This week in 1999 4-H Club member Vern Rondeau had helped rescue trapped salmon and steelhead on the upper Calawah and transferred them downstream to deeper water (photo). QVSD has suffered vandalism and a bunch of broken windows. An 18-year-old lone hiker was lost in the Hoh district. Searchers had found the man’s campsite but no sign of him. The sign on Seafirst Bank was coming down and a Bank of America sign was going up. Marcia Bingham ran equipment and cleared brush and raised $2,000 for the Quillayute Valley Scholarship Fund. Bert and Jerry helped give her directions (photo).

Fifty years ago this week youth baseball team photos appeared in the paper …there were 14 teams (photos)! Larry Bailey and Gary Vitcovich were hosting a Saturday night call-in show on KVAC …they reviewed “rock and roll music.” In ads …The Breakwater Inn in Clallam Bay was offering Smorgasbord every Sunday.

In 1952 it was reported that mobile radios had been installed in six PUD vehicles. The Game Department had released 250 Chinese “ring-neck” pheasants on the Quillayute Prairie. Olympic National Forest had sold three tracts of timber burned in the Forks Fire for $36,000 at auction. The school announced the names of all the teachers for the coming school year. One of them was Robert Hall. He had been hired to teach History and English.