NEWS BRIEFS: Demonstration on fluoride proposition set Monday in Port Angeles … and other items

PORT ANGELES — Clean Water for Clallam County plans demonstrations at 3:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday.

The public is invited to participate in the events at the Veterans Memorial Park on Lincoln Street.

According to a news release, the organization is gathering to remind community members to vote on the Proposition 2 issue, with a majority of their signs reading “Vote ‘no’ on Prop 2.”

The ballot measure asks whether the city of Port Angeles should add fluoride to the municipal water supply.

Event organizers estimate the demonstrations will last about two hours.

For more information, contact Rebecca Martineau at 360-808-7164 or rebeccamartineau@gmail.com.

Sociology speaker

PORT TOWNSEND — Teresa Ciabattari will speak in Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Fellowship Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday.

The presentation in the hall, 2333 San Juan Ave., is free and open to the public.

Ciabattari, a sociologist and Humanities Washington lecturer, will present “White Privilege: The Other Side of Racial Inequality.”

Following the presentation, a question-and-answer session will be held, as well as a reception.

For more information, call 360-379-0609 or email quuf@olympus.net.

Unity speaker

PORT ANGELES — Unity in the Olympics’ 10:30 a.m. Sunday service speaker will be George Lindamood at the church at 2917 E. Myrtle St.

Lindamood spent 42 years in information technology doing research, teaching, writing, lecturing, consulting, managing and coaching.

A time for silent meditation will be held from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Child care is available during the service.

Speaker, potluck

SEQUIM — The Sisters will have a potluck and speaker event at the Sequim Worship Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Lynette Hardy and Dovell Marks will speak at the event in the center, 640 N. Sequim Ave.

This event is free and open to the public. A $5 donation is suggested.

Those interested in participating in the potluck are encouraged to bring a dish of their choosing.

Organizers ask that those interested register in advance. To register, phone 360-681-0307.

Christmas chorus

The Sequim Community Christmas Chorus will have tickets for its upcoming performances available beginning Saturday.

Performances will be at Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church, 30 Sanford Lane, on Friday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 2-3, at 3 p.m.

Advance $5 tickets can be obtained at the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, 1192 E. Washington St.; Bauer Interior Design, 119 N. Sequim Ave.; Forage Gifts & Northwest Treasurers, 121 W. Washington St.; and Elliott’s Antique Emporium, 135 E. First St., Port Angeles.

A $5 suggested donation can be placed at the door the day of any concert. Children younger than 12 get in free.

The chorus will present Christmas music including “Hallelujah Chorus,” “Peace, Peace,” “Make a Joyful Noise” and “The Many Moods of Christmas.”

Guest performers will include a quartet from the Sequim Community Orchestra’s Kids’ Strings Program, which was the recipient of the chorus’s $1,000 donation last year, according to a news release.

The chorus will donate the event’s proceeds to the kids’ strings program this year.

For more information, email gail@gailsumpter.com or visit www.facebook.com/SequimCommunityChristmasChorus.

Reformation meal

FORKS — Prince of Peace Lutheran Church will host a Reformation celebration dinner at 5 p.m. Saturday.

The dinner, in conjunction with the church’s 50th anniversary, will be held in the church’s Fellowship Hall at 250 Blackberry Ave.

The dinner is by donation, though those unable to pay will not be turned away.

The traditional homemade German dinner includes sauerbraten, green beans, potato dumplings, salad, apple kuchen-cake, coffee, iced tea and soda.

Proceeds will benefit the ministries of the church.

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