PORT ANGELES — A retired Port Angeles man is asking Clallam residents to add a little bit of Christmas color to a gray, wind-swept stretch of Ediz Hook Road.
“It’s nice to have a little bit of spirit on the spit,” said Frank Kiss, 69, who spends up to three hours a day picking up trash along Ediz Hook.
Kiss said he has been adding Christmas ornaments, wreaths and evergreen cuttings to a rusty chain-link fence — located about a mile down the road from the Daishowa America Co. Ltd. mill on the Hook — since the middle of November.
That’s when Kiss noticed that others had begun to hang ornaments on the fence, which is about 7 feet tall and about 14 feet wide and blocks vehicles from a wooden pier.
The spontaneous activity is reminiscent of another Ediz Hook phenomenon — the stacking of stones on the rocks protecting the spit from the rolling waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in summer 2001.
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