This calendar is the place to find fun events happening throughout Grays Harbor County including Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Westport, Ocean Shores, Elma, Montesano and beyond.
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Join local cardmaker Sharon Fitchitt and make a hand crafted card and papercraft. All materials will be furnish. Registration is limited, please call or visit the library to register.
We are ready. Are you? Paid Family & Medical Leave is a mandatory insurance program that allows employees to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave to care for themselves or family members during serious illness or injury. While employees can’t take the benefit till 2020, businesses have requirements starting in 2019.
This one-hour forum will include:
• A presentation by Paid Family & Medical Leave staff.
• Time for you to ask questions and get answers.
In 1968, Vietnam, civil rights, women’s liberation, and conservation coalesced—and tragedy led the 6 o’clock news. It changed us in ways still rippling a half-century later. 1968: The Year That Rocked Washington features a collection of online stories and an exhibit at the Washington State Capitol with profiles, compelling photos, and artifacts that document the activism and aftershocks of a landmark year in world history.
Elma’s PageTurners Book Club will be discussing the book “Flight Behavior,” by Barbara Kingsolver. Each month’s book is available at the library at least 4 weeks in advance. This event is open to everyone.
Join Chris Montero from Wolf Haven as he answers these questions “After an almost 70 year absence, wolves have returned to Washington. Where are they and how are they surviving? How are they affecting the people who live in Washington?” Learn all this and more during this Washington focused program. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Elma Library.
Learn how to explore the outdoors by foraging for a vast northwest resource: mushrooms! Puget Sound Mycological Society Past President Marian Maxwell will explain the basics, including seasons for mushroom hunting, permits required, types of mushrooms to look for (we will focus on Fall mushrooms), cooking, dangers and where to hunt.
Join others in a conversation about the book “Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War” by Helen Thorpe. Each month’s book is available at the library at least 4 weeks in advance Everyone is welcome to join any or all discussions.
GH Harbor Haylofters Square Dance group is celebrating their 56 year anniversary. All Mainstream qualified dancers are welcome. There will be a Dessert Walk during the dance.
Are you interested in learning more about efforts to address homelessness and affordable housing in our community? A Housing Stakeholder Coalition has been formed and is a platform for education and discussion around pertinent housing issues. The next meeting of this group is scheduled for Tuesday, October 23rd at 9am in the Harbor Room at the Pearsall Building (2109 Sumner Avenue, Aberdeen).
Channel Point Village Speaker Series – Easy Steps to Fitness with Lisa Kless, Health and Wellness Director, YMCA of Grays Harbor. Refreshments served.
Harvest Moon, Storyteller and Quinault Tribal Ambassador shares stories from the Northwest Coast Indian tradition. In partnership with Hoquiam Timberland Library.
