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There will be a memorial gathering this Saturday for Sharon Moore (October 18). Sharon was an attendee at Agate Passage, Tacoma, and Port Townsend Friends’ Meetings.
For our gathering, Port Townsend Friends are generously sharing their new meeting house space with us. We will gather there at 1:00 for fellowship, snacks and beverages.
There will then be time to sit and share memories and thoughts of Sharon, with Friends’ silence before and after.
Diane Carle is arranging with the family for scattering of ashes beginning at 12:00 prior to our gathering, with Sharon’s family. Please contact me if you would like to be included.
If you wish to bring food to share, please do, keeping in mind that the meeting house has no kitchen yet. Agate Passage Friends will bring coffee, tea, water and a variety of snacks.
(You can phone me at 206-459-5960 for questions or concerns)
Anne Laird
Agate Passage co-clerk
Potluck on Sunday February 15th will be at St. Herman’s Church
Port Townsend Friends Meeting partnered with St. Herman’s of Alaska Christian Church for our week with the Homeless Shelter. They have invited us to a potluck at their church on Sunday, February 15th. Our monthly potluck is scheduled at noon on this date. So we will be going to St. Herman’s this month. Please make a note of this.
St. Herman’s is located at 1407 30th St.
>From the meetinghouse take Sheridan past Hastings to 29th Street; turn left on 29th, and then in 2 blocks turn right on Sherman St. After 1 block turn right again on 30th. St. Herman’s is one block on the right.
Please promote the drive during October. Please contact our Clerk at clintw327@gmail
4:30pm meet at Port Townsend Quaker Meeting, 1841 Sheridan St. to car pool.
6-8pm public meeting at City Hall in Port Angeles preceded by outdoor protest rally starting at 5.
The issue boils down to: should the Forest Service issue a permit to the Navy to use roads in the Olympic National Forest to run their electronic radiation-emitting truck-and-trailer combinations, which would entail numerous unpredicted closures and chronically irradiated vegetation and wildlife, and possibly some chronically irradiated people who live or work near the fixed tower, for decades to come?
Here is something you should know about the public meeting. Comments are typically limited to three minutes, after which you may be interrupted and forced to stop. UNLESS YOU ASK A QUESTION at the end of your comments, the only reply you will get is “Duly noted.” Then you have to step out of line to let the next person speak. Your comments will become part of the public record, but if you do not ask a question, they do not have to respond to you. So ask a good question, and if you have not yet commented in a letter, please consider writing one to gtwahl@fs.fed.us.
The venue for the Port Angeles meeting may not have enough seats for everyone, and people who arrive late might not be admitted. If you cannot get in, be sure to send in your comments to the official recorder at: gtwahl@fs.fed.us. And ask questions.
Due to the public outcry, the comment period has been extended until November 28. You can send more than one comment letter if you want, but they should be on different aspects of the project. Send comments to: gtwahl.fs.fed.us. They will be uploaded onto the Forest Service’s Reading Room web site at: https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public/ReadingRoom?List-size=25&Project=42759&List-page=11 Currently there are nearly 1900 comments, and more are needed.