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Peninsula College names student leadership team

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College has named its 2020-21 student leadership team.

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Unity speaker scheduled for service

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Eva McGinnis will present “The Great Joy Ride” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

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Sequim Soroptimists start online auction

Nonprofit seeks funds for programs for women, girls

A copper rockfish — its eyes distended due to the pressure change when it was pulled up from a depth of 250 feet — is among the creatures in “Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound.” Author David B. Williams will discuss his research on the North Olympic Peninsula in a free online program Tuesday evening. (Photo courtesy of David B. Williams)

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‘Homewaters’ talk explores creatures of Admiralty Inlet

Registration is free for Tuesday discussion

Port Townsend novelist JoAnne Tompkins, at home with her schnauzer Oscar, has released her debut, “What Comes After,” to glowing reviews across the nation. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend novelist draws critical acclaim

Author’s background as a mediator helps characters’ ‘psyches’

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Green Thumb Lecture series to focus on bee habitat

PORT ANGELES — Cathy Lucero will present “Bee Spaces — Hidden in Plain Sight” at noon Thursday.

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A GROWING CONCERN: A task list for your baskets

IT’S MOTHER’S DAY, so let’s talk about an ideal gift for any mom — the bounty of the…

Jefferson County high school senior Emily Kilgore, on Antonio, is the first in the area to qualify to compete at the Interscholastic Equestrian Association’s National Dressage Finals this coming weekend in Texas. To up the competitive skill needed, riders compete on unfamiliar horses whose names they’ve drawn from a hat. (Karen Griffiths/for Peninsula Daily News)

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HORSEPLAY: Jefferson senior goes to Interscholastic Equestrian Association finals in her first season

AT HER INTERSCHOLASTIC Equestrian Association’s (IEA) regional competition in April, Jefferson County equestrian Emily Kilgore placed first in…

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ISSUES OF FAITH: ‘Love thy neighbor’ a call to action

The central tenet for Jewish behavior is the commandment to “Love your neighbor as yourself” found in the…

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People gather on Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles for Thursdays Natiional Day of Prayer -- a nationwide event where people are asked "to turn to God in prayer and meditation." The observance is held on the first Thursday of May, designated by the United States Congress. About 50 people took part in the Port Angeles event, serving both Clallam and Jefferson counties.

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Day of prayer observed at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles

People gather on Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles for the National Day of Prayer — a nationwide event…

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Unity speaker set for Sunday

PORT ANGELES — Terry Barrett will present “Honoring Our Mothers” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

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First Friday lecture to stream online

PORT TOWNSEND — Pete Langley will present “Metalwork with The Port Townsend Foundry” at 7 p.m. Friday.

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Friends of the Sequim Library book sale offered

SEQUIM — The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3…

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Healthy bones workshop set Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare and the Madrona MindBody Institute will sponsor the third Healthy Bones workshop Saturday…

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Day of prayer scheduled for Thursday

PORT ANGELES — There will be an observance of National Day of Prayer at noon Thursday.

Community Wellness Project board member Shelby Smith checks on the rosemary in Chimacum School’s pizza garden while a team of Jefferson County Master Gardeners — from left, Candice Gohn, Susan Sparks and Honey Niemann — explore the rest of the project Monday evening. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Chimacum students learn to grow their food

Community project focuses on cycle of farm to table

Jennifer Knight, youth services librarian at the Port Angeles Library, looks over a selection of books featured in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dolly Parton’s project open to kids across Peninsula

Books to be delivered monthly from newborn to age 5

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McDermott to be guest on panel for Womxn’s Yakfest

PORT ANGELES — Local author Kate McDermott will be a guest panelist on Womxn’s YakFest at 5:26 p.m.…

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Sequim’s ‘George Washington’ selected for Independence Day event

SEQUIM — Vern Frykholm has appeared throughout the Puget Sound region as George Washington, portraying the first president…

Lois Crisler in 1949. (Ernest Kassowitz)

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BACK WHEN: Crisler captured wilderness, wildlife in writing and on film

CHANGES OCCUR IN our society over time. They can be thrust upon us due to a tragedy. We…