Business News – Aug. 26, 2015

New tree service in area; Jeffers takes over at PT nursing, rehab facility; Dahlia bulbs are in at Jan’s Country Garden

New tree service

Hart’s Tree Service Experts is a new business providing a climbing arborist, tree topping and removal, pruning, land clearing and excavation.

Call 461-1345 or go to www.hartstreeserviceexperts.com.

The company is licensed, bonded and insured.


Jeffers takes over at PT nursing, rehab facility

Heather Jeffers, former administrator for Avamere Olympic Rehab of Sequim and vice president of the Sequim School Board, recently was named executive director at Life Care Center of Port Townsend, a skilled nursing and rehab facility.

Jeffers served as the administrator for Avamere Olympic Rehab for three-and-a-half years. Prior to that she worked as director of social services for eight years. Before those positions, Jeffers worked for five years at the Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center.

Life Care Center of Port Townsend is one of 16 such facilities in Washington operated or managed by Life Care Centers of America.


Dahlia bulbs are in at Jan’s Country Garden

Jan’s Country Garden, 344 O’Brien Road, Port Angeles, will open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 27-29 for those wanting to walk in the garden to make dahlia selections for planting next April-May.

Continuing until the first frost, the garden will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Owned and operated by Jan and Art Jones, the garden has been providing more than 700 varieties of dahlias and each year adds more new varieties.

Call for more information at 452-8287.