This column first appeared here Dec. 17, 1997. We reprint it by request.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
by Onkar Ghate
by Don C. Brunell
by Troy Nichols
by Don C. Brunell
For many years, a bunch of us political junkies have gathered on Election Day for lunch and prognosticating with our leader Ralph Munro, now former Secretary of State.
by Don C. Brunell
When expectations arent met, someone usually demands to know why. This goes for public education as well as politics, wars, marriage and raising children. Normally, it is someone up the organizational chart that demands to know why underlings under-perform. Thats why it came as such a surprise when 200 Totem Middle School students called principals and teachers to account.
This letter is from the many friends of Roy J. Scott, who has been a Port Angeles resident since 1998, whom you made the headline topic of a column, writes a Port Angeles reader whose name is either on a second page I mislaid or he/she didnt sign it.
Item After seven years of working on streams and wetlands to restore the Olympia oyster to its natural place in the ecosystem of Puget Sound, the Puget Sound Restoration Fund reports success in its replantings in numerous places, including Olympias Budd Inlet and Poulsbos Liberty Bay, plus maverick colonies showing up at the Manchester fuel depot and a saltwater swimming pool on Bainbridge Island. The once nearly extinct oysters are desirable because they are filter feeders that clean up waters where they live and remove algae that can affect eel grass beds and create low oxygen conditions. The larger Pacific oysters also are being used in select locations.
Normally, we rigorously abide by the journalistic standard of reporting the news, not making it, but, on occasion, well bend…
Normally, we rigorously abide by the journalistic standard of reporting the news, not making it, but, on occasion, well bend…
