NEWS BRIEFS: Jungible live music shows start tonight in Sequim . . . and other items

SEQUIM — Live music will waft over fields of lavender and poppies tonight in Sequim during a performance by the Portland, Ore.-based World’s Finest band at Jardin du Soleil Lavender.

This evening’s show is the first of the Jungible Summer Sessions, a series of concerts scheduled from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Friday through Aug. 5 at the farm at 3932 Sequim-Dungeness Way.

Each night will feature a different musical act, and part of the proceeds will benefit a local nonprofit organization.

Pacific Pantry, Viking Feast Ice Cream and Goodness Teas will be on site each night to serve refreshments.

Tickets are $15 for those 13 and older. Children 12 and younger will be admitted for free.

Tickets are available at www.jungiblefestival.com.

Upcoming concerts:

■ Tonight: World’s Finest, benefiting the Port Angeles Food Bank.

■ July 15: The Malcolm Clark Band, benefiting Five Acre School and Olympic Nature Experience.

■ July 22: Rabbit Wilde, benefiting the North Olympic Land Trust.

■ July 29: Bootleg Sunshine, benefiting the Dungeness River Audubon Center.

■ Aug. 5: Blue Rooster (Backwoods Hucksters), benefiting Tour de Lavender.

For information, call 360-582-1185 or visit www.jungiblefestival.com.

Evening Talk

FORKS — The programs of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary will be the topic of the next Evening Talk tonight at the Olympic Natural Resources Center.

George Galasso, deputy superintendent for policy and programs for the sanctuary, will present the talk at 7 p.m. in the Hemlock Forest Room at the resources center at 1455 S. Forks Ave.

The talk is free. Refreshments will be served, and participants are encouraged to bring desserts for a potluck.

Galasso will tell of the sanctuary’s key 2016 resource protection, research and education programs.

The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary is one of 14 marine protected areas managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, and the only one in Washington state.

Evening Talks are supported by the Rosmond Forestry Education Fund.

For more information about the talk, contact Frank Hanson, education and outreach facilitator at the Olympic Natural Resources Center, at 360-374-4556 or fsh2@uw.edu.

Leadership award given to manager

PORT ANGELES — Deanna Thurston, clinical manager at Olympic Medical Home Health, recently received Olympic Medical Center’s Leadership Award for “enhancing the home health experience for patients and their families,” according to a news release.

“Deanna always explains the services that Olympic Medical Home Health is able to provide, looks for additional resources for patients as needed and communicates in a very genuine and compassionate way with our patients,” said Joan Warren, director of Olympic Medical Home Health.

For more information, phone 360-417-7315 or visit www.olympicmedical.org.

PA church plans guest speaker

PORT ANGELES — Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle St., will host guest speaker the Rev. Donna Little at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service.

The title of her lesson will be “How Does Your Love Flow?”

Little is a licensed and ordained Unity minister who practices “Presence of Spirit.”

A time for silent meditation will be held from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Child care is available during the service.

Sunday sermon

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Julia McKenna-Blessing will speak on “The Timelessness of Love” at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 73 Howe Road, at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday.

McKenna-Blessing is an interdenominational minister and has spoken throughout the United States, Canada and England.

For more information, visit www.olympicuuf.org.

Healing Uganda

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., will host Father Centurio Olaboro from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday.

Olaboro will speak on his work as a Catholic priest in eastern Uganda to unite religious groups, educate the youth, fight for fair elections and advocate for the orphans of the AIDS epidemic, according to a news release.

Olaboro is the director of Great Aubrey College, the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda and an active proponent of interfaith dialogue.

There is a suggested donation of $10.

The presentation is sponsored by Interfaith Community Sanctuary of Ballard and co-sponsored by Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center of Port Townsend.

Night devotions

PORT ANGELES — Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., will hold an evening devotion service at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, July 13, 20 and 27, and Aug. 3, 10 and 17.

The method that will be used is the ancient form of “Lectio Divina.”

Each person will read the biblical text and listen to what word or phrase resonates in their heart and mind.

The larger meaning is then shared with the larger circle.

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