Mother’s Day celebrations, plant sales, dances and plays are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
Information about activities related to the visual and lively arts can be found in Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s PDN.
Other major weekend events are spotlighted in “Things To Do,” on Page C5 and — by area — below:
PORT ANGELES
Senior info fair set
PORT ANGELES — The Senior Information and Assistance program will host its ninth annual Information Fair today.
The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St.
Information on the Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance — or SHIBA — program and Medicare, medication management and health awareness will be presented.
Paul Corning of the state Attorney General’s Office’s Consumer Protection Division, will discuss consumer fraud and identity theft and mortgage and foreclosure issues from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
A long-term care ombudsman will be on hand to discuss long-term care options. An elder law attorney also will be at the fair.
For more information, phone 360-452-3221.
Decadent desserts
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market will hold its first Decadent Dessert Auction during the farmers market Saturday.
The silent auction benefit will include three tables loaded with cakes and confections crafted by Port Angeles dessert artisans at the market, which is held at The Gateway pavilion at the corner of Front and Lincoln streets, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday.
Bidding will start at 10 a.m., and the first table will close at 12:30 p.m., with successive tables closing at 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Highest bidders need not be present to win, since market volunteers will deliver the desserts to donors who live within the city limit.
For more information, phone market manager Cynthia Warne at 360-460-0361 or email portangelesfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
Men’s Gospel Singers
PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers will give the final concert of their season at Bethany Pentecostal Church, 508 S. Francis St., tonight.
The public is invited, and admission is by donation; director Michael Rivers will lead the singers in a performance of sacred music at 7 p.m.
For more details about the ensemble now in its 10th year, visit www.PMgospelsingers.com or phone 360-457-2859.
Basketball games
PORT ANGELES — Twenty-two teams will compete in the May Day Roundball tournament Saturday and Sunday.
Games will get under way at 11 a.m. Saturday morning at various venues. Sunday’s games will begin at 9 a.m., and championship games are scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
The games, hosted by the city of Port Angeles Recreation Division and Port Angeles Boys AAU, will be open to the public for “a slight admission charge,” which is unspecified.
Four boys divisions are scheduled: sixth grade, eighth grade, ninth grade and varsity.
Port Angeles has a representative in all except the eighth-grade division.
Cities represented include Bellingham, Bremerton, Edmonds, Federal Way, LaConner, Lynden, Mukilteo, Oak Harbor, Port Orchard, Puyallup, Poulsbo, Port Orchard, Seattle, Tacoma and Courtenay, B.C.
For more information, contact Dan Estes, special events coordinator, at 360-417-4557 or destes@cityofpa.us.
Spring decking event
PORT ANGELES — Angeles Millwork & Lumber Co., 1601 S. C St., will provide information about decking from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
Attendees can learn about composite decking materials from EverGrain, TimberTech, Fiberon, FastenMaster and Simpson vendors.
Contractors with years of deck building experience from A Dependable Contractor, Northwest Builders, Hathaway Construction and NW Structures also will be available.
Visitors are encouraged to bring deck project ideas and to enter to win prizes and receive coupons for decking materials discounts.
For more information, phone 360-457-8581 or visit www.angelesmillwork.com.
Clean Sweep Saturday
PORT ANGELES — The annual Port Angeles Downtown Association Clean Sweep will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The yearly cleanup event is intended as a spring spruce-up of the downtown business district.
Attendees can bring gloves, weed diggers, trowels, brooms, dustpans, rakes and other cleaning devices.
Lunch will be served to volunteers, and there will be prizes for volunteers to find.
To help with planning of the event or to pitch in with cleanup, phone Bob Lumens of Northwest Fudge at 360-452-8299 or email nwpa@olypen.com.
Kiwanis garage sale
PORT ANGELES — The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles’ annual garage sale will be held at the old NAPA Auto Parts Building, 123 S. Peabody St., from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Proceeds will support the Northwest Kiwanis Camp for children with special needs, located near Chimacum.
For more information, visit kiwaniscamp.com.
Soroptimist sales
PORT ANGELES — Soroptimist International Port Angeles-Jet Set will hold a benefit rummage sale and bake sale for Relay For Life on Saturday.
The sales will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Camp Fire USA Clubhouse, 619 E. Fourth St.
Raffle baskets also will be available.
For more information, phone Jean Schneider at 360-460-5329.
Lion member roast
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Lions Club will host a roast for Lions member Bob Philpott in the social hall of First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St., from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The public is welcome.
Philpott has served as treasurer and president for the club and on its board of directors.
He also served on the Port Angeles Planning Commission for 13 years, the Clallam County Board of Equalization for three years and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
He attends First United Methodist Church.
Council at farmers market
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Mayor Dan Di Guilio and City Council members Patrick Downie and Max Mania will staff a table at the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday.
The trio will be available at the market, held at The Gateway pavilion at Front and Lincoln streets, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Mother’s Day/Cinco de Mayo breakfast
Mother’s Day and Cinco de Mayo will be celebrated at a Shane Park fundraiser breakfast Sunday.
The breakfast will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Port Angeles Masonic Temple, 622 S. Lincoln St., Port Angeles.
Prices are $5 for adults and $4 for children.
The Shane Park Playground Committee’s goal is $130,000 for new equipment.
The next two breakfast benefits will be May 29 and June 12.
Curator to speak
PORT ANGELES —Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Director and Curator Jake Seniuk will present a slide lecture titled “Slivers of Silver: PAFAC at 25: Looking Back/Thinking Forward” on Sunday.
The lecture, part of the Clallam County Historical Society’s History Tales series, will be held in Port Angeles City Council chambers, 321 E. Fifth St., at 2:30 p.m.
Seniuk’s presentation offers a visual history of the evolution of the Fine Arts Center.
History Tales is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone the society’s office at 360-452-2662.
Contra dance
PORT ANGELES — A community contra dance is planned at the Black Diamond Community Hall on Saturday.
The dance will be at 7:30 p.m. at the hall at 1942 Black Diamond Road.
For more information, phone 360-457-8359.
Pet adoption
PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society is holding weekly pet adoption events at Airport Garden Center, 2200 W. Edgewood Drive, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays through the fall.
Animals can still be adopted at the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, 2105 W. U.S. Highway 101
For more information on adoptions, phone 360-457-8206.
SEQUIM
Portrait photos for mom
SEQUIM — Mother’s Day portrait photography will be available at McComb Gardens, 751 McComb Road, on Saturday and Sunday.
Port Angeles photographer Iantha Frazer will take pictures on the grounds of the garden.
Sittings are by reservation.
Each group will receive an 8-by-10 portrait and a disk with a digital copy of the negative.
The cost of each photograph is $40.
To make a reservation, phone McComb Gardens at 360-681-2827.
Native plant workshop
SEQUIM — Clallam Conservation District will hold a free field workshop on landscaping with native plants at the Dungeness Recreation Area from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The workshop will focus on the identification of more than 25 native trees and shrubs while walking approximately two miles of Recreation Area trails.
Conservation District Manager Joe Holtrop will conduct the workshop. Holtrop, who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture, has conducted workshops since 1990.
Because of space limitations, pre-registration is required.
Phone the conservation district at 360-452-1912, ext. 5, for more information and to register.
Computer genealogy
SEQUIM — The Computer Genealogy Users Group will meet at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 1:30 p.m. today.
Ray W. Madsen will present “Paleography: Reading Old Handwriting” at the event.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Thrift shop open
SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell St., will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Holiday items and dishware will be featured.
All white-tag items will be at half-price during this sale.
For more information, phone 360-683-7044.
Mayhem at Home Depot
SEQUIM — The Sequim Home Depot, 1145 W. Washington St., will hold its second annual Mayhem event Saturday.
Mayhem will offer games, food, workshops and prizes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free WA-CHIPS Child Identification kits by the Sequim Masonic Lodge and free water testing are available.
For more information, phone 360-582-1620.
Spring plant sale
SEQUIM — The Washington State University Clallam County Extension Master Gardeners will hold their annual Spring Plant Sale at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Attendees will find hundreds of plants grown from seed or propagated by division, cuttings or layering by local members of Master Gardeners.
A large selection of used garden books, a raffle for a wheelbarrow filled with gardening tools and supplies and a “white elephant” sale also are planned.
Proceeds will support Master Gardener public education and demonstration garden projects.
For more information, phone Lori Kennedy at 360-417-2279 or email lkennedy@co.clallam.wa.us.
Annual plant sale
SEQUIM — The Cutting Garden will hold its annual plant sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Perennials will include stachys “Big Ears,” red-blooming trillium erectum — also known as wake-robin — and September flower (aster).
Dozens of annuals also will be on sale.
The Cutting Garden is located at 303 Dahlia Llama Lane off Woodcock Road.
For more information, phone Catherine Mix at 360-670-8671 or visit www.cuttinggarden.com.
Waltz lessons
SEQUIM — Dance teachers Pam and Derek Perkins are wrapping up their spring series of classes with instruction in the waltz.
The sessions — for singles and couples — started this week and run through May 24 at the Sequim Prairie Grange Hall, 290 Macleay Road.
One-hour classes are at 7 p.m. for beginners and at 8:30 p.m. for intermediate dancers.
The cost is $8 per person per session, though intermediate students can participate in both classes for $12 per night.
Private lessons also are available from the Perkinses, who can be reached at 360-582-0738 or keendancer@q.com.
Play accordions
SEQUIM — Participants are urged to bring an accordion to play at an accordion social at the Sequim Senior Activity Center on Sunday.
The social will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the center at 921 E. Hammond St.
Admission is $2.
PORT TOWNSEND
Bird migration cruises
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will host spring bird migration cruises aboard Puget Sound Express Glacier Spirit on Saturday.
The three-hour trip will depart from Point Hudson Marina in downtown Port Townsend at 1 p.m.
Tickets are $55 per person, $50 for members of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, Burke Museum, Audubon or the Washington Ornithological Society, and $45 for children ages 2-10.
Onboard refreshments will be available.
For reservations, phone the Port Townsend Marine Science Center at 360-385-5582, ext. 104, or 800-566-3932, or email cruises@ptmsc.org for additional information.
Elks wine-tasting
PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend Elks Lodge No. 317, 555 Otto St., will host a wine-tasting benefit from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Proceeds from the event will go toward scholarships for East Jefferson County students.
More than 30 wineries will offer samples of their vintages.
Port Townsend Brewery will offer beer, and Mount Townsend Creamery will have cheese samples.
Elks Exalted Ruler Ken Brink will preside over a live auction, and there will also be a silent auction for bidding.
The wine-tasting event is $15 per person.
For more information, phone 360-385-0317 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Friday market opening
PORT LUDLOW — The Port Ludlow Friday Market will reopen for the season today.
The market at the Port Ludlow Village Center — corner of Paradise Bay and Oak Bay roads — will offer fresh produce, seafood, flowers, plants, knife sharpening, arts and crafts, and more.
It will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Friday until Sept. 9.
For more information, phone Sandie Schmidt at 360-437-0882.
4-H horse show
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project and Silver Spurs 4-H Club will host an open schooling horse show at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., on Saturday.
Performance classes will begin at 9 a.m., with Western games following.
Entries for performance classes are $5 each; for Western games, $4.
Stalls are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. There is a refundable deposit if the stall is left clean.
High-point prizes will be awarded to all divisions in both performance and Western games.
Show forms are available at most feed and tack stores and at the Washington State University Extension office in Port Hadlock.
For more information, phone 360-643-1574.
Quilcene plant sale
QUILCENE — The Quilcene School Horticulture Club will hold a Mother’s Day Plant Sale at the school’s greenhouse, 294715 U.S. Highway 101, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Horticulture club members will sell hanging baskets, annuals and vegetable starts they have grown.
All funds raised will support the seventh-through-12th-grade students’ horticulture projects and educational field trips.
Students will visit Brinnon’s Whitney Gardens in May.
A fall field trip is planned to Orcas Island, where they will visit projects conducted by high school students in another teen farming program.
They also will work on the Bullock Permaculture Farm, a learning center established almost 30 years ago.
Future trips are being planned to Bloedel Reserve, the Seattle Arboretum and Japanese Gardens.
For more information, phone 360-385-4313.
Big Band concert
PORT TOWNSEND — “The Big Band is back in Town” and performing dance music as a tribute to the American Legion and the USO at the culminating event of Northwest Big Band week tonight.
The concert and dance will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Marvin G. Shields American Legion Hall — which was built as a USO — at Monroe and Water streets in Port Townsend.
Admission is $5 per person.
Conducting one of the two big bands is Chuck Easton, a prominent jazz artist who is a master on guitar and bass and also plays several other instruments.
Directing the other band is Elmer Ramsey. Although retiring from university teaching after 40 years and symphony conducting after 30 years, he has played in big bands since World War II, starting at age 14.
Playing with Mel Torme, Nat King Cole and the Jimmy Durante shows were some of his early experiences.
Vocalists with the bands are Mary Lou Montgomery and Jenny Davis.
‘Bat Boy’ starts tonight
PORT TOWNSEND — “Bat Boy,” a musical about a boy — half human, half bat — discovered in a cave and brought to Hope Falls, a small town in West Virginia, opens tonight.
Showtimes for “Bat Boy” are 7 p.m. each Friday and Saturday through May 21 in the Port Townsend High School auditorium at 1500 Van Ness.
Admission at the door will be $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for Port Townsend School District students with associated student body identification cards.
“Bat Boy” is not recommended for young children.
Display of motherhood
PORT TOWNSEND — A Canadian artist is displaying a series of multimedia portraits of motherhood at Fort Worden State Park through Sunday.
The exhibit, the MAMA Program, by Emily van Lidth de Jeude of Bowen Island, B.C., opened Wednesday on the second floor of Building 204, which is between the guard house and Fort Worden Commons.
It will be open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, which is Mother’s Day.
The exhibit displays images of 24 women on torn, stained sheets, with words painted beside each portrait and recordings of the women playing on speakers.
Barn dance benefit
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson Equestrian Association will hold a barn dance fundraiser at the Chimacum Grange, 9572 Rhody Drive, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.
Joe Crecca & the Homewreckers will perform, and the event also will include a silent auction and refreshments.
The barn dance is open to all ages.
Proceeds will benefit the development of the Jefferson Equestrian Events Center, set to be located on 80 acres of Jefferson County property off Cape George Road.
Tickets are $20 at the door, $10 for youths ages 15 and younger.
All tickets are tax-deductible.
For more information, email summermartell@hotmail.com or phone 360-531-1726.
Mother’s Day concert
PORT TOWNSEND — Magical Strings will perform a special Mother’s Day concert at Fort Worden State Park on Sunday.
The concert will be at 3 p.m. in the chapel.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children.
A portion of the proceeds will go toward acquisition of instruments for Sunfield Waldorf School’s musical program.
FORKS/WEST END
‘Selfish Giant’
JOYCE — Crescent High School students will perform “The Selfish Giant” tonight and Saturday.
The show, written by Gillette Elvgren and based on the short story by Oscar Wilde, will begin at 7 p.m. in the cafetorium each night at Crescent School, 50350 state Highway 112.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. both today and Saturday.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students and free for children 5 and younger.
The play tells of a band of kids who discover a beautiful house and garden in the middle of the city.
Gorgon, a grumpy giant, appears and chases the youngsters away.
That selfishness brings on invaders known as Frost, Snow and Hail who burst into the haven and transform it by banishing spring.
A disabled child, returns to the garden, treats the beast with love and understanding, and softens its heart.
For information about this and other Crescent School activities, phone the Crescent School District at 360-928-3311.
Boat inspections set
FORKS — The Coast Guard Auxiliary will conduct vessel safety inspections in the Forks Outfitters parking lot, 950 S. Forks Ave., starting at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Inspections will be made on a first-come, first-served basis.
Coast Guard open house
LA PUSH — The Coast Guard Station Quillayute River will host an open house starting at noon Sunday.
Coast Guard crew will be on hand to answer questions from the general public on the unit’s operations and its vessels.
Limited tours of the station guards and vessels will be held.
Station personnel also will discuss boating safety, with a focus on legal requirements and how to choose, wear and maintain life jackets.
White Cane Days
FORKS — A live auction is planned at the Forks Lions Club White Cane Days on Saturday.
The auction will begin at 1 p.m. at Mill Creek Bar and Grill, 1222 S. Forks Ave., and continue until the last item is sold.
Proceeds will support programs and services for people who are blind or visually impaired as well as programs for sight conservation.
Donations will be accepted.
Potluck
FORKS — A Senior Citizens Lunch Potluck is set at 12:30 p.m. today.
The meal will be at the Forks Community Center, 91 Maple Ave.
To RSVP, phone 360-374-2558.
Plant sale
FORKS — The Forks Alternative School plans a plant sale Saturday.
The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bank of America’s community room at 481 S. Forks Ave.
Proceeds will go toward a June 14 field trip to Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle
