NEWS BRIEFS: Girl Scout recruitment and wreaths … and other items
Published 1:30 am Thursday, November 1, 2018
Girl Scout recruitment and wreaths
PORT ANGELES — The Girl Scouts will be making gratitude wreaths from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. today and Thursday, Nov. 8.
All girls from ages 5 to 11 are invited to come to the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., to learn about the girl scout program.
Parents and potential leaders are invited to attend as well.
For more information, call Jenell DeMatteo at 360-698-5156 or email jdematteo@girlscoutsww.org.
Book signing
SEQUIM — Author Jacqueline Carmichael will sign copies of her new book from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10 and Sunday, Nov. 11.
The meet and greet will take place at Over the Fence, 112 E. Washington St.
Carmichael’s book, “Tweets from the Trenches: Little True Stories of Life and Death on the Western Front” features excerpts from journals, letters, postcard and memoirs of Allied Soldiers during the last phases of World War I.
Free microchip
PORT ANGELES — Koenig Subaru is sponsoring a free microchip clinic from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Saturday.
The clinic will be held at Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, 1743 Old Olympic Highway.
The first 25 people who donate food, new towels or blankets, grooming supplies, food bowls, small dog or cat toys, treats or cleaning supplies to the humane society will receive a free microchip and registration.
For more information, call 360-457-8206 or email info@ophumanesociety.org.
Mair hired
SACRAMENTO, CALIF — Christopher Mair was recently hired as a legislative aide for California Assemblymember
Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley.)
Mair, a Crescent High School alumnus, graduated from Portland State University in 2015.
Chestnuts harvests first orchard crop
SEQUIM — Dungeness Chestnuts has announced the harvest of the first commercial crop from its Sequim orchard.
The orchard produced an Italian variety and four French varieties of chestnuts.
The orchard’s crop will be carried exclusively by Alderwood Bistro, 139 W. Alder St., and Seattle’s Art of the Table, 3801 Stone Way N., Suite A, Seattle.
According to a press release, the unique local climate creates the potential for Sequim to become a premier chestnut producing region.
