PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board will hear an update on the planned replacement of Port Angeles High School when it meets at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The board will meet in the Hamilton Elementary School library, 1822 W. Seventh St.
Kelly Pearson, director of finance and operations, will provide the update on plans for the high school. The board plans to place a bond measure on the February special election ballot to build a new school.
The amount has not been decided. Board members have said it would be between $80 million and $100 million.
The board also will hear a report on student achievement.
Most students previewed a new exam — the Smarter Balanced Assessment — in spring 2014 instead of the Measure of Student Progress exam.
Assistant Superintendent Gerald Gabbard will explain the 2014 exam results along with the results from high school end-of-course exams at Port Angeles and Lincoln high schools.
Hamilton Elementary will be spotlighted in a school activities report.
Crescent schools
JOYCE — The Crescent School Board will hear reports on lockdown drills, graduation requirements and Halloween plans when it meets at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The board will meet in the Crescent School library, 50350 state Highway 112.
Fall gardening talk set in PA this Thursday
PORT ANGELES — Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Jan Danford, Rita Dinger and Janice Noonan will present “What to Do in Your Fall Garden” in the emergency management room of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., at noon Thursday.
Home gardeners will learn general tips for preparing their gardens for the winter and why the fall season is a good time to plant select vegetable crops and herbs, perennials, landscape shrubs and trees, and native plants.
Cain will offer advice on growing vegetables through the fall and winter months.
Danford will demonstrate how to divide herbaceous perennials and bulbs and how to prepare soil for new plantings.
Dinger will demonstrate planting methods for shrubs, trees and herbs.
Noonan will discuss the simplicity of maintaining native plants and the benefit to planting them in the cool, damp season.
This presentation will be repeated at the Class Act at Woodcock Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, Sequim, at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Both presentations are free and open to the public.
For more information, phone 360-417-2279.
Empathy workshop
PORT TOWNSEND — A “Lens of Empathy Workshop” will be held at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave.
An introduction is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, and an intensive workshop is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Bring a brown-bag lunch.
Admission is by donation.
The workshop will present an understanding of human nature to transform the way one understands personal and others’ feelings, words and actions.
The class is facilitated by Alex Bryan.
To RSVP or for more information, contact Diane Haas at 360-385-3890 or dianehaas@gmail.com.
