PORT ANGELES — The inaugural season of the Winter Ice Village will open Friday and remain open though Jan. 6.
Hours will be from
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, with approximately 30-minute closures about every 90 minutes to resurface the ice.
Tickets for the 3,200-square-foot seasonal ice skating rink project at 121 W. Front St., in downtown Port Angeles, will be $15 for adults.
A $10 daylong ice skating pass will be available to veterans, skaters 4 to 12 years old and seniors 62 and older.
Some 33,000 holiday icicle-lights have been hung on the 3,200-square-foot seasonal ice skating rink.
A grand opening for the Ice Village, a chamber project expected to cost $150,000, is set for Nov. 30.
The Ice Village will include a Santa Claus cabin and a warming cabin for skaters.
Police apologize
KIRKLAND — The police department in Kirkland has apologized for an incident in which officers helped the owner of a frozen-yogurt shop expel an African-American man from the business because employees said they felt uncomfortable.
The Seattle Times reported that the owner of a Menchie’s frozen yogurt shop in Kirkland called police Nov. 7 about Byron Ragland, a 31-year-old black man who was in the shop supervising a court-sanctioned outing between a mother and her son. Ragland works as a court-appointed special advocate.
Officers responded and told him that the owner wanted him to leave. Ragland left without incident.
Outrage over the incident prompted the Kirkland police to announce an internal investigation and Monday the city apologized.
The owner of the Kirkland yogurt shop, Ramon Cruz, also apologized.
Library offers fish stories for children
PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Library System will present a fish storytime at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30.
The special presentation will be held at the Feiro Marine Center, 315 N. Lincoln St.
Participants will hear fish stories, sing sea life songs and move like jellyfish. This program is designed for children
5 years and younger with a parent or caregiver.
For more information, call 360-417-8500, email youth@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
Chain gang busy
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) Chain Gang cleaned along 11.5 miles of Blue Mountain Road, picking up 240 pounds of garbage during the week of Nov. 12-16.
Crew members found five illegal dumpsites: one on Eden Valley Road with 640 pounds of garbage, one on Gilbert Road with 100 pounds of garbage, one on Spring Road with 1,300 pounds of garbage, one on Elwha River Road with 2,380 pounds of garbage and one on Monroe Road with 440 pounds of garbage for a total 4,860 pounds.
Crew members brushed and chipped the county right-of-way along Camp Hayden Road.
Crew members planted the roadside along Lower Elwha Road with Jennifer Chenoweth.
Crew members also pulled approximately 2,400 Scotch broom plants from the Forks Pit.
Notable items found along roadways include a camping trailer, a cooler, a valance from a car, an exhaust pipe, a microwave oven and a vacuum cleaner.
The chain gang has so far this year cleaned 129.25 miles of roadway; picked up 7,080 pounds of roadside litter; picked up 96,450 pounds of dumpsite litter; recycled 743 pounds of aluminum, trimmed 19,104 feet of guardrail, removed or sprayed 41,460 Scotch broom plants and brushed 11.6 miles of county rights-of-way.
For the forest service, the chain gang has so far this year cleaned 4.5 miles of forest roads or trails; removed 12,610 pounds of dumpsite litter; and removed 23 hazard trees.
Relief drive
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Naval Elks is conducting a drive for relief supplies for residents of Paradise, Calif., who have been displaced by wildfires.
Donations of clothes, hygiene items, baby clothes, diapers, wipes, pet food, cat litter and animal crates of all sizes are sought.
Donations can be dropped off at the Naval Elks Lodge, 131 E. First St., or at Town and Country Real Estate, 1205 E. Front St.
Items will be shipped by Friday, Nov. 30.
For more information, call Victorya Rivera at 360-460-3184.
KSQM grand re-opening
SEQUIM — KSQM radio will hold a grand reopening and 10th anniversary celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 7.
The celebration will take place at the station’s new studio in the Sequim Village Shopping Center, 609 W. Washington St.
The American Legion Riders of Clallam County will hold a flag line during the ribbon-cutting.
