NEWS BRIEFS: Student journalists to speak May 19 in Port Angeles . . . and other items
Published 12:01 am Monday, May 9, 2016
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College student journalists will provide the campus community a taste of New York City on Thursday, May 19.
Students from The Buccaneer campus newspaper will speak at the free Studium Generale presentation at 12:35 p.m. in the Little Theater at the college at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The students attended the College Media Association’s national conference in New York in March.
They will share stories and images from front-line news agencies from the east to the west coast.
Past groups of Buccaneer students have visited The New York Times newsroom, the studios of Democracy Now!, the Hearst Corp. and The Wall Street Journal.
For more information, contact Rich Riski at rriski@pencol.edu.
Library plans to host book talk Saturday
SEQUIM — The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson will be discussed at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.
The free event is open to the public.
According to a news release: “Larson’s ambitious, engrossing tale of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 focuses primarily on two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect who was the driving force behind the fair, and Henry H. Holmes, a sadistic serial killer working under the cover of the busy fair.”
Copies are available in various formats including regular print, audiobook on CD, Nook and downloadable e-book, and can be requested online by visiting the library catalog at www.nols.org.
For more about this and other programs, visit the website and select “Events” and “Sequim,” phone 360-683-1161 or email sequim@nols.org.
The program is supported by the Friends of Sequim Library.
Document preservation classes set
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society will offer two document and art preservation classes at the society’s research center, 13692 Airport Cutoff Road, at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 15 and Sunday, May 29.
The May 15 class will be on “Cleaning and Mending Paper Artifacts.”
Participants will learn about different types of papers and their characteristics, an introduction to dry-cleaning methods and simple techniques for mending books, papers and more.
The May 29 class will be on “Flattening Rolled and Deformed Paper Artifacts.”
The class will demonstrate a simple technique for flattening papers using an ultrasonic humidifier and pressure.
Each class will be approximately one to 1½ hours long and will consist of discussion, demonstration and hands-on practice.
Participants can bring a small item for evaluation and to work on if they wish. All necessary materials will be provided.
The maximum class size is six people, and early registration is encouraged.
It is $30 per class for historical society members or $45 for nonmembers.
Payment in advance is required.
All class fees benefit historical society programs.
For more information or to register, phone 360-385-1003 or visit the historical society office at 540 Water St.
Youth leadership
High school students with disabilities are invited to apply to the 16th annual Youth Leadership Forum to learn leadership, citizenship and personal skills.
The Governor’s Committee on Disability Issues and Employment (GCDE) will accept applications through June 1.
The forum will take place at Western Washington University in Bellingham on July 25-30.
The forum is designed for students with disabilities who want to be or are leaders in their schools and communities.
“The goal is for students to come away understanding and believing that diversity is the foundation of any successful community,” said Debbie Himes, who has organized the forum every year since its inception.
Eligible youth include:
■ Incoming high school juniors and seniors as of July 1, 2016.
■ 2016 high school graduates.
■ Students up to age 21 who are receiving transition services from their high schools.
Students do not have to be receiving services from their school districts to apply.
Approximately 50 students with disabilities will be selected to attend the forum.
There is no cost to attend.
For more information, phone Debbie Himes at 360-902-9362.
Summer day camps
SEQUIM — The Dungeness River Audubon Center at Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, will offer a variety of day camps for boys and girls ages 8 to 13 this summer:
■ Nature Ninjas, June 27-28: Activities include learning the techniques of camouflage and sneaking skills.
■ Builder’s Camp, June 30-July 1: Games and activities for kids who love to create and build.
■ Girls in Science, July 11-13: Young girls are immersed in the world of science through interactive experiments, games and activities.
■ Bike Camp, July 18-21: Campers learn the basics of bicycle maintenance and ride the trails around Sequim.
■ Survival Camp, Aug. 8-9: Living and survival skills practiced by ancestors.
■ Summer Nature Camp, Aug. 15-18: Kids will survey Railroad Bridge Park and investigate the Dungeness River’s wide variety of plants, animals and insects, and learn about floodplains, ecology, geology, river dynamics and the Railroad Bridge.
For more information and to register, phone the river center at 360-681-4076 or visit www.dungenessrivercenter.org/summer-camps.
Officers in shooting are identified
SPOKANE — The names of three Spokane officers involved in the shooting death of a man who was armed with a knife outside a homeless shelter have been released.
Spokane police identified the officers as Chris LeQuire, Ryan Akins, and Brandon Lynch, KREM-TV reported.
The three men have a combined 16 years of experience with the Spokane Police Department.
The officers had responded to a report of a suicidal man April 28 when they found 45-year-old Michael Kurtz outside the shelter.
Police say officers had tried to talk to Kurtz and that he started walking toward them with the knife.
One of the officers unsuccessfully used a Taser on Kurtz, and police say he continued toward the officers.
Officers Lynch and Akins then fired their weapons, killing Kurtz.
