Category: Downtown Sequim

Merry Kristi

This is Kristi, the manager of the Safeway floral department in Sequim. She wears a Christmas pinafore and a big smile as people look for Christmas flowers. I’m grateful today for all the kind and pleasant people who help us through the holidays, who support the less privileged among us, and lift our spirits with kind and caring words and deeds.

Be it flowers or Christmas trees, candles, candy, or a holiday toast, I wish you a warm, merry and meaningful Christmas. And joyous, happy celebrations to those who observe other seasonal holidays at this time of year!

Best of the Peninsula: Vision Center

Costco was named Best Vision Center in Peninsula Daily News polling this year.

Full disclosure: I’m looking through a pair of Costco spectacles as I create this post. I picked up my current frames and lenses for about $100 less for the whole pair than I’d have paid for lenses alone at my optometrist’s office. I can’t ignore that kind of value.

Best of the Peninsula: Jewelry

This year’s polling of Peninsula Daily News readers awarded Sequim’s Costco with “Best Jewelry” honors. If you thought that Costco is focused strictly on low cost production jewels, take a look at the price tags for these baubles. In addition to expected gift gems, they carry pieces that are definitely outside the typical impulse purchase price range.

Best of the Peninsula: 2nd Hand Shop

Here’s another winner in the Peninsula Daily News polling. Goodwill was selected by readers as our best 2nd hand shop. This store opened in Sequim a year or so ago; there’s another branch in Port Angeles.

Goodwill is big. In addition to clothing, they sell small appliances and televisions that Goodwill workers have fixed if necessary, kitchenware, and some furniture. They do stock some new items and there was a big selection of stuffed toys when I was there last week. I picked up a really good Eddie Bauer down coat here for a song a year or two ago. In case I haven’t admitted it before, I’m an avowed bargain hunter.

Locals: old computers, monitors, and televisions can be recycled for free at Goodwill, another reason to make a stop here.

Street corner politics

I had four corners of new friends waving at me as I drove into downtown Sequim on Saturday. There were people supporting Omama and Romney, some holding handwritten signs linking women’s rights and the Democratic party, and an assortment of other candidates.

We vote by mail in Washington state and my ballot went into the mail last Wednesday. For me it’s all over but the waiting.