PORT ANGELES — The MV Coho ferry will begin its expanded summer schedule Thursday.
Black Ball Ferry Line will provide eight sailings a day on the Coho between Port Angeles and Victoria.
The Coho will depart Port Angeles daily at 8:15 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 5:20 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. with returns from Victoria at 6:10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. throughout the summer.
For more information, see www.CohoFerry.com.
Wednesday market
PORT ANGELES — The Wednesday edition of the Port Angeles Farmers Market starts today with 13 vendors at The Gateway pavilion at Front and Lincoln streets.
The outdoor market from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. has local sellers of flowers, produce, eggs, coffee, prepared Chinese and Filipino food, jewelry, soaps, lotions and chocolate.
This midweek market runs through Aug. 26, while the weekend farmers market continues year-round from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at The Gateway.
For information, see www.FarmersMarketPortAngeles.com or phone 360-460-0361.
ATV ordinance
PORT ANGELES — Licensed off-road and all-terrain vehicles would be allowed on Clallam County roads with posted speed limits of 35 mph or less under a proposed ordinance that will be discussed at a June 30 public hearing.
The public hearing will be held during the regular commissioners’ meeting at 10 a.m. in Room 160 of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
The vehicles would be allowed on roads with speed limits over 35 mph only to get to an off-road area.
Dune buggies, go-carts, handmade unlicensed vehicles, golf carts and other vehicles that do not meet the definition, under state law, of “wheeled all-terrain vehicles” would not be allowed on county roads.
Violators of the ordinance could be subject to traffic infractions, misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors and civil penalties.
The law does not apply to private roads, such as logging roads, or roads on land controlled by the U.S. Forest Service or the state Department of Natural Resources.
Film screening set
PORT ANGELES — As part of the 2015 Adult Summer Reading Program, a screening of the documentary “The New Northwest Passage” will be held in the Carver Room of the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
The free screening starts at 6 p.m. today.
In this documentary, four men in a small yacht sail through the icy Canadian Arctic, where they witness the clash between traditional Inuit culture and the reality of modern Arctic life in a time of climate change, according to a news release.
“The New Northwest Passage” documents this little-seen land and follows the crew as they discover the new reality of life in the Arctic.
For additional information, contact librarian Sarah Morrison at 360-417-8500 or smorrison@nols.org.
Lunch program
SEQUIM — The Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula will offer a free summer meals program Mondays through Fridays from this Thursday to Aug. 28 for all children in the area.
The Simplified Summer Food Program for Children is offered to youths 18 and younger.
Meals will be made available at no charge.
There is no program July 3.
Some of the locations will open June 22.
In Sequim
■ Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St., breakfast from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
■ Carrie Blake Park (covered area), 202 N. Blake Ave., lunch from noon to 1 p.m., starts June 22.
■ Elk Creek Apartments, 90 S. Rhodefer Road, lunch from noon to 1 p.m., starts June 22.
■ Mountain View Court Apartments, 303 S. Fifth St., lunch from noon to 1 p.m., starts June 22.
In Port Angeles
■ Port Angeles Boys & Girls Club, 2620 S. Francis St., breakfast from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
■ Evergreen Court Apartments, 2202 W. 16th St., lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
■ Jefferson Elementary, 218 E. 12th St., lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
■ Shane Park, 613 S. G St., lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
■ Dream Park, 298-300 S. Race St., lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
■ Roosevelt Elementary School, 16 Monroe Road, lunch from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays July 6-30.
For more information, phone Dave Miller at 360-683-8095.
Stevens team helps make Linus blankets
PORT ANGELES — A team of Stevens Middle School students has worked after school Tuesdays since January to make blankets for the Project Linus Washington Peninsula chapter.
Pat Gracz, Project Linus coordinator for the chapter, recently visited club members to pick up 50 blankets made by the students; their adviser, Evelyn Ellsworth; and volunteer Carol Hughes.
The blankets will be delivered to Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Ellsworth oversees the project, which began nine years ago at the school.
She meets with students Jasmine Cottam, Ashley Franz, Kendra Sullivan, Skyler Sullivan and Catherine Wright to make the blankets, which are distributed to seriously ill children.
Sullivan is a Port Angeles High School student who was active with the project while at Stevens and now returns weekly to continue her participation in the program.
Chapter volunteers have delivered more than 18,000 blankets to area hospitals since 1997, when the first delivery was made by Gracz.
More than 5 million blankets have been distributed nationwide by Project Linus chapters.
Eight honored for graduating from school
PORT ANGELES — The Jet Set Soroptimist club recently honored eight students from Lincoln High School who graduated this month.
The students and their principal, Cindy Crumb, along with secretary Cindy Rogers and Jean Edwards, paraeducator, were treated to lunch at Downriggers to recognize the students’ successful completion of four years of high school.
Those honored were Sarah Stewart, Cassie White, Brooke Horn, Jenah Matheny, Katie Gilbert-Lord, Meagan Wilson, Ricci Bennett and Courtland Coutlee.
Jenah Matheny will receive a college scholarship from the club.
The club has taken Lincoln High girls as their annual project for Women Helping Women and gives three Girl of the Quarter gift certificates annually.
Lincoln High is an accredited alternative education facility.
