PORT TOWNSEND — Izzy Hammett of Port Townsend, has been selected to participate in the 2018 Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking & Technology (DO-IT) scholars program.

Hammett will be one of about 45 college-bound high school students with disabilities to join in the annual program at University of Washington Seattle campus.

Beginning Tuesday, students will spend 10 days living on campus while in an intensive program designed to promote college and career success.

Students will learn about challenging careers in fields such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

DO-IT Scholars targets high school sophomores and juniors with disabilities in the state who are interested in pursuing higher education, according to a news release.

For more information, call 206-685-3648, email doit@u.washington.edu, or visit www.uw.edu/doit.

PT summer puffin cruises scheduled

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) and Puget Sound Express will hold two bird-watching cruises around Protection Island on Saturdays, July 28 and Aug. 4.

Tickets for the cruise can be purchased online by visiting www.tinyurl.com/puffin-cruise. Those who become a PTMSC member can save $20 on the cruise by visiting PTMSC’s website at www.ptmsc.org.

Timed with annual migrations, the cruise will circumnavigate the National Wildlife Refuge to see sights including one of the world’s largest nesting colonies of rhinoceros auklets and the largest nesting colony of glaucous-winged gulls in the state, according to a news release.

Additionally, the island contains one of the last two nesting colonies of tufted puffins in the Puget Sound area, according to the release.

For more information, visit PTMSC’s website.

Library instruments

The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) has announced it now has musical instruments available to check out.

Instruments available from NOLS branches are strumsticks, ukuleles, violins and guitars.

Violins are Available at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.; Clallam Bay Library, 16990 state Highway 112. The Forks Library at 171 S. Forks Ave. offers guitars.

All branches carry strumsticks and ukuleles. The Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., has all four instruments available.

Each instrument can be checked out for three weeks, and must be returned to the customer service desk where it was received from. Rhythm Buckets — for those percussively inclined — are available at every branch for check-out.

The stringed instruments were made possible through a donations and partnership with Joyful Noise in Sequim.

For more information, call 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org, or visit www.nols.org/nols-gear.

Real estate designations

PORT ANGELES — Three Town & Country Real Estate Realtors received their Senior Real Estate Specialist Designations.

Don Fourtner, Doc Reiss and Victorya L. Rivera attended two six-hour in-person classes held by the Port Angeles Association of Realtors to earn their designations.

To contact Fourtner, Reiss or Rivera, call 360-504-3300.

Unity speaker on schedule

PORT ANGELES — Unity in the Olympics’ 10:30 a.m. Sunday service speaker will be the

Rev. Donna Little.

Her lesson at the church at 2917 E. Myrtle St. is titled “The Power of Understanding.”

Little is a resident of Sequim and is a licensed and ordained Unity minister.

A time for silent meditation will be held from

10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Child care is available during the service.

Ordination ceremony

PORT ANGELES — An ordination ceremony for the Rev. Trisha (Asha) Burson-Johnson will occur today at 6:30 p.m.

Members of the public are invited to the celebration in the Big Barn at 254 N. Bagley Creek Road.

A light, finger-food potluck reception will follow the ceremony.

The Rev. Gayle Dillon, an ordained ecclesiastical representative of the Centers for Spiritual Living and from Genesis Global Spiritual Center in Burien will officially administer the vows of ordination.

Burson-Johnson is the spiritual director for Center for Spiritual Living Port Angeles.

Before becoming eligible for ordination, Rev. Burson-Johnson had to complete at least seven years of schooling, two years of continuous, active service as a licensed minister — approximately 6,000 hours — and pass a review by a panel of other ordained ministers, according to a news release.

Anniversary fete

PORT ANGELES — The Interfaith Community has set a party for Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The party is being held in conjunction with the two-year anniversary of Center for Spiritual Living Port Angeles at 254 N. Bagley Creek Road.

Featured will be potluck, art projects, Dances of Universal Peace in the forest area and socializing.

Those interested in the potluck are requested to bring a dish to share.

For more information, call 360-457-4801 or email interfaithclallamcounty@gmail.com.

Spiritual camp

PORT TOWNSEND — An Adult Spiritual Summer Camp is offered by the Unity Center of Port Townsend.

Registration is required. To register, call Unity’s office at 360-385-6519.

Camp sessions are $15 and will occur Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. until Aug. 23 at Unity, 3918 San Juan Ave.

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will guide attendees using Colette Baron-Reid’s “The Enchanted Map Oracle Cards” and “The Map” to cover topics such as “Who is Guiding You?,” “Allies & Companions,” and “Treasures & Talismans.”

A new topic is featured each week.

For more information, call Unity’s office.