Spooks and merriment celebrated on Peninsula

Little monsters will go out trick-or-treating Wednesday, starting with downtown events in Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend and Forks.

• In Port Townsend, some 1,500 to 2,000 people are expected to attend as a Halloween parade travels through town.

Parade participants will gather at 3:45 p.m. at the 1st Security Bank Plaza for the 24th annual Main Street Downtown Trick or Treat and Costume Parade.

The Friendly Main Street Witches will lead the ensemble, which will leave at 4 p.m. to journey to Quimper Mercantile Plaza.

Children will trick-or-treat at merchants’ businesses on the way back into town.

Water Street and some side streets from Madison to Polk will be closed to traffic from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

This event is sponsored by the Port Townsend Main Street Program, Olympic Peninsula Steam, The Old Whiskey Mill, and participating merchants.

• In Sequim, costumed children and their parents can roam from door to door of participating businesses for candy and other treats from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The free event, sponsored by the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce and Sequim Merchants, features business owners with a posted picture of a pumpkin in their window handing out treats to children.

Participants are urged to be attentive to traffic because Washington Street will remain open.

• During the same hours, Sinclair Place, at 680 W. Prairie St., will offer trick-or-treating as well as sugar cookie decorating and hot cocoa.

For more information, call 360-558-3250.

• In Port Angeles, downtown merchants will hand out candy to trick-or-treaters from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

All participating merchants will have “Trick or Treat Here” signs in their windows.

Olympic Kiwanis volunteers will help with street crossings. Every year this group donates time to help keep children safe downtown while trick-or-treating.

Two locations downtown will be decorated for photo opportunities, one at the fountain at First and Laurel streets and one next to Odyssey Bookshop on Front Street.

• On the west side of town will be the second annual Westside Trick or Treat sponsored by the North Olympic History Center from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

All comers are encouraged to wear costumes.

Participants will gather at the Old Lincoln School at the corner of west Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles. The whole family is welcome. A place will be set aside for family photos.

Trick-or-treating will begin there and continue at participating Westside businesses: Angeles Millwork & Lumber Co., Grandview Grocery, The County Woodwright, Angeles Plumbing (from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.), Steve’s Westside Muffler and Brakeshop, Dave’s Heating and Cooling, Woodfire Grill and Laurel Lanes.

• Peninsula College will offer Halloween Trick or Treating on its Port Angeles campus from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Maps of participating offices/buildings are available at the Associated Student Council office in the PUB on the campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

• In Forks, downtown trick-or-treating is planned from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. with participating businesses handing out candy.

Businesses open to trick-or-treaters include Forks Avenue Real Estate, Chinook Pharmacy, Decker City Hardware, Native to Twilight, Home Slice Take n Bake Pizza, The Parlor, Forever Twilight in Forks Collection, Farmers Insurance, Forks Library and Mexican Market Chalma.

Spooky tours

Leading up to Halloween, Twisted History Tours offers spooky adventures in Port Angeles and Port Townsend.

In Port Townsend are In Dead of Night, Downtown Dare, Uptown Haunts, Twice as Twisted, Family Friendly Phantom and the 2018 Witches’ Grand Ball.

In Port Angeles are the Downtown Dare and In Dead of Night.

For more about the tours and for tickets, see twistedhistorytours.com.

Here is a list of other events this weekend and on Halloween on the North Olympic Peninsula.

FORKS

Rain of Terror

FORKS — The VFW of Forks is sponsoring the Rain of Terror Haunted Hangar from 7 p.m. to midnight today, Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday.

The haunted hangar is at the Quillayute Airport, 5144 Quillayute Road.

Organizers have said it is the scariest on the Olympic Peninsula.

Admission is $10.

For information, call 360-780-2077.

Library lock-in

FORKS — A teen lock-in is planned at the Forks Library from 6 to 8 tonight.

The evening’s activities at the library at 171 S. Forks Ave. will include board and card games, mini-golf, a scary story challenge and snack.

Costumes are optional, but are encouraged.

Pet costume contest

FORKS — The Forks Forum sponsors the fourth annual Halloween Pet Costume Contest on Saturday.

The contest will be outside Forks Outfitters, 950 S. Forks Ave., in the Pumpkin Patch.

Entry is by donation of cash or pet food.

Photos will be available by donation, too.

First-, second- and third-place prizes will be awarded. Treats will be available for man and beast.

Judging will take place from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. with photos offered from 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.

All dogs must be on a leash and no pets are allowed in the store.

All funds raised will benefit Friends of Forks Animals.

Halloween party

FORKS — Sunshine and Rainbows will host a Halloween party from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday.

The party will be at Family First Center, 915 S. Forks Ave.

Costumes are optional at this free, public event.

The party will include activities, treats, crafts and games.

All children attending must be accompanied by adults.

Truck and Treat

FORKS — Truck and treat will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The annual event will be held on the campus of Forks Assembly of God, 81 Huckleberry Lane.

The event will include games, food, prizes and more than 30 themed vehicles.

CLALLAM BAY

Halloween Potluck

CLALLAM BAY — A Halloween Party and Potluck is planned at Three Sisters of Clallam at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

The public is invited to the party at Three Sisters of Clallam, 16950 Highway 112.

Music by Therapy Session will start at 7 p.m.

SEKIU

Halloween Carnival

SEKIU — Hess Mart will host a Kids Halloween Carnival on Halloween.

The free carnival will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the store at 17203 state Highway 112.

The carnival is designed for elementary school children but all ages are welcome, said store owner Marcia Hess.

Costumes are encouraged.

Games, such as bobbing for apples and prizes are planned.

PORT ANGELES

Haunted Underground

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Underground Heritage Tours is offering a history-meets-haunts tour of the Port Angeles underground almost daily between now and Halloween.

The tours are at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. today, 10 a.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

They cost $19 for adults and $17 for seniors and students.

Reservations are recommended as the fill completely. Walk-ins can join only on a first-come, first-served basis at the Port Angeles Visitor Center in the 10 minutes before the tour.

Contact Bruce at 360-460-5748 for questions and information about the Haunted Underground Tour.

Children are welcome but organizers said that the tour may be too frightening for children younger than 10.

To address concerns, including about a stop in a historic brothel, email info@portangelesheritage tours.com

To book tours and for more information, see www.portangelesheritage tours.com.

Be-Witching Tea

PORT ANGELES — Soroptimist International of Port Angeles Jet-Set will host its annual “Be-Witching Tea” on Saturday.

The tea will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the ballroom of the Naval Elks Lodge, 131 E. First St.

Tickets are $35.

The event includes a silent auction, food and “witches brew.”

This is a fundraiser to support the group’s scholarship program for 2019.

Costumes are encouraged but not required.

For tickets call The Witch at 360-457-0545, contact any Soroptimist Jet Set member or go online to www.sijetset.com.

SEQUIM

Peter Pan

SEQUIM — The Pumpkin Patch, a 33-acre farm at the corner of U.S. Highway 101 and Kitchen-Dick Road, is open daily from noon to 6 p.m. through Wednesday.

It features a “Peter Pan” theme this year in its corn maze designed by Amanda Lawton.

Entry to the maze is $5. U-pick pumpkins vary in cost depending on the size, type and style of pumpkin. The farm also offers a pumpkin shoot daily, fees apply, and a wagon ride on weekends.

To schedule a field trip, call Theresa Lassila at 360-461-0940.

Haunted Hallways

SEQUIM — Sequim High School will host its annual Haunted Hallways from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The free event will be in the high school’s H building, 601 N. Sequim Ave.

Parents and guardians can bring children dressed in costumes for Halloween activities.

The Sequim High choir will perform throughout.

Sequim High’s ASB and campus clubs run the event.

Pumpkin party, fair

SEQUIM — The Sequim Prairie Grange Pumpkin Party and Country Fair is set for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

The fair will be at the Glenda Clark Memorial Kitchen behind the grange hall, 290 Macleay Road.

It will feature pumpkin carving and cookie decorating.

The doors to the hall open at 4:30 p.m. for the Country Fair, with food, games (ring toss, darts, fishing pond, etc.), guessing games and a cake walk with food available for purchase in the kitchen.

Game tickets are 25 cents. Costumes are welcome.

For more information, call Dorinda Becker at 360-683-8296.

Speech marathon

SEQUIM — Skwim Toastmasters Club will host the “Howl-loween” Speech Marathon in the conference room at the Sequim Library from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Reservations for the free event at the library at 630 N. Sequim Ave., are requested at Halloween Speeches.eventbrite.com.

The speech marathon will feature eight speeches of 5 to 7 minutes each, and eight 2- to 3-minute evaluations. Refreshments will be served. Costumes are encouraged and prizes will be awarded.

Speaking is not required of audience members but imaginations are, organizers said.

For more information, visit the website or call Kyle Hall at 360-808-5760.

Halloween Bash

SEQUIM — The Carroll C. Kendall Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula will host a a Halloween Bash from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

The party will be in the Sequim unit of the clubs at 400 W. Fir St.

Admission will be $3 per person and will include a pizza, chips and soda dinner and tickets for games. Along with games will be arts and crafts, a haunted house, costume contest, a scary movie, a live DJ and a cupcake walk. It is open to the public and all ages are welcome.

For more information, call 360-683-8095.

Harvest Happening

SEQUIM — Faith Lutheran Church will host a Harvest Happening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Free food, candy, games, a cake walk and crafts will be offered at the church at 382 W. Cedar St., Sequim.

Organizers said that friendly costumes are encouraged.

Food for Fun

SEQUIM — King’s Way Foursquare Church will host “The Bash – Food for Fun” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The church at 1023 Kitchen-Dick Road will offer games, bounce houses, pony rides and a rock-climbing wall.

Admission will be a food donation for the Sequim Food Bank.

Hot dogs and snacks will be available for purchase.

Organizers said that friendly costumes are welcome.

For more information, call 360-683-8020 or email info@thekingsway.net.

Trunk or Treat

SEQUIM —Eastern Hills Community Church will host a Trunk or Treat from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The church at 91 Savannah Lane in Carlsborg will offer hot dogs, bounce houses, train rides and music.

For more information, call 360-681-4367.

GARDINER

Owl-Oween

GARDINER — Wild Birds Unlimited will present Owl-Oween from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The business at 275953 U.S. Highway 101 will offer an up-close-and- personal look at the owls of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue. Along with owls will be crafts, games, prizes and a visit from “Hairy Potter.”

For more information, contact Christie Lassen at 360-797-7100 or marcL2377@msn.com.

BLYN

Concert, contest

BLYN — 7 Cedars Casino will throw a Halloween party with musical guest Wild Child at 9 p.m. and a costume contest at 11 p.m. Saturday.

No cover will be charged for the party at Club Seven, 270756 U.S. Highway 101, Blyn.

The costume contest will offer $2,500 in cash prizes. Guests must be 21 and older.

The Rainforest Cafe will feature DJ OB1 at 9 p.m. for those 18 and older.

PORT TOWNSEND

Haunt Town

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend Kiwanis is hosting Haunt Town in the basement of the Elks Lodge.

Admission is $10 per person at the haunted house at the lodge at 555 Otto St.

Haunt Town will be open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today and Sunday and on Wednesday for Halloween.

Proceeds from the house will benefit Port Townsend Kiwanis, the Elks and local Associated Student Body clubs.

For more information, call Steve Spencer at 360-774-0879 or email sspencer 154@gmail.com.

Spooky swim

PORT TOWNSEND — The Mountain View Pool will host a Spooky Swim from 7 to 9 tonight.

The cost is $5 per person at the pool, 1925 Blaine St.

Games along with “bone-chilling music and freaky lights” are promised.

For more information, call 360-385-7665 or visit www.cityofpt.us/pool.

Haunted Bordello

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend’s Haunted Bordello is offering guided tours to small groups from 7 to 10:30 tonight and Saturday.

The bordello is at 313 Walker St.

Parking at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., is recommended.

Advance tickets are $15 and can be purchased at www.hauntedbordello.com.

All attendees must be 17 years of age or more to enter, with no exceptions.

“If you are disturbed by skin, sin or scariness then this probably isn’t for you,” according to the website.

QUILCENE

Fun at the Station

QUILCENE — The Quilcene Fire Department invites the public to Fun at the Station at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

“Dress the kids up and we’ll send them home with treats,” said organizers of the party at the station at 70 Herbert St.

For more information, call 360-765-3333.