NEWS BRIEFS: Tickets on sale for Port Angeles Symphony picnic benefit . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — The music-and-wine Summer Picnic benefit for the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra will take place at Camaraderie Cellars, 330 Benson Road, at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5.

There will be a variety of music including jazz, classical and international.

Vicki Corson will provide the dinner and the new wine Rhapsody in Red II, blended especially for the symphony, will be served.

Tickets are $75 per person which includes the picnic, wine and music.

To make reservations, phone the Port Angeles Symphony office at 360-457-5579.

For more information, email PASymphony@olypen.com or visit www.PortAngelesSymphony.org.

Crews clear 500 pounds trash near PA

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Chain Gang removed a tire and painted cautionary yellow reflective striping around both stage sites and the utility room at the county fairground.

A total of 500 pounds of trash was removed from nine miles of roadway on Old Olympic Highway, the Tumwater Truck Route and 18th Street to the city transfer station.

The crew weedeated guardrails on Whiskey Creek, Joyce-Piedmont, Miller, Nordstrom, Camp Hayden, Freshwater Bay, Oxenford, Peters, Eden Valley, Dan Kelly, Place, Laird, Granite and Kaycee Way roads and Edgewood Drive which totaled 10,373 feet.

They picked up wood debris between Slate Road, U.S. Highway 101 and Mount Pleasant Road, and cleaned wash racks at the county shop.

The crew also cut down seven hazard trees throughout Klahanie Campground, split one alder snag that fell across a roadway into fire wood, cleaned and hauled off debris from big spruce that fell across campsite number eight, and cut the end off a spruce from a campsite into rounds for future splitting.

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