NEWS BRIEFS: Port Angeles shelter meeting set Wednesday… and other items

PORT ANGELES — The Shelter Providers Network of Clallam County will discuss the 2005-2015 10-year plan and consider goals and strategies for the next 10-year plan at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The group will meet in Room 160 of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.

Sign-in begins at 9:45 a.m., and the meeting will adjourn at 11:30 a.m.

Susan Hillgren, director of The Answer For Youth (TAFY), will share TAFY’s plans for the former Gross’s Nursery, followed by a discussion of regulatory proposals affecting social services.

For more information, phone Network Coordinator Martha Ireland at 360-452-7224, ext. 307, or email shelterprovidersnetwork@gmail.com.

State of the County

BRINNON — Jefferson County Administrator Philip Morley will speak on the State of the County in Brinnon on Monday, March 20.

The speech, sponsored by the North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce, will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Brinnon Community

Center at 306144 U.S. Highway 101.

The public is invited. Questions will be taken from the audience after the presentation.

Sequim shoe drive ongoing through March 27

SEQUIM — The Sequim High School Class of 2017 has collaborated with Angel Bins Community Shoe Drive to hold a donation event ending Monday, March 27.

Shoe drop boxes will be open for donations 24/7 at eight locations around Sequim.

Boxes can be found at:

• QFC: Bell Creek Plaza, 990 E. Washington St.

• Safeway: Washington Plaza, 680 W. Washington St.

• Sunny Farms: 609 W. Washington St., No. 10.

• YMCA: 610 N. Fifth Ave.

• Kitsap Bank: 1320 W. Washington St.

• 1st Security Bank: 114 S. Sequim Ave.

• U.S. Bank: 101 W. Washington St.

• KeyBank: 120 N. Dunlap Ave.

Those interested in donating are advised to donate new or gently

used shoes including athletic shoes, heels, boots, sandals or sneakers paired together with laces or rubber bands.

For more information, email Cathy Dao at dao.phuong17@sqsd.wa.us.

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