The Ultimate Garage Sale will be in Port Townsend, a “Cabinet of Wonders” will celebrate art in Port Angeles, and a World War I Liberty Cadillac will be displayed in Sequim this weekend.
Those are just a few of the special events scheduled on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
Here’s a sample of the events planned this weekend.
PORT ANGELES
‘Cabinet of Wonders’
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s fundraising extravaganza, “The Cabinet of Wonders,” is Saturday.
It will be held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Port Angeles Masonic Lodge, 622 S. Lincoln St.
Ticket sales to the center’s fourth annual party closed Thursday.
But bids can continue to be made on auction items, which include pieces by artists in Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend, Seattle and elsewhere in the Northwest.
Auction items can be viewed online at www.pafac.org, and bids placed by e-mail.
The title “Cabinet of Wonders” refers to the curio cabinets of exotic and unique collectibles, which were the forerunners of modern museums.
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Genealogical event
PORT ANGELES — Susan Karren from the National Archives and Records Administration’s Seattle branch will present “If You Think the National Archives Don’t Have Anything for You, Think Again!” on Saturday.
The Clallam County Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation at the First Presbyterian Church Parish Hall, 139 W. Eighth St., from 10 a.m. to noon.
Karren will talk about online archives as well as resources in Seattle that may not be available on the Internet.
She has worked for the administration since 1987 and holds a master’s degree in modern U.S. military history.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone 360-417-5000 or visit www.olypen.com/ccgs/.
‘Becloud’ screened
PORT ANGELES — The Mexican film “Becloud” will be screened as part of the 2010 Global Lens Series at Peninsula College tonight.
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. at Peninsula College’s Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Admission is $5 for the general public, with Peninsula College and area high school students admitted free with current student identification.
The film series is sponsored by Peninsula College and the Port Townsend Film Festival.
For more information on the series, e-mail Bruce Hattendorf at bhattendorf@pencol.edu or visit www.pencol.edu.
Volkswalk slated
PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Explorers Volkssport Club will walk the Spruce Railroad Trail on Saturday.
The group will leave the Fairmount Restaurant, 1127 W. U.S. Highway 101, at 9:15 a.m. A carpool will leave the Sequim QFC parking lot, 990 E. Washington St., at 8:30 a.m.
The walk has 7.4-mile or 3.7-mile options mostly along the abandoned railroad grade along the north shore of Lake Crescent.
It skirts two tunnels, which can be dangerous to enter.
Parts of the trail are rocky and sometimes a bit muddy. Baby joggers can be used with difficulty; wheelchairs are not recommended. Pets are not allowed.
Restrooms can be found at the trailhead and at the Fairmount Restaurant.
After the walk, the club will convene for a lunch meeting at Fairmount Restaurant.
The walk is open to the public.
For more information, phone Bob Forcier at 360-681-4058.
Zen retreat
PORT ANGELES — NO Sangha will hold a zazenkai, a one-day zen retreat, at Murre Cottage, 420 W. Third St., from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
NO Sangha is a Zen community that has been based in Port Angeles for more than 14 years,
Alternated zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (walking meditation) and private, individual instruction are available.
There will be silent coffee/tea breaks, and a vegetarian soup and bread lunch will be offered.
A sutra (chanting) service will be held at 10 a.m.
Sensei Kristen Larson, a teacher in the Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle, will give a dharma talk on Case No. 12 in The Wu-Men Kuan koan collection, “Jui-yen Calls Master,” at 1 p.m.
For more information, phone 360-452-5534 or e-mail NOSangha@aol.com.
Paint a mural
PORT ANGELES — The Waterfront Art Gallery, 120 W. First St., will host its third community mural painting session from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The mural will take as its inspiration from the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival taking place today through Sunday in downtown Port Angeles.
All are invited to pick up a brush and contribute to the mural throughout the day.
The first two murals had high participation from the public.
The youngest artist was 7 months old SEmD she contributed her footprint SEmD and the oldest was in his 80s.
People from Brazil, Canada and around the United States contributed to the murals, which were displayed in the gallery.
The mural will be displayed in the gallery for several weeks.
SEQUIM
Step up for kids
SEQUIM — A fundraiser for Parenting Matters is planned Saturday night.
“Step Up to the Plate for Kids” will run from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula at 400 W. Fir St.
Tickets are $25 and available by phoning 360-681-2250.
“Step Up” is a fundraiser for a range of services, from parenting classes and the monthly parenting newsletters distributed across Clallam County to the First Teacher library and playroom at the Sequim Community School, 220 W. Alder St.
“Step Up’s” keynote speaker is Vaughnetta J. Barton, executive director of the Foundation for Early Learning in Seattle.
Appetizers and desserts will be served, and an auction of gift packages, dinners and home decor is also part of the event, as is free child care on site.
Harvest festival set
SEQUIM — The Sequim Prairie Garden Club will host a harvest festival and sale at the Pioneer Memorial Park Clubhouse, 387 E. Washington St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will include such fall decor items as pumpkins, gourds, Halloween decorations, twisted willow branches, Yakima Valley produce and home-baked good such as cookies, pies and cakes, as well as green tomatoes and green tomato recipes, cookbooks, gardening books and bulbs and plants.
Raffles with items from local merchants will be held. Freshly popped popcorn will be available.
Proceeds will go toward the maintenance and beautification of Pioneer Memorial Park.
For more information, phone 360-477-0636.
Dinner fundraiser
SEQUIM — The Sequim Student Ambassadors will hold an all-you-can-eat spaghetti and meatball dinner on Saturday.
The meal will be from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Guy Cole Convention Center at Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.
Sequim Student Ambassadors are a group of high school students involved in a cultural exchange with Japan.
The dinner is a fundraiser to help with travel expenses to the country.
The cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children 3-10, and free for children younger than 3.
For more information, phone Michelle Earley at 360-683-2785 or e-mail michelleearley@msn.com.
Centerpiece class
SEQUIM — Henery’s Garden Center, 1060 Sequim-Dungeness Way, will host a Thanksgiving centerpiece class at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Attendees will create a holiday centerpiece using paperwhites and assorted greens in a glass container.
The cost is $20.
The paperwhites should be blooming just in time for Thanksgiving.
For reservations or more information, phone 360-683-6969.
Apple press festival
SEQUIM — A “Fall into the Apple Press Festival” is planned at Groveland Cottage Bed and Breakfast and Vacation Rentals, 4861 Sequim-Dungeness Way, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Attendees should bring apples and containers to hold pressed cider.
The festival will offer live marimba music, pumpkin carving, a bonfire, tricks and treats and Nash’s Organic Farm representatives.
For more information, phone 360-683-3565 or e-mail simone@olypen.com.
WWI car program
SEQUIM — The Museum & Arts Center will host a presentation on the last known surviving World War I Liberty Cadillac on Saturday.
Marc Lassen will display his wartime Cadillac at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Lassen will share photographs, letters and publications that document the vehicle’s war record.
Registration is through the MAC Exhibit Center, 175 W. Cedar St., with a suggested donation of $8 for MAC members and $10 for nonmembers.
For more information, visit www.macsequim.org.
Book discussion
SEQUIM — A book discussion is planned at the Sequim Library at 3 p.m. Saturday.
The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society will be discussed at the library at 630 N. Sequim Ave.
For more information, phone 360-683-1161 or see www.nols.org.
Microsoft Word basics
SEQUIM — “The Basics of Using Microsoft Word” will be presented at a meeting of the Sequim PC Users Group on Saturday.
Tom LaMure will lead the hands-on presentation of free, online tutorials at 10 a.m. in the computer lab, Room E-3, at the Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
A $5 donation from nonclub members is asked to help defray expenses.
For more information, see http://spcug.net/ or e-mail spcug1@gmail.com.
Fiddlers perform
SEQUIM — The Washington Old Time Fiddlers will perform at the Sequim Prairie Grange on Saturday.
The concert at the grange hall at 290 Macleay Road will be free and open to the public.
An all-players jam is set from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The concert will be from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Donations support fiddle lesson scholarships.
For more information, phone Hershel Lester at 360-417-6950 or e-mail handrlester@olypen.com.
Fundraising jog
SEQUIM — The Greywolf Elementary School Parent Teacher Association will hold “The Jog is On” fundraiser at the school, 171 Carlsborg Road, from 1:40 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. today.
In this jogathon, each student will run for 20 minutes each to raise funds for improvements to the school playground, the music program, purchasing books for the school library and other projects.
Donations can be mailed to Greywolf PTA, 171 Carlsborg Road, Sequim, WA 98382.
For more information, e-mail andicort920@yahoo.com.
PORT TOWNSEND/EAST JEFFERSON COUNTY
‘Ultimate Garage Sale’
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Rotary Club will hold its third annual Ultimate Garage Sale on Saturday.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Oscar Erickson and 4-H buildings at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St.
Proceeds will benefit local nonprofit organizations.
The Ultimate Garage Sale relies on donations from community members and merchants to raise funds for the community.
Port Townsend Rotary has set a goal of $30,000 for the 2010 event, more than double last year’s take.
Volunteers will accept drop-off donations for the garage sale at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today.
All donations are tax-deductible.
There may be items that cannot be accepted, and items for which Rotary will ask a drop-off fee (in the event they don’t sell and must be disposed of).
Volunteers can handle a limited number of pickups.
If donors are unable to transport their items, they are invited to contact Dave Backman, 360-301-5530, or Erik Frederickson, 360-301-2995, for possible assistance.
For more information, visit www.ptrotaryultimategaragesale.org.
Open house
PORT TOWNSEND — Visitors will hear about the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s plans to exhibit an orca skeleton during an open house Saturday.
The open house, which will be between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., will kick off the center’s Orca Project Capital Campaign to help it build an exhibition hall for the skeleton of an orca that died near Dungeness Spit in 2002.
At 3 p.m., staff and volunteers will tell the story of that orca, named Hope by children who attended spring programming and the Whale Camp.
The orca beached herself and died, carrying a high load of toxic contaminants. A male orca –probably her son – was stranded in shallow water nearby.
He refused to leave until rescuers coaxed him into deeper waters.
During the open house, visitors will hear about what the Orca Project has accomplished so far, hear of fundraising plans, and see architectural sketches.
The goal of the capital campaign is to build on to the Natural History Exhibit and create a new space to feature the orca skeleton, video, hydrophone technology and other displays, in addition to room for class instruction.
For more information, see www.ptmsc.org/.
Mental health films
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County National Alliance on Mental Illness and Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will co-sponsor two free films Sunday.
The screenings — in observance of Mental Illness Awareness Week, which ends Sunday — will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave.
“When Medicine Got It Wrong” flashes back to the 1970s when parents were “fed up” with being blamed for “bad parenting” as the cause of their children’s mental health issues, particularly schizophrenia.
Efforts of a group of determined parents led to the founding of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
This is a PBS documentary, released in May.
In “Walking in Recovery,” individuals living in Washington state tell their stories of recovery, revealing the idea that recovery from mental health issues/brain disorders is not only possible but happening every day.
This 2010 film was funded by the Washington Mental Health Transformation Project.
A question-and-answer period will follow each film.
For more information, phone 360-379-9949.
Watershed Day
PORT HADLOCK — Washington State University Jefferson County Extension will hold the 12th annual WSU Watershed Day at the extension offices, 201 W. Patison St., from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The theme of the day is “Big Spills, Little Drips.”
John Incardona, research toxicologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, is the keynote speaker.
Incardona will discuss current research on the impacts of both big oil spills and the “little drips” of pollution from storm water runoff.
He will be joined by local experts who will discuss oil-spill response and provide examples of what is happening in Jefferson County to reduce the pollutants in storm water.
WSU Watershed Day is presented by the WSU Jefferson County Beach Watchers program.
For more information about the beach-watcher program in Jefferson County, go to jefferson.wsu.edu and click on “Water.”
For more information on Watershed Day or to RSVP, phone beach-watcher coordinator Darcy McNamara at 360-379-5610, ext. 230, or e-mail darcym@jefferson.wsu.edu.
Music events set
PORT TOWNSEND — Crossroads Music, 2100 Lawrence St., will host two musical workshops and a string clinic on Saturday.
Mark Moore will teach a beginning ukulele workshop from 10 a.m. to noon.
Loaner ukuleles will be available for the workshop. Cost is $25 per person.
A guitar, mandolin and electric bass string clinic provided by Crossroads Music and Everly Cleartone Strings will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Customers will receive a free string change and a free set of strings when they buy a set of Everly strings.
Josephina Hunner will lead a beginning mandolin workshop covering basic chord charts and tab readings from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Attendees will learn three songs, including a Celtic tune. Cost is $20.
Seating is limited for each workshop.
To reserve a seat or for more information, phone 360-385-1471.
Wine, cheese tasting
PORT LUDLOW — The Resort At Port Ludlow will host an evening of wine and cheese tasting tonight.
The event will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the resort at 1 Heron Road.
The cost is $39 per guest.
More than 40 artisan cheeses and 30 regional wines will be presented by Francois Kerautret, Rachael Van Laanen of Mystery Bay Farm, and Mark Kieras, sommelier, the resort said.
To make reservations, phone 360-437-7412.
For more information, see www.portludlowresort.com/.
