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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Spring up and dance to local talent this week

GET SOME SPRING in your step and dance, dance, dance, or at least support your favorite live music. Port Angeles ■ Today at Castaways Restaurant… Continue reading

Charlotte and Aaron Elkins

Married novelists mix passions for latest book: Hers is art, his is mystery, and theirs is a labor of love

SEQUIM — “My first love,” Charlotte Elkins says as her husband, Aaron, steps away to fetch coffee, “was the art world.” Now a novelist, Charlotte… Continue reading

Charlotte and Aaron Elkins
During a cow-working clinic at Freedom Farm in Port Angeles

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Bit of horseplay at cow-working clinic

IT WAS FOR a bit of horseplay — and a chance to learn more communication skills for a specific task between horse and rider —… Continue reading

During a cow-working clinic at Freedom Farm in Port Angeles

Dinner, auction to benefit camp for disabled

PORT ANGELES — If you want to see what joy looks like, watch the people Sharron Sherfick works with. At Camp Beausite Northwest near Chimacum… Continue reading

Longtime art instructor Cathy Haight helps Myra Walker and Sarah Howell with their mobiles during the Port Angeles YMCA’s After the Bell program.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Profile

PENINSULA PROFILE: She helps to unleash their inner artists

PORT ANGELES — Cathy Haight remembers the day she turned the corner. She and her husband David were running a graphic design business in Southern… Continue reading

Longtime art instructor Cathy Haight helps Myra Walker and Sarah Howell with their mobiles during the Port Angeles YMCA’s After the Bell program.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Profile

WEEKEND: Elk hunting, archery clinics part of Port Townsend Community Read program

PORT TOWNSEND — Elk hunting and archery will be the topics of two free seminars presented this weekend as part of the monthlong 2012 Port… Continue reading

The noted band Playing for Change is one of the offerings across the North Olympic Peninsula for St. Patrick’s Day festivities tonight.  [Peninsula Spotlight cover design by Heather Loyd/Peninsula Daily News]

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Bands bring on the green (and the blues) tonight for St. Patrick’s Day

Around here, St. Patrick’s Day comes in many colors, from Irish kelly green to many shades of the blues. Here are some of the options… Continue reading

The noted band Playing for Change is one of the offerings across the North Olympic Peninsula for St. Patrick’s Day festivities tonight.  [Peninsula Spotlight cover design by Heather Loyd/Peninsula Daily News]
2011 Forks High School graduate Tyler Cortani enters bids on the overhead last year during the Quillayute Valley School District auction at the Bank of America building in Forks. This year's auction will take place at the Forks High School gym. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

WEEKEND: Auction to benefit Forks scholarships

FORKS — The final lineup of auction items for the Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction is always a surprise. Such perennial donors as a local sports… Continue reading

2011 Forks High School graduate Tyler Cortani enters bids on the overhead last year during the Quillayute Valley School District auction at the Bank of America building in Forks. This year's auction will take place at the Forks High School gym. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

WEEKEND: Decorate hat for Port Angeles Heritage Days

PORT ANGELES — In preparation for Port Angeles’ 150th birthday celebration in September, Heritage Days is hosting a historic hat-decorating class Sunday. The class will… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Garage sale, films set this weekend

A giant garage sale in Port Townsend and the Port Angeles Symphony and a variety of workshops and films are slated for this weekend on… Continue reading

Master Gardener Larry Lang looks over his “lasagna garden

WEEKEND: Get sneak peek of spring green with gardening workshops

SEQUIM — An Italian villa with lasagna gardening: So goes the recipe for the 14th annual Gala Garden Show, two days of displays and presentations… Continue reading

Master Gardener Larry Lang looks over his “lasagna garden

WEEKEND: Sequim tech fair to feature variety of media, technology

SEQUIM — Technology and how to use it will be presented at the second annual Sequim Technology and Media Fair on Saturday. The fair will… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Spring sailing symposium offers information for serious boaters

PORT TOWNSEND — The Spring Boating Symposium at the Northwest Maritime Center is about the nuts and bolts of sailing. “The people who come to… Continue reading

JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Get spring started with music, dance

FOLKS, OLD MAN WINTER doesn’t seem to want to let go, with spring just days away, so it’s our job to help spring get here.… Continue reading

Peninsula College to hold free comedy hour Friday

PORT ANGELES — Lara Starcevich, a professor of drama and speech, has a prescription for the wet-weather blues. She calls it the “Non-PC PC Comedy… Continue reading

Hayley Croxford of Port Angeles is winner of the 2012 Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts poster competition. Amelia Andaleon

Hometown artist designs Juan de Fuca Festival poster

PORT ANGELES — Hayley Croxford just went for it one night, drawing on her feeling for her hometown and her experiences at music festivals around… Continue reading

Hayley Croxford of Port Angeles is winner of the 2012 Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts poster competition. Amelia Andaleon
Rocky Friedman

PENINSULA PROFILE: Friedman takes steps to bring Rose Theatre into future of film

There’s the unlikely story of Rocky Friedman, and then there’s the sequel, just arrived in theaters. Two theaters, that is. Two little auditoriums with pretty… Continue reading

Rocky Friedman
Neah Bay High School senior JaDe Shaw won the Sequim Arts Emerging Artist Award for her “War of Two Worlds.” The mixed-media work is part of the March exhibition at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Renee Mizar

Student artwork put on view at Museum & Arts Center in Sequim

SEQUIM — “Butterfly Mustache,” “The Frozen North” and “Tattoo Angel” are a few of the award-winning creations awaiting visitors all month at the Museum &… Continue reading

Neah Bay High School senior JaDe Shaw won the Sequim Arts Emerging Artist Award for her “War of Two Worlds.” The mixed-media work is part of the March exhibition at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Renee Mizar
Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands

World-famous band headed to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES ­— Every step of the way, the story sounds implausible. Step one: Filmmaker Mark Johnson of Los Angeles gallivants around the world, recording… Continue reading

Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands
IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn's work to life

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn’s work to life

PORT ANGELES — Let’s get this out of the way right off: Saturday’s Port Angeles Symphony concerts spotlight a pair of soloists who used to… Continue reading

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn's work to life