PORT TOWNSEND — Three Chords and the Truth, a band specializing in honky-tonk and country songs, will provide the music for the next Olympic Peninsula Dance Club get-together at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge this Friday night.
Admission is $10 for the dance, which includes a country two-step lesson with Janice Eklund at 7 p.m.
New dancers, singles and couples are invited and all ages are welcome at this event, which is smoke- and fragrance-free.
The band — Doug Warren on guitar and fiddle, Dave Llewellen on steel guitar, Jim Newberry on fiddle, Bruce Cannavaro on bass and Mark Sabella on drums plus a surprise guest vocalist — will step up at 8 p.m. and play until about 10:30 p.m. at the Elks, 555 Otto St.
For more details about the nonprofit Olympic Peninsula Dance Club and other dances and classes around the North Olympic Peninsula, visit OlympicPeninsulaDance.com.
Health exchange
SEATTLE — The Washington health exchange signed up another 20,000 people for private health insurance over the weekend.
The exchange said 160,000 signed up for private insurance during the open enrollment period that ended Sunday night.
Officials at the exchange announced Monday that they will allow people to keep signing up for insurance for another two months.
Enrollment so far includes 66,000 new customers and about 94,000 people who renewed insurance they bought during the previous open enrollment period.
The exchange is still more than 50,000 away from its enrollment goal for this year.
Audubon program
PORT TOWNSEND — Admiralty Audubon will hold a program, “Fall in Yellowstone National Park,” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St.
All are welcome, and admission is free.
Professional photographers David and Casey Gluckman will present on Yellowstone National Park, showing some of the animals and scenery of one of the of country’s national treasures.
The Gluckmans will show telephoto close-ups of rarely shown portions of hot springs along with birds and other animals preparing for winter.
‘Raptors!’ lecture set for Saturday
SEQUIM — Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, will present “Raptors!” starting at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Come and learn about the migration, behavior and identification of these predator birds.
The lecture is followed by field trip.
To pre-register, phone 360-681-4076. There is a $10 fee.
All proceeds support River Center educational programs.
For more information, visit www.dungenessrivercenter.org.
Marine Resources
PORT ANGELES — The meeting location for the Clallam County Marine Resources Committee on Monday has been changed to the Commissioners Small Conference Room at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
The committee meets from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
An agenda for the meeting will be available at www.clallam.net/ccmrc the week prior to the meeting.
Students honored
PARKLAND — Incoming Pacific Lutheran University students Annika Pederson, Michael Helwick, Astrid Schick, Audra Perrizo and Cameron Raber, all of Port Angeles, have been awarded a President’s Scholarship worth $24,000 a year, plus an opportunity to earn more.
The private university in Tacoma offers a number of merit scholarships to recognize academic achievement, leadership and service, as well as the promise of continued success in these areas as a university student.
The President’s Scholarships are renewable for three additional years of undergraduate study.
Nearly 500 incoming freshmen apply each year.
For the 2015-16 academic year, 140 President’s Scholars were selected.
This year, the President’s Scholarship recipients scored an average 1297 SAT test score (critical reading and math only), an average 30 ACT test score and a 3.99 average GPA.
These students have been invited to interview on the university campus later this month to compete for the next level of President’s Scholarships — one of 10 $29,000-per-year Harstad Founder’s Scholarships or one of five full-tuition Regents’ Scholarships.
School applications
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Christian School, 116 E. Ahlvers Road, now is accepting new student applications for preschool through eighth grade for the 2015-16 school year.
Olympic Christian School serves children and families from Port Angeles and Sequim and offers curriculums that include a heavy emphasis on traditional subjects as well as the arts and music.
To arrange school tours, phone 360-457-4640 for K-8 or 360-477-2028 for pre-school.
Find more information by visiting www.olympicchristian.org or emailing ocs@olympicchristian.org.
New member named
PORT ANGELES — Libby Swanberg of Port Angeles is a new junior member of the American Angus Association.
Junior members of the association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in association-sponsored shows and other national and regional events.
The American Angus Association is the largest beef breed association in the world, with nearly 24,000 active adult and junior members.
Call for artists
SEQUIM — Sequim Arts is seeking entries for its annual juried art exhibit at the Museum & Arts Center from April 29 through May 31.
Entries must be received by March 9.
Open to all adult artists, all work must be original in interpretation and composition, not copied from copyright or published art or executed in a supervised class, and be for sale.
Two-and three-dimensional art — such as, but not limited to, oil, acrylic, water media, mixed media, original prints, collage, pastel, fine art photography, drawing, assemblage, sculpture (any medium), basketry, ceramics, glass, jewelry, digital art and textiles — is accepted.
The juror is Robin Anderson, director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
There is a $20 nonrefundable entry fee for the first entry, with all additional entries at $5 each with a maximum of five entries per artist.
For detailed information, including entry forms, visit www.sequimarts.org; send a self-addressed stamped envelope to P.O. Box 1842, Sequim, WA 98382; or email juriedshow@sequimarts.org.
Entry forms are also available at the MAC Exhibit Building, 175 W. Cedar St., Sequim; or the Landing Artists Studio, 115 E. Railroad Ave., Port Angeles.
For any more information, phone Linda Stadtmiller at 360-681-4884.