This Week
Jefferson Transit Authority Virtual Open House – Mon, Sep 23rd
Featured projects: Climate Action Plan, Comprehensive Operational Analysis. Help shape JTA’s plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance clean and efficient transit solutions, and build community resilience to climate impacts. Share your input on JTA’s operations and services to help shape future service recommendations.Learn more here. For disability accommodations, please email Kelly Graves or call (360) 385-4777 at least 24 hours before the meeting.
Time: 6-8pm | Location: online, register here.
Free Worshops on Zen and Contemplative Practices – Wed, Sep 25th & Oct 3rd
This workshop series will teach a range of Zen and contemplative practices for dwelling in silence. Readings from the Buddha in Blue Jeans anthology plus interactive discussions will focus on refining your daily spiritual life and insights into emptiness, loving kindness, and inner-being. Come to one, come to all. Tai Sheridan is a Zen Contemplative, poet, artist, adventurer and author of fifteen best-selling Zen books. Register here. Contact Gail Sandlin by email or at 360-551-1625 with any questions.
Time: 10am to 12 pm | Location: Quaker Meetinghouse, 1241 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend
Human-Carnivore Coexistence: Making Connections with Olympic Cougar Project – Wed, Sep 25th
Researchers from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Panthera will share information about the highly collaborative Olympic Cougar Project, an Olympic Peninsula-wide project aimed at understanding the role that cougars play in our local ecosystems and how they are impacted by decreasing habitat connectivity and increasing human populations. Learn about basic cougar ecology, preliminary research findings, and how to coexist with this elusive carnivore. Joining the research team will be a conflict specialist with WDFW who will impart strategies on protecting livestock in cougar country. Register here to attend. Learn more about Friends of Fort Flagler here.
Time: 4-5:30pm | Location: Fort Flagler State Park – Hospital
The Social World of Mushrooms Talk – Thu, Sep 26th *New*
Please join locally based UW Professor Rebakah Minarcheck for an engaging discussion about mushrooms through the lens of an environmental sociologist, particularly exploring how we as humans connect to, impact, and are impacted by the environment all around us. We’ll also discuss the concept of uneven risk and access to natural resources for different communities and how we might think about equalizing access in the future, especially in connection to psilocybe mushrooms. Hosted by The Port Townsend Psychedelic Society via Zoom. Visit the event page for more information and to register. Rebakah Daro Minarchek is an Environmental Sociologist. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2019 for her work on land rights, food systems, and community natural resource access.
Time: 6:30-8pm | Location: Zoom, register here
Preparedness Presentation: YOYO to WOOOT – Wait…what? – Thu, Sep 26th
Learn how the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) and various preparedness organizations collaborate to build community emergency preparedness. In addition to DEM and NPREP, CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams), MRC (the Medical Reserve Corps), VECOM (the Volunteer Emergency Communications network), and possibly radio station KPTZ will also be there. Information for increasing your own emergency preparedness will also be available. Join us to get in on the YOYO to WOOOT evolution!
Time: 6:30 PM | Location: Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, Chimacum
Port Hadlock Repair Event – Sat, Sep 28th
Join Jefferson County Repair for this free community gathering in which people with repair skills share their time and talents to fix their neighbors’ belongings. Bring your toaster that no longer toasts, sweater with a hole in the elbow, and excitement to get these belongings repaired while also learning how they did it and ways you could do it yourself next time! Visit the website or phone Mandi Johnson at 360-385-5582 ext 115 for more information. Watch this space for upcoming Repair Events in Brinnon (Oct 19th), Port Townsend (Nov 9th), and Quilcene (Dec 7th).
Time: 10am-1pm | Location: Jefferson County Public Library, 620 Cedar Ave, Port Hadlock-Irondale
Bless the Beasts and Children 0.5k Fun Run Fundraiser – Sun, Sep 29th *New*
Come show your support for the children and cats and dogs in our community. Take a half kilometer stroll through the golf course and get a treat halfway (800 feet!). Support the Humane Society of Jefferson County WA, The YMCA’s Building Futures, Foster Support’s Kicks for Kids, and Applied Education Foundation’s STEM projects (think kids teaching kids robotics!). Kids and leashed pets welcome and free, costumes encouraged! If you can’t make it, buy a ticket anyway and support these fine nonprofits! Get tickets here or on the event tab at https://hsjcwa.org/
Time: 12pm-2pm | Location: Camas Prarie Park (aka PT Golf Course) 1948 Blaine St, Port Townsend
Photo: Thousands of Dunlins in Edison, WA by Beverly McNeil
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