NEWS BRIEFS: Meditation class offered in Sequim starting Thursday . . . and other items

SEQUIM — An introductory class in mindfulness meditation will start at the Village Heartbeat Studio, 353 Chickadee Lane just off Sequim-Dungeness Way, this Thursday evening.

Admission is free to the 7 p.m. classes, which will run for an hour on four consecutive Thursdays.

No pre-registration is needed, but participants are asked to arrive on time.

Terrance Wolf, a student and practitioner of meditation for more than 25 years, will teach the course and offer guided meditations, breathing practice and how to apply mindfulness in daily life.

For more information, phone Wolf at 360-681-5407.

‘Everybody Swims’ free program in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The William Shore Memorial Pool District, in partnership with the Port Angeles School District and Olympic Medical Center, is offering a no-cost program for children, “Everybody Swims.”

The program is teaching more than 300 new kids to swim each year.

It will be done as part of the school district’s physical education program and will target second-graders.

All children will get tailored lessons based on their swimming ability.

OMC is providing a T-shirt for each child in the swim program.

Each month, the pool will have open free-swim times so children can practice — if they wear their shirt to the pool.

For more information, contact Burke at 360-417-9767, ext. 102, or sburke@williamshorepool.org.

Crescent Grange Flea Market this weekend in Joyce

JOYCE ­— The Crescent Grange Flea Market will be held at the Grange, located at 50870 State Highway 112, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1-2.

There are inside tables available for rent on a first-come basis.

If interested, phone chairman Ray DiVacky at 360-928-2056 to secure a table.

To help with this event or to bake pies, phone general chair Lelah Singhose at 360-457-5944.

Newcomers’ Club will host luncheon

SEQUIM — The Newcomers’ Club of the Olympic Peninsula will host its October luncheon at the Cedars at Dungeness in its Legends Room, 1965 Woodcock Road, on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

Socializing begins at 11:30 a.m., followed by a buffet lunch.

Tutti Peetz is the featured speaker, who has sculpted driftwood sculptures in Sequim.

She discovered wood sculpting in 1996.

Since then, her life passion has been making pieces out of raw driftwood and teaching others her techniques.

Peetz will be bringing some of her pieces and will describe how she gets her effects out of found wood.

Anyone interested in attending is asked to RSVP by noon Friday by phoning 630-992-5613.

History Tales

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Historical Society will start the 2015-16 History Tales series with Jack Zaccardo’s presentation of “Historical Logging, 1890-1930.”

The program takes place at First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St., at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4.

Parking and entry to the church’s social hall are on Laurel Street.

Zaccardo, retired from the Department of Natural Resources, is originally from Port Angeles and is a fourth-generation timber worker.

He will present a narrated slideshow about Clallam County’s logging industry, featuring historical photographs from 1890 through 1930.

History Tales is free and open to the public.

For more information, phone the historical society’s office at 360-452-2662 or email artifact@olypen.com.

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