LA PUSH — A service commemorating a Coast Guard crew that lost their lives 20 years ago is planned today.
The service will be at Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, 350 Main St., from noon to 2 p.m.
The master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard will attend.
The crew of CG-44363 died while responding to a distress call Feb. 12, 1997.
Onboard were David A. Bosley, boatswain’s mate second class; Clinton P. Miniken, seaman; and Matthew E. Schlimme, machinery technician third class.
The plaque on the memorial at the Coast Guard station reads: “These poor plain men, dwellers upon the lonely shores, took their lives in their hands, and at the most imminent risk, crossed the most tumultuous sea … and all for what? That others might live to see home and friends.”
Evenings with authors
PORT TOWNSEND — Goddard College’s Port Townsend campus and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will host a pair of readings and receptions with award-winning authors Lidia Yuknavitch and Drew Dillhunt.
Yuknavitch will present Tuesday and Dillhunt on Wednesday — with both events starting at 7 p.m. — at Fort Worden’s Building 204, 200 Battery Way.
Yuknavitch is the author of the national best-selling novel “The Small Backs of Children” and recipient of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.
She received her doctorate in literature from the University of Oregon and founded the Corporeal Writing workshop series.
Dillhunt is the author of “Leaf is All,” winner of the 2015 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Poetry Series.
He lives in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, where he serves as the associate editor of Hummingbird Press.
For more information, contact Goddard’s Port Townsend office at ptoffice@goddard.edu or 360-344-4100.
Conservation breakfast
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson Land Trust’s annual conservation breakfast fundraiser will take place Thursday, Feb. 23.
The free breakfast is open to the public and will occur from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.
The menu will include coffee, tea, egg croisant sandwiches and fruit.
Seating is limited, so staff advises those interested to make reservations by Thursday, Feb. 16.
For more information and reservations, visit saveland.org or contact the land trust at 360-379-9501 or info@saveland.org.
PA-based hospital gives leadership awards to two
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis recently recognized Cindy Burke, manager of case management, and Lacey Gentry, clinic manager at Olympic Medical Physicians Primary Care, with leadership awards in January.
“Cindy has done a great job leading the case management department, which has grown exponentially over the years and has become quite complex,” said Chief Nursing Officer Lorraine Wall in a news release.
“She has also helped lead our efforts for the Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest program.”
“Lacey manages three Olympic Medical Physicians primary care clinics and two walk-in clinics in Port Angeles and Sequim,” said Josh Jones, chief physician officer at OMP.
“In the last year, she has welcomed 12 additional physicians and advanced practice clinicians, and more than a dozen support staff.
“Her leadership skills were instrumental in the recent relocation of the Cherry Street Primary Care Clinic and the expansion of the walk-in clinic to the new medical office building in Port Angeles.”
The medical office building is located at 907 Georgiana St.
For more information, phone 360-565-0999 or visit www.olympicmedical.org.
KONP talk guests
PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1:05 p.m. to 2 p.m. local talk show segment on KONP radio, at 1450 AM, 101.7 FM and www.konp.com on the internet outside the Port Angeles area.
Station General Manager Todd Ortloff hosts the Monday through Thursday segments.
This week’s scheduled lineup:
Monday: Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict discusses sanctuary cities.
Tuesday: Student leadership organizers discuss the upcoming Port Angeles High School annual talent show. Also, North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center Director Jody Potter, with cosmetology teachers and students, as well as a reminder to get ballots in for the levy.
Wednesday: Clallam County Fire District No. 2 Fire Chief Sam Phillips discusses Heart Health Month and the importance of learning CPR.
Second segment: Travis Cowan, coordinator for a fiddling benefit concert and raffle for the Fallon family, whose mom, Lora Fallon, has been battling appendix cancer for four years.
Thursday: Clallam County commissioners.
