Paige Krzyworz makes face masks with her mom Heidi as a new project they started together. Heidi said she was going to donate fabric late last year but Paige said they might need it for something important. “She was right,” Heidi said. Photo courtesy of Heidi Sellers-Krzyworz

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Collaborative continues through Facebook group

Helping hand out meals to Sequim youths on March 26 are, from left, bus driver Vienna Barron, teacher Gwen Rudzinski and Shirley Sheppard of Sodexo. The Sequim School District is distributing breakfast and lunch meals throughout the area each weekday. With parents Tony and Leslie Endicott (not pictured) looking on, Hadley, 4, Gracie, 3, and Logan, 14, receive their meals. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

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Lakeside Industries and Interwest Construction plan to start and finish paving West Fir Street this week. They started March 31 at the intersection of West Fir Street and North Sequim Avenue. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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Work crews sanitize city public areas

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Above, due to Stay at Home mandates, trapping for the invasive European green crab is on hold across the state including the Dungeness Spit and in Neah Bay. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Left, last year, the Makah Tribe captured its highest total of European green crab but Adrianne Akmajian, a marine ecologist for the Makah Fisheries Management, said they might not begin trapping until May due to concerns for the spread of the coronavirus. Photo courtesy of Adrianne Akmajian

Green crab trapping on hold across Western Washington

Resource Managers concerned prime trapping time could pass

Ryan Quiroz and Alicia Taylor help prepare food at Nourish Sequim on March 26. Nourish’s “Meals for Medics” GoFundMe drive, a program to provide meals for Olympic Medical Center workers, topped its initial goal of $10,000. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Nourish’s meals program helps feed OMC staff, positivity

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Some of the hundreds of volunteers and staff for OlyCAP’s RSVP program stand together during a special luncheon on March 12 recognizing their efforts last year of volunteering more than 56,000 hours. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Seniors help serve community as RSVPs

OlyCAP efforts provided more than 56,000 hours of volunteer support

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Nitasha Lewis, a manager with the Upward Bound program at Peninsula College, uses a paper valise to keep her head dry as she walks across the college’s Port Angeles campus on Feb. 6. The college is going to online classes for the entirety of the 2020 spring quarter. File photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Peninsula College goes online for 2020 spring quarter

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