BUSINESS BRIEFS: Port Townsend Main Street offer merchants breakfast March 30 . . . and other items

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Main Street Program invites business owners to attend its Spring Merchant Breakfast at the Cotton Building, 607 Water St., at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 30.

The breakfast will feature representatives from seven local nonprofit organizations that will be hosting large festivals and events with the topic “Capitalizing on Festivals.”

This breakfast is sponsored by The Bishop Victorian and Swan hotels, which are providing muffins, scones, fruit, tea and coffee.

Current Main Street members’ admission is $5; nonmembers’ fee is $7.

RSVP by March 28 to admin@ptmainstreet.org or phone the office at 360-385-7911.

Guest speakers will include Rob Birman, executive director of Centrum; Janet Emery, the Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race; Jan Halliday, Port Townsend Film Festival development, marketing and communications director; Mari Mullen, executive director of the Port Townsend Main Street Program; Barb Trailer, Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival director; Lorilee Houston, the Brass Screw Confederacy; and Polleen Delaney and Brandi Hamon of the Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival.

New location

SEQUIM — Full Moon Candle Co. is now located at 609 W. Washington St., Suite 13.

New owners Korey and Mike Smith make and sell their own candles.

Their hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, phone 360-683-8377.

KONP talk guests

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1:05 p.m. to 2 p.m. local talk show segment on KONP radio, at 1450 AM, 101.7 FM and www.konp.com on the Internet outside the Port Angeles area.

Station General Manager Todd Ortloff hosts the Monday-through-Thursday segments.

This week’s scheduled lineup:

■ Monday: To be announced.

■ Tuesday: Port Angeles School District on the race equality essay winners.

■ Wednesday: Linda Klinefelter discusses the Sequim Soroptimist Club’s upcoming Garden Show.

Second segment: Tuttie Peetz discusses the Olympic Driftwood Sculptors Annual Spring show.

Third segment: Shae Pozarzycki discusses trying out for season eight of the show “American Ninja Warrior.”

■ Thursday: Clallam County commissioners.

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