‘The Boys of 36’ to screen Friday in PA
PORT ANGELES — A free pre-screening of the PBS documentary, “The Boys of ’36” will be hosted by the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association on Friday.
The event will be held at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., with doors at 6:30 p.m. and the film at 7 p.m.
This PBS movie, part of the American Experience series, documents the story of nine working class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and the nation by storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin.
Inspired by the best-selling book by Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the movie features interviews with author Brown, as well as surviving children of the 1936 Washington team.
One of the “boys, Joe Rantz, has a direct connection to the Olympic Peninsula, having lived in the Sequim area during his youth where he met his wife, Joyce (Simdars), and was a student at Sequim High School.
Joe’s daughter, Judy Rantz Willman, is one of the adult children featured in the interviews in this movie.
Willman serves on the board of the association and will be on hand to introduce the special event.
The film will premiere on PBS on Aug. 2.
For more information, email oprayouthadultrowing@gmail.com.
Sixkiller dinner tix
BLYN — A limited number of tickets remain for Thursday’s sixth annual Sonny Sixkiller Husky Celebrity Golf Classic dinner at 7 Cedars Casino.
The event, presented by Wilder Auto Center, will begin at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $75 and are available by calling the Olympic Medical Center Foundation office at 360-417-7144.
More than 35 former University of Washington athletes will attend the dinner and play in a golf tournament at Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course on Friday.
Husky legends will include Pac-12 Network announcer Lincoln Kennedy, Bob Schloredt, Don McKeta, Nesby Glasgow, Marques Tuiasosopo and Steve Emtman, the No. 1 draft pick in the 1992 NFL draft.
Also participating will be former Port Angeles High School player Scott Jones, who is the only Roughrider to have played in the NFL.
Jones also played tight end and offensive tackle atWashington.
Sixkiller was the dynamic quarterback who turned around the Husky football program, and led the nation in passing in 1970.
He was also featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated on October 4, 1971.
Proceeds benefit the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.
Youth football
CHIMACUM — Registration for Chimacum Youth Football and Cheerleading will be held at H.J. Carroll Park from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6-7.
Gear will be issued the following weekend, with the first practice set for Monday, Aug. 15.
Participation is open to those in grades 1-6.
Coaches and volunteers are needed.
For more information, phone Darrin Dotson at 360-990-8417 or email dotsondl29@yahoo.com.
