PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board will consider hiring Sodexo, which prepares meals during school hours, to also provide after-school meals.
The board will consider the proposal during its 7 p.m. meeting today at the Central Services Building, 216 E. Fourth St. The regular meeting may be preceded by an executive session at 6 p.m.
The meals would supplement tutoring done by AmeriCorps volunteers and similar programs.
Funding for the supplemental food services contract is expected to come from the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program through the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Sodexo would obtain the food, prepare the meals and deliver the meals to each site for $3.07 each, an amount that OSPI would reimburse.
Meals would begin Feb. 23 and end June 30.
The board also will consider a second grade para-educator at Jefferson School because of high enrollment.
Helping to fill jobs is topic at meeting today
PORT ANGELES — A meeting at Common Grounds, 525 E. Eighth St., will be held at 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. today for those interested in volunteering in developing a systematic way to help fill existing “family wage” jobs with people who might need some assistance to qualify.
Open to any adults, the group is part of the Port Angeles Citizen Action Network objective of finding ways for everyone to succeed.
For more information, phone Doc Robinson at 360-207-9241 or email docrobinson2015@gmail.com.
‘Buried Child’
PORT TOWNSEND — “Buried Child,” Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opens tonight for a three-week run at the Chameleon Theater, 800 W. Park Ave., courtesy of the One-Time Players.
Veteran thespians Lawrason Driscoll, Michelle Hensel and Peter Wiant star in this darkly comic story about an American farm family, with curtain times at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 31.
Reservations are $15 via www.brownpapertickets.com. Low-income discounts are available by phoning director David Hillman at 360-385-6207. If still available, tickets will be sold at the door.
For more about the production, see Friday’s Peninsula Spotlight, the arts and entertainment magazine in the Peninsula Daily News.
School march
SEQUIM — On Friday, Sequim Middle School plans a March on Washington Street to symbolize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, D.C., in August 1963.
An assembly in the school’s gym will begin at 8:20 a.m. The group will depart the gym at 8:30 a.m. to walk to downtown Sequim and back to school.
The idea was broached by Richard Miko, faculty adviser in charge of student activities and a math teacher, according to school officials.
“Anytime you can actively engage kids in the learning process, it has a better chance of creating a lasting impact on them,” said Principal Vince Riccobene.
The group will walk on sidewalks on Hendrickson Road, Sequim Avenue, Washington Street and Third Avenue, where they will turn right again and head north back to the middle school through the Helen Haller Elementary campus.
Teachers and administrators will walk with the group and assist with street crossings.
Peace Walk
PORT TOWNSEND — A Peace Walk in honor of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is planned from Indian Island to Port Townsend on Friday.
Walkers will gather at 8:30 a.m. across from the entrance to Naval Magazine Indian Island and begin the 13.5-mile walk to Port Townsend at 9 a.m.
A short rally is planned at 3:30 p.m. at Pope Marine Park in Port Townsend.
A potluck dinner is planned at 6 p.m. at the Port Townsend Friends’ meeting house at 1841 Sheridan St.
The walk is part of a longer walk that began at the Nipponzan Myohoji Dojo (Buddhist Temple) on Bainbridge Island on Wednesday.
After the Port Townsend walk, participants will travel via Edmonds to Seattle to join the MLK Day march Monday.
The walk will be led by Senji Kanaeda and Brother Gilberto Perez of the Nipponzan Myohoji Dojo.
Local support is from the Port Townsend Friends Meeting and the Social Justice Council of Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
For more information about the local walk, contact Clint Weimeister at 360-379-5376, 360-643-0340 or clintw327@gmail.com.
Marine trades
PORT TOWNSEND — Women in the marine trades will be the focus of a panel discussion from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
The discussion will be at the Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St.
The program, hosted by the Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women and its affiliate, the University Women’s Foundation of Jefferson County, is free and open to the public.
Four panelists — Sandy Bendixen, Betsy Davis, Carol Hasse and Christine Jacobson — will share their experiences and perspectives.
For more information, visit www.pt-wa.aauw.net or contact Anne Englander at 360-390-5896.
