Thrift shop opens
The Sequim Dungeness Hospital Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell Street (on the corner of Second Avenue and West Bell Street) will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 14-16.
All blue tag items are 50 percent off. Sale items include a premium-condition student violin, comforters, dolls and a Castleton China set (partial set) with peonies pattern. Volunteer staffers are restocking every day.
All proceeds are donated to local health needs, including the Sequim Free Clinic, Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, Fire District 3 EMT needs, Peninsula College nursing scholarships and more.
Donations are appreciated and are accepted from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Human impact on salmon discussed
Learn how human impacts have severely reduced salmon productivity in northern Olympic Peninsula streams and estuaries, and the methods being used to restore productivity at “Learning Our Landscape: Restoring Salmon Productivity on Northern Olympic Peninsula Streams,” an online presentation by Jamestown S’Klallam Habitat Program Manager Randy Johnson at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 14.
Human impacts include migration barriers, diking and floodplain loss, logjam removals, residential developments, bank hardening and water withdrawals, program organizers note. Event hosts will address how restoration practitioners are addressing these impacts and reducing downward trends in salmon productivity.
The event is presented by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library in collaboration with the North Olympic History Center.
Get the link at library.jamestowntribe.org/home/ProgramsEvents.
For more information, call 360-681-4632 or email to library@jamestowntribe.org.
Developmental playgroup slated
Clallam County Parent to Parent and Clallam Mosaic hosts Play with a Purpose, a monthly developmental playgroup, beginning Saturday, April 16.
This free playgroup for children ages 0-5 will be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St. Siblings are welcome to attend. COVID protocols will be observed. While masks are optional, mask wearing is advised; masks will be available.
Developmental playgroups are designed to help parents and their children who are demonstrating developmental delays or disabilities to work together to meet the child’s cognitive, social and developmental goals, program organizers said. Families are invited to drop in, play and grow together.
The playgroup sessions will address: gross and fine motor development; expressive and receptive language communication; social and emotional skills; adaptive and self-care skills and feeding issues.
This parent participation group will be facilitated by Parent to Parent coordinator Catherine McKinney and will be led by Laura Hogan-Reyes.
Additional Play with a Purpose sessions are scheduled for May 21 and June 18.
For more about Clallam County Parent to Parent, visit clallammosaic.org/p2p. For more about Clallam Mosaic, visit ClallamMosaic.org.
Bird habitat talk set
Featured speaker Scott Gremel will discuss how fires, river flooding and channel migration, avalanches and other seemingly disastrous events can actually create some of the richest bird habitats in our area at the next Dungeness River Audubon Society meeting.
The group meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 2099 W. Hendrickson Road.
Gremel’s presentation it titled “Early Successional and Non-Forested Bird Habitat on the Olympic Peninsula.”
Although the Olympic Peninsula is primarily a land of old conifer forests, disturbances of differing frequency and intensity create a diversity of habitats that in turn support a more diverse community of birds, event organizers say.
The program is free and open to the public.
