Port Angeles: Peace and Prayer Day moved to Elwha tribal center

PORT ANGELES — There’s a new location for World Peace and Prayer Day on June 21.

Because of the need for larger facilities, the event — part of an effort to identify and fight racism — will be held at the Lower Elwha Tribal Center, 2851 Lower Elwha Road, instead of the Longhouse at Lincoln Park.

The all-day event is being sponsored by Ho Wanji, a loosely organized group that uses “ancient traditions to enhance modern thought,” says Keith Hunter, an East Texas Choctaw tribal member also known as Kii-yaa-tuk.

Ho Wanji means “one voice,” he says.

Hunter and Monica Charles, a Lower Elwha member, are coordinating the event as an outgrowth of their recent testimony to the Port Angeles Community Multi-Cultural Task Force.

The task force was created last month after black and Hispanic Coast Guard enlisted men stationed in Port Angeles complained that they had been the targets of racial taunts and vandalism.

The task force meets again from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday in the City Council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St.

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