NEWS BRIEFS: Senior driving resources info offered; Olympic National Park hosting program this Saturday

The Sequim Home Instead Senior Care office, part of the Home Instead Senior Care network, is offering the free educational resource program called “Let’s Talk about Driving.”

The program is meant to help families start a conversation with older family members about driving and to help keep them safe on the road.

This includes a “Safe Driving Planner” to help seniors assess their driving habits, along with free resources and tips to help families create a plan to reduce or stop driving before an accident occurs.

The resources can be found at www.LetsTalkAboutDriving.com.

For more information, phone the local office at 360-406-5320.

ONP program set

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic National Park will host the “Wish You Were Here: Mail and the National Parks” program at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The program is free and part of Olympic National Park’s celebration of this year’s National Park Services’ centennial.

Curators from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., Daniel A. Piazza and Calvin Mitchell will present and showcase the ways mail flows to, through and from the national parks.

“This promises to be a fun and interesting evening, with stories of a Grand Canyon village that eats most of its mail, a national park site that was once so secret that it sent and received mail at an undercover address,” said Lee Taylor, Acting Superintendent of Olympic National Park.

Attendees can create a collection of 10 vintage National Park Service-themed U.S. postage stamps in a commemorative folder and receive a free exhibition poster.

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