Forks Elks Hoop Shoot
Forks Elks Lodge 2524 is sponsoring a Hoop Shoot, a free throw program, on Jan. 29, 2022, at the Assembly of God Church, 81 Huckleberry Lane, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
This event is for ages 8 to 13.
Any questions, please call 360 374 2524 and leave a message, someone will get back to you.
New! Teen Advisory board
The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) is excited to announce a new Teen Advisory Board! Come shape your library— teens from Clallam County can now sign up for the Teen Advisory Board that will meet virtually every month, starting Thursday, Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. on Zoom. An ongoing meeting time will be determined by the group.
Members of the Teen Advisory Board will gain leadership skills while collaborating with library staff and peers from around the county to plan teen programming and help make the library a fun, supportive, and engaging place for teens. Regular meetings will be held once a month.
Register at nols.org, or by talking with library staff. Participants will need a library card with a birth date listed to register. If you are interested in joining the Teen Advisory Board, but you do not have a library card, you can sign up for a temporary one at nols.org or library staff will be happy to help you. Questions? Contact teens@nols.org.
For additional information, call 360-417-8500, send an email to teens@nols.org, or visit www.nols.org. This program is generously supported by local Friends of the Library groups.
Rapid Antigen COVID Test Kits Available
at West End Libraries
The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) is partnering with the Clallam County Department of Health & Human Services to provide FREE rapid antigen COVID testing kits to residents on the West End of Clallam County.
A self-administered antigen test is available for pick up at the library curbside window, if you have been exposed to COVID-19 or are currently experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. At-home results are available in 15 minutes. If your rapid test comes back positive for COVID-19, please report your results to www.clallam.net/coronovirus.
Do not enter the library if you are experiencing symptoms or believe you may have been exposed.
Pick up testing kits at:
• Forks Branch Library at 171 S Forks Ave. Visit the curbside window (drive-up window on the back of the building) for pick up.
• Clallam Bay Branch Library at 16990 Hwy 112, Visit the curbside window (the last window on the ramp before the entrance) for pick up.
Once you arrive at curbside, you can expect NOLS staff to ask you how many people are in your household, if you currently have COVID symptoms and if you have been exposed to COVID. Do not return tests to library facilities or staff.
Forks Branch
Monday through Thursday — 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Friday and Saturday — 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Clallam Bay Branch
Monday through Wednesday — 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday and Friday — 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
For more information about library services, visit www.nols.org, call 360-417-8500, email Discover@nols.org, or follow North Olympic Library System on Facebook and Instagram.
DIY Hot Cocoa Bomb Take & Make
Beginning Friday, January 21, stop by your local North Olympic Library System (NOLS) location to pick up a DIY Hot Cocoa Bomb Take & Make kit!
A fun winter treat for all ages! Grab a kit from your local NOLS library branch and take it home to create your own DIY Hot Cocoa Bomb using chocolate chips, hot cocoa, and decorative sweets. Drop it in warm milk (any kind!) for a melty-sweet beverage in the cold winter months.
The kit includes ingredients to make the hot cocoa bomb, silicone molds, instructions, and a list of ingredients. You will also need any kind of milk (or water), a microwave, a spoon, and a mug. Check out www.nols.org or the NOLS YouTube channel for a how-to video!
This activity is suggested for ages five and up. Adult supervision highly recommended, especially when handling hot materials.
This program is generously supported by Friends of the Library groups at all four NOLS branches. To learn more about what’s happening at your library, visit www.nols.org, call 360-417-8500, or follow North Olympic Library System on social media.
PC’s Magic of Cinema,
Studium to Present Screenings
of “Since I Been Down” Jan. 20
Peninsula College’s Social Justice Week Honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and seeks to highlight the current challenges, issues, and actions toward change that reaffirm King’s wisdom and remind us of the multi-dimensional legacy of his teachings and actions.
Peninsula College will host an event on Jan. 20 as part of Studium Generale’s Social Justice Week, in partnership with Magic of Cinema and will be part of the college’s regular Studium Generale programming and start at 12:30 pm.
The event will include a screening of the 2020 documentary “Since I Been Down,” a film that spotlights Kimonti Carter and follows his efforts, as well as a wide group of prisoners, as they create a model of education that is transforming their lives, their communities, prisons, and potentially our own humanity.
“Since I Been Down” showcases Tacoma, WA, as a community impacted by lack of investment in resources and the fear-based policies of the 1980s and ‘90s that sacrificed and labeled their most vulnerable children as irredeemable “super predators.”
The film presents dramatic stories of how fear, racism, and a false sense of safety, security, and prosperity, arrested the development of one American community, discarding the poorest and targeting brown and black youth and led to the disappearance of an entire generation of children.
The screenings will be followed by panel discussions and Q and A with Carlos Osorio, Lesley Hoare, and Deborah Espinosa.
Osorio (he/him) is the former Baking and Pastry Instructor at Clallam Bay Corrections Center. While employed at the prison, he began volunteering with inmate cultural groups and re-entry services. That experience – organizing with inmates right in our backyard coupled with the Movement for Black Lives that took our nation by force after the murder of George Floyd – inspired Osorio to begin work on many local grassroots projects with a variety of local groups. Some of these include Food Not Bombs, Sequim’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion conversations, Forks Human Rights Group, Reparations Law Democratic Inmate-led Cooperative, Shut Down the Northwest Detention Center and building the Party for Socialism and Liberation – Olympic Peninsula, a movement right here on the Peninsula that says worker’s rights and human dignity come first, before individual profits.
Hoare (she/her) has lived in the community of Forks for 13 years. She currently works at the Forks branch of Peninsula College in the Learning Center and as an ESL teacher. She also works part-time as a medical interpreter.
Hoare organizes with el Comite de Derechos Humanos de Forks and volunteers at Clallam Bay Correction Center (CBCC). Her efforts have been focused on, and in solidarity with, the immigrant community and those behind bars, two parts of the community that are often not afforded the same human rights as others in the same geographic community.
Espinosa (she/her) is the founder of Living with Conviction https://livingwithconviction.org/. She is an attorney and a photographer who combines her legal training and visual storytelling skills to advocate for the rights of the poor and marginalized, both at home and in Africa. She also works to strengthen those rights by providing legal technical assistance to state and national governments, primarily in the global south. For more of Espinosa’s moving and important photography, see https://www.sameskyphoto.com/.
The event is free and open to the public.
To join the event on Jan. 20 at 12:30 pm, please use this Zoom information:
Zoom meeting at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82278252780,
Meeting ID: 822 7825 2780
