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Vicki Parrish of Seven Bays near Davenport, left, discusses the circumstances of a 1987 plane crash she survived on Blyn Mountain with one of her rescuers, Robert Hamlin of Clallam County Search and Rescue, during a reunion in Port Angeles on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Survivor of 1987 Blyn Mountain crash meets rescuer

Night a ‘pivot point’ in her life

Key City Public Theatre's Bry Kifolo leads this weekend's Port Townsend Hidden History walking tours at 2 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday. For information, see keycitypublictheatre.org. (Port Townsend Main Street Program)

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Music, movies, laughter on the menu as April turns to May

Comedy, global travel, romance and theatrical bingo are all on the North Olympic Peninsula’s entertainment itinerary this weekend.…

Violist Tyrone Beatty will appear this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the Peninsula Singers. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula Singers are back on a stage

First segment dedicated to those who have died of COVID or in Ukraine

Kathy Knoblock, pictured outside Port Townsend’s Rothschild House with her constant companion Baxter, is an organizer of this weekend’s Victorian Heritage Festival. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Victorian Heritage Festival set for this weekend

Events billed as first celebration of season on Peninsula

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Sequim Community Orchestra sets 10th anniversary concert

Event will be free, but registration required to attend

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JUMP structure set to be created

Playground will be fully accessible

Marielle Eykeman, a volunteer, sells a Duck Derby ticket to Vonda Hartman at the downtown Safeway earlier this week. This year’s Duck Derby will be on the Port Angeles waterfront. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Annual Duck Derby tickets now on sale

Races to be in person for first time in two years

The Ballet Workshop’s senior dancers — from left, Caitlynn Donaldson, Isabella Knott, Ryan Andrews and Amelia Brown — will join performers from Oregon and New York City in this weekend’s production of “The Sleeping Beauty.” (Bob Spink)

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‘Sleeping Beauty’ reawakens with performance in Port Angeles

Ballet Workshop presents dancers from New York City

Above the crowd in the Chimacum School Commons is Brian Goodman’s family portrait of, from top, Cindy, Azuriah, Phineas and Zishe Sylvester. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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‘Still Here: Portraits of the Chemakum’ reopens Saturday

Exhibit elicits both joy, tears at Chimacum High

Nellie Bly (Maggie Jo Bulkley) and Phileas Fogg (Brendan Chambers) engage in global travel — real and imagined — in “Around the World in Less Than 80 Days,” now playing at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Music, film, drama spring up this weekend across North Olympic Peninsula

Springtime activities hit full strength this weekend with jazz and swing, a film festival and a theatrical race…

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Earth Day celebrations set this weekend on Olympic Peninsula

The North Olympic Peninsula will offer a variety of Earth Day celebrations.

Principal horn player Bruce Kelley is the featured soloist with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra, which will offer Armenian American composer Alan Hovhaness’ Artik Concerto tonight and Sunday at the Chimacum School Auditorium. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Symphony on stage Friday, Sunday

Performances set in Chimacum

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Weekend workshop to explore plans for poplars

Groups oppose proposal to remove ‘heritage’ trees

Babs, a 7-month-old lab in training for Guide Dogs for the Blind, makes her first trek up a paratransit bus ramp with her raiser Karen Tyson. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Clallam Transit takes guide dog trainees for a ride

Canines learning to help visually impaired people

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Youth theater classes to start in Chimacum

Five-week sessions culminate in showcase for family and friends

The new Creative Alliance at Fort Worden State Park includes, clockwise from left, Copper Canyon Press’ Joseph Bednarik; Heron Scott of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking; Renee Klein of Madrona MindBody Institute; Centrum’s Rob Birman; KPTZ’s Robert Ambrose, Copper Canyon’s George Knotek; KPTZ’s Kate Ingram; Corvidae Press’ Randy Arnest; Northwind Art’s Teresa Verraes and Fort Worden Public Development Authority Executive Director David Timmons. (Brian Goodman)

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New Creative Alliance takes on building upkeep at Fort Worden

Group to relieve PDA of capital maintenance obligations

“Exposure,” a documentary about women from the Arab world and the West who intend to ski to the North Pole, is among the offerings during the 10-day Women & Film festival starting Friday. (Holly Morris)

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Women & Film explores ‘varieties of strength’

Online festival begins Friday, runs through May 1

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A son’s mission with a father’s support

Former youth pastor leads team to build Guatemalan houses, distribute wheelchairs

Ukrainian-American Mariia Bush holds the Ukranian flag up at the John Wayne Marina in Sequim as she discusses the upcoming “Ukraine at the Table” benefit to be held at Bella Italia on Tuesday. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Dinner at Bella Italia to benefit Ukraine charities

Event to provide a connection with people in need

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State Board of Health won’t require COVID vaccine for students

Provision only in two states in nation