Car shows, drag racing, Father’s Day events, concerts, sails and sales, as well as a strawberry festival on Marrowstone Island are among this weekend’s entertainment on the North Olympic Peninsula.
For information on the premiere of the 12th season of Art Outside, the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s program of art in nature, and other stories on the visual and lively arts on the Peninsula, see Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s PDN.
Other major weekend events are spotlighted in Things to Do on Page C5 and — by area — below:
WEST END
Drag racing
FORKS — West End Thunder will host two days of eighth-mile drag racing at the Forks Municipal Airport on Saturday and Sunday.
Gates open for general admission at the airport at 1500 S. Forks Ave. at 8:30 a.m. each day.
Races will begin at 10 a.m.
General admission is $10, with children younger than 12 admitted free.
The fee for the Show and Shine is $15.
For more information, visit www.westendthunder.com.
Father’s Day Shoot
FORKS — A Father’s Day Shoot is set at the Old Mill Archery Range on Saturday.
The shoot will begin at 10 a.m. at the archery range, 100 LaPush Road.
The entry is $10 for adults, $5 for children.
The youth shoot will begin at 10:15 a.m.
At 11 a.m., men’s and women’s shoots in groups of four will begin.
For more information, phone 360-374-4090.
PORT ANGELES
Hot rods, hot dogs
PORT ANGELES — Free admission to the sixth annual Hot Rods & Hot Dogs at Deer Park Cinema, 96 Deer Park Road, will allow the family to enjoy food, music and awards in honor of Father’s Day.
The event is from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, but hot rods and classic cars intended for display need to be on-site at 11:30 a.m. to allow time for parking.
The sponsor is The Crossing Church, which meets Sundays at the Sequim Holiday Inn Express at 8:30 a.m. and at Deer Park Cinema at 10 a.m.
For more information, phone Glen Douglas at 360-452-9936 or Ron Henderson at 360-683-7908.
Homebuyer classes
PORT ANGELES — Free First-Time Homebuyer Education Classes will be held at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
The class is taught by lenders and real estate professionals trained by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.
The class qualifies homebuyers for HUD and USDA Homebuyer education certificates.
Courses are sponsored by Homeward Bound, Eagle Home Mortgage, Caldwell Banker Uptown Realty and Re/MAX.
For more information or to register, phone 360-565-2068 or email info@homewardboundclt.org.
Charity garage sale
PORT ANGELES — Windermere Real Estate/Port Angeles will host a garage sale today to raise money for Shane Park playground equipment.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 801 E. Front St. in the complex that includes Papa Murphy’s pizza.
Prices will be cut in half at 1 p.m.
The benefit garage sale is part of Windermere Real Estate’s community service activities in which each Windermere office closes for a day so its personnel can participate in a community service project.
Jewelry-making demos
PORT ANGELES — The Randolf Frederick Co. will provide free jewelry-making and silver-smithing demonstrations at The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave., starting at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Jewelry sales and sign-ups for jewelry-making and silver-smithing classes will also occur.
SEQUIM
Funding banquet
SEQUIM — The Coastal Conservation Association North Olympic Peninsula Chapter’s second annual fundraising banquet is set this evening.
The banquet will be at 5 p.m. at John Wayne Marina, 2577 West Sequim Bay Road.
The event will include live and silent auctions as well as raffles.
Items to bid on will include more than a half-dozen guided fishing trips, custom fishing rods, fish art and more.
Catering will be provided by Kokopelli Grill of Port Angeles.
Tickets for the banquet are $65 per person or $120 for a couple, and they include a one-year membership in the Coastal Conservation Association.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ccanortholypen, email John Albiso at nop@ccapnw.org or phone 360-928-1073.
Thrift shop open
SEQUIM — The Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild Thrift Shop, Second and Bell streets, will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Lots of summer fashions will be displayed, as well as household items.
All white-tagged merchandise will be half-price during the sale.
Volunteers are always needed at the shop.
For more information, phone 360-683-7044.
Ice-cream social
SEQUIM — Sequim Prairie Grange will host its first ice-cream social of the year Saturday.
Banana splits and sundaes will be served between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Grange Hall at 290 Macleay Road.
A $5 donation will be requested at the door.
The proceeds will benefit the Dungeness Valley Health and Wellness Clinic.
For more information, phone Sue Hargrave at 360-683-5456.
‘Big Sale’ on Saturday
SEQUIM — The Dominion Terrace Resident Council will hold their annual “Big Sale” at the neighborhood clubhouse, 1301 S. Third Ave., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will include “many treasures,” along with baked goods, a raffle and more.
OTA auditions set
SEQUIM — Olympic Theatre Arts will hold auditions for its fall production of “Sleuth” at the OTA Center, 414 N. Sequim Ave., at 11 a.m. Saturday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The group is seeking two men in their mid-20s to mid-60s.
“Sleuth” concerns a wealthy English mystery writer who invites a younger man to his country house.
The younger man is having an affair with the writer’s wife, and what appears to be an interesting proposition turns into a deadly situation.
The play will run Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons from Sept. 16 to Oct. 2.
For more information, phone director Loren Johnson at 360-683-7326.
PORT TOWNSEND/JEFFERSON COUNTY
Rakers Cruz-In slated
PORT TOWNSEND — The eighth annual Rakers Cruz-In will be held at Jefferson County Memorial Field on Saturday.
Vehicles can register for $20 beginning at 8 a.m.
Gates will open to spectators beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Cost is $5 for adults, $1.50 for ages 12 and younger.
Wayne King of Gardiner will display his Doss-Clayton King top fuel dragster.
He will fire up the dragster at noon.
Beach walk
PORT TOWNSEND — A low-tide beach walk along the shores of Fort Worden State Park is planned from 11 a.m. to noon today.
Participants in the guided beach walk will meet at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Natural History Exhibit portico.
Beach walks are scheduled the first and third Fridays of the month during the summer.
For more information,visit www.ptmsc.org.
Strawberry Festival set
NORDLAND — The Marrowstone Island Community Association will hold its annual Strawberry Festival at Fort Flagler State Park’s Lower Campground Pavilion from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Guests can bring their picnic lunches and utensils. A strawberry shortcake dessert will be provided.
Games are planned, including the traditional North/South Tug of War, sack races and water-balloon toss.
There also will be an opportunity for new membership sign-ups.
The event is free and open to the public.
Tall ships in Ludlow
PORT LUDLOW — The Lady Washington and her companion, the Hawaiian Chieftain, will offer tours and sails in Port Ludlow Bay today through Sunday.
The ships will be open to the public for viewing from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
No tickets are required, but a $3 donation per person is appreciated.
Visitors also can buy tickets for three themed, three-hour sails:
■ Sunset sails on both ships today.
The twilight-hour sails around Ludlow Bay cost $55 for adults; $45 for students, seniors and active military; and $35 for children 12 and younger.
■ Battle sails featuring booming cannon fire and close-quarter naval-style maneuvers are scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on both ships.
Tickets cost $60 for adults; $50 for students, seniors and active military; and $40 for children 12 and younger.
■ Adventure sail aboard the Lady Washington at 10 a.m. Sunday, with a demonstration of tall-ship handling, storytelling, sea chanteys and a chance for guests to assist in sailing the vessel. Tickets for the family-oriented sail cost $35.
The Lady Washington is a 1989 wooden replica of one of the first U.S. flagged vessels to visit the west coast of North America.
The Hawaiian Chieftain is a steel-hulled representation of a typical early 19th-century South Seas trader.
For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.historicalseaport.org or phone the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport at 800-200-5239.
Finding Home in PT
PORT TOWNSEND — Pilgrimage Port Townsend LLC, a new local venture offering programs for spiritual travel, will present “Finding Home” at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
To introduce their venture to the community, co-founders Margaret McGee, Roberta Hiday and Ann H. Raymond will discuss what makes a town a hometown at the event.
The event includes a walk through the historic district to a place that has been a cradle of community for generations.
For more information and to register for this free event, visit www.pilgrimagept.com or email info@pilgrimagept.com.
Spruce up the Rec Center
PORT TOWNSEND — The Friends of Jefferson County Parks and Recreation volunteer group will host work parties today and Saturday to get the Port Townsend Recreation Center ready to reopen later this summer.
Volunteers are wanted to help with the work parties, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Volunteers are encouraged to wear clothes appropriate for painting and cleaning and to bring paintbrushes and paint-roller handles.
Lunch is provided for those working a shift, according to organizers.
Depending on how many volunteers show up, cleaning projects may also be assigned to the gym and around the play area.
To schedule a shift, phone Jane Storm at 360-385-2291 or email thestorms@q.com.
‘The Hobbit’ performed
PORT TOWNSEND — Sixth- and seventh-grade students from Sunfield Waldorf School will perform J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” at Chetzemokah Park at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
“The Hobbit” tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins’ adventure with Gandalf the Wizard and Thorin the Dwarf.
They encounter trolls, elves, fall into the hands of wild goblins, stumble upon a ring of great power, run into a giant spider and finally battle Smaug, an insatiable dragon.
The events that conclude this play set the stage for Tolkien’s Lord of the Ring series.
Performers include Ciel Pope, Mahina Gelderloos, Laure Mounts, Clayton Sturgis, Noah Phillips, Johnas Stocking, Robyn Stevely, Moonblossom Dean, Enomi Hawk, James Muir and Jesse Nichols.
Attendees should bring a blanket or low-slung chairs.
Donations will be accepted.
‘Orca Saturday’ at center
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Natural History Exhibit will hold the second of two “Orca Saturday” events as part of an “Orca Month” celebration.
The event will offer hands-on activities at the exhibit in Fort Worden State Park from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Visitors can learn about the sounds orcas make and how researchers study them, where the whales are currently traveling and how orca families are similar to and different from human families.
They also can learn about the process of reassembling an orca skeleton, a job that volunteers with the center in Fort Worden State Park have finished under the direction of specialist Lee Post.
The center has an ongoing Orca Project Capital Campaign to fund construction of the new exhibit hall, which will feature the reassembled skeleton of a dead female orca that washed up on the Dungeness Spit in Sequim in January 2002.
The carcass contained a high level of toxic contaminants.
The new exhibit hall is intended to not only display the skeleton, but also to contain video, hydrophone technology and other displays, and class instruction space.
Located on the beach at Fort Worden State Park, the center offers the Marine Exhibit as well as the Natural History Exhibit. Both are open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays.
Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for youths and free to members of the center.
For more information, phone 360-385-5582, email info@ptmsc.org or visit www.ptmsc.org.
Dance studio concert
PORT TOWNSEND — The Ling Hui Dance Studio will hold its 15th annual concert at the Joseph Wheeler Theatre in Fort Worden State Park at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday.
The concert will feature ballet dancing to the music of artists like Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Manuel de Falla and Yann Tiersen.
General admission is $15; youths 12 and younger pay $10. Tickets will be available at the door 30 minutes before each performance or in advance at the Port Townsend Food Co-op, 414 Kearney St.
Dance madness in PT
PORT TOWNSEND — The O’Meara Dance Studio will present “Dance Madness” at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park at 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday.
The dance recital is $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors.
Genealogical lecture
CHIMACUM — A genealogical researcher will talk about a method of getting through “brick walls” while tracing a family tree during a presentation Saturday.
“Problem-Solving Using Collateral Lines” will be presented during a Jefferson County Genealogical Society meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center.
Mary Ferm of the Bainbridge Island Genealogy Society will tell how using information related to “collateral” family lines can help unlock puzzles.
The presentation is free.
For more information, visit www.wajcgs.org.