PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Downtown Association is sponsoring a coloring contest to coincide with the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival.
Children of all ages are encouraged to enter.
Coloring sheets of an undersea picture are available at Cafe New Day, 104 W. Front St.; the Cornerhouse Restaurant, 101 E. Front St.; Smugglers Landing, 115 E. Railroad Ave.; Golden Gate Chinese Restaurant, 106 W. Front St.; Soho Asian Bistro, 134 W. Front St.; La Belle Creperie, 222 N. Lincoln St.; Sweet and Salty FroYo, 116 N. Lincoln St.; and Elliott’s Antique Emporium, 135 E. First St.
The completed coloring sheets can be returned to the same locations.
Judging is by people’s choice ballot, also available at any of those locations.
Prizes are tickets to the Feiro Marine Life Center.
‘Slug University’
“Slug University” will be presented in both Port Angeles and Chimacum today.
The Port Angeles presentation will be from noon to 1 p.m. at the county courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
The Chimacum presentation will be from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road.
Both are free and open to the public.
Cori Carlton, the Master Gardener coordinator for Thurston County since 2009, will discuss the benefits of native slugs, why non-native slugs eat plants, the stories slime trails tell and how slugs can work to benefit gardens.
Presentations are sponsored by Clallam and Jefferson counties’ Master Gardener programs.
Wood artisans meet
PORT ANGELES — The Pacific Northwest Wood Artisans will hold a meeting at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., this morning.
Social time is from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. A short administrative discussion will follow. Members are encouraged to give a brief presentation and share their craft.
“The Mystery Box” will be auctioned off. It contains $45 worth of carving items.
For more information, visit www.woodartisans.net.
Health care talk
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles native and clinical professor Don Downing will share his experiences and observations of health care in foreign countries during a talk in The Landing mall’s second-floor meeting room, 115 E. Railroad Ave., at 7 p.m. Friday.
The event is free and open to the public; however, a $5 donation is suggested.
“Healthcare Delivery: How We Can Learn From India and Nicaragua” is sponsored by the Port Angeles Freethinkers.
Over the summer, Downing took more than 60 students from the University of Washington to Nicaragua and India to observe the way they handled the delivery of health care services.
Downing believes the way the U.S. makes health care decisions needs to be improved and that the experiences observed in both locations could help inform the U.S. in making those decisions.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/PortAngelesFreethinkers or phone Susie Winters at 360-452-3234.
