Pilots will fly in to Sekiu, wine and cider can be tasted in Port Townsend, and short stories can be heard in Port Angeles this weekend along with a host of other events planned on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Port Angeles
Short story reading
PORT ANGELES — Love and Other Adventures, a series of dramatic readings of short stories by Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher, will be hosted by Peninsula College today through Sunday.
Performances will be at the college’s Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
The stories have been adapted and are directed by Jim Guthrie and will be presented by A Third Stage Production.
Cast members include Sean Collier, Philip Young, Stephen Taylor, Sherie Maddox, Rebecca Horst and John Marrs.
Admission is $10 for adults and free for Peninsula College students with current student identification.
All proceeds from the three-day event will go to the Russell Guthrie Memorial Scholarship Fund for PC drama students.
For more information, phone 360-417-6478.
Show, poker run
PORT ANGELES — The third annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Bike Show will be held Saturday and Sunday.
The event is a fundraiser for the summer Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp run by Clallam County Juvenile and Family Services and county Court Appointed Special Advocates.
Registration for the bike show will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Eagles Club, 110 S. Penn St. Fee is $15 per motorcycle.
The show, with concessions and a raffle, is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., with judging in eight classes — vintage, trike, paint/mural, best custom, best-in-show, rat, farthest miles traveled and people’s choice.
Registration for the poker run is 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday at Olympic Power Sports, 221 S. Peabody St.
Fees are $10 for rider and motorcycle; $5 more for a passenger.
The ride will begin at 10 a.m., travel east and return to Olympic Power Sports by 4 p.m.
For more information, phone Herb Woods, 360-460-4019, or Cindylou Romberg, 360-417-1679 or 360-775-9460.
Gospel singers
PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers will perform at 2:30 p.m. at City Pier on Saturday.
Food and money donations for the Salvation Army will be collected.
Basket weavers
PORT ANGELES — The Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association will present the No Frills Basketry Weekend workshop today and Saturday.
The workshop will be at the Peninsula College Longhouse, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Nine basket weavers from the North Olympic Peninsula will instruct the workshop.
For more information or to register, phone Theresa Parker at 360-640-0041 or Elaine Grinnell at 360-460-5965.
Seniors’ medication
PORT ANGELES — Park View Villas, 1430 Park View Lane, will host the second day of Olympic Area Agency on Aging Medications Solutions presentations today.
The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The first session was Thursday.
The program’s topics include “How to communicate with your doctor and pharmacist,” “Common meds taken by seniors” and “Managing prescription medication and over the counter drugs and herbs safely, wisely and cost-effectively.”
For more information, phone 360-452-7222.
Sequim
Kids can cook event
SEQUIM — A cook-off of recipes invented by fifth-graders from Helen Haller and Greywolf elementary schools is planned at the Sequim High School cafeteria, 601 N. Sequim Ave., from 9 a.m. to noon today.
Five finalists from each elementary school will be competing for rankings, including Judge’s Choice and Most Kid-Friendly Dish.
Finalists were determined based on the healthy merits of their submitted recipes, as well as difficulty level and variety of ingredients.
The judging panel will consist of parents and Sodexo kitchen staff members.
Members of the public can attend and vote for their favorite meals.
Entries cover a wide variety, including teriyaki beef, fruit chips, Southwestern dip and veggies, fruit crepes, banana muffins and fruit smoothies.
Children who attend will receive goodie bags with kitchen items.
This event is sponsored by the Sequim School District and Sodexo Food Service.
Show N’ Shine
SEQUIM — Peninsula Dream Machines will hold its third annual Show N’ Shine at 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
All types of vehicles can participate, including classics, collectibles, trucks, boats, motorcycles and works-in-progress.
There is no entry fee.
For more information, phone John Burkheimer 360-477-1785.
Uganda talk
SEQUIM — Five Sequim residents who traveled to rural Uganda will share their photographs and insights during a presentation at 6 tonight.
The presentation will be at the Sequim High School Performing Arts Center, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
The Rev. Henry Mulindwa, pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sequim, grew up in Uganda, and met his fellow Sequim residents there in February.
One of the photos in tonight’s program shows the Boys & Girls Club that Mulindwa attended as a child.
The one-hour presentation features many other sights and sounds of the African nation, and promises to be “an introduction to Uganda through the eyes and hearts of recent travelers,” said Barbara Brown, founder of the Uganda School Fund for children in the rural town of Masaka.
Admission is free, but donations to the Uganda School Fund will be welcome.
Golf for Graduates
SEQUIM — A golf tournament to benefit a sober graduation party for Sequim seniors is scheduled Saturday.
The Golf for Graduates Tournament will be at the SkyRidge Golf Course, 7015 Old Olympic Highway.
Tickets are $50 per person including lunch and prizes, and players are asked to register by this morning by phoning 360-683-3673.
Check-in will be at 8 a.m. Saturday with the shotgun start at 9 a.m.
The format is a four-person scramble with a twist.
Members of the Sequim High School boys and girls golf teams will be auctioned off before the tourney Saturday morning to add a fifth player to each team.
Entry includes a round of golf, a gourmet lunch of blackened salmon, range balls, awards and prizes.
Shepherds Festival
SEQUIM — The Olympic Peninsula Fiber Growers Association will host its annual Shepherds Festival at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.
The free event will include spinning demonstrations by the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild, herding demonstrations, sheep-shearing, llamas and a petting zoo.
Arts and crafts and food will be sold.
For more information, phone 360-683-6495 or e-mail sheepishranch@hot mail.com.
Joyce
Rummage sale set
JOYCE — A second weekend has been added for the seventh annual Benevolence Fund rummage sale at the Joyce Bible Church gymnasium, 50470 state Highway 112.
The sale will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday.
The sale will include furniture, clothes, games, toys, kitchen gadgets, hobby, bed and bath items.
For more information, phone Marylan Thayer at 360-928-9561.
Forks/West End
Sekiu Fly In set
SEKIU — The Clallam Bay/Sekiu Chamber of Commerce’s Sekiu Airport Memorial Day Fly In will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Pilots can fly over the Swiftsure boat race on the way into Sekiu.
A lunch of barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs will be served.
Cost for the meal is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $1 for children under 5.
Proceeds will go toward a new community/school electronic reader board.
For more information, phone 360-963-2122. Pilots can phone Gary Fernandes at 360-963-2485.
Blood drive
FORKS — A blood drive is planned at the Forks High School today.
The drive will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the school at 191 S. Spartan Ave.
Although all blood types are needed, the Puget Sound Blood Center says that it has only emergency levels available of types O, A negative and B negative.
Port Townsend
Bake sale, raffle
PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend’s Projects for Peace will conduct a bake sale and raffle for its “Three Cups of Tea” program at the Port Townsend Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Proceeds will go to Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute, which builds and funds schools in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Projects for Peace also aspires to get children reading Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea and perhaps connect them with classes in Mortensen’s schools.
The committee also hopes to inspire 1,000 groups around the country to raise $1,000 each, for a total of $1 million.
That amount will build, equip and staff 30 to 40 more schools.
Donations of baked goods and tea cups are needed.
Items should be brought to the lawn in front of the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
The raffle will include books by Mortenson, teacups and a teacup necklace.
Another fundraiser will take place on June 17 at Quimper Unitarian Fellowship featuring a showing of Bill Moyers’ interview with Greg Mortenson.
For more information, e-mail 3cupstea.pt@gmail.com or phone 360-385-2341.
Wine and cider event
PORT TOWNSEND — “Fresh From the Barrel,” a spring weekend wine and cider tasting, will be held at five wineries and cideries in and around Port Townsend from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The event will be held at Sorensen Cellars, 274 Otto St.; Fairwinds Winery, 1984 Hastings Ave. W.; Wildfire Cider, 220 Pocket Lane; Eaglemount Wine and Cider, 2350 Eaglemount Road; and Finnriver Farm & Cidery, 62 Barn Swallow Road.
The tasting fee is $5 per person.
Maps of the loop will be available at all venues.
Children’s choir
PORT TOWNSEND — Nine outstanding children’s choirs from Western Washington, California and Canada will perform as a single 200-person chorus for the Fort Worden Children’s Choir Festival Concert at Fort Worden State Park’s McCurdy Pavilion at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Each choir also will be featured individually during this concert.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and are available by phoning 360-271-8086 or at the door.
This will be the 11th annual Fort Worden Children’s Choir Festival.
The guest conductor this year is Juan-Tony Guzmðn.
A conductor, composer, arranger, and music educator from the Dominican Republic, Dr. Juan-Tony Guzmðn is currently director of the jazz program and assistant professor of music education at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
For more information, phone Stephanie Charbonneau at 360-271-8086 or visit www.fortwordenfestival.com.
‘Triangle of Fire’
PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula Explorers Volkssport club will hold walks at the three forts that made up the “Triangle of Fire” — Fort Casey, Fort Flagler and Fort Worden — on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
The walks at Fort Flagler State Park and Fort Worden State Park will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The walks at Fort Casey will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. to noon Monday.
A bratwurst roast will be held at Fort Casey from noon to 2 p.m. Monday.
The walks are free, unless participants want to purchase patches for each walk for $6 or receive credit for each walk for $3.
For more information on the Fort Flagler State Park walk, phone Bruce Ramsey at 360-697-526 or e-mail bruceramsey@comcast.net.
For more information on the Fort Worden State Park walk, e-mail frjohnson@olympus.net or visit www.olympus.net/community/ope.
For more information on the Fort Casey State Park walk, phone Sharon Andor at 360-731-0758, e-mail shaotthrpy@comcast.net or visit www.nwtrekkers.org.
Quilcene
Quilcene plant sale
QUILCENE — The Quilcene-Brinnon Garden Club Plant Sale will be held at the Quilcene Community Center, 294952 U.S. Highway 101, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Jefferson County Master Gardeners will be there to answer questions.
A raffle will offer a grand prize of tickets to the Olympic Music Festival, food from the Timber House Restaurant and lodging at Mount Walker Inn.
Tickets will be available at the plant sale.
For more information, phone Cheryl Petrick at 360-796-0239 or Pat Crossley at 360-796-4729.