Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
Costco was named Best Vision Center in Peninsula Daily News polling this year.
Full disclosure: I’m looking through a pair of Costco spectacles as I create this post. I picked up my current frames and lenses for about $100 less for the whole pair than I’d have paid for lenses alone at my optometrist’s office. I can’t ignore that kind of value.
This year’s polling of Peninsula Daily News readers awarded Sequim’s Costco with “Best Jewelry” honors. If you thought that Costco is focused strictly on low cost production jewels, take a look at the price tags for these baubles. In addition to expected gift gems, they carry pieces that are definitely outside the typical impulse purchase price range.
The Dungeness School was opened on February 27, 1893 with 73 pupils aged from five to 20 years old. The school’s teacher lived in quarters that were provided on the second floor. The original building was rectangular; the wing you see to the left, with the door, was added in 1921 with modern heating, plumbing and wide stairs to the second floor.
By 1923 two teachers taught eight classes. After 1940, seventh and eighth graders were sent to Sequim High School. School districts were consolidated and the Dungeness School was closed in 1955. The land and building was purchased from the Sequim School District by the Dungeness Community Club in 1967 and refurbished and maintained through extensive volunteer work.
The facility was donated in 1995 to the local Museum and Art Center which now maintains and rents it to the community.
The Dungeness School was designated a Washington State Historical Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1988.
The Peninsula Daily News polling gave best pizza honors to Westside Pizza this year. There are branches in both Sequim and Port Angeles. We were out and hungry the other day and stopped for the veggie version above. This was their smallest version, which they call “medium” because their sizes are only medium, large, and grand. I guess no one wants small with our supersized mentality.
We decided to take a table in their dining room. They were busy enough – I suspect a lot of their business is takeout and delivery.
Here’s another winner in the Peninsula Daily News polling. Goodwill was selected by readers as our best 2nd hand shop. This store opened in Sequim a year or so ago; there’s another branch in Port Angeles.
Goodwill is big. In addition to clothing, they sell small appliances and televisions that Goodwill workers have fixed if necessary, kitchenware, and some furniture. They do stock some new items and there was a big selection of stuffed toys when I was there last week. I picked up a really good Eddie Bauer down coat here for a song a year or two ago. In case I haven’t admitted it before, I’m an avowed bargain hunter.
Locals: old computers, monitors, and televisions can be recycled for free at Goodwill, another reason to make a stop here.
Displays are going up in Walmart.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to begin thinking about all this for at least another month. . .maybe more.
This project recently began, giving rise to hope that the building industry may show some signs of life. We’ve seen surveyors here and there as well: they’re often the first to work when something’s going to be done. Sadly, there are a lot of dreams that have been on hold – and crushed – over the last several years.