PORT ANGELES — A 71-year-old woman who allegedly rammed her vehicle into a woman’s SUV after a perceived slight at a city intersection will be arraigned Friday.
Helen Sue Corbin of Port Angeles will enter pleas to charges of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon, reckless endangerment, malicious mischief and resisting arrest at 9 a.m. Friday in Clallam County Superior Court.
She was out of the Clallam County jail Monday on $2,000 bail following the 4:50 p.m. May 8 incident, during which there were no injuries.
Police said Corbin allegedly rammed her vehicle intentionally into an SUV containing a female driver and the driver’s 14-year-old son at Volunteer Field parking lot, then physically resisted law enforcement orders to get out of her vehicle and to be handcuffed.
Corbin said the SUV driver yelled at her at the Lauridsen Street-L Street stop sign and “flipped her off” before following the woman to Park, where Corbin said the driver caused the collision, according to the probable cause statement.
The driver told police an “old lady” was blocking the intersection, causing the driver to have to make a wide turn to get around Corbin, before following her to the park, backing up behind her and smashing into her SUV.
The driver said she raised her arm to Corbin at the intersection as though to say, “what the heck,” according to the statement.
‘Click It or Ticket’
Law enforcement agencies in Clallam and Jefferson counties are bolstering their seat belt and child car seat patrols.
Effective this week, the Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend police departments; Jefferson and Clallam County sheriff’s offices; and the State Patrol are participating in the “Click it or Ticket” seat belt enforcement campaign, slated to conclude June 3.
More than 150 state law enforcement agencies are participating in the 17th annual campaign, according to a press release.
In conjunction with the state campaign, a seat belt enforcement effort dubbed “Border to Border” is set to take place Monday, May 21 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
It is a national seat belt awareness event involving states across the country including Washington and Idaho. For more information, visit www.targetzero.com, or www.wtsc.wa.gov.
Tickets on sale
PORT ANGELES — Tickets for the Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles’ annual raffle are available to purchase.
Tickets are $10 and are available until the day of the event May 31.
They can be purchased at Wenner-Davis & Associates, 102 E. First St.; during the club’s Thursday noon to 1 p.m. meetings at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 Del Guzzi Dr.; or from any Kiwanis club member.
The raffle event and the club’s meetings are free and open to the public.
First prize is $500 dollars, and second prize is a cord of wood which is split and delivered.
Funds generated will assist the club’s support of community events and area organizations.
For more information, visit the club’s Facebook page.
Scholarship earned
ARLINGTON, Va. — Celina Gray, formerly of Port Angeles, has been announced as the recipient of the George Lea Founders Scholarship by the Public Lands Foundation.
The $5,000 scholarship will help defray Gray’s study expenses during her senior year at Salish Kootenai College, slated to begin in fall.
She is majoring in wildlife and fisheries biology.
In addition to the scholarship, she will also receive an invitation to attend the lands foundation’s annual meeting in Billings, Mont. in September.
The scholarship is named in honor of George Lea, who founded the lands foundation in 1987, following a career with the Bureau of Land Management.
The lands foundation is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the professional and sustainable management of the nation’s public lands, according to a news release.
