It’s 7:00am on an early April morning. The sun is barely peeking over the trees, as fifteen students pile their luggage into the back of two large vans. We are about to drive five hours to Yakima, WA for the annual Students of Color Conference, which...
Medical Assisting Students Explain What Makes the Program Special What makes Peninsula College Medical Assisting Program graduates so special? According to Rachel Pairsh, the program’s director, there are many factors, the most vital being the students...
When I tell people I’m a librarian I often get a bemused response along the lines of, “Are libraries still a thing?” In an age of 24/7 information access in the palm of your hand, the vision most people have of a library seems outdated. The reading...
Our ESL classroom for immigrants at Peninsula College is a one-room schoolhouse. This is the K-12 equivalent of having kindergarten through eighth grade together in the same room with one teacher. Remember, kindergarteners often don’t know...
It’s easy sometimes to wonder about the value of the arts. Our society is rightly concerned about jobs and the health of the economy, but we sometimes treat economic worth as if it is the only value worth promoting. Even when the arts make headlines,...
Port Angeles and Clallam county leaders gathered Thursday to celebrate the completion of a new advanced manufacturing center that will bring jobs and economic development to the region. The Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) is the only facility...
If you think about beach trash, the plastic bag crises, and the quandary of the Pacific Trash Vortex, that’s a lot of man-made garbage! Have you ever heard of a nurdle? A nurdle is actually a tiny plastic pellet that plastic industries use to mold...
Nonprofit work never ceases to amaze me. To get your hands dirty working for a cause you wholeheartedly believe in is the ultimate prize. I’ve been a volunteer, a board member, an office administrator, and an executive director for several nonprofits...
More Mud, More Zombies, Bigger Obstacles! Now in its third year, Peninsula College’s annual Pirate Zombie Mud Run promises to be the best race to date. A lot of people don’t like running, some people don’t like the mud and most breathing people...
We’re told that the world is becoming smaller, that we need to understand other cultures better, we need to travel, become more tolerant, respect differences, celebrate diversity, etc. So, shouldn’t we all feel closer and be nicer to each other? You’d...
