PORT ANGELES — Polished rocks, glittering gems, jewelry and demonstrations for those who want to work with stone themselves — all will be offered at the Rock and Gem Show on Saturday and Sunday.
The show will be at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Admission will be free to the show featuring 21 vendors, free rocks and bracelets for children while supplies last; 25 to 30 raffle items; and a silent rock auction.
Special guests at this year’s version of the Clallam County Gem and Mineral Association’s annual show will be the Puget Sound Knappers Association.
Members of the association will demonstrate making arrowheads out of obsidian.
“Knapping” is shaping stone through the use of a hammerstone to remove flakes, forming stone into tools and/or flintlock strikers.
“People can try their hands at making arrowheads,” said Kathy Schreiner, publicity coordinator for gem and mineral association.
James C. Keefer, aka “Reefer,” said the Puget Sound Knappers Association is the oldest and largest association of flintknappers in the Pacific Northwest.
Founded in 1993, it has 589 members.
Other demonstrations will be of making cabochons, faceting, creating chain-mail jewelry and wire-wrapping.
Winners of raffle items will be announced at 3 p.m. Sunday. Winners need not be present.
Food sales at this year’s show will again benefit Hayden Webber, a 9-year-old student at Queen of Angels School in Port Angeles, who was born with a condition known as proximal focal femoral deficiency, which caused her right femur to grow bent, twisted and shorter than her left.
She walks using a “third foot,” a brace for her shortened leg that acts as a prosthetic to match the length of her healthy leg.
Hayden’s family has found a specialty clinic in Florida where she can get leg-lengthening surgery and a new knee so she can walk with both feet on the ground.
Food sale proceeds will go toward those expenses.
For more about the gem and mineral association, which has a lapidary shop in Space 5 on the east side of 81 Hooker Road in Carlsborg, see www.sequimrocks.com.
