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Port Townsend-Jefferson Countys Daily Newspaper May 2, 2012

Customs to fortify PT office

Space will include new detention area
BY CHARLIE BERMANT
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May Day march on courthouse

PORT TOWNSEND Renovations on the space that the Port of Port Townsend has leased to U.S. Customs are scheduled to begin next week. The Point Hudson office, expected to open this summer, will include a detention area. This new office will give us an opportunity to both provide better customer service and improved security for our personnel, said Customs Service spokesman Mike Milne. Most of our work in that office has to do with entrance and clearance of vessels from Canada, and being right on the water will allow us to do that job more effectively, he said.

Port leasing space

The Port of Port Townsend is leasing the 1,700-square-foot space, which includes an area where commissioners conducted their meetings. The tenant of record is the General Services Administration, which provides space to the Customs Service, Port of Port Townsend Director Larry Crockett said. Renovations will cost Crockett $157,782 and be done by Hoch Construction of Port Angeles, the low bidder on the project. The area will be subdivided, with walls knocked down and space reconfigured to include a detention area. Occasionally, we will need to make use of a holding room if we have to make an arrest, Milne said.

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Occupy Port Townsend marchers gathered in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon, demanding that the county pull its assets from Bank of America.

Demonstrators ask county to pull assets from bank

Marine Park and marched I May Day rallies down Water PORT TOWNSEND About 40 demtake place across Street, detouronstrators marched from downtown Port U.S./A3 ing through the Townsend to the Jefferson County CourtBank of AmerI Seattle protesters house on Tuesday afternoon to demand ica drive-up wreak havoc/A9 that the county pull its assets out of Bank lane. of America and invest in a local bank. They continJefferson County has large accounts ued onto Sims Way before turning up the at Bank of America, and we ask that these be emptied and closed, the Occupy hill on Washington Street to the county courthouse. Port Townsend demonstrators chanted Port Townsend Police Sgt. Troy Surber outside Treasurer Judi Morris window. followed the demonstrators as they We also ask that any monies you walked in the southbound lane and did place under control of the Washington state treasurer be moved elsewhere until not allow any traffic to pass for the 20 the state ceases using Bank of America as minutes it took them to cover the route. Surber said that the police had a financial institution. The demonstrators began at Pope received some traffic complaints but
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decided to allow the demonstration to proceed unimpeded.

Presented letter
The marchers walked into the courthouse and went to Morris office where they presented their letter, which Morris said she had read earlier in the day. They crowded into the hall and began singing to Morris to the tune of the Beatles Hey Jude. Hey, Judy, dont keep things bad, take our money from Bank of America, the protesters sang. Remember that you can think for yourself. And you can help to make things better, they continued. TURN TO PROTEST/A4

Provide necessary security

Having this in place provides the necessary security for the public and our staff, he added. The renovation will take about three months, depending on the availability of material, Crockett said. Customs Service currently has an office suite on the second floor of the Port Townsend Post Office in a building that historically served as the Customs House at 1322 Washington St. Officer Jeff Vella is the only full-time employee in that office.
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Talk about an ultimate ride: Tsunami takes Harley to B.C.

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PORT HARDY, B.C. Ikuo Yokoyama has found his missing Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The bad news: It needs work, and its 3,100 miles away. Yokoyama on Tuesday confirmed hes the owner of a motorcycle that washed ashore in British Columbias Queen Charlotte Islands the archipelago north of Vancouver Island now known as Haida Gwaii and found by a beachcomber last month.

Yo k o y a m a , tracked down by a Harley-Davidson Motor Co. representative in Japan after reading about the flotsam find in Canadian news Yokoyama media, said the bike and its truck container had been washed out to sea in the tsunami that resulted from a mega-quake in March 2011. Apparently kept afloat over its 3,100-mile oceanic ride in the

white foam cube truck container, the Harley was very rusty particularly about the handlebars and wheels. But the logo on the fuel tank is unmistakable, said Peter Mark, who found the motorcycle on a Graham Island beach April 18. Yokoyama, a 29-year-old resident of the town of Yamamoto in hard-hit Miyagi Prefecture, told a Japanese television station that the discovery of the motorcycle was miraculous.

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A Harley-Davidson motorcycle, apparently plucked from land by last years tsunami and floated across the Pacific TURN TO HARLEY/A4 to a British Columbia island, is shown at the finders home.

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