The National Weather Service predicts a sunny, relatively warm weekend at the end of April — and the North Olympic Peninsula is ready.

From a Loyalty Day Parade in Brinnon and a kitchen tour in Port Townsend to the beginning of the Dungeness River Audubon Center’s Spring Fling in Sequim and a car show in Port Angeles, there are a variety of springtime events planned this weekend.

Information about activities related to the visual and lively arts can be found in Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s PDN.

Other major weekend events are spotlighted in “Things To Do,” on Page C3 and — by area — below:

PORT TOWNSEND/JEFFERSON COUNTY

Loyalty Day Parade

BRINNON —Brinnon VFW Post 10706 and its ladies auxiliary will hold its 24th annual Loyalty Day Parade today.

Parade organizers are seeking marching units, floats, cars, horses and more to gather at the Brinnon Booster Club, 151 Corey Lane, at 12:30 p.m. on to line up for the parade, which will start at 1 p.m.

For more information, phone VFW Loyalty Day Committee coordinators John and Dalila Dowd at 360-796-4001.

AAUW Kitchen Tour

PORT TOWNSEND — The 14th annual AAUW Kitchen Tour will be held at eight Port Townsend homes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Six of the homes are within walking distance of each other in the city.

Included are two Victorian homes, a remodeled mid-century modern and a beachfront home with a gourmet kitchen.

The final two tour stops are a solar-powered, built-green house and a remodeled craftsman farmhouse kitchen.

Attendees will begin the tour at the Hospitality Center, located at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St.

Tickets, tour passports, walking tour maps and refreshments will be available.

Experience raffle tickets, featuring 11 culinary-themed events, will be on sale.

Advance tickets cost $14 and are available at Dream City Market and Cafe, the Green Eyeshade, What’s Cookin! and Kitchen & Bath Studio, all in Port Townsend; Dane Pointe Interiors in Port Ludlow; and Over the Fence in Sequim.

Tickets will be available the day of the tour for $18.

Proceeds will support AAUW’s education scholarships and community projects.

Scandia Dinner

PORT TOWNSEND — The Daughters of Norway, Thea Foss Lodge No. 45, will host its annual Scandia Dinner at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 1335 Blaine St., at 6 p.m. today.

The meal includes Scandinavian meatballs and gravy, lefse (a Norwegian flatbread), boiled potatoes and carrots, pickled herring, salad and desserts like spritz, krumkake, sandbakies, Danish kringler and kranse kake.

There will be entertainment, music and free drawings.

Tickets are $17 and are available at Maricee Fashions, 913 Water St., or through Will Call by phoning Sonja Schoenleber at 360-379-2612.

Proceeds benefit scholarships for graduating high school seniors.

Truth event slated

PORT TOWNSEND — Michael Cremo will present “Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory” at the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park at 
1 p.m. Saturday.

He will “present a case for negotiating a new consensus on the nature of reality.”

Cremo will be joined by Wayne E. Haley, who will discuss “What You Don’t Know About the End of the Mayan Calendar, and What Others Are Doing.”

Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors/students/veterans.

They can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/140486 or at the door.

Each ticket includes entrance into a special screening of “What in the World Are They Spraying?”

Doors will open at 10 a.m., with the movie beginning at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, visit www.truthevent.com.

Garden club sale

NORDLAND — The Nordland Garden Club will hold its biannual plant sale at its clubhouse on Garden Club Road on Marrowstone Island from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

One hundred rhododendrons grown at a Portland, Ore., nursery will be available. Hypertufa pots, leaf castings, terrariums, bird feeders and rebar art will also be available for sale.

Many perennials grown by club members and now acclimated to the area will be for sale.

White elephant items, mostly garden-related, also will be available.

Tickets for a four-item raffle will be sold.

For more information, phone 360-379-9566.

Bird migration cruises

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will host spring bird migration cruises aboard Puget Sound Express Glacier Spirit on Saturday.

The three-hour trip will depart from Point Hudson Marina in downtown Port Townsend at 1 p.m.

Tickets are $55 per person, $50 for members of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, Burke Museum, Audubon or the Washington Ornithological Society, and $45 for children ages 2-10.

Onboard refreshments will be available.

For reservations, phone the Port Townsend Marine Science Center at 360-385-5582, ext. 104, or 800-566-3932, or email cruises@ptmsc.org for additional information.

Boat shop dedication

PORT HADLOCK — The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding plans tours and a dedication ceremony for the new Jeff Hammond Boat Shop on Saturday.

Tours at the school at 42 N. Water St. in Port Hadlock will begin at noon. The dedication ceremony will be at 1:30 p.m.

The new shop on the school’s upper heritage campus and the ceremony honor Hammond, who has taught at the school for 25 years.

Light refreshments will follow the ceremony.

No RSVP is necessary.

For more information about the school, visit www.nwboatschool.org.

Piano concert

CHIMACUM — Composer and keyboardist Buzz Rogowski will perform a selection of his original music compositions at a special free concert Saturday.

Rogowski will perform on a 7-foot Kawai grand piano from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 45 Redeemer Way, Chimacum.

Although the concert is free, donations will be for Lutheran World Relief to aid survivors of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake and those in the U.S. who have experienced severe storms.

In addition, any food will gladly be accepted for the Tri City Community Food Bank.

To hear samples of Rogowski’s music, visit www.buzzmusic.biz.

Dance party benefit

PORT TOWNSEND — “Celebrate Tonight,” an all-ages dance party benefit for the ReCyclery and Boomfest 2011, will be held at Undertown Coffee and Wine Bar, 211 Taylor St., from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. today.

Art activities, food and a photo booth also will be included.

An Olympic basket raffle of nearly $1,000 worth of goods will be held at 10 p.m.

DJs performing at the event are DJ Dash, DJ Jump Juice, DJ Rob and DJ Caleb Peacock.

Formal attire is suggested.

Admission is by donation.

Proceeds will support the ReCyclery’s Bike School for Kids program and Boomfest, a two-day festival celebrating local culture.

Open garden Sunday

PORT HADLOCK — The Olympic Community Action Programs’ Pea Patch will host an “open garden” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

The pea patch is located at the OlyCAP Thrift Shoppe, 10632 Rhody Drive.

There are three plots available for individuals or families who would like to have their own garden space.

To sign up for a plot or for volunteer information, phone 360-385-6317, ext. 6317, or email food@olycap.org.

Rhody bike tour

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Bicycle Association will host the annual Rhody Tour on Sunday.

Registration will be from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Haines Place Park-’n’-Ride in Port Townsend.

The course will close at 4 p.m.

The registration fee is $20 for an individual and $40 a family for nonmembers. Members will receive a discount of $5 for individuals and $10 for families.

Bikers can choose among routes of 32 miles, 45 miles, 55 miles and 62 miles, plus a family ride on the Larry Scott Memorial Trail.

Food and water stops and grocery and convenience stores are along the route.

For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/3r75p34.

PORT ANGELES

Music and Chocolate Tour

PORT ANGELES — The Music and Chocolate Tour will combine lavish views at seven inns with the pleasures of music and boutique chocolates, all for the benefit of the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, on Saturday.

Tickets to the event, a self-guided circuit for participants, are $20 per person.

The tour includes visits to the Eagle’s Flight, Eden by the Sea, George Washington Inn, Sea Cliff Gardens, Dungeness Barnhouse, Domaine Madeleine and Clark’s Chambers B&Bs.

At each inn, chefs from local kitchens — Alder Wood Bistro, Raindrop Desserts, C’est Si Bon, Northwest Fudge Co. and seven others — will lay out samples of their chocolate desserts.

The Music and Chocolate Tour also is a kind of progressive concert, with symphony musicians Selby Jelle, Marie Meyers, Carolyn and Ray Braun, Anna Prorak, GiGi Grier and Alison Maxwell playing at the various inns.

Tour tickets are limited to 175 and may be reserved by phoning the Port Angeles Symphony office at 360-457-5579.

More details about the orchestra and other forthcoming events is at www.PortAngelesSymphony.org.

Avoid ‘quackery’

PORT ANGELES — The Juan de Fuca Freethinkers will present “How to Identify Pseudoscience, Quackery and Fraud” at Peninsula College Room M-125, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 7 p.m. today.

Harriet Hall will review some of the material from “The Amazing Meeting Eight” of the James Randi Education Foundation, a science-based medicine workshop, on how to tell if health information on the Internet is reliable.

She will discuss how people get fooled into believing quack treatments work, some of the logical fallacies and errors in thinking that lead to false conclusions, how to decide when you can trust an expert and how to spot the differences between science and pseudoscience.

Hall will describe some amusing and some truly harmful frauds, past and present.

The Juan de Fuca Freethinkers is a nonprofit educational and social group consisting of local secularists who use science and reason to increase understanding of the universe and improve the human condition.

For more information, email freethinkers@hotmail.com or phone Susie Winters at 360-452-3234.

‘Tell-Tale Heart’

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Fine Art Center will host a Far West Video Night tonight.

Three films will be screened beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the arts center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

Admission is a suggested donation of $5.

“The Tell-Tale Heart,” Sarah Tucker’s short film based on the Edgar Allan Poe story; “Why Don’t We Disappear,” a movie shot in Port Angeles by Seattle-based filmmaker Tristan Seniuk; and “Albatross, Albatross, Albatross,” a short video by Matt Daniels, also of Seattle, will be shown.

Far West Video Night is part of the fine arts center’s Enter Stage Left series, which finishes May 13 with an 8 p.m. performance by Cirque de Boheme, a Port Angeles circus-burlesque troupe.

For details about the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s exhibitions and events, visit www.pafac.org or phone 360-457-3532.

High tea

PORT ANGELES — The Elks Naval Lodge High Tea in honor of the royal wedding of Price William and Kate Middleton, set Saturday, a day after the wedding, was sold out by Thursday.

The event will begin at noon, with an opportunity for women to decorate hats at the lodge at 131 E. First St., and the tea will be served at 1 p.m.

The recording of the royal wedding will be played during hat decoration and the tea.

Seventy-five tickets were sold, selling out the event, said Arlene Blum, club manager.

Healthy anniversary

PORT ANGELES — Healthy Families of Clallam County will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a “Strike Out Sexual Assault” Bowl-A-Thon at Laurel Lanes, 108 W. Eighth St., from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Teams of up to six bowlers are eligible. The $100-per-team fee includes shoes and three games.

For more information, phone Healthy Families at 360-452-3811 or send a registration fee to Healthy Families, 1210 E. Front St., Suite C, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

Health fair

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College nursing students will present a health fair at the school’s Pirate Union Building, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.

The fair will include information and demonstrations on blood-pressure testing, exercise, birth control, sexually transmitted disease information, child safety issues, nutrition, smoking, stress, sleep and substance abuse.

Chair massages will be available by the students in the massage therapy program.

The event is free and open to the public.

Grand Canyon talk

PORT ANGELES — Kent Brauninger will present a slide show of a Grand Canyon hike from the north rim to the south rim at First Baptist Church, 105 W. Sixth St., at 7:30 p.m. today.

Admission is by donation and will benefit the church’s furnace fund.

For more information, phone 360-457-3313.

Young Life breakfast

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Peninsula Young Life will hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser at First Presbyterian Church, 139 W. Eighth St., from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

The breakfast will include an all-you-can-eat menu of pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage and beverages.

The cost for the breakfast is $6 per person. Families consisting of two adults and two children younger than 12 may purchase a family pass for $15.

Tickets may be purchased in advance by phoning Michelle R. Ahrens at 360-565-1215 or at the door.

The Port Angeles High School Young Life Outreach group will be taking 24 students to Young Life’s Washington Family Ranch near Antelope, Ore.

All funds generated from the pancake breakfast will go to provide scholarships for students attending the camp.

The club also will accept donations for those wishing to help provide a camp scholarship for students.

Show ’n’ Shine slated

PORT ANGELES — North Olympic Mustangs will host its 28th annual Mustang and Cougar Show ’n’ Shine on Saturday and Sunday.

The cruise will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday at Price Ford Lincoln, a co-sponsor of the show along with Sequim Auto Clinic.

Registration will begin at 9 a.m. Sunday at The Gateway transit center, corner of Front and Lincoln streets, with prizes awarded at 3 p.m.

Trophies will be awarded in 32 classes.

The show is for Mustangs, Cougars, Rods and Customs plus teen and fixer-upper classes.

SEQUIM

Spring Fling

SEQUIM — The Dungeness River Audubon Center begins its third annual Spring Fling on Sunday.

The kickoff of the monthlong event will be from noon to 4 p.m. at Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.

Free family workshops on biking, hiking, running, walking and birding are planned.

Spring Fling is a fundraiser for the Dungeness River Audubon Center and Railroad Bridge Park in which people hike, bike, garden, read or do any of a number of other activities and gather pledges from friends and family who want to encourage them in their endeavors.

Last year’s Spring Fling raised nearly $25,000.

For more information or to become a participant, visit www.DungenessRiverCenter.org or phone 360-681-4076.

Railroad lecture

SEQUIM — Railroad and logging historian Steve Hauff will discuss during a presentation Sunday the Spruce Production Division Railroads that once ran through Clallam County.

The talk will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road.

Hauff will survey the railroads and sawmills constructed locally by the Spruce Production Division of the Army during World War I.

Admission for the presentation is $5 for members of the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley and $8 for nonmembers.

Proceeds help support MAC programming.

Hauff, a train and logging historian, writer and lecturer, is the co-author of The Willamette Locomotive and The Climax Locomotive and has contributed to numerous railroad publications.

For more information about MAC programming, visit www.macsequim.org or phone the MAC Exhibit Center at 360-683-8110.

Spring plant sale

SEQUIM — Sequim Prairie Garden Club’s annual Spring Plant Sale will be held at Pioneer Memorial Park, 387 E. Washington St., from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

A variety of plants will be available, including various types of tomato plants, vegetable starts, color spots for flower gardens — both perennials and annuals — bulbs and shrubs.

There will also be garden help books, some garden art, containers, slightly used flower pots and other garden-related items.

The club intends to sell only plants that will grow well in the local climate.

Members will be available to answer questions and help attendees choose plants best-suited for their yard.

The sale serves as the garden club’s main fundraiser.

Proceeds from the sale are used to maintain, improve and beautify the four-acre Pioneer Memorial Park, historical cabin, pioneer cemetery, clubhouse and other historical artifacts.

Organ concert set

SEQUIM — An organ concert by Angela Kraft Cross will be held at the Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church, 30 Sanford Lane, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The concert will include works by Bach, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Franck, Alain and Vierne, as well as some of Cross’ own compositions.

The concert is free, but donations will be accepted.

Three of her albums have received critical acclaim in The American Organist magazine.

For more information, visit www.angelakraftcross.com.

WEST END

Blue grass, barbecue

FORKS — The Forks Abuse program will hold its second annual “Blue Grass and BBQ” concert fundraiser at the Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchants Road, at 5 p.m. Saturday.

Musical performers will include Crescent Blue, Gene & Eddie, Laura and Isaiah and Latino dancers.

A barbecue meal will be served as well.

Tickets are $20. The event is for ages 21 and older.

Advance tickets required.

To purchase, phone Forks Abuse at 360-374-6411 or stop by the nonprofit at 81 Second Ave.

Clallam Bay scholars

CLALLAM BAY — The Bruin Booster Club will hold its senior scholarship auction in the school gymnasium, 16933 state Highway 112, on Sunday.

Viewing will begin at 
1 p.m., with the auction starting at 2 p.m.

To donate an item, phone John Teachout at 360-640-4007, Courtney Pilatti at 360-640-8049 or Marcia Hess at 360-963-2324.

Scuba lectures set

JOYCE — Veteran scuba driver John Williams will present “Invisible Shoreline” in Joyce today.

Williams will share stories and video about the nearly invisible creatures that inhabit the shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The lecture will be held at the Crescent High School library, 50350 state Highway 112, at 6:30 p.m. and last for about 90 minutes.

The lectures are free and open to the public.

For more information about the events, phone 360-565-2619 or visit www.stillhopeproductions.com.

El Día de Los Niños

FORKS — The Forks Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., will celebrate El Día de Los Niños on Saturday.

The festivities will begin at noon with a bilingual storytime, followed by music and crafting.

El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) is a celebration of children, families and reading, culminating each year April 30.

The program is free and open to the public.

For more information, phone the Forks Library at 360-374-6402, email Forks@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.

Original music

FORKS — Sherry Flanagan will perform her original music in a free concert Saturday.

Flanagan, a former Forks resident, will accompany herself on guitar from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Salmonberry Artisan’s Market, 120 S. Forks Ave.

School carnival

FORKS — The Forks Elementary School Carnival is tonight.

The carnival will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the school at 301 S. Elderberry Ave.

Admission is $3. The event is open to the public.

Games and prizes are planned. Hot dogs, cotton candy and sno-cones will be available.

Kids Fishing Day

FORKS — The West End Sportsmen’s Club’s annual Kids Fishing Day will be Sunday.

The Bogachiel Rearing Ponds in Forks have been filled with trout for children to catch 6 a.m. and noon.

The limit will be five fish. No catch-and-release will be allowed.

The event is for children 12 and younger.