A postal food drive, banquets, films and a maypole dance are among the activities planned in Clallam and Jefferson counties this weekend.

Postal food drive

North Olympic Peninsula mail carriers will join others nationwide in collecting donated food for the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday.

Residents are asked to leave bags of nonperishable food items at their mailboxes.

All food collected will be donated to Peninsula food banks.

For more information, visit www.usps.com/news.

PORT ANGELES

Friends of NRA

PORT ANGELES — The third annual Northwest Peninsula Friends of the National Rifle Association banquet and auction will be held at Vern Burton Community Center, 308 W. Fourth St., on Saturday.

Doors open for the event at 5:30 p.m., with the dinner at 7 p.m. and the auction following.

Tickets are $30. They will be available at the door but reservations are required.

During the banquet, the group will conduct a ceremony awarding more than $15,000 in grants.

Pure Country 4-H of Port Angeles will receive about $6,175. Peninsula Rifle and Pistol Club will receive $4,000. And the Port Angeles High School NJROTC Air Rifle Team will get $5,000.

The money is to purchase equipment.

For more information, or to reserve a ticket, package or donor table, phone Mike Stenger at 360-457-7205 or e-mail cg_aviator@wavecable.com, or phone Jim McEntire at 360-417-4103.

Free movie series

PORT ANGELES — The 1939 classic film “Wizard of Oz” will be screened at the Gateway Center, corner of Front and Lincoln streets, tonight.

The screening is the first in a free series of monthly outdoor movies at the center.

The festivities will begin with costume and trivia contests at 8:30 p.m.

The movie will be screened at 9 p.m.

Moviegoers will need to bring their own chairs, blankets or pillows. A limited number of chairs will be available for rent. Concessions will be available.

The movie series is sponsored by Odyssey Bookshop and Port Angeles Downtown Association. It is organized by April Bellerud.

For more information, phone Bellerud at 360-457-1045.

Boaters course

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office will hold the second of three “Adventures in Boating” boater education courses” in the Clallam County Commissioner’s meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

The Washington State Boater Education Law requires anyone 30 years and younger operating a marine vessel in the state to have a valid boater education card.

By 2014, every boater born after Dec. 31, 1954, will be required to obtain a card.

The “Adventures in Boating” course is eight hours long and open to anyone 12 and older.

The course is classroom only, with no “on the water” time.

Cost is $20 but is free for those 17 and younger.

The last course will be held on Saturday, June 12.

For more information or to reserve a space, e-mail jboyd@co.clallam.wa.us or phone 360-417-2435.

Magic of Cinema

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema film series will screen “King Corn,” at 7 p.m. tonight.

The documentary is about two college friends who move to Iowa, grow an acre of corn and attempt to follow the crop through the U.S. food system.

It will be shown in Peninsula College’s Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

A short discussion led by Peninsula College faculty will follow.

Admission is $5 or $1 with a Peninsula College student ID.

For more information, e-mail Bruce Hattendorf at bhattendorf@pencol.edu.

Clean sweep set

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Downtown Association invites community volunteers to participate in its annual Downtown Clean Sweep on Saturday.

Volunteers will meet at the Conrad Dyar Fountain, First and Laurel streets, with their cleaning equipment at 9 a.m.

Lunch will be served to volunteers.

Individuals or groups wishing to help with or participate in the Downtown Clean Sweep can phone Bob Lumens at Northwest Fudge and Confections at 360-452-8299 or e-mail nwpa@olypen.com.

Storytelling event

PORT ANGELES — A practicing and listening storytelling workshop will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The workshop will be at 550 Olympic Hot Springs Road, where participants can practice near water or on forest pathways.

Stories will be discussed but not critiqued.

For more information, phone 360-457-3169.

BLYN

Trail work party

BLYN — The Peninsula Trails Coalition will conduct its next Olympic Discovery Trail work party from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Spring maintenance — including lopping, mowing, and weed whacking — will be performed on the trail in Blyn.

Participants will meet in the east parking lot of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Center, 1033 Old Blyn Highway.

Attendees should bring work gloves and a hand pruner or folding saw.

For more information, or to RSVP for lunch, phone 360-683-4549 or e-mail chuckpreble@msn.com.

SEQUIM

Market opens

SEQUIM — The Sequim Open Aire Market will open for the season on Saturday.

The market will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Cedar Street between Sequim and Second avenues.

Opening day will include Hawaiian music by Naki’i, new food vendors serving Thai food, wood-fired pizza baked on site, pastries and caramel corn.

Attendees can get information at booths staffed by Friends of the Market and Greyhound Rescue.

New craft vendors will include hand made cutlery, woolen dolls stuffed with local wool, wind chimes and paintings and prints.

Clowns also will make balloon animals for children.

For more information, visit www.sequimmarket.com or e-mail manager@sequimmarket.com.

Substance abuse

SEQUIM ­– A two-hour workshop at the Center for Infinite Reflections will detail how to spot the signs of substance abuse on Saturday.

The workshop, which will focus on recognizing the signs in families, will be led by Sequim author and artist Linda Silvas, center founder Susan Davis and Port Angeles Drug Task Force member Mike Grall.

The workshop will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p..m. at the center, 144 Tripp Road, southwest of Sequim.

Admission is by donation.

After the workshop, Silvas will offer signed copies of Mama Bear Baby Bear, now in its third printing. For information about the book, see www.MamaBearBabyBear.com.

People interested in learning more details about Saturday’s class are encouraged to phone Silvas at 360-683-0992.

Pancake breakfast

SEQUIM — The Lions Club plans a pancake breakfast at the Sequim Senior Activity Center on Saturday.

The breakfast will be from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the center at 921 E. Hammond St.

For more information, phone 360-457-5600.

Salmon barbecue

SEQUIM — The annual salmon barbecue at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

The barbecue, always held on the day of the Irrigation Festival parade, costs $12 for adults and $4 for children younger than 13.

For more information, phone the church at 360-683-5367.

Old Time Fiddlers

SEQUIM — The Washington Old Time Fiddlers will perform at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road on Saturday.

An all-players jam is set from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The performance is set from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The concert is free. Donations will support fiddler scholarships.

For more information, phone Hershel Lester at 360-417-6950 or e-mail handrlester@olypen.com.

PORT TOWNSEND

Lincoln Day dinner

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County GOP will hold its annual Jefferson County Republicans Lincoln Day Luncheon and Auction on Saturday.

The event will be at 11 .am. at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St., Port Townsend.

Kirby Wilbur, former talk show host, will serve as keynote speaker and master of ceremonies.

He will discuss Americans for Prosperity, an organization which engages citizens in the name of limited government and free markets at the local, state and federal levels.

Wilbur is director of the state chapter.

Attendees can meet Republican candidates for a variety of county, state and federal elected positions.

Lunch will be catered by Michelle Sanchez of Putter’s Bay Cafe.

Advance tickets were $35 per person. Tickets at the door are $40 at the door.

For more information, phone the GOP office at 360-343-4041, or 360-437-2041 or 360-379-8900.

Arts and Crafts fair

PORT TOWNSEND — The 31st annual Rhododendron Arts and Crafts Fair will be held on Madison Street between Water and Washington streets, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Some of the juried work includes oil paintings, handwoven rugs, sweaters, beads, native drums and flutes, metal garden sculptures, knives, tie dye dresses and shirts, hammocks, cedar baskets, native art, gold and silver jewelry, raku tiles and pottery.

Attendees will be able to paint and buy a bowl to benefit the Port Townsend Food Bank.

The event is sponsored by The Port Townsend Arts Guild.

The guild uses proceeds to fund college scholarships in the arts for county students as well as other cultural events.

For more information, visit www.ptguide.com or www.porttownsendartsguild.org or phone 360-379-3813.

Science of wine

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will host “Terroir in the Pacific Northwest: A Scientific Wine Tasting” fundraiser on Saturday.

The tasting will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the USO Hall at Fort Worden State Park.

Attendees will learn about “terroir,” a French term describing how the geology, soils and climate of a region influence a grape varietal’s quality and contribute to the wine.

Portland State University geology professor Scott Burns will address the terroir of the Columbia and Willamette River valley appellations through the geology of each region, then compare and contrast two wines from each of those areas.

Cost is $25 per person and preregistration is required.

For more information or to register, phone JoAnne Heron at 360-385-5582, ext. 101.

Maypole Faire slated Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism will hold a Maypole Faire at Memorial Field in downtown Port Townsend from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The event welcomes spring with traditions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The event will include a maypole dance, artisan displays and demonstrations, martial combat contest and archery competition.

Admission is by donation.

For more information, see www.druim-doineann.org.

Tibetan benefit

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Tibetan Buddhist community will host a benefit screening of “Unmistaken Child” at 7:30 p.m. tonight.

The film will be shown at the Rosewind Common House, off of Umatila Avenue, between Haines and Landes streets.

Proceeds from the benefit will aid victims of the recent Tibetan earthquake.

“Unmistaken Child” is about the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchong who died in 2001.

Suggested donation is $5.

For more information, phone 360-385-1219.

Guernica presentation

PORT TOWNSEND — Tacoma News Tribune reporter Dave Boling will discuss his novel Guernica at The Jefferson County Historical Society’s First Friday Lecture tonight.

The program will be at 7 p.m. in the Port Townsend City Council chamber, 540 Water St.

Boling’s novel is set in the Basque town of Guernica at the time of its destruction by the German Luftwaffe on the eve of World War II.

The battle inspired Picasso’s famous painting, “Guernica.”

Boling is married to a Basque woman and learned details of the bombing from her family.

Admission is by donation and supports historical society programs.

For more information, phone 360-385-1003.

Volkssport walks

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula Explorers Volkssport Club will host two walks at Fort Townsend State Park on Saturday.

Participants can choose a 5 kilometer — or 3.1 mile — walks or a 10 kilometer — or 6.2 mile — walk.

Registration is just before 9 a.m. at Swain’s Outdoor Store, 1121 Water St., Port Townsend. Participants then drive to the park for the walk.

Baby joggers are possible. Wheelchairs are not recommended.

Carpools will leave from Sequim.

For more information, e-mail bluemt7@juno.com or opepresident@hotmail.com or phone 360-452-0593.

Homebuyers classes

A first-time homebuyer’s class will be held at Mountain View Commons, 1925 Blaine St., in Port Townsend, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Another class, set in Port Angeles, is planned Saturday, May 15. It will be at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Instructors trained by the state Housing Commission will provide information about purchase-assistance programs, eligibility requirements and lending options.

Subjects will include below-market interest rate loans, lending programs for low- and moderate-income borrowers, sweat equity homeownership, new lending limits and credit.

For more information or to RSVP, phone Olympic Community Action Programs at 360-385-2571, ext. 6303, or 360-452-4726, ext. 6100.

PORT LUDLOW

‘Hooray for Hollywood’

PORT LUDLOW — The Port Ludlow Singers present “Hooray for Hollywood,” tonight and Saturday.

The variety show will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.

Tickets are $12. They are available at Port Ludlow’s Beach Club, 121 Marina View Drive and at the Bay Club.

The show began Thursday.

“Hooray for Hollywood” will include with guest appearances by the Choral Belles women’s chorus and Port Ludlow’s male barbershop group, The Village Sounders.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the PLS Music Scholarship Fund for a college-bound Chimacum senior.

PORT HADLOCK

Gardeners sale set

PORT HADLOCK — The biennial Jefferson County Master Gardeners plant sale will be held at the Jefferson County WSU extension parking lot, 201 W. Patison St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Chimacum High School students enrolled in instructor Tom Furseth’s Horticulture Class will offer their annuals and vegetable starts for sale as well.

All revenue from the Master Gardener sale goes toward supporting the many programs sponsored by the Master Gardener Foundation, including free educational opportunities, the grants program, and the youth gardening program, Herbie the Seed.

For more information, phone the WSU Extension Office at 360-379-5610.

CHIMACUM

Local songs performed

CHIMACUM — “Singing for our Lives!” a concert and silent auction to benefit Songwriting Works programs, is scheduled Saturday.

The silent auction will begin at 2 p.m., with the concert starting at 3 p.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Road, Chimacum.

More than 100 people from Clallam and Jefferson counties composed the songs.

Performances will feature Judith-Kate Friedman, Paula Lalish, Matt Sircely, Keeth Monta Apgar and special guests Andy Mackie and J.J. Jenkins.

Admission is by donation, with donations of $5 to $50 suggested.

For more information, and to make reservations, phone 360-385-1160.

Student plant sale

CHIMACUM — A student plant sale is planned in the Chiamcum High School greenhouse today and Saturday.

Friday sale hours will be from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday’s sale will be from 9 a.m. to noon. Visitors are asked to park near the tennis courts at the school at 91 West Valley Road.

The sale is to cover the cost of materials and electricity for the horticulture program.

QUILCENE

Salmon trap check

QUILCENE — A check of a salmon trap on the Little Quilcene River, which will allow participants to observe sampling procedures, is planned Saturday.

The three-hour trip, sponsored by Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, will serve as an introduction for those who may want to volunteer in the future.

It will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Little Quilcene River at 482 E. Quilcene Road in Quilcene.

For more information, phone Teresa Sjostrom at 360-275-3575 or e-mail her at teresa@hcseg.org.