NEWS BRIEFLY: Fun Walk for Sequim free clinic on Saturday . . . and other news briefs

Published 12:01 am Monday, September 8, 2014

Clinic fun walk set

SEQUIM — The Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic will host a Fun Walk at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

The walk is to support the clinic’s mission of providing continued health care access to those in need.

The cost is $10 for adults, with children younger than 18 admitted free.

Registration for the event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the church, and the walk begins at 9 a.m.

Walkers follow either a 1- or 5-mile trail.

Also included is a small health fair at which there will be screenings for blood pressure, blood sugar and oxygen saturation.

A variety of health and wellness information will be available.

For more information, phone Pam Leonard-Ray at 360-582-2976, email execdir@dvhwc.org or visit www.sequimfreeclinic.org.

Spaghetti dinner

SEQUIM — The Lions Club will host a spaghetti dinner at the American Legion Hall, 107 E. Prairie St., from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

The dinner is free for veterans and $5 for guests.

Forest road portion to be shut intermittently

OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST — A portion of a forest road will be intermittently closed during a timber harvest from Monday through Sept. 19.

Forest Service Road 220, which provides access to the Campbell Tree Grove in the Pacific Ranger District of Olympic National Forest, will be closed from mileposts 4 to 9 during harvest operations for the Hum T timber sale.

The road will be closed from Mondays through Fridays only. It will remain open on the weekends.

In addition to the Campbell Tree Grove Campground, the road provides access to Pete’s Creek Trailhead (Upper and Lower), Middle West Fork Trailhead and Upper West Fork Trailhead.

The road is narrow with limited turn around areas. There will not be sufficient room for safe public access once the timber purchaser positions heavy machinery and log decks along the road, the Forest Service said.

For more information, phone the Pacific Ranger District office in Quinault at 360-288-2525.

Kindergarten Express resumes

PORT ANGELES — Kindergarten Express, a weekly program designed for children 4 to 5 years old, will resume at the Port Angeles Library at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.

The free storytime series at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St. features picture books, fingerplays, music, science projects and crafts designed to help prepare preschoolers for kindergarten.

Kindergarten Express is offered every Tuesday through Nov. 25 and from Jan. 6 to May 19.

After each session, parents and caregivers will have an opportunity to visit and swap information about parenting resources in the community.

Each parent or caregiver who attends three sessions will receive a free book.

The programs are supported by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.

For more information, visit www.nols.org; phone 360-417-8500, ext. 7705; or email youth@nols.org.

Senior meals offered from Tuesday-Friday

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Senior Nutrition Site dinners will be served at 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St.

A suggested donation is $5 for those who are 60 or older.

People younger than 60 can attend for $8.

Reservations should be made 24 hours in advance to 360-457-8921.

Menus are subject to change.

■ Tuesday: Tomato juice, biscuit with sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, slice of ham and orange slices.

■ Wednesday: Carrot salad, beef stroganoff, rice and barley, broccoli and pears.

■ Thursday: Pea salad, baked ham, sweet potato, mixed veggies, cornbread and fruited gelatin.

■ Friday: Spinach and strawberry salad, seafood and vegetable alfredo and carrot cake.

Flight landing practice set in Coupeville

COUPEVILLE — There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at the outlying field in Coupeville from Tuesday through Thursday.

Training will take place in the late afternoon into the early evening Tuesday and Wednesday.

Training Thursday is scheduled for the early afternoon.

Comments, including noise complaints, can be directed to station’s comment line at 360-257-6665 or via email at comments.NASWI@navy.mil.

All other questions can be directed to the public affairs office at 360-257-2286.

Yoga forum slated

SEQUIM — A free WOW! Working on Wellness forum, “Yoga & Meditation: It’s Not What You Think,” presented by Cheryl Bell, will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Bell will share her discoveries about the ways yoga and meditation can “awaken and enrich everyday experiences.”

Bell is a registered yoga instructor, certified personal trainer and owner of Lapis Sky Yoga in Sequim.

She believes yoga is a practice that can “meet each individual where they are,” and she sees her training in yoga and meditation as a lifelong journey and a meaningful way to be of service to others, according to a news release.

WOW! Working on Wellness is a health education program of the Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic, Sequim’s free clinic. The clinic provides basic urgent care and chronic health care services to uninsured community members.

The Basic Urgent Care Clinic is open to patients Monday and Thursday evenings beginning at 5.

Individuals interested in supporting the clinic can phone 360-582-0218.

Mushroom club

SEQUIM — The Olympic Peninsula Mycological Society will hold its first meeting of the fall season at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road.

The meeting is from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Included will be planning for the Fall Mushroom Show, mushroom identification and a discussion and North American Mycological Association DVD lecture.

For more information, visit www.olymushrooms.org.

Self-portrait show slated Wednesday

PORT LUDLOW — Port Ludlow Artists’ League members recently submitted self-portraits that depict themselves as they are or wish they were.

The portraits have been created in a variety of mediums and will be hanging in the Port Ludlow branch of Sound Community Bank (formerly Columbia Bank) this month.

An opening reception for the exhibit will be held at the bank, 9500 Oak Bay Road, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., the reception moves to the Artists’ League Gallery next door. Refreshments will be served.

The monthly drawing for an original piece of artwork will be held toward the end of the reception.

Tickets are $2 and can be purchased at the gallery. All proceeds go to the student scholarship fund.

Deaf Coffee House

SEQUIM — The Sequim Deaf Coffee House will hold a welcome-back barbecue from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at 960 N. Fifth Ave. and Cape Hope Way.

Participants can sign up to bring something.

Donations are appreciated.

Email sdch_2010@comcast.net or purplelav4me@gmail.com.

‘All About Garlic’

CHIMACUM — The Jefferson County Master Gardeners Foundation will hold an “All About Garlic” lecture at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday.

The free lecture is open to the public.

Rita Dinger, an 11-year veteran Washington State University Clallam County Master Gardener, will discuss care, harvesting and varieties of garlic.

Dinger will explain how and when to harvest, how to cure and clean cured bulbs, and optimum storage conditions. She also will demonstrate how to plant next year’s crop.

Dinger has grown more than 40 strains of garlic, including many gourmet varieties that are not available in the grocery store.

She will suggest which types are easiest to grow and which are more challenging but more edible.

Foundation business meetings follow each lecture.

For more information, email Jefferson County WSU Master Gardeners at mastergardenerjefferson@gmail.com.

Sockeye steering meet set Thursday

SEKIU — Community members are invited to attend the Lake Ozette Sockeye Steering Committee meeting at the Community Center, 42 Rice St., from 10:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Thursday.

The committee will discuss Lake Ozette sockeye salmon recovery updates and project implementation.

Agenda topics include updates on activities since the June meeting, reports on existing recovery projects and discussion about potential new projects, predation workgroup and turbidity study updates, fish genetics presentation, limiting factors analysis review, public outreach and education strategies, and future steering committee activities.

For more information, phone Claire Turpel at 206-583-0655 or email cturpel@triangleassociates.com.

Mac users meeting

PORT TOWNSEND — PTSLUG, a Macintosh computer users club, will meet Thursday at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St.

A basic how-to session begins at 6:30 p.m., with the meeting following at 7 p.m.

The public is welcome.

For more information, newsletters and copies of previous lectures, visit www.ptslug.org.

Author to speak

PORT TOWNSEND — Author William Kenower will kick off the Writers’ Workshoppe fall season with an event at the Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Books, 820 Water St., at 7 p.m. Friday.

The talk will focus on those who love to write and have a story to tell but have certain fears with the writing process.

The event is free and open to the public.

Kenower is the author of Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion and is the editor-in-chief of Author, an online magazine for writers and dedicated readers.

To learn more about Kenower, visit www.williamkenower.com.

Toddler Storytimes

PORT ANGELES — Toddler Storytimes for children between the ages of 18 months and 3 years will resume at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., at 10:15 a.m. Friday.

This free program will occur every Friday until Nov. 21 and from Jan. 9 to May 22.

Storytimes feature picture books, fingerplays, music and plenty of movement and wiggles.

After each session, parents and caregivers will have an opportunity to visit and swap information about parenting resources in the community.

For more information about storytimes and other programs for youths, visit the library website at www.nols.org; phone 360-417-8500, ext. 7705; or email youth@nols.org.

Book discussion

SEQUIM — A book discussion of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief will be held at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.

The book is set in 1939 Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside Munich who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist: books.

With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read, sharing her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement, according to an Amazon.com review.

Copies of the book are available at the library in a variety of formats, including books, downloadable audio and e-books, audiobooks on CD and Playaway. They can be requested online at www.nols.org.

Pre-registration for this program is not required; drop-ins are welcome.

For more information, visit www.nols.org and click on “Events” and “Sequim,” phone the Sequim Library at 360-683-1161 or email sequim@nols.org.

Monday Musicale

PORT ANGELES — Monday Musicale will offer public entertainment at Queen of Angels Hall, 209 W. 11th St., at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15.

The music entertainment is preceded by a noon meeting for the group.

The objective of Monday Musicale is to encourage music study in schools.

For reservations and more information, phone Ruth Welch at 360-457-5223.

Shipley open house

SEQUIM — The Shipley Center, formerly known as the Sequim Senior Activity Center, 921 E. Hammond St., will host its seventh annual open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18.

This year’s theme is “Senior Centers: Experts at Living Well.”

The format of the event will allow guests to follow a self-guided tour or participate in a group tour of the facility led by one of the board members.

The event is for members to try new activities and for those living in the Sequim area looking to become more familiar with the center.

There will be entertainment, refreshments, door prizes, demonstrations and more.

A special program will take place at 2 p.m. to recognize open house attendees.

To RSVP, phone 360-683-6806.

For more information, visit www.shipleycenter.org or email shipleycenter@olypen.com.

Fossil, mineral ID

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., will offer a fossil identification class and a mineral identification class Thursday, Sept. 18.

The fossil class is from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., and the mineral class is from 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

The cost is $7 per class.

Participants can learn the difference between inedible brachiopods and edible bivalves, the symmetry method of invertebrate fossil identification and more during the fossil class.

During the mineral class, participants can find out why salt and ice are minerals and opals are not, learn the difference between cleavage and fracture, and more.

Bring a magnifier to either class.

To register, phone Elaine Bickle at 360-457-4322.

Church yard sale

SEQUIM — The men of Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church recently came together for the church’s annual yard sale and brought in $5,550, which was distributed to a number of local charities.

Nearly 200 people waited in line for the yard sale.

All proceeds from the sale are distributed to local charities.

Local charities accepting donations are:

■ Sequim Food Bank, $1,900

■ Sequim Community Aid, $1,400

■ Blossom, $700

■ MOSAIC, $500

■ Serenity House, $500

■ Mark Lyon Fund, $550

The youth of Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church sold snacks and drinks during the sale and collected more than $150 to help purchase school supplies for an orphanage in Panama the youths support.

Anyone who would like to stay informed of church’s activities and projects can visit www.dvelca.org or phone the church office at 360-681-0946.

Officer recognized

PORT TOWNSEND — The Congress of Retired Police, Sheriffs, Etc. (CORPSE) presented retired Seattle Police Officer Jean Dunbar a plaque in recognition of her service to the citizens of Seattle and Jefferson County at a recent meeting.

Dunbar, who retired in 1968, moved from Seattle to Port Townsend and served as a volunteer at Jefferson Healthcare and Fort Worden for many years.

She recently moved back to Seattle.

Dunbar was a charter member of CORPSE, which was formed 10 years ago and is open to all retired law enforcement officers.

CORPSE meets monthly at the Highway 20 Road House in Port Townsend the last Tuesday of the month at 11 a.m.