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Conductor and Music Director Jonathan Pasternack bows to the audience after the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra's return to the stage this past season. photo courtesy Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra

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Port Angeles Symphony wraps season, looks ahead

Thirteen concerts planned next season

Volunteer Sherilyn Seyler leads Starlin, an alpaca, in a parade of alpacas and llamas Saturday at the Olympic Peninsula Alpaca/Llama Rescue Farm. The event was at an open house to bring awareness of the farm’s mission, which is “to provide a safe haven, rehabilitation center and rehoming program for Alpacas and Llamas.” (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Animals on parade

Volunteer Sherilyn Seyler leads Starlin, an alpaca, in a parade of alpacas and llamas Saturday at the Olympic…

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Applied behavior analysis presentation scheduled this week

PORT ANGELES — Joan Gitelman will present “What Is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)” on Zoom this week.

Pat Rublaitus helps light candles for a prayer service on Friday inside St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sequim for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. About 40 people attended to pray and sing for the teachers and students and their families. Participants were encouraged to write prayers on cloth strips to be attached to a fence outside the church. The interfaith service was sponsored by St. Luke’s, Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church and Trinity United Methodist Church. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Service grieves for shooting victims

Pat Rublaitus helps light candles for a prayer service on Friday inside St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sequim…

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Field Hall news, tours planned Thursday

Timeline, community program to be announced

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Supply drive to benefit Foster Supports of Jefferson County

PORT ANGELES — Express Employment Professionals will host a supply drive from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays…

The indie folk duo The Black Feathers, Sian Chandler and Ray Hughes, who base themselves in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom, perform on Saturday at Vern Burton Community Center during the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Juan de Fuca Festival a community revival

Attendees enjoy arts, crafts, music

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COVID cases rise but most mild

Numbers are soaring without hospitalization

Monica Reynolds, a prospective member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, left, and Lindsey Christianson, a member of the organization’s Port Angeles-based Michael Trebert Chapter, locate graves of veterans for adornment with American flags on Saturday for Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony at 9:30 a.m. at Mount Angeles Memorial Park, 45 Monroe Road in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Memorial Day ceremonies remember fallen today

Peninsula events include wreaths, music, volunteer opportunities

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Man hurt in fall from cliff, transported to Harborview in Seattle

PORT ANGELES — An unidentified man was badly hurt last week when he fell from a cliff at…

From left are Annette Hanson, Tuttie Peetz, Shelli Robb-Kahler and Powell Jones.

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Dungeness River Nature Center receives $8,500 donation

Sound Community Bank recently donated $8,500 to the Dungeness River Nature Center to help complete the center’s Watershed…

Photo Andrew May.... Here is a prime example of the diversity of Dahlia's as cut flowers not only strong stems but an amazing array of colors shapes and sizes.

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A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t dilly-dally on dahlias

SINCE THIS IS the final Sunday in my all-time favorite month, and it’s Memorial Day weekend, full of…

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Forks Sasquatch Days this weekend

FORKS — The First Annual Forks Sasquatch Days begins today and continues Sunday.

Nell Clausen

Opinion

POINT OF VIEW: Candidate forums are a core feature of U.S. politics

League of Women Voters member urges participation

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News John Kent, commander of VFW Post 1024 of Port Angeles, rings the Liberty Bell replica in honor of Clallam County veterans who have died in the previous month during the monthly rememberance ceremony on Friday at Veterans Park in Port Angeles. A total of 29 veterans were recognized with a chiming of the bell for each.

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Monthly memorial ringing

John Kent, commander of VFW Post 1024 of Port Angeles, rings the Liberty Bell replica in honor of…

Lance Snider creates art filled with little people.

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Harbor Art Gallery showcases Lance, Haley Snider

PORT ANGELES — The work of Lance and Haley Snider of Port Angeles get the spotlight at Harbor…

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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…

Courtesy photo High school equestrians Maggie Anderson, left, Sydney Hutton, Libby Swanberg and Joanna Seelye prepare to enter the arena for the Grand Entry at Washington High School Equestrian Team (WAHSET) State Finals.

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HORSEPLAY: Port Angeles and Sequim high school equestrians place at state finals

SEEMS LIKE FOREVER and a day since I rode horseback, yet when my desire to just get up…

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Alana Black, center, and her daughter, Sophia Strickland, 14, left, operate their Skokomish Valley-based Olympic Mountain Ice Cream tent while 5-year-old Evelyn Bonebreak of Port Angeles enjoys a cone on Friday at the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts in Port Angeles.

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Sweet treats greet visitors to Juan de Fuca Festival

Music, vendors, programs engage all the senses

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But where do I live?

Housing, healthcare, living wage job major concerns