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Land Trust’s Second Plaque goes up at County Courthouse
North Olympic Land Trust’s second plaque at the Clallam County Courthouse is in place.
The plaque lists names of individuals and groups wanting to show support for the Land Trust’s work in protecting special qualities of area lands or to honor others while contributing funds for the Land Trust’s efforts.
The plaque tradition began in 2007 when the Land Trust gave its Elwha Return artwork to the citizens of Clallam County, and County officials arranged for its display in the Courthouse’s entry area facing Fourth Street, in Port Angeles. Plaques with donor listings are on the wall of the corridor west of the artwork. A plaque describing Elwha Return hangs below the artwork, just east of the elevator.
Three local artists, Clark Mundy, Darrell Charles Jr. and Al Charles Jr., donated Elwha Return to the Land Trust to help the organization raise funds for its work and to celebrate partnerships among individuals and groups, including local governments and tribes, nonprofit organizations like the Land Trust and businesses in helping protect the area’s special qualities.
Mundy, who initiated the Elwha Return project, is noted for creating hammered copper fish and other art, with an emphasis on natural and cultural qualities of the area. Darrell Charles Jr. and Al Charles Jr. have collaborated with Mundy on projects including the Erickson Playfield totem pole, in Port Angeles. The Charleses are members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.
Elwha Return incorporates Coast Salish design, abalone inlay, carved western red cedar and hammered copper. It depicts a female salmon depositing her eggs while two males hover nearby, waiting to fertilize them. A young salmon also
Each $100 contribution to the Land Trust qualifies its donors for one line on the plaque. Donations to the nonprofit organization are tax deductible. This year’s listings include names of 37 individuals and organizations showing support and 29 names of those being honored or memorialized. Although many of those memorialized died in recent years, one listing honors Helen Isbell MacNamarra, described as “Pioneer Child of the Upper Elwha Valley, who lived from 1895-1990.
Mundy, one of the artists who donated the artwork described the Land Trust’s work as a “beacon” of the kind of collaboration they believe will be needed to protect qualities that make the North Olympic Peninsula a special place.
“We are all partners in the future of this great place, and that’s what Elwha Return represents – working together for the future,” he said when preparing for the dedication of the artwork and the first plaque.
Qualities of land the nonprofit organization protects include habitat for salmon and other wildlife, farmland, sustainable commercial timberland, clean water and air, scenic vistas, open space and cultural heritage.
Donations can be made through this Web site or the Land Trust’s office, 104 N. Laurel St., Suite 114, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Donors or those they have chosen
to honor or memorialize
January 2007—February 2008
Jim and Linda Aldrich
Bob and Gail Anundson
Lee Bowen and Sue Gilleland
Valmer W. Cameron
In memory of Evelyn Chadd
Clawson Construction LLC
In memory of Gaylord DeForest
John and Becky Doherty
Paul Blake and Martha Ellul
Dr. Jack E. and Patricia K.A. Fletcher
Honoring Anthony and Anna Godde
Charlie Grant, a gentle man who inspired many
Richard and Camille Headrick
Harry and Maria Luisa Jackson
In memory of Mary Karkeck for her tireless work preparing Land Trust documents to protect land in Clallam County
In memory of Barbara D. Leadbetter
In memory of Dr. Ron Lemire, Seattle, friend of the Olympic Peninsula
Honoring Harry Lydiard’s work on the Salt Creek
In honor of Helen Isbell MacNamarra, 1895-1990
“Pioneer Child of the Upper Elwha Valley”
In memory of Robert M. McCrorie
In memory of Si and Jane McLaughlin
In memory of Al and Dorothy Mellon
The Meyer Family
In memory of Joan C. Miller
In memory of Kate and Diana Nixon
James and Sheila Pfaff
In memory of Victor “Viroch” Posten
Tom Pratt
The Raknells
Mel and Vicci Rudin
In memory of Dr. George Saari and Hans Saari
Honoring the marriage of Amanda Sanders and Tom Kay
In memory of Alex Sandison
In memory of Les Sandison
Arnold and Debbie Schouten
In memory of Matthew Peter Schroeder
Scott Shaffer
Shaffer & Parks family
Ivan Sorensen
Soroptimist International Port Angeles Jet Set
In memory of Alan R. Stewart
In memory of Earl Stone
Sandra Tatro, M.D.
In memory of Mary Ellen Thompson
Lou Templeton
In memory of Mike Tracy
William and Connie Waddington
In memory of Jerry Williamson
Judy Winthrop, in memory of Esther Winthrop