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WENATCHEE

Pybus grand opening is Saturday

The Pybus Public Market will mark its offi cial grand opening Saturday with song and ceremony.

Festivities at the $9 million retail-and restaurant devel-opment will include a ribbon cutting, speeches from civic and business leaders and patriotic songs by the Wenatchee Apollo Club and local solo performer Ally Atwood. Beth Stipe, executive director of the Community Foundation of NCW, will serve as master of ceremonies.

The grand opening kicks off at 1:15 p.m. in the historic building at the foot of Orondo Avenue. Ceremonies dovetail with Saturday’s Wenatchee Valley Farmers Market, which runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more info, call 888-3900 or visit pybuspublicmarket.org.

— Mike Irwin, World staff

GRAND COULEE

Electrical fault caused fi re at dam

An electrical fault and circuit breaker that failed to trip are to blame for a fi re and explosion in March that damaged one of four power-houses at Grand Coulee Dam.

Results of the fi re investi-gation were released earlier this month, Lynn Brougher, spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, said Tuesday.

The fault occurred in the conduit that houses a large power line that connects one of the aff ected powerhouses’ generators to an external transformer, Brougher said. A back-up circuit breaker did trip, but by then the conduit had gotten hot and started to burn.

The G10 generator, one of 33 at the dam, was damaged and remains off line pending repairs. It’s located in the “right” power house, across the Columbia River from the dam’s visitor center. It isn’t one of the powerhouses

open for public touring.Brougher said the conduit,

called a “buss,” should be repaired within the next several months. Estimated repair costs have yet to be released, she said.

Fires have happened at the dam over the years. Brougher said a fi re like this one at the dam is very rare.

Firefi ghters from Recla-mation’s own on-site fi re department and volunteer fi re crews from cities of Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam put the March 9 fi re out quickly, she said. But the powerhouse contained a lot of residual smoke.

No power outages resulted from the fi re.

— Christine Pratt, World staff

STEHEKIN

Plans to move Park Service buildings reviewed

A proposal by the National Park Service to move its facilities out of the Stehekin River fl oodplain will be explained at meetings in Stehekin and Wenatchee next week.

The agency plans to remove a shuttle bus storage and maintenance building, equipment storage, a repair building, a fi re cache and dorm, a helicopter pad, hazardous storage and a solid waste compaction and recycling transfer facility. They would be rebuilt in an area near the Stehekin airstrip.

One Park Service house for staff would be built at one of four possible locations.

The public meetings are from 9 to 11 a.m. on Monday at the Golden West Visitor Center, and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Chelan County PUD auditorium, 327 N. Wenatchee Ave. in Wenatchee. An on-site walk-through of alternative sites will be from 9 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the National Park Service maintenance yard in Stehekin.

The meetings start with a short presentation on the proposal, followed by an open house format for reviewing the information,

talking with park staff , asking questions or off ering comments.

Comments can also be submitted by July 10 online at parkplanning.nps.gov/noca, or in writing to National Park Service, Stehekin Administrative Facilities EA, 810 State Route 20, Sedro-Woolley, WA, 98284.

— K.C. Mehaff ey, World staff

PURDY

Gray whale escapes shallow water in Puget Sound

A gray whale that appeared to be trapped for a time Wednesday in the shallow water of Burley Lagoon in south Puget Sound made its way into deeper water, but it’s probably still in trouble, a whale expert said.

“This is, at best, a straggler of the migration along the Pacifi c Coast,” said John Calambokidis of Cascadia Research in Olympia.

“Most of the healthy animals have migrated past or else are feeding on the outer coast. The whales we see in Puget Sound in June and July are usually in poor condition,” he told the Kitsap Sun.

“In some of the photos that I saw, the whale looked pretty emaciated,” the biologist said, adding that a large patch of whale lice behind its blow hole might be covering some kind of injury. Whale lice are shrimplike creatures that feed on skin lesions.

The gray whale is about a year old and 20 to 25 feet long. Gray whales are rarely seen in south Puget Sound, about a 200-mile swim from the Pacifi c.

— The Associated Press

Forest Service truck destroyed by fi re

Photo provided

BY K.C. MEHAFFEY

World staff writer

MAZAMA — A pickup truck belonging to the U.S. Forest Service was destroyed Tuesday after it caught fi re on Harts Pass Road northwest of Winthrop Tuesday.

There were no injuries from the fi re, caused by mechanical issues, said Forest Service spokes-woman Shannon O’Brien.

She said a Forest Service road crew was using the truck to pull a rock rake on the road, which accesses the Pacifi c Crest Trail and a network of other trails in the Pasayten Wilderness. The rock rake was disconnected and saved from the fi re, she said.

The fi re was contained to the truck, and did not spread to the surrounding area, which still has snow, she added.

The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Members of the Liquor Control Board, the agency charged with creating a marijuana system, were briefed Thursday on the feedback to their initial draft rules. The board is scheduled to formally propose rules on July 3.

The briefi ng highlighted three changes the liquor-board-staff experts will recommend and board members might adopt.

Advocates for sun-grown pot, led by Jeremy Moberg of the Okanogan Cannabis Association, argued that indoor growing leaves a huge carbon footprint. They were joined by the city of Seattle and King County, which both cited environmental benefi ts of outdoor grows.

In initial rules, offi cials proposed allowing greenhouses with rigid walls, but no open-fi eld growing. Their chief concern was security.

In sheer number, the issue of hash and hash oil appeared to spark the most comments, overwhelmingly in favor of the stand-alone sale of marijuana extracts, specifi cally concen-trated products such as hash oil.

Some objected to the proposed logo that would go on state-regulated pot products. It shows a silhouette of Washington state featuring a seven-pointed pot leaf in the center.

State pot agency shares comments on enacting law

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