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Port news: Campanula arrives to load logs

Submitted by KOMO Staff
Friday, January 27th, 2012, 2:21pm
Port news: Campanula arrives to load logs

The Campanula, a Weyerhaeuser vessel, is expected to arrive at the Port of Olympia's Marine Terminal on Saturday.

The ship will be loaded with logs before it's scheduled to depart on Feb. 3.

Here are the details about the ship that will be docked in Olympia over the weekend:

Steamship Line:  K-Line
Vessel Flag: Panama
Destination: Hiro, Japan
Board Footage: Approx 5.8mmbf
Customer: Weyerhaeuser
Stevedore: SSA
Agent: K-Line America
Tentative Work Schedule: Five day shifts (Monday - Thursday)
Tug: Crowley
Jobs: No fewer than 400 jobs annually are associated with the movement of cargo in and out of the Port--NOTE: This includes direct, indirect and induced jobs.*
 

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Beaver helps out with storm damage at Northwest Trek

Submitted by Chris West, KOMO Communities Reporter
Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 1:50pm
Beaver helps out with storm damage at Northwest Trek

 A beaver is helping the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park  clean up from last week's snow and ice storms.

The park suffered severe damage from last week’s storm and will be closed for several weeks.

According to a news release, the wolf, cat, raptor and bear exhibits were severely damaged as were nearly four miles of fencing surrounding the park’s 435-acre free-roaming area.

Officials hope to reopen the park in mid-February. 
 

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City update: Roads closed in Olympia Thursday

Submitted by KOMO Staff
Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 8:55am

From the city:

Closed Roads on Thursday:

- Cooper Point Road: 9:00 a.m. – Noon closed from Conger to 14th. The intersection of Cooper Point and Conger will be open for right hand turns to Capital High School and east on Conger.  Noon – 4:30 p.m. closed from 14th to Goldrest. We hope to finish all of the emergency tree removal on Cooper Point Road on Thursday.

- Legion Way: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. closed from Boundary to Central

- Cain Road: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. closed between the two ends of Burnaby Park Loop, with detour on Burnaby Park Loop

- Ames from East Bay to Gull Harbor Road

- Decatur from Harrison to Garfield

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Overnight winds cause new power outages

Submitted by Associated Press
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012, 8:48am

Gusty winds that blew through Western Washington Tuesday night and early Wednesday added more power outages as utility crews are still trying to restore service to customers who have been in the dark since last week's snow and ice storms.

Puget Sound Energy reports 38,000 new outages, mostly in Whatcom, Skagit, Island and Kitsap counties. Spokesman Roger Thompson says crews have restored all but 10,000 of those and the utility hopes to have them back on line Wednesday.

Meanwhile, PSE crews also hope to finish restoring service Wednesday to about 12,000 snow and ice outages, mostly in King, Pierce and Thurston counties.

Seattle City Light reported the overnight winds left about 7,500 customers in the dark, but by 7 a.m. only a dozen customers were still without power.

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PSE hopes to have outages restored by Thursday

Submitted by Associated Press
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 2:55pm

A Puget Sound Energy spokesman says the utility hopes to have most of the out-of-service customers back on line Wednesday with no more than scattered outages remaining Thursday.

By Tuesday afternoon it still had about 22,000 to go, mostly in the south Puget Sound region.

Spokesman Roger Thompson 280 line crews are working their way through neighborhoods in south King, Pierce and Thurston counties, making repairs that sometime restore only one or two customers at a time.

Last week's snow and ice storms knocked out nearly 400,000 customers or more than a third of PSE's 1.1 million electrical customers in Western Washington.

Thompson says, "This has been a monster."

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PSE outage update for Tuesday

Submitted by KOMO Staff
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 12:14pm
PSE outage update for Tuesday

Here's the latest power restoration predictions for Thurston County from Puget Sound Energy.

As of 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, 24,000 PSE customers were without power.

•Bald Hills, Wednesday, January 25.
•Johnson Point, Wednesday, January 25.
•Lacey, Wednesday, January 25.
•Olympia, Wednesday, January 25.
•Rainier, Wednesday, January 25.
•Rochester, Wednesday, January 25.
•Tenino, Tuesday, January 24.
•Tumwater, Tuesday, January 24.
•Yelm, Wednesday, January 25.
•The restoration work is completed for the Delphi Road, Hawks Prairie, Steamboat Island, Summit Lake, and West Olympia/Cooper Point areas. If you live in these areas and your power is still out Tuesday afternoon, please call 1-888-225-5773 and report your outage again. In rare cases, repair crews could miss a problem with an individual service while repairing a larger problem out on the grid.

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Storm halts howling at Thurston County wolf sanctuary

Submitted by Chris West, KOMO Communities Reporter
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 10:13am
Storm halts howling at Thurston County wolf sanctuary

Last week’s snow and ice storms have devastated a popular wolf sanctuary in Thurston County.

Wolf Haven International in Tenino sustained an estimated $40,000 in damage, said Wolf Haven’s communications director Kim Young.

The 50 wolves and staff at the 83-acre complex avoided injury, but trees, fences and a surveillance system took a beating.

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