NEWS BRIEFS: Paving work planned in Port Angeles today . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — Paving work planned on 18th Street and N Street will disrupt traffic today.

One lane for vehicle traffic will remain open while the road is repaved from the intersection of 18th and L Streets to the entrance of the city transfer station at 3501 W. 18th St., the city announced Tuesday.

N Street will be repaved from 18th Street to 15th Street.

Medical evacuation

NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND — A search-and-rescue team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island on Sunday medically evacuated a man from Lopez Island.

The team flew from Whidbey Island to an airstrip at Lopez Island to pick up the 20-year-old patient at about 1 a.m. Sunday, said spokesman Michael T. Welding.

They flew the man to St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham.

The man’s identity and details about his condition were not released.

The weather was “challenging,” but the air crew did a “great job of evaluating conditions at every point along the way,” said Aircrewman 2nd Class Zachary DelCorte.

Grief support

SEQUIM — Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County is offering a five-week grief support group series in Sequim beginning Sept. 14 and ending Oct. 12.

The group will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. each Monday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave.

The program is free and open to the public. Registration is required, as group size is limited.

To register, phone the hospice office at 360-452-1511.

The hospice provides free services to terminally ill patients and their families.

To learn more about hospice, call the office or visit www.vhocc.org.

Free piano recital

PORT ANGELES — Piano music, from Scott Joplin rags and Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” to Bach and Debussy, will fill St. Matthew Lutheran Church this Friday as Ken Young gives a free public recital.

Young, a 1975 graduate of Port Angeles High School, moved back to his hometown last year after 34 years in the Seattle area, where he was active as a pianist while working for the Boeing Co.

He’ll step up at 7 p.m. Friday for an evening of classical — Beethoven and Saint-Saëns are in there — as well as standards such as “Autumn Leaves” and even Dr. John’s arrangement of “Pine Top Boogie.”

Donations toward St. Matthew’s free community dinner fund are welcome at the recital.

St. Matthew, at 132 E. 13th St., serves these dinners weekly.

For more information, email stmatt@wavecable.com or phone 360-457-4122.

Anglers to meet

PORT TOWNSEND — The East Jefferson Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers will hold its next meeting at 333 Benedict St. on Tuesday.

The event begins at 6:30 p.m., with social time before the regular meeting at 7 p.m.

At this meeting, the group plans to have a speaker from the North Olympic Salmon Coalition to talk on its projects in the region.

Refreshments will be served, and the public is invited.

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