Public meeting on whaling set today
PORT ANGELES — A public meeting in Port Angeles is set today on a draft environmental impact statement evaluating the Makah tribe’s request to resume treaty-based hunting of gray whales.
Public comment will be taken at today’s meeting from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries also hosted a public meeting in Seattle on Monday.
Comment will be accepted until June 11 on the draft environmental impact statement on the tribe’s request to resume hunting up to five whales annually off the North Olympic Peninsula.
Written comments can be submitted to makah2015deis.wcr@noaa.gov.
A legal team from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be among the activists at today’s meeting, according to anti-whaling activists Chuck and Margaret Owen of Joyce,
The Makah’s last legal whale hunt was in 1999. The tribe has sought a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act since 2004.
The 1,229-page draft study, which was released in March, evaluates several alternatives, including one that would continue to prohibit hunting.
For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/PDN-drafteiswhaling.
The draft also is available at public libraries in Clallam Bay, Forks, Port Angeles and Sequim.
Tickets for parade seats available
SEQUIM — The Irrigation Festival Parade will go down Washington Street starting at noon Saturday, May 9, as a busy ending to the festival week, which begins Friday.
Sequim Noon Rotary is selling front-row seating adjacent to the reviewing stand on Washington Street near Thomas Builders for $3.
Tickets can be purchased before parade day at Beal Carpet and Drapery, 213 E. Washington St., Suite 4, or Jim Carl Insurance, 369 W. Washington St.
Tickets also will be sold the day of the parade if there are still seats available.
For more information about the parade and other Irrigation Festival activities, visit www.irrigation
festival.com.
Club grants
CHIMACUM — The Tri-Area Garden Club is accepting applications for 2015 grants from now until June 1.
The club’s mission is to promote interest and education in gardening, conservation of natural resources, civic beautification and horticultural projects with a priority to projects in the Tri-Area community of Chimacum, Port Hadlock and Irondale; however, projects within the Port Townsend area also will be considered.
To support this mission, the club will provide grants to other nonprofit organizations, community gardens and schools for horticultural projects related to its mission.
Awards may range from $50 to $500. Completed applications are due no later than
June 1.
To obtain an application or for more information, phone Kathleen Taylor at 360-301-6431 or email kmmetaylor@gmail.com.
EWU winter quarter
CHENEY — The following Peninsula students were named to the 2015 winter quarter dean’s list at Eastern Washington University in Cheney:
■ Graham Baiz, Jamie Gladfelter and Kailee Wise, all of Port Angeles.
■ Alexander Krauch, P. Rory McDonald and Grayson Pennell, all of Port Townsend.
■ Lily Story of Chimacum and Siobhan Ebel of Port Ludlow.
‘Fiddler on Roof’
SEQUIM — “Fiddler on the Roof,” with a cast of nearly 50 and a live orchestra playing songs such as “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” opens Thursday.
The Sequim Irrigation Festival operetta will be at the Sequim High School auditorium, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
Performances are set at 6 p.m. Thursdays and 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 16. One matinee is slated for 2 p.m. this Sunday.
Premium seats are $15, while general seating is $12 for adults or $10 for children, seniors age 65 and older and students with an ASB card. All balcony seats are $10.
For more information about tickets, see www.SHSoperetta.org or phone 360-460-1432.
Sequim clinic offers free talk May 6
SEQUIM — Via Vita Chiropractic & Wellness,128 W. Bell St., is offering Wellness Wednesdays: You Are What You Eat at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 6.
Chiropractic applied kinesiologist Dr. Ryan Iskenderian will speak about focusing on ways to optimize health through nutrition, according to a news release.
The lecture is open to the public and free.
For more information, phone 360-683-4989, email info@viavitawellness.com or visit www.ViaVitaWellness.com.
PEO to host fundraiser of bunco, auction
PORT ANGELES — Chapter IV Philanthropic Education Organization will host a bunco and silent auction fundraiser at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 510 E. Park Ave., at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
Desserts and beverages will be served and prizes awarded.
The cost is $10.
All proceeds will benefit women’s scholarships.
PEO is an international philanthropic education organization for women.
For more information, phone 360-452-7955 or email schlaff@wavecable.com.
Spaghetti dinner
PORT TOWNSEND — Lanza’s Ristorante, 1020 Lawrence St., will host a spaghetti benefit dinner for Center Valley Animal Rescue from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday.
All proceeds will go to help the rescued animals at Center Valley.
Phone the restaurant for reservations at 360-379-1900.
The dinner is $25 per person.
Great discussions
SEQUIM — The Sequim Great Decisions Discussion group will meet at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from
10 a.m. to noon Friday.
The topic of the meeting is “ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group: Why Counterterrorism Won’t Stop the Latest Jihadist Threat.”
The suggested background reading for the discussion is the article “ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group” from the March/April 1915 edition of Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
New members are welcome to this free event.
For more information and a schedule of future meetings, visit www.tinyurl.com/pdn-greatdecisions.
