While the Rhododendron Festival takes center stage in Port Townsend this weekend, free flights, a dog show, an outdoor concert and many other events are scheduled across the North Olympic Peninsula.
Several farmers markets open this weekend as well.
A postal food drive, banquets, films and a maypole dance are among the activities planned in Clallam and Jefferson counties this weekend.
PORT ANGELES
Fire breakfast
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Fire Department Auxiliary and Port Angeles Fire Department staff will host the sixth annual fire department pancake breakfast Saturday.
The breakfast will be from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Port Angeles Fire Station, 102 E. Fifth St., from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The event supports scholarships, fire relief baskets for fire victims and community outreach.
Firefighters and staff will cook and serve the meal.
A raffle for “family-friendly items” will be held and the fire department will offer truck tours for children and adults.
Admission is $5 for people 12 and older, $3 for children 3 to 11, and free for children younger than 3.
The menu will include pancakes, sausage, bananas, applesauce, coffee, and orange juice.
Brewers demo set
PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Brewers Guild will conduct a brewing demonstration at the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday.
The market is located at The Gateway center, corner of Front and Lincoln streets, and runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Guild members will be on hand to explain the process of brewing and share their own experiences with the public.
Members who wish to help with the demonstration can send an e-mail to info@northolympicbrewers.
The demonstration will serve as the guild’s regular monthly meeting.
For more information, visit www.northolympicbrewers.org.
PAHS soup bowls
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School teachers and students will sell handmade soup bowls, with soup, at the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday.
They will be sold from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Nash’s Organic Produce booth at the Port Angeles Farmers Market at The Gateway transit center.
Art students, along with art instructor John Casey and science teacher Jennifer Duncan-Taylor, produced 42 soup bowls for to benefit Serenity House, which will get all proceeds.
Yacht club open house
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Yacht Club will celebrate 73 years of history with a public open house at the club from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Members will showcase the facility, which is available for rental, and have information on club membership.
Representatives of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Power Squadron, the YMCA and Waypoint Electronics also will be on hand to answer questions regarding boating and safety issues.
Free vessel safety inspections will be offered in the marina, and in the parking lot for trailered boats.
Several yacht club members’ boats will be available for tours.
Refreshments will be served and door prizes will be offered.
For more information on the club, visit www.payc.org.
Celebrate Norway
PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Lodge of Sons of Norway will celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day, Syttende Mai, at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The event will be at Scandia Hall, 131 W. Fifth St., Port Angeles.
Marilyn Brossard will perform music with her accordion and will present a Norwegian travelogue.
Cultural director Loran Olsen will play piano.
The public is welcome to attend.
Car show and barbecue
PORT ANGELES — Fairview Grange, 161 Lake Farm Road, will host a classic car show and barbecue at noon Saturday.
Those who bring a classic car to the event will get a free hot dog or hamburger.
No entry fee will be charged.
Attendees are encouraged to bring side dishes.
For more information, phone 360-461-9008.
Benefit set
PORT ANGELES — A multiteam flea market and garage sale fundraiser for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The event will be at the Agnew Helpful Neighbors Club, 1241 N. Barr Road.
Items for sale will include small appliances, espresso machines, pool table accessories and furniture.
Sandwiches, soups, homemade pies, sweet rolls and cinnamon caramel rolls will be served.
Proceeds go toward cancer research.
For more information, phone 360-457-6799.
Coronations set
PORT ANGELES — Coronations for 2010-2011 Miss Port Angeles and Junior Miss Port Angeles will be held at Laurel Park Assisted Living, 1133 E. Park Ave., at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The event is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, phone director of royalty Annie Powers at 360-452-5870.
Learn to Fly Day
PORT ANGELES — Rite Bros. Aviation will host a free Learn to Fly Day at Fairchild International Airport, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday.
Attendees can learn what it takes to be come a licensed pilot from certified aviation instructors.
Discovery flights will be available at noon. These flights cost $165 for an hour or $82.50 for 30 minutes.
Seats for the free event can be reserved by phoning Rite Bros. Aviation at 360-452-6226 or visiting www.pilotjourney.com or www.ritebros.com.
Threads of History
PORT ANGELES — The Threads of History exhibit, which showcases more than 700 years of Western European fashion, has been held over at Studio Bob, 118 ½ E. Front St.
The studio will be open from 6 to 9 tonight and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Curated by Richard Stephens, an advertising account executive with the Peninsula Daily News, the display is full of replicas of clothing worn from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, 18th century and Tudor, Elizabethan, Cavalier, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian styles and eras.
It also showcases historical silhouettes with a Gothic interpretation, a gallery of pirates and can-can dancers, Asian costumes and 10 pieces of wearable art.
Read to dogs
PORT ANGELES — Children can read to dogs at the Port Angeles Library on Saturday.
The event will be from 11 a.m. to noon at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St.
Olympic Gentle Paws will supply the dogs.
SEQUIM
Kennel Club fun
SEQUIM — The Hurricane Ridge Kennel Club will host a fun match for all breeds and mixed breeds on Saturday.
The show will start at 9:30 a.m. at Carrie Blake Park in Sequim.
Registration will be from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Pure-breed conformation will be at 9:30 a.m., all-breed and mixed-breed obedience at 9:30 a.m., all-breed and mixed-breed rally at 9:30 a.m. and junior showmanship at 10 a.m.
For more information, see www.hrkc.org/ or e-mail silhouette_papillons@yahoo.com.
Sequim City Band
SEQUIM — The Sequim City Band will open its 18th season of free outdoor concerts at the James Center for the Performing Arts, 563 N. Rhodefer Road, at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The band, directed by Sanford Feibus, will perform a variety of music including marches, music from musicals and movies, classical, jazz, big band and pop.
The Sequim High School Concert Band, directed by Vern Fosket, will perform at 2 p.m.
Sequim City Band concerts will continue at 3 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month through September.
For more information, visit www.sequimcityband.org or phone Feibus at 360-683-2546.
Music at market
SEQUIM — The Sequim Open Aire Market will feature the music of Cort Armstrong on Saturday.
The Saturday market is on Cedar Street between Sequim and Second avenues from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Armstrong will play from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be a community-booth bake sale to raise funds for the North Olympic Volunteer Center, and there will be booths hosted by the Sequim Noon Rotary Club and the Sunbonnet Sue Quilting Guild.
For more information, click on www.sequimmarket.com or e-mail manager@ sequimmarket.com.
Learn to fly event
SEQUIM — To recognize International Learn to Fly Day, members of the Chapter 430 of the Experimental Aviation Association will offer free flights Saturday.
The flights, which are for all those interested in becoming pilots, will be offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sequim Valley Airport, 468 Dorothy Hunt Lane.
At the same time at the airport, the Young Eagles will offer free flights to children 8 to 17.
It is required that minors be accompanied by or have written permission from a parent or legal guardian.
Bad weather will force cancellation of flights.
For more information, phone 360-452-2340 or visit www.eaa430.org.
Kids fishing derby
SEQUIM — The North Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Puget Sound Anglers will present the eighth annual kids fishing derby Saturday.
The derby will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the city of Sequim’s water reclamation pond and demonstration park, located just north of Carrie Blake Park on Blake Avenue.
Kids 14 and younger can participate for free, and no fishing license is required.
The pond will be stocked with 1,500 trout and there will be a special pool for toddlers with a separate stock of trout.
Children can bring their own poles or borrow one from the club’s stock.
The club also will supply bait and teach children how to clean and ice their catch.
The event is sponsored by the Haller Foundation, Walmart Foundation, Les Schwab Tires, First Federal, QFC, High Tide Sea Foods, Swain’s Outdoors, Franz Bakery and Peninsula Bottling Co.
Wrobel speaks
SEQUIM — Washington State University-Clallam County Master Gardener Bill Wrobel will present “Sherlock Holmes for Plants” at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Wrobel will offer information on how to define plant problems and determine their causes during his talk at the Woodcock Demonstration Gardens, 2711 Woodcock Road.
He will provide a flow chart for plant diagnosis.
Wrobel has been a Master Gardener since 1984. He has worked in the nursery business and has been a certified nursery professional and a licensed horticulturist.
Wrobel is the president of the Master Gardeners Foundation of Clallam County.
This presentation is part of the free “Class Act at Woodcock Garden” educational series held on the first Wednesday and third Saturday of the month.
For more information, phone 360-417-2279.
Gardening forum
SEQUIM — McComb Gardens, 751 McComb Road, will host three certified horticulturists for an open forum at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Neil Burkhardt, Gordon Clark and Bill Wrobel will answer gardening questions.
Participants can bring samples, labels and literature.
For more information, phone 360-681-2827.
Nursery classes
SEQUIM — Vision Landscape Nursery, 131 Kitchen-Dick Road, will hold a “Flower Fairy Garden” class at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The “Flower Fairy Garden” class will have participants create a flowering fairy container garden miniature landscape with perennials and annuals.
Cost for the course is $39.
For more information, or to register, phone 360-683-2855.
Chanting for peace
SEQUIM — Chanting for world peace will take place at the Center for Infinite Reflections today.
The free session will be from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
For more information, phone 360-504-2046.
Recycling computers
SEQUIM — A presentation about recycling computers and electronics is scheduled Saturday.
The Sequim PC Users Group will host the event at 10 a.m. in the computer laboratory, Room E-3, at the Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
A donation of $5 is suggested.
For more information, e-mail spcug1@gmail.com or see http://spcug.net/.
Genealogical society
SEQUIM — Sarah Thorsen Little will present “A Step by Step Approach in Family History Using Primary and Secondary Sources — A Case Study” at the Clallam County Genealogical Society’s monthly meeting Saturday.
The meeting will be from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.
Thorsen Little has been president of the Seattle Genealogical Society, lectured at state and national conventions and is an instructor for the University of Washington’s genealogy and family history certificate program.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone 360-417-5000.
PORT HADLOCK/CHIMACUM
Lodge birthday
CHIMACUM — Thea Foss Lodge No. 45 of the Daughters of Norway will host a lodge birthday and Norwegian national holiday Syttennde Mai event at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The event will be held at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road.
Members will dress like their past or present careers and share stories from their work days.
Elsa Johnson of Port Angeles and Vi Raddatz-Strobridge of Port Townsend will present music.
Caroleena Einarsen and Tori Twedt will portray the lodge’s namesake, Thea Foss.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone 360-379-1802.
BRINNON
Septic system TLC
BRINNON — Linda Atkins of Jefferson County Public Health will present “TLC for Septic Systems: Protect your Investment and Health” at Olympic Canal Tracts, 310703 U.S. Highway 101, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Atkins will cover operation, maintenance, landscaping without interfering with the operation of the septic system, garbage disposals and the impact of failing systems on drinking, ground and surface water.
For more information, phone 360-385-9400.
Forks
Magic show
FORKS — “Magic Spectacular” will perform a variety of illusions at a show on Saturday.
The magic will begin at 8 p.m. at the Forks Elks Lodge on Merchant Road.
A roast beef dinner, which is included in the $15 ticket price, will be served at 6:30 p.m.
Brian Ledbetter and Keira Grech will perform such feats as having a person float in midair and the Human Origami Box, in which a person is folded into a box only 12 inches square.
Tickets are available from Elks club members through phoning 360-640-0296, 360-640-0704 or 360-461-0948.
Market opens
FORKS — The Forks Open Aire Market will open Saturday.
The market will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot next to the Forks Timber Museum, 1421 S. Forks Ave.
Local art, photographs, crafts, jewelry and Twilight-inspired merchandise will be offered for sale.
The market will be open each Saturday through Oct. 9.
For more information, see www.forks openairemarket.com.
Style show
FORKS — The Prince of Peace Lutheran Church’s annual luncheon and style show will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The show will be at the church at 250 Blackberry Ave.
For more information, phone 360-374-6103 or 360-374-9105.
Plant sale
FORKS — The Bogachiel Garden Club plans its annual plant sale Saturday.
The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Quillayute Valley School District Auto Tech Center on South Forks Avenue.
Perennials, vegetable starts, shrubs and a few trees grown by local gardeners will be offered for sale.
Clallam County Master Gardeners will be on hand to help gardeners with their questions.
Sick plants can be brought in for diagnosis and suggestions for treatment.
The Master Gardeners also will offer a gardening class from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the auto tech center after the sale.
Disaster teams
FORKS — The American Red Cross Disaster Action Teams in the West End of Clallam County will hold a joint meeting at the Forks Recreation Center, 90 Maple Ave., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
They will focus on collaborative preparedness of their disaster teams with local first responders.
Jayme Wisecup of the Clallam County Emergency Operation Center will outline the collaboration between county and local jurisdictions and the supportive role Red Cross volunteers would play during a disaster in the West End.
Local fire district, law enforcement and tribal emergency service personnel are slated to participate.
Resources and protocols of local jurisdictions and the Red Cross will be shared among the participants.
The meeting is open to the public.
There are trained Red Cross Disaster Team volunteers in Forks, Clallam Bay, Neah Bay and Queets.
For more information, phone Red Cross Disaster Team Coordinator Don Zanon at 360-452-8677.
