NEWS BRIEFS: Port Angeles Coast Guard crew rescues three mariners … and other items

BOULDER ISLAND — A Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles crew hoisted three mariners after their vessel ran aground Saturday near Boulder Island, southeast of Lopez Island.

The three mariners, who were aboard a 46-foot recreational vessel, climbed onto rocks and were safely hoisted and transported to Paine Field, a small international airport in Everett.

No injuries were reported during the incident, according to a Coast Guard press release.

There is no reported fuel spill from the boat, but there is a potential of a maximum spill of 200 gallons of gasoline, according to the Coast Guard.

Art demonstration

SEQUIM — Sculptor Kevin Willson will present a demonstration at the Olympic Peninsula Art Association meeting Thursday.

Doors will open at 9:30 a.m. in the parish hall of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.

Visitors are always welcome and demonstrations are always free. It is not necessary to be a member.

Willson started his professional art with metal sculpture in 1973 and became co-founder of The Art Works Inc. in Langley on Whidbey Island.

For the next four years, he sold art along the West Coast and in Hawaii. In 1974, he ventured into stone. In 1978, he moved to Europe to expand his learning of art sculpture. He lived in Spain, Italy and Switzerland working with marble, serpentine, alabaster, travertine, granite and bronze.

Nine years later, he moved back to his home town of Seattle.

For the past 28 years, he has been selling from his studio and showing art privately.

He now lives in Port Angeles.

Spaghetti benefit slated for Tuesday

PORT ANGELES — The Fairview Grange will hold its spaghetti dinner and dessert auction at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

For $10, attendees can partake in spaghetti, bread, salad, ice cream, punch and coffee at the grange, located at 161 Lake Farm Road.

At 6 p.m., the dessert auction will commence.

Dessert items for the auction are accepted.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the grange and its scholarship fund.

For more information, phone 360-461-9008.

EWU honor roll

CHENEY — Several North Olympic Peninsula students were named to Eastern Washington University’s winter honor roll.

Undergraduate students who earn 12 quality hours and receive a GPA of 3.5 or better are placed on the dean’s list for the quarter.

The Peninsula students were:

• Forks: Reece Moody.

• Joyce: Martin Waldrip.

• Port Angeles: Jordan Johnson, Jacob Scott, Rio Mowbray and Anh Tran.

• Port Townsend: Alexander Krauch.

• Sequim: Allison Taiji, Jamie Miller, Brett Wright, Omar Flores, Joshua Graham, Jamie Miller and Zachary Langan.

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