The American Red Cross is hosting a blood drive from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, at the Cashmere United Methodist Church, 213 S. Division St. Appointments are encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome. Call 1-800-733-2767 for an appointment. Sponsored by Wacoka Kiwanis Club of Cashmere.
Former Zen Buddhist
to talk
Former Zen Buddhist, Yip Kok Tho, will talk about how meditation affects the mind and what neuroscience has revealed about the brain during meditation at 7 p.m. May 23, 24 and 25 at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 507 Pioneer Ave., Cashmere. For information call 208-401-6370.
Peshastin
Peshastin kids and pets
go on parade
"Wild Beasts" is the theme of this year's Peshastin Kids & Pets Parade, set for 10 a.m. Saturday, June 4. Line up begins at 9:30 a.m. All ages are welcome to walk, bike, trike or ride in a wagon, with costumes or without. Meet at the Memorial Hall (formerly Legion Hall), 10121 Main St. The parade route is about a mile, from the hall to the Peshastin Elementary School. All participants get a popsicle at the end.
Lake Wenatchee
& Plain
Still time to register
for summer camp
Openings are still available for summer camp at Camp Zanika Lache on Lake Wenatchee. The camp includes boating, fishing, rafting, arts and crafts, canoeing, high ropes course, low ropes course, cook outs, hiking, kayaking and more. For information or to register, go to www.zanika.net.
Trout Unlimited
teaches fly fishing
Icicle Valley Trout Unlimited is offering an introduction to fly fishing for women 16 years and older from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 11, at Mountain Springs Lodge in Plain. The class will be taught by Doug Pendleton, Icicle Valley chapter member and owner of Northwest Fly Fishing Academy. Cost is $30, all of which goes to the chapter's conservation fund. No experience is necessary and all equipment is provided. Each participant is guaranteed to catch and gently release a rainbow trout. Participants also receive a free one-year membership to Trout Unlimited. Call 548-7747 to register. Space is limited.
Leavenworth
Bike n' Juice coming up
The sixth annual Bike n' Juice will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 11, at the Leavenworth Ski Hill. Bike n' Juice is a bike festival for kids ages 2-12. Kids can have their faces painted and decorate their bikes with a race plate, colorful accents and noise makers. Participants also receive a hot barbecue lunch. For information, go to http://bikenjuice.com/. The event is put on by the Beaver Valley School Parent Group.
Lions Club serves breakfast
The Lions Club is serving breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 28, in Lions Club Park in Leavenworth. Join friends and neighbors for a good, hearty breakfast.
Regional
Lions Club honors law enforcement officers
The Greater Wenatchee Sunrise Lions Club will hold its 24th annual Peace Officer Luncheon at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, May 18. Cost for the buffet lunch is $15. The luncheon includes Officer of the Year awards and a memorial ceremony to honor those officers who have died or been disabled in the line of duty. The public is welcome. Call 886-0894.
Host families needed for student exchange program
ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (American Scandinavian Student Exchange) is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, and elsewhere. For information call 1-800-733-2773 or go to www.host.asse.com.
Gun safety class offered
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the NCW Gun Club are offering a Handgun Safety Training Class from 9 a.m. to noon June 5 at the NCW Gun Club, 2740 Gun Club Road, East Wenatchee. The goal of the training is to reduce the likelihood of handgun related injury or death by educating citizens on proper handgun safety skills.
WVC plans fishing derby, international day
The annual Fountain Fishing Derby and International Day Festival return to Wenatchee Valley College from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 19 - near the fountain on the Wenatchee campus. Both events are open to the public. The International Day celebration includes musical performances. The fishing derby includes hundreds of triploid rainbow trout. The cost for the fishing derby is $3 for a rod and the first fish, $1 for each additional fish, with a limit of three fish per angler. WVC students and their families fish for free. Food will be available.
WVC's Gillespie lectures
on pollinators
Bob Gillespie, who teaches natural resources at Wenatchee Valley College, will present "Pollinators of North Central Washington" at the WVC Speaks Lecture Series event at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 2, in McArthur Lecture Hall, Wenatchi Hall, room 2105.
The talk will introduce the diversity of insects that pollinate local plants as well as discuss the life history of pollinators. According to The Xerces Society, a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through invertebrate conservation, pollinators are necessary for the reproduction of over 85 percent of the world's flowering plants, including more than two-thirds of the crop species worldwide.
Gillespie teaches natural resources, agriculture and biology courses at WVC. He has a bachelor of science in education from the University of Nebraska, a master's degree in entomology from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. in biology from Montana State University. He and his students are conducting a study to identify the native bees pollinating native plants that border cherry orchards on Stemilt Hill and Wenatchee Heights.
Daily parking passes on the Wenatchee campus cost $2. Parking permit machines are available in the Wells Hall/Music and Art Gallery, Smith Gym, Brown Library and Sexton Hall lots. Students must have valid WVC parking permits.
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