NEWS BRIEFS: Bring Your Own Art show this weekend … and other items

PORT ANGELES — Art for the 20th annual Bring Your Own Art Show can be delivered Thursday and Friday for the exhibit that will open Saturday.

The show will be at Studio Bob, upstairs at 118½ E. Front St., in Port Angeles, with a reception from

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, with a no-host bar and refreshments in The Loom, next to the studio. The show will continue Sunday from noon to 3 p.m.

Art can be brought to the studio for the show between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Thursday and between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday.

The show is open to all artists: professional, student, first-timers and nervous-never shown befores.

The cost is $5 per piece — three is the maximum — with no commission if you choose to sell your art.

Art should have tags that have the name of the artist, title, contact information and price (optional), and a bit about the art and artist.

For more information, call 415-990-0457.

New ringers sought

CARLSBORG — The RainShadow Ringers announced they are seeking new ringers to fill some vacancies in its line up.

Event organizers request that those interested have musical knowledge, as well as a willingness to attend weekly practices and all performances. Ringing experience is preferred.

To inquire about membership, call director Cheryl Winney at 360-457-6993.

Rehearsals are scheduled to begin Jan. 23 at 10:30 a.m.

The ringers are an independent, secular handbell group that rings four octaves of bells and three octaves of handchimes.

The ringers have performed at benefit events, senior centers, local service organizations, and retirement and assisted living homes.

Organizers claim that Christmas season is the ringers’ busiest season.

For more information, call Winney.

Native plant sale

PORT ANGELES — Three weeks remain to order native plants through the Clallam Conservation District’s annual native plant sale.

Orders must be postmarked by Jan. 25 and plants will be available for pick up March 3 at Lazy J Tree Farm, 225 Gehrke Road.

Order forms are available online at www.clallamcd.org; 228 W. First St., Suite H; or by phone at 360-775-3747, ext. 5.

The bare-root tree and shrub seedlings are sold in bundles of 10 and 25 and range in price from $15 to $25 per bundle.

Conifer trees remaining include Douglas fir, grand fir, shore pine, Sitka spruce, western hemlock and western red cedar.

Deciduous trees include big leaf maple, Pacific crabapple, red alder, Rocky Mountain maple and vine maple.

Deciduous shrubs include baldhip rose, blue elderberry, Indian plum, mock orange, Nootka rose, oceanspray, Oregon grape low, Pacific ninebark, red elderberry, red flowering currant, red osier dogwood, serviceberry, snowberry, thimbleberry and twinberry.

The conservation district conducts the annual plant sale to provide affordable native plants for wildlife habitat enhancement and environmentally-friendly landscaping.

Hesston dean’s list

HESSTON, Kan. – Former Port Angeles student, Taylar Clark, was named to Hesston College’s dean’s list for its 2017 fall quarter.

To qualify for the list, a student must achieve a grade-point average of 3.9 to 4.0.

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