PORT ANGELES — After Mayor Dan Di Guilio adds the last stroke of paint to “Olympic Visions,” the mural at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain will be dedicated Saturday.
The newly repainted mural at the fountain at First and Laurel streets in downtown Port Angeles will be dedicated at 2 p.m.
Sponsored by Nor’wester Rotary and the Port Angeles Downtown Association, the dedication will celebrate the completion of the mural, originally painted by Tim Quinn and finished after his death by Jackson Smart and Dani LaBlond.
Marine Corps veterans will raise a new flag, and Teresa Pierce will sing the national anthem.
Members of Nor’wester Rotary, who funded this and three other downtown murals, will speak, as will Smart and LaBlond.
Rob Browning of Port Angeles will portray Teddy Roosevelt, to explain why the former president’s face and that of his cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, are included in the mural.
An Olympic National Park ranger will provide information about the “critters” in the mural.
The dedication will kick off this week with the Downtown Association’s “Count the Critter Contest.”
The public can enter the contest by submitting an entry with the number of critters they find in the mural.
Contestants are encouraged to look high and low, as there are “critters” everywhere in the mural, including artist Quinn’s signature “Slick the Slug.”
Entry forms can be picked up and returned to Northwest Fudge & Confections, 110 W. First St.; Family Shoe Store, 130 W. Front St.; The Toggery, 105 E. First St.; Port Book and News, 104 E. First St.; and Necessities & Temptations, 217 N. Laurel St.
Entries must be returned to these businesses by 1 p.m. Saturday or by 2 p.m. at the fountain prior to the dedication.
The winner will be drawn from those with the correct answer at the dedication ceremony and must be present to win the prize of $50 in Downtown Dollars.
Prints of the original “Olympic Visions” mural by Quinn will be for sale by Nor’wester Rotary.
