Richard Clark: An appreciation

Richard E. Clark, writer of definitive histories of Point Roberts and of the Peace Arch and a man who could truly be called the conscience of Blaine, died May 26 at the age of 82.

During the depression his parents, older brother and sister moved from Iowa to Wenatchee, where Clark was born in 1930. He moved with his family to a Valley View Road farm in 1932 that his father soon traded for the house Clark lived in for many years at 223 B Street.

“His involvement and participation was unbelievably wide-ranging,” said Gordon Dolman, former superintendent of the Blaine school district. “He started the Pacific Arts Association, bringing classical musicians from all over the northwest to perform, often at his own expense, at concerts that were free or by donation.”