Troop seeking former scouts for celebration
Sequim Scout Troop 90 — formerly Troop 490 and 1490 — is celebrating 100 years in 2025. Members are seeking former scouts and scout families to participate in planning the troop’s 100-year celebration.
Members would also appreciate the community’s help in documenting the troop’s heritage.
Those interested in helping are asked to contact Susan Baritelle at sequimboyscouts@gmail.com.
Guild selling baked goods for fundraiser
The Sequim Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital is selling homemade baked goods starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, July 1, at the Pumpkin Patch Flea Market, at the corner of U.S. Highway 101 and Kitchen Dick Road.
Prices range from $5-$15 for cookies, pies, breads, jams, jellies and more. The goodies are hand-crafted in the kitchens of the Sequim Guild members.
All funds received from sales will go to uncompensated care and research at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
City accepting applications for open board position
The Sequim City Council is seeking an applicant to fill a vacancy on the Parks, Arbor and Recreation Advisory Board.
The appointment is to fill a vacancy for a resident who lives within the Sequim city limits. The position is a three-year appointment that expires June 30, 2026.
This voluntary board meets at 4 p.m. the third Monday of each month and advises the Sequim City Council about issues involving City parks and public spaces.
Applications are available at the Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St., or online at sequimwa.gov. The position is open until filled.
For more information, contact city clerk Amy Aschenbrenner at 360-681-3428 or clerk@sequimwa.gov.
Genealogy workshop set
The Clallam County Genealogical Society offers “Organizing Your Genealogy,” a workshop that starts at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 29, at the Genealogical Research Center, 403 E. Eighth St., Port Angeles.
The program is free for society members and and $10 for non-members.
One-on-one help will be available for those who need help organizing their digital or paper files, and/or putting a genealogy program onto their laptop. There will be two or three instructive webinars shown as well.
A luncheon of a croissant chicken or tuna salad, fruit, green salad and dessert will be available for participants for $8 or attendees can bring their own.
Participants are asked to call the society at 360-417-5000 to order their lunch and register.
Learn more about ‘Drowning in Plastics’
Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship hosts the group’s fifth Climate Forum, set for 12:20 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, at 1033 N. Barr Road between Sequim and Port Angeles.
The topic is “Drowning in Plastics: What We Can Do and Understanding Recycling In Clallam County.” The event is free and open to the public.
Ice cream social, car show set
It’s time for round two of the Sequim Prairie Grange’s Ice Cream Social & Car Show, set for 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, at the grange, 290 Macleay Road.
Enjoy ice cream while walking the grounds and checking out car show entries. Grange members will be serving root beer floats, along with banana splits and sundaes, for $7.
Part of the proceeds will be going to the Sequim Wolf Pack Youth Football and Cheer Program.
For more information, call Dave McDaniels at 360-797-4777.
Walkling grants available
The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust is accepting applications for grants to be awarded in 2024.
The trust awards grants to encourage new civic and charitable projects to benefit citizens of Port Angeles and Clallam County.
For applications, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust, PO Box 1588, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Submit completed applications by Sept. 30.
Requests to fund organizational budgets or to pay for existing or ongoing projects are not likely to be approved, trust representatives said.
Myrtle Walkling, who died in 1992, created the trust in her will and funded it with more than $1 million.
PC selects diversity/equity/inclusion VP
On June 12, Hanan Zawideh became Peninsula College’s first Vice President for Human Resources and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
With more than 17 years of leadership experience in the public, corporate, and nonprofit sectors, she brings a wealth of expertise to her role in advancing the college’s mission and fostering a culture of inclusivity, college officials said.
Zawideh comes to PC from Children’s Institute in Portland, Ore., where she served as the chief equity human resource officer. In that position she led the organization’s equity, diversity, justice, and inclusion committee, and was responsible for their human resource strategy, with a focus on building a culture of belonging.
Prior to her time at Children’s Institute, Zawideh served in positions including corporate human resource and payroll manager, career and college resource specialist, and managed the corporate social responsibility work in Qatar and Bahrain for a global bank.
Zawideh moved from Michigan to the Pacific Northwest in 2018, and lived in Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai and the UK before moving to the U.S in 1992.
