NEWS BRIEFS: Port Angeles town hall meeting on heroin planned Thursday night . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — Community members are invited to attend a town hall meeting on heroin at the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center, 905 W. Ninth St., from 6 p.m. to about 8 p.m. Thursday.

Topics covered are warning signs, prevalence, current trends, recovery, treatment options, harm reduction and resources.

A question-and-answer period is planned for 7 p.m.

This event is sponsored by the Port Angeles Healthy Youth Coalition, Office of National Drug Control Policy and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

For more information, contact Leeann Grasseth at 360-565-2608 or lgrasseth@co.clallam.wa.us.

Scentsy party, food drive set

SEQUIM — Sequim Rainbow Girls will host a Scentsy (electric scented candles) party fundraiser at the Sequim Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave., at 7 p.m. today.

Funds will go to Make-A-Wish, the Washington/Idaho jurisdiction service project.

Phone Mary Miller at 360-417-9236 to register to attend, for online ordering information or for questions.

In addition, the club will hold a kitten and cat food drive for Peninsula Friends of Animals at the Sequim Petco, 1205 W. Washington St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The shelter is in need of donations, especially kitten food.

For more information, phone Miller.

Spaghetti feed

SEQUIM — A spaghetti feed benefiting Dylan Eekhoff will be held in the Sequim High School cafeteria, 601 N. Sequim Ave., from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.

The cost is $10 for adults and $7 for kids younger than 10.

Pre-sale tickets are available in the main office of the school or by contacting Steve Mahitka at smahitka@sequim.k12.wa.us or 509-654-4045.

The Sequim High School Future Farmers of America chapter is hosting this dinner to support Dylan, who has cancer, and his family.

Rainbow Assembly

SEQUIM — Sequim Rainbow Assembly No. 57, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, will hold an installation of officers at the Sequim Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth St., at 7 p.m. Friday.

Refreshments will follow the meeting.

This event is open to the public.

ADHD talk part of forum

PORT ANGELES — Grace Yelland, MD, a member of Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, will address issues of ADHD in children when she presents at a Fifth Sunday Forum at the fellowship, 73 Howe Road, at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Child care will be provided.

The forum is free and open to the public.

Parents and grandparents of a child diagnosed with or displaying symptoms of ADHD, as well as professionals, are especially encouraged to attend.

Yelland has more than 25 years of experience in pediatrics and practices at Peninsula Children’s Clinic in Port Angeles.

For more information, phone the fellowship at 360-417-2665.

Students graduate

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University will hold its 146th commencement Saturday, June 13, at 10:30 a.m. at Reser Stadium.

Local students, all of Port Angeles, graduating this June from Oregon State include:

Carly M. DelaBarre, Bachelor of Arts, education, and BA, English; Emily R. Oldenkamp, Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, bioengineering; and Alexander C. Scharf, BS, computer science.

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