JOYCE — During a ceremony attended by friends and family, three local young men were awarded the rank of Eagle Scout, the Boy Scouts’ highest rank.
Michael Helwick, Martin Waldrip and Marc Henry completed the extensive requirements for the rank of Eagle before their 18th birthdays.
The ceremony was held at the Crescent Grange Hall.
All three were members of Troop 1460 in Port Angeles, chartered to the Port Angeles Rotary.
Under scoutmasters Pete Waldrip, Greg Helwick and Rory McDonald, the three teens completed at least 21 required merit badges, community service, troop leadership and their Eagle projects.
Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. John Hollis presented the new Eagle Scouts with a Citizen’s Commendation Award from Sheriff Bill Benedict.
Martin Waldrip is the son of Sue and Pete Waldrip.
He is the third son in his family to earn the rank of Eagle, and his project involved refurbishing and repairing memorial benches at the City Pier in Port Angeles.
He is now a student at Eastern Washington University.
Michael Helwick is the son of Vicki and Greg Helwick.
For his Eagle project, he planned, designed, constructed and installed mileage signs on the Striped Peak Trail.
He is now a student at the University of North Texas.
Marc Henry is the son of Sharon Rapach and John Henry.
He renovated the Lincoln Memorial at Ocean View Cemetery.
He is now a student at the Digipen Institute in Redmond.
Honor roll student
WACO, Texas — Wilson Brannon Eiland of Port Angeles was one of 3,500 Baylor University students who were named to the dean’s academic honor roll for the 2015 fall semester.
Eiland is studying in the School of Engineering and Computer Sciences.
To be named to the dean’s list, a student must be an undergraduate with a minimum grade-point average of 3.7 while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester hours.
Hearing health
SEQUIM — Curt Miller, audiologist at Olympic Hearing Center, will hold a free seminar about hearing health and the impact diabetes can have on hearing at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Time will be allowed for questions and answers.
Refreshments will be offered.
For more information, phone the center at 360-681-7500.
Backyard Scientist
PORT ANGELES — The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture will visit the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday to offer a free, interactive science program for kids ages 3 to 5.
Parents and caregivers will learn simple ways to practice science, technology, engineering and math-related skills with the early learners in their lives.
Launched in 2014 with a grant from Thrive Washington, Burke Education developed and implemented early childhood science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programming in two Washington communities: Royal City and Port Angeles.
Backyard Scientists is the first in a series of programs designed to encourage children and their families to connect STEM content with experiences in their daily lives while practicing critical thinking skills through observation, according to a news release.
For more information about this and other programs for youths, contact the Port Angeles Library at 360-417-8500, ext. 7733; visit www.nols.org; or email youth@nols.org.
Teen videography
SEQUIM — The Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., will offer a free three-part videography series for young adults between the ages of 12 and 18.
Workshops take place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 2, 9 and 16.
The workshops will be led by professional photographer and videographer C. Woodrow French and be held in the library’s meeting room. Participants are encouraged to bring their personal cameras to each session; however, the library also will provide a limited number of devices for use during the workshops.
On Feb. 2, participants will focus on pre-visualization, Creative Commons music and green-screen operation.
The second session Feb. 9 will explore various filming techniques, and the final session Feb. 16 will be devoted to post-production editing and uploading projects to YouTube.
Space is limited, so preregistration is required.
Participants can sign up for one, two or all three workshops in the series.
To register, visit the Sequim Library events calendar at www.nols.org, phone 360-683-1161 or email youth@nols.org.
Port officials set to meet today in PA
PORT ANGELES — Port of Port Angeles commissioners will discuss today the recent decision by SeaPort Airlines to postpone its plans to restore commercial air service from Port Angeles to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. at port headquarters, 338 W. First St.
The Portland, Ore.-based airline notified the Port last Tuesday it is postponing the start of scheduled air service from William R. Fairchild International Airport to Sea-Tac indefinitely, citing a pilot shortage.
Regularly scheduled air service from Fairchild to Sea-Tac had been set to begin March 1.
Support group
PORT ANGELES — A new support group for Clallam County foster parents plans to meet today.
The first meeting of Fostering Together Clallam will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Raymond Carver Room-South at the Port Angeles Library at 2210 S. Peabody St., said Ann Marie Henninger in an email.
“Our aim is to offer support, mentoring, networking, advice, advocacy and training opportunities to all licensed foster parents in our county,” she said.
For more information, phone 360-461-5531.
Olympic Arts meet
SEQUIM — The first official general meeting of Olympic Peninsula Arts Association (formerly Sequim Arts) will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave., on Thursday.
Social time starts at 9:30 a.m., and the business meeting is at 10 a.m.
The public is welcome.
Linda Stadtmiller, past president of Sequim Arts, is the special presenter for January, kicking off the new year with a presentation on to how to make the best use of color by staying within a warm or cool color palette.
The title of her presentation is “The Reality of Color Mixing, or My Red and Blue Just Made Mud.”
For more information, visit www.sequimarts.org.
