Music, crafts and other attractions are planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
• Public Safety and Information Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Guy Cole Events Center, 202 N. Blake Ave. in Carrie Blake Community Park in Sequim.
Organized by Clallam County Fire District 3 and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), 30-plus local agencies and 20 agency vehicles are expected to be in attendance for the free event.
At 9 a.m., Elyssa Tappero, tsunami program coordinator for Washington Emergency Management, speaks about tsunamis and tsunami sirens; at 11 a.m., Jim Buck with Joyce Emergency Planning and Preparedness speaks about camping in your house; George Drake, Clallam Public Utility District safety manager, talks about power line safety at 1 p.m., and Dan Orr, interim fire chief at Clallam County Fire District 3, speaks at 3 p.m. about the Cascadia Subduction Earthquake Zone.
• Port Townsend Woodworkers Show will be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St.
Admission to the show is free, and attendees can see work from new and returning woodworkers who will be showing furniture, luthiery, cabinetry, turning and sculpture. The event is put on by the Splinter Group, a coalition of woodworkers from Port Townsend.
For more information, go to www.splintergroup.org.
• Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra will perform Saturday at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave. A dress rehearsal will be at 10 a.m. and a concert at 7:30 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m., conductor and artistic director Jonathan Pasternack will give a brief pre-concert chat about the program to come.
Tickets and information about the whole symphony season are available at portangelessymphony.org, while tickets are also sold at Port Book and News in Port Angeles and at the door.
• Second annual Sequim Food Bank Benefit Concert will be from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road.
It will raise funds for the food bank’s Family Holiday Meal Program. Admission is by cash donation, with $10 to $20 suggested.
• RainShadow Chorale’s fall concerts today and Saturday, “Choose Something Like a Star,” highlight the music of “Frostiana,” a suite of songs based on the poetry of Robert Frost.
Performances are set at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St. in Port Townsend. Both concerts are at 3 p.m. Tickets are available at the door for a suggested donation of $20 for an adult, $10 for a student.
• Poetry reading by Charlotte Warren will be from her new book of poems, “If Not Him,” at 7 tonight in the Carver Room of the Port Angeles library, sponsored by Port Book and News.
Alice Derry and Kate Reavey will open the reading at the library, at 2210 S. Peabody St., with a few of their own poems to celebrate the event.
• First Friday Art Walk will see a variety of galleries remaining open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Sequim.
Visit SequimArtWalk.com to download and print your own map, find special events, links and how to be part of art.
Join the Art Walk Facebook page at facebook.com/sequimartwalk.
• Boating safety clinic will be conducted for free at the Port Angeles Yacht Club, 1305 Marine Drive, at 10 a.m. Saturday.
America’s Boating Club of the North Olympic Peninsula will present the clinic, which will discuss the use of Global Positioning System and Automated Information System technology in recreational boating.
• Book sale by the Friends of the Jefferson County Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The sale is in the Hagen Building adjacent to the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave.
• Matt Kracht will discuss his field guides at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Knacht’s newest book, “OMFG, Bees!” has watercolor and ink drawings as well as facts and stories about bees.
He also wrote “The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America” and “The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World.”
For more information, call 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• Pancake breakfast at Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, will be from 7:30 a.m. to noon Sunday.
The menu includes an egg, a slice of ham, coffee, orange juice and all-you-can-eat pancakes.
The meal costs $8 per person, $4 for children 10 or younger; additional eggs or ham slices are available for 50 cents each.
