Wed, Aug 5, 2009
StreamFest ticket sale starts today
Tickets for North Olympic Land Trust's StreamFest smorgasbord are available.
Sofa Cinema
She thirsts to supply safe water
The United States has some of the safest drinking water in the world.
Sequim Open Aire Market
Chef Mike Shethar, culinary intern at Nash's Organic Produce, hosts a live cooking demonstration throughout the day Saturday, Aug. 8.
Sequim buses gets perfect score
With Sequim's school classrooms empty for the summer, it was the buses' turn for exams.
Rotary Club forum shows differences
The choices in this fall's city council campaign came into stark focus Friday morning when all five candidates for the three councilor seats appeared before the Sequim Sunrise Rotary Club's weekly meeting.
Police blotter
Old Costco becoming new PUD
A Poulsbo company won the bid Monday to convert the old Costco Wholesale building in Carlsborg for Clallam County Public Utility District's warehouse operations.
Observations
Jim Follis
No act: OTA tops $100K in 100 days
Members of the Olympic Theatre Arts are bringing their show home.
New Spruce Street Park greeted warmly
To a jubilant round of applause, completion of Spruce Street Park was approved unanimously by the city council at its July 27 meeting.
New Neighborhood Watch Web site
The Clallam County Sheriff's Office has an online Neighborhood Watch Web site with information on public safety issues.
Nash's Organic Produce seeks farm chef intern
Nash's Organic Produce is accepting applications until Aug. 15 for a farm chef internship. The six-month to one-year full-time position provides an opportunity for a chef from the food and restaurant industry to learn and teach within the sustainable farm environment.
Mikael the Mime to perform in Sequim and P.A.
Children of all ages are invited to join the North Olympic Library System's Summer Reading Program with free performances by mime Mikael Rudolph on Friday, Aug. 7.
Meetings calendar
Jamestown S'Klallams welcome canoes
The Jamestown S'Klallam tribe's canoes, including the newly blessed Little Sister, joined about 20 other tribal canoes on Saturday on their way to the Suquamish reservation west of Poulsbo.
Irrigation Festival seeking logo with railroading theme
Submissions are being accepted for the 2010 Sequim Irrigation Festival logo design. The theme for the 2010 festival is "115 Years of Pioneers."
Humane Society seeks canine foster homes during kennel upgrade
The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society received a grant for $5,000 from the Mary P. Dociani Halloran Foundation in New York to refinish the dog kennel floors.
Health care bill will alter Medicare
I would like to start this month's column with an update to my May column. In that column, I explained that I had written to 20+ government officials, both elected and appointed, regarding my observations and opinions of the Medicare system.
Goodwill opens learn/earn program for seniors
You thought you'd be happily grazing in high grass, having been put out to pasture, but now you must get back into harness.
Father Victor Olvida comes to St. Joseph's
Starting over is a constant theme throughout the Bible.
Elbow bending page turning
Despite writing "Bar Exam: Tavern Tales and Reflections," about a tavern and its patrons, Bill Lamperes doesn't consider himself a lush.
David Brewer remembered for singing and teaching
Sequim resident O. David Brewer was remembered by people who worked with him as a kind man with an amazing voice that a reviewer once compared to an entire Greek chorus.
Community news briefs
Collectors explore world in a 1-inch square
Hans Kask escaped from Estonia with his family in the 1940s when he was a child and his older brother managed to bring out a small stamp collection.
Church news
Cedar, salmon: Northwest icons combine for feast
Kitchen Korner
Business briefs
Bill's Plumbing marks 50 years in business
Sometimes men send their wives into Bill's Plumbing to buy a part or ask a question. What could the woman behind the counter know about plumbing?
Annual festival offers art, pet psychic
Paws In The Garden, the sixth-annual artists for animals benefit, is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 8-9, at Vision Landscape Nursery, 131 Kitchen-Dick Road, between Sequim and Port Angeles. The fundraising event includes education, entertainment, art and music.
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