NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, June 19.
Races on the longest day of the year, a psychic faire, concerts and benefits are among this weekend’s attractions on the North Olympic Peninsula.
For more about the Summer Solstice Festival and Art Outside at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center and other arts and entertainment events, see Peninsula Spotlight, the weekly entertainment magazine included in today’s Peninsula Daily News.
More events are also on the calendar at cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/peninsuladailynews.
PORT TOWNSEND
Psychic Faire
PORT TOWNSEND — The third annual Into the Mystic Psychic Faire will continue today through Sunday.
The faire at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center, 3918 San Juan Ave., began Thursday.
Twelve psychic readers, clairvoyants, medical intuitives and energy workers will do spiritual readings and energy work from age-old practices from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday.
Admission to the faire is free, and fees for readings are posted with each practitioner on a first-come, first-served basis.
A Crystal Bowl Solstice celebration with Luna Light is set for 7 p.m. Saturday, with donations accepted.
Conversation Cafe
PORT TOWNSEND — The topic is “Ownership” at the Conversation Cafe at the Highway 20 Road House, 2152 W. Sims Way, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today.
Lunch is optional.
Conversation Cafe is an exercise in active listening and nonconfrontational conversation.
For more information, visit www.conversationcafe.org.
Rakers Car Show
PORT TOWNSEND — The Rakers Car Club will host the annual Rakers Car Show at Memorial Field, 550 Washington St., from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
The show opens to the public at 9:30 a.m. Awards will be presented at 3 p.m.
Spectator admission will be $5 for those 13 and older. Those 12 and younger, as well as active-duty military with identification and their families, will be admitted free.
Registration for vehicles will be $20 from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. just inside the gate.
Vehicles are parked first-come, first-served.
Car clubs that arrive together will be parked together.
Dash plaques will be provided for registered vehicles.
For more information, phone Rich Stapf at 360-301-1199 or Rick Crawford at 360-531-0423, or email leaknlaul@cablespeed.com.
Community planning
PORT TOWNSEND — The final session in a free conference on community planning and resiliency will be at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The session, “Community Summit: Strengthening Well-Being, Increasing Resilience and Supporting Quality of Life in Jefferson County,” will be at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St.
Doors open at 1 p.m. for information tables from local organizations.
Participants will identify ways to increase community well-being and resilience in Jefferson County, and to expand community conversation and action using an open-space model.
Tina Clarke, an internationally known community resilience consultant and transition trainer from Boston, has led the public conference sessions since Tuesday.
The conference is hosted by Local 20/20 and Collective Impact, and is co-sponsored by the city, Firefly Academy Preschool and Thunderbull Productions.
Longest Day of Trails
PORT TOWNSEND — The Longest Day of Trails summer solstice runs are Saturday.
The races — a 5K, 10K and half-marathon — start at the Port Townsend Boat Haven, 2601 Washington St.
Races begin at 9 a.m. There is a three-hour time limit for the half-marathon.
Advance registration is $25. On Saturday, registration will be $30.
The course is on the Larry Scott Memorial Trail, the eastern gateway to the Olympic Discovery Trail.
All distances are certified by USA Track & Field.
Awards will be presented for men and women overall winners and winners in each age group.
The races raise funds for nonprofits such as the Peninsula Trails Coalition that take care of the Larry Scott Memorial Trail.
The Jefferson Trails Coalition sponsors the races.
For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/PDN-longestday.
Virtual sailing
PORT TOWNSEND — The pilothouse simulator will be open to the public free from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Participants can take the wheel of a virtual Coast Guard cutter and navigate through waves, darkness and other boat traffic at the Northwest Maritime Center Pilothouse, 431 Water St.
For more information, see www.nwmaritime.org.
Benefit concert
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Friends Meeting will host a benefit concert at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The concert at the Friends’ meeting house at 1841 Sheridan St. is one in a series to fund building a kitchen in the meeting house.
Admission is a donation of $5 to $50, though no one will be turned away.
The concert will showcase five performing individuals or groups: Kristen and Otto Smith on fiddle, concertina and guitar; PT Fiddling Kids with lively tunes; singer-songwriter Mike Murray; storyteller Cathy Thomas; and singer-songwriter Robert Force on dulcimer.
For more information, contact Caroline Wildflower at ckwildflower@gmail.com or 360-379-5376.
Kah Tai work party
PORT TOWNSEND — An Admiralty Audubon work party will meet at the Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park near the Benedict Street entrance at 9 a.m. Sunday.
The group will clear the Himalayan blackberry patch next to the pond near the picnic shelter.
A summer potluck will immediately follow the work party at Pope Marine Park on Madison Street from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Work party volunteers should wear sticker-proof clothing and work gloves, and bring long-handled and hand pruners.
Weed wrenches will be available to pull scotch broom. Garbage bags will be provided for collecting garbage.
Those attending the potluck are asked to bring a favorite dish and all the best bird stories to share.
For more information, phone Rosemary Sikes at 360-385-0307 or email ptrose53@gmail.com.
CHIMACUM
Garage, plant sale set
CHIMACHUM — The Chimacum Grange, 9572 Rhody Drive, will host a large garage and plant sale for Center Valley Animal Rescue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday.
Furniture, housewares, sporting goods, scuba gear, skis, books, games, plants and more will be sold.
Proceeds will help support rescued animals.
Genealogical talk
CHIMACUM — The Jefferson County Genealogical Society will present “Can You Help Me Find My Cousins?” from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
The free program will be at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road.
It is part of the monthly meeting, also open to the public, which will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Mary Kozy will discuss using autosomal DNA, combined with paper records, to answer hard research questions.
Kozy began her family research at age 13 and, in addition to frequently giving lectures, has volunteered with USGenWeb, the Washington State Genealogical Society and Washington State Digital Archives.
For more information, see www.wajcgs.org.
SEQUIM
Great discussion
SEQUIM — The Sequim Great Decisions Discussion group will meet at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon today.
The topic is “U.S. Policy Toward Africa: How Can U.S. Policy Live Up to Its Promise and Values While Securing Its Interests in the Region?”
The suggested background reading for the discussion is the article “U.S. Policy Toward Africa” from the 1915 edition of Great Decisions, published by the Foreign Policy Association.
The event is free, and new members are welcome.
For more information email jcpollock@olypen.com or phone 360-683-9622.
Old Timey auction
SEQUIM — The second annual Old Timey Picnic Basket Auction will be held at Jardin du Soleil Lavender Farm, 3932 Sequim-Dungeness Way, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Picnic Basket Auction Weekend will benefit Olympic Nature Experience’s nonprofit preschool, Owl’s Hollow, and toward providing instruction for the Dungeness Adventure Club.
The silent auction starts at 5:30 p.m. and the live auction at 6 p.m.
Themed, locally crafted picnics like “Foods of the Wild West,” “A Gluten-Free Night in Greece” and “100 Percent Local” will be up for both silent and live auctions.
To the highest bidder goes a picnic dinner for two: a main course, two side dishes and a dessert.
Food for purchase will be provided by Pacific Pantry, as will beer, wine and cider from Finnriver Farms and Port Townsend Brewery.
Music will be performed by Cort Armstrong.
For more information, visit www.dungenessadventureclub.com or phone 360-461-7169.
Thrift shop open
SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild’s Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell St., will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The shop offers summer fashions, new furniture, jewelry, kitchenware, games, puzzles and books.
All white-tagged items will be marked at half-price.
The shop welcomes new consignors and volunteers.
For more information, phone 360-683-7044.
Shrub talk slated
SEQUIM — Veteran Master Gardener Rosalie Preble will demonstrate how to propagate hardy shrubs such as heathers, fuchsias, hydrangeas and small rhododendrons from softwood cuttings at noon Saturday.
The presentation, part of the Class Act at Woodcock Garden series sponsored by the Washington State University Clallam County Master Gardeners, will be at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road.
It will be free and open to the public; however, donations to help offset copying costs for handouts will be accepted.
For more information, call 360-417-2279.
PORT ANGELES
Debut concert
PORT ANGELES — Chandra Johnson’s debut vocal recital, an evening of blues, pop, folk, country and soul, is at 7 tonight.
Admission is free and all ages are welcome at the concert at Wine on the Waterfront, upstairs in The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave.
After suffering serious injuries in a January car wreck, Johnson, a Port Angeles violinist, learned to sing with Michael Rivers, the founding director of the Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers and a voice teacher, as her coach.
Randy Powell, another of Rivers’ students, will do a short opening set; then Johnson will sing with Powell and the Port Angeles band Good Machine, featuring Hayden Pomeroy, Taylor Thomas and Cole Gibson.
Surfing Day bash
PORT ANGELES — A party for International Surfing Day will take place at Harbinger Winery, 2358 W. U.S. Highway 101, tonight.
Next Door Gastropub will lay out the food, and Port Townsend Brewing will offer beer along with Harbinger wines from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $20 at the door.
This is a fundraiser for the Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
The band Twisted Roots will play.
Also, a raffle and an auction will bring local art and gear from Lib Tech, the surf, snow and skateboard company.
Partygoers can find information and get reservations by emailing opcsurfrider@gmail.com.
For more details about the Surfriders and their activities throughout the year, visit http://olympicpeninsula.surfrider.org.
Protest walker
PORT ANGELES — Sallie “Spirit” Harrison plans to visit the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday.
The Snohomish County woman is walking across the North Olympic, from Port Townsend to Lake Quinault, to encourage discussion of Navy plans to expand electronic warfare training on the West End using EA-18G Growler jets flying from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
After a parade on Whidbey Island on June 7, Harrison left Port Townsend on June 8 and played her guitar outside the Sequim Farmers Market last Saturday.
She planned to arrive in Port Angeles by the end of this week and to reach Lake Quinault on June 27.
The Port Angeles Farmers Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Gateway pavilion at Front and Lincoln streets.
Baby benefit
PORT ANGELES — The classic-rock band Chantilly Lace will play a benefit show at Castaways Restaurant Lounge, 1213 Marine Drive, on Saturday.
The event will start at 3 p.m. with a silent auction and continue with the band’s music from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Admission is by donation.
The evening will benefit Crystal and James Carmichael and their premature baby daughter, Lauralei.
Lauralei has been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Washington in Seattle, and her family needs help with travel expenses, said Chantilly Lace’s Dave Schaumburg, an organizer of Saturday’s fundraiser.
For more information, phone Schaumburg at 360-452-6997.
Boating safety class
PORT ANGELES — The Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 42 Sequim-Port Angeles will sponsor a boating safety class at the Port Angeles Fire Department, Fifth and Laurel streets, at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The “About Boating Safely” class will qualify attendees for a Washington State Boater education card.
This card is required for all boaters younger than 60.
The cost is $15 per person or $20 per couple.
To reserve a seat, phone 360-452-1135.
For more information, phone Rich Johnston, public education Flotilla-42, at 360-417-0872.
FORKS
Fun Run planned
FORKS — A 5K and 2.5K are planned for Saturday.
Registration will start at 8 a.m. in the Forks High School gym, 261 Spartan Ave., with the run/walk starting at 9 a.m.
The fundraiser for the high school basketball team is open to all ages.
A $5 donation is requested upon registration.
For more information, phone 360-374-9411 or 360-780-0310.