NEWS BRIEFS: Port Angeles’ Concerts on the Pier set to start Wednesday . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — Navy Band Northwest’s pop music and rock band, Passage, will perform Wednesday in the first of the Concerts on the Pier series of free summer outdoor concerts.

The Concerts on the Pier series, organized by the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, will be at 6 p.m. on City Pier every Wednesday through Sept. 7.

Parking is available at Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue.

Vendors will sell food. Audience members are encouraged to bring blankets or chairs to the informal, family-friendly performances.

No smoking is allowed on City Pier during the concerts.

Heavy wind or bad weather could prompt a move to The Gateway pavilion at the corner of Lincoln and Front streets.

Sequim’s Music in the Park series will start Tuesday, June 28, and Main Street’s Concerts on the Dock series in Port Townsend will begin Thursday, July 14.

For more information, see www.portangeles.org in Port Angeles, www.sequimwa.gov in Sequim and www.ptmainstreet.org in Port Townsend.

Health care job fair

PORT ANGELES — WorkSource Clallam County will host a health care job fair at the WorkSource Clallam County site, 228 W. First St., Suite A, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

The event is free and open to the public.

Jobs detailed will include home care aide, nurse assistant registered, certified caregiver, maintenance and housekeeping, medical technician, certified nursing assistant and cook.

Attendees are asked to be prepared to complete an application, bring photo ID and their Social Security card, and be able to pass a background check. They need to be at least 18 years old.

PA School Board

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board will hear enrollment projections for 2016-17 when it meets Thursday.

The board will meet in regular session at 7 p.m. in Room 208 at the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center, 905 W. Ninth St.

The meeting will be preceded by a 6 p.m. executive session to consider personnel, consult with legal counsel or discuss collective bargaining or real estate.

The enrollment forecast is for a slight increase from 3,577 to 3,672 full-time equivalents.

The board also will consider raising the superintendent’s annual salary from $158,000 to $161,160 beginning July 1.

Poetry for Pulse

PORT ANGELES — A poetry night dedicated to the LGBTQ community will be hosted at The Blackbird Coffeehouse, 336 E. Eighth St., at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Admission is by donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Money raised will go to support victims and families affected by the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12 that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others.

Donations will be sent to The Center Orlando, an organization raising funds for victim relief.

Text book public review in Chimacum

CHIMACUM — The Chimacum School District is asking the public to review the proposed ninth- through 12th-grade health textbook adoption, now through Thursday, June 30.

The text is by Allegrante Pruitt and Prothrow-Smith and published by Pearson, copyright 2014.

District policy 2020 directs the review of materials prior to adoption by the Chimacum School Board.

Public comment can be sent by mail to the Chimacum School District Board of Directors c/o Superintendent Rick Thompson, 91 West Valley Road, P.O. Box 278, Chimacum, WA 98325 or emailed to rick_thompson@csd49.org.

Annual crab feed

SEQUIM — The Sequim Valley Lions Club will host its sixth annual crab feed at Pioneer Park, 387 E. Washington St., from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

There will be dinner, drinks, live music and a silent auction.

Dinner includes a cooked crab, kernel corn, coleslaw, a roll and soda or water.

Pizza from Westside Pizza, beer and wine also will be available to purchase.

Whole crab dinners are $25, half are $18, pizza is $2 a slice and beer and wine are $5 each.

Cash, checks and major credit cards will be accepted.

Proceeds will go to the Lions Club to fund local Sequim charities for the sight- and hearing-impaired.

For more information, visit www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/sequim_valley.

Photo workshop

The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and Olympic National Park will hold a nature photography workshop at Ruby Beach from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

The educational beach walk will include nature photography tips using the tidepools and scenic beaches as inspiration.

Participants should meet at top of the Ruby Beach trailhead at 9:30 a.m. and are asked to wear appropriate shoes and clothing.

The workshop is free.

For more information, visit www.olympiccoast.noaa.gov.

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