NEWS BRIEFS — Congressman Kilmer to hold forum in Port Angeles today . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, will lead a forum at the Port Angeles Senior Center prior to a resource fair today.

The forum at the center at 328 E. Seventh St. will be at 1 p.m. A senior resource information fair will follow from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Both are open to the public.

Joining Kilmer — who represents the 6th Congressional District, which includes the North Olympic Peninsula — will be a state Attorney General’s Office representative talking about scams, a member of the Olympic Area Agency on Aging discussing agency services and a Social Security Administration representative answering questions.

‘Calling all bands’

SEQUIM — The city is accepting applications for bands to perform at the 2014 season of Music and Movies in the Park, held Tuesday evenings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. from June 24 through Aug. 26 at the James Center for the Performing Arts, located in Sequim’s Water Reuse Demonstration Park.

Submit a press kit that includes a written request to participate, information about the band and a CD of the band’s music.

Deadline to apply is Friday, May 9.

Send to the city clerk, 152 W. Cedar St., Sequim, WA 98382.

For more information, phone 360-681-3428.

Seeking applicants

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Physicians Community Benefit Fund is accepting applications for both medically related academic scholarships and community grants, to be awarded in 2015.

To be eligible, a student must be a graduate of a Clallam County high school or have been accepted into or be an enrolled student in a fully accredited professional school in a medically related program and making satisfactory progress.

Applications may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Clallam County Physicians Community Benefit Fund, P.O. Box 3005, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

Applications must be submitted by June 2.

Open studio on Uli artist slated in PT

PORT TOWNSEND — Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi, an artist from the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, will open his studio at Fort Worden State Park today and Saturday.

Admission is free to the public as Ikwuemesi, a Centrum artist in residence, presents his paintings and drawings created during the month of April.

Visitors will find his studio at the top of the outside staircase on the south side of Building 205 at Fort Worden, 200 Battery Way.

Ikwuemesi’s studio doors will be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.

A painter, art critic, cultural entrepreneur and associate professor in the university’s Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Ikwuemesi is working to revive the art of Uli design.

The form was once practiced throughout most of Igboland — southeastern Nigeria — but since Western influences began to affect traditional village life, it started to fade away.

Today, Uli is alive in the hands of a few contemporary artists such as Ikwuemesi.

OMC retreat

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center commissioners will discuss patient safety, their affiliation with Swedish Health Services and their financial and strategic plans today.

The quarterly retreat will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Wendel Room at the hospital at 939 Caroline St.

No action will be taken.

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