NEWS BRIEFS: North Olympic Library System board to consider budget Thursday … and other items

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Library System Board of Trustees will consider approval of the 2017 capital budget when it meets Thursday.

The board will meet at 5:30 p.m. at Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.

The board also will consider granting sidewalk and temporary construction easement to the city of Forks, as well as a fiscal reconciliation of the end of the year and start of the year, and staff training days for 2017.

Committee meeting

PORT LUDLOW — The Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan subcommittee of the Jefferson County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board will review the comprehensive plan Thursday.

The meeting will be from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Port Ludlow Beach Club’s Gallery Room, 121 Marina Drive. It is open to the public.

The emphasis will be on incorporating updates from previous park inspection tours and the capital improvement plan.

For more information, contact Matt Tyler at 360-385-9129 or mtyler@co. jefferson.wa.us.

Ballot box ribbon-cutting set for today

SEQUIM — There will be a ribbon-cutting event today at noon in the J.C. Penney parking lot, 609 W. Washington St.

The event will commemorate the new Sequim ballot box and the February special elections ballot drop-date.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Sequim Chamber of Commerce at 360-683-6197 or info@sequimchamber.com.

Native plant sale

PORT ANGELES — There are two weeks left to order native plants through the Clallam Conservation District’s annual native plant sale.

The bare-root tree and shrub seedlings are sold in bundles of 10 and 25 and range in price from $15 to $25 per bundle.

Conifer trees remaining include Douglas fir, grand fir, shore pine, Sitka spruce, western hemlock and western red cedar.

Deciduous trees include big leaf maple, Pacific crabapple, red alder, Rocky Mountain maple and vine maple.

Deciduous shrubs include blue elderberry, Indian plum, mock orange, Nootka rose, oceanspray, Pacific ninebark, red elderberry, red flowering currant, red osier dogwood, serviceberry, snowberry, thimbleberry and twinberry.

The conservation district conducts the annual plant sale to provide affordable native plants for wildlife habitat enhancement and environmentally friendly landscaping.

Plants will be available for pickup Saturday, Feb. 25, at Lazy J Tree Farm, 225 Gehrke Road, Port Angeles.

Order forms are available online at www.clallamcd.org/plant-sale; 228 W. First St., Suite H; or by phone at 360-775-3747, ext. 5.

Orders must be postmarked by Thursday.

Rock painting

SEQUIM — The Olympic Peninsula Art Association (OPAA) will have its first meeting of the year Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in the parish hall of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.

The event is free and open to the public.

There will be a two-part program.

First will be a short demonstration of a Magic Genie Interchangeable Art display system developed by local framer Leslie Curran.

Following that, attendees will paint rocks.

The rocks will be sent to Seattle Children’s Hospital to help entertain the young patients.

OPAA will provide rocks to paint and Landing Artist’s Studio paint and supplies.

Dog park meeting

PORT ANGELES — The first meeting of 2017 for Port Angeles’ dog park will be Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Coffey Room, Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.

The meeting will focus on compiling the 2017 project calendar and a discussion about responsible pet ownership.

This meeting is free and open to the public.

For more information, phone Marsha Robin at 206-650-6531.

Free legal advice event set Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Clallam-Jefferson Pro Bono Lawyers will present a free legal advice clinic Saturday from noon to 3 p.m.

The event — to be held at the senior center, 620 Tyler St. — is intended to help the public address legal issues in one-on-one consultations with volunteer lawyers.

Volunteer attorneys will provide and assist with completing advance directive forms including a power of attorney for finances, power of attorney for medical and a health care directive.

There is an anticipated high demand for this clinic, so attendees should arrive on time.

For more information, contact Executive Director Shauna Rogers at 360-504-2422 or email probonolawyers@gmail.com.

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