PORT ANGELES — A Welcome Pole will be raised in a ceremony and reception at the Peninsula College Longhouse House of Learning on Tuesday, Oct. 26.
Local tribal representatives will perform a traditional blessing and pole-raising ceremony, along with drumming and dancing, beginning at 1 p.m.
Light food and refreshments will be served in the Pirate Union Building immediately following the ceremony.
The 20-foot Welcome Pole was designed and carved by Jamestown S’Klallam master carver Jeff Monson from a red cedar log donated by the Lower Elwha S’Klallam tribe.
Monson and his apprentices carved the pole in a carving tent on the Peninsula College campus, beginning in the spring.
The ceremony will be funded via a grant from the federal Department of Education Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
For more information, contact Deirdre Frank in the Longhouse by e-mail at dfrank@pencol.edu or by phone at 360-417-7992.
