NEWS BRIEFS: Coat drive successful; food needed … and other items

Windermere Real Estate offices collected 331 coats during the month of October.

The coats, along with a number of hats, gloves, scarves and sweaters were donated to the Boys and Girls Club in Sequim, Sequim Community Warming Center, Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church’s free clothing closet and The Answer For Youth in Port Angeles.

Windermere will continue this month with a food drive. The most important food items for donation throughout the year are proteins such as canned tuna and chicken, peanut butter, canned beans and dry beans, and low-sodium canned soup or chili. Non-perishable food donations can be brought to local Windermere Real Estate offices at 842 E. Washington St. and 137 Fairway Drive in Sequim or 711 E. Front St., Port Angeles.

RC modelers

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Radio Control Modelers will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The meeting will be held in the Vern Burton meeting room, 308 E. Fourth St.

The Olympic RC modelers is sanctioned by the Academy of Model Aeronautics.

Members fly electric- and gas-powered planes, helicopters and first-person view quad-copters. The public is welcome to this free meeting.

Call Bonnie Williams at 360-460-0555 for more information.

Winner of quilt raffle announced in Chimacum

CHIMACUM — Harmony Pinette, a Port Townsend licensed massage therapist, was the winner of the Cabin Fever Quilters quilt raffle.

The drawing took place at Cabin Fever’s biennial quilt show Sept. 15.

Proceeds from the annual raffle enable Cabin Fever Quilters to make more than 200 comfort quilts per year.

The quilts are distributed to Home Health and Hospice of East Jefferson County, Child Protective Services and to chemotherapy patients at Jefferson Healthcare.

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