Two major festivals — the three-day Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend and StreamFest in Port Angeles on Sunday — highlight this weekend’s activities across the North Olympic Peninsula.
StreamFest and a host of other music and arts activities are covered in today’s Peninsula Spotlight.
Peninsula Spotlight is the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, published every Friday.
* See Page 3 of Spotlight for information on the Second Saturday ArtWalk in Port Angeles.
* Page 4 for the West End Thunder drag races on Saturday and Sunday.
* Page 10 for the Port Townsend Arts Guild 33rd annual “Crafts by the Dock” arts and crafts show.
Many events are also listed in “Things to Do This Weekend,” appearing today by clicking on CALENDAR at left.
There are other weekend events — such as the Tails to Trails walk in Sequim to benefit homeless animals and Saturday’s fundraiser for the Port Angeles Playhouse — spotlighted in the PDN’s A-section today.
There are additional best bets:
9/11 ceremonies
Ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks begin this weekend,
* On Saturday, The Paradise Theatre School presents “9/11 Tribute Reading: The Breakfast Table Entries’ featuring Charles Duncan, Erik Van Beuzekom, Emma Kelety and Liz Dennison.
The reading consists of correspondence between theater critic John Lahr and Seattle playwright August Wilson about the events of 9/11 and their effects.
The reading starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $5. The Paradise Theatre School is located at 161 Center Road in Chimacum.
For more information, phone 360-643-3493 or e-mail theparadise@earthlink.net.
* On Sunday at 9 a.m., law enforcement officers and firefighters will sponsor a 9/11 memorial service at the Old Port Townsend Fire Bell Tower on the corner of Jefferson and Tyler Street in uptown Port Townsend.
The public is invited to attend.
The Rev. Karl Barden, Jefferson County public safety chaplain, will lead a moment of silence.
A brief keynote address, “Never Forgotten,” will be given by retired Fire Capt. John Skinner of Palm Springs, Calif.
Other 9/11 ceremonies will be conducted Monday and will be listed in Sunday’s PDN.
Days of caring
United Way of Clallam County’s annual Day of Caring activities this weekend both encourage volunteers to give back to their community and recognize the beginning of the annual countywide fund drive.
It’s not too late to volunteer.
Phone United Way at 360-457-3011, or e-mail Executive Director Jody Moss at jody@unitedwayclallam.org.
* In Port Angeles will be several volunteer opportunities:
Today volunteers will spruce up the First Step Family Support Center, 325 E. Sixth St., beginning at 9 am.
Also today, and on Saturday, volunteers will paint the exterior of the Peninsula Community Mental Health Center’s Children’s Satellite Clinic, 1004 W. 16th and C streets, beginning at 9 a.m.
If the painting is finished early enough on Saturday, volunteers will go on to attend to the landscaping around the building.
Pro Bono Lawyers, 416 E. First St., welcome volunteers from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Key Bank employees will take on their own United Way Day of Caring project helping to weed and beautify St. Andrews Place on Sept. 14.
* In Sequim, a Day of Caring project is scheduled for Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St.
Volunteers are welcome to help with landscaping and outdoor cleanup.
The Combined Federal Campaign — a special campaign for federal employees — began Tuesday at Helen Haller Elementary School with Coast Guard volunteers painting an exterior wall.
In Forks, volunteers will take on a three house challenge as they paint a series of Section 8 homes for the families who live there on Sept. 16.
Music in Sequim
Fat Chance, a rock and roll group, will wind up this summer’s Music in the Park in Sequim on Saturday.
The band, a longtime North Olympic Peninsula favorite, will play from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the state-of-the-art stage in the Water Reuse Demonstration Park, just north of Carrie Blake Park.
Bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on — plus a picnic basket, or grab some food at a downtown store or restaurant, or at the Sequim Open Aire Market (open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday) on Cedar Street, between Sequim Avenue and Second Street.
Music in the Park — a new event this year — began June 24 and was sponsored by the city of Sequim and Peninsula Daily News.
Additional sponsors were Clark Land Office; US Bank; and Bill Littlejohn, owner of Olympic Ambulance, Sherwood Assisted Living and The Fifth Avenue and Sherwood Village retirement centers in Sequim.
Concert in a barn
On Saturday and Sunday, Olympic Music Festival concludes its 23rd season of summer concerts in a restored 100-year-old barn near Quilcene, just south of State Route 104 along Center Road (watch for the sign off 104).
Saturday’s program will be “Bach: Goldberg Variations’ and “Schubert: Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. Posthumous,” both by Paul Hersh.
Sunday’s program will be a fundraising auction and Hersh performing the “Goldberg Variations.”
Historic bell to ring
A historic schoolhouse bell will ring during a celebration of an improvement project at the Old Dungeness Schoolhouse from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The Sequim Sunrise Rotary Club plans a ribbon-cutting ceremony that will include the ringing of the 300-pound school bell which was originally placed in the school house in 1892.
Refreshments will be served, and the public is invited
The improvement work included sandblasting more than a century of corrosion off the bell, repairing the bell tower and building a new handicap ramp at the schoolhouse.
The work was funded by $10,000 raised at a dinner auction sponsored by Sequim’s Museum & Arts Center in April. The museum maintains the old schoolhouse.
The schoolhouse is located at 2781 Towne Road in Sequim.
The Sunrise Rotary Club covered labor costs of building the new ramp at the schoolhouse along with a parking pad near the ramp for three cars.
For the last four months, about a dozen club members worked on this project.
In addition to celebrating the new access ramp, bell and bell tower, the club will also place a time capsule under the ramp to be removed 50 years from now.
Items in the time capsule will include Rotary Club material as well as artifacts and memorabilia provided by the museum.
Lincoln School sale
Clallam County Historical Society will hold Lincoln School Garage Sale this weekend at the old school on Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles..
A fundraiser for the society, the sale will be held 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Saturday.
Among the thousands of donated items for sale will be Nita Foraker art glass, a treadle sewing machine, Neillo earrings from Siam (before it was Thailand), a troll from Denmark and even an embroidered 44DD bra.
For more information, call Kathy Monds 360-452-2662.
Buddhist path
Tibetan meditation master Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche will appear at Quimper Grange, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday.
The event is free, but donations would be appreciated.
Khenpo Choga, the high lama of the Dzogchen Monastery, will discuss karma, the nature of thinking and techniques for inner peace and happiness.
The high lama is a yoga master, scientist, musician, artist, astrologer, healer, psychologist and doctor of Tibetan medicine.
He is on a national tour and is also visiting the San Juan Islands, Portland, Eugene, Boise, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Quimper Grange is at 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend.
For more information, phone Lily S. Patten, 360-379-3930.
Cruise? Tour?
* Michael Swirski of Seventh Wave Yacht Charters (360-808-0505; www.shadowfox7.com) will take you on a two-hour outing aboard his 45-foot ketch Shadowfox in Port Angeles Harbor and, weather willing, in the Strait.
He also takes charters to Sequim Bay, Port Townsend, Victoria, Neah Bay and the San Juans.
* Will Nelson operates All Points Charters and Tours, a full-service tour and charter company serving Clallam and Jefferson counties with day tours to Lake Crescent, Hurricane Ridge, Hoh rain forest, Makah Tribal Center, wineries of the North Olympic Peninsula and trips elsewhere in the state.
The company also provides custom transportation for any size group, for any purpose, to anywhere in Washington — plus it will make arrangements for business meetings, weddings and other events (including catering, tours, accommodations and arrangements for meeting rooms, entertainment and golf tournaments).
