PORT ANGELES — Local cancer survivors will have access to a free YMCA strength and wellness program beginning Tuesday, April 3.
The 12-week program, “Exercise and Thrive,” is available to cancer survivors 18 and older who are 90 days out after the conclusion of cancer treatments and have medical clearance from Olympic Medical Center physical therapist Karen Rushby.
For a consultation and to receive a medical screening permission form, call Rushby at 360-417-7116.
Sessions will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Y, 302 S. Francis St.
During the program, participants will strengthen muscles, increase flexibility and improve endurance while receiving coaching from Y personal trainers and wellness coaches.
The ultimate goal of the program is to help survivors develop their own physical fitness regimen and become lifelong exercisers after the program ends, according to a news release.
The curriculum was developed by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
For more information, contact Mikki Hughes at 360-452-9244 or mikki@olympicpeninsulaymca.org, or visit www.olympicpeninsulaymca.org.
Chain gang busy
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang chipped debris on Deer Park Road and Tonda Vista Drive during the week of Feb. 12-16.
Notable items found along roadways were three needles, a plastic pickup liner and interior refrigerator doors.
Crew members found an illegal dump site at Fish Hatchery Road totaling 190 pounds of garbage from the dump site.
Crew members cleaned one-quarter mile of Old Olympic Highway and 30 pounds of litter, and 5 miles of Bogachiel Way and 180 pounds of litter.
Crew members also pulled approximately 1,200 Scotch broom plants at the Place Road pit.
From Feb. 19 to 23, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang cut and removed two fallen trees from Dempsey Road and cleared storm debris.
Crew members pulled approximately 3,600 Scotch broom plants from the Place Road pit.
Crew members also checked and cleared storm debris on Lower Elwaha, Dan Kelly, Eden Valley, Freshwater Bay, Graulo Paulo, Crescent Beach, Spruce Railroad Trail, South Shore, Herrick, Hot Springs, Little River, Black Diamond, Golf Course, Monroe, Old Mill, Mt. Pleasant, South Bagely Creek, O’Brien and Deer Park roads.
From Feb. 26 to March 2, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang landscaped the property around the county shop and placed wood chips around the outside trees.
Crew members searched for illegal dumpsites on Elwha River and Reynolds roads.
Crew members pulled approximately 150 Scotch broom plants from the Place Road pit, and approximately 540 plants from Herrick Road pit.
From March 5 to 9, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang brushed and chipped county right of way on Deer Park and Tonda Vista roads; and West Bluff Drive.
Crew members also cleaned the county wash rack and washed County Roads dump trucks.
The chain gang has so far this year cleaned 32.25 miles of roadway, picked up 20,860 pounds of dump site litter, picked up 2,120 pounds of roadside litter, removed or sprayed 10,560 Scotch broom plants and brushed three-quarters of a mile of county rights of way.
UW honor roll
SEATTLE — Several former Olympic Peninsula students have been named to the University of Washington’s winter 2017 dean’s list.
To qualify for the dean’s list, a student must have completed a minimum of 12 graded credits and have a grade-point average of at least 3.5.
The students are:
• Forks: Sehar Bokhari, Alan Oswaldo Ensastegui Salazar and Brooke Ellen Peterson
• Port Angeles: Anna-Elisabeth Baumann, Lily Nicole Brown, Kennedy Cameron, Anders Cade Chapman, Olivia J. Due, Leah L. Gomez, Leah F. Haworth, Kristin B. Kirkman, Kyla Elizabeth Maupin-Carver, Phillip McDonough, Karina Mary Paup Byrnes, Luciano Joseph Toscano, Samson Moss Waddell and Cameron James Wood.
• Port Hadlock: Quinn Mathew L’Heureux and Jonathan David Rogers.
• Port Townsend: Amelia G. Breithaupt, Daria-Rosemary Bugel-Shunra, Eliza Joy Dawson, Clarice E. Forbes, Luca Nicolas Freier, Rio Gabriela Golden, Ian Mckenzie Hadden, Liam Cato McLane, Sophia Anise Nelson, An H. Nguyen, Gannon P. Short, Robert Zachary Smolinsky and Natalie Jean Toews.
• Quilcene: Zachary Carmel Smith-Mifsud.
• Sekiu: Marissa Grace Wonderly.
• Sequim: Jerry Chen Bryan, Cassandra Calderon-Castro, Karen Chan, Leslie Cisneros, Jessica Lynn Craig, Victoria Ashton Cummins, Andrew Michael Finman, Wesley James Gilchrist, Shannon Ashley Gordon, Timothy Justin Guan, Logan Rex Habner, Maeve Winter Harris, Shaun William Jones, Andrew Juntilla, Allison Caitlin Masangkay, Dylan Lee Miller, David A. Olson, Travis Steven Priest, Anna Elizabeth Prorok, Audrey Maureen Shingleton, Grant Edward Shogren, Alexandra Mclellan Stuart-Lovell, Riesa Ann Sumida, Jared Thomas and Sheena White.
Coupeville operations
COUPEVILLE — Field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft will commence at Ault Field Mondayevening until night. Operations will continue Tuesday through Thursday evenings.
Practice is slated for late morning to midafternoon Friday. Aircraft carrier-based flight training also willoccur at the Outlying Field evening until night Tuesday through Thursday. Comments, including noisecomplaints, can be directed to the station’s comment line at 360-257-6665 or via email atcomments.NASWI@navy.mil.
All other questions can be directed to the public affairs office at 360-257-2286.
