PORT ANGELES — You can buy corn dogs, funnel cakes and ice cream bars from any number of vendors at the Clallam County Fair, but only those sold by the Lions and Kiwanis clubs, their members will tell you, are “dipped with love.”

The Port Angeles volunteer service organizations also like to remind people that the money raised during the four-day fair stays local and helps others in the community.

On Friday morning at the Kiwanis booth, located about halfway down the main thoroughfare, Tom Allen, Peggy Norris and Jen Swanson were working the first shift, dipping ice cream bars in preparation for the day’s crowds.

In assembly-line fashion, Allen unwrapped the vanilla ice cream bars, Swanson dipped them in melted chocolate and Norris placed them in white paper bags.

“It takes a lot of arm

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