WEEKEND: Other area events on North Olympic Peninsula
Published 12:01 am Friday, June 28, 2013
Concerts, lectures, a regatta and miniature war games are among the activities on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
For more information about arts and entertainment, see Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s edition.
PORT TOWNSEND
Meet-up planned
PORT TOWNSEND — A Sustainability Meet-Up and Open Space will be held at Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today.
The meet-ups are sponsored by Local 20/20.
The events are free, but donations are appreciated to cover the cost of the facility.
Individuals of all ages and all involvement levels are welcome to bring news of projects and concerns to share with others.
The majority of the meet-up will consist of a facilitated “Open Space” event, in which any individual can host a 20-minute small-group discussion about a specific area of interest.
Those planning on hosting an Open Space discussion should come prepared to announce a topic.
Local 20/20 is a grass-roots organization that since 2006 has been working toward local sustainability in East Jefferson County.
It is allied with the international Transition Movement in building community resilience in the face of peak oil, climate change and economic instability, according to the organization.
For more information, email shelly@sustainabletogether.com, phone 360-301-2540 or visit www.l2020.org.
Rat Island Regatta
PORT TOWNSEND — The Rat Island Regatta, in which people row or paddle around Rat Island and back to Fort Worden State park, will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday.
A mandatory pre-race gathering for participants is set for 9:15 a.m. on the beach south of the kitchen shelter on Fort Worden State Park beach.
The entry fee is $20 per person for boats of one or two competitors.
It is $10 for members of Sound Rowers, for rowers 18 and younger, and for boats with three or more competitors.
The regatta, which is on a 7.8-mile course, is open to all human-powered boats.
Participants will start and finish at Fort Worden State Park in the water outside the kitchen shelter.
The course goes southeast by Point Hudson, continues across Port Townsend Bay, curls around Rat Island and then returns.
Fish will be provided at a post-race potluck. A side dish can be brought to share.
The race is sponsored by SoundRowers Open Water Rowing and Paddling Club and the Rat Island Rowing & Sculling Club.
For more information, contact race director Steve Chapin at 360-385-0457 or sbchapin@msn.com.
Free outdoor concert
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Summer Band will present a free public concert at Chetzemoka Park at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The band will perform two sets of music, separated by a brief intermission.
One featured selection will be the Port Townsend premiere of the “Sequim Centennial March,” composed by the band’s conductor, Karl F. Bach. Herb Payson will serve as the master of ceremonies.
The band also will play a special Independence Day concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St.
CHIMACUM
Native garden opening
CHIMACUM — The grand opening of the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Demonstration Garden is today.
The grand opening will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the garden in H.J. Carroll Park, 9884 Rhody Drive.
Port Townsend’s Ukuleles Unite and the Seattle string duo of Georgia Browne and Tom McDonald will provide musical entertainment for the free public event.
Representatives from area plant nurseries also will be at the park for a native plant sale.
Garden designer Linda Landkammer said the 1-acre garden features 240 plant species native to the Pacific Northwest, and organizers plan to double that number in the future.
The garden is named in honor of Chief Kul Kah Han, the last known chief of the Chimakum tribe.
PORT ANGELES
Boys in the Boat
PORT ANGELES — The author of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which features a Sequim native, will give a reading at 7 tonight.
The reading will be at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Admission is free, while copies of the book will be available for purchase.
The book by Daniel James Brown tells of Joe Rantz, who was 15 when his family left him behind in Sequim, and Rantz’s climb to the height of his sport of rowing, as well as how he learned to trust again through working with his crew.
Rantz was one of the Washington oarsmen who rowed against Hitler’s handpicked team. The crew from the Pacific Northwest — sons of Depression-stricken loggers and dairy farmers — raced against regimented Germans in crisp whites with swastikas on their chests.
Brown is on a national tour, reading from The Boys in the Boat, which landed Sunday on The New York Times best-seller list.
Basecamp series
PORT ANGELES — Linda Silvas, owner of the Native American Footprints guide company, will present “Paddle to Quinault” at the Red Lion Hotel from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. today.
The lecture is part of the Basecamp Adventure Talk each Friday at the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St.
The hotel launched the series of free talks to showcase the outdoor activities and locations that can be explored on the Olympic Peninsula throughout the summer.
Talks will touch on many of the various adventure options available to travelers visiting the Peninsula.
Speakers will include ecologists, tour guides, storytellers, filmmakers, historians, anglers and mountaineers.
Light hors d’oeuvres will be served, and Happy Hour “Basecamp” drink specials will be offered.
The schedule for July is:
■ Charles Smith, chair of the Port Angeles Downtown Association’s Art on the Town committee, will present “Art on the Town” on July 5.
■ Meredith Parker, general manager of the Makah Cultural and Research Museum, will present “Ozette Dig and Makah Museum” on July 12.
■ Chris Gutmacher and Andy Stevenson, co-presidents of the Peninsula Trails Coalition, will discuss “The Olympic Discovery Trail” on July 19.
■ Kathy Monds, Clallam County Historical Society director, will speak on a to-be-determined topic July 26.
Honoring veterans
PORT ANGELES — Local veterans’ groups will hold a memorial ceremony at Veterans Park, 271 S. Lincoln St., at 1 p.m. today.
The ceremony will be in honor of military men and women who have died in the past month.
Each service member’s name and branch of service will be read aloud, and the Liberty Bell replica will be rung in their honor.
The ceremony is held at Veterans Park the last Friday of every month.
Multi-family sale
PORT ANGELES — A multi-family garage sale will be held at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall today and Saturday.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days at the hall at 73 Howe Road.
Items on sale include household goods, children’s toys, consignment-quality clothing, books, furniture and more.
Organizers request no early arrivals.
Mini war games set
PORT ANGELES — Gamers can receive free training and practice playing two different miniature war games at Anime Kat, 110 W. First St., between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday.
Anime Kat staff will instruct people on how to command miniature soldiers, complete objectives and defeat foes on the tabletop terrain.
Warhammer 40,000 will be played from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The game is set in a dystopian universe in the 41st millennium, where the warring factions include humans, orks and various alien races.
Infinity will be played from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Set 175 years into the future, former nations have banded together in intergalactic federations to battle aliens and an artificial intelligence for control of resources.
Both games are designed for ages 12 and older.
For more information, visit www.animekat.com or phone 360-797-1313.
Short-story reading
PORT ANGELES — A public reading of Eleven Kinds of Mourning, a collection of short stories by Port Angeles author Todd Davidson, is set for Saturday.
The reading will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Davidson is an addiction counselor and has written a memoir, The End of Innocence: Looking Back.
Books will be available for purchase after the reading.
Strawberry shortcake
PORT ANGELES — A strawberry shortcake fundraiser to benefit the Port Angeles Farmers Market is planned for this Saturday and Saturday, July 6.
Nash’s Organic Produce will provide berries for the event with handmade shortcakes and real whipped cream.
“Strawberries are the first berry of the summer, and this year’s crop of Nash’s organic berries is extra sweet and delicious,” said market manager Cynthia Warne.
“The strawberry season is a relatively short one, so people who love this special summer fruit should come on out and enjoy them while they last.”
Strawberry shortcake will be served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day and will sell for $5 per serving while supplies last.
For more information, phone Warne at 360-460-0361.
Genealogy research
PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Genealogical Research Center, 402 E. Lauridsen Blvd., will be open from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Volunteer staff will be on hand to help researchers.
Regular hours for the center are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
The center welcomes donations of Clallam County school annuals, city directories, Bible records and photos of early Clallam County residents.
For more information, phone 360-417-5000.
Football car wash
PORT ANGELES — Members of the Neah Bay Eagles eight-man football team will hold a car wash at Price Ford Lincoln, 3311 E. U.S. Highway 101, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The team recently won the Northwest 8 Man League title and are raising funds to play in a national championship playoff in Las Vegas.
Rainbow car wash
PORT ANGELES — A car wash benefit is set Saturday for the Port Angeles Assembly Rainbow for Girls.
The car wash will be held at Les Schwab, 2527 E. U.S. Highway 101, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Proceeds will help send Rainbow girls to the annual Rainbow Convention in Yakima from July 12-14.
Streamkeepers training
PORT ANGELES — Streamkeepers, Clallam County’s volunteer stream-monitoring program, will conduct the first of two summer field training days from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
The training will be in the county commissioners’ meeting room (160) in the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
Those who want to learn more about watershed stewardship and stream monitoring are invited to attend. No prior experience is necessary.
Attendees will receive volunteer orientation at the courthouse before heading to Peabody Creek for an insect-sampling training session.
A second field training day, covering quality assurance and water-quality monitoring, will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 28 at a location yet to be announced.
For more information or to register, phone 360-417-2281 or email streamkeepers@co.clallam.wa.us.
Gun club visits
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Gun Club is inviting nonmembers to shoot at its range through Sunday.
The gun club offers several types of clay-bird shooting, including singles, handicap, doubles, continental and five-stand.
Shooting is available from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays.
Cost is $3.50 for a line of 25 shots, which is reduced from the standard price of $4 per line.
For safety reasons, 12-gauge trap shells must be purchased at the club for $6 per box of 25.
Shooters must have a 12-gauge shotgun in safe, usable condition; knowledge of safe gun handling; and wear adequate hearing and eye protection.
Club rules and etiquette brochures are available at the club, located at 253093 U.S. Highway 101 across from Wilder Auto Center.
For more information, visit www.shootpagc.com or phone 360-457-4053.
SEQUIM
Fourth Friday reading
SEQUIM — George Lindamood will serve as featured writer during the Fourth Friday Readings today.
The reading will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Rainshadow Coffee Bar, 157 W. Cedar St.
Lindamood will read from his recently published book, The Accidental Peacemaker.
Open-mic readings will follow for those who want to read a five-minute-maximum piece of poetry or prose.
Those interested in reading should arrive at 6 p.m. to sign up.
Accordion concert
SEQUIM — Scottish accordionist Gary Blair will perform at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, at 6:30 p.m. today.
Blair will perform a variety of music from around the world.
He will have CDs available for purchase.
Admission is $5.
Lions crab feed
SEQUIM — The third annual Crab Feed sponsored by the Sequim Valley Lions Club will be held at Pioneer Park, 387 E. Washington St., from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Crab dinners will be available for $18, with Domino’s pizza available for $2 per slice.
Live music will be provided by The Old Sidekicks.
The event will include raffles and a silent auction.
Beer and wine sales to those 21 and older will be offered by The Oasis Bar and Grill.
Bird-lover lecture
SEQUIM — Terry Martin will lead attendees in a discussion of the life and work of Alexander Wilson, known as the Father of American Ornithology, during a lecture at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Information will be presented on his journeys through the eastern Americas as he discovered and documented bird species into one of the first field guides.
Admission is by donation and supports center programs.
The lecture is part of a Dungeness River Audubon Center series on early American ornithologists.
For more information, phone 360-681-4076 or visit www.dungenessrivercenter.org.
Aviation discussion
SEQUIM — Matt Wallinter of the Federal Aviation Administration will speak at the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 430’s monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Wallinter will present “Aviators: Supervisor of Approach Control” at the meeting at Sequim Valley Airport, 468 Dorothy Hunt Lane.
A potluck will follow at noon.
The public is invited.
GOP barn sale
SEQUIM — A barn sale benefit will be offered by the Republican Women of Clallam County from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The sale of household and garden treasures will be at the Ireland farm at 20 Spath Road off Kitchen-Dick Road.
Items offered include furniture, books, tools, plants, an organ, men and women’s clothing, and more.
Proceeds will benefit community projects.
Homebuyer class
SEQUIM — A free first-time-homebuyers class will be held at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Michele Adkisson from Eagle Home Mortgage and Claire Koenigsaecker from RE/MAX Fifth Avenue will speak.
A free lunch and refreshments will be served.
This class is sponsored by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.
To RSVP, phone 360-683-2688.
Benefit concert set
SEQUIM — The Praise Sisters will provide an “Afternoon of Song and Praise” in concert directed by Viletta Skillman and accompanied by Dave Brubaker in a benefit for the Sequim Basque Program on Sunday.
The benefit will be at 2 p.m. at Sequim Community Church, 950 N. Fifth Ave.
Music will range from old-time hymns and gospel to contemporary.
Admission is free. There will be a free-will offering and donation opportunity during the concert.
The benefit will support the Sequim/Port Angeles Basque Student Exchange Program in association with Summer in the USA.
For more information, phone 360-207-0037 or email sequimbasquefund@gmail.com.
