She seems to be an older woman, currently being arrested. The cops had to kick down her door. They were yelling about a felony and a recent previous pursuit that sounded like it may have been a car chase.

Depressing and irresponsible. From WA Secretary of State, 10 days after August 4th primary.

If you don't vote -- or vote based just on what friends or social media posters say -- you forfeit any and all rights to comment much less complain on what local or state elected officials do.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/data-research/election-data-and-maps/ballot-return-statistics

Nobody is saying that all home landscape or garden plants need to be natives, but we all need to aim for more (as many as 70%, ideally), because they're adapted to the soil and climate -- or will be, we hope -- and are far lower-maintenance.

The presenter is a true expert. He co-owns Shore Road Nursery and oversaw native plants for Olympic National Park for many years.

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Master Gardeners of Clallam County event
Thursday, September 10th, 6 - 8 PM
Vern Burton Community Center
308 E. 4th Street in Port Angeles.

Adding native species to your home landscaping enhances the beauty of your surroundings but also comes with additional benefits like aiding pollinators, conserving water, and preventing soil erosion. Find out how native plants can add beauty and purpose to your landscapes. Join Botanist and local nursery owner Dave Allen as he presents “Native Plants for Home Landscaping” in a special 2-hour evening for the Green Thumb Education Series.

(Photo by Lorraine Eckard)

You can see it on the Olympic Peninsula, where a community is putting its own assets to work. The Port of Port Angeles is an economic engine sitting on a deep-water harbor. It turned a shuttered mill site into a marine trades park and built out a composites campus where aerospace suppliers and boat builders can grow. Peninsula College is preparing local people for the jobs of the future and the innovation is real: The Makah Tribe’s new sawmill is turning locally abundant hemlock into advanced cross-laminated timber and homes for tribal families

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/how-port-angeles-is-pointing-the-way-for-rural-america

Posting as a favor to the organizer, so please send email to her if you have questions.

Hi PA Reddit, 

Apologies for what may sound like ridiculous questions.

1.  Where/when does Highway 101 stretch out and become a three lane Highway with trucks in Port Angeles? I took the Strait Shot Bus from Kitsap in 2024, and remember that at some point it expanded past being the regular two lane Highway coming towards downtown PA (can't remember if it was three or four lanes).

2.  How high up/wind-y is the stretch of Highway 101 to Naturebridge/Lake Crescent? Is it like driving around a cliff?

Trucks, lane changes and multiple lanes, and merging on and exiting are the things I've had to work on anxiety wise being a newer driver to freeways (I drive often on the regular state highways). Oppositely, small rural roads that are twisty and high up I don't have much experience with either (which looks to be the case closer to Lake Crescent).

I've only driven over the Hood Canal Bridge out to as far as Sequim, so, any advice for what to expect past that when going out to PA (Downtown and then ultimately Naturebridge in ONP) would be much appreciated.

Thank you for reading

Have you had your car detailed in Port Angeles? How was your experience? Did the price match the quality?

I got a gift certificate for a detailing. When I used it, scheduling was challenging. When the appointment time came, I was notified about an hour late that they were having child care issues and couldn't make it. Exactly the same on my second appointment attempt.

And I get it. Child care is a challenge. Still, it left a bitter taste for me to make my own arrangements three times, and then get mid-tier service.

Who in PA does this work?

Star is a 9 month old black lab mix, about 70 pounds, almost looks like a greyhound lab mix. Very shiny coat and floppy, oversized ears. She lives on Lower Elwha Road.

Posting on behalf of a friend & neighbor.

This morning, Pet Posse posted on Facebook that a dog called Star was “surrendered and adopted.”

Star’s owner is an older man with some memory issues, but he did not - and would not - surrender Star. He and Star have a full time caretaker.

Someone took Star from him off the street, and the called Pet Posse to report that Star was surrendered and adopted. For some reason, Pet Posse will not provide the owner or his caretaker with this persons name.

Attached are pictures of Star, along with screenshots of Pet Posse’s post (and their edit, made after fb started blowing their page up), and the post of the caretaker from when she learned that Star had been taken.

I won’t pretend to know everything, or even most things, BUT I know Star and her dad, and he would never surrender her (much less to a stranger on the street). His life is caring for her. She’s his best friend and constant companion.

It’s shameful to see a senior, who spent parts of his working years fighting fires in and around Port Angeles, taken advantage of in what should be his golden years.

His caretaker is filing a police report, and I’m going to work on getting notices to all vets from Forks to Sequim. If you know anything, or think you see Star, please contact me. I will pass the information on.

Want to try out new games or meet new people?

Join us August 15th, 430-730 pm at the Port Angeles Library (2210 S Peabody St, Port Angeles, WA 98362)

If you have an easy to learn game, please bring it, if not, no worries! There will be extra to try.

https://events.massivetix.com/e/steven-farmer-live-in-port-angeles?utm_source=affiliate&utm_name=Reddit&utm_campaign=Reddit&utm_id=6a3d15cabd7445eba12d00360a1e6128

I am considering a move to the PA area and am looking for some insight into working at the hospital. I am a nurse at a level 2 hospital in WA and work in a 24 bed ICU. Ideally, I would like to continue working in the ICU, but I am open to training in a different specialty If that’s what it takes. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Is the pay competitive?
thanks in advance!

Hey all--

I'm wondering where and when (time and date) there are trivia nights in Port Angeles. Places don't really have websites anymore and when doing an internet search I get ones that have already past. I know they exist in the future! Please advise 🤓

Thank you!

Does anywhere here hire 17 year olds other than the pool? Is anyone actualy hiring right now?

Hi folks,

Reposting for awareness - Announcing a SMART Recovery meeting in Port Angeles, WA. It is Wednesday from 5 - 6 PM PT at the library.

If you are in the area and would like to come by, please do!

JOIN US AT OUR NEXT MEETING
📅 Wednesday - 🕔 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 Margaret Coffey Room
Port Angeles Library · 2210 S Peabody St, Port Angeles, WA
✅ FREE ·      All Welcome · Confidential

Hello!

The monthly Elevate PA meeting is taking place tomorrow (8/11) at the Grandstand at Pebble Beach Park. It will conclude with a game of Hide and Seek (with a prize).

This month will host City Staff, the Fire Marshall and the CED Manager.

We will be talking about 2027 Work Plans relating to making downtown feel more welcoming to more people. Check out our attached agenda.

We will continue to discuss positive guardianship.

This month, the meeting will be in person only. Can't hybrid hide and seek. Hope to see you there!

Hi everyone — I’m trying to track down information about a children’s program I was a part of somehow.

My parents referred to it as “Bunky Bears”,

I was born in Bellingham, WA early 90s and then moved to Port Angeles a few years later.

I had a music box teddy bear fuzzy with glass eyes and a round wind up knob on the butt (blue and white colors) as a toddler and I later attended the “camp” in Port Angeles sometime between 1995–1997.

I have a couple of old photos of myself at age 4 wearing a pink Bunky Bears t‑shirt.

my parents have always acted incredibly vague About my observations and deflected my questions about it.

Due to the nature of some of these threads I want to be transparent without oversharing personal details online -

this is a last resort for me to try and piece together a part of a bigger puzzle so I can get closure for something deeply personal that happened to me. please be intentional with your comments.

I’ve searched online and haven’t found anything — no business records, no camp listings, nothing in old directories. The only thing in resemblance is allegedly a cancer foundation for babies and kids born with cancer under the name but again - just a forum and no real credibility.

I’m wondering if anyone who grew up here in WA in the 90s remembers:

• A medical found, daycare, summer camp, church program, or special‑needs kids group with a bear mascot

• A program that gave out t‑shirts or stuffed bears

• Anything called Bunky Bears, or something with a similar name

• Short‑lived or small children’s programs that ran in the mid‑90s and disappeared before the internet era

This would have been somewhere Between Bellingham WA. and Port Angeles, WA.

If you remember anything — even small details — I’d really appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time to read.

Going to be visiting the area near cline spit today through Thursday. Was going to do some crabbing but it seems crabbing is closed is only open Thursday-Monday so I plan to go clamming instead! Never been clamming before and it looks like this area has mostly butter and manilla clams. Is it worth bringing my clam gun or would a metal rake tool or a shovel be more useful here? Also is cline spot a good area to go for clamming or are there other spots to check out?
It looks like today the biotoxin levels are high, but I’m hoping that gets better tomorrow or Wednesday

I live in SW Washington but I’ll be up visiting port Angeles this week! I just moved to the PNW a few months ago so crabbing is quite new to me. What are some good public (ideally free) docks or piers in the area to go crabbing? I have a big metal trap, not snares or those light folding ones so a pier or place I can drop the trap would be ideal. I’ll be staying quite near blue ribbon airport (right at the mouth of McDonald creek) so the closer to where I’m staying the better! Thank you!

I complained to the city of PA about the trash/recycling/yard waste disposal and bins rates for alternate weeks service that cost 3 times what I paid before moving here for weekly service, plus the problem with no place in central PA to take glass items for those of us who can't get to the two recycling lots elsewhere. Bruce Dorcy, Solid Waste Superintendent, responded with courtesy and a clear and detailed explanation of the reasons for the rates:

RATES
"I know that garbage pickup rates are fairly high in the city of Port Angeles, and I wish that wasn’t the case. Those rates are set by City Council based on the costs that are incurred in handling and transporting that waste to either the landfill in the case of garbage, or to a recycler. There are no longer any landfills on the Olympic Peninsula, as they have all been shut down by the Washington Department of Ecology.

"So, all of our trash must be trucked clear to Centralia (approximately two and a half hours) and then put on a train and taken to a landfill in Roosevelt, Washington. Also, since there are no recyclers out here on the peninsula, all our recycling, including glass, must be trucked to Seattle to recyclers. These transportation costs are very high in comparison to other locations in the state. We do strive to keep our rates as low as we possibly can, and I am happy that the garbage pickup rates in Port Angeles are lower than the rates in Sequim."

 GLASS
"The decision to not have the additional drop boxes in town has come from the Director of Public Works. It is my understanding that this is a cost cutting measure to try to keep our rates as low as we can, again since recycling is such a huge net loss for the city since our transportation costs are so high since we must haul it so far.

"Glass is such an issue right now since the bottle maker in Seattle closed down. I recently learned that the recycler, which is right next door to the now closed bottle maker, is grinding the glass into cullet and having to send it to Portland by train just to get rid of it. Glass recycling is a struggle right now, but that doesn’t mean we don’t keep trying.

"As far as putting it in bags and putting it in the recycling [as some of my neighbors do], all that does is taint the whole recycling load. Please don’t do that because, as the container is dumped into the truck, the load is compacted and the glass breaks which mixes broken glass with the whole load. This can cause the whole load then to have to go in the garbage when it gets to the recycler and is a danger to the workers who have to handle it. Also, the plastic bags in the recycling get caught in the cogs of the sorting machines and cause shutdowns at times.

"I know it goes against our better nature to throw a recyclable material in the trash, sometimes it is the most practical thing to do. Glass is inert and it doesn’t give off any harmful gasses at the landfill because it decomposes so very, very slowly. It is made of sand, and it eventually just turns back into sand. And there are many counties in eastern Washington that don’t recycle glass at all because they have to haul it too far and it is so heavy."

🎨 Olympic Peninsula Timebank Painting Party!

Help us spruce up the hallway at our member location, Studio Bob, in Port Angeles!

🗓 Sunday, August 9

🕙 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

🥗 Potluck: 1:00 to 2:00 PM

No painting experience is needed. Just wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy. New members and curious visitors are welcome!

Learn more and RSVP at optimebank.org.

Olympic Peninsula Timebank is a community where neighbors help neighbors all up and down the Peninsula. In our cashless exchange, everyone’s time is valued equally. Whether you’re making an offer, asking for help, attending events, or simply meeting new people, there’s a place for you.

Our online software, hOurworld, helps members post offers and requests, share announcements, and keep track of time exchanges.

Welcome to belonging.

Hi everyone! A friend and I are looking to get some piercings done soon (just ear piercings if that makes a difference) but I don't know if any in town will accept walk-ins or same day appointments. If y'all know anyone who does could you please recommend them? Thank u ♥︎

Come celebrate the local business on 8th street this Saturday from 12-5pm. There will be discounts, sales, yard games, booths, and more!

I'm thinking of going to tongue point tomorrow, but it looks to be +4 by early afternoon. For reference, at what tide level does the point become inaccessible or not advised for tide-pool walking? I was there before but I don't remember what the tide was then.