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Jon and Valkyrie Ferguson hold up the Quilts of Valor quilt given to Valkyrie earlier this month. photo by Chris Bates

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Quilts of Valor conducts national sewing day Saturday

Veterans in Jefferson, Clallam counties recipients of coverlets

Library Assistant Nancy Grant unpacks one of the 40 boxes of books that arrived at the Port Townsend Library on Friday. The books — a novel and a children’s chapter book — are for the 2022 Community Read. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Two books, one a fantasy, selected for sharing

Author talks, other activities planned around literature

Bradi Jacobson of Agnew donated, transported and helped replant a truck bed full of Douglas fir trees to the future roadside forest at Discovery Bay on Saturday morning. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Salmon coalition plants evergreens on Lucky Deer site

Volunteers gather to help protect Discovery Bay

Eugenia Frank.

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Students push for mask guidance

Official: Now is time for planning

David Timmons, the executive director of the Fort Worden Public Development Authority, hopes to renovate one of the Fort’s historic buildings, finish the glamping tents and bring in a climate research organization. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Fort Worden Public Development Authority to get funding breaks

State board OKs several measures

David Herbelin, Olympic Theatre Arts’ new executive director, will host an open house at the Sequim center this Saturday. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Olympic Theatre Arts to host open house Saturday

Guided tours offered of multilevel building, formerly a church

Amie Rodriguez Albaugh of Amie’s Garden outside Sequim was among the vendors in 2021 at the Port Townsend Farmers Market. The Jefferson County Farmers Markets organization has opened a startup fund for people of color interested in vending at the 2022 markets in Port Townsend or Chimacum. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Start-up fund aims to include more people of color

Food, farm and art vendors encouraged to apply

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Grant to install solar at PUD

District also seeking broadband funds

Singer-songwriter Nathaniel Talbot will give a concert at the Palindrome in Port Townsend this Friday night. (Nathaniel Talbot)

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Concert to be first in Rainshadow series

Singer-songwriter Nathaniel Talbot to play in-person set at Palindrome

East Jefferson Fire Rescue Commissioner Dave Johnson.

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Former East Jefferson Fire Rescue board chair dies

Service ‘mourning loss of an icon’

Mike James will play American folk songs plus some bluesy numbers during his livestreamed Candlelight Concert on Thursday evening. (Mike James)

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Singer-guitarist to host online Candlelight Concert

Thursday’s program to stream from church website

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Presentation to highlight electric vehicles

Speaker to review current options, history of EVs

Cynthia Daily cradles an injured red-tailed hawk, one of the patients at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue. Birds from across the North Olympic Peninsula receive care at Daily’s avian hospital in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Winter weather hits birds

Rescue center answers calls to help injured animals

Madeline Nelson of Port Townsend works in watercolors and bright sun on the grass outside the Jefferson County Courthouse. The plein air painter typically spends just an hour finishing a piece before her hands get too cold. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Plein air

Madeline Nelson of Port Townsend works in watercolors and bright sun on the grass outside the Jefferson County…

The city of Port Townsend will finish construction of a well at the municipal golf course this spring for irrigation and emergency water. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend City Council funds $495K in water-system costs

Project expected to begin next month

Community Build Project builder Randy Welle marvels at the completion of Pat's Place, the tiny home village in Port Townsend, on Saturday afternoon. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Pat’s Place ready for occupancy

Tiny-home village created in Port Townsend

Brian Walsh’s image of Squaxin Island tribal member Sally Brownfield is part of the “We Are Puget Sound” photo exhibit hosted by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. (Brian Walsh)

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Salish Sea recovery topic of lecture

Today’s talk tied to Puget Sound photo exhibit

Black Diamond Junction — from left, Todd Ortloff on keyboard, Harry Bidasha on drums, singer Amanda Bacon, bassist Rudy Maxion and guitarist Bob Allen — is the featured band Saturday evening during the Juan de Fuca Foundation's Winter Benefit. The event will be livestreamed from the Naval Elks Lodge in downtown Port Angeles. (Black Diamond Junction)

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Juan de Fuca Foundation benefit to showcase desserts, music, comedy

Annual fundraiser to be livestreamed on Saturday

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Young artists compete on video

Musicians can be seen online on Saturday

Jaymon Skinner of Bernt Ericsen Excavating is part of the crew moving earth for the foundation of 7th Haven, the Olympic Community Action Programs’ housing project at Seventh and Hendricks streets in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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7th Haven on schedule and on budget

First residents of housing project expected in spring ‘23