| This Week Rain garden workday in Port Townsend – Wed, Jul 28th *New* The Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee and WSU Extension are looking for volunteers to help establish plants at a new rain garden being installed at the corner of Franklin and Adams Streets in Port Townsend! Volunteers can sign up for shifts from 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM, 1:00 – 3:00 PM, and 3:00 – 5:00 PM on Wednesday, July 28th. Street parking is available near Franklin and Adams Streets. Each shift will begin with an overview of the project and plants, along with what needs doing during the shift. Bring water and snacks for yourself, as well as gardening gloves and anything else you might need. Please sign up for a shift here or email your shift preference to Monica. Vaccination attestation or masks required. Time: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM in shifts | Location: corner of Franklin and Adams Streets, Port Townsend Birdwatching at Fort Flagler – Sat, Jul 31st, Aug 14th, & Aug 28th Ever wonder what bird you’re hearing or seeing? Join Beverly McNeil for 2-3 hours to find and learn about the birds at Fort Flagler State Park. Meet in front of the Beachcomber Café. Wear sturdy footwear and dress for changeable weather. Bring binoculars and your own water. Beverly McNeil is an outdoor enthusiast who loves hiking, diving, wildlife, birdwatching and photography. Beverly has been photographing and learning about birds for over 20 years. Today, Beverly displays her wildlife photography at the Port Townsend Gallery on Water St, and is an Audubon Trip Leader. Beverly’s goal is to inspire our guest to love and protect the flora and fauna of our parks and planet! Registration links coming soon. Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Location: 1321 Flagler Campground Road, Marrowstone Community Build Project Open House – Sat, Jul 31st Curious about those colorful tiny houses along San Juan Ave? Come to the Community Build Project Open House! Along with refreshments and live music from The Unexpected Brass Band and other local artists, you’ll have the opportunity to talk with several groups working on solutions for the local housing crisis. You might even find one that inspires you to get involved! One inspiring possibility is depicted in the movie Community First!, which is available for streaming here between July 25th and August 2nd. Ticket purchases are a great way to support the Community Build Project! For more information, visit the Community Build Project website or send them an e-mail. Additionally, the KPTZ Compass Program will feature a conversation with Community Build Project leaders on July 24th at noon and July 26th at noon and 5:00 PM. Time: 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Location: Evangelical Bible Curch, 2135 San Juan St., Port Townsend |
| Upcoming Events Eat Local! Campaign Week Two – Sun, Aug 8th – Sat, Aug 14th *New* The Local Food Action Group of Local 2020 is hosting Week Two of the season-long Eat Local! Campaign Sunday, August 8th through Saturday, August 14th. We are encouraging folks to continue exploring near-by farms, farm stands, and the farmer’s market to locate, enjoy, and share the delicious foods produced around us. For more detailed information, visit the Eat Local! webpage or email Suzanne. The Amazing Elephant Seals – Wed, Aug 11th Come learn why elephant seals are amazing. Everything they do is extreme and like clockwork. They live here in Puget Sound, learn where to find them. Join Ken Bach for a presentation and discussion. Meet us at the group picnic area in the lower campground across from the boat ramp. Presenter: Kenneth Bach is a resident of Jefferson County and on the board of SR3, a dedicated marine animal hospital. Ken has over 20 years’ experience with marine mammals including volunteering with The Marine Mammal Center, Ano Nuevo State Preserve, and SR3. For more information or to register, go here. Time: 8:00 – 11:00 PM | Location: 1321 Flagler Campground Road, Marrowstone Olympic Peninsula Mindfulness Presents: An Introduction to Mindfulness – Sun, Aug 22nd *Online* This 2-hour class, held on Zoom, will introduce you to the concepts behind mindfulness training through a sampling of practices used to focus the mind on the present—where we experience life in all its fullness. Whatever your challenges may be these days, mindfulness practices can help with anxiety, fear, depression, or general stress by bringing you back from ruminating about past mistakes and/or predicting the future. Mindfulness can help you step back from the deluge of endless circular thinking and step into the present where peace and tranquility can be found. The word “mindfulness” has become a bit of a cliché, yet the ground of this philosophy is ancient and has been beneficial to people throughout the ages. To find out more about this and other classes, including registration options, visit the Olympic Peninsula Mindfulness website or call (360) 316-6544. Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Location: Zoom |
| Recurring Events COVID-19 Update – Mondays *Online* The Weekly COVID-19 update with Jefferson County Public Health Officer, Dr. Thomas Locke. To watch live or recorded videos of the entire 9:00 AM Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, including the 9:45 AM COVID-19 update, go to the website for videos of meetings. You can choose “Streaming Live” or, if viewing later, “Recorded.” You can also listen live to Dr. Locke on KPTZ or later in the KPTZ archives. For more information, you can go here. Master Gardeners Available via Zoom – Mondays *Online* Have a question about a plant/insect/composting/landscape issue? Master Gardener volunteers are here to help. They are offering live Zoom appointments on Mondays, from 12:30 – 2:30 PM. To sign-up, go to the Plant Clinic website and click the Sign-up Genius button. Not able to join on Mondays? You can fill out the online form on the same web page and a Master Gardener will get back to you via email. Time: 12:30 – 2:30 PM | Location: Zoom Port Townsend Farmer’s Market – Saturdays Find the market’s Facebook page here. The Farmers Market welcomes all people to come and enjoy the bounty, textures, and colors of locally grown and produced foods and arts. If you’ve never been to the market before, stop by the ‘Market Info booth’ by the entrance, to get any questions answered and learn more about our Food Access programs. They accept cash, credit cards, SNAP/EBT funds, as well as Senior Farmers Market and WIC Vouchers. They are happy to show you around. Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Location: Lawrence and Tyler St, Uptown Port Townsend Chimacum Farmer’s Market – Sundays Want to shop for locally grown food in the heart of our farming community with your dog at your side? Well, the Chimacum Farmers Market may be just the market for you. Located in the heart of Jefferson County’s farm country, The Chimacum Farmers Market is set up every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm, June-October. More rustic than its sister markets in Port Townsend, this jewel of a market offers a remarkable variety of seasonal produce from neighboring farms as well as artisan food, crafts, and local music. New this year is a Power of Produce Club for kids at the Chimacum and Port Townsend Wednesday Farmers Markets. Meet up with other children and enjoy special activities every week hosted by community partners including: the Organic Seed Alliance, Jefferson County Library, YMCA and the Northwest Discovery Lab. Dogs as of yet don’t get a special day, but are always welcome as long as leashed and mannered. Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Location: parking lot of Chimacum Corner Farmstand, 9122 Rhody Dr, Chimacum |
| Community Notices Help Complete the Olympic Discovery Trail! *New* Support Peninsula Trails Coalition’s plans to extend the Larry Scott Trail to meet the Olympic Discovery Trail (ODT) at Discovery Bay, enabling riders, runners, and walkers to go all the way to the Pacific Coast at La Push. The Peninsula Trails Coalition has qualified for the “A Community Thrives Campaign” sponsored by USAToday and MightyCause. Public support and campaign donations made through August 13 will unlock grant opportunities so the all-volunteer nonprofit can take the ODT from 85 to 135+ miles of trail, which will also connect it all the way to the East Coast via the 3,700-mile Great American Rail-Trail. These new connections to east and west will bring recreational, environmental, and economic benefits to Jefferson County. You can help the Peninsula Trails Coalition qualify for the funding needed to fulfill a decades-long vision. Visit the Coalition’s page on the “A Community Thrives” website to learn more. Upcoming Exhibit: Witnessing Climate Change *New* Opening Thursday, August 5th and running through December at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History in Port Townsend, Witnessing Climate Change is an interdisciplinary collaboration between ornithologist George Divoky and expeditionary artist Maria Coryell-Martin, with support from educator Katie Morrison. The exhebition features 47 consecutive years of research by Divoky in the Arctic, as seen through Coryell-Martin’s artwork. Divoky has been studying the Black Guillemots of Cooper Island in Alaska since 1972, creating a unique, extended data set with compelling evidence of climate change. Accompanying the data are paintings by Coryell-Martin based on ink-and-watercolor sketches made in the field. Together, the paintings and stories illustrate biological, atmospheric, and person consequences of a warming Arctic. The exhibit will be accompanied by multiple programmic opportunities to engage with the content, artist, educator, and scientist, including an outdoor workshop and speaker panel. Look forward to more information coming in early fall! Housing and Sanitation Research Team forming *Updated* The Housing Solutions Network, in collaboration with PHLUSH, is looking at the intersection of affordable housing and the costs of sanitation and water services. Volunteers are currently reviewing Jefferson County codes and permitting processes, as well as the IAMPO/ANSI approved WE Stand code, which is available free for review through the end of August. This core team invites those with interest or expertise in greywater reuse and waterless toilet technologies to prepare a research and advocacy agenda to be implimented in the fall. Please email Carol McCreary if interested. About HSN and PHLUSH: Housing Solutions Network empowers community-driven solutions to the affordable housing crisis. Visit the Housing Solutions network website for information on the housing crisis in Jefferson County, why our essential workers cannot find places to rent or buy, and ways you can engage to get people appropriately housed. PHLUSH familiarizes communities with code-approved technologies to prepare for interruptions of piped systems following a seismic event, flooding, extreme drought, or a cyberattack. |
| Community Resources Local 20/20’s COVID-19 Resources Online Local 20/20’s COVID-19 resource page is a central location for community-wide information relating to COVID-19, updated frequently. Includes Reliable Information Sources, Vaccine info, Food Sources, Community Covid-19 Resource pages, Giving and Getting Assistance, Community Events Online, Community Face Mask Program, and information web posts related to COVID-19. Look in the red box at the top of the page for all the newest information. Eating Locally and Seasonally- A Cookbook Announcing a new book from our friends at Transition Lopez Island, Elizabeth Simpson and Henning Sehmsdorf. Eating Locally and Seasonally is a compilation of recipes using fresh ingredients grown and raised on their farm, S&S Homestead. Illustrated by local artists, it contains dozens of recipes, including basic cheesemaking, simple fermentation and preservation techniques, and a wide variety of vegetable and meat recipes. Elizabeth and Henning once again bring our focus back to the joy (and the health benefits) of eating food that can easily be grown or locally purchased in our own backyards. Softcover book available for $15 while supplies last. To order yours, contact Sonia soon! Just Soup on Tuesdays Every Tuesday at 11:30 – 1:30, Just Soup provides free, hot soup lunches at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St, on the Tyler St. bus line (by the Bell Tower). Enter the rear church parking lot on Franklin, and whether you are on foot, bike, or car, you will be in line for curbside pickup, with masks, gloves, and safe distancing protocols in place. Pick up a lunch for yourself or your neighbor in need. No questions asked. Many partners and supporters have come together to feed Port Townsend one bowl at a time. This information also appears on Local 20/20’s COVID-19 Resources Meals Page. Time: Tuesdays, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St. Emergency Text Alerts from Jefferson County Sign up to receive Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management’s emergency alerts by text on your mobile phone and/or by email. NIXLE messages provide crucial information in an emergency & are sent directly to your text-enabled device and/or email. The sign up web page also has information about other alert and warning systems, including the tsunami warning system and the WSDOT alert system. A Tool for Neighborhood Organization Nextdoor is a private social network for YOUR neighborhood. Use this link to join one of 59 Nextdoor Neighborhoods in Jefferson County. Currently there are 13,168 subscribers, with many new members joining each day. Email Pete Hubbard with questions or comments. Calling Local Photographers! Local 20/20 Weekly Announcements invites local photographers to submit images that capture the character of our community and its natural setting. For the opening photo of each weekly email, we seek local color, horizontal (“landscape”) orientation, and jpeg format. Please no children, pets or recognizable faces. Kindly send to events@l2020.org. Please include your name in the jpeg filename. We are an all-volunteer non-profit, so compensation for your talent and generosity is a photo credit and our profound thanks. |
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