Peninsula Daily News
The Fourth of July will be celebrated with parades and fireworks across the North Olympic Peninsula.
Here is a list of events planned Wednesday, arranged by community.
PORT ANGELES
Parade, fireworks
PORT ANGELES — A parade, complete with a Coast Guard helicopter fly-over, music and fireworks will help Port Angeles celebrate Independence Day.
The parade will begin at 6 p.m. down Lincoln Street before turning onto First Street and proceeding to Valley Street.
The Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce will provide sound systems and announcers at Veterans Park, Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain at First and Laurel streets and the corner of Oak and First streets.
Country band Old Sidekicks will perform at the Concerts on the Pier Concert series on City Pier starting at 7 p.m.
Fat Chance will perform rock ‘n’ roll classics until the evening fireworks show.
Fireworks will begin at about 10 p.m. over Port Angeles Harbor.
Prime viewing locations include City Pier, the waterfront trail or Ediz Hook, where amateur fireworks displays are commonly held before and after the big fireworks display.
A fireworks cleanup is typically held at Ediz Hook on July 5.
Wave Broadband is the celebration’s presenting sponsor, with help from parade sponsor Kitsap Bank and Concerts on the Pier sponsor Sunset Do It Best Hardware.
Boat parades
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Yacht Club will celebrate Independence Day with a pair of decorated boat parades at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Boats will queue up for the parades just outside the entrance to the Port Angeles Boat Haven, proceed north to the shoreline of Ediz Hook, then easterly to the end of the Hook.
The parades will then head in a southerly direction toward Olympic Medical Center, and then turn west to cruise along the shoreline past City Pier returning to the entrance of the Boat Haven.
Members of the general boating community are encouraged to join the processions with patriotically decorated boats in either or both of the parades.
For more information, phone Steve DeBiddle at 360-477-2406.
FORKS/WEST END
Celebration culminates
FORKS — Forks, which began celebrating the Fourth of July on Saturday, will recognize the holiday with a Grand Parade, demolition derby and fireworks show on Wednesday.
The day will begin with a Fourth of July breakfast at the Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchants Road from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The menu will include ham, sausage, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs and orange juice or coffee.
The breakfast is $7 for ages 12 years and older, $5 for ages 5 to 11 years and free for seniors and 4 years old and younger.
The Grand Parade will begin at noon in the Forks Transit Center parking lot, 551 S. Forks Ave.
The Forks Lions Club Salmon Bake will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Tillicum Park.
The demolition derby will begin at 3 p.m. in the Tillicum Park arena. Tickets are $8.
Music will be performed from 6:30 p.m. until the fireworks at dusk, both in Tillicum Park.
The celebration will continue through Friday, when a Midnight Madness sale is planned in downtown Forks from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Neah Bay fireworks
NEAH BAY — Fireworks are planned in Neah Bay at dusk on the Fourth of July.
The fireworks, sponsored by the Makah Tribal Council, will be on Front Beach.
SEQUIM
KSQM barbecue
SEQUIM — Sequim radio station KSQM 91.5 FM will celebrate Independence Day with the third annual “Bobs-R-Q” on Wednesday.
The barbecue fundraiser will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the station, 577 W. Washington St., in the Kite Girl Plaza.
It will be hosted by a bunch of Bobs who are volunteering at KSQM 91.5 FM.
They include General Manager Bob Spinks and his “Five-0 Radio Show” partner Bob Rhoads, as well as veteran radio announcer Bob Massey, chief engineer Bob Sampson and tower project director Bob Schilling.
“Being named Bob is not a requirement for admission, and everyone is invited to this party,” Spinks said.
The event will feature a tribute to the men and women of military, with the American Legion Patriot Guard Riders forming a flag line and kicking off the festivities at 11 a.m.
Live music will run until 2 p.m. with singer Kate Lily, The Tyrolean Trio, The Old Time Trio, Aspire Quartet and No Batteries Required Quartet.
The celebration also will include the Sequim Valley Car Club’s annual KSQM Car Show. The public will vote on top vehicles.
The Sequim Fire Department will have the ladder on a fire truck raised high and “the Stars and Stripes will be waving proudly for all to enjoy and salute,” Spinks said.
Hot dogs and baked beans will be served for free, with donations accepted.
Donations will go to the nonprofit station’s operations.
City Band concert
SEQUIM — The Sequim City Band will celebrate Independence Day with a salute to the branches of the armed forces, a tribute to small-town America and traditional patriotic songs.
The concert will be at 3 p.m at the James Center for the Performing Arts, north of Carrie Blake Park at 202 N. Blake Ave.
Selections from the musical, “The Music Man,” will be performed along with the “Hail America March” and John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever,” all played outdoors and free.
Tyler Benedict will serve as guest conductor.
PORT TOWNSEND
Fireworks at Fort
PORT TOWNSEND — The annual Old Fashioned 4th of July at Port Townsend’s Fort Worden State Park will begin at 5 p.m. with kids’ games and lawn pinball and end with a fireworks show at 10 p.m.
This is the only legal fireworks show in the city.
The use of personal fireworks is against city law.
Visitors arriving before 7 p.m. can obtain a Discover Pass that will provide access to all Washington State Parks or a $10 day pass that will be available at the park’s main office or at pay stations around the park.
No Discover Pass will be needed after 7 p.m.
For more information, phone John Eissinger at 360-301-2378 or email john@johneissinger.com.
Fiddles on fourth
PORT TOWNSEND — Centrum’s annual Fiddle Tunes series will begin with “Fiddlin’ on the Fourth” at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park at 1 p.m.
This concert features fiddle music from Cape Breton, Appalachia, New England, Denmark and the Southwest and the return of Irish fiddling and percussive dance from Kevin Burke’s Open House.
Tickets are $18, $26 and $37 and are available by calling 800-746-1982; in person at the Centrum office, 223 Battery Way, Fort Worden State Park, during business hours; at centrum.org; or at the box office one hour prior to a performance.
No Discover Pass is needed for Centrum events.
Concert on Fourth
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Summer Band will play an Independence Day concert at the Port Townsend American Legion Hall, corner of Water and Monroe streets, at 7 p.m.
Selections include music by Sousa, Ward, Meacham, Steffe, Turlet, Alford, K.F. Bach, Bagley, Fillmore and Berlin.
The band’s members’ ages range from 16 to 80 years.
Karl Bach serves as conductor.
For more information, visit www.ptsummerband.org.
Free marine science center
PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend Marine Science Center exhibits will be free from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Fourth of July.
Admission will be free to both the Marine Exhibit and Natural History Exhibit at the center on the beach at Fort Worden State Park.
At the same time, the center will offer fish printing, or Gyotaku.
Fish-printing participants can buy shirts or paper, or bring their own to use as a “canvas.”
Volunteers will be on hand to offer creative assistance with designs.
A Discover Pass is not needed to visit center buildings.
Admission on days other than the upcoming holiday is $5 for adults, $3 for youths and free for members of the marine science center.
For more information, phone 360-385-5582, email info@ptmsc.org or visit www.ptmsc.org.
