in Baton Rouge in 1865 and soon after the family moved to Wales. He began his adventurous life when he was 16 and ran away to sea. He served on a hospital ship during the Spanish American War, later moving to San Francisco and then to Nome for the gold rush from 1898-1904. He then sailed on ships several times to Australia before coming to Seattle to be a publisher …eventually ending up in 1916 at Mora, WA where he operated James Park and the James Hotel that burned in Dec. 1924 (photo). The Forks volunteer fire department had been busy, calls included one in November that resulted in a total loss of the Forks Hotel. Someone had stolen James Reade’s canoe.