Port Angeles veterinarian is certified
PORT ANGELES — Dr. Nicole Wagnon of Blue Mountain Animal Clinic has recently completed the process to become a certified canine rehabilitation therapist.
She completed over a year of training and hands-on experience with experts in the field.
With this new certification, Wagnon will be able to more comprehensively treat pain, abnormal gaits and neurologic issues, according to a news release.
For more information, visit www.bluemountainvet.com.
Banbury purchase
PORT ANGELES — Angeline Parrish is the new owner of licensed child development center Banbury Corner Daycare & Preschool.
Parrish purchased the business Dec. 1 from founders Jane and Gary Childers.
It has been renamed Banbury Corner Children’s Center.
Banbury Corner, 305 N. Eunice St., is licensed for 58 children ages 1 month through 7 years of age to attend and has been in operation since 1998.
The center accepts NACCRRA, Peninsula College, Department of Social and Health Services, Lutheran Community Services and Jamestown tribe child care subsidies for families attending in addition to self-pay.
For more information, phone 360-912-3363 or email Banburycorner@gmail.com.
Basement sale slated
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market is seeking donation for its upcoming basement sale.
Farmers market volunteers are available to accept donations at Country Aire, 200 W. First St., on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. through Tuesday, March 22.
On Saturday, March 26, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., people can stop by and browse donated items the day of the basement sale in Country Aire.
For more information, contact the manager at 360-460-0361.
Boating safety
PORT ANGELES — The Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 42 Sequim-Port Angeles, will sponsor a boating safety class at 9 a.m. Saturday.
“About Boating Safely” takes place at the Port Angeles Fire Department, 102 E. Fifth St.
The class qualifies attendees for their Washington State Boater Education Card. This card is required for all boaters who are 60 and younger.
The cost for the class is $15 per person or $20 per couple.
To register, phone 360-452-1135.
Lawn aeration
The Boy Scouts will offer lawn aeration service to Port Angeles, Sequim and Diamond Point areas this Saturday and Sunday, plus Saturday, March 26.
BSA Troop 1498 offers lawn aeration services for $59 for up to a quarter of an acre.
Owners need not be home for the service but need to have lawns mowed, underground sprinkler heads marked and dog waste picked up.
Make checks payable to Boy Scout Troop 1498.
To sign up for the service, phone 360-775-8074 or email requests to sueanelson@msn.com.
PT climate change talk
PORT TOWNSEND — Liz Nesbitt will give a lecture on the end of the Cretaceous time period, when dinosaurs became extinct but mammals started to flourish, at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave.
The hourlong lecture will start at 4 p.m. Saturday.
After late-Cretaceous extinctions 66 million years ago, global climates remained warm, and Earth was free of ice sheets.
Hothouse climates generally persisted until about 35 million years ago, when the world was plunged into icehouse conditions.
Ice sheets spread across the high latitudes for the first time in 200 million years. With the extinction of all large dinosaurs and marine reptiles at the end of the Cretaceous, mammals rapidly evolved to fill many vacated ecological niches.
Nesbitt is the curator of paleontology at the Burke Museum and an earth sciences professor at the University of Washington.
She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Much of Nesbitt’s research involves the effects of changing climate on marine faunas, from large vertebrates to invertebrates and microscopic forms.
She is working with Burke colleagues on measuring the health of Puget Sound through examination of foraminifera in bottom sediments. The talk is free and open to the public, though a donation of $5 is appreciated to defray expenses. For more information, visit www.quimpergeology.org.
Ocean Commotion
PORT TOWNSEND — Ocean Commotion Family Day will be held in the Natural History Exhibit classroom at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 532 Battery Way, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Ocean Commotion Family Day is a free interactive, service-learning Community Read event for all ages.
This year’s Community Read book and inspiration for this event is Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. Participants will have the opportunity to clean up the beaches of Fort Worden and create toxic-free cleaning products.
Activities include:
■ Short introduction of This Changes Everything and how it relates to the science center and collective action.
■ Reading corner for young readers.
■ DIY toxic-free cleaning products workshop, which includes all-purpose cleaner, tub/tile cleaner and toothpaste.
Materials for creating the products will be provided, but bring empty spray bottles and storage containers.
■ Beach cleanup of Fort Worden beaches.
For protection, bring gardening gloves for collecting trash. For more information, email zknorek@ptmsc.org or phone 360-385-5582.
