NEWS BRIEFS: Business forum is set for Tuesday in Port Angeles . . . and other items
Published 12:01 am Friday, May 22, 2015
PORT ANGELES — Thinking about starting a small business?
Buying or selling a business?
Need help in your existing business?
A one-stop symposium with business experts will be held at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
All the counseling is free, and you can make arrangements for further guidance and information.
The symposium, “Meet the Resources to Help You Start, Grow and Succeed in Your Business,” is sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
In addition to advisers from the SBA, there will be business counselors (SCORE and the Small Business Development Center), loan and tax specialists, and educators from Peninsula College.
RSVPs are requested. Sign up for the symposium at http://tinyurl.com/pdn-business.
For more information, phone Mark Hannah at 360-452-8656.
Film on birth set
PORT TOWNSEND— A movie that documents the process of non-traumatic births will be shown at 7 p.m. Sunday.
The film, “Birth as We Now It,” will screen at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St.
Admission is free.
The screening is one of hundreds that are coordinated with International Women’s Day, according to George Denniston, who is moderating the event.
Denniston, a physician and Marrowstone Island resident, said most modern hospital births qualify as traumatic due to a high incidence of noise and light during an event that should be quiet and peaceful.
While a natural childbirth presided over by a midwife is favorable, the least traumatic births are underwater, he said.
A question-and-answer session will follow the film.
For more information, email geocdenn@gmail.com.
Highway delays
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Traffic will be reduced to one lane on stretches of U.S. Highway 101 as it curves around Lake Crescent beginning Tuesday.
Workers with two drill rigs will gather road core samples.
Work is expected to continue from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, including weekends, through Thursday, June 4.
Drivers should expect delays of 15 minutes, the park said.
Flaggers will guide motorists through construction areas.
The core samples are being collected as part of the assessment and preparation for the proposed resurfacing of Highway 101 around Lake Crescent set to begin in 2017.
Cable survey deadline now month’s end
PORT ANGELES — Do you have thoughts about establishing a community channel, a media center or improving TV-only services provided by Wave Broadband?
The deadline is May 31 for survey comments on what should be in Port Angeles’ new 15-year franchise agreement with Wave, a pact that will replace a 15-year agreement that expires May 3, 2017.
Results from the survey, at http://tinyurl.com/PDN-TVsurvey, will be used to negotiate a new contract with Wave, the city’s consultant, Sue Buske of Sacramento-based The Buske Group, told City Council members at their Tuesday meeting.
A report on the needs assessment and on a compliance review of Wave’s existing contract will be presented to council members by August, with negotiations on a new contract expected to begin this summer.
Phil Lusk, the city’s power resources manager, said city officials and Wave also are exploring possible community use of Wave’s educational-government Channel 21 before the current agreement expires.
Channel 21 is currently filled with programming produced by TVW, which covers state legislative and Supreme Court hearings.
A franchise agreement is required because Wave uses public property to run its lines.
Under the agreement, the city annually receives
5 percent of Wave’s gross TV revenue, which in 2013 was $158,899.
Taize service set at Sequim church Monday
SEQUIM — All are welcome to the ecumenical Taize service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., at 7 p.m. Monday.
There will be a meditative, candlelit atmosphere that includes singing simple, repetitive songs during the hourlong service.
Taize will continue to be held the fourth Monday of each month.
Inner guidance
SEQUIM — An inner guidance discussion and discovery workshop, “Whisperings of Soul: Inner Guidance in Everyday Life,” will take place at the Sequim Library Meeting Room, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
The event is free and open to the public.
An open discussion is followed by a personal discovery process to explore the value of one’s own instinct for spiritual truth, wisdom and love.
For more information, phone George Abrahams at 360-582-3067 or email justbe973@gmail.com.
Kabbalah program
PORT ANGELES — Congregation Olympic B’nai Shalom will present a program on the basic concepts of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism with Suzanne DeBey as the speaker.
The program takes place Friday, May 29, and starts at 7 p.m. at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Church, 73 Howe Road.
A dessert potluck will follow.
