PORT ANGELES — A ferret spotted running around downtown stores last week seems to have gone into hiding.
The live trap that Christine Stockman, a Port Angeles ferret rescuer who keeps 10 of her own, set for the ferret outside Olympic Stationers on Thursday remained empty Saturday.
“I’m suspecting it probably is out in the streets or alleys somewhere,” she said.
“It didn’t go for the live trap yet. I had it set up overnight hoping that if it was in the store, it would have come out.”
No one working at Olympic Stationers at 122 E. Front St., where it was last seen, had spotted it by Saturday.
“So far as I know, nobody’s seen it yet,” said Stockman, who believes the ferret either is a pet that escaped from its owner or that it was dropped off on purpose.
She plans to leave the trap outside the store in place for a few more days.
“It’s not that it poses a danger to anybody. The danger is to itself,” she said, adding it could be hit by a car or attacked by predators.
“Wherever it decides to hang out, they won’t have any mice or rats.”
PA street work
PORT ANGELES — Traffic will be moved around work on the crosswalk on the east side of the Lauridson Boulevard and Race Street intersection on Monday and Tuesday.
The Port Angeles Street Division will repair the asphalt in the crosswalk, preparing it for future replacement of the white crosswalk markers, said Teresa Pierce, city spokeswoman.
The south sidewalk on Lauridsen Boulevard just east of Race Street will be closed Tuesday, with pedestrians diverted to the north sidewalk. The traffic light signal will continue to control traffic through the area.
Tuesday deadline
SEQUIM — Artists are invited to enter the first Sequim Fine & Ornamental Art Show, a Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance event, by Tuesday.
The juried exhibit, a new showcase of local creativity, is set for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
Applications are available on the alliance’s Web site, www.SequimArts Alliance.org, and at the Museum & Arts Center, 175 W. Cedar St., Sequim.
The fee for an 8-foot by 6-foot display space at the show is $50, with proceeds benefiting the museum and the arts alliance.
The show will be presented free to the public by the alliance.
Send applications by Tuesday to Jean Wyatt, c/o Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, P.O. Box 1546, Sequim, WA 98382 or to wyattj@nikola.com.
Selected artists will be notified by Aug. 31; entry fees to those who aren’t selected will be refunded.
