PORT TOWNSEND — Mountain View Proponents will conduct an information session and fundraising meeting from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday on a proposed $3.6 million bond to fund repairs at Mountain View Commons.
The free session will be at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Lawrence St.
The city proposal will be on the Feb. 10 special election ballot.
Mountain View Proponents (MVP) is a new ballot committee promoting a “yes” vote on the Mountain View Commons Improvement Bond.
The group will give a short presentation and host a question-and-answer period with representatives of nonprofits housed at Mountain View Commons “who are among the community’s Most Valuable Players,” the group said.
They include the Police Department, the Port Townsend Food Bank, the Jefferson County YMCA, the ReCyclery and the KPTZ-91.9 FM radio station.
Find more info on the Thursday meeting and the Feb. 10 election at www.ptmvp.org or call committee co-managers Jeff and Shelly Randall at 360-385-2575.
Health care plans
PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare commissioners will consider authorizing financing for the emergency and special projects building when they meet today.
Commissioners will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the hospital auditorium, 834 Sheridan St.
They also will hear a report on Port Ludlow facilities.
Officer elections
JOYCE — The Crescent School Board will elect officers when it meets Thursday.
The board will meet at 7 p.m. at the Crescent School library at 50350 state Highway 112.
The board will hear a report on enrollment. Enrollment for the month is below projections, the agenda says.
Board members also will consider approval of policies on student records and public access to records, while considering on a first reading policies on student representatives to the board and homeless students.
An executive session on a legal matter is planned.
New president
PORT ANGELES — Sarah Methner has been elected president and Lonnie Linn vice president of the Port Angeles School Board.
The board elected officers last week.
Both were elected for one-year terms in these roles.
Board member Steve Baxter served as president and Methner as vice president during 2014.
The board members also reviewed 2015 committee, task force and school assignments. New assignments can be viewed at www.portangelesschools.org.
Polar Bear Dip 2015
PORT ANGELES — Challenges to benefit Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County are being made now for the annual Port Angeles Polar Bear Dip on Thursday, Jan. 1.
The 10 a.m. dip into Port Angeles Harbor will be the 27th from Hollywood Beach on New Year’s Day.
As an aside to the 2015 event, a special challenge has been added to benefit Voluntary Hospice of.
Anyone can challenge another to take the dip and put a dollar amount of their choice on the challenge.
If the person challenged takes the plunge, the challenger donates that monetary amount to the volunteer hospice group based in Port Angeles.
Voluntary Hospice provides free care for the terminally ill who are eligible for service.
To participate or challenge someone — or for more information — stop by the hospice office at 540 E. Eighth St. and pick up a brochure or phone 360-457-8133.
Area author to read from novel in Forks
FORKS — Port Angeles author and musician Patrick Loafman will read from his new novel, Somewhere Upriver, at the Forks Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Loafman also will perform original music with a homemade kora, a West African 21-string instrument that is both a harp and a lute and looks like “a hybrid between a banjo and a suspension bridge.”
Somewhere Upriver is the story of graduate student Douglas Mortimer as he journeys to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a great scientist. But when he hires an eccentric old herpetologist as a research assistant, his plans for a successful future are derailed.
Together, they enter a world of toxic salamanders, eccentric characters and government conspiracies.
Somewhere Upriver follows Douglas into places that will be familiar to residents of the Olympic Peninsula: the Queets Rain Forest, Whidbey Island and Sully’s Burgers in Forks.
This author visit is made free to the public with support from the Friends of the Forks Library.
For more information, visit www.nols.org and click on “Events” and “Forks,” or phone 360-374-6402.
Christmas caroling
PORT ANGELES — The third annual Christmas Caroling for the Food Bank will be held Saturday and Sunday.
Carolers from local Girl Scout Troops 40762, 41417 and 45100, plus students from Stevens Middle School, Port Angeles High School and Peninsula College, will be visiting homes, singing Christmas carols and asking for donations for the Port Angeles Food Bank.
Christmas Caroling for the Food Bank is an annual service project organized by Sydney Roberts, a Port Angeles High junior.
Last year, Sydney and a group of high school carolers raised $540 worth of food and cash donations.
Chain gang busy
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang pulled about 2,820 scotch broom plants at the Forks County Shop during the week of Nov. 24-28.
Crews cleared and cleaned 97 culverts on Chicken Coop and Diamond Point roads.
The chain gang removed 13 trailer loads of scotch broom during the week of Dec. 1-5 from county roadways between Deer Park Overpass to Mount Pleasant Pit.
They brushed and chipped the county right of way on Olympic Hot Springs Road and conducted tool maintenance and repaired pole saw and weed-eaters.
A total of 260 pounds of trash was removed from one illegal dump site on Black Diamond Road.
An old hide-a-bed couch was found along the roadway.
Fair apps sought
Building/barn superintendent positions are open for the 2015 Clallam County Fair, which will be held Aug. 20-23.
Anyone wishing to apply can call the fair office at 360-417-2551 for an application or more information on what the position responsibilities include.
The application is also online at www.clallamcountyfair.com.
Training is provided, and there is a small stipend.
The deadline to apply is Jan. 16.
Positions will be filled at the next fair board meeting, to be scheduled.
