CHIMACUM — The Chimacum High School Marching Band and Color Guard will thank the community tonight for its support in sending them to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade in Hawaii on Dec. 7.
The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chimacum High School auditorium, 90 West Valley Road.
Assembled by Sage Brennan, 18, as her senior project, the presentation incorporates slides and music to trace the band’s steps from the beginning of the project through the fundraising process and to the event itself.
An audience participation segment also will be part of tonight’s program.
Hospital meeting
PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare hospital commissioners will elect new officers and hear a presentations on two proposals on the Feb. 10 ballot when they meet today.
Commissioners will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the hospital auditorium, 834 Sheridan St.
They will hear presentations on a proposal by the city for a $3.6 million bond to repair Mountain View Commons and a proposed four-year Port Townsend School District replacement levy.
They also will meet in executive session to discuss personnel and potential litigation.
Salute to King
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Studium Generale program will present a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday.
Erin Jones, former director of equity and achievement for the Federal Way School District and currently director of Advancement Via Individual Determination in Tacoma, will be the featured speaker in the college’s Little Theater at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. at 12:35 p.m.
Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a workshop for high school and college students, held in the college’s longhouse.
The workshop will provide students with an opportunity to engage in questions of the future of race relations.
Students from area high schools, including Sequim High School’s Be the Change Club, will participate.
Jones has been involved in education for 23 years as an athletic coach, a public and private school teacher, an instructional coach, a state assistant superintendent and a district executive.
PA School Board
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board will consider approving revised state rules on discrimination when it meets Thursday.
The board will meet in the Central Services Building, 216 E. Fourth St., at 5:30 p.m. for an executive session; at 6 p.m. for reports from the Washington State School Directors’ Association conference; and at 7 p.m. for regular session.
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction made changes to rules that impact how districts respond to allegations of discrimination and discriminatory harassment.
Board members also will hear a report on January enrollment, which is down from this time last year.
Talks on Great War
PORT TOWNSEND — Laurence Kerr, a retired diplomat and former lecturer in Strategic History at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., will present a series of three talks titled “The Great War: End of a Civilization” at the Port Townsend Library Learning Center, 1256 Lawrence St., today, Jan. 14 and Jan. 21.
The programs begin at 6:30 p.m.
The series begins with a discussion of the causes of the war considering the rise in German power and ambition, the inevitability of conflict following mobilization and the fragility of peace in a structure driven by kings and small elites.
Lecture one ends with a description of the first months of the war, the battle of the Marne and the events of Christmas 1914.
The second program covers the war in the trenches and battles of the Marne, the Somme, Verdun, Gallipoli and Passchendaele, then moves on to discuss the war on the homefront, including conscription, rationing and new roles for women.
Finally, the third program focuses on America’s entry into the war, the role of the doughboys in the war’s military endgame and the Treaty of Versailles.
The German actions that brought the U.S. into the fight, including the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram, will be considered, as well as America’s new role as a world power.
For more information, phone 360-344-4608.
Gardening lecture set this Thursday
CHIMACUM — The Jefferson County Master Gardeners Foundation will hold an educational lecture at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday.
Clallam County Master Gardener Laurel Moulton will talk about Growing Healthy, a 15-week pilot gardening project to help low-income people with diabetes or at risk for developing the disease eat healthier and get more exercise.
“Lessons Learned by Master Gardeners Through Their Growing Healthy Program” was the same presentation shared in November at the 2014 International Master Gardener Conference in South Korea.
These foundation lectures take place the second Thursday of each month.
Foundation business meetings follow each lecture.
Visit www.jcmgf.org for future lecture topics and vacation months.
For more information, email Jefferson County WSU Master Gardeners at mastergardenerjefferson@gmail.com or visit http://ext100.wsu.edu/jefferson/gardening/mg.
Mac group meeting
PORT TOWNSEND — PTSLUG, a Macintosh computer users club, will meet at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., on Thursday.
A basic Mac “how-to” begins at 6:30 p.m., with the general meeting following at 7 p.m.
The public is welcome.
For more information and newsletters, visit www.ptslug.org.
Poetry workshop
SEQUIM — A poetry workshop with Ruth Marcus will take place at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Friday.
All are welcome to the free event.
This workshop is for beginners and those who want to kindle their confidence.
For more information, contact Marcus at 360-775-4878 or Rmarcus@olypen.com.
Monday Musicale
PORT ANGELES — Monday Musicale will offer public entertainment at the Queen of Angels Hall, 209 W. 11th St., at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19.
The musical entertainment will be preceded by a noon meeting for the group.
The objective of Monday Musicale is to encourage music study in schools.
For reservations and more information, phone Ruth Welch at 360-457-5223.
