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Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group Elaine Bradford and Cecelia Schouten participate in a variation of balloon volleyball in which participants keep three balloons going by hitting them with pool noodles. Schouten, according to her daughter Valerie Schouten, was always very athletic and loved climbing trees as a child. She was recruited to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, but her father said, “no.”

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Respite for all at Tim’s Place

Community rallies to support people dealing with memory loss

Business

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m.…

Life

Intentional aging group to meet Tuesday

PORT ANGELES — North Olympic Library System’s Intentional Aging discussion group will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

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YMCA eyeing 2024 for early learning center

$4.5M facility to serve up to 92 children

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News A pleasure boat sits aground on the north side of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles on Friday.

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Cabin cruiser washes onto Ediz Hook

No environmental threat, said Coast Guard, DOE

Ruby Beach has reopened to the public after improvements were completed. NPS Photo

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Ruby Beach reopens after upgrades

PORT ANGELES — The Ruby Beach parking area and access road at Olympic National Park has reopened after…

Nancy Hughes via Unsplash Ornamental Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea) can give your garden color and interest though the winter.

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t leave fall chores to last minute

WELL HERE WE go, autumn officially begins this Thursday at 6:04 p.m., and that means there are a…

Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News Composer Noah Michael Smith, left, and Camaraderie Cellars winemaker Don Corson admire “Spirit of Hildegard,” Corson’s sculpture in jade. Smith and Corson have collaborated on a performance celebrating Hildegard von Bingen this Saturday.

Arts & Entertainment

Saturday performance blends music, poetry

By Diane Urbani de la Paz

Arts & Entertainment

Entertainment ranges from plays to fairs and concerts this weekend

A variety of entertainment is planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement in the Media Tech and Stagehand Training School with KING-5 television interviewer Eric Wilkinson and camera operator Robin Lile during a taping session at Field Hall Arts & Events Hall on Thursday in Port Angeles. The training school, which features a new media technicians certificate program, will be hosted by Field Hall and accredited by the college. The program will be funded through a $1 million grant by the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to develop skills that can be put to living-wage jobs on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Tech talk at Field Arts & Events Hall

Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement…

Fencing surrounds the playground at Shane Park in Port Angeles after parks department officials closed the equipment because of play surface tiles that are shrinking and becoming dislodged. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Shane Park playground closed for repairs

Dislodged tiles deemed to be a tripping hazard

Waterleaf Architecture created this latest rendering of the downtown Port Angeles hotel planned by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.

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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe to start site work on Port Angeles hotel

Project manager expects minimal impact on downtown traffic

Smoke rises from a wildland fire along a side spur from Joyce Access Road east of Joyce on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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State Department of Natural Resources takes over small brush fire near Joyce

Cause had not been determined on Thursday

Marley Reeder of Sequim will receive the first Juan de Fuca Foundation-PA Panto scholarship this weekend.

Arts & Entertainment

JFFA, PA Panto award first scholarship

By Diane Urbani de la Paz

Wind Child, skippered by Rudy Heessels, one of the perennial participants in the annual Reach and Row for Hospice, competes in a Duck Dodge race in August. Heessels’ crew in this race included Charlie Roberts, Mylo Hauptli and Leon Skerbeck. (Fran Thompson)

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Reach, Row for Hospice to set sail this weekend

Annual fundraiser to be conducted on Sequim Bay

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH:

AS A FRIEND of mine often says about the world at large, “I worry, I worry.”

Arts & Entertainment

United Way celebrates the kickoff of new campaign year

SEQUIM — The United Way of Clallam County will kick off its annual community campaign at Club 7…

News

Clallam to view Field Hall funding; Jefferson conducts workshop

Government meetings across North Olympic Peninsula

Photo courtesy of Danni Breen Sequim resident Danni Breen and walking companion Mike Schefers are pictured on their second day of their Camino de Santiago adventure this summer, after staying in a monastery in Roncesvalles in Spain.

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Peninsula woman travels Camino de Santiago

Breen, 65, makes 500-mile pilgrimage to assess her life

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