Easter events highlight Peninsula weekend

Easter breakfasts, an “elegant sale,” and welcome home party for a member of the armed services are among the events planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

Here is a sample of events this weekend.

Elks Easter Breakfast

FORKS — Easter breakfast will be served at the Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchant Road, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday.

The breakfast will feature pancakes, ham, sausage, biscuits and gravy, French toast, scrambled eggs, fruit, orange juice and coffee.

Breakfast slated

JOYCE — The Port Angeles Lions Club will serve an all-you-can-eat benefit Easter breakfast at the Crescent Bay Lions Clubhouse from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday.

The breakfast is $6 for adults, $3 for children.

Proceeds will go toward purchasing a new health screening van.

Pancakes, French toast, eggs, three meats, biscuits and gravy and beverages will be on the menu.

The Crescent Bay Lions Clubhouse is at Holly Hill Road and state Highway 112.

Elegant sale slated

SEQUIM — The Sequim Museum & Arts Center’s 35th “Elegant Flea Antique and Collectibles Sale” will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday.

The sale will be at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road.

A quilt raffle, a “White Mastodon” table with items donated by center members, doll appraisals and demonstrations on how to conduct historical research at the center and photo handling and preservation will be held at the event.

Classic cars will be on hand today.

The center is accepting donations for the “White Mastodon” table.

Proceeds from the sale support the nonprofit Museum & Arts Center.

Lunch will be available for purchase from grange members.

For more information, phone Katherine Vollenweider at 360-681-2257 or e-mail info@macsequim.org.

Welcoming reception

QUILCENE — Quilcene High School graduate Kenny Ward will be welcomed back from Afghanistan with a community reception Saturday.

The reception — which will be hosted by his mother, Wendy Ward — will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Quilcene Masonic Hall, 170 Herbert St.

The whole community is invited, said Pamela Mack, Quilcene School District secretary.

Refreshments will be served. Desserts will be accepted gratefully, Mach said.

The 2007 Quilcene High School graduate will be home for one week before the Navy deploys him again, Mack said.

The family doesn’t yet know where he will be sent.

PT Shorts reading

PORT TOWNSEND — “Bristol Bay,” a memoir by Port Townsend poet Gary Lemons, will be read at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Pope Marine Building, Water and Madison streets, as part of the PT Shorts reading series.

Director Terry Lilian Segal, Bill Mawhinney and Art Reitsch will read Lemons’ autobiographical poem about the raw rigors of life as a welder on a World War II ship turned fishing boat off southwest Alaska.

Admission is free.

For more information, phone 360-379-0195 or visit keycitypublictheatre.org.

Family fun day

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society will host a free “family fun day” from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Port Townsend City Hall, 540 Water St.

Activities include making a pinwheel, family mural-making and “museum bingo.”

For more information, phone 360-385-1003, or visit www.jchsmuseum.org.

Gluten-free samples

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Food Co-Op, 414 Kearney St., will offer gluten-free bakery samples from Granny Lala’s Gluten Free and Allergy Friendly Bakery Goods from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Products featured include chocolate quinoa cake, carrot cake and assorted muffins. Gluten-free samples

Nature walk set

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Land Trust docents will lead a free nature walk — “April Showers Looking for buds and blooms in Cappy’s Trails” — from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Participants will meet at the corner of 49th and Hendricks streets.

The walk will be held regardless of weather, so those interested should wear weather-appropriate clothing and footwear.

There are no public restrooms on the walk.

For more information, e-mail jlt@saveland.org or phone 360-379-9501, ext. 103.

Friends of animals

FORKS — The Friends of Forks Animals will offer services at table at Forks Outfitters from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The volunteers will accept signups for low-cost spaying or neutering of pets and applications for memberships.

For more information, see www.freindsofforksanimals.org or phone 360-374-3332.

Red Cross class

SEQUIM — Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of an automated external defibrillator for professional rescuers will be taught Saturday.

The class will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the office of the Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the Red Cross at 151 Ruth’s Place, 1-D, Sequim.

For more information, including the price of the class, phone 360-457-7933.

Sailing races begin

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Sailing Association’s eight-race Spring Whitecap Series will begin today.

All sailboats are welcome to the races, which start the group’s 2010 racing season.

The Spring Whitecap Series will run every Friday through May 31.

Boats leave City Dock about 5:30 p.m.; the racing starts at 6 p.m. and ends about 8 p.m.

Any sailor with a boat can turn out, but only PTSA members are scored as part of the racing series.

Annual dues are $75 for a captain and boat, and $20 for a crew member.

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