PORT ANGELES — Port of Port Angeles commissioners will discuss strategic planning when they meet in a special session from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.
The special meeting will be at the Port Angeles Yacht Club, 1305 Marine Drive.
They will review drafts of their mission, vision and value statements; draft five-year target statements; develop draft goals; and identify initiatives to support the statements and goals.
Members of the public who attend must bring their own lunches.
PA School Board
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board will consider approving a revision of district policy on the education of students with disabilities when it meet Thursday.
The board will meet at 5 p.m. at the Central Services Building at 216 E. Fourth St.
The changes concern notification to parents.
Food drive to help local food banks
In conjunction with National Occupational Therapy Month, Lynda G. Williamson of Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy is sponsoring a spring food drive for the Port Angeles and Sequim food banks.
The following businesses have joined Williamson’s effort to help those in need in Clallam County:
■ In Port Angeles: Hair Solutions, Necessities & Temptations, Kitsap Bank, John L. Scott, First Street Chiropractic, Peninsula Behavioral Health, Mittelstaedt Chiropractic and Massage, Crestwood Convalescent Center and Lila Morris, L.M.P.
■ In Sequim: Sequim Senior Center, Peninsula Behavioral Health and Sequim Physical Therapy.
They are accepting donations of nonperishable food items during their regular business hours this month.
Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy, located in Suite C at 708 S. Race St., is also accepting food and cash donations during business hours.
The clinic is open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays. It is closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
It also is offering a $1 raffle to win a $25 gas card, with all proceeds benefiting the food bank.
Phone Jaie Livingstone, Leona Voss or Lynda Williamson at 360-417-0703.
Mac group meets
CHIMACUM — PTSLUG, a Macintosh computer users group, will meet at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
A basic “how-to” kicks off the meeting, with the main meeting at 7 p.m.
This session will explore how things entered into one Apple device can migrate over to another, according to a news release.
For example, a birthday entered in Contacts on an iPhone can be seen in Calendar on an iPad.
For more information, visit www.ptslug.org.
Reading set Thursday at PT arts venue
PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Reading Series on Thursday will feature Geoff Bowman, Deb Hammond and Will O’Donnell in the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
The readings start at 7 p.m.
In 2010, Bowman began writing again for the first time since 1975 and moved three years ago from Tucson, Ariz., to Port Townsend to “see if my writing is of any use to me or anyone else.”
His first book, In the Octopus Nursery, was published last summer.
Hammond has spent much of her life volunteering: wildlife rehabilitation, tutoring adults in basic literacy skills, anti-racism work, walking dogs and more.
She began writing daily after a Centrum workshop with Rebecca Seiferle and has studied with Margaret McGee, Susan Rich, Kelli Russell Agodon, Elizabeth Austen and others.
She has been crafting several chapbooks and a full-length collection for many years.
O’Donnell, known to many as the manager of the Port Townsend Farmers Market, also works with fresh words and organic images in his writing.
He has been a carpenter, a coal shoveler, a carrot picker, a chicken killer and a cheesemaker.
He is currently finishing a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction at Pacific University.
Admission to the readings is a suggested donation of $3 to $5.
All proceeds will support the Northwind Arts Center.
For more information, phone Bill Mawhinney at 360-302-1159 or visit www.northwindarts.org.
Studium Generale
PORT ANGELES — Cyndi Hueth, director of Habitat for Humanity Clallam County, will present during a Studium Generale lecture at Peninsula College’s Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 12:35 p.m. Thursday.
She will discuss her vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The presentation will provide a local and global view of the impact Habitat for Humanity has had since 1991.
Opportunities to partner with Habitat will be available to students and community members.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, email Kate Reavy at kreavy@pencol.edu.
