Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press
SEQUIM — A seed-cleaning workshop will take place at Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.
This class is free and open to the public.
This workshop is for people interested in saving seeds from their gardens and using them in the future.
For more information, contact Patty McManus at patty@nashsorganicproduce.com or 360-681-6274.
Donations sought
PORT ANGELES — Roosevelt Elementary School is accepting donations for its annual Rummage Sale & Hot Dog Dinner.
The event, open to Roosevelt families during the school’s Back to School Night on Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., also will be open to the public Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Donations of usable items, including clothing, housewares, furniture, electronics, tools, books and toys, can be dropped off by the school’s main entrance, 106 Monroe Road, through Thursday.
All items will be sold by donation.
Proceeds will provide scholarships for the sixth-grade outdoor education program, held Oct. 14 to 16 at NatureBridge.
Items not sold will be donated to Roosevelt’s Cougar Clothes Closet and local charities.
A hot dog, cookie and drink can be purchased during the sale.
Contact Kelly Sanders at 360-565-1740 or ksanders@portangelesschools.org for more information.
Pajama storytime
PORT ANGELES — Pajama storytime will take place at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
This all-ages edition of storytime will be in the children’s area of the library.
Participants will have the opportunity to rediscover children’s books, enjoy songs, crafts, finger plays and rhymes, plus explore the newly renovated children’s area of the library.
Funding for this program has been provided by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.
For more information about this and other programs for youths, phone the library at 360-417-8500, ext. 7705; visit www.nols.org; or email youth@nols.org.
Weed the People
PORT TOWNSEND — Author Bruce Barcott will talk about his latest book, Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America, in the Carnegie Reading Room of the Port Townsend Library, 1220 Lawrence St., at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Barcott’s co-written article, “The Highly Divisive, Curiously Underfunded and Strangely Promising World of Pot Science,” was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May.
He has published four other best-sellers, including The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw and Measure of a Mountain.
For more information, visit www.brucebarcott.com.
Mental illness talk
PORT ANGELES — Doctor Joshua Jones, medical director of Peninsula Behavioral Health, sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), will give a talk in Linkletter Hall in the basement of Olympic Medical Center, 939 Caroline St., at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Jones’ talk is titled “Stigma: How Our Resistance to Facing Mental Illness is Holding Us All Back.”
A brief business meeting for all NAMI members will be held at 6:30 p.m. prior to the presentation.
For more information, phone 360-452-5244.
Leg screenings set
PORT ANGELES — Jim’s Pharmacy, 424 E. Second St., will hold a Healthy Leg Day with a Jobst Stocking representative from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Walk-ins are welcome. To schedule an appointment, phone the Home Health Department at 360-457-3462 for a free leg screening.
For more information, phone Lisa Jorgensen at 360-452-4200 or email lisaj@jimsrx.com.
Tribe closes Skagit River pinks fishery
MOUNT VERNON — The Upper Skagit tribe has decided to close its pink salmon fishery because fewer pinks have returned to the Skagit River than anticipated.
The tribe in northwest Washington expected to see about 500,000 pinks return to the Skagit River to spawn but last week saw dismal catches, The Skagit Valley Herald reported Thursday.
“It’s a big disappointment,” said tribal natural resources director Scott Schuyler.
As a steward of the resource, he said, the tribe took the drastic step last Wednesday of closing what would have been a four-day fishery ending last Friday.
Based on previous catch records, last week should have been the peak of the season.
But Tuesday, the average drift — a net dropped across the width of the river and allowed to drift downstream — brought in about a dozen fish, the newspaper reported.
That’s about 10 percent of what they expected, Schuyler said. So tribal fishermen will keep their nets out of the water because they don’t want to deplete the population.
Pink salmon, also called “humpies,” migrate every odd year, and state officials have estimated some 6.8 million pink salmon would return to Puget Sound rivers in 2015.
They typically are found in marine areas in late June through mid-August, when they begin to enter Puget Sound rivers.