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Jeanette Stehr-Green, left, and Judy English will present “Growing Vegetables and Fruits in Containers” at noon Thursday.

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Container gardening topic of Green Thumb Tips lecture

PORT ANGELES — Jeanette Stehr-Green and Judy English will present “Growing Vegetables and Fruits in Containers” at noon…

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A GROWING CONCERN: Dandelions: Botanical marvel, garden scourge

HERE WE ARE, racing through the month of May. Next week is Memorial Day weekend.

Photo courtesy of Andrea Gold
In Port Townsend Sarah “Sally” Dean, seated, helps prepare Juelie Dalzell and her horse Jack to pull the cart Dalzell and her husband Jeff Chapman took this month for a 18-day, 240-mile journey on The Palouse to Cascades trail.

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HORSEPLAY: Putting the horse before the cart

WHILE MY BACK cries out in pain at the thought of it, my spirit soars with envy hearing…

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Cake, coffee reception set Saturday

PORT ANGELES — The Queen of Angels Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will celebrate…

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Flea market scheduled for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — The Fairview Grange will host an outdoor flea market from 9 p.m. to 3 p.m.…

Rev. Larry Schellink will present “Awakening, the Distanceless Journey” at Unity in the Olympics at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

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Unity speaker offers ‘journey’ during service

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Larry Schellink will present “Awakening, the Distanceless Journey” at Unity in the Olympics…

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ISSUES OF FAITH: Has life lost its ‘fizz’?

Is it hard to roll out of bed these days? Are you having trouble concentrating or accomplishing much…

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Wigger inducted into honor society

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society has inducted Lena Wigger of Port Angeles.

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Humanities speaker set for virtual lecture

PORT ANGELES — Carlos Gil will present “From Mexican to Mexican-American: A Family Immigration Story” at 6 p.m.…

Olympic Universalist Unitarian Fellowship friendship garden construction team; back row, from left to right: Kevin Duffy and Nancy Duffy, Phil Zenner and Tom Massey; front row, from left to right: Brian Berardo, Lou Foldoe and Rose Prestipino.

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Friendship Garden ribbon cutting set Wednesday

Olympic Universalist Unitarian Fellowship will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for its Friendship Garden at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

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Inaugural Rise Up festival plays at Sequim Airport Saturday

Free outdoor show features rap and hip-hop artists

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Shore Aquatic Center to hold community yard sale

PORT ANGELES — The Shore Aquatic Center will host a community yard sale from 7 a.m. to 1…

Author Corky Parker of Port Townsend gives a reading at the Ajax Cafe of her new book, “La Finca: Love, Loss and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island.” (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Graphic memoir recalls joy and struggle

Author purchased inn on remote Puerto Rico island

LeeAnn Nolan said her wisteria, nicknamed Medusa, has become an attraction for people with many stopping by to snap photos while it’s in bloom. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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‘Medusa’ the Sequim wisteria in full bloom along Old Olympic Highway

Owner says plant attracts visitors who often take pictures

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Home, auto maintenance subject of first ‘Empower Yourself’ lecture

PORT ANGELES — Michael Bucierka will present “Home and Auto Maintenance” from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily newsIn many gardens, especially the English gardens found at Colette’s Bed and Breakfast, there will be numerous fall blooming plants. The trick to keep asters, mums and fall flowering sedum thick, short and extremely prolific is to cut them back, preferably twice, before the Fourth of July.

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A GROWING CONCERN: Garden chores? Just a pinch

MAY IS A time to tend to your mums and flowering sedums and Asters by cutting them down.

Layla Parker's "Seaside Sunset" took first place honors among fifth-graders at the Olympic Christian School's 2021 Arts Festival

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Olympic Christian School announces winners of 2021 Arts Festival

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Christian School has announced the winners of its 2021 Arts Festival.

From left are Jessica Thompson, Lori Ambrose, Molly Wallace and JooRi Jun. Staff and customers at Jim’s Pharmacy in Port Angeles raised more than $700 to support Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, the March recipient of Jim’s Cares Monthly Charity. The funds are raised through monetary donations, used book sales, donated employee casual days and a percentage of over-the-counter sales at Jim’s.

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Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County accepts donation

From left are Jessica Thompson, Lori Ambrose, Molly Wallace and JooRi Jun.

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A pair of bicyclists make their way along the Waterfront Trail east of dowtown Piort Angeles on Thursday. The trail, a poppular route for bicyclists and pedestraians, makes its way along or near the shore of Port Angeles Harbor from Morse Creek to Ediz hook.

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Waterfront wanderers take to trail

A pair of bicyclists make their way along the Waterfront Trail east of downtown Port Angeles on Thursday.

Members of the Port Angeles Garden Club recently gathered for a planting party at Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation. 

Club members added spring blooms to planters on the residents’ patio. 

Pictured standing, from left to right, are Bernice Cook, Kitty Gross, Shari Bley and Mary Kelsoe. 

Seated is Crestwood resident Troy Nicholaysen, who will will care for the plantings.

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Port Angeles Garden Club has planting party

Members of the Port Angeles Garden Club recently gathered for a planting party at Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation.