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Wed, Apr 15, 2009

The newly renovated Sequim branch library will reopen Saturday with more comfortable seating, a teen area, fun and colorful children's area and new express checkout stations plus fresh paint and carpeting.

Olympic Cellars' past and present converge

Olympic Cellars serves up a slice of its historical past alongside locally made wines and cheeses and a spring winemaker dinner.

Youth jobs sought for fed bucks

Clallam County Workforce Development Council wants proposals for youth employment and training as it seeks to spend $285,066 in federal economic stimulus money.

Training fire set for Saturday

Clallam County Fire District 3 will conduct a live fire training exercise from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, on South Third Avenue in Sequim.

Tourism may slow, not grind to halt

With fewer than three weeks until the six-week closure of the Hood Canal bridge, North Olympic Peninsula residents, business owners and community activists are busily preparing for the shutdown.

Three performers produce excellence in 'Reader'

Sofa Cinema

Students will meet Peter and the Wolf

Adventures in Music is bringing "Peter and the Wolf" to Sequim next month.

Student film fest, spaghetti dinner set

The Sequim Education Foundation Film Festival and spaghetti dinner is slated for Friday, April 24.

Sequim man crashes plane in Port Townsend

John M. Cook, 78, of Sequim, remains in Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after crashing his airplane April 9 at the Jefferson County International Airport.

Sequim bed and breakfast gets another caboose

It's a heck of a way to run a railroad, not to mention a hostelry - eight cabooses and a dining car without a locomotive in sight.

Send in the CLOWN

Sometimes, it's all about the smiles.

Schools may trim $1.8M

The chasm between what Sequim schools are and what they may look like for the next two years is more than a million dollars wide.

School Briefs

Salads make meals for leaner, greener times

Kitchen Korner

Peninsula College lists winter-quarter honor roll

Peninsula College released the names of students who made the president's list and the honor roll for the 2009 winter quarter.

P.A. to freshen downtown during closure

Port Angeles' Our Community at Work partnership plans a face-lift of the downtown buildings to prepare for the summer tourist season.

Olympic Theatre Arts heads 'True West'

Olympic Theatre Arts' next production, Sam Shepard's "True West," is a play for mature audiences about two brothers, Austin, an aspiring screenwriter, played by Patrick Irwin, and Lee, a thief and alcoholic, played by Loren Johnson.

Men's chorus goes to Hollywood

Members of the Olympic Peninsula Men's Chorus invite the public to their upcoming show "Broadway Goes A Cappela" at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 2, at the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.

Meetings Calendar

Mania's madcap madness

If you like to laugh, mark April 17 on your calendar as a "don't miss" opportunity.

Journey in Jewish music on Saturday

Mark Levy, a Santa Cruz, Calif., singer-songwriter and humorist, returns for a Jewish journey through a music concert at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 73 Howe Road, off North Barr Road.

Hatler could keep Conservation post

Clallam Conservation District's board of supervisors will hold a public hearing from 7-9 p.m. April 29 in Port Angeles City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St.

Gardeners share green-thumb legacy

For 13 years, Clallam County Master Gardeners has taken its Youth Enrichment Program to teach second-graders about plants and their importance to humans and the world.

Faith-based symposium begins with rain forest

A new symposium, "Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream," is coming to Sequim.

Discount Tire open for business

Discount Tire, the world's largest independent tire and wheel retailer, opened its doors in Sequim on April 10.

Celebrate community!

With the Hood Canal bridge closing the day before the Sequim Irrigation Festival begins, organizers have adopted the "No Bridge, No Problem" slogan and have gone one better.

Business Briefs

Border Patrol pledges better communication

The Border Patrol could have communicated its role and objective to the public better when its North Olympic Peninsula personnel increased more than fourfold in 2007, and the agency will keep trying.

Beach cleanup volunteers: Beware of unmarked canisters

As coastal communities gear up for beach cleanups on April 18, the Washington Department of Ecology is reminding volunteers to keep an eye out for silver 1-liter canisters that could have potentially harmful contents inside.

Add bird listening to your looking

Our birds

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