Life

Faith Junker

PENINSULA PROFILE: Mother helps children heal from traumatic beginnings

PORT ANGELES — Tiffany Sudela-Junker has a 13-year-old daughter: a blue-eyed blond girl who, after joining her new family, renamed herself Faith. Mother and child… Continue reading

Faith Junker
IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Not just any old summertime blues

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Not just any old summertime blues

PORT TOWNSEND — Ultimately, the blues is an optimistic music. It’s about moving through life, dancing sometimes, and sometimes just making your way through sorrow… Continue reading

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Not just any old summertime blues

WEEKEND: ‘Chocolate Confessions’ tastes life’s many flavors

SEQUIM — She’s an authority on chocolate: its history, its flavors . . . and its powers. And Joan Freed — ­aka Coco Bliss —… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Classics to fill air at musical festival

QUILCENE — The sounds of the viola, piano and cello will fill a restored dairy barn this weekend as the Olympic Music Festival presents two… Continue reading

“Dungeness Homecoming

WEEKEND: Demonstrations, crafts part of Art in the Park

SEQUIM — Feel like a walk in the woods or a visit to an art gallery? You can do both starting today with Art in… Continue reading

“Dungeness Homecoming

WEEKEND: Variety spice of life for weekend on Peninsula

Music from classical to funk. Lectures on orcas, vegetables and history. Comedy shows and political action. Variety marks the offerings on the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Stick to the beat with local music offerings

THE BEAT GOES on! There’s more music in the clubs and in the summer sun. Get out and catch it! Port Angeles ■ Tonight at… Continue reading

Juswen Farms owner Wendy Peterson and Five Star Whiz perform a sliding stop to win the championship reining title at the Peninsula Performance Horse Association show at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles in July. Shelby Mowbray

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Local riders sweep stakes in PA show

CELEBRATED INVENTOR THOMAS Edison once said, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Our county fairs… Continue reading

Juswen Farms owner Wendy Peterson and Five Star Whiz perform a sliding stop to win the championship reining title at the Peninsula Performance Horse Association show at the Clallam County Fairgrounds in Port Angeles in July. Shelby Mowbray
Berkeley

Key City Cabaret wraps this Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — When George Rezendes said come to the cabaret, people listened. And this weekend, the guitarist and recording studio operator is wrapping up… Continue reading

Berkeley

Children’s musical show coming to Port Angeles, Sequim

Recess Monkey, a “kindie” band on a nationwide tour, is bringing its children’s musical comedy show to the Port Angeles and Sequim libraries Tuesday, and… Continue reading

Jaden Rockwell

Youthful exuberance fills Dungeness showcase

DUNGENESS — The striking thing about this Broadway-style show was its theme, danced and demonstrated, that a stage production isn't necessarily about stars. A good… Continue reading

Jaden Rockwell
“My Own Two Wheels

‘Bike relief’ on gear at Port Angeles shop, college

PORT ANGELES — For people around the world, a bike means freedom. It means pedaling into a brand-new day, propelled by one's own power. That's… Continue reading

“My Own Two Wheels
“This Imaginary Something” by Amy Weber

Art, natural world to grace park for festival of displays

SEQUIM — Your eyes have an appetite for art, but you're not inclined to spend too much time inside a gallery while the sun's out.… Continue reading

“This Imaginary Something” by Amy Weber

PENINSULA PROFILE: Man uses boat building, fishing to help veterans, others recover from pain

PORT ANGELES ­— There’s the pretty award. And then there is a long-lasting reward. Both came to Bill Kindler this year. The midwesterner-turned-Pacific Northwesterner has… Continue reading

This image of Richard Kobayashi is among the pictures taken by famed photographer Ansel Adams of Japanese-Americans at Manzanar internment camp in California in the 1940s. An exhibit called "Ansel Adams: A Portrait of Manzanar" is on display at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History through Aug. 18. Ansel Adams

Port Townsend museum opens Ansel Adams display today

PORT TOWNSEND — Pictures of one of the nation's darkest moments, captured by a famous photographer, are part of a new show at the Jefferson… Continue reading

This image of Richard Kobayashi is among the pictures taken by famed photographer Ansel Adams of Japanese-Americans at Manzanar internment camp in California in the 1940s. An exhibit called "Ansel Adams: A Portrait of Manzanar" is on display at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History through Aug. 18. Ansel Adams

Film on autism attitudes to screen Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — A one-time benefit screening of “Wretches & Jabberers,” a movie about two men with autism who go traveling around the world, is… Continue reading

Sue McGrew of Tacoma carves the visage of Batman for the Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic in Port Angeles. The event is part of the larger Arts in Action festival taking place throughout downtown and City Pier this weekend. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Sand sculptures part of Arts in Action festival

PORT ANGELES — The suspense. The sunshine. The suppers. The tons upon tons of impermanence. Beach Master Bert Adams loves it all, at competitions across… Continue reading

Sue McGrew of Tacoma carves the visage of Batman for the Windermere Sand Sculpture Classic in Port Angeles. The event is part of the larger Arts in Action festival taking place throughout downtown and City Pier this weekend. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

WEEKEND: Bike scavenger hunt to scour sites at Gibbs Lake County Park

CHIMACUM — Riders of all skill levels are invited to take to their bikes during the free Lost in the Woods Bicycle Scavenger Hunt on… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Port Ludlow hosts Festival by the Bay

PORT LUDLOW — This small waterside town is welcoming visitors this weekend when the Festival by the Bay offers three days of music, vendors, fireworks,… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Port Townsend Relay For Life begins Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Music and children’s activities are on tap during the Relay For Life of Port Townsend, which begins at noon Saturday and extends… Continue reading