A rally for caring for the earth, Scotch broom removal and a concert are among the Earth Day activities planned for next Saturday, April 22.
• A rally and march for Earth Day is planned for noon Saturday, April 22.
Marchers will gather at the triangle at Sims Way and Kearney Street adjacent to the Food Coop. Supporters should bring signs supporting environmental causes. The march will be down Water Street and back.
The event is organized by Port Townsend Indivisible.
• Scotch broom removal is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at Fort Flagler State Park.
The park will provide free day passes to any volunteer who does not have a state park pass.
Volunteers will bring their own tools, water, masks, and gloves and be directed to a specific site.
To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthday-scott-broom-removal-tickets- 484074729547.
• The North Olympic Salmon Coalition is organizing an Earth Day Mulching Work Party from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at the Dungeness River in Sequim.
The event is on private property and the location will be provided upon RSVP.
Contact Ælfhild Wiklund at 360-504-5611 or at outreach@nosc.org.
• Earth Day 2023 Benefit Concert for Oceana will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 1033 N. Barr Road, Port Angeles/Sequim.
Admission will be free, although donations are appreciated.
See www.worthyvisions.com for more information.
• Movie Screening “The Ants & the Grasshopper” will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave, Port Angeles.
The film, directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper, tells of Anita Chitaya of Malawi, who has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village.
To save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge, persuading Americans that climate change is real. In this documentary, which took 10 to make, she travels to California and then to the White House, meeting climate change sceptics and despairing farmers.
“This documentary weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet,” organizers said.
Admission is free.
