FORKS — The city has imposed a citywide burn ban until further notice, it announced in a news release Monday.
Included in the burn ban are open-flame recreational fires such as open fire pits, fire rings, chimney-style fire pits and fire torches for treatment of driveways and yards, according to the release.
Open flame fires for cooking food also are grouped into the ban.
Gas and briquette barbecues and smokers and other contained means of cooking food outdoors are permitted during the ban.
According to the release, the city is experiencing and is forecasted to have exceptionally high temperatures coupled with occasional winds and wind gusts, which could allow open flames to unexpectedly spread out of control.
Garden tips
PORT ANGELES — Green Thumb Gardening Tips’ upcoming installment will feature a presentation by Barbara Scott on Thursday.
Scott will explain how to reproduce plants by air layering at noon in the Clallam County Courthouse, Commissioners meeting room (160), 223 E Fourth St.
Members of the public are invited to bring a lunch to the free presentation.
Scott’s presentation will focus on her experience air layering a Japanese maple and the details of how to successfully complete the process.
Air layering is a method of propagating new trees and shrubs from stems that are still attached to the parent plant, according to a news release.
The process requires wrapping sphagnum moss around a wounded branch to produce roots for a new plant.
This method produces a reasonably sized tree within four to five months instead of waiting years for a seedling to develop into a small tree.
Scott is a past master gardener and editor of the Clallam County Master Gardener newsletter.
She is also a member of the Dungeness Bonsai Society and the Bogachiel Garden Club in Forks.
The tips education series is sponsored by the WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners on the second and fourth Thursday of every month.
For more information, call 360-565-2679.
NWMC awarded
PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Community Foundation (JCF) awarded $11,000 to Northwest Maritime Center (NWMC) in support of a program through NWMC’s partnership with Jefferson County Juvenile Services.
The funds enable NWMC to launch a fall school-year program comprised of 10 weeks of on-the-water and land-based education.
Eight enrollees for the program will be selected by juvenile services from a pool of young people identified as vulnerable to dropping out of school or society, according to a news release.
Once enrolled in the program, students will be provided a stipend with the goal to demonstrate workforce participation benefits, according to the release.
Overall, the goal of the partnership and program is to promote character development and job readiness to area youth at risk of entering the juvenile justice system, according to the release.
“[The NWMC] was built to serve the broadest spectrum of our community, and we are thrilled to serve in this role as part of the communitywide efforts to provide empowerment and opportunity to all our young people,” NWMC Executive Director Jake Beattie said in the release.
Funds were made available through Better Living Through Giving Circle (BLTGC).
JCF houses BLTGC and other area giving circles as vehicles to help people learn about philanthropy, the needs of their local community and local nonprofits, according to the release.
