Softball carolers
SEQUIM — The Sequim Softball Boosters are offering Christmas caroling from their softball players this holiday season to raise funds for the softball program.
To order a “sing-o-gram,” choose from the following options and email shawrigg@olypen.com or deon.kapetan@ccmclending.com:
■ Send carolers to someone for $25.
■ Send carolers with a poinsettia to someone for $35.
■ Send carolers with a poinsettia, candy canes and sparkling cider for $50.
Make sure to include the recipient’s name and address in the email order.
Donations also are appreciated.
For more information, phone 360-808-5448 or 360-461-6511.
No flight practice set this week
COUPEVILLE — There will be no field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at the outlying field in Coupeville today through Saturday.
Comments, including noise complaints, can be directed to station’s comment line at 360-257-6665 or via email at comments.NASWI@navy.mil.
All other questions can be directed to the public affairs office at 360-257-2286.
Grant proposals
A Giving Circle of the Jefferson County Community Foundation is seeking grant proposals from nonprofit programs that address local food issues.
Up to $10,000 in funding will be awarded to a successful applicant.
The “GC3” Giving Circle members researched basic needs in Jefferson County and identified food issues as a priority after visiting several organizations working to address them.
The request-for-proposals priorities include:
■ Feeding hungry people with good food.
■ Addressing root causes of problems through systemic change.
■ Encouraging partnerships.
■ Funding a program that has potential to be financially sustained after the grant is expended.
■ Encouraging long-term benefits or impact.
The request for proposals is available at www.jccfgives.org or by contacting Executive Director Carla Caldwell at carla@jccfgives.org or 360-385-1729.
Softball carolers
SEQUIM — The Sequim Softball Boosters are offering Christmas caroling from their softball players this holiday season to raise funds for the softball program.
To order a “sing-o-gram,” choose from the following options and email shawrigg@olypen.com or deon.kapetan@ccmclending.com:
■ Send carolers to someone for $25.
■ Send carolers with a poinsettia to someone for $35.
■ Send carolers with a poinsettia, candy canes and sparkling cider for $50.
Make sure to include the recipient’s name and address in the email order.
Donations also are appreciated.
For more information, phone 360-808-5448 or 360-461-6511.
Senior nutrition
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Senior Nutrition Site dinners will be served at 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St.
The center will be closed Thursday and Friday due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
A suggested donation is $5 for those who are 60 or older.
People younger than 60 can attend for $8.
Reservations should be made 24 hours in advance to 360-457-8921.
Menus are subject to change.
■ Tuesday: Carrot salad, barbecue beef sandwich, roasted potatoes, cauliflower and ice cream sundae.
■ Wednesday: Ambrosia-cranberry salad, roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans and pumpkin pie.
Holiday fair set Dec. 4 at PA bank
PORT ANGELES — Umpqua Bank will host a holiday fair at 1033 E. First St. from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4.
The shopping event is free and open to the public.
Vendors include Beauty & The Beach, CGLass Jewelry, Mary Kay, Essential Oils, Monkeybug, Blooming Addi, The Barefoot Seamstress, Sequim Quilt Co. and more.
Holiday gift plants
PORT ANGELES — WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners Jeanette Stehr-Green and Jan Danford will provide tips for selecting and caring for holiday gift plants in the county commissioners’ meeting room of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., at noon Thursday, Dec. 4.
The Master Gardeners will explain during “Holiday Gift Plants: ‘Tis the Season” how to select quality plants for holiday gifts, nurture them through the holidays and provide long-term care.
Stehr-Green will talk about the most popular plants given as gifts during the holiday season, including poinsettias, amaryllises, Christmas cactus and paperwhites.
Danford will provide a guide for year-round poinsettia care that will get them to rebloom during next year’s holiday season. A Master Gardener intern, Danford has been experimenting with maintaining poinsettias for many years.
This presentation will mark the end of the 2014 “Green Thumb Garden Tips” brown-bag series, which is sponsored by the WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners.
The 2015 season will begin Jan. 22 with a lecture on pruning.
Attendees can bring a lunch.
The presentations are free and open to the public; however, donations to help offset copying costs for handouts are accepted.
For more information, phone 360-417-2279.
Chain gang busy
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang removed a total of 1,320 pounds of trash from three illegal dump sites, two on Deer Park Road (440 pounds) and one on Taylor Cutoff Road (880 pounds), during the week of Nov. 10-14.
Crews cleared vegetation from sand stockpiles at the Port Angeles shop.
Scotch broom was removed from the new Deer Park underpass and the Forks county shop.
Debris from a windstorm was cleared from Mark Clark, Cooper Ranch, Joyce-Piedmont and Little River roads.
Culverts on Harrington, Monroe and Deer Park roads were cleared.
