PORT TOWNSEND — The advance registration deadline is Monday for a one-day conference in Port Townsend for female veterans living in Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties.
The conference will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, at Fort Worden Commons, 200 Battery Way.
Admission is free. Walk-ins the day of the event will be accepted.
The North Olympic Peninsula Veteran Community Partnership is hosting the inaugural Olympic Peninsula event to provide a forum for female veterans and give them information about resources. Lunch and on-site child care will be included.
Keynote speakers will be Alda Siebrands — who served in the Army, Coast Guard and Peace Corps — and Colleen McAleer, an Army veteran who served in Desert Storm, later flying helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft and serving in military intelligence. McAleer also is president of the Port of Port Angeles commission.
For more information, see Vet Connect Olympic Peninsula’s Facebook page.
To register, contact Rita Frangione at VetConnect at 360-344-4940 or Barb Reuter at 206-277-4459 or Barbara.Reuter@va.gov.
Port of PA official grad of program
PASCO — Christopher Hartman, director of engineering at the Port of Port Angeles, recently completed the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation Leadership Program and was honored at a graduation ceremony in Pasco on May 6.
Over an 18-month period, Hartman attended 12 in-state seminars, a one-week seminar in Washington, D.C., and a 14-day international seminar in Thailand and Laos.
Unity in the Olympics
PORT ANGELES — Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle St., will host guest speaker Catherine VanWetter on “Awakening Your Sensitivity through the Twelve Powers” at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday.
VanWetter is a spiritual practitioner focusing in the area of highly sensitive people, according to a news release.
A time for silent meditation will be held from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Child care is available during the service.
