NEWS BRIEFS: SmileMobile exams set next month in Port Angeles . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — Appointments can be made for the SmileMobile, a modern dental office on wheels, which will offer dental care Sept. 8-11 to Port Angeles children who have limited access to care.

The SmileMobile will be located at Jefferson Elementary, 218 E. 12th St., but appointments are open to all Port Angeles students.

Appointments are available for new clients as well as follow-up visits for children from previous SmileMobile visits.

Medicaid coupons are accepted, and a sliding-scale fee based on income is available.

Interested families can arrange appointments by calling 888-286-9105.

Those interested in helping SmileMobile staff with on-site registration can send an email to tsmithohara@portangelesschools.org.

Bridge closures

OLYMPIA — Traffic will be disrupted on two Olympic National Forest bridges while they are inspected.

The Skokomish Gorge Bridge at Milepost 2.5 on Forest Road 2340 will have eight-hour closures Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.

The Church Creek Bridge at Milepost 3.5 on Forest Road 2361 will have a two-hour closure Sept. 1.

Bridges will be opened every 45 minutes during the inspection to allow for traffic flow.

An under-bridge-inspection truck will be used to examine the bridges.

Take Back the Night slated today

LAPUSH — A resource fair for those at risk of domestic violence will begin at 6 tonight.

Take Back the Night will be at the A-Ka-Lat Center in LaPush.

Until 8 p.m., it will offer crafts and games, T-shirt decorating, face painting and an exhibit of life-sized silhouette figures symbolizing deaths through domestic violence called the Silent Witness exhibit.

Information will be available at the fair.

Refreshments, a raffle and door prizes are planned.

The resource fair is organized by Quileute Tribe New Beginnings.

For more information, contact Liz Sanchez, New Beginnings program manager, at 360-374-5110.

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