Prep for emergencies

Blaine Zechenelly, Clallam County Fire District 3’s Citizen Emergency Response Team Program Manager and Disaster Planner, will present “Top Ten Steps to Take for Emergency Preparedness” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church, 925 N. Sequim Ave.

Zechenelly works with many agencies, county, state and federal, on all aspects of preparation and recovery plans.

Developmental playgroup to meet

Clallam County Parent to Parent, and Clallam Mosaic, will be host a monthly developmental playgroup, Play with a Purpose, from 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at the Sequim YMCA, 610 N. Fifth Ave.

This free playgroup is for children aged 0-5. Participants do not need to be a member of the YMCA; bring identification and check in at the front desk.

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. 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 led by Laura Hogan-Reyes, and facilitated by Catherine McKinney, Clallam County Parent to Parent coordinator.

Siblings are welcome to attend. COVID protocols will be observed as required by the YMCA.

The next Play with a Purpose session is scheduled for Dec. 17.

Pet pictures with Santa set

Get a photo of Santa with your pet at the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society’s Kitty Campus, 91 S. Boyce Road, at a special holiday event set for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19.

The event is first-come, first served; donations are appreciated.

Photos are by Cindy Marie Photography.

For more about the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, visit ophumanesociety.org.

Guild’s thrift store to be open

The Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell St., will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 17-19.

All remaining Christmas/holiday decor and apparel as well as all green tag items, will be $1.

Donations are accepted from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays, and when the shop is open .

All proceeds are donated to local medical needs, including: Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County; Clallam County Fire District 3 EMTs; Peninsula College nursing student scholarships, and the Sequim Free Clinic.

For more information, visit the group’s Facebook page (search for “Thrift Shop Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild”).

City’s Arbor Day celebration set

Community members are invited to join City of Sequim staff as they plant a new Magnolia tree at Pioneer Memorial Park, 387 E. Washington St., at noon on Friday, Nov. 18.

The celebration recognizes Sequim’s designation as a “Tree City USA” by the Arbor Day Foundation and is held in the fall for the best planting conditions, city representatives said.

For more information, call the City of Sequim Public Works Department at 360-683-4908.

‘La Resistencia’ in focus at next Studium Generale

Manuel Abrego and Maru Mora Villalpando, of La Resistencia, will share “Fighting to End All Detentions and Deportations in WA State,” at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale, starting at 12:35 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17.

The presentation, offered both in person and via Zoom, is facilitated by Lesley Hoare and Kate Reavey. The event is free and open to the public in the college’s Little Theater (1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles), and live-streamed through Zoom at pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82308557946 (meeting ID 823 0855 7946).

La Resistencia is a grassroots organization led by undocumented immigrants based in Washington state working to end the detention of immigrants and stop deportations, according to the program’s website (laresistencianw.org).

Originally founded in 2014 to support a hunger strike launched by people detained in Tacoma to protest their confinement, La Resistencia began under the umbrella of the national #Not1More campaign as “NWDC Resistance.” Today, members support and engage with people detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA who organize for “their own survival and in protest against the detention and deportation regime.”

Local office open to help disabled veterans

The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) office in the Worksource building, 810 W. Brackett Road, is open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. every Wednesday to serve veterans who are needing help with claims or other information.

Services are free and veterans do not have to be members of DAV to receive assistance.

The office is by walk-in; no appointment is necessary. Masks are required upon entrance.

For more information, call 360-775-6482.