A Look Back …This week in the Forks Forum

This week in 1999 wet weather was delaying the road repair at Govan Falls on Lake Crescent. It was reported that Day of Caring volunteers at the Forks Cemetery had removed a patch of two-foot-high ivy …revealing eleven long-forgotten grave markers! The OCC escapee inmates had been apprehended.

Fifty years ago, in Spartan JV action, the Clallam Bay Bruins had defeated the Spartans in a tie-breaker fifth quarter. Some of the Spartan players were Brian Borde (30), Lee Olson (44), Rick Hurn (66), Jim Leppell (10), and Bruin Steve Cleland (18) (photo.) In city council news council member Wes Chilson reported that the Big Log downtown was ready to split and Spoelstra Bros. had a new log to replace it. Chilson also suggested that the new log be placed on a cement base and a roof placed over it to help it last longer. United Way was dropping ping pong balls over Tillicum Park. Some would have winning numbers for prizes at participating businesses. Forks State Bank was holding an open house with door prizes and a drawing for a color TV.

This week in 1952 the Sportsman’s Club group was making plans to build a clubhouse on property that they owned on Fern Hill. The Club was currently meeting at the Blue Room at the Olympic Apartments. Summer statistics were in for Bogachiel State Park. A total of 2,059 vehicles had registered for overnight camping. Pioneer James F. Clark had passed (photo). He was born in LeGrande, OR in 1883, and had come to the West End as a child. He was 68 at the time of death and had served as a Clallam County Commissioner. He left behind his wife Mary (Schutz) and a daughter. A new town hall was under construction (on what is now Spartan Ave.) A new (Big Log) spruce log, larger than the previous, had been hauled into town, it was estimated to be 500 years old; helping with the project were Nansen Anderson and William Wentworth (photo.) It was reported that PFC Chris Penn Jr. of La Push had been transferred to Japan after seventeen months of combat in Korea.