BLYN — The Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network will discuss education, planning, funding and action implementation topics from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 17.
That meeting of the group, known as the Strait ERN, will be at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Red Cedar Hall located within the Community Center on Old Blyn Highway in Blyn.
The public is welcome.
The Strait ERN is one of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Local Integrating Organizations (LIO) working to implement the Action Agenda, the “leadership and coordinating document, meant to focus the region around a shared agenda” for Puget Sound protection and recovery.
The Strait ERN is a broadly represented LIO that includes all of the tribes and local jurisdictions, and most of the non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and key business groups with interest in the Strait of Juan de Fuca Action Area.
Geographically, the Strait Action Area encompasses much of Clallam and Jefferson counties extending from Cape Flattery near Neah Bay east to Point Wilson in Port Townsend on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Information on the Puget Sound Partnership and the Puget Sound Action Agenda can be found at www.psp.wa.gov and on the Strait ERN LIO website at www.straiternlio.org.
For more information, email John Cambalik, Strait ERN coordinator, at coordinator@straiternlio.org.
Medical care meeting
PORT ANGELES — Dr. Lissa Lubinski will host a town hall meeting on what residents want from a medical clinic.
The meeting will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Carver Room of the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Lubinski said she is planning to leave “assembly-line medicine” and open a family medicine clinic later this spring.
“I want to learn from our community what people really want and need from a clinic and essentially create the first community-designed medical clinic on the Olympic Peninsula,” she said in an email.
Other such meetings might be held at a later date, she said.
City sale on compost
PORT ANGELES — The city of Port Angeles is having a sale on Garden Glory Compost.
The compost will be offered at a 30 percent discount through March 31 at the compost facility at the Regional Transfer Station, 3501 W. 18th St.
Compost can be purchased between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.
Sale prices are $14 per cubic yard for 1 to 3 cubic yards, $11.90 per cubic yard for 4 to 49 cubic yards, $11.20 per cubic yard for 50 to 99 cubic yards, $10.50 per cubic yard for 100 to 299 cubic yards and $9.80 per cubic yard for 300 or more cubic yards.
Garden Glory, a mixture of yard waste and biosolids, has been sold at the compost facility since 2007.
Yard waste includes grass, leaves, branches and other yard debris from residences and commercial activities in Clallam County. The treated biosolids come from the treatment of wastewater at the city wastewater treatment plant.
The city of Port Angeles is a participant in the U.S. Composting Council Seal of Testing Assurance program, and test results are given with each purchase.
For more information, call 360-417-4874.
Floating Bridge Press
PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Reading Series will feature “An Evening with Floating Bridge Press” at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Poets Kate Peterson, Arlene Naganawa and Lydia Swartz will read at the session at the center at 701 Water St.
The suggested donation is $5.
Last fall, Floating Bridge Press published three chapbooks: Kate Peterson’s “Grist,” which won the 2016 chapbook award; “The Ark and the Bear” by Arlene Naganawa, a series of prose poems that explores a young woman’s coming of age; and “Land of Lists” by Lydia Swartz, an exploration of experience from many angles.
Peterson earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University, where she is now teaching composition as an adjunct faculty member. “Grist” is her first published collection.
Naganawa is the author of two chapbooks: “Private Graveyard” and “The Scarecrow Bride.”
Swartz has a degree in editorial journalism and a job in health care marketing.
All proceeds will support Northwind Arts Center. For more information, contact Bill Mawhinney 360-302-1159.
Boat safety class
PORT ANGELES — The Coast Guard Auxiliary will offer a class on boating safety this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
A certificate will be available at 4 p.m. after the class has ended.
For security purposes, locations, costs and details about the course will be provided over the phone by Marilynn Leonard after a vetting process.
Those interested are advised to register for the course on or before Thursday.
For more information and registration, phone Leonard at 360-452-1135.
OMC recognizes seven employees
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis, Chief Physician Officer Dr. Josh Jones and board President Jim Leskinovitch recently presented recognition awards to seven employees.
The employees are Lily Thomson, registered nurse, Peninsula Children’s Clinic; Carly Penic, office procedure assistant, Olympic Medical Physcians (OMP) Specialty Clinic; Holli Moreno, registered nurse, OMP Primary Care; Gina Gaul, lead certified medical assistant, OMP Specialty Clinic; Deanna Collins, registered nurse, OMP Primary Care; Holly Heustis, clinic supervisor, OMP Primary Care; and Connie Noble, certified medical assistant, OMP General Surgery.
“These employees really stepped up and helped make our move into the new medical office building and the new children’s clinic a smooth transition,” Jones said.
