Holiday bazaars, harvest meals, lectures, forums and benefits are offered on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
Arts and entertainment events appear in Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, appearing in this edition.
Other weekend events are in the “Things to Do” calendar, available online at www.peninsuladailynews.com.
Here are some of this weekend’s other highlights:
SEQUIM
Grand opening
SEQUIM — Nash’s Organic Produce will celebrate the opening of its new full-grocery farm store at 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way with a ribbon-cutting at 11 a.m. today.
Music will be provided by Cort and Kia Armstrong.
Debra Daniels-Zeller, author of the Seattle food blog www.foodconnections.blogspot.com, will also be on hand to meet customers and sign copies of her most recent effort, The Northwest Vegetarian Cookbook.
Customers can sign the store’s giant “Best Wishes” card at the event.
Grand opening week events have been going on since Tuesday and will continue from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Saturday.
Children and families are invited for “Kids Day” on Saturday.
There will be clowns, storytelling, puppets, face-painting, a farm animal display, a “Zumba Flash Dance” and other family activities.
Nash’s new farm store is now a complete grocery store featuring produce, eggs, grain and pork from Nash’s farms in the Dungeness Valley as well as produce, eggs, meats, cheeses, dairy, baked goods and other products from other local producers, including Clark Farm, Dungeness Valley Creamery, Mount Townsend Creamery, Johnston Farms, Lazy J Tree Farm, Midori Farm and Red Dog Farm.
Additional grocery items include cereals, nuts, dried fruits, canned goods, paper products, coffees and mercantile items.
All products are from “socially responsible and independently owned producers,” according to the business.
Store managers Mary Wong and Ellen Russell said they also did research to find GMO-free and organic products for the store.
PEO bazaar set
SEQUIM — The third annual Philanthropic Education Organization (PEO) Holiday Bazaar, Bake Sale and Raffle will be held at the Pioneer Park clubhouse, 387 E. Washington St., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The event will feature items from Sequim resident Mary Beth Beuke’s West Coast Sea Glass.
Sale items include an array of handmade crafts and gifts, lavender animals, mugs, cookbooks, tiles, cutting boards and knives, and homemade baked goods.
Two chapters will hold raffle drawings.
In addition to chapter JC, Sequim chapters EP, FY, HZ and IV and chapter CR from Port Angeles are participating.
Chapter JC puts on the annual bazaar to raise scholarship funds and help people learn about PEO.
The mission of this Philanthropic Educational Organization is to support educational opportunities for women.
For more information on the group, visit www.peowashington.org.
Fall Fruit Show
SEQUIM — The Olympic Orchard Society’s Fall Fruit Show will be Saturday.
The show will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 Blake Ave.
An entrance fee of $3 is asked for individuals and $5 for two people or a family. Members of the society can attend for free.
More than 20 different varieties of apples and pears will be available to taste.
Attendees can learn how to grow and care for fruit trees and berries and are encouraged to bring in their mystery apples for identification.
A limited number of grafted apple and pear trees will be on sale, and apple crisp will be sold.
Raffles, door prizes and information tables on mason bees, Master Gardeners and information about growing fruits in the local climate are planned.
For more information about the Olympic Orchard Society, phone Erik Simpson at 360-683-6684 or Marilyn Couture at 360-681-3036.
Anniversary set
SEQUIM — Around Again will celebrate its second anniversary with an open house from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.
The business collects and sells used building materials, home furnishings and other usable and recycled items.
Saturday’s open house — which will include workshops, music and food — will be held at Around Again, 22 Gilbert Road, at its intersection with U.S. Highway 101 and across from Taylor Cutoff Road.
Activities will include a metal-stud building demonstration from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., a “Make a Light Bulb Terrarium” demonstration with recycled light bulbs at 3 p.m. and a talk, “Around Again: Who We Are and What We Do,” at 4 p.m.
For more information, phone Around Again at 360-683-7862.
Geocaching event
SEQUIM — The Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley will go on a high-tech treasure hunt with a program about geocaching Saturday.
The interactive workshop, led by avid geocacher Caroline Stuckey as part of the geocaching Team T.W.R.B., will begin at 10 a.m. at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road, which is a geocache location.
Geocaching is a form of outdoor treasure hunting that requires the use of GPS navigation.
With GPS-enabled devices and GPS coordinates, participants can locate a geocache site to find a hidden container containing a logbook and possibly another item or items.
Upon finding the geocache, participants record their finding in the logbook, which remains with the container, and replace the “treasure” item(s) with something of equal or greater value for the next geocacher to find if they choose to take it.
Program fees are $15 for museum members and $20 for nonmembers.
The fees, which support continued museum programming, will be collected at the door.
Advance registration and payment is accepted, though not required, through the MAC Exhibit Center, 175 W. Cedar St. in Sequim.
For more information about upcoming programs and events, visit www.macsequim.org or phone 360-683-8110.
Arts and crafts fair
BLYN — The second annual Jamestown S’Klallam Native and Non-Native Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair will be held in the Red Cedar Hall of the tribe’s community center, 1033 Old Blyn Highway, on Saturday and Sunday.
The fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
The fair will include 35 vendor tables featuring handmade work — jewelry, metalwork, photography, fiber arts, botanicals and more.
A hot beverage and baked goods sale and raffles of vendor-donated items will benefit tribal programs.
Thrift shop open
SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild Thrift Shop, 204 W. Bell St., will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The shop is stocked with holiday items and fall clothing.
All white-tagged items will be marked at half-price during this sale.
Volunteers are still needed for the shop.
Phone 360-683-7044 for more information.
Benefit breakfast
SEQUIM — A benefit breakfast for the Sequim Pre-3 children’s program will be held at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
The menu will include scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, biscuits and sausage gravy, orange juice, milk and coffee.
The cost is $7 for ages 8 and older, $3.50 for 7 and younger.
Holiday bazaar
SEQUIM — The Sequim Senior Activity Center, 921 E. Hammond St., will hold its annual holiday bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Saturday.
The event will include three rooms of craft items and new and used items for sale.
Lunch will also be available for a small fee.
For more information, phone 360-683-6806.
Bird series talk
SEQUIM — Christie Lassen of Wild Birds Unlimited will speak at the Backyard Birding series presented by the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society on Saturday.
She will speak from 10 a.m. to noon at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.
Her presentation will cover general bird feeding, including types of feeders and different feeds for attracting specific birds.
There will be an emphasis on over-wintering species.
She will include specific ideas for providing continuing winter water supplies and meeting the needs of the Anna’s hummingbird, which has started staying here all year long.
She will also answer participants’ questions.
The presentation is the second in a monthly series of nine presented by OPAS.
The sessions are held the first Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the center.
Admission for adults is $5. If a person attends five sessions, a free membership in the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society will be offered.
For more information, phone the Dungeness River Audubon Center at 360-681-4076.
Historian, author reads
SEQUIM — Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St., will host local historian, humorist and author Doug McInnes during the First Friday Artwalk today.
McInnes will read from his books Sequim Yesterday and My Uncles and Other Related Tall Tales at 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
The readings will be followed by in-store drawings.
Winter refreshments created by Cameron’s Cafe & Catering will be served.
PORT ANGELES
Taste of the Peninsula
PORT ANGELES — The bounty of area farms and wineries will be featured at A Taste of the Peninsula on Saturday.
The Clallam County Family YMCA’s fifth annual fundraiser will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Elks Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St.
Tickets, each of which include a two-week fitness pass to the YMCA, are $45 and are available at the YMCA, 302 S. Francis St. in Port Angeles.
Local makers of wine and beer will offer tastings and chefs will provide samplings of food prepared with locally harvested ingredients.
The event will celebrate the programs offered through the Olympic Peninsula YMCA and the many volunteers that make those programs thrive, said Director Kyle Cronk.
Live jazz will be provided by the Taste of Jazz Sextet, featuring Ed Donohue, Chuck Easton, Andy Geiger, Al Harris, Ted Enderle and Tom Svornich.
First Federal is the main sponsor of the 2011 Taste of the Peninsula event.
For more information, phone the YMCA at 360-452-9244 or visit www.ccfymca.org.
Scandinavian meal
PORT ANGELES — The Sons of Norway Olympic Lodge No. 37 will host a Scandinavian dinner with all the trimmings at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Saturday.
The meal will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 301 E. Lopez Ave.
Lutefisk, meatballs, lefse and a table filled with desserts will be available.
Dinners also will be available on a to-go basis.
Scandinavian gifts will be sold.
The cost is $18 for adults, $9 for children 11 and younger.
No reservations are available.
Methodist bazaar
PORT ANGELES — The United Methodist Women’s Holiday House Bazaar will be held at the church, 110 E. Seventh St., from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Sale items will include baked goods, jam, plants, handmade gifts, home decor, a kids shopping room and See’s Candy.
Lunch items, including chowder, soup, sandwiches and desserts, will be available for purchase from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Baptist bazaar
PORT ANGELES — First Baptist Church, 105 W. Sixth St., will hold a holiday bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Saturday.
The event will include holiday gifts and decor, stocking stuffers, cookies, candies, baked goods, jam, gift basket raffles and a bargain table.
Soups, sandwiches, fruit pies, hot coffee, tea and cider will be available for purchase.
Fall market, bazaar
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., will hold a Fall Flea Market and Bazaar from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
The event will include handmade, homemade holiday bazaar items as well as flea market treasures of all kinds.
Three rooms and a lobby will be filled with items.
Breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and lunch will follow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Proceeds from the meals benefit the Port Angeles Senior Center.
Caregiver conference
PORT ANGELES — The Tsunami of Caregiving, the fifth annual Building Your Caregiver Tool Box Conference, will be held at the Peninsula College Pirate Union Building, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The free conference is intended for the family and professional caregivers of community elders.
Complimentary lunches will be provided by Park View Villas to the first 125 registrants.
The event is presented by the Caregiver Coalition and sponsored by the Peninsula College Nursing Program.
For more information or to register, phone 360-452-3221.
Farmers market
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market will hold its annual meeting and potluck in the Expo Hall of the Clallam County Fairgrounds, 1608 W. 16th St., from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
“This annual meeting is a chance for our board members to get together with our vendors, customers and market supporters to catch up on what has gone on so far this year at the market,” said Cynthia Warne, the market’s manager.
“We will be electing new board members, reviewing the financial state of the market and, in general, catching everyone up on where we stand going into 2012.
“We will, of course, also be feasting on the wonderful potluck items and socializing with friends.”
The meeting and potluck are open to the public, and Warne said people from the community are encouraged to attend.
Attendees should bring a food dish to share and eating utensils such as a plate, bowl, cup and silverware.
Attendees are also asked to bring a small, inexpensive item to be given away in a drawing, but this is not mandatory.
The drawing takes place at the end of the evening, and everyone will leave with a gift, Warne said.
For more information, phone Warne at 360-460-0361.
History Tales talk
PORT ANGELES — Larry Burtness and Chris Cook, co-authors of Images of America — Forks, will speak at the Clallam County Historical Society’s History Tales lecture series Sunday.
The free lecture will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Port Angeles City Council chambers, 321 E. Fifth St.
The 128-page pictorial book features 200 historical photos, most culled from the archives of the Forks Timber Museum.
Burtness has played a leading role in archiving and building up the photo archives at the Timber Museum and is well-versed in the area’s history.
He is a project development specialist with the Quileute yribe at LaPush.
Cook is the editor of the Forks Forum newspaper and author of more than a dozen published books, including regional best-selling Hawaiian history books from the island of Kauai.
He is the author of Twilight Territory, the Forks Forum’s guide book for visiting Twilight fans.
A digital slideshow of featured photos will be presented.
History Tales is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone the Clallam County Historical Society’s office at 360-452-2662 or email artifact@olypen.com.
Food bank benefit
PORT ANGELES – Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy will host a holiday-card-making benefit for the Port Angeles Food Bank’s Friday Food Bank for Kids program Saturday.
The benefit will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy, 708 S. Race St., Suite C.
Light breakfast and lunch food will be provided.
Caitlyn and Kathy Olsen will instruct attendees on making holiday cards.
All materials are included.
Cost is $15, including food and materials.
Organizers are asking participants to bring food for the food bank’s Friday Food Bank for Kids or Thanksgiving meals.
Ongoing food donations can be dropped off at Strait Occupational & Hand Therapy from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and from 7:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Fridays.
For more information, phone 360-417-0703.
PORT TOWNSEND/JEFFERSON COUNTY
Holiday fair set
PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County Fairgrounds’ eighth annual holiday fair will be held Saturday and Sunday.
Arts, crafts and gifts will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St.
Pictures with Santa will be available from noon to 4 p.m. each day.
The fair is free and open to the public.
Fungi walk slated
PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Land Trust will lead a mushroom-themed walk in the Quimper Wildlife Corridor from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
Participants will meet at the end of North Jacob Miller Road off Hastings Avenue.
The walk is free and open to the public.
The Quimper Wildlife Corridor is a ribbon of public and private land across the north Quimper Peninsula that provides safe passage for native wildlife, maintains a natural flood water control system, protects existing habitat and water quality, and provides open space and recreation opportunities.
The walk is categorized as “an easy walk on uneven terrain.”
Walkers should weather-appropriate footwear and clothing.
For more information, phone 360-379-9501.
Mushroom walk
PORT TOWNSEND — A mushroom walk will be held at Fort Townsend State Park at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The event is sponsored by the Olympic chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society and the Friends of Fort Townsend.
Anita and Art Price will host a two-hour stroll through the park, which has a wide assortment of colorful fungi.
The walk will feature many stops to discuss fungi.
Attendees should dress warmly.
For more information, phone Ann Weinmann at 360-379-0986 or email aweinmann@cablespeed.com.
Aikido demo set
PORT TOWNSEND — Aikido Port Townsend will present a demonstration of “the compassionate martial art” today.
The demonstration will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Cotton Building, 607 Water St.
Characterized by sweeping movements, elegant joint locks and powerful, centered connection, Aikido seeks, whenever possible, to defuse violence without harming the attacker.
For more information, email paulb@olympus.net.
PT Shorts program
PORT TOWNSEND — Key City Public Theatre’s PT Shorts program will present “The Return of Jews in Shorts: Sholem Aleichem” at the Cotton Building, corner of Water and Madison streets, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Key City Public Theatre presents these readings of literary works in conjunction with the monthly Gallery Walk.
PT Shorts is sponsored by the PT Arts Commission.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit www.keycitypublictheatre.org.
Storytelling
PORT TOWNSEND — Bainbridge Island’s Jeff Leinaweaver will be the featured teller at the Mythsinger Foundation’s First Friday Storynight event.
First Friday Storynight will be held at Better Living Through Coffee, 100 Tyler St., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
An open mic session also will be held. Stories must be shared orally and not read.
Leinaweaver is a storyteller, voice-over artist, vocalist and violinist.
He has been the editor for Suite101’s Folklore and Mythology forums and, while at the Smithsonian’s Office of Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, he has worked with luminaries such as Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax and Mickey Hart.
He is currently a board member of The Mythsinger Foundation and studies the art and storytelling craft of mythsinging with Danny Deardorff.
Suggested donation is $10.
For more information on this event, phone event host Brian Rohr at 360-531-2535 or visit www.brianrohr.com.
Bird lecture set
PORT TOWNSEND — Naturalist Ken Wilson will present “Exploring Bird Behavior” at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., at 7 p.m. Saturday.
He will cover bird identification and broader concepts of animal behavior.
Wilson has 40 years of experience as a biologist and educator.
Iran film shown
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Film Institute and Global Film Initiative will screen the Iranian film “The White Meadows” at the Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor St., at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $5 for the public and free to students with ID.
In the film, Rahmat the boatman navigates the increasingly brackish waters of Lake Urmia, collecting the heartaches and tears of its inhabitants.
But he remains powerless against their misguided attempts to appease the gods and make the land green again, whether by offering a bride to the sea or forcibly “treating” the eyes of a painter who sees in different colors.
Artists reception
PORT LUDLOW — A gallery reception to honor the Port Ludlow Artist League’s November Artists of the Month, Jeanne Joseph and Barbara Adams, will be held today.
The reception will be from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Columbia Bank, 9500 Oak Bay Road, and at the gallery adjacent to the bank from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Known as the “floor mat lady,” Joseph retired from her own advertising and design company in 1995 and pursued several mediums of art before choosing painted canvas floor cloths and pencil drawings.
Adams, whose love of drawing and painting goes back to grade school, began using watercolor pencils and pen and ink to depict local points of interest.
Her paintings in acrylics, watercolor and/or mixed media have been shown at Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend.
The artists are on exhibit through December in Niblick’s Cafe at the Port Ludlow Golf Clubhouse.
Adams’ and Joseph’s works are available for viewing at the bank during regular hours in November and at the Port Ludlow Artists Gallery from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Saturdays.
For more information, phone Wanda Mawhinney at 360-437-9081 or email mawhinneyw_w@msn.com.
Grange dance held
PORT TOWNSEND — Skookumband will perform at the Quimper Grange’s first Saturday square dance at 7:30 p.m.
Dancers will be directed by caller Rita Mandoli.
The grange is located at 1219 Corona St.
Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for youths.
Grange members receive free admission.
Fall play begins
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend High School fall play, “Postmortem” by Ken Ludwig, will begin its run today.
The murder-mystery thriller set in 1922 concerns the cast of William Gillette’s Broadway revival of “Sherlock Holmes” assembling at a riverfront estate.
A seance is held with signs pointing to Gillette’s impending murder by one of his guests.
He sets out to solve the mystery in the manner of Sherlock Holmes.
Performances will be held at 7 p.m. today and Saturday and again at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19.
A matinee performance will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13.
Understudy performances will be held Nov. 10 and 17.
FORKS/WEST END
Roots concert set
FORKS — If you remember the Mossback Ramblers, the popular West End band of the 1980s, you’ll be interested in tonight’s free concert.
The concert features two of Mossback Ramblers’ original musicians, Marty Kaler and Bob Lawrence-Markarian, performing as Twisted Roots, a new musical duo.
It will be at 7 p.m. at Peninsula College’s Forks extension site, 71 S. Forks Ave.
Kaler and Lawrence-Markarian said they never forgot their love for acoustic roots music and playing together.
In August 2010, they reunited and developed their own flavor of acoustic roots music, honing old and new tunes featuring finger-style guitar, ukulele, clawhammer banjo, Dobro, Armenian duduk and humor.
For more information, visit www.pencol.edu or www.facebook.com/PeninsulaCollege.
Dinner, program
SEKIU — The West End Youth and Community Club will host a dinner; a small, silent auction; and a program at the Sekiu Community Center on Saturday.
The dinner and program will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the center, 42 Rice St.
The cost will be $9 for adults and $5 for children 12 and younger.
The Clallam Bay Baton Twirlers will present a routine, and local history will be told during “Strait Talk” after dinner.