Running Start info, Clemente lecture, ukulele music set for Wednesday

Judith Adams

Judith Adams

Running Start information, a Clemente lecture and an evening of ukulele are among Wednesday’s activities on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Information also is available on the interactive calendar at www.peninsuladailynews.com/calendar.

FORKS

Running start

FORKS — Peninsula College will host an information night for its Running Start program at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The free information session will be in The Commons at Peninsula College Forks, 481 S. Forks Ave.

Running Start is a program that allows high school juniors and seniors to earn tuition-free college credit.

For more information, call Cindy Lauderback at 360-417-6341, email clauderback@pencol.edu or visit www.pencol.edu.

PORT ANGELES

Masonic bingo

PORT ANGELES — Mason’s Lodge 69 will host bingo from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The lodge is at 622 S. Lincoln St.

Proceeds benefit Lodge programs.

For more information, visit www.pamasonic.org.

SEQUIM

Soup’s On

SEQUIM — Soup’s On is set for noon Wednesday.

The free program at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., is open to the community.

The meal includes a bowl of meat or vegetarian soup, a roll, salad and a small dessert.

CHIMACUM

Clemente lecture

CHIMACUM — Bill Porter will present “The Role of Landscape in Chinese Religion” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The lecture is part of the Jefferson Clemente Foundation’s Thinking Through the Land series presented at Finnriver Farm & Cidery, 124 Center Road.

The suggested donation of $10 per person benefits the Jefferson Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free accredited college humanities course for low-income adults.

Holly Thomas

Holly Thomas

PORT HADLOCK

Poetry and conversation

PORT HADLOCK — Whidbey Island poets Judith Adams and Holly Thomas will host an evening of poetry and conversation from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The poets will be speaking at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave.

Adams, an English-born poet, has written four volumes of poetry. Thomas is the author of “Pluck Another Apple, And Finish It.”

For more information, call 360-385-6544 or visit www.jclibrary.info.

PORT TOWNSEND

Ukulele open mic

PORT TOWNSEND — Ukuleles Unite will host a happy hour open mic event at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The free open microphone gathering will be at the Highway 20 Roadhouse, 2152 W. Sims Ave.

The public is welcome to come to play or just to listen.

For more information, call 360-390-4919.

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