NEWS BRIEFS: Vendors wanted for inaugural Summer Solstice Festival in Port Angeles . . . and other items

Published 12:01 am Friday, June 12, 2015

PORT ANGELES — The inaugural Summer Solstice Festival at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center still has room for artisans and other vendors to set up their displays Saturday, June 20.

Those who create original, handmade crafts and artwork are encouraged to apply; so are tarot card readers and henna tattoo artists.

Vendors who are accepted will pay a booth fee of $25.

Running from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Summer Solstice Festival will include the presentation of nine new Art Outside sculptures in Webster’s Woods, the 5-acre art park surrounding the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

Belly dancing, drum circles and a barbecue are also part of the plans.

For more information about vending at the festival, see www.PAFAC.org or phone fine arts center director Robin Anderson at 360-457-3532.

PA church hosts ‘Lord’s Prayer’ talk

PORT ANGELES — Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle St., will host the Rev. Judith Coates as the guest speaker at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Coates will share “Jeshua Speaks About the Lord’s Prayer,” speaking about Jesus’ prayer to his disciples.

Coates is a minister and co-founder of Oakbridge University and Press.

Founded in 1983, Oakbridge is a nondenominational Center for Truth based on the teachings of Jesus and other teachers.

For more information, visit www.oakbridge.org.

A time for silent meditation is held from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. for those who wish to participate.

Child care is available.

Fellowship time follows the worship service.

Everyone is welcome to attend all church activities.

New PT pastor

PORT TOWNSEND — The congregation of First Presbyterian Church of Port Townsend, 1111 Franklin St., has selected the Rev. Paul R. Heins as its next pastor.

His first sermon is this Sunday.

A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Heins has been pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Logan, Utah, for the past eight years.

Previously, he served as pastor of a Long Branch, N.J., branch.

Heins is a native of California and a graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.

He and his wife, Carrie, have two children.

“It will be great to explore the possibilities of life and faith in a new and beautiful place,” Heins said. “I look forward to new friends in the church and larger community.”

Heins follows the Rev. Dennis Hughes, who served as the local church’s interim pastor for the past 21 months following the retirement of the Rev. Bob Slater.

For more information, contact First Presbyterian Church at 360-385-2525 or firstpres@cablespeed.com.