Tryouts for youth basketball slated

Sequim Youth Basketball’s Select Basketball team hosts tryouts for fifth- and sixth-grade boys and girls in upcoming weeks. Tryouts are: Saturday, Nov. 7, 10 a.m.-noon; Monday, Nov. 9, 6:30-8 p.m., and Thursday, Nov. 12, 6:30-

8 p.m. Tryouts are at Sequim High school gymnasium, 601 N. Sequim Ave. For more information, call Art Green at 808-3320.

‘Critters’ are the topic for paddlers

The Olympic Peninsula Paddlers club meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. A presentation, “Caring for Critters of the Olympic Peninsula Coast,” will be given by Melissa Williams, executive director of the Feiro Marine Life Center. The public is invited to attend. See OlympicPeninsulaPaddlers.com.

Beard gets ace No. 2

Ken Beard of Port Hadlock sank his second lifetime hole-in-one last week at The Cedars at Dungeness golf course.

Beard used a 5-iron to drive the 155-yard hole No. 17. Rod Harp of Sequim and Bill Riley of Joyce witnessed the feat.