Food bank delivers 250 holiday packs
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Food Bank, eligible for the Holiday Backpack program because of its partnership with the Port Angeles School District’s Friday Food Bag program, recently was awarded 250 Holiday Backpacks.
Backpacks filled with canned food items, cereal, spaghetti and crackers were distributed to school district elementary students prior to winter break.
The Holiday Backpacks project was a result of a grant from the Boeing Co.
Northwest Harvest purchased, filled and distributed 6,500 backpacks this season.
Hygiene volunteers
PORT ANGELES — Volunteers are needed to keep the Hygiene Center at 516 E. First St. open weekday and Sunday mornings, according to Serenity House of Clallam County Executive Director Kim Leach.
“The Hygiene Center exists to give people who are homeless an opportunity to shower or do a load of laundry,” Leach said.
“They can get a change of clean clothes, too, if needed.”
An average of 20 people use the center each morning it is open. Most users are adults who sleep at the nearby Street Outreach Shelter, 505 E. Second St., which is open nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Other people who lack access to showers, including families with children, are also welcome to use the Hygiene Center.
For information about volunteering, contact services supervisor David Garner at 360-504-5657 or davidgsas@yahoo.com.
Dog park meeting
PORT ANGELES — A meeting for the Port Angeles Dog Park will be held at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., at 6 p.m. Thursday.
All are welcome.
For more information and an agenda, visit www.padogpark.org.
Sanctuary meeting set for Friday
PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary will host a meeting of the Sanctuary Advisory Council at the Clallam County Courthouse, Commissioners Meeting Room 160, 223 E. Fourth St., from 9:50 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday.
The agenda includes a discussion of work accomplishments in 2014, as wells as priorities for 2015.
The council will vote on several items, including letters of recommendations supporting Intergovernmental Policy Council’s Habitat Framework efforts, identifying potential locations of a sanctuary education kiosk and how to proceed with youth involvement at council meetings.
The council also will receive briefings on the sanctuary’s 2014 season, the state’s Marine Spatial Planning Process and an update on Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team activities.
The meeting is open to the public, with a comment period at 2:50 p.m.
For more information, email George Galasso at george.galasso@noaa.gov or visit the council website www.tinyurl.com/PDN-OCNMScouncil.
Friday Sing-a-Lings
PORT TOWNSEND — Kids and their parents and guardians can enjoy a morning of movement and music at the Fourth Friday Sing-a-Ling at the end of each month at the Jefferson County YMCA.
The monthly event meets at 10:30 a.m. in the Mountain View child care space below the gym, located at 1925 Blaine St.
The 2015 dates for the Sing-a-Lings include this Friday, Feb. 27, March 27, April 24 and May 22.
The cost is $6 per family. Financial assistance is available.
The Sing-a-Ling is led by Keeth Apgar, member of local band The Harmonica Pocket.
Apgar leads participants through an exploration in music and movement, singing old and new songs and making up new tunes on the spot through engaging audience participation.
Children and guardians are encouraged to clap, dance, wiggle, whisper and shout, all in the name of creativity and expression.
For more information, phone 360-385-5811.
Grant aids center
PORT ANGELES — First Step Family Support Center recently received help through a local grant from the Clallam County First Books Advisory Council to support parents reading to their kids often
and early.
This $1,250 gift will allow First Step to purchase more than 500 new books.
These new books will be chosen to work with the Mind in the Making Project, which identifies certain children’s books as ones that help children learn the seven “essential life skills,” including self-control, perspective-taking, communicating, making connections, critical thinking, taking on challenges and self-directed, engaged learning, according to a news release.
Each book that First Step will give out to a child will have an instruction slip that will tell the parents how to use the book to bolster a certain skill set.
Each of the books given out by First Step through this gift becomes the property of the child.
For more information on how to receive these books for children ages 0-6, phone 360-457-8355.
‘Return of River’ film screens today
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema film series will open its fall quarter programming today with a screening of “Return of the River,” a story about the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River and the largest dam removal in history.
The 7 p.m. screening in Maier Performance Hall on campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the film’s co-directors, John Gussman and Jessica Plumb.
General admission is a suggested $5 donation; students with a Peninsula College ID card are free.
Completed in February 2014, “Return of the River” was filmed over the course of four years and features people and perspectives on all sides of the Elwha debate, reflecting the many voices of the Elwha Valley.
For more information, email Sean Gomez at sgomez@pencol.edu or phone 360-417-6464.
EWU Dean’s List
CHENEY — The following students were named to Eastern Washington University’s fall quarter 2014 Dean’s List.
An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and receives a grand-point average of 3.5 or better is recognized.
■ Lauren Henry of Forks.
■ Dennis Moore of Neah Bay.
■ Jamie Gladfelter, Daniel Pitz, Chantell Schultz and Kailee Wise of Port Angeles.
■ Kelsie Habner, Mitchell Koonz and Mitch McHugh of Sequim.
■ Matthew Cain, Chace Larsen and Grayson Pennell of Port Townsend.
■ Lili Story and Morgan Music of Chimacum.
Tutors sought
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College officials are seeking volunteer tutors to work in Sequim and Port Angeles.
Tutors will help students with high school-level math, reading and writing.
The only requirement for tutors is that they be willing to devote a minimum of one hour at least once a week. No prior training in education is necessary.
Volunteers are needed in Sequim from 8:30 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday and in Port Angeles from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
For more information, contact Hayley Taga at htaga@pencol.edu or 360-417-6512.
