NEWS BRIEFS: Stamp talk set Thursday in Sequim . . . and other items

SEQUIM — At its next meeting at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., the Strait Stamp Society will host James Kloetzel, who will present a talk on how the Scott Stamp Catalogue editors value and edit the catalog each year.

The meeting starts at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Kloetzel was the editor of the Scott catalogs from 1994 to 2011 and now is a consultant handling all valuing and editing of the United States and Canada portions of the catalogs from 2011 to the present.

This talk represents a portion of presentations made to the Collectors Club, New York City, in 2002 and at the American Philatelic Society Summer Seminar welcome dinner in Bellefonte, Pa., in 2004.

The public is invited to attend this presentation.

Phone 360-683-6373 for more information.

Homeless Connect

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Project Homeless Connect will meet for a free resource fair at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.

The fair is designed to help people who are homeless or at risk.

There will be free information and assistance for urgent dental care, clothes, food, housing, ID, legal, medical, employment, haircuts, veterans services and social services.

Free bus rides are available from anywhere in Clallam County by boarding a Clallam Transit bus and saying “Vern Burton Center.”

Volunteers for the fair must sign up ahead of time.

Donations are appreciated.

For more information, email clallamcounty.homelessoutreach@gmail.com or phone 360-452-7224.

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