Helen Haller Elementary third-graders Annyah Beck, 9, left, and Accasia Andertson, 8, examine a water quality display using an oyster for demonstration at a booth staffed by Rob Banes and Liz Maier, both health advisers for the state Department of Health, during the Dungeness River Festival on Friday at the Dungeness River Nature Center in Sequim. The event brought a variety of environmental and educational agencies in a celebration of the outdoors and conservation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Helen Haller Elementary third-graders Annyah Beck, 9, left, and Accasia Andertson, 8, examine a water quality display using an oyster for demonstration at a booth staffed by Rob Banes and Liz Maier, both health advisers for the state Department of Health, during the Dungeness River Festival on Friday at the Dungeness River Nature Center in Sequim. The event brought a variety of environmental and educational agencies in a celebration of the outdoors and conservation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

River fest

Helen Haller Elementary third-graders Annyah Beck, 9, left, and Accasia Andertson, 8, examine a water quality display using an oyster for demonstration at a booth staffed by Rob Banes and Liz Maier, both health advisers for the state Department of Health, during the Dungeness River Festival on Friday at the Dungeness River Nature Center in Sequim.

The event brought a variety of environmental and educational agencies in a celebration of the outdoors and conservation.

Sage Barker, 5, of Vancouver, British Columbia, peers at tiny sea creatures at an educational table operated by the Feiro Marine Life Center during Friday’s Dungeness River Festival at the Dungeness Nature Center in Sequim. The event brought together a variety of environmental and educational agencies in a celebration of the outdoors and conservation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Sage Barker, 5, of Vancouver, British Columbia, peers at tiny sea creatures at an educational table operated by the Feiro Marine Life Center during Friday’s Dungeness River Festival at the Dungeness Nature Center in Sequim. The event brought together a variety of environmental and educational agencies in a celebration of the outdoors and conservation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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