PORT TOWNSEND — The public is invited to “Marijuana: Then and Now” from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday.
The presentation will be in the Chimacum High School library, 91 West Valley Road.
Scott McCarty will offer information on the neurological impact of marijuana on the developing teenage brain, the difference between marijuana today and in the past, and explain some of the new delivery systems — such as vaping and edibles — and their impact.
McCarty is the prevention systems project manager in the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery at the state Department of Social and Health Services.
He is the division lead on the subject of marijuana and the implementation of Initiative 502, which state voters approved in 2012.
The landmark initiative legalized the possession of up to 1 ounce of recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older.
McCarty has a degree in biochemistry and a doctorate in pharmacy from Washington State University.
The presentation was arranged by the Chimacum Prevention Coalition.
Work on East Bell
SEQUIM — East Bell Street will be closed between South Sunnyside and South Sequim avenues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.
The section will be closed for paving.
Alternate routes are East Maple Street and East Etta Street between South Sequim and South Sunnyside avenues.
The job has been contracted to Interwest of Burlington. Lakeside Industries of Port Angeles is the subcontractor.
Clocks, batteries
PORT TOWNSEND— “Change your clocks, change your batteries,” says East Jefferson Fire-Rescue as clocks are moved forward one hour for daylight saving time.
Today is the time to “spring forward by moving your clocks forward one hour,” said Bill Beezley, department spokesman.
“This is a great time to take care of a couple other important tasks, too,” he said.
Smoke alarm batteries should be changed at least once a year, unless they’re 10-year lithium batteries, he said.
If they have been changed recently, then it’s important to test them monthly, he added.
“Even if your smoke alarms are hard-wired, replace the batteries in case of a chirping sound or a power outage,” Beezley said.
Beezley also urged residents to check supplies in their emergency kits.
“The Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management recommends that your go-kit have food and supplies to last at least seven to 10 days in the event of a region-wide emergency,” he said.
Free concert
PORT TOWNSEND — A free afternoon concert by the Nostalgia band, a five-piece outfit specializing in standards from the 1940s and ’50s, is set Tuesday at the Seaport Landing retirement community, 1201 Hancock St.
All are welcome to the concert from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Nostalgia features pianist Al Harris, saxophone-clarinet-flute player Mark Holman, guitarist and percussionist Owen Mulkey, bass-flute-guitar man Chuck Easton and singer-saxophone player Mary Lou Montgomery.
Port Townsend’s Arts to Elders program, Northwind Arts Center and the city Arts Commission are presenting this event.
For information, phone Arts to Elders director Harvey Putterman at 360-379-2620.
E-reader assistance offered
SEQUIM — The Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., is offering hands-on, one-on-one e-reader help during 20-minute appointments with library staff.
These free spring Gadget Lab sessions will take place by appointment only on the following dates:
■ Monday: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
■ Tuesday, March 24: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
■ Thursday, April 9: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
■ Tuesday, April 28: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Bring a device and personally get guided through the process of downloading e-books or e-audiobooks from subscription download services.
Library staff can help with Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Android tablet, smartphone, Apple devices and MP3 players.
For more information or to book a Gadget Lab appointment, contact Ambur Taft at ATaft@nols.org, phone 360-683-1161 or visit www.nols.org.
Flight operations
COUPEVILLE — Field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at the outlying field in Coupeville are scheduled for Monday afternoon and from late morning to early afternoon Friday.
Comments, including noise complaints, can be directed to station’s comment line at 360-257-6665 or via email at comments.NASWI@navy.mil.
All other questions can be directed to the public affairs office at 360-257-2286.
Tuesday book talk
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., will hold its 2nd Tuesday Book Discussion Group at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
All are welcome.
This month’s selection is The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester.
This free book discussion group meets the second Tuesday of every month.
For more information, contact Cheryl Martin at CMartin@nols.org or 360-417-8500.
Luncheon Tuesday
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Christian Women’s Connection will host a “Th’ Wearin’ o’ the Green!” buffet luncheon on the second floor of the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St.
The event is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Admission is $16.
Ellen Dearinger will bring a program of songs — with some Irish tunes — to the group.
Niki Davis of Clatskanie, Ore., will tell her story, “Purpose and Reason for the Broken Fragments of One’s Past,” in songs and words.
Child care is available.
For reservations or more information, phone 360-452-4343 or 360-457-8261.
Retirees meeting in PA this Tuesday
PORT ANGELES — This month’s meeting of the Clallam County School Retirees’ Association will take place at the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center, 905 W. Ninth St., at noon Tuesday.
Lunch will be served at 1 p.m.
The guest speaker this month is Kurt Grinnell from the Jamestown Tribal Center.
Phone 360-670-5183 to reserve the $11 lunch.
This meeting is open to the public.
Sea star talk set Tuesday at visitor site
PORT ANGELES — The next free Perspectives Winter Speakers Series will focus on sea star wasting syndrome at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
“Sea Star Wasting Syndrome: Losing a Keystone Predator” will be presented by Melissa Miner, University of California-Santa Cruz.
She describes the impacts of sea star wasting syndrome as documented by long-term surveys and citizen science monitoring.
For more information, phone Dean Butterworth at 360-565-3146 or visit www.nps.gov/olym.
Ethnobotany talk
PORT TOWNSEND — “Ethnobotany and Indigenous Cultures,” a lecture presented by T. Abe Lloyd, will take place at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center in Fort Worden at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The event is free and open to the public.
Lloyd is an ethnobotanist and director of Salal, The Cascadian Food Institute.
His presentation will begin with a short film on the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s use of native plants.
He will then discuss his ethnobotanical work with indigenous cultures.
Lloyd said he has a passion for plants and indigenous foods that traces back deep into his childhood. His early aspirations as a botanist led him to Northland College on the south shore of Lake Superior, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in natural resource management.
He is the author of Wild Berries of Washington and Oregon.
‘Know Your Rights’
PORT TOWNSEND — The Boiler Room, 711 Water St., will host “Know Your Rights: Can the Police Do That?” at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Local attorney Sam Feinson will lead an interactive discussion to help people understand the best courses of action when stopped by police officers and how to protect an individual’s rights when he or she is threatened.
Admission is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Amy Smith at boilerroomed@gmail.com or 360-379-8247.
Anglers meeting
PORT TOWNSEND — The East Jefferson chapter of Puget Sound Anglers will hold its next meeting at 333 Benedict St. at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The speaker is Michael Schmidt, program director for the nonprofit organization Long Live the Kings, whose mission is “to restore wild salmon and steelhead and support sustainable fishing in the Pacific Northwest.”
Refreshments will be served, and the public is invited.
Book discussions
PORT ANGELES — “We Are the 88%” is a new book discussion opportunity at the North Olympic Library System (NOLS) and is designed for younger adults (millennials) who want to explore edgy themes in works by contemporary authors.
We Are the 88% is free and open to the public.
The group will meet the second Thursday of every other month at 7 p.m. at various locations around Port Angeles.
The first meeting is Thursday at Gordy’s Pizza, 1123 E. First St., and The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie will be discussed.
The complete title list and discussion locations for the rest of 2015 are:
■ May 14: The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan at Smuggler’s Landing, 115 E. Railroad Ave.
■ July 9: The Martian by Andy Weir at Bar N9NE, 229 W. First St.
■ Sept. 10: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde at Wine on the Waterfront, 115 E. Railroad Ave.
A limited number of books are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Port Angeles Library customer service desk, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Alternative formats such as large print, book on CD or downloadable e-book or audiobook are also available. Ask library staff for assistance.
For more information about the We Are the 88% book discussion group, including the monthly book selections, visit www.nols.org and select “Book Groups” from the “Events” tab, or contact librarian Sarah Morrison at 360-417-8500.
This program is supported by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.
Photos of Cuba topic of presentation
SEQUIM — Port Townsend-based photographer Stephen Cunliffe will give a presentation of his images from Cuba this Friday at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.
Admission is $7 to the 7 p.m. program, and reservations are recommended. To reserve a seat, phone the River Center at 360-681-4076.
“Just 90 miles off our coast but closed to Americans for nearly a lifetime, Cuba has in many ways traveled a path of its own. Experience this mysterious island through [Cunliffe’s] eyes,” a news release reads.
Senior nutrition
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Senior Nutrition Site dinners will be served at 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St.
A suggested donation is $5 for those who are 60 or older.
People younger than 60 can attend for $8.
Reservations should be made 24 hours in advance to 360-457-8921.
Menus are subject to change.
■ Tuesday: Fruit cup, cheeseburger with fixings, French fries and root beer float.
■ Wednesday: Spring greens, cranberry salad, turkey pot pie, corn cobbette and cake.
■ Thursday: Green salad, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, veggie and dessert.
■ Friday: Antipasto salad, baked fish, rice barley, Harvard beets and apricots.
Whale tales event
PORT TOWNSEND — A night of “whale tales” will be held at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., at 7 p.m. Friday.
Admission is free, though donations are accepted.
Whether they are personal experiences, other’s events, poetry or questions about the reality of whales, all stories are welcome.
David Rugh, a wildlife biologist who has studied whales for more than a third of a century, is the main speaker.
To register for the event, visit www.tinyurl.com/ALPs2015Winter.
For more information, contact Rugh at dave.rugh48@gmail.com or 360-765-3807.
Writing workshop
PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s 2015 Writers-in-Residence are John and Jan Straley, and John will lead a writing workshop on campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 30.
The workshop is open to anyone in the community, but priority will be given to Peninsula College students.
It is limited to 12 participants.
Participants do not have to be experienced, published writers, but they do need a work-in-progress to submit.
Anyone interested should contact Matt Teorey at mteorey@pencol.edu and submit a manuscript (or piece of a manuscript) by Friday.
Submit prose (a limit of 1,500 words) or poetry (a limit of 50 lines) by emailing it as an attachment to Teorey.
John Straley is an award-winning Alaskan author of several books, including The Big Both Ways and Cold Storage, Alaska.
Jan Straley is an associate professor of marine biology at the University of Alaska, Southeast. She has published a number of scholarly articles on her study of whales.
Other writer-in-residence events will include an evening reading of prose and poetry by John Straley in the Maier Performance Hall at 7 p.m. April 28 and a lecture at Studium Generale in the Little Theater at 12:35 p.m. April 30.
For more information about the program, phone Teorey at 360-417-6269.
Book discussion
SEQUIM — The Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis will be discussed at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.
An Amazon.com review describes the book as “an intriguing and suspenseful love story set during ancient Rome’s most turbulent period. Those who aspired to political power in ancient Rome had to follow what was known as The Course of Honor, forbidding a senator to marry a slave, even a freed slave.
“As Vespasian the soldier slowly rises from near-obscurity, no one could believe that a country-born army man might win the throne — no one, that is, except a slave girl who, with the future Emperor, begins a daring course of honor of her own.”
Print copies of The Course of Honor are available at the Sequim Library. They also can be requested online by visiting the library catalog at www.nols.org.
Pre-registration for this program is not required; drop-ins are welcome.
