Garage sales, a military vehicle display and a host of other entertainment for the Labor Day weekend is scheduled across the North Olympic Peninsula.
For more about arts and entertainment on the Peninsula, see Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s PDN.
Other major weekend events are spotlighted in the Things to Do calendar, available exclusively online at www.peninsuladailynews.com.
Here are some of the highlights for this weekend:
PORT TOWNSEND/JEFFERSON COUNTY
Military vehicles
PORT TOWNSEND — The Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum will host a gathering of old military vehicles and equipment today through Monday at Fort Worden State Park.
An estimated 20 to 30 vehicles, along with displays of vintage military weapons, are coming from throughout the Puget Sound region and British Columbia.
Visitors can attend the show for free, and no Discover Pass is required.
Visitors are asked to park near the Artillery Hill main gate and catch a ride up the hill aboard a truck or Jeep.
The camp will be assembled atop Artillery Hill in the original Coast Artillery bivouac area today and taken down by Monday afternoon.
Visitors are welcome from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Exhibits from the Spanish-American War — the era when Forts Worden, Casey and Flagler were built — and World War I will be featured.
Artillery Hill’s Harbor Entrance Command Post and Mortar Battery Plotting Room will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Volunteers, in cooperation with State Parks, have refurbished those facilities, which were used when Fort Worden (1902-1953) was the U.S. Army’s headquarters for the harbor defense of Puget Sound.
A guided walking tour of Artillery Hill starts at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, departing from Memory’s Vault.
Fort Townsend race
PORT TOWNSEND — Runners and walkers will follow the forest trails of Fort Townsend State Park in the 12th annual four-mile Trail Run/Walk on Sunday.
Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Friends Barn off the park’s lower parade ground.
The race will start at 9 a.m.
A Discover Pass is not required to park at this event.
The race route will wind through old-growth cedar and fir trees, Pacific rhododendrons and various common and rare native plants.
The final leg of the race runs along a bluff overlooking Port Townsend Bay.
The finish line is on the original parade ground of the 1800s fort.
Men and woman first-place finishers will be awarded gift certificates donated by Sport Townsend.
First-, second- and third-place finishers in each age category will receive place ribbons.
Port Townsend Food Co-op is providing organic fruit at the finish line.
The event is sanctioned by USA Track & Field.
Registration is $15 for adults and $10 for ages 16 and younger.
The event is sponsored by Friends of Fort Townsend, the PT Running Club and Fort Townsend State Park.
For more information, phone Nancy Steinberg at 360-385-2998 or email mike@ptrunning.org.
Conservation activist
PORT TOWNSEND — Quilcene conservation activist Connie Gallant will be the featured speaker at the Jefferson County Historical Society First Friday Lecture tonight.
The program will be at 7 p.m. in Port Townsend’s historic City Council chambers, 540 Water St.
Admission is by donation, which supports historical society programs.
Gallent will speak on “Heroines of our Green Olympics,” talking about the conservation efforts of three women, Rosalie Edge, Polly Dyer and Bonnie Phillips.
Edge is largely responsible for the success of Olympic National Park during the 1930s, Gallent said.
Dyer, former president of Olympic Park Associates, has led conservation activism throughout the Northwest for more than 50 years.
Now in her 90s, she is fighting for the reintroduction of wolves.
Phillips, former executive director of Olympic Forest Coalition, was profiled in Time magazine as “Hero of the Planet” for her grass-roots activism from her wheelchair during the spotted-owl wars of the Pacific Northwest.
Gallant is the chairwoman of the Wild Olympics Campaign and serves as a volunteer board member and vice president of the Olympic Forest Coalition.
Along with her husband, JD, she volunteers with Greenfleet Monitoring Expeditions monitoring the levels of dissolved oxygen in Quilcene and Dabob bays.
Quilcene Shindig
QUILCENE — The sixth annual Quilcene Shindig, a community get-together with live music delivered from the back porch of the Old Quilcene Theater, will be Saturday.
The Old Quilcene Theater is located at 11 Old Church Road, and the free event will run from noon to 9 p.m.
This year’s shindig will feature rock, pop, swing, Americana and Irish music performed by both touring and stay-in-the-county musicians from Quilcene and around the Olympic Peninsula.
Among the performers will be Locust Street Taxi at 7 p.m., preceded by the Steve Grandinetti Band at 5:30 p.m., Irish Salt at 4 p.m., The Low Ones at 3 p.m. and the Machete Sisters in the early afternoon.
Other performers are expected to begin playing at noon.
Vendors will sell handicrafts including furniture and other wood offerings of Quilcene’s Waltz Lumber, the usual residents of the Quilcene Theater.
Donations will be accepted for the performers.
For more information or to be a vendor, phone Marc Waltz at 360-301-3866.
Adventuress sets sail
PORT TOWNSEND — The schooner Adventuress will sail to Protection Island Wildlife Sanctuary at the mouth of Discovery Bay on Saturday.
The sail will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will leave from the Northwest Maritime Center dock in downtown Port Townsend.
Tickets are $80 per person or $75 for members of the maritime science center, the Burke Museum or the Audubon or Washington Ornithological Society.
All proceeds for the sail will benefit the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s educational programs.
Reservations are required and may be made by phone at 360-385-5582 or 800-566-3932, or by email at cruises@ptmsc.org.
For more information about the marine science center at Fort Worden State Park, phone 360-385-5582, email info@ptmsc.org or visit www.ptmsc.org.
Book and media sale
PORT LUDLOW — The Community Enrichment Alliance’s Book and Media Sale will be held at the Port Ludlow Beach Club, 121 Marine Drive, on Saturday and Sunday.
The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
Hardback books will sell for $1, and paperbacks and all children’s books will sell for 50 cents each.
Also costing 50 cents will be DVDs, CDs, cassette sets and jigsaw puzzles.
Sunday is “bag sale” day, where customers can fill grocery bags with books and pay $2 for each bag.
Lemon cookies will be available to the first 100 attendees Saturday.
Proceeds will go to the Community Enrichment Alliance’s Scholarship Fund, which benefits Chimacum High School seniors.
Storytelling event
PORT TOWNSEND — Bainbridge Island’s Jeff Leinaweaver will be the featured teller at the Mythsinger Foundation’s First Friday Storynight event.
First Friday Storynight will be held at Better Living Through Coffee, 100 Tyler St., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
An open mic session will also be held, but any story must be shared orally and not read.
Leinaweaver is a storyteller, voice-over artist, vocalist and violinist.
In the world of folklore and mythology, he has been the editor for Suite101’s Folklore and Mythology forums and has worked at the Smithsonian’s Office of Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, where he has worked with luminaries such as Pete Seger, Alan Lomax and Mickey Hart.
He is currently a board member of The Mythsinger Foundation and studies the art and storytelling craft of mythsinging with Danny Deardorff.
Suggested donation is $10.
For more information on this event, phone event host Brian Rohr at 360-531-2535 or visit www.brianrohr.com.
Maritime paintings
PORT TOWNSEND — Members of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters will be at the Bishop Victorian Hotel for an artists’ reception Saturday.
The reception from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the hotel at 714 Washington St. in Port Townsend will kick off an exhibit of maritime paintings that will be displayed through Oct. 31.
The artwork has been brought together for the 35th annual Wooden Boat Festival, scheduled Friday, Sept. 9, through Sunday, Sept. 11.
SEQUIM
Community swap meet
SEQUIM — The summer’s last community swap meet hosted by the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley will be Saturday.
The swap meet will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the field in front of the MAC’s DeWitt Administration Center at 544 N. Sequim Ave. in Sequim — directly across from the brick-building portion of Sequim High School.
The MAC has hosted monthly swap meets since June as fundraisers for the center’s programs.
Vendors pay $20 for a 10-foot-by-10-foot selling space. They can sell from tables, blankets or out of vehicles.
Equipment will not be provided by the MAC.
Vendors can sign up and pay for their space in advance at the MAC Exhibit Center, 175 W. Cedar St. in Sequim, or by phoning 360-683-8110.
Some spaces may be available on the day of the sale, but this cannot be guaranteed.
Tryouts continued
SEQUIM — Tryouts for the Sequim High School Flag Team will be continued today.
Tryouts, which began Thursday, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon today in the high school band room on West Fir Street across from the tennis court.
Participants are asked to wear comfortable clothes and athletic shoes and to bring a bottle of water.
Incoming freshman are welcome.
The flag team will perform at Husky Band Day during a University of Washington football game in September, the high school’s homecoming game in October, Seattle’s Macy’s Holiday Parade the day after Thanksgiving, a basketball halftime show in February, a parade in Victoria, B.C., the Irrigation Festival Parade in May and a June concert.
For more information, phone Nancy Reis at 360-681-2952 or see director Vern Fosket in the band room during the first week of class.
Thrift shop
SEQUIM — The Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild’s Thrift Shop will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday for a white-tag sale.
The shop on Second and Bell streets is loaded with accessories for the home and summer apparel, organizers said.
All white-tagged items will be marked half-price.
Volunteers are still needed to work in the shop.
For information,phone 360-683-7044.
Garage sale readied
SEQUIM — Readers Theatre Plus plans a garage sale at the old Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2751 Towne Road, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Readers Theatre Plus is a Sequim-based theatrical troupe that gives proceeds from its productions to nonprofits and graduating seniors from Sequim and Port Angeles high schools.
The sale will help the group pay for costs associated with its productions.
The public can donate clean, usable items in working condition at 8 a.m. Saturday.
For more information, email marygrif@olypen.com or gypsy1ruby@olypen.com.
Dahlias in winter
SEQUIM — Washington State University Clallam County Extension Master Gardeners Janet Oja and Florence Larsen will share techniques for planting, growing and overwintering dahlias Saturday.
The event will be at 10 a.m. at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road.
Oja and Larsen will discuss planting times and depth, watering and fertilizer needs for these summer and fall bloomers in the local climate.
They also will explain how to dig and store the tubers.
The presentation is part of the Class Act at Woodcock Garden series, sponsored by the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County, held the first and third Saturdays of the month.
The presentations are free and open to the public.
A free plant clinic will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. after the presentation.
Trained Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer questions about gardening issues.
For more information, phone 360-417-2279.
Cougar cub names
SEQUIM — The deadline is today for submitting names for the Olympic Game Farm’s two 12-week-old brother male cougar cubs.
Winners will be announced Saturday.
Submissions will accepted by emailing olympicgamefarm@hotmail.com, visiting the game farm’s Facebook site at www.facebook.com/pages/Olympic-Game-Farm/256426342118 and at drop boxes at the game farm and at Hardy’s Market on Old Olympic Highway.
The winner will receive four free admission passes, a $50 gift certificate to the game farm’s gift shop, a $50 gift certificate to Hardy’s Market and a photo shoot with the two cubs.
PORT ANGELES
Labor Day garage sale
PORT ANGELES — The Labor Day Garage Sale and Flea Market will offer items for sale both inside and outside The Landing mall Saturday and Sunday.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave.
Vendor spaces are available for $10 a day.
Security will be on hand 24 hours a day to watch sellers’ items.
For more information, stop by Celestial Espresso outside of the mall or phone Stan and Celeste Grall at 360-477-9038.
Derby Dolls car wash
PORT ANGELES — Port Scandalous Derby Dolls will wash cars to raise money Sunday.
The Labor Day Weekend Fundraising Car Wash will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bada Bean! Bada Bloom!, 1105 E. Front St.
Lamb-cooking demo
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market will host a lamb-cooking demonstration by Nash’s Organic Produce farm chef Karolina Tracz from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
The market, which is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is at The Gateway pavilion at the corner of Front and Lincoln streets in downtown Port Angeles.
Tracz will use grass-fed lamb from Kol Simcha Farm in Sequim.
“Many people have never experienced how delicious lamb can be or how to cook with it,” said market manager Cynthia Warne.
“Karolina will have free samples to try during the demonstration so people can experience lamb before they decide to try fixing it at home.”
The demonstration booth will be located next to the manager’s booth close to the clock tower.
The demonstration is free and open to the public.
Council members at market
PORT ANGELES — Deputy Mayor Don Perry and City Councilwoman Cherie Kidd will be available to answer questions and hear comments from the public at the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday.
Members of the Port Angeles City Council host a table at the farmers market in The Gateway pavilion the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon.