Entertainment

First Friday lecture set

Amanda Monthei will present “Wildland Firefighting” at 7 p.m. Friday. Monthei’s hybrid lecture is in the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.… Continue reading

Sara Marie Ortiz

Indigenous poetry reading set for Monday

The North Olympic Library System is hosting the second annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Poetry Reading in celebration of poetry created and performed… Continue reading

Sara Marie Ortiz
The 21st Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival opens Friday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

CrabFest offers good eats beginning Friday

Tribes contribute to food at weekend festival

The 21st Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival opens Friday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Townsend Main Street Program Promotion Committee members Sue Arthur, left, and Jennifer Wake help make 500 goodie bags filled with donations from local merchants and sponsors to be sold at Thursday’s Girls’ Night Out headquarters at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards, 725 Water St., starting at 11 a.m. Proceeds from the goodie bag sales support the nonprofit Main Street Program and the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation’s fund to help people in need receive breast and cervical cancer screenings and other services. The event will feature a day and night of shopping at 38 businesses with many open later than usual. The theme is the 1960s “You Go Go Girl!” The wrap party will be at 6 p.m. at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards. For more, see ptmainstreet.org.
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Girls’ Night Out

Port Townsend Main Street Program Promotion Committee members Sue Arthur, left, and Jennifer Wake help make 500 goodie bags filled with donations from local merchants… Continue reading

Port Townsend Main Street Program Promotion Committee members Sue Arthur, left, and Jennifer Wake help make 500 goodie bags filled with donations from local merchants and sponsors to be sold at Thursday’s Girls’ Night Out headquarters at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards, 725 Water St., starting at 11 a.m. Proceeds from the goodie bag sales support the nonprofit Main Street Program and the Jefferson Healthcare Foundation’s fund to help people in need receive breast and cervical cancer screenings and other services. The event will feature a day and night of shopping at 38 businesses with many open later than usual. The theme is the 1960s “You Go Go Girl!” The wrap party will be at 6 p.m. at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards. For more, see ptmainstreet.org.

NOLS book discussion groups scheduled for October

The North Olympic Library System will host book discussions in person and online this month. The Wednesday Evening group will meet in… Continue reading

Rhododendron Society to meet

Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson will address a meeting of the Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society at 3 p.m. Thursday.… Continue reading

Walk-About garden tour scheduled

The Clallam County Master Gardeners will host a Walk-About garden tour at 10 a.m. Thursday. The free tour at the Woodcock Demonstration Gardens,… Continue reading

A hot air balloon rises from the soccer field of the Wally Sigmar Athletic Complex at Peninsula College in Port Angeles for tethered rides on Saturday as part of the Peninsula College Fall Spectacular. The event, hosted by the school to bring the community to the campus, also featured displays and demonstrations, children’s activities, food and music. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Activities, presentations bring families in for festival

Peninsula College welcomes community to campus

A hot air balloon rises from the soccer field of the Wally Sigmar Athletic Complex at Peninsula College in Port Angeles for tethered rides on Saturday as part of the Peninsula College Fall Spectacular. The event, hosted by the school to bring the community to the campus, also featured displays and demonstrations, children’s activities, food and music. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
AVA by Marilynn Evans is part of the Bow Wow! exhibit.

Blue Whole Gallery exhibit helps WAG

This October Blue Whole Gallery artists offer a special exhibit to support Welfare for Animals Guild, which rescues and adopts out disadvantaged dogs.… Continue reading

AVA by Marilynn Evans is part of the Bow Wow! exhibit.
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department workers Kimberly Noble, left, and Destiny Walters add autumn plants to a decorative basin at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain on Friday in downtown Port Angeles. Plants at the fountain and at other locations in the downtown area are periodically replaced with vegetation appropriate to the season.
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Fall flowers at Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain

Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department workers Kimberly Noble, left, and Destiny Walters add autumn plants to a decorative basin at the Conrad Dyar Memorial… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department workers Kimberly Noble, left, and Destiny Walters add autumn plants to a decorative basin at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain on Friday in downtown Port Angeles. Plants at the fountain and at other locations in the downtown area are periodically replaced with vegetation appropriate to the season.
Girls Night Out is set for Thursday.

Girls’ Night Out celebrates the ’60s

Thursday is set for late shopping, party

Girls Night Out is set for Thursday.
Despite the rain and cooler temperatures teams were in high spirits as they tackled the water course on day at an earlier Kinetic Skulpture Race in Port Townsend. (Peninsula Daily News)

It’s “offishul”: Port Townsend’s Kinetic Skulpture Race is on

Bribes are accepted, teddy bears must be prominently displayed and all are warned not to forget to watch out for the giant… Continue reading

Despite the rain and cooler temperatures teams were in high spirits as they tackled the water course on day at an earlier Kinetic Skulpture Race in Port Townsend. (Peninsula Daily News)

October Showcase sets artists’ reception

Olympic Peninsula Art Association will host an artists’ reception for the October Showcase from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. The reception will… Continue reading

Sun Rays by Dan Brewer is among the works to be presented at Solstice

Solstice art exhibit to open at Sequim Civic Center

SEQUIM— Images of contrast between long summer days and long winter nights will be on display at Solstice, an exhibit in a variety of mediums… Continue reading

Sun Rays by Dan Brewer is among the works to be presented at Solstice

Studium Generale to open quarter with traditional welcome

Studium Generale will open its fall quarter series Thursday with the traditional Welcome Celebration, a partnership among the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe,… Continue reading

Kinetic skulptures, Fall Spectacular, Family Pops among weekend events

Topping off this weekend’s activities on the North Olympic Peninsula is the Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Skulpture Race on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s… Continue reading

From left are Beth Witters, MarySue French and Susan Kroll at a spinning circle.

Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition set this weekend

The inaugural Pacific Northwest Fiber Exposition will be this weekend at the Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The expo —… Continue reading

From left are Beth Witters, MarySue French and Susan Kroll at a spinning circle.
Susan Hazard’s Floribunda painting series is among the work on display at the Port Townsend Gallery.

Port Townsend Gallery Walk to feature new exhibits Saturday

Drawings, paintings, textiles on display

Susan Hazard’s Floribunda painting series is among the work on display at the Port Townsend Gallery.

Peninsula College offers a community welcome

Variety of activities set for Fall Spectacular

Burlesque show planned Saturday

Olympic Peaks Burlesque will return to kick off the month of Halloween on Saturday. The show will begin at 8 p.m. after… Continue reading