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    Articles by Joan Worley
    Professional musicians Steven and Kyra Humphrey give an impromptu performance in their  Sequim home. The two met when Steven accompanied Kyra’s voice lessons at the University of Washington.
    Making sweet, sweet music at home, in their...
    By Joan Worley • August 25, 2014 6:04 pm

    Sequim couple has a knack for the arts in variety of settings

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    Kassandra Kersting waters a raised garden plot at June Robinson Park while Michael Kaakso wheels in some topsoil. The park offers garden plots through Community Organic Gardens of Sequim
    Park Perspectives: June Robinson Park
    By Joan Worley • April 23, 2014 3:51 pm

    June Robinson Park is one full of organic gardens, and a fitting tribute to June Robinson (1925-2009), who spent her life showing students and city residents that history is a living thing.

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    Members of the Yamasaki (now Shiso) Sister City Committee created and maintain the Japanese garden in Carrie Blake Park.
    Parks Perspective: Reflection meets recreation at Carrie Blake
    By Joan Worley • April 23, 2014 3:47 pm

    Sequim’s parks reflect what the city has to offer but even more what citizens have given to their community. This series examines the parks, large and small, and the people who made them.

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    Patti McManus Huber.
    Verbatim: Patti McManus Huber
    By Joan Worley • April 23, 2014 1:11 pm

    Patti McManus Huber taught desktop publishing at Peninsula College for about 20 years before taking up her full-time duties at Nash’s Farm Store. She recalls her first backpacking trip with her husband.

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    Jo and Steve Chinn.
    Verbatim: Jo Chinn
    By Joan Worley • April 16, 2014 12:09 pm

    Jo and Steve Chinn were setting up some field exercises for their three flat-coated retrievers — Hissy, Dinah and Flo — as Jo explained that the training couldn’t happen without two frozen birds named Mr. Waddle and Ichabod.

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    Jerry and Caecilia Fryrear
    Verbatim: Jerry Fryrear
    By Joan Worley • April 8, 2014 7:50 pm

    Jerry and Caecilia Fryrear have been the park hosts at Carrie Blake Park since October. Jerry says by now he knows “at least a hundred dogs, on a first-name basis.”

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    This year’s Juan de Fuca Festival poster comes from the colorful mind of Sequim artist Anna Yates.
    JFFA selects Sequim artist for poster
    By Joan Worley • April 2, 2014 3:38 pm

    Sequim artist Anna Yates created the poster for the 21st annual Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, which runs Thursday-Monday, May 22-26, in Port Angeles.

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    Frank Wajda tries out the cockpit of his bush plane-in-process. He has been steam-bending Sitka spruce for years to create the framework. The plane’s wingspan is 36 feet.
    Boatbuilder eyes the skies: Frank Wajda makes a...
    By Joan Worley • April 2, 2014 3:06 pm

    The wood frame is Sitka spruce, shipped from Alaska then steam-bent by hand using a home-built steam box. Half-inch aluminum, bent with the aid of only a vice, makes up the engine mounts and the stays for landing gear.

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    Lauren Holloway
    Verbatim: Lauren Holloway
    By Joan Worley • April 2, 2014 1:44 pm

    Lauren Holloway, produce manager at Nash’s Farm Store, stopped to tell her story as she shopped the store for healthy snacks to take on her next adventure: a walkabout.

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    Dancer and choreographer Marianne Trowbridge leads a Wednesday tap class at the Elks Lodge. Behind her
    Dancer offers tap classes for adults
    By Joan Worley • March 27, 2014 4:59 pm

    Tap dance is instant celebration, one that happens every week among Marianne Trowbridge and her adult tap students, who meet Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m. in the Elks Lodge, 143 Port William Road in Sequim.

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    WOTFA member Ralph Byers
    Music springs eternal at fiddlers concert
    By Joan Worley • March 27, 2014 4:49 pm

    The performers range in age from 7 to 87, but they all have one love: traditional music making.

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    Sequim City Band extends open invitation
    Sequim City Band extends open invitation
    By Joan Worley • March 27, 2014 4:17 pm

    Kicking off its 24th season, the Sequim City Band invites concertgoers to march right up and take a hand in its future. “Marches and More — in March” opens the 2014 season at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 23, at the Sequim High School Auditorium, 601 N. Sequim Ave.

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    Coordinator Karen Williamson and a team of volunteers make the meditative Taizé  service simple for newcomers.
    Taizé services: Peace in prayer
    By Joan Worley • March 26, 2014 2:32 pm

    The words are simple, the songs short, but repetition builds to beauty in local observances of a service that has become increasingly popular worldwide.

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