EDITOR’S NOTE This has been corrected. The talk about birding on Wrangel Island will be Friday, Jan. 9, not tonight.
Today and tonight signify Friday, Jan. 2.
After the celebrations of New Year’s Eve, relatively quiet pastimes such as lectures, music and dances are among the entertainment scheduled this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Information also is available on the PDN’s calendar at www.peninsuladailynews.com.
PORT ANGELES
Talk on Russia island trip
PORT ANGELES — Elston and Jackie Hill will discuss their birding trip to Wrangel Island in Eastern Russia at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9.
Admission is a suggested donation of $5, which benefits the volunteer trail work program of the Peninsula Trails Coalition.
Wrangel Island is a 2,900-square-mile sanctuary in the Arctic Ocean north of Russian Siberia.
It is the world’s largest denning ground for polar bears, according to a news release.
Wrangel also supports the largest population of Pacific walruses.
The only snow goose colony in Asia nests here in the summer; it migrates to the Skagit Valley in the winter.
The Hills will discuss the challenges they faced on their 11-day trip, as well as the successes.
This talk is part of the Peninsula Trails Coalition’s Adventure Travel Series.
The next talk will be Jan. 16 and is on a walking tour of Southern Spain, presented by John and Mary Wegmann.
For more information, phone Kathe Smith at 360-457-1493 or visit www.peninsulatrailscoalition.org.
History through murals
PORT ANGELES —Jackson Smart will talk about Port Angeles history as viewed through signs and murals at the Clallam County Historical Society’s History Tales lecture series at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
The free presentation will be at the First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St.
Parking and entry to the church’s social hall are on Laurel Street.
Smart’s signs and murals are well known throughout Port Angeles.
Smart will present photos of his collection of historic signs and will bring some of them to the presentation as part of a “show and tell.”
For more information, phone the Clallam County Historical Society’s office at 360-452-2662 or email artifact@olypen.com.
Sons of Norway dance
PORT ANGELES — The Sons of Norway group will host its weekly folk-ballroom-swing dance at 131 W. Fifth St. from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Dance instruction is planned at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is $2 for members and $3 for nonmembers.
This is an all-ages, no-smoking and no-alcohol event.
For more information, phone Sandy Maxwell at 360-457-7035.
SEQUIM
Basketball camp
SEQUIM — Sequim High School will host a basketball camp from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. today and Saturday.
The camp is for children in grades third through eighth.
The cost is $25.
For more information, call 360-582-3600.
PORT TOWNSEND
Conversation Cafe
PORT TOWNSEND — Open to all, the Conversation Cafe will meet at the Highway 20 Road House, 2152 W. Sims Way, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today for conversation and an optional lunch.
The day’s topic is “There are two kinds of people . . .”
Conversation Cafe is an exercise in active listening and nonconfrontational conversation.
For more information, visit www.conversationcafe.org.
Rhody Run training
PORT TOWNSEND — Rhody Run training is held at 7:30 a.m. every Sunday.
Runners meet at the Fort Worden Commons.
The next Rhody Run will be May 17 during the annual Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival.
For more information, contact Race Director Jeni Little at 360-385-3163 or rhodyruninfo@gmail.com, or visit www.rhodyrun.com.
Membership meeting
PORT TOWNSEND — The annual membership meeting of Corvidae Press will be at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Interested print-makers are welcome at the potluck at RoseWind Common House at Umatilla and Haines streets.
Corvidae Press is a print-makers guild with a shop at Fort Worden State Park.
Annual dues are $250.
Electronic music
PORT TOWNSEND — Studio 36 will present electronic music by Eric Lanzillotta at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Admission will be free, but donations are appreciated for the performances at the studio on the third floor of the Mount Baker Block Building, 211 Taylor St.
Lanzillotta will play “drones” on the Moog synthesizer.
“This music requires a different way of listening that focuses on the subtle details of sound,” according to a news release.
“The focus on lower frequencies with rich harmonics means the sound can be felt as much as heard. Imagine being inside of purring cat.”
Lanzillotta lives in Port Townsend.
His music has been released in Germany, Belgium, Canada and the United States.
His performance is the first in a series of three concerts of experimental electronic music at Studio 36.
The next installments will be Dan Kibke, Emily Thacker and Thee Seldon Crisis on Feb. 14 and the trio Gyre on March 28.
For more information, contact David Noble at studio_36@icloud.com or 360-531-1436 or see www.ribexibalba.com/studio36.
JOYCE
Lions Club breakfast
JOYCE — The Crescent Bay Lions Club will offer breakfasts every Sunday, except holidays, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. until Mother’s Day on May 10.
The cost is $6 for adults and $3.50 for children 12 and younger.
The menu includes eggs cooked to order, hot cakes, French toast, biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns and ham, sausage or bacon.
There are no breakfasts planned for Dec. 21 or 28.
The club is on state Highway 112 at Holly Hill Road.
Proceeds help Crescent Bay Lions members support Crescent School yearbooks, scholarships for Crescent High School seniors, holiday food baskets, glasses for the needy and other community projects.
FORKS
Elks Hoop Shoot
FORKS — The Forks Elks Club will host a Hoop Shoot Contest from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The basketball contest will be in the auxiliary gym at 941 Merchants Road.
