Drama, dancing, sales and lectures are offered across the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
PORT ANGELES
Scotland to Iceland
PORT ANGELES — Adventurer Chris Duff will talk about his upcoming solo 500-mile ocean paddle trip from Scotland to Iceland at a presentation in the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Admission will be by donation.
All proceeds will support Duff’s trip.
The longtime Port Angeles resident will present a slide show of his previous sea kayak trips around the South Island of New Zealand, around Iceland, around Ireland and also Great Britain, as well as the journey he plans this summer into the North Atlantic Ocean.
Duff’s special boat, Northern Reach, will also be on display at Saturday’s event.
Winemaker to speak
PORT ANGELES — Virginie Bourgue, Olympic Cellars consulting winemaker, will talk with members of the Olympic Peninsula Enological Society at the winery at 5 p.m. Sunday.
Bourgue, who joined the winery last fall, will speak about what changes her experience and time in Provence in France and Walla Walla will bring to the winery at 255410 U.S. Highway 101, between Port Angeles and Sequim.
Bourgue replaces French winemaker Benoit Murat, who returned to France on Aug. 31 on sabbatical to pursue a National Diploma of Oenology at Ecole National Superieure Agronomique de Toulouse, aka ENSAT.
A native of Provence, France, Bourgue is the owner and winemaker at Lullaby, a boutique winery located in Walla Walla, and provides consulting services in the areas of viticulture and winemaking.
Her Rose and three wines from Boushey Vineyards will be available for tasting, and hors d’oeuvres from Little Clam Bay Bed and Breakfast can be sampled.
Admission is $35 per person, with a limit of 35 people.
Checks may be sent to OPES, P.O. Box 4081, Sequim, WA 98382.
For more information or questions, phone 360-698-0070 or 360-681-3757.
WEST END
Lions breakfast
JOYCE — The Port Angeles Lions Club will host a benefit breakfast at the Crescent Bay Lions Clubhouse, corner of Holly Hill Road and state Highway 112, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday.
The menu includes pancakes, French toast, eggs, meats, biscuits and gravy, and beverages.
Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children.
Band performs
FORKS — Therapy Session will perform at the Forks branch of Peninsula College at 71 S. Forks Ave. today.
The band will perform from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
SEQUIM
First Teacher events
SEQUIM — The Sequim First Teacher program has planned two events for late February, with the first scheduled today.
Both events will be held in the First Teacher classroom, Room 4W, of Sequim Community School, 220 W. Alder St.
A tea for new and expecting parents will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
Attendees will learn about family services, developmental screenings and the First Teacher program.
First Teacher will also host a “Dad’s Ice Cream Social” from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday.
The event will honor fathers but is open to family members and includes ice cream and games.
For more information, phone First Teacher at 360-582-3428.
Girl Power event
SEQUIM — Sequim High School and Soroptimist International of Sequim will hold a Women In Networks (WIN) event, “Girl Power,” on Saturday.
“Girl Power” will be from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Sequim Middle School cafeteria, 301 W. Hendrickson Road.
All young women attending Sequim High School are eligible to take part in the event.
There will be hands-on instruction in self-defense techniques and presentations on healthy relationships, making safe choices, awareness of date-rape drugs, legal definitions of sexual harassment, rape and domestic violence, street safety, college campus safety, study abroad safety, healthy eating and fitness.
The cost is $5, which includes participation in the seminar, lunch, a T-shirt and an emergency whistle.
Presenters will be Becca Korby, executive director, Healthy Families of Clallam County; Lorraine Shore, community policing services coordinator with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office; officers and detectives from the Sequim Police Department; Kathleen Timperio, Peninsula College; Ashley Merscher, 2004 graduate of Sequim High School; and nutritionist Erika Van Calcar.
To sign up for this event, phone Mitzi Sanders, career director at Sequim High School, at 360-582-3600 or by e-mail at Mitzi@sequim.k12.wa.us.
Cork creations class
SEQUIM — Around Again, 765 W. Washington St., will conduct a free class on recycling corks Saturday.
The class will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Attendees will learn how to make corks into bulletin boards, wreaths and frames.
Materials will be supplied, but attendees can bring their own corks or frames to use.
For more information or to reserve a space, phone the store at 360-683-7862.
Show postponed
SEQUIM — The Olympic Driftwood Sculptors’ third annual Winter Show at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, which was planned this weekend, has been postponed because of winter weather.
The two-day show at Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, will be held March 12-13.
For more information, visit www.olympicdriftwoodsculptors.org, phone 360-681-2535 or e-mail info@olympicdriftwoodsculptors.org.
Lecture canceled
SEQUIM — The Museum Lecture Series presentation featuring author and historian Terry Buchanan, scheduled for today at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2871 Towne Road, in Sequim has been canceled because of winter weather.
The presentation was the final installment of an eight-week series presented by the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley and Peninsula College.
PORT TOWNSEND and JEFFERSON COUNTY
Research center
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society will break ground on its expanded research center at a public ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The existing Research Center at 13694 Airport Cutoff Road is a 2,000-square-foot building housing 500,000 historical documents, some 20,000 historic photographs, as well as the extensive collections of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society, a project partner.
The addition will be an 8,700-square-foot, two-story structure.
The additional space will provide an expanded reading room for researchers and an area to house the historical society’s collection of some 20,000 artifacts.
Educator risk training
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson Community School and 4-H Afterschool Forestry Program will co-sponsor a free, one-day risk-management workshop Saturday for educators who work or have a desire to work with outdoor youth programs.
The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Great Hall of Jefferson Community School, 280 Quincy St.
The presentation will be facilitated by Victor Paz, expedition coordinator at Jefferson Community School.
Participants can exchange ideas, share experiences and network while discussing and analyzing such topics as insurance, program development and management, crisis management, international travel, leader judgment and participant medical screening.
Resources on various other topics will be made available courtesy of the WMI Wilderness Risk Management Conference 2010.
Jefferson Community School is a sixth-through-12th-grade, accredited independent school.
For more information or to register, phone Paz at 360-390-8576 or e-mail vpaz@jeffersoncommunityschool.com.
Baritone blitz
PORT LUDLOW — The Barston Quartet brings “A Touch of Benaroya” to the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow, for a chamber music concert at 8 p.m. Saturday.
The programs includes works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Brahms.
Tickets are $20.
The quartet is made up of Seattle Symphony veterans Mara Gearman, viola; Mikhail Shmidt, violin; Walter Gray, cello; and Elisa Barston, violin.
For tickets or information, phone 360-437-2208 or visit www.portludlowartscouncil.com.
Ensembles perform
PORT TOWNSEND — A chamber music concert benefitting the Port Townsend High School orchestra and band programs is planned Sunday.
The concert will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Upstage, 923 Washington St.
Acts set to perform include the Port Townsend High School chamber orchestra; the WHAT! quartet; soloists Forrest Walker on viola, Shona Walker on cello and Taylor Mills on french horn; and others.
A donation of $5 per person or $10 per family will be requested.
Native plant sale
PORT TOWNSEND — The 20th annual Jefferson County Conservation District Native Plant Sale will be held at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
The sale offers native bare-root plants to promote wildlife habitat enhancement and serves as a fundraiser for conservation district programs.
The list of available plants includes quaking aspen, big leaf maple, bitter cherry, native crabapple, madrone, paper birch, vine maple, red flowering currant, red osier dogwood, red elderberry, salmonberry, black twinberry, mock orange, Nootka rose, snowberry, Indian plum, Oregon grape, evergreen huckleberry, salal, kinnikinnick, sword fern, pacific rhododendron, Douglas fir, grand fir, noble fir, shore pine, giant sequoia, Sitka spruce, Western red cedar, Western hemlock and Western white pine.
Most trees and shrubs are between 10 inches to 18 inches tall, with some smaller pots and plugs.
Plants should be planted soon after the sale.
For more information, phone 360-385-4105 or visit www.jeffersoncd.org.
Tree-planting event
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Parks, Recreation and Tree Board has organized tree planting at Kah Tai Lagoon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Shore pine trees will be planted along Sims Way to bolster plant life and diversity among the poplar trees lining the roadway.
Young Douglas firs will be planted in a nearby patch where volunteers recently cleared invasive holly and English ivy.
The board also is seeking input about the location of future tree plantings in the city.
Participants will meet at the Kah Tai Lagoon parking lot off Benedict Street.
Mason bee lecture
GARDINER — The Gardiner Wild Birds Unlimited store will host a special presentation by Northwest mason bee expert Bob Logue at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Logue’s hourlong talk will cover the benefits of the mason bee and how to attract them and keep them in one’s garden.
The store is at 275953 U.S. Highway 101.
Seating is limited. Phone 360-797-7100 to reserve a place.
A contribution of $5 to the store’s Community Education Fund and the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center holds a seat.
Engineers host open house
PORT TOWNSEND — Pindell Engineering LLC, 24 Seton Road, will host an open house from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today.
Rich Pindell, a 1983 Port Townsend High School graduate, has devised H2Out Systems, a patent-pending product, which could alter how marine diesel, gas, biodiesel and hydraulic fluids are employed and stored.
Shop tours and product-line demonstrations will be held.
Employment applications and an investment prospectus will be available.