NEWS BRIEFS: Drink and Draw event set Thursday … and other items

PORT ANGELES — Drink and Draw, a free event for all ages, is planned at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. at the Loom in Studio Bob, upstairs at 118½ E. Front St.

A model will pose for three 20-minute sessions.

Beer, wine and soft drinks are available for purchase.

Drawing supplies are available or bring your own.

Drink and Draw meets monthly on the Thursday just before Port Angeles Art Walk on the second weekend of the month.

Workshop planned

SEQUIM — The public is invited to a day-long introductory workshop for holistic management from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 11.

Registration is required and costs $75. Registration can be completed at www.brownpapertickets.com.

The event will begin at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road with a presentation by Sandra Matheson, DVM, about holistic planned grazing and holistic land planning, after which a lunch break will occur.

Following lunch, the group will tour the Robin Hill County Park, 168 Dryke Road, for an ecological land monitoring demonstration.

The goal of the workshop is to introduce attendees to “land management strategies that focus on the intensive rotational grazing of livestock, improving soil quality, forage production and stocking capacity,” according to a news release.

Participants will receive access to the seven e-Book series of “Grazing, Land Planning and Monitoring,” for attending the workshop.

Matheson is the president of Roots of Resilience and the North Cascades Meat Producers Cooperative.

She is also a lifelong farmer, educator, filmmaker, author, speaker and retired veteranarian who runs a cow/calf operation and grass-fed beef and yak business near Bellingham.

The workshop is presented by the Washington State University Regional Small Farms Program, Clallam and Jefferson conservation district and Roots of Resilience.

For more information, visit www.brownpapertickets.com.

Idaho graduate

MOSCOW, Idaho — Seth David Tuttle of Forks graduated from the University of Idaho during the university’s 121st commencement ceremony May 12.

Tuttle earned a Bachelor of Science in forest resources.

He is the son of Chris and Jack Tuttle of Forks.

Liars rewarded in Port Angeles after contest

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Police Department Chief Ken Dubuc placed first in the Story People of Clallam County’s sixth annual Liars Contest.

His seven-minute speech “confessed … his childhood desire to dig a hole to China has inadvertently caused a shift in the world’s climate and he promised the audience that he would get around to fixing it soon,” according to a news release.

In addition to his award, he received $100.

Anne Rutherford and Norm Brecke of Portland, Ore., took second- and third-place awards, as well as $50 and $25, respectively.

Forest Storytelling Director Chris Wright, retired Marine Corps

Gen. Richard Hearney and Perry Spring of the Quimper Story Guild served as panel judges.

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