SHINE — Traffic was reduced to a single lane for 18 minutes on the Hood Canal bridge Friday for a pedestrian in the roadway, the state Department of Transportation said.

Trooper Russ Winger, State Patrol spokesman, said the pedestrian attempted to jump off the bridge but was stopped by a passerby.

After troopers arrived, the woman was transported to a medical facility, Winger said.

Traffic on state Highway 104 was reduced to a single lane at 5 p.m.

The roadway was cleared by 5:18 p.m., Transportation officials said.

Meeting speaker

PORT LUDLOW — The public is invited to attend the Republican Women of Jefferson County’s meeting Thursday at the Inn at Port Ludlow.

Gene Farr, a retired space-system architect and former Jefferson County GOP leader, will speak at 11:30 a.m. at the inn at 1 Heron Road.

Reservations are required for this event.

To place a reservation, phone Peggy Reep at 360-385-4953.

Teen book party

PORT ANGELES — Teens ages 12 to 18 are invited to an after-hours Lock-In at the Port Angeles Library from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

The night’s activities at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St. will include a book swap, book-related crafts, snacks and literary trivia.

Festivities will begin with a Book Tasting, during which teens will learn about new titles at the library.

Teens also are encouraged to bring books they no longer want for a book swap.

Funding for the program has been provided by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.

For more information about this and other upcoming programs for youths, phone 360-417-8500, ext. 7705; send an email to youth@nols.org; or visit www.nols.org.

Poet to speak

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Foothills Writers Series and Studium Generale programs will welcome poet Jane Mead to the Little Theater at 12:35 p.m. Thursday.

The lecture will be free and open to the public at the theater on the Port Angeles Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

Mead is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently “World of Made and Unmade” (Alice James, 2016).

Her poems appear regularly in journals and anthologies, and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant.

“Jane Mead’s fifth collection candidly and openly explores the long process that is death. These resonant poems discover what it means to live, die, and come home again. We’re drawn in by sorrow and grief, but also the joys of celebrating a long life and how simple it is to find laughter and light in the quietest and darkest of moments,” wrote C.D. Wright in an Amazon review.

For many years the Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, Mead manages her family’s ranch in northern California. She has taught as a visiting writer at Washington University, Colby College and most recently the University of Iowa.

For more information, contact Janet Lucas at jlucas@pencol.edu or 360-417-6221.