Diane Urbani de la Paz

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Jon and Valkyrie Ferguson hold up the Quilts of Valor quilt given to Valkyrie earlier this month. photo by Chris Bates

Quilts of Valor conducts national sewing day Saturday

Veterans in Jefferson, Clallam counties recipients of coverlets

Jon and Valkyrie Ferguson hold up the Quilts of Valor quilt given to Valkyrie earlier this month. photo by Chris Bates
In an online talk Thursday, Mimi George, pictured with the late Te Aliki Koloso Kaveia, will talk about how ancient navigation and boat-building skills continue to be relevant. photo courtesy Wooden Boat Foundation

Mariner connects ancient skills to today’s problems

Online program set Thursday

In an online talk Thursday, Mimi George, pictured with the late Te Aliki Koloso Kaveia, will talk about how ancient navigation and boat-building skills continue to be relevant. photo courtesy Wooden Boat Foundation
Bradi Jacobson of Agnew donated, transported and helped replant a truck bed full of Douglas fir trees to the future roadside forest at Discovery Bay on Saturday morning. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Salmon coalition plants evergreens on Lucky Deer site

Volunteers gather to help protect Discovery Bay

Bradi Jacobson of Agnew donated, transported and helped replant a truck bed full of Douglas fir trees to the future roadside forest at Discovery Bay on Saturday morning. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Library Assistant Nancy Grant unpacks one of the 40 boxes of books that arrived at the Port Townsend Library on Friday. The books — a novel and a children’s chapter book — are for the 2022 Community Read. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Two books, one a fantasy, selected for sharing

Author talks, other activities planned around literature

Library Assistant Nancy Grant unpacks one of the 40 boxes of books that arrived at the Port Townsend Library on Friday. The books — a novel and a children’s chapter book — are for the 2022 Community Read. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Eugenia Frank.

Students push for mask guidance

Official: Now is time for planning

Eugenia Frank.
David Timmons, the executive director of the Fort Worden Public Development Authority, hopes to renovate one of the Fort’s historic buildings, finish the glamping tents and bring in a climate research organization. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Fort Worden Public Development Authority to get funding breaks

State board OKs several measures

David Timmons, the executive director of the Fort Worden Public Development Authority, hopes to renovate one of the Fort’s historic buildings, finish the glamping tents and bring in a climate research organization. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Grant to install solar at PUD

District also seeking broadband funds

David Herbelin, Olympic Theatre Arts’ new executive director, will host an open house at the Sequim center this Saturday. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Olympic Theatre Arts to host open house Saturday

Guided tours offered of multilevel building, formerly a church

David Herbelin, Olympic Theatre Arts’ new executive director, will host an open house at the Sequim center this Saturday. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Amie Rodriguez Albaugh of Amie’s Garden outside Sequim was among the vendors in 2021 at the Port Townsend Farmers Market. The Jefferson County Farmers Markets organization has opened a startup fund for people of color interested in vending at the 2022 markets in Port Townsend or Chimacum. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Start-up fund aims to include more people of color

Food, farm and art vendors encouraged to apply

Amie Rodriguez Albaugh of Amie’s Garden outside Sequim was among the vendors in 2021 at the Port Townsend Farmers Market. The Jefferson County Farmers Markets organization has opened a startup fund for people of color interested in vending at the 2022 markets in Port Townsend or Chimacum. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Singer-songwriter Nathaniel Talbot will give a concert at the Palindrome in Port Townsend this Friday night. (Nathaniel Talbot)

Concert to be first in Rainshadow series

Singer-songwriter Nathaniel Talbot to play in-person set at Palindrome

Singer-songwriter Nathaniel Talbot will give a concert at the Palindrome in Port Townsend this Friday night. (Nathaniel Talbot)
East Jefferson Fire Rescue Commissioner Dave Johnson.

Former East Jefferson Fire Rescue board chair dies

Service ‘mourning loss of an icon’

East Jefferson Fire Rescue Commissioner Dave Johnson.

Presentation to highlight electric vehicles

Speaker to review current options, history of EVs

Mike James will play American folk songs plus some bluesy numbers during his livestreamed Candlelight Concert on Thursday evening. (Mike James)

Singer-guitarist to host online Candlelight Concert

Thursday’s program to stream from church website

Mike James will play American folk songs plus some bluesy numbers during his livestreamed Candlelight Concert on Thursday evening. (Mike James)
Cynthia Daily cradles an injured red-tailed hawk, one of the patients at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue. Birds from across the North Olympic Peninsula receive care at Daily’s avian hospital in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Winter weather hits birds

Rescue center answers calls to help injured animals

Cynthia Daily cradles an injured red-tailed hawk, one of the patients at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue. Birds from across the North Olympic Peninsula receive care at Daily’s avian hospital in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Madeline Nelson of Port Townsend works in watercolors and bright sun on the grass outside the Jefferson County Courthouse. The plein air painter typically spends just an hour finishing a piece before her hands get too cold. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
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Plein air

Madeline Nelson of Port Townsend works in watercolors and bright sun on the grass outside the Jefferson County Courthouse. The plein air painter typically spends… Continue reading

Madeline Nelson of Port Townsend works in watercolors and bright sun on the grass outside the Jefferson County Courthouse. The plein air painter typically spends just an hour finishing a piece before her hands get too cold. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
The city of Port Townsend will finish construction of a well at the municipal golf course this spring for irrigation and emergency water. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Townsend City Council funds $495K in water-system costs

Project expected to begin next month

The city of Port Townsend will finish construction of a well at the municipal golf course this spring for irrigation and emergency water. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Community Build Project builder Randy Welle marvels at the completion of Pat's Place, the tiny home village in Port Townsend, on Saturday afternoon. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Pat’s Place ready for occupancy

Tiny-home village created in Port Townsend

Community Build Project builder Randy Welle marvels at the completion of Pat's Place, the tiny home village in Port Townsend, on Saturday afternoon. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Brian Walsh’s image of Squaxin Island tribal member Sally Brownfield is part of the “We Are Puget Sound” photo exhibit hosted by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. (Brian Walsh)

Salish Sea recovery topic of lecture

Today’s talk tied to Puget Sound photo exhibit

Brian Walsh’s image of Squaxin Island tribal member Sally Brownfield is part of the “We Are Puget Sound” photo exhibit hosted by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. (Brian Walsh)
Black Diamond Junction — from left, Todd Ortloff on keyboard, Harry Bidasha on drums, singer Amanda Bacon, bassist Rudy Maxion and guitarist Bob Allen — is the featured band Saturday evening during the Juan de Fuca Foundation's Winter Benefit. The event will be livestreamed from the Naval Elks Lodge in downtown Port Angeles. (Black Diamond Junction)

Juan de Fuca Foundation benefit to showcase desserts, music, comedy

Annual fundraiser to be livestreamed on Saturday

Black Diamond Junction — from left, Todd Ortloff on keyboard, Harry Bidasha on drums, singer Amanda Bacon, bassist Rudy Maxion and guitarist Bob Allen — is the featured band Saturday evening during the Juan de Fuca Foundation's Winter Benefit. The event will be livestreamed from the Naval Elks Lodge in downtown Port Angeles. (Black Diamond Junction)

Young artists compete on video

Musicians can be seen online on Saturday