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BIRD WATCH: Look to the skies to see who’s on the wing

“THE VULTURES ARE coming!” That has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? At the least, it would make a good title for a science-fiction… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Use Medicare to avoid using Medicare

I CONCLUDED LAST week’s column with “Medicare happens,” implying that we were finished, at least for the time being, with talking about Medicare. I lied.… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim horse riders place at meet

HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim horse riders place at meet

SEQUIM AND PORT Angeles’ high school equestrian teams completed their third qualifying meets of the season March 24-26 in Spanaway. More than 100 competitors from… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim horse riders place at meet

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Spring is the season for fresh asparagus sandwiches

EARLY SPRING 1994, my college roommate and I headed off on a grand camping road trip adventure. We followed the Columbia River out to the… Continue reading

“Lonicera sempervirens” by Barbara Neswald.

First Friday Art Walk in Sequim blushes with pink theme

The First Friday Art Walk will bloom with bright flowers and blush with pink — the color theme for tonight’s free, self-guided tour… Continue reading

“Lonicera sempervirens” by Barbara Neswald.

ISSUES OF FAITH: The paradox of proactive giving’s reward

DO YOU LIKE to receive gifts? I think most people do. Sometimes gifts can be expected: birthdays, holidays, graduations and, if you’re a young child,… Continue reading

Speaker to tell of Japanese-American internment

Speaker to tell of Japanese-American internment

“The Pine and the Cherry,” a tale of one family’s 100-year history and its involvement in the Japanese-American internment during World War II, will be… Continue reading

Speaker to tell of Japanese-American internment
Lunch in the Garden veteran Master Gardeners Audreen Williams, Jeanette Stehr-Green, Laurel Moulton, Bob Cain and Lois Bellamy will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 8.

PA garden walks move to Saturdays

Want to learn how to grow vegetables in your own backyard? Need help with pests that are getting the better part of… Continue reading

Lunch in the Garden veteran Master Gardeners Audreen Williams, Jeanette Stehr-Green, Laurel Moulton, Bob Cain and Lois Bellamy will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 8.

A GROWING CONCERN: From the ground up, soil critical for garden’s foundation

HERE WE ARE, already two days into April, the month that really kicks up the gardening work. With that said, I realize it has been… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Former Silver Sands Resort remembered fondly

BACK WHEN: Former Silver Sands Resort remembered fondly

THERE WERE MANY people who recognized the March picture from the past as the Silver Sands Resort at the corner of Whitefeather and West Sequim… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Former Silver Sands Resort remembered fondly

BIRD WATCH: Spring winds provide easy power for migrant travelers overhead

MARCH WASN’T EXACTLY lamb-like when it was leaving, and I’m hoping April will forget about bringing showers. Not only was the month of March just… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Don’t panic and remember: Medicare happens

THIS IS WEEK No. 3 of describing the Medicare Machine. I am not going to regurgitate the past few weeks’ columns, because that would place… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: The tectonic plates underneath apparent gridlock

is there anything we can do — to shift the gridlock in our society related to seemingly intractable positions? On… Continue reading

A GROWING CONCERN: Mulch away to achieve a weed-free yard

I JUST REALIZED that in the past 12 days, I have spread 63 yards of mulch around four clients’ yards (not today, though; I ran… Continue reading

BIRD WATCH: Owls in toilets no laughing matter

HIKING AND TENT camping are not very tempting right now. The fact that you might drown in your tent isn’t very far-fetched, considering the amount… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Chapter president earns Lifetime Achievement Award

HORSEPLAY: Chapter president earns Lifetime Achievement Award

again. My sincerest apologies to the new Mt. Olympus chapter of Back Country Horsemen for giving out the wrong address… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Chapter president earns Lifetime Achievement Award

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Time is ripe for home-made dressing

YOUR ASSIGNMENT THIS week is to go outside and look for culinary herbs and fresh salad greens. They are everywhere. Last Sunday, I parked my… Continue reading

When is the time right to enroll in Medicare?

TODAY IS MARCH 26, 2017, and in the interests of “full disclosure” (which almost never happens in the real world), be warned that I have… Continue reading

Feather Palooza to serve up poultry information

Feather Palooza will offer a day of information about raising chickens, ducks, turkeys and other feathered birds at the Chimacum Grange on Saturday.… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: Run to the cross and see God anew

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk… Continue reading