WEEKEND: Peninsula to celebrate Mother’s Day with events this weekend

Published 12:01 am Friday, May 6, 2016

Mothers will be celebrated with special meals and gifts Sunday.

Here are events on the North Olympic Peninsula planned especially to celebrate Mother’s Day:

PORT ANGELES

Mother’s Day brunch

PORT ANGELES — The Elks Naval Lodge will host a Mother’s Day brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

The buffet-style brunch will be in the third-floor ballroom at the lodge at 131 E. First St.

The cost is $20 per person, or $10 for mothers and those younger than 12.

Mothers’ breakfasts come with a mimosa.

To RSVP or for more information, call 360-457-3355.

Mother’s Day swim

PORT ANGELES — William Shore Memorial Pool, 225 E. Fifth St., will host a Mother’s Day Swim all day Sunday.

Mothers will receive free admission to the pool with a paying child.

The pool’s hours Sunday are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with open swim from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information, phone 360-417-9767 or email info@williamshorepool.org.

TAFY plant sale

PORT ANGELES — The Answer For Youth will host a Mother’s Day weekend plant sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday.

The sale will be at 833 E. Front St. — the site of Hartnagel Building Supply before it moved to U.S. Highway 101 — at Race and Front streets.

Cedar planter boxes filled with plants — arranged and planted by Wayne Roedell — will be for sale. Plants and boxes will be in various sizes.

TAFY is a drop-in center for homeless and those at-risk for homelessness up to age 35.

For information, call Susan Hillgren at 360-670-4363.

Flower baskets

PORT ANGELES — The Northwinds Homeschool Band is offering hanging flower baskets for Mother’s Day.

Members of the band planted 400 hanging flowering baskets and are offering them for $30 per basket, with a discount of 10 percent for orders of four or more.

Advance orders will be delivered by Mother’s Day, said Gina Lowman, band board member.

Band members are raising money for an anticipated performance tour to Washington, D.C., next spring.

To order flower baskets, phone 360-681-2986.

SEQUIM

Mother’s Day brunch

SEQUIM — The Sequim Elks Lodge will host a Mother’s Day brunch for the public at 143 Port Williams Road from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children, with those younger than 5 admitted free of charge.

Moms will get free flowers.

Scrambled eggs, link sausage, fried potatoes, biscuits and gravy, orange juice, waffles with strawberries and champagne, and coffee will be offered.

CHIMACUM

Day-before plant sale

CHIMACUM — The Tri-Area Garden Club, in cooperation with the Chimacum High School horticulture class, is sponsoring a plant sale the day before Mother’s Day.

The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the greenhouse at Chimacum High at 91 West Valley Road.

The sale is held the day before Mother’s Day to offer the opportunity to shop for gifts.

Members have cultivated many varieties of perennials, shrubs, bulbs and native plants — all proven to do well on the Olympic Peninsula.

Chimacum students will offer hanging baskets and veggie starts.

Several local nurseries also have donated plants.

WEST END

Mother’s Day breakfast

FORKS — The Forks Elks Lodge will host its annual Mother’s Day breakfast at the lodge, 941 Merchants Road, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday.

Admission is $8 for those 12 and older, and $6 for seniors and children ages 4 to 11; children 3 and younger will be admitted free.

The menu includes ham, sausage, biscuits and gravy, French toast, pancakes, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, orange juice and coffee.

Kalaloch Lodge

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The Kalaloch Lodge will serve a special Mother’s Day dinner in the Creekside Restaurant on Sunday.

Entrees will range from $17 for a large bowl of grilled shrimp salad to $34 for lamb or halibut.

Every mother will receive a carnation and handmade truffles, the lodge said.

To make reservations, call the restaurant at 360-962-2271, ext. 4007.

Flower basket sale

FORKS — The annual Mother’s Day Forks Alternative School Plant and Hanging Basket Sale is set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The sale will be at the Forks High School auto shop.

The auto shop is across from the Peninsula College Extension site, which is at 481 S. Forks Ave.

The students have made hanging baskets as Mother’s Day gifts.

Proceeds will go toward an end-of-the-year field trip to Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma.