Chinese music, fly-fishing show among events

PORT ANGELES — The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble will present a mix of Chinese and Western music tonight.

The group from Vancouver, B.C., will perform at 7 p.m. in the Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

Seats at the show are $15 for adults, $7 for youths 14 and younger, or free for current identification-card-carrying Peninsula College students.

Ji Rong Huang, the group’s artistic director, will play the Chinese violin, called an ehru, while Gui Lian Liu will play the pipa, or Chinese lute; Jian Ming Pan will perform on the Chinese bamboo flute; and Wei Li will play a guzheng, or Chinese zither.

Chinese equivalents of the guitar, banjo, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, oboe and reed organ also will be part of the concert.

The Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts is presenting the concert.

Ticket outlets include Port Book & News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles, and Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St., Sequim.

Information also is available at the Juan de Fuca Festival office at 360-457-5411 and www.JFFA.org.

Rotary dinner

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula’s first Rotary Club will celebrate its 90th anniversary with a dinner gala Saturday.

A community dinner celebrating the Rotary Club of Port Angeles’ 90th anniversary will be at the Port Angeles Masonic Temple, corner of Seventh and Lincoln streets.

Fellowship hour begins at 6 p.m., and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m.

The event costs $45 per person or $80 a couple.

The Rotary Club of Port Angeles was sponsored by the Victoria Rotary Club and chartered April 1, 1921. From it grew Rotary Clubs in Sequim, Port Townsend and a second club in Port Angeles.

Guest speaker will be Ezra Teshome of Seattle, recipient of the 2010 World Citizen Award of the Seattle World Affairs Council.

The evening’s master of ceremonies will be Hoquiam Rotarian Lynn Kessler, the retired state legislator.

Tickets are available by phoning club Treasurer Doris Ann Brown at 360-477-2162 or at the Peninsula Daily News office, 305 W. First St., Port Angeles.

They also will be available at the door.

Mountain bike races

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Dirt Society will host an estimated 400 riders — including as many as 100 professionals — in the first leg of the Northwest Cup downhill mountain biking series today and Saturday.

The event, which is tied in with the Pro GRT, is essentially the opening race of the season for North American racing.

It will begin with practice runs this afternoon and will be followed by all-day action today and Saturday before concluding with races from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Professionals from across the globe will compete in the races.

Among them are former Olympic bronze medalist Jill Kintner of Burien, 2010 NW Cup winner Bryn Atkinson of Australia and former four-cross world champion Jared Graves of Australia.

Admission is free of charge each day for the event.

Dry Hill is located about three miles west of Port Angeles off U.S. Highway 101. Head south on Walkabout Road off Highway 101, then take the first right.

Given the limited amount of parking available, carpooling is strongly encouraged.

For more information, visit www.nwcup.com.

Diabetes discussion

PORT ANGELES — Amy Ward, dietitian for the Lower Elwha and Jamestown clinics, will teach a class covering the basics of diet and diabetes, “Eating Survival Skills for Diabetics,” from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. today.

The free class at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., is intended to help people with diabetes build skills in sensible eating using foods readily available to them.

The class is sponsored by the Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics free clinic.

For more information, phone 360-457-4431 or email info@vimoclinic.org.

Diabetes lecture

PORT ANGELES — Olympus Nutrition Center and Fitness West have paired up to provide a community service seminar on type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and blood sugar control at noon Saturday.

The free talk will be at Fitness West, 114 S. Lincoln St.

For more information, phone 360-565-6632.

Bake sale

PORT ANGELES — The Sons of Norway annual bake sale will be Saturday.

The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Scandia Hall, 131 W. Fifth St., Port Angeles.

Norwegian cakes, cookies and pastries, krum kaka, lefsa and cardamom cakes will be offered.

Buzz into meeting

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula Beekeepers’ Association will meet at its summer location, 22 Mar Vista Way, at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Equipment assembly and the installation of bees into hives will be discussed.

A beginners class will meet at noon.

For more information, phone Mark Urnes at 360-477-7934.

Shane Park fundraiser

PORT ANGELES — A breakfast fundraiser to raise money for playground equipment at Shane Park is planned Sunday.

Howard and Lily Lacy are hosting the fundraiser from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Port Angeles Masonic Temple, 622 S. Lincoln St.

The cost is $5 for adults, $4 for children.

The Lacy family also is hosting fundraiser breakfasts at the temple May 8, May 29 and June 12.

For more information, phone 360-461-0015.

SEQUIM

Bald eagle released

SEQUIM — A young bald eagle rehabilitated at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center will be released into the wild Saturday.

The wildlife rescue and rehabilitation nonprofit will free the bald eagle, which is thought to be male, at 1 p.m. at the Dungeness County Park, 554 Voice of America Road, Sequim.

The eagle was brought to the center with a broken shoulder in July.

It was thought that he broke it while learning to fly.

“He’s flying beautifully now,” said Matthew Randazzo, spokesman for the center.

For more information, visit www.NWRaptorCenter.com and www.Facebook.com/NorthwestRaptorCenter.

Refuge training slated

SEQUIM — The Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge will provide volunteer training at Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, today.

New volunteer training will be from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Lunch will be provided from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

A refresher course for current volunteers will follow from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Volunteers’ primary duties include greeting visitors and providing information about trails and wildlife.

They also conduct wildlife surveys, invasive-species mitigation, maintenance, trail roving, beach cleanup and administration.

For more information, phone the refuge office at 360-457-8451 or email david_falzetti@fws.gov.

Fly-fishing show

SEQUIM — The Olympic Peninsula Fly Fishing Show will be held at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St., on Saturday and Sunday.

The show will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

All aspects of fly fishing will be covered at the show.

Presentations by fisherman and author Skip Morris will be held both days.

Other presentations will focus on fishing in lakes, stream entomology and fly-rod building.

Celebrity fly-tying artists Karen Royer, Leland Miyawaki, and Harry Lemire will demonstrate their skills.

Exhibitors will show the latest and best in equipment, boats, guides and destinations.

Admission is $10.

For more information, visit www.olymicpeninsulaflyfisheingshow.com.

Book signing

SEQUIM — Gene Bradbury will sign copies of his first book, The Mouse with Wheels in His Head, at Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church on Saturday.

The Sequim author will sign books from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the church at 925 N. Sequim Ave.

He will donate $4 of each $12 book sale to student college scholarships for high school seniors who attend the church.

Illustrations are by Victoria Wickell-Stewart of Port Townsend.

Dinner benefit, auction

SEQUIM — A benefit spaghetti dinner and silent auction is planned Saturday for Bobbi (Winger) Breithaupt,who has been battling breast cancer since she was originally diagnosed in 2000.

The fundraiser will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Guy Cole Convention Center at Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.

Admission is by donation.

Raffle tickets also will be available for $10.

Breithaupt, who lives in Sequim, was in remission until 2008 and has been traveling to Swedish Medical Center in Seattle once a week for treatment ever since.

A 1985 Forks High School graduate, Breithaupt works at Susan Parr Travel.

She and her husband, Steve, have two children: Courtney, a senior at Washington State University, and Jacob, a sophomore at Central Washington University.

Cash donations can also be made at any First Federal branch.

For more information, phone Courtney Breithaupt at 360-461-5076, Jolene Winger at 360-374-4275 or Desi Dilley at 360-374-4292.

Genealogical quirks

SEQUIM — Genealogist Evelyn Roehl will present “Genealogical Quirks: Looking for Ancestors in All the Wrong Places” at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The event is sponsored by the Clallam County Genealogical Society.

Roehl is owner of Kin Hunters, a genealogical and family history research service.

She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and has published local research guides.

Roehl will discuss where to go when publishers make mistakes, what to do when handwriting is misinterpreted, how to find places or borders that no longer exist and how to deal with name variants and changes and missing information.

She will provide information on finding ancestors on ship passenger lists, Civil War records, state and territorial census documents, microfilm and more.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, phone 360-417-5000.

Photo workshop

SEQUIM — Wildlife photographers Stephen Cunliff and Hal Everett will teach their craft today and Saturday.

The workshops will be from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days at Heron Hall at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Complex, 1033 Old Blyn Highway.

The sessions are for both beginning and advanced photographers.

Participants will learn how to use camera functions and lens options to improve composition and exposure and consistently take quality images.

Cunliff and Everett will analyze up to four images for each participant.

The workshop includes both classroom and field time.

A portion of the proceeds of the workshop will be donated to the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim.

To register, phone 360-681-4076 or email opas.birdfest.info@gmail.com.

Moss basket class

SEQUIM — Henery’s Garden Center, 1060 Sequim-Dungeness Way, will host a class on making a moss basket Saturday.

The class will be at 9:30 a.m.

The cost for the class will be between $30 and $40, depending on the size of the basket and the number of plants used.

Henery’s will supply materials. Attendees can use Henery’s greenhouse to incubate the basket to increase its rate of growth.

Another class on the topic is planned at the same time Saturday, April 16.

For more information or to make a reservation, phone 360-683-6969.

Computer search

SEQUIM — Thomas Pitre will present a computer workshop, “Advanced Search: Resources, Uses, Tips and Strategies,” at the Center for Infinite Reflections, 144 Tripp Road, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

The three-hour presentation will include the evaluation of resources, search techniques, sources, tools and tips.

It is designed for educators, trainers, writers and researchers.

The class fee is $19.95.

To attend, send an email with the subject line “Google” to thomaspitre@gmail.com.

Class rescheduled

SEQUIM — Master Gardener Balraj Sokkappa will discuss growing pears and stone fruit Saturday.

The Class Act at Woodcock presentation will be at 10 a.m. at the Washington State University Clallam County Extension Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road.

The class, originally set for last Saturday, was postponed because of weather.

Sokkappa will explain what types of fruit trees grow well on the North Olympic Peninsula and describe the varieties best-suited for local growing conditions.

The free presentation is sponsored by the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County.

For more information, phone 360-417-2279.

Healthy soil, healthy plants

SEQUIM — Wanda Horst of Earth CPR Supplies in Carlsborg will present “Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants” at the Sunny Farms Nursery, 261461 U.S. Highway 101, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. today.

The event is free of charge.

Earth CPR Supplies promotes wholesales fertilizer, soil, seed, worm factories, spice jars, compost tea systems and container planting products.

EAST JEFFERSON COUNTY

Antique show

PORT TOWNSEND — Antique dealers from throughout the Northwest will offer their wares at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds this weekend.

The Port Townsend Antique Show will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $4, good both days. Parking is free.

Vintage glassware, pottery, toys and furniture will be sold.

New this year will be booths devoted to ceramic and porcelain restoration and Oriental rug cleaning and repair.

Live music is planned. Food and door prizes will be available.

Outdoorsman talks

PORT TOWNSEND — Outdoor writer and fly-fishing guide Doug Rose will speak at the Port Townsend Library, 1220 Lawrence St., at 5 p.m. Saturday.

He will show slides and talk about his fishing and hunting adventures on the Olympic Peninsula.

The event is free and open to the public.

Rose is the author of three books on fly fishing on the Olympic Peninsula: Fly Fishing the Olympic Peninsula, The Color of Winter and Fly-Fishing Guide to the Olympic Peninsula.

He was the editor of Washington River Maps and is finishing a book on duck hunting essays.

Rose has written hundreds of magazine articles for national and regional publications, including Fly Fisherman, American Angler, Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, Waterfowl, Traveling Wingshooter and Northwest Fly Fishing.

In the 1990s, he wrote an outdoor column and environmental features for the Port Townsend Leader.

He is now on the board of directors of the Port Townsend-based Northwest Watershed Institute and was previously on the board of Washington Trout.

He and his wife, Eliana, live in Forks, where he writes and guides steelhead and cutthroat trout fishermen.

For more information, visit www.dougroseflyfishing.com.

Gardening classes

PORT TOWNSEND — David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth will present a garden class at Henery’s Garden Center, 406 Benedict St., at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The free class will be “Prepare for Success.”

The two presenters will host classes Saturdays through May. All are free except for the April 30 class.

The rest of the class schedule is:

■ “Low Maintenance and the Polyculture Garden” on April 16.

■ “Get Growing” on April 23.

■ “Make Your Own Salad Bowl” on April 30.

■ “Celebrate Mother’s Day with Flowers” on May 7.

■ “Attract Beneficial Partners from the Wild” on May 14.

■ “Sustainable Solutions” on May 28.

Deardorff and Wadsworth are the authors of What’s Wrong With My Plant? and Simple Solutions, in The New American Landscape: Leading Voices on the Future of Sustainable Gardening.

They are garden coaches, consultants and designers and teach classes and workshops across the country. They focus on creating and maintaining healthy, natural systems in the garden.

Each workshop features a mini-demonstration garden giveaway for participants.

Henery’s Garden Center sponsors the classes, and attendees receive a 10 percent discount at the store.

For more information, phone 360-301-2120 or 360-385-3354.

‘Material World’

PORT TOWNSEND — A free talk on the new show titled “Material World” at the Northwind Arts Center is set for this evening.

Participating local artists Terry Leness and Karen Hackenberg will discuss their hyper-realist paintings at 7 p.m. at the center, which is just off Sims Way at 2409 Jefferson St.

The Northwind exhibition is open from noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays through May 2, and more details await at www.northwindarts.org.

Teen Community Read

PORT TOWNSEND — The first event for the Port Townsend Library’s Teen Community Read will be an interactive public performance and community dialogue led by Raven McMillen, Kai Addae and Marc Weinblatt at the Port Townsend Masonic Hall, 1338 Jefferson St., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Teens will be reading Thirteen Reasons Why, a story of a teenage girl losing hope, written by Jay Asher.

Asher said he was inspired to write the novel because a close relative of his attempted suicide when she was a teenager.

Four hundred free copies of the book have been distributed to Port Townsend teens, who will discuss it during April and express the issues it raises through art, writing and theater.

All events are free and culminate in presentations of the students’ work and a visit from the author in early May.

Students at Port Townsend High School and Jefferson Community School will craft personal responses to the novel during writing workshops led by Anna Quinn, owner of The Writers’ Workshoppe.

Teens not enrolled in school English classes can bring their writing to the Port Townsend Library or post it online at www.ptlibraryteens.blogspot.com.

All of the writings will be compiled into a zine that will be distributed Friday, May 6, at a four-minute-reading event at the library and Saturday, May 7, during Gallery Walk at three downtown venues.

Twenty teens will be chosen by lottery to present four-minute readings of their work at the May 6 library event from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Spring chorus concert

PORT TOWNSEND — The Community Chorus of Port Townsend and East Jefferson County will present its spring program, “Journey Home,” today and Sunday.

Concerts will be held at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St., at 7:30 p.m. today and at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 45 Redeemer Way, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Lisa Lanza will accompany the singers on piano, and the concerts will include a special appearance by the Port Townsend Youth Chorus.

Tickets are $12 at Crossroads Music, 2100 Lawrence St., or at the door. For more information, phone 385-1402 or visit www.ptchorus.org.

Athens Lecture Series

PORT TOWNSEND — Composer Emily Doolittle will present “The Music of Birds, the Music of Humans” at the Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor St., at 1 p.m. Sunday.

The School of Athens, Port Townsend Extension, is “an autumn-into-spring lecture series established in 2004 by local residents hungry for provocative speakers,” a statement said.

Doolittle is a Cornish College of the Arts professor, a composer and researcher who has discovered human music’s relationship to birdsong and other animal songs.

Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at the door or in advance at Quimper Sound, 230 Taylor St.

Solar talk

PORT TOWNSEND — The president of a company that makes solar modules will speak at the Jefferson County Public and Professional Energy Luncheon today.

The program will begin at 11 a.m. at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.

Gary Shaver, president of Silicon Energy of Marysville, will speak at 1 p.m.

Prior to his talk will be a luncheon and a workshop on the economic development of energy jobs and businesses.

The program is free, but lunch will cost $6.

Also speaking will be Linda Rotmark of the Clallam County Economic Development Council and Ross Tanner , facility manager for the Food Co-op.

FORKS AND THE WEST END

Potluck lunch

FORKS — A senior citizens potluck lunch is planned at the Forks Community Center today.

The lunch will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the center at 91 Maple Ave.

Forks Senior Power will provide the main dish: meatloaf.

Card games are planned after the luncheon.