COMMUNITY BRIEFS

Sound Learning’s annual community meeting tonight

Sound Learning hosts its annual community meeting from 6 to 8 tonight at a meeting room at Mason PUD 3’s headquarters on Johns Prairie Road.

Everyone is invited. Light refreshments will be served. The event includes information about the group’s programs, student stories, meeting volunteers and the presentation of awards.

Poets read works about salmon at library

Poets whose works are included in the anthology “I Sing the Salmon Home,” edited by Washington Poet Laureate Rena Priest, will read at 2 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Shelton Timberland Library.

Indianola resident Holly Hughes, co-owner of Empty Bowls Press and publisher of “I Sing the Salmon Home,” will emcee the reading. Hughes also writes poems about fish. The readers will also include Katy E. Ellis of Vashon Island, Cynthia Pratt of Lacey, Shelly Kirk-Rudeen of Olympia and Jeanette Barreca, reading the work of the late Olympia poet Bill Yake.

Also reading will be Ann Hursey of Mountlake Terrace, coordinator of the gathering of poets, who is the Writing for Land poet for the Capitol Land Trust’s Bayshore Preserve in a program that links poets with public lands.

In other salmon news, volunteers with Capitol Land Trust and Puget Sound Estuarium will be on hand as docents from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 at Johns Creek at the Bayshore Preserve, and during the same hours Nov. 10-12. They will answer questions and describe the trust’s work to improve salmon habitat on the preserve. Salmon-watchers are asked not to bring dogs to streamside trails, which include the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail at the Mason/Thurston county border on U.S. Highway 101 and Goldsborough Creek in Shelton.

Bazaar at Shelton senior center

The Mason County Senior Activities Association hosts a Holiday Bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 4 at The Pavilion, 190 W. Sentry Drive.

More than 50 vendors offer seasonal decorations, handmade quilts and knitting, holiday baskets, jewelry, hand-tooled leather items, wooden décor and toys, silver and turquoise jewelry and pottery. Senior center members will sell homemade baked goods, and coffee and other beverages are available. All proceeds benefit the association. For more information, call 360-426-7374 or email [email protected].

Local vendors at Christmas Bazaar in Hoodsport

A Christmas Bazaar is hosted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 4 in the community room at St. Germain Episcopal Church, 600 Lake Cushman Road.

Vendors offer items that include handmade crafts, decorations and stocking stuffers. Refreshments are available.

Holiday Bazaar at St. Hugh in Allyn

St. Hugh Episcopal Church, 280 E. Wheelwright in Allyn will host its annual Holiday Bazaar on from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 4. Featured will be colorful driftwood and seashell art, seasonal arrangements, soup mixes, handmade items and gift ideas, and baked goods. Silent auction items include a Trader Joe’s Italian dinner basket, Seahawks basket, karaoke machine plus other items. Enjoy freshly baked scones with coffee or cider. Last year’s proceeds from this sale and the July Patio & Bake Sale generated more than $10,000 for distribution to over 20 nonprofit community organizations and schools across Mason County.

Family film screening benefits children’s hospital

The Donnie J O’Neill Guild hosts the film “Trolls Band Together” at 11 a.m. Nov. 18 at Shelton Cinemas.

Admission is $5. All proceeds benefit Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. For more information, call Vickie Gonzalez at 360-229-1442.