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Hoodsport debuts website
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Forest McCullough of Northwest
Land & Tree told the Port of Hoodsport
Commission on Feb. 8 that tree and
debris removal at the port’s parklands
was almost done, despite “Mother Na-l
ture giving us headaches.”
As soon as a stretch of dry weath-
er arrives, McCullough predicted the
parking lot would be “all cleaned up,
fixed up,” and ready to receive treat-
ments such as beauty bark. He assured
Port Commissioner Lori Kincannon
they were “still on target” for the park-
ing lot grading to be finished and ready
by the end of April. ,
McCullough confirmed for Kincan-
non that the grading, rocks and beauty
bark for the parking lot are all part of
his contract. He noted the actual park-
ing lot’s size would be reduced to reflect
the amount of space that’s needed for
the lot and to improve its drainage.
McCullough clarified he was refer-
ring to “the disc golf side” of the parking
lot, as he assured Kincannon that “the
trail park side (isn’t) going to change
much,” because that side of the park-
ing lot doesn’t experience significant
drainage problems, nor does it require
rocks or beauty bark, in his opinion.
“On the other side of Dow Creek,
there’s a large amount of trees of a
pretty good size,” McCullough said.
“We had to excavate some of them, so
we could do our work back there.”
McCullough told port officials those
trees would be transplanted to the
parking lot. .
Before McCullough and his person-
nel pull out of the site entirely, Kin-
cannon recommended conducting a col-
lective walk-through of the parks and
parking lot grounds. She suggested a
date after the port commission’s regu-
larly scheduled April 12 meeting.
In addition to giving port officials
an opportunity to assess the state of
Northwest Land & Tree’s work'on the
site, Kincannon welcomed any further
comments from McCullough regarding
BRIEFS
any transplants, repairs or similar im-
provements that he might suggest.
McCullough chuckled over his
phone connection as he agreed that
this would be preferable to simply re-
opening the park without a final re-
view of the work.
Kincannon said the port plans to as-
semble volunteers at its parklands in
May in preparation for a grand open-
ing around late May or early June.
“It would be great to have you up
there too, just since you did all this
great work for us,” Kincannon said, be-
fore laughing, “You could bring a little
excavator, and the kids could get on it.”
Katie Zech of Puyallup-based Zech
Design followed by walking the Port
of Hoodsport through its new website,
which launched Feb. 5, with a new lay-
out but mostly the same information,
pending an upcoming upload of data
from January forward.
Zech sought to streamline the port’s
website to make it easier to use, while
also creating a Google business profile
for the port to ensure it appears more
readily in online searches.
Zech described the new site as “glob-
al friendly,” regardless of one’s inter-
net browser or Wi-Fi~equipped device,
with “cleaner navigation” and more
comprehensive information, presented
in more aesthetically appealing pages.
Zech suggested featuring the site’s
updates in their own prominent section
on the page, to keep users from having
to search, or even scroll down, for the
site’s latest additions. .
While the site has retained its same
web address at portofhoodsportns,
Zech noted it’s been augmented with
Google analytics to allow the port to
learn more about its online visitor traf-
fic, including what search terms they’re
using to get to the site.
Zech noted there’s plenty of room
to expand on—site content and details
such as Frequently Asked Questions
that appear on Google, especially since
a steady stream of such material rein—
forces for Google that the port’s web-
site is active.
Presentatibn on
atomic Washington
Steve Olson will talk about “Atomic
Washington: Our Nuclear Past, Pres-
ent and Future” at 1:30, pm. Sunday
at the Harstine Island Community
Club as part of the
I Inquiring Minds/
' Humanities Wash-
ington program.
This is the» 14th
year the Harstine
Island Community
.Club and. Inquiring
Mind‘S/Humanities
Washington have
presented the pro—
grams, which are
staged at 1:30 pm.
on the last Sunday in January,”"Feb-
ruary and March at the Community
Club, 3371 E. Harstine Island Road
North. Donations will be accepted to
support Inquiring Minds;-
An Eastern Washington native
who lives in Seattle, :Ol'son is a writ-
er whose most recent book is “The
Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and
the Making of the Atomic Age.” Since
1979, he has been aconsultant writer
for the National Academy of Sciences,
the President’s Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology, and other naé
tional scientific organizations. ‘
As Olson will point out, at the cen-
ter of every nuclear weapon in the
United States is a small pit of radio-1
active material manufactured at a
Olson
top-secret facility in Eastern Washing—
ton, a facility that remains the most
radiologically contaminated site in the
Western hemisphere.
Washington today has two oper-
ating nuclear reactors, one of which
provides about 10% of our electricity,
he states. Radioactive substances are
used in Washington ’to cure diseases,
build airplanes, detect pollutants and
power smoke detectors. Naval Base
Kitsap has the largest stockpile of nu-
clear weapons in the country.
The series concludes with Eric
Wagner talking about “After the Blast:
Mount St. Helens 40 Years Later” at
1:30 pm. March 26. The Seattle res-
ident is a writer and biologist who
earned a doctorate degree in biology
frOm the University of Washington,
where he studied penguins. He is the
author of three books, including “After
the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of
Mount St. Helens.”
Mount St. Helens erupted May
18, .1980, killing 57 people and caus-
ing hundreds of square miles of
destruction.
Scientists who visited the site soon
after the eruption were stunned to find
plants sprouting up through the ash
and animals skittering around downed
trees. Wagner will talk about the sur-
prising ways plants and animals sur-
vived the eruption, the complex roles
people have played, and the continued
fascination with the mountain.
I Cdmpiled by reporter Gordon
Weeks
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