Community News Briefs — July 23, 2025
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Pet adoption event
The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society will host an adoption event from noon to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26 at The Bark House, 1743 Old Olympic Highway.
For more information, visit op-hs.org or call 360-457-8206.
Water and shade will be available for pups and people, so families are invited to spend time finding their perfect pet match.
Adoptable cats and kittens won’t be onsite, but information and photos will be available.
Get approved in advance by filling out an online application at op-hs.org.
Veterans assistance
The Disabled American Veterans Chapter 5 office located at the Sequim Museum administration building, 544 N. Sequim Ave., is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday to serve all veterans with claims and information.
Veterans do not have to be a member of the DAV to receive assistance.
For more information, call 360-775-6482.
Faith news
Rev. Barry Andrews will speak on the topic “Sauntering towards the Holy Land” at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road, at 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 27.
We walk for many reasons — for shopping, for exercise, for companionship. Henry Thoreau did too. But he reserved the word “sauntering” for walking as a form of contemplation. What did he mean by this?
Andrews is minister emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist congregation at Shelter Rock on Long Island and author of several books about Transcendentalism and Transcendentalist authors, most recently “The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau,” published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Andrews will bring copies of the book for purchase.
One can attend the service either in-person or via Zoom. For more information, visit olympicuuf.com.
