NEWS BRIEFS: Sequim’s Carrie Blake Park project work to start Tuesday . . . and other items

SEQUIM — Construction on Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave., is scheduled to begin Tuesday.

The estimated $318,000 project will build 55 new parking spots and a road that will connect the existing parking at the Water Reuse Site with the parking off Rhodefer Road at the Albert Haller Playfields.

Construction is expected to last approximately five weeks and is planned to be completed in time to support the Dungeness Cup Youth Soccer Tournament and other summer activities.

Visitors to the park can expect normal access to park facilities with some intermittent construction truck traffic from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

The Olympic Discovery Trail will remain open at all times.

For questions or more information, contact City Engineer Matthew Klontz at 360-582-2472 or mklontz@sequimwa.gov.

Children’s choir slated to perform

PORT TOWNSEND — The 15th Fort Worden Children’s Choir Festival Concert will be performed in the McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Singers — 110 of them — from two Puget Sound-area choir organizations will make up the festival choir.

This year’s choristers come from Northwest Girl choir in Seattle and Spectrum Choral Academy in Gig Harbor.

The festival will be conducted by nationally acclaimed children’s choir director Dr. Angela Broeker from the University of Saint Thomas, Minnesota.

Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for students.

Tickets are available at the door one hour prior to the concert.

For more information, visit www.fortwordenfestival.com.

Ugandan benefit

PORT TOWNSEND — The eighth annual Ugandan AIDS Orphans benefit concert will be held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1120 Walker St., at 4 p.m. Sunday with a preconcert at 3:30 p.m.

A $15 donation is suggested at the door.

Doors open at 3:15 p.m.

For more information, phone 360-385-1595.

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