NEWS BRIEFS: Drop-in clinic on Strait Shot service set this evening … and other items

PORT ANGELES — A drop-in clinic will be available for the public to learn more about the proposed Strait Shot service by Clallam Transit from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today.

Round-trip out-of-county service from Port Angeles to the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal will be discussed with Transit staff in the Port Angeles Library’s Carver Room, 2210 S. Peabody St.

Executive session

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam Transit board will conduct an executive session with attorneys and on personnel issues today.

The closed meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. in the commissioners’ meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.

No action is anticipated.

Strait ERN meeting

BLYN — The Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network will discuss a draft Strait Ecosystem Protection and Recovery Plan among other topics when it meets Friday.

The public is welcome at the meeting from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Red Cedar Hall, located within the community center on Old Blyn Highway in Blyn.

Also on the agenda for the Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network, known as the Strait ERN, is an update on the member recruitment for the steering group and technical task force, a briefing on a modeling project of extreme climate-driven events on the Dungeness and Skagit rivers, and a briefing on Point Wilson.

The Strait ERN is one of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Local Integrating Organizations working to implement the Action Agenda for Puget Sound protection and recovery.

It oversees much of Clallam and Jefferson counties extending from Cape Flattery near Neah Bay east to Point Wilson in Port Townsend on the North Olympic Peninsula.

More information can be found at www.psp.wa.gov and www.straiternlio.org.

Auditions slated

SEQUIM — Auditions are set today and Saturday for Olympic Theatre Arts’ Second Stage production of D.L. Colburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Gin Game.”

Auditions will be at 6 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Saturday at the OTA center, 414 N. Sequim Ave.

The director is Dimitri Gerasimenko, who describes the play as being about a couple of lonely people who find themselves warehoused in an old-age home.

“The Gin Game” uses a card game as a metaphor for life. The cast includes Weller Martin, male, 50 to 100 years of age, and Fonsia Dorsey, female, 50 to 100 years old.

Those auditioning will be asked to cold read from the script, copies of which are available for review at the OTA office.

The show will run from May 12-21 on Friday and Saturday evenings with Sunday matinees.

For more information or to schedule an alternate audition, call OTA at 360-683-7326.

Advisory meeting

LA PUSH — NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary officials will present information to the Sanctuary Advisory Council on enforcement in the sanctuary during an open meeting set from 9:50 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday.

The organization will meet in the west wing of Quileute Tribal Administration Office, located at 90 Main St.

The meeting is open to the public, with comment periods at 11:55 a.m. and 2:50 p.m.

In the morning, Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) will provide background on the vote on joint action on enforcement for all National Marine Sanctuary advisory councils.

It will follow with an overview of 2016 field season operations and data management.

In the afternoon, presentations include a report on vessel incidents, an overview of Quileute Department of Natural Resources’ research, monitoring and management efforts, and an educational sanctuary jeopardy activity.

A draft agenda of the meeting is available online at http://tinyurl.com/PDN-sanctuarymarchagenda.

For more information, email Karlyn Langjahr at karilyn.langjahr@noaa.gov.

Microchip clinic

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society will host a microchip/license clinic and collar exchange from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Home Again microchips will be available for $20, including registration at OPHS, located at 1743 Old Olympic Highway.

Microchips are about the size of a grain of rice and can help a lost animal be found.

Annual licenses are $5 and lifetime licenses are $20 for a pet getting a microchip.

Dogs and cats living in Clallam County and the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles are legally required to be licensed.

A Heavy Metal Collar Exchange will also take place during the event.

Shelter employees will fit dogs with a no-pull harness or head halter and teach owners how to use the leash in exchange for any prong, pinch, choke or shock collar.

Gently used harnesses or halters will be available at no-cost — while supplies last — or owners can purchase a new one.

For more information, phone 360-457-8206.

Two Realtors in PA earn licenses

PORT ANGELES — Two employees at Colwell Banker Uptown Realty in Port Angeles have obtained licenses.

Brent Powell of Home Team Powell has earned a managing broker’s license.

To obtain the license, one must complete 120 clock hours and pass an exam.

A managing broker’s license allows the licensee to supervise other brokers.

Reilly Peavey recently received his Washington Realtor’s license.

The license is attained after the completion of 90 clock hours and passing a state exam.

Peavey will work as an assistant to the company’s president, Lynn Bedford.

Powell can be reached at 360-417-9875 or Brent@olypen.com. To contact Peavey, email reasstlynn@gmail.com or phone 360-417-2783.

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