WEEKEND: Area events abound on the Peninsula [corrected]

Published 12:01 am Saturday, August 1, 2015

Corrects the starting time for Yoram Bauman’s presentation at the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce.

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, July 31.

A tour of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Stuff the Bus events and a celebration of a reopened campground are among the activities planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

For information on “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a musical in Sequim, and for a schedule of public concerts during the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival — as well as other activities — see Peninsula Spotlight, the weekly arts and entertainment magazine, included in today’s Peninsula Daily News.

More events are also on the calendar at cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/peninsuladailynews.

PORT ANGELES

Vintage VW cruise

PORT ANGELES — Day 1 of the free annual Treffen-1700 Mile Vintage VW Car Cruise will start from Ediz Hook today.

VW owners can drive 10 miles or 1,700 through Saturday.

For more information, contact Danielle Starr at 805-650-2050 or danielle@airheadparts.com, or visit www.airheadparts.com and click on the “Treffen 17” logo under “Specials.”

‘Aesop’s Foibles’

PORT ANGELES — “Aesop’s Foibles,” a comic treatment of the classic stories about hares, tortoises, boys, wolves and other creatures, is headed for Port Angeles — courtesy of the Clallam County YMCA Drama Camp — today and Saturday.

Admission is free to the three shows: at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. today and 6 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave.

In this 50-minute play by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus, young Aesop is always hearing voices in his head.

Then they come to life as characters on stage: the indignant Fox, the unscrupulous Hare, the ambitious Tortoise, the Boy Who (prideful of his quick wit) Cried Wolf, the zen-like Grasshopper and the Aunt (his mother’s sister), the humiliated Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing and several others.

For information about activities at the Y, phone 360-452-9244.

TAFY rummage sale

PORT ANGELES — The Answer For Youth (TAFY) will host a rummage sale at the old Hartnagel’s Building, corner of Race and Front streets, throughout this afternoon and Saturday afternoon.

Furniture, dressers, kitchen items and some new additions will be for sale.

To donate to the sale, phone Susan Hillgren at 360-670-4363.

Stuff the Bus

PORT ANGELES — Those who want to donate school supplies to the Port Angeles School District’s Back to School giveaway can Stuff the Bus from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The yellow bus collection point will be in the Walmart Supercenter parking lot at 3411 E. Kolonels Way.

The district is working with Parent Line/Lutheran Community Services NW and other local service organizations to host the 2015 Back to School Event for families in need at Jefferson Elementary School, 218 E. 12th St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22.

Supplies and services will be available free to students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Another Stuff the Bus event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, in the Rite Aid parking lot at 621 S. Lincoln St.

Donations also can be made at the Port Angeles School District Central Services Building, 216 Fourth St., across from the Clallam County Courthouse.

For more information or to make a donation, phone Lisa Lyon at 360-452-5437 or Tina Smith-O’Hara at 360-565-3703.

County beach cleanup

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Marine Resource Community will host a cleanup of Ediz Hook beach at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Volunteers will meet at 11 a.m. in the picnic area at the end of Ediz Hook Road.

A canopy and table will mark the area.

For more information, phone Haley Gray at 360-808-7180, email hrgray@pugetsound.edu or visit www.clallamcountymrc.org.

Winery celebrates

PORT ANGELES — Harbinger Winery, 2358 U.S. Highway 101, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with an open house offering complimentary wine tasting from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Finger foods also will be available.

Several artists will be present to sign bottles.

For more information, phone the tasting room at 360-452-4262 or visit www.harbingerwinery.com.

‘Stand-up economist’

PORT ANGELES — Comedian and activist Yoram Bauman, who bills himself as “the world’s only stand-up economist,” will give a talk at the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center, 401 E. First St., from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

“Climate Change — It’s No Joke: An Evening of Fun, Fossil-Fuel Fungibility and Fundraising with Yoram Bauman” is sponsored by Olympic Climate Action and Carbon Washington.

There is no charge, while the event is a political fundraiser.

Bauman is the founder of Carbon Washington, a grass-roots campaign seeking to put Initiative 732, a carbon tax proposal, on the 2016 ballot.

I-732 would institute a revenue-neutral carbon tax in Washington state, using revenue from a tax on fossil fuels to reduce existing taxes.

On Monday, Bauman will speak to the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce during its luncheon meeting at noon in the Red Lion Hotel banquet room, 221 N. Lincoln St.

SEQUIM

Musical showcase

SEQUIM — The musical theater performers of the near future will dance, sing and sashay onto two stages today.

Fourteen youngsters from Port Townsend, Sequim and Port Angeles, all students in the summer Teen Musical Theater Intensive at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, will appear in a musical showcase, said intensive instructor Linda Dowdell of Sequim.

The first performance will start at 11 a.m. at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2761 Towne Road; another performance is set for 3 p.m. at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave. Both are free to the public.

For more about the program, see www.teenintensive.com.

Winter veggies

SEQUIM — Master Gardeners will share tips on growing winter vegetables on the Olympic Peninsula at the Master Gardeners’ Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The cost of the workshop is $10 per person.

Class size is limited. To register, phone the WSU Extension office at 360-565-2679.

The workshop will begin with information about preparing gardens for winter crops.

It will continue with a schedule for seeding, planting and harvesting winter vegetables and will end with tips for optimizing temperatures within garden beds, managing pests and diseases, and the benefits of cover cropping.

Attendees will be provided with several handouts to take home to reference during the winter growing season.

Horse rides for vets

SEQUIM — The Native Horsemanship Riding Center, 396 Taylor Cutoff Road, will host free therapeutic riding sessions for 12 veterans from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The first 12 veterans to enroll get a free 1½-hour Wounded Warrior therapeutic riding session with a Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship-certified instructor, Yvette TwoRabbits.

The center has four slots at a time.

Sessions will begin at 10:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 2 p.m.

A free barbecue lunch of brats and all the fixings will be offered for all the vets and their families.

There is a petting zoo, and veterans and their families can spend some time with the therapy horses.

To sign up, veterans can phone 360-775-4098.

For more information, email spottedponynhrc@hotmail.com or irelands@olypen.com.

Thrift shop open

SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell St., will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday

Summer clothes for the entire family, furniture, household and kitchen items, fine jewelry, books, puzzles, shoes and games will be featured.

All white-tagged items will be marked half-price.

Consignors and new volunteers are always wanted.

Phone 360-683-7044 for more information.

Sequim Ballet

SEQUIM — The Sequim Ballet will perform “Peter and the Wolf” at the Sequim Civic Center Community Plaza at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The performance at 152 W. Cedar St. is free and open to the public.

BLYN

Far West Beer Fest

BLYN — Seven Cedars Casino will host the Far West Beer Fest for the third year to benefit the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Education Foundation from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

The event is for those 21 and older. Identification is required.

Admission is $25 per person in advance and $30 the day of the event.

Ticket purchase includes five tasting tokens and a souvenir tasting cup (while supplies last).

Tickets are available at 7 Cedars Casino or online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com.

More than 20 craft breweries will be participating on site, pouring more than 40 beers and ciders.

Live music will be performed by Locos Only and The Hooky’s.

PORT TOWNSEND

Conversation Cafe

PORT TOWNSEND — The topic is “Science and Democracy” at the Conversation Cafe at the Highway 20 Road House, 2152 W. Sims Way, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today.

Lunch is optional.

Conversation Cafe is an exercise in active listening and nonconfrontational conversation.

For more information, visit www.conversationcafe.org.

Fort Flagler walk

PORT TOWNSEND — Walkers are invited to join the Olympic Peninsula Explorers on a scenic walk at Fort Flagler from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

This free walk is either a 5K (3.1 miles) or 10K (6.1 miles). Walkers parking inside the park must have Discovery passes.

The trails are not suitable for strollers or wheelchairs.

Water and restrooms are at the start, finish and along the route.

Pets are permitted, but not in buildings. Owners are responsible for leashes and must abide by cleanup laws.

Within the park boundaries are 14 geocache sites.

Maps will be given out at the start point.

All walkers must be off the trails by 4 p.m.

For more information, contact Todd Oberlander at 360-620-0810 or ope-webmaster@smartandcomputer.com.

For questions on directions, phone George Christensen at 360-697-2172 or 360-473-8398 (cell).

PT fairy tales

PORT TOWNSEND — PT Shorts, Key City Public Theatre’s monthly literary series, will feature classic fairy tales read aloud by local actors Saturday evening.

Admission is free to the 7:30 p.m. program at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.

Fairy tales are the focus in honor of Key City’s Shakespeare in Chetzemoka Park production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” opening next Friday, Aug. 7, and running through Aug. 30.

For information, see www.keycitypublictheatre.org or phone the box office at 360-385-KCPT (5278).

Free Day at museums

PORT TOWNSEND — Saturday will be a free day for Jefferson County residents at three museums operated by the Jefferson County Historical Society.

Residents will not pay to tour the Jefferson Museum of Art & History at 540 Water St., the Commanding Officer’s Quarters at 200 Battery Way in Fort Worden State Park and the Rothschild House Museum on the bluff at the corner of Franklin and Taylor streets.

The first Saturday of each month is “Free Day at the Museums” which is supported by the Port Townsend Arts Commission.

PORT HADLOCK

Book sale slated

PORT HADLOCK — Friends of the Jefferson County Library will host a book sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The sale will be at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave.

Friends members can enjoy early entry at 9:30 a.m.

This will be a large book sale with DVDs, CDs and children’s books.

Tour departments

PORT HADLOCK — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, JeffCom 9-1-1 and the Department of Emergency Management will host an open house of their facilities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The free open house will be at the law enforcement “campus” at 81 Elkins Road.

Informational handouts will be available at tables in the parking lot between the two buildings that house the Port Hadlock Public Safety complex just off Chimacum Road on Elkins Road.

Visitors will have a chance to observe JeffCom dispatch operators as they respond to calls and see where emergency management staff members deal with local disasters.

Staff members will be available to answer questions and provide information.

For more information, contact Keppie Keplinger at 360-385-9368 or kkeplinger@co.jefferson.wa.us.

CHIMACUM

Books signed

CHIMACUM — Author Daniel E. McCoy will signs copies of his book How to Make an American Hero: An Age of Innocence from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The book-signing will be at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road.

The book is about “how to survive being a combat veteran and how to adjust to coming home a hero,” he wrote in a news release.

He will sign books again Aug. 8 at the community center.

QUILCENE

Campground reopens

QUILCENE — A picnic will celebrate the reopening of the Lake Leland Park campground from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The celebration will be at the campground 6 miles north of Quilcene just off U.S. Highway 101.

The campground, which has 22 sites, had been closed since 2012 and has recently reopened.

SEKIU

Auction slated

SEKIU — A Calm Waters Auction will be held at the Sekiu Community Center, 42 Rice St., at 2 p.m. Saturday.

There is a $5 registration fee for the live auction.

Calm Waters is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting troops and veterans.

The group provides fishing trips for alumni from The Wounded Warrior Project, residents from Sarge’s Place and local low-income veterans.

For more information, email calmwatersorg@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/calmwatersorg.

FORKS

Car detailing slated

FORKS — St. Anne’s Relay For Life team will detail cars from noon to 5 p.m. today.

The cleanup will be at the Quillayute Valley School District Home School Plus building, across the street from the Peninsula College branch.

Funds will go toward cancer research.

Blood drive

FORKS — The Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchants Road, will host a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

The Puget Sound Blood Center, which serves hospitals in Western Washington, is suffering from a shortage of all types of blood.

Appointments can be made by calling 800-398-7888. Donors also can just show up.

Fundraiser

FORKS — The Forks High School Volleyball Booster Club will host a car wash from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The car wash will be in the Forks Avenue Real Estate parking lot.

Funds will support the volleyball team.