Culinary insects (yes, insects!) salmon, ice cream and other goodies will be served on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
Events range from health talks to walks to a stamp show.
Sequim
Salmon bake Sunday
SEQUIM — The Rotary Club of Sequim will serve freshly cooked coho salmon fillets at its 44th annual Salmon Bake from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The salmon bake will be at Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.
Rotary members will bake the fillets over hot alder coals for a lightly smoked flavor.
Barbecued pork meals and several vendor kiosks also will be available.
Advance tickets are $14. Tickets at the door are $15. Children 10 and younger will be admitted free.
Advance tickets can be purchased from local Rotarians and at Rotary sale sites today and Saturday at the Sequim Walmart, QFC and Safeway.
Tickets also are available from the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula, the Thomas Building Center, the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce and the businesses of Rotary members.
Proceeds will go toward the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula, Cub and Boy Scout activities, Sequim School District teacher grants and other community service projects.
To purchase tickets or for more information, phone event chairman David Mattingley at 360-808-3188 or ticket sales coordinator Peter Haglin at 360-504-9972.
Ice cream social
SEQUIM — Sequim Prairie Grange will host an Ice Cream Social benefit for Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Banana splits and sundaes will be available for a $5 donation at the door of the grange at 290 Macleay Road.
Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County provides free services to terminally ill patients and their families.
For more information about the benefit, phone Shelley Smith at 360-681-3881.
For more information about hospice, phone the hospice office at 360-452-1511 or visit www.vhocc.org.
Free youth flights
SEQUIM — Free flights for youth ages 8-17 will be offered by the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 430 at a Young Eagle Rally from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The flights will be offered at the Sequim Valley Airport, 468 Dorothy Hunt Lane.
Parents or guardians must be on hand to sign permission slips.
If it rains, the event will be postponed to Saturday, Aug. 18.
Pioneer picnic set
SEQUIM — The Sequim Pioneer Picnic will be held at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, at noon Sunday.
For more information, phone Bud Knapp at 360-683-7461 or Loretta Grant at 360-683-3194.
Book club meets
SEQUIM — Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Prodigal Summer will be discussed at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.
The novel weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of Southern Appalachia.
Over the course of one humid summer, a band of coyotes, a biologist, a hunter, a new bride far from home and elderly feuding neighbors find connections with one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.
Copies of the book are available in multiple formats at the Sequim Library, including downloadable e-book and audiobook on CDs, as well as regular print books.
They can be requested online through the library catalog at www.nols.org.
Preregistration for this program is not required, and drop-ins are always welcome.
For more information, visit www.nols.org and click on “Events” and “Sequim,” phone branch manager Lauren Dahlgren at 360-683-1161 or Sequim@nols.org.
Strait Stamp Show
SEQUIM — The annual Strait Stamp Show will be held at the Sequim Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave., from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
The show — featuring stamp dealers and stamp exhibits — will be from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sequim Masonic Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
It is free and open to the public.
Seven dealers will sell stamps and covers (i.e., envelopes) and other items.
They also will offer appraisals and can buy stamps from the public.
More than 20 frames of stamp exhibits will be displayed.
A United States Postal Service employee will hand-cancel a specially approved show cancellation on envelopes.
The theme for this year’s show is the sesquicentennial of Port Angeles.
The design of the envelope, also known as a “cachet,” is a map showing the proposed plat of the city of Port Angeles from 1853, Castell said.
The cancellation is a profile of President Abraham Lincoln, who signed an order June 19, 1862, that established the town as a military and naval reservation.
Club member Chester Masters will have a display of early North Olympic Peninsula postal history at the show.
The Strait Stamp Society meets the third Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sequim Library 630 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
For more information, phone Cathie Osborne at 360-683-6373 or email rickcath@wavecable.com.
Music at McComb
SEQUIM — The Music at McComb free concert series continues with clarinet quintet The Marmalades at 1 p.m. Sunday.
McComb Gardens is located at 175 McComb Road.
The quintet is made up of Bob Golightly, Jan Proebstel, Nancy Peterson, Signe Crawford and Bobbie Usselman.
A lighthearted set is planned, including works by Ravel, Debussy, Schumann and Bizet.
Ecosystem group
BLYN — Members of the Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network will discuss stormwater impacts and mitigation opportunities and the next steps for instream-flow rules on the North Olympic Peninsula when they meet today.
The quarterly meeting of the group, which also is known as Strait ERN, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Red Cedar Meeting Hall at the Jamestown S’Klallam Community Center, 1033 Old Blyn Highway.
The meeting is open to the public.
Agenda items include speakers on stormwater Impacts and mitigation opportunities associated with state roads and the status and next steps for Instream Flow Rules on the North Olympic Peninsula, including Watershed Resource Inventory Areas (WRIA) 17, 18 (i.e., Elwha-Morse and Dungeness area watersheds), and 19.
For more information, email Strait ERN coordinator John Cambalik at StraitSoundEnvironmental@wavecable.com.
Half-price sale
SEQUIM — The Sequim Senior Activity Center’s seventh annual benefit sale continues with a half-price clearance sale in Suites E104-E105 in the QFC Shopping Center, 990 E. Washington St., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Saturday.
Half-price bargains are available for clothing, household and kitchen goods, plants, craft items, artwork, tools, shoes, baskets, toys, DVDs, office supplies, collectibles and books.
Everything is half-price, except for bake sale and some furniture items.
Proceeds benefit the center’s nonprofit operations, with 10 percent going to the center’s scholarship fund for Sequim High School seniors.
For more information, phone 360-683-6806.
Family Fun Fest
SEQUIM — Sequim Bible Church, 847 N. Sequim Ave., will hold its annual Family Fun Fest from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Six bounce houses will be available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Live music will be performed from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. by Standing on Shoulders.
Jeremiah’s BBQ will sell food at discounted prices, and the church’s middle school youth group will hold a root beer float benefit.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone 360-683-4135.
Port Angeles
Wine and music
PORT ANGELES — The annual pairing of wine and live music, courtesy of the Port Angeles Symphony and Camaraderie Cellars, is set for 6 p.m. tonight — and reservations are still open.
Tickets are $75 to the symphony fundraiser, which includes light picnic fare, wine and music by violist Lili Green, duets by violinist Kristin Smith and her husband Otto, Schubert solos by baritone Joel Yelland and duets by bassonists Katie Orth and Hollie Kaufman.
All proceeds will go to the Port Angeles orchestra’s programs, including concerts and the annual Young Artist Competition.
Reservations are due by early this afternoon for the event at Camaraderie Cellars, 334 Benson Road just west of Port Angeles. Phone the symphony office at 360-457-5579 or Camaraderie at 360-452-4964.
A Peek at the Past
PORT ANGELES — Historical images, root beer and special awards for five local people will be among the attractions of the Heritage Days Committee’s “A Peek at the Past” on Saturday night.
Genealogical Society members also will be on hand to provide research assistance at the reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Studio Bob, 118 1/2 E. Front St., a part of the Second Saturday Art Walk in Port Angeles.
Doors will open at 5 p.m.
The Clallam County Historical Society will provide several panels of photographs covering aspects of the history of Port Angeles beginning in about 1897, said Kathy Monds, executive director of the historical society.
Exhibits will be open for public viewing from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, as well as on the following two weekends from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 3 p.m.
On Saturday, five people will be honored for their volunteer contributions to maintaining knowledge about Port Angeles’ past, said April Bellerud, chairwoman of the Heritage Days Committee.
They are Gwen and Lee Porterfield, historical society volunteers; Clallam County Commissioner Mike Doherty; and Paul Martin, author of Port Angeles: A History, and his research assistant Peggy Norris.
A no-host root beer float bar will serve Bedford’s Premium Root Beer with the limited-edition sesquicentennial label created by Ed Bedford, owner of Northwest Soda Works of Port Angeles.
Historian Alice Alexander, who also writes a Clallam history column for the Peninsula Daily News that appears the first Sunday of every month in Peninsula Profile, will provide a sneak peek at her new book, Lake Crescent — Gem of the Olympics: A History of Early Resorts.
Change your health
PORT ANGELES — Registered Nurse Kathy Craven will talk about the process of change and how it applies to making personal changes to improve health during a “Making Changes” presentation from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. today.
The free talk will be at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Craven is a faculty member in the Peninsula College nursing program.
Her presentation will be geared toward persons with diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic diseases.
The talk is sponsored by the Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics — or VIMO — free clinic.
Port Townsend/Jefferson County
Bug chef at market
PORT TOWNSEND — Author and television personality David George Gordon, aka the Bug Chef, will appear at the Port Townsend Farmers Market from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The Port Townsend Farmers Market is held on Tyler Street between Laurence and Clay streets from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gordon, a former Port Townsend resident who has appeared on the “Today Show,” cooked bugs for the Smithsonian; he has been profiled in Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and is the author of the Eat-a-Bug Cookbook and The Secret Life of Slugs & Snails.
He is a leader in the growing field of entomophagy, or the practice of eating bugs — and cooking them, too.
He will offer free samples.
He plans to cook crickets, mealworms and even a tarantula for farmers market customers.
“Nobody walks away hungry from one of my cooking demos,” Gordon said, adding that this can be taken in two ways.
Bug cooking largely will be confined to the first hour of Gordon’s appearance at the market.
During the second hour, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.. Gordon will spend more time in what he deems “the slow lane,” the world of slugs and snails, a familiar creature to Northwest gardeners.
Gordon will explain how to differentiate the helpful native slug and snails species from the less-than-helpful non-natives that eat gardens spring — and give tips on how to manage them.
And yes, this includes eating them, but mostly that technique will apply to Helix Aspersa, Port Townsend’s non-native French escargot snail.
Gordon will describe how you can cultivate them yourself.
Free outdoor concert
PORT LUDLOW — New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Steve McDonald, on a tour of the Pacific Northwest, will give a free outdoor concert at the Resort at Port Ludlow form 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight.
McDonald, known for his contemporary Celtic songs, will play on the Port Ludlow Yacht Club lawn, off Gull Drive. Refreshments will be for sale through the evening.
The singer sets the history of Scotland’s clan system to music, while sharing the story of his own Clan Donald. In this, he hopes to offer listeners a connection to the past.
“The past talks to us all the time, and by getting to know where we’ve been, we get insight as to where we are going,” said McDonald, who now makes his home in Melbourne, Australia.
To hear McDonald’s music, visit www.SteveMcdonaldfanclub.com, and for more details about the concert, phone 360-437-7000.
Free lunch Friday
PORT HADLOCK — Free Lunch Friday will be offered for children and teens in Port Hadlock at the Irondale Church, 681 Irondale Road, on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to noon through Aug. 31.
There will be a healthy variety of food served.
A collaboration of four churches in Port Hadlock, Community United Methodist Church, Irondale Church, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer and Peach Lutheran Church are sponsoring the program.
No reservations needed. For more information phone 360 385-1720.
Contra dance set
PORT TOWNSEND — The Contradictions will perform the music and Jay Finklestein will call the Second Saturday Contra Dance at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., on Saturday.
The dance will begin at 7:30 p.m. and end around 10:30 p.m.
Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for ages 3 to 18 and free for 3 and younger.
For more information, visit ptcommunitydance.blogspot.com.
Forks/West End
Kassi Hansen walk
FORKS — The Kassi Hansen Memorial Walk to Remember will be held at Tillicum Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11.
Cost is $15 per person or $25 for families.
Lunch will be available for $7 per person after the walk.
Attendees can purchase tickets for a chance at various prizes.
Proceeds fund a memorial scholarship in Hansen’s name for a graduating senior.