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New employee at Hair Loft; Wind Rose takes top honors; Nash's screens 'Bag It'; dahlia grower recognized; market vendors to meet; Skunk Works relocates, more

New employee at Hair Loft

Hairstylist Gina Nachlinger, who has 22 years in the business, has joined The Hair Loft, 660 Evergreen Way, Sequim. She has had advanced training in and specializes in hair cuts. To make an appointment, call 683-3302.


Wind Rose takes top honors

Wind Rose Cellars earned five awards from SavorNW in Canon Beach, Ore.

Its 2013 Dolcetto, 2012 Bravo Rosso and 2012 Barbera all came home with silver medals. Its 2013 Malbec and 2013 Hunters red (Tempranillo and Cabernet blend) came home with bronze medals. From around from around the U.S., 430 wines were entered.


Skunk Works relocates

Skunk Works Auto Detailing has a new home in a 5,000-square-foot building across from Applebee’s at 111 River Road, Sequim. Come by or call 457-9597.


Market vendors meeting set

A Sequim Farmers Market vendors meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the Sequim High School cafeteria. All new and regular vendors are invited and packets for the new season will be available.

Learn more and meet the vendors on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SequimOpenAireMarket.


‘Bag It’ to be screened at Nash’s

The last film in Nash’s winter film series is “Bag It,” a touching and sometimes flat-out funny documentary about how plastic has infiltrated everyone’s lives.

It will be shown at Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way, in Dungeness, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 13. The screening is free and open to the public.


Dealer hosts fundraiser

Price Ford Lincoln of Port Angeles will be hosting a fundraiser in conjunction with the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb. The event will be held at Price Ford Lincoln from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Every person to test drive a vehicle will raise $20 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society up to $10,000.


All about bees talk set

Sarah Red-Laird, founder and director of The Bee Girl Organization, will discuss aspects of the lives of honeybees at Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in her talk entitled “Our Honey Bees: Sentinels of Impending Disaster or Conduits of Change?” The talk is free and open to the public.

Red-Laird, founder and director of the Bee Girl organization, will discuss the “Four Horsemen of the Bee-pocalypse”— climate change, the Varroa destructor, monocrop agriculture and habitat loss, but focus on the solutions. Red-Laird’s mission is to inspire and empower communities to conserve bees and their habitat.


Dahlia grower recognized

Jan’s Country Garden, 344 O’Brien Road, Port Angeles, has been selected as a 2015 Garden Watchdog Top 5 company for dahlias on DavesGarden.com.

Each company in the Garden Watchdog is categorized as specializing in certain things and the highest rated companies in each category are then awarded with the “Top 5” award.

For more information, see davesgarden.com.