Harvest celebrations and benefits are among the events on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
PORT ANGELES
Family fun fest
PORT ANGELES — New Life Open Bible Church, 600 S. Peabody St., will hold a Family Fun Fest and Apple Press from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The free event will include games and activities for children, the chance to compare the efforts of a 100-year-old apple press against a modern press, spiced cider and prize giveaways.
Attendees can take home cider.
The church is seeking apple donations for the event.
For more information, phone 360-457-8888 or 360-775-5889.
Help Zink-Holloway
PORT ANGELES — A benefit spaghetti dinner, 50/50 drawing and silent auction featuring the music of Big Fine Daddies and Andy Maupin to support cancer victim Brenda Zink-Holloway will be held at the Port Angeles Eagles Aerie, 210 S. Penn St., from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. today.
Donations also are being accepted at the Port Angeles Wells Fargo Bank branch, 901 E. Front St.
Global Lens Series
PORT ANGELES — Films from Uruguay and Iran will be screened at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., tonight.
The films, part of the fall quarter Global Lens Series, will be screened in the college’s Little Theater.
“Leo’s Room” will start at 4 p.m., and “My Tehran for Sale” will be at 7 p.m.
In “Leo’s Room,” Uruguayan film director Enrique Buchichio’s drama offers viewers a glimpse into one young man’s coming of age through a story of romance and friendship.
“My Tehran for Sale” is the work of poet-turned-filmmaker Granaz Moussavi, who registers the trials of a modern woman struggling to flourish in Iran’s contemporary political climate.
The film centers on Marzieh, a terminally ill actress who wearily relates her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official.
Admission to each film is $5
Peninsula College and area high school students will be admitted free with a current student ID.
For more information on the series, e-mail Bruce Hattendorf at bhattendorf@pencol.edu.
SEQUIM
Day of the Dead
SEQUIM — The Mujeres de Maiz Opportunity Foundation’s fifth annual Dia de los Muertos celebration will be held at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
The event includes dinner and silent and live auctions with weavings, clothing, jewelry and ornaments from Chiapas, Mexico, and from local artists.
A program also will be presented.
Suggested donation is $15.
Proceeds go to Mujeres de Maiz Opportunity Foundation, a Sequim-based nonprofit organization that provides access to education for indigenous women in southern Mexico.
No reservations are necessary.
For more information, phone Judith Pasco at 360-683-8979.
Aerial photo talk
SEQUIM — Photographer and pilot David Woodcock will present a slide discussion and book signing for From the Air: The Olympic Peninsula, at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, at 7 p.m. today.
Over a six-year span, Woodcock photographed Olympic National Park and other areas of the Olympic Peninsula from the air in all seasons and conditions.
He took the photos, and poet and nature writer Tim McNulty wrote the essays for From the Air.
Copies of the book are available in the gift shop at the River Center.
Suggested donation is $5.
Proceeds will support education programs of the Dungeness River Audubon Center and to help maintain Railroad Bridge Park.
For more information, visit www.DungenessRiverCenter.org.
Zumba Monster Bash
SEQUIM — A Zumba Monster Bash fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula will be held at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
Zumba is a dance-fitness program.
Cost is $10 for adults, free for kids.
Costumes are encouraged but are not necessary to participate.
Several certified Zumba instructors will lead the event.
Participants should bring water and athletic shoes.
For more information, phone Teresa Schmid at 360-457-7548 or e-mail twongschmid@yahoo.com.
Halloween bazaar
SEQUIM — Seven chapters of the Philanthropic Educational Organization will combine to hold the second annual PEO Halloween Bazaar at the Pioneer Park Memorial Clubhouse, 387 E. Washington St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Sale items will include handmade crafts and gifts, lavender lambs, wine glasses and mugs, cookbooks, tiles, cutting boards and knives, gently used white elephant goods and homemade baked goods.
Proceeds from the bazaar will help support educational opportunities for women.
Chapter JC also is selling raffle tickets for a 70-by-80-inch quilt that member Esther Alward made and donated.
Raffle tickets are $5 each, and only 100 tickets will be sold.
The drawing will be held on Dec. 13 at the Chapter JC meeting.
The winner need not be present.
For more information about PEO visit www.peowashington.org.
Elks breakfast
SEQUIM — The Sequim Elks Lodge will host a breakfast to benefit the scholarship fund Sunday.
The breakfast will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the lodge at 143 Port Williams Road.
The menu includes pancakes with link sausages and eggs or biscuits and gravy.
The breakfast will cost $6, or $8 with champagne.
For more information , phone 360-683-2763 or 360-681-5029.
WEST END
Crescent breakfast
JOYCE — The Port Angeles Lions Club will host an all-you-can-eat breakfast at the at the Crescent Bay Lions Clubhouse, corner of Holly Hill Road and state Highway 112, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday.
The breakfast is $6 for adults and $3 for children.
On the menu will be pancakes, French toast, eggs, meats, biscuits and gravy and beverages.
Proceeds from the breakfast go toward health screenings, eyeglass recycling and other community service projects.
PORT TOWNSEND and JEFFERSON COUNTY
Community dance
PORT TOWNSEND — Ragged Mountain will perform and Tony Mates will serve as caller at a community dance at Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., on Saturday.
A basics workshop will be held at 7:30 p.m., and the dance will be from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for youths 18 and younger.
The band will be playing squares and related forms, including a contra dance or two.
Ragged Mountain has been playing for squares and contras on the North Olympic Peninsula for four years.
Caller Mates has been part of the traditional music and dance scene in the Northwest for decades.
For the last two years, he co-produced the Seattle Dare to Be Square weekend.
For more information, phone Dave Thielk at 360-385-3308.
Big band jazz show
PORT TOWNSEND — The music of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, John Clayton and Steely Dan comes together in one show for Centrum’s second annual Jazz Big Band Concert on Saturday.
The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. at Fort Worden State Park’s Joseph F. Wheeler Theater.
Tickets are $10 and are available at www.centrum.org or by phoning Centrum at 360-385-3012, ext. 116.
“This concert is the culminating showcase of a four-day intensive big-band workshop presented by players gathered to learn from Fred Sturm,” said Gregg Miller, Centrum’s program manager for jazz.
Sturm is the conductor, composer and arranger.
“The concert will be a good illustration of how great big-band can sound,” Miller said.
Live drumming
PORT TOWNSEND — Halloween costumes will be encouraged at Madrona’s Open Space Jam tonight.
The jam session will be from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Madona MindBody Institute at 310 Fort Worden Way.
Live drumming is planned.
Ammonia power
PORT TOWNSEND — Citizens for Local Power will present the seminar “Ammonia Fuel Hubs — a Green, Carbon-free Approach to Energy Storage and Alternative Transportation Fuel” at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St., from noon to 2 p.m. today.
The event is free and open to the public.
Attendees can order an optional lunch via the Silverwater Cafe’s website at silverwatercafe.com/catering/event2010.html.
For more information, phone Steve Hamm at 360-385-7410 or e-mail steveh@olypen.com.
