SEQUIM — Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire has scheduled a town hall meeting in Sequim on Friday.
The town hall will begin at 4 p.m. in the meeting room at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.
McEntire periodically holds town hall meetings in his home District 1, which covers the eastern third of the county.
There will be no agenda for Friday’s town hall, McEntire said.
It is an opportunity for District 1 citizens and anyone else to “come and talk with me about whatever is on their mind,” he said.
Studded tires
OLYMPIA — State transportation officials are reminding drivers that they have until Tuesday to remove their studded tires.
Drivers who fail to meet that midnight-on-Tuesday deadline could face a $124 ticket.
Officials say studs can wear down pavement, so removing them promptly helps extend the life of state roadways.
Flight landing practice set in Coupeville
COUPEVILLE — Field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at the outlying field in Coupeville are scheduled for Monday through Friday.
On Monday, training is scheduled from evening into late night.
Training Tuesday is from the midmorning to midafternoon.
On Wednesday, expect training from midmorning to midafternoon, then again from early evening to late night.
On Thursday, there’s training from early evening to late night, and Friday has training slated for midmorning to midafternoon.
Comments, including noise complaints, can be directed to station’s comment line at 360-257-6665 or via email at comments.NASWI@navy.mil.
All other questions can be directed to the public affairs office at 360-257-2286.
Overeaters meet
PORT ANGELES — Overeaters Anonymous will hold two upcoming meetings.
The first is at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 510 E. Park Ave., at 9 a.m. Monday.
The second is at Bethany Pentecostal Church, 508 S. Francis St., at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
There are no dues or fees for members.
The group’s primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer.
For more information, phone 360-477-1858 or 888-612-7020.
Senior nutrition
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Senior Nutrition Site dinners will be served at 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St.
A suggested donation is $5 for those who are 60 or older.
People younger than 60 can attend for $8.
Reservations should be made 24 hours in advance to 360-457-8921.
Menus are subject to change.
■ Tuesday: Bed of greens with garbanzo bean salad, chicken and veggie pizza, and fresh pineapple.
■ Wednesday: Green salad, vegetable soup, turkey and swiss sandwich, and cranberry cake with Mandarin oranges.
■ Thursday: Three-bean salad, cheese ravioli with marinara, garlic bread, steamed spinach and carrot cake.
■ Friday: Spring greens, boiled egg, baked ham, sweet potatoes, steamed peas and ambrosia cake.
Landscaping course
SEQUIM — The Clallam Conservation District is taking registration for its annual spring natural landscaping course.
The interactive course on sustainable landscaping includes three Thursday evening classes and three Saturday field trips.
The first class is Thursday, April 9, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.
Course participants will learn how to perform landscape site analyses and develop landscape designs appropriate for the ecological conditions of their property.
The course focus is a naturalistic landscape style, with special emphasis on water conservation and low maintenance.
A $25 registration fee covers the cost of the book Grow Your Own Native Landscape, a binder of reference material and facility rental.
For couples requesting one set of materials, the cost is $30.
The deadline for registration is April 6, but early registration is encouraged to allow adequate time for preparation site maps for individual properties.
For more information and to register, phone the district at 360-775-3747, ext. 5.
The course syllabus and examples of class slide presentations are available for review at www.clallamcd.org/conservation-around-the-house.
Red Cross informational classes set
The Red Cross will hold two new volunteer information sessions Wednesday and Thursday.
The Wednesday event takes place at the American Red Cross office, 151 Ruth’s Place, Suite 1-D, Sequim, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Thursday session is in the Port Angeles Library’s Coffey Meeting Room, 2210 S. Peabody St., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Participants can learn how the Red Cross is involved in the community and how to help.
For more information, contact Steven Moore at 360-457-7933 or steven.moore2@redcross.org.
Birds, bees, bugs
SEQUIM — The Sequim Museum & Arts Center will present “Birds, Bees & Bugs” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through April 25 at 175 W. Cedar St.
An opening reception will be held during the First Friday Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. this Friday.
The show features a variety of local artists and unusual bugs from the Cowan Collection of artifacts.
Coffee with Mayor
SEQUIM — The city’s “Coffee with the Mayor” program continues this month.
Residents can meet informally with Mayor Candace Pratt at 8:30 a.m. Thursdays, April 2 and 16, at the Hi-Way 101 Diner, 392 W. Washington St.
The mayor will listen to anyone who wants to chat, ask questions, express a concern or make a comment about the city or the community.
For questions, contact Pratt at 360-582-0114 or cpratt@sequimwa.gov.
Discussion group
SEQUIM — The Great Decisions Discussion Group will meet at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon Friday.
The topic is “Darkness Invisible: The Hidden Global Costs of Mental Illness.”
“Far from being a ‘First World problem,’ mental illness is a global scourge that affects people of all incomes and backgrounds. By 2030, mental disorders will cost the global economy around $6 trillion a year — more than heart disease,” a calendar listing reads.
The suggested background reading for the discussion is the article “Darkness Invisible” from the January/February edition of Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
New members of all ages are welcome.
For more information and a schedule of future meetings, visit www.tinyurl.com/pdn-greatdecisions or contact John Pollock at 360-683-9622 or jcpollock@olypen.com.
Joyce Fire Auxiliary
JOYCE — The Joyce Fire Auxiliary met March 14 for the election of new officers.
Jan McGee remains president, and Judy Harbey was selected as vice president.
Donna Buck and Shirley Coker were voted in to co-chair the newly established titled position of communications/PR.
All other officers were voted to remain in their positions.
The annual Easter Bake Sale will be held at the Joyce General Store from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Easter goodies, along with some specialty items, will be provided. All gluten-free items and items containing nuts will be marked.
Captain’s book
AURORA, Colo. — Air Force Capt. Cara Swanson has published a book, The Long Journey: Tales from a World Yet to Come. It is her fourth book.
She is serving with the National Tactical Integration Flight, 566th Intelligence Squadron, at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo.
Swanson is the daughter of David and Diane Bommer of Port Townsend.
She is a 1995 graduate of Port Townsend High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1999 from Ottawa University in Phoenix.
Libraries offer new digital service
Patrons can download and stream books, music and film titles for free with hoopla, a new digital streaming service at the North Olympic Library System (NOLS).
Hoopla allows library patrons to stream or download movies, music albums and audiobooks using their library card.
Borrowed titles will automatically be returned when they’re due.
Hoopla is compatible with both PCs and Macs, plus an array of smartphones and tablets.
To start using hoopla, visit www.nols.org and select “Downloads” and then “hoopla.”
At this time, patrons can stream or download up to seven titles per month.
For more information about how to get started, visit or call the nearest NOLS branch.
Helping food banks
PORT ANGELES — Through the month of April, Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy, 708 S. Race St., Suite C, will accept food and cash donations during business hours.
Along with other participating businesses, it is helping out with the seventh annual Helping Hands Food Drive.
The clinic is open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays. It is closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
Friday pick-ups or drop-offs can be arranged.
Clinic owner Lynda G. Williamson and her staff started the food drive seven years ago in an effort to organize an annual event that would help support less-fortunate community members.
For more information, phone Jaie Livingstone, Leona Voss or Lynda Williamson at 360-417-0703.
Kiwanis raffle is underway until May 3
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Kiwanis Club’s annual raffle is underway.
First prize is a two-night stay at Lake Quinault Lodge, second is a Kindle Fire and third is a cord of wood, cut and delivered.
Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at Wenner-Davis & Associates, 102 E. First St., until May 3.
Proceeds help support the Port Angeles Kiwanis and the Port Angeles High School Key Club in their efforts to provide services to the youths of Clallam County.
The drawing will be held May 3 at the annual Kiwanis Garage Sale.
One need not be present to win.
8 teens honored
PORT TOWNSEND — Eight teens recently were awarded the Thomas J. Majhan Teen Leaders Award for 2014 by the Port Townsend Kiwanis Club at the 12th annual awards reception at the Elks Club.
The Teen Leaders Award program was started in 2004 to honor local teens for outstanding leadership and community service excellence for the prior year.
They are presented in the name of the late Honorable Thomas J. Majhan, former Superior and District Court judge, who passed away as the awards were being created.
The 2014 recipients are:
■ Sam Brooks, 18, of Port Townsend, daughter of Dan and Kim Brooks, nominated by Kathy Stevenson, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
■ Stephanie Brown, 16, of Quilcene, daughter of Clarence and Marilyn Brown, nominated by Gary Stebbins, Quilcene School District.
■ Levi Clum, 18, of Port Townsend, son of Chris and Kristy Clum, nominated by Linda Kostenbader, East Jefferson Rotary Club.
■ Lucas Foster, 16, of Port Townsend, son of Robert and Kimberly Foster, nominated by Rene Olson, Port Townsend High School.
■ Naya Krienke, 14, of Port Townsend, daughter of Nick and Naeomi Krienke, nominated by Amy Smith, The Boiler Room.
■ Alex Kunz, 18, of Port Townsend, son of Michael and Cindy Kunz, nominated by Dennis Hughes, First Presbyterian Church.
■ Joel Mackey, 18, of Port Townsend, son of John and Joanne Mackey, nominated by Liz Quayle, Port Townsend School District OCEAN Program.
■ Addi Richert, 17, daughter of Larry and Julie Richert, nominated by Kathy Cavette, Port Townsend High School.
The families, nominators and awards presenters were all on hand for the awards ceremony, where each teen received their award and a gift, as well as a donation from the Kiwanis Club to the organization of their choice in their name.
Teacher receives grant
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School science teacher Jennifer L. Duncan-Taylor recently received a grant through the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, Wash., for involvement in the Partners in Science Supplemental Program.
This $7,000 grant (one of 20, totaling $140,000) will go toward Duncan-Taylor’s nitrogen studies with the Thalassiosira pseudonana, a marine genome sequence.
This amount was supplemented by each high school that provides up to $2,000 in matching funds to enable science teachers to strengthen laboratory instruction with a greater degree of student inquiry and hand-on science for their students.
The award also includes funds to attend two national Partners in Science Conferences where teachers share these implementation ideas with their peers and listen to and discuss current research being conducted across the country.
Each awardee was a recipient of a prior grant that supported them spending the past two summers conducting basic science research guided by scientists-mentors at academic and research institutions in the Pacific Northwest.
2015 Health Heroes
PORT TOWNSEND — In celebration of National Public Health Week (April 6-12), the Jefferson County Board of Health has announced its 2015 Public Health Heroes.
They are Jumping Mouse Children’s Center and Jefferson County Nurse-Family Partnership.
The health week theme is “Healthiest Nation 2030: Let’s Make America the Healthiest Nation in One Generation.”
This year’s theme focuses on transforming the way our country approaches health, with greater attention placed on prevention and wellness.
“These special, special people are helping us take care of the youngest members of this community and have been for quite some time,” said Sheila Westerman, chair of the Jefferson County Board of Health.
“I can’t tell you how happy I am to give this award because the more kids we can take care of, the better off we will be in the future.”
WSU lists honors for fall semester
PULLMAN — The following Washington State University students from the Peninsula have earned undergraduate degrees for the fall 2014 semester:
Honors earned by students are listed as follows: summa cum laude for a cumulative GPA of 3.90 or better; magna cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.70 but less than 3.90; and cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 but less than 3.70.
Port Angeles
■ Jessica Jo Alderson, Bachelor of Arts in humanities.
■ Megan Laurel Evans, Bachelor of Arts in business administration, cum laude.
■ Ben Scott Harris, Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice.
■ Kelsey Lee Harrison, Bachelor of Science in nursing, magna cum laude.
■ Kane Micheal Mus, Bachelor of Arts in English.
■ Darian Francesca Rentas, Bachelor of Science in animal sciences.
Port Townsend
■ Shelby Lynn Barnett, Bachelor of Science in psychology.
■ Oceana Sun Shine Magee, Bachelor of Arts in humanities.
■ Natalie Anne Patten, Bachelor of Arts in social sciences.
Sequim
■ Peter Kurt Harker, Bachelor of Science in mathematics.
■ Jake Clayton Lotzgesell, Bachelor of Arts in humanities.
■ Martin Edward Nerbovig, Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering.
■ Darren Michael Sweeney, Bachelor of Arts in social sciences.
Dean’s list honoree
BALTIMORE — Walter Arnold of Neah Bay was named to the dean’s list for academic excellence for the fall 2014 semester at Johns Hopkins University.
To be selected for this honor, a student must earn a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale in a program of at least 14 credits with at least 12 graded credits.
He is the son of Greig Arnold and Ann Renker and attended Neah Bay High School.
Arnold, who is majoring in anthropology, will graduate in May 2016.
Student on dean’s
AZUSA, Calif. — Port Angeles resident and Azusa Pacific University student Kathryn Moseley has made the academic dean’s list.
A graphic design major, Moseley achieved a 3.5 or better grade-point average during the fall semester 2014.
She is joined by 1,983 other students receiving the same honor.
