Soup’s On back at St. Luke’s
St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., once again offers its Soup’s On program starting at noon on Wednesday, March 30. The free lunch includes a “sit down and be served” simple soup, salad, roll and dessert each Wednesday in the Parish Hall of the church. Church leaders say about 60-70 people come each week and anyone is welcome.
Live music starts at noon along with the servers at the same time. With questions, call (360) 683-4862.
Guild’s thrift shop open March 31-April 2
The Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell St., will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 31-April 2.
All green tag items will be 50 percent off. In addition to the sale items, the shop is featuring china dinner sets, a variety of cut glass pieces, clothes and jewelry. There will be restocking everyday.
All proceeds are donated to help local health needs in our community, including the Sequim Free Clinic, Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, Fire District EMT needs nursing scholarships at Peninsula College.
Donations are accepted from 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Shred event is fundraiser for Olympic Peninsula Academy
Olympic Peninsula Academy, an Alternative Learning Education program in the Sequim School District, hosts a shred event from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Sequim Village Shopping Center (parking lot at the former JCPenney), 651 W. Washington St.
Cost is a $20 suggested donation per box, with a 10-box limit.
Proceeds go toward supporting educational programming, equipment, and classroom events and activities.
Genealogical group hosts author for spring seminar
The Clallam County Genealogical Society (CCGS) hosts Lisa Alzo, author of several genealogy books and hundreds of magazine articles, at Spring Seminar on Saturday, April 9, held on Zoom.
Registration begins at 9:15 a.m. Session I, “Crossing the Pond: Successful Strategies for Researching Eastern European Ancestors,” starts at 9:45 a.m. Session II, “Immigrant Cluster Communities: Past, Present and Future,” begins at 11 a.m., and session III, “Murder, Mayhem, and Town Tragedy,” starts at 12:45 p.m.
All are welcome to watch at the CCGS Research Center, 403 Eighth St., Port Angeles, or Zoom it at home.
Cost is $50, or $40 for CCGS members.
For more information, call CCGS from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, or noon- 4 p.m. on Saturdays, at 360-417-5000. Or, visit the CCGS website at clallam cogs.org.
Tea with SHE series restarts in April
Soroptimist International of Sequim is bringing back its Tea with SHE (Soroptimist Helping and Empowering) series. Bertha Cooper, an author and advocate who spent her career years in health care administration, program development and consultation, is the featured speaker for two presentations on KSQM 91.5 FM. The first interview is at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, with “I can’t wait to be old … no one said.” She will address positive and realistic expectations for aging women based on her book “Women, We’re Only Old Once.”
On Wednesday, April 20, Cooper’s at 1 p.m. on KSQM is titled, “Old and on Pandemic Hold … What’s Next?” This interview will examine ways aging and older people can meet the ever-changing 2022 COVID world.
‘Life in Company Towns’ is focus of community class
What was life like in towns and camps like Port Gamble, Carlsborg, Pysht, Seabeck, Roche Harbor and Grisdale where the boss may have owned — and controlled — where people worked, ate and slept?
For the first time on the Peninsula College campus, “Life in Company Towns” will describe more than 100 company-owned or company-dominated timber, mining, hydro, and war worker communities that existed in the first half of the 20the century in Washington state, Oregon and Idaho.
The single-session May 17 evening class will be taught by Sequim resident Linda Carlson, author of “Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest” (University of Washington Press, 2017), and a native of Pierce County, home to many long-ago coal-mining towns and logging camps.
She is a former member of the Humanities Washington speakers bureau and also the author of “Upscale Retailing in Wartime: Seattle Department Stores and the Challenges of World Wars I and II.”
For registration information, go to campusce.net/pencol/category/category.aspx.
PUD to open offices April 11
Commissioners with Clallam County Public Utility District 1 recently approved reopening district customer service lobbies to the public effective Monday, April 11.
“This assumes that the COVID-19 case rate in Clallam County continues its downward trend,” PUD officials said.
The first in-person PUD commission meeting will also take place on that date. Coinciding with the reopening will be new hours of operation. PUD hours of operation will be 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Customer service hours will be 7 a.m.- 5 p.m. at the Carlsborg and Forks offices. The Sekiu office will be staffed 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Wednesdays.
“This change in operating hours will allow extended hours for customers and greater efficiencies in operation, especially for crews traveling long distances to and from work sites,” PUD officials said. “It also provides a competitive employee benefit that several utilities in Washington and Oregon have already begun offering.”
As the facilities reopen, public use of the meeting spaces at the main office will not yet be available as those rooms will be used by employees for meetings to allow for social distancing.
For more about PUD, visit clallampud.net.
Free dementia workshop set
Assured Hospice of Clallam and Jefferson Counties offers a “The Dementia Journey,” a free dementia workshop from 9 a.m.-noon, April 23, at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh Ave.
This event seeks to provide tools for those who care for or knows someone with dementia. Families and caregivers are welcome, organizers say.
The first 25 registrants receive a free activity kit specialized for people with dementia.
To reserve a seat at the workshop, call Home Instead at 360-681-2511.
For more information, contact Charla Wright at charla.wright@lhcgroup.com or 360-912-4066.
