Crab festival offers tasty treats, activities

Some 20 restaurants today will serve hot food made with crab and other seafood indoors at the ninth annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival, which also will offer more than 60 vendors, cooking demonstrations and a Grab-A-Crab derby.

Admission is free to the festival at City Pier, The Gateway center at Front and Lincoln streets and points in between.

Restaurants’ tasty treats will be offered for sale in the Windermere Crab Central Pavilion in the Red Lion Hotel parking lot, 221 N. Lincoln St.

Vendors will offer their goods from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on City Pier.

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For the first time this year, runners can celebrate all things crabby in a 5K fun run that will leave from Lincoln Street near The Gateway center at 10 a.m.

Runners can just show up to register for the run.

Those paying $5 each have a chance to snag a live crab from a tank and take it home in the “Grab-a-Crab” Derby from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A raptor demonstration is planned at 1 p.m. on Hollywood Beach.

Hands-on educational activities and exhibits are set up in the Arthur D. Feiro Marine Life Center on City Pier.

Master chefs demonstrations are planned at The Gateway from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival is produced by the nonprofit Olympic Peninsula Celebrations and the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce.

For more information, visit www.crabfestival.org, e-mail info@crabfestival.org or phone 360-452-6300.

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