Documentary filmmaker starts work on trail movie

Sam Coodley, a documentary film maker from Portland, was in the north part of the county last week to start work on a film about the John Wayne Trail. Coodley plans to include the origins of the trail and the ill-fated effort last year in the legislature to shut down the middle section of the trail from the Columbia River to Malden. He was at the old Milwaukee freight wreck site on the south end of the trestle over Pine Creek near Hole-in-the-Ground Road Sunday.