Music, art, history, good food, performing dogs and partying boaters are among the choices for entertainment this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Here’s more on agility trials, boater parties and other special activities.
Agility trials
SEQUIM — About 250 dogs are expected to compete in the Hurricane Ridge Kennel Club Agility Trials today through Sunday.
Dogs will crawl up ladders, manage teeter totters, jump through tires and perform other feats during the event, competing for points that could add up to the title of Master Agility Champion, said Anne Andritsch, secretary of the kennel club.
All competitions will be at the Blake Family property, 110 S. Blake Ave., Sequim, which is behind the Trinity United Methodist Church.
The trials will begin at 1 p.m. today, and continue until about 4 p.m.
Contests will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Big boater party
PORT TOWNSEND — Anywhere from 200 to 500 sailboats and trawlers from all over the Northwest are expected to fill the Port of Port Townsend Marina this weekend.
The boats will be in Port Townsend today through Sunday, with parties planned at and near the marina throughout Saturday and Sunday, said Bob Bitchin, owner of Latitudes & Attitudes, a magazine based in Redondo Beach, Calif., that is hosting the Northwest Cruisiers’ Party.
The annual event, which began eight years ago, is set at various ports.
Port Townsend was chosen this year because, “a friend of mine has a marine business there, and he’s been bragging about Port Townsend for years, so I thought I’d get up there and see it,” Bitchin said.
The event could bring from 1,500 to 4,000 people, depending on the number of people on the boats, he estimated.
Latitudes & Attitudes will film the weekend gathering for its television show that airs on Ion Network, Bitchin said. The show will be aired sometime during the next season, which will begin in September.
For more information, see the group’s Web site at www.seafaring.com.
Tennis tournament
PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Tennis Club is holding the doubles contest of a tennis tournament at Erickson Park on Saturday and Sunday.
The singles contest of the tournament ended on Sunday. Players can still enter the doubles contest, which will be Saturday and Sunday. The fee is $20.
The group hopes to raise $2,500 to fund four scholarships for Port Angeles and Sequim high school tennis players, tournament director Jen Gouge said.
The scholarships are in remembrance of Port Angeles resident Saundra Kent, who died of leukemia 24 years ago at age 19 while she was attending Pacific Lutheran University on a tennis scholarship.
Sequim and Port Angeles high school students can learn more details of the tennis club’s scholarships from their school administrators.
For more information, phone Gouge at 360-460-3651.
Winery concert series
PORT ANGELES — The Senate Band will perform at Olympic Cellars Winery on Saturday.
The performance, which is part of the winery’s summer music series, will begin at 7 p.m.
The winery is at 255410 U.S. Highway 101.
‘Paws in Garden’
SEQUIM — Music, food and art will be at hand during the “Paws in the Garden: An Artists for Animals Benefit” on Saturday and Sunday.
The benefit will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at Vision Landscape Nursery, 131 Kitchen Dick Road in Sequim.
The benefit will raise money for several organizations, including the Peninsula Friends of the Animals, the Raptor Center, the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society and the Welfare for Animals Guild.
Salmon bake
SEQUIM — The Sequim Noon Rotary Club plans its 40th annual salmon bake fundraiser on Sunday.
The benefit will be at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, from noon to 4 p.m.
The club will serve Alaska salmon baked over an open fire with coleslaw, beans, rolls and ice cream.
Tickets are $15, with children young than 10 eating for free.
The proceeds will support the club’s projects in Sequim.
