WEEKEND: Practical skills to be demonstrated at free Port Angeles fair Saturday
Published 12:01 am Friday, September 18, 2015
PORT ANGELES — A free community expo for learning and teaching practical skills is set from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The third annual Skill Share Fair will be at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
It is hosted by the North Olympic Library System, which oversees public libraries in Port Angeles, Sequim, Forks and Clallam Bay, to help foster a more resilient community.
The fair will open with a series of classes. From noon to 3 p.m., representatives of area businesses and community organizations will demonstrate a variety of skills.
Here is the class schedule for free classes in the Raymond Carver Room:
■ 11 a.m. to noon: “Beekeeping” and “The Basics of Vegetable Fermentation.”
■ 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.: “Hugelkultur,” which is making raised garden beds filled with rotten wood, and “Drawing for Accuracy.”
■ 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.: “Winter Gardening” and “Sew Your Own Cuddle Bear.”
Beginning at noon, experts at booths will demonstrate beekeeping, bicycle repair, canning and food preservation, composting, community education, electrical safety, emergency preparedness, home brewing, hugelkultur, low-impact development, sewing and fiber arts, traditional woodworking and weaving.
Participants who visit five booths will be eligible to enter a raffle drawing for useful do-it-yourself prizes donated by The Country Woodwright, Airport Garden Center and Hartnagel Building Supply.
The fair is offered free to the public through the support of the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.
For more information, see “Events” at www.nols.org, call the library at 360-417-8500 or email Library Manager Noah Glaude at nglaude@nols.org.
