WEEKEND: Car-bashing, exotic journeys or simply taking a hike — all available on Peninsula

Bash a car, hear about exotic journeys, explore books, hear concerts or simply take a hike — whatever takes your fancy this weekend, you’ll find a way to enjoy yourself on the North Olympic Peninsula.

For more about arts and entertainment events, see Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s print edition.

Other events are in the “Things to Do” calendar, available online at www.peninsuladailynews.com.

PORT ANGELES AND SEQUIM

The Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra will perform in Port Angeles and Sequim this weekend.

The first concert is at 7 p.m. tonight at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., Port Angeles.

A Saturday performance will be at 7 p.m. at the Sequim Worship Center, 640 N. Sequim Ave.

All seats are $12.

Actor Lee Harwell will recite a love poem while Seattle-based music director Adam Stern will accompany him, playing the music of Richard Strauss.

In addition to “Enoch Arden,” the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the evening features three chamber works: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Robert Linn’s Concertino for Violin and Wind Octet, and Mozart’s 12th Serenade for Winds.

Tickets to the concerts are on sale in Port Angeles at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., and at the Port Angeles Symphony office, 216-C N. Laurel St.

In Sequim, they’re available at BeeDazzled at The Buzz, 130 N. Sequim Ave.

Tickets will also be sold at the door.

For more information, visit www.PortAngelesSymphony.org or phone 360-457-5579.

PORT ANGELES

Car bash fundraiser

PORT ANGELES — For $5, you can bash a car with a sledgehammer and help members of Port Angeles High School’s junior class Saturday.

The car-bash fundraiser will be from noon to 3 p.m. in the auto body parking lot of the high school campus, 304 E. Park Ave., from noon to 3 p.m.

Proceeds will benefit class projects, specifically the class’ Winter Ball dance Saturday, Jan. 21.

Participants will pay $5 to take three swings with a sledgehammer on a 1990 Isuzu Trooper donated by a junior class parent.

Saturday’s fundraiser is being organized by Chace Souza and Ben Rowland of the Class of 2013 and several other helpers.

For more information, phone Souza at 360-477-7815.

Bangladesh lecture

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles resident John Wegmann will discuss northern Bangladesh during a slide show at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., at 7 p.m. tonight.

It is the second of four slide shows in the Peninsula Trails Coalition Adventure Travel Series.

John and Mary Wegmann have made three trips over the past four years to work in medical clinics in northern Bangladesh.

John Wegmann will talk about those visits during tonight’s presentation.

A $5 admission fee will go to the coalition for the purchase of tools, equipment and lunches for volunteers who maintain and build the Olympic Discovery Trail.

Children 12 and younger will be admitted to the presentation free.

The Wegmanns found Bangladesh to have its own special beauty and its people to be friendly and hard-working.

The slide show series continues Friday, Jan. 20, with Linda Crow presenting “Hidden Papua New Guinea.”

For more information on the slide shows, phone Gunvor Hildal at 360-452-8641 or Gail Hall at 360-808-4223.

More information on the Olympic Discovery Trail can be found at www.olympicdiscoverytrail.com.

Art Blast today

PORT ANGELES — The CornStalks will perform at the Port Angeles Library tonight.

The free concert, part of the January Art Blast, will be at 7 p.m. at the library, 210 S. Peabody St.

It will be preceded at 6:30 p.m. by the opening reception for the winter Art in the Library visual arts exhibit.

The CornStalks group is composed of popular local favorites Kim Trenerry (of Deadwood Revival), Stephanie Doenges (of Rollin’ Waters) and Paul Stehr-Green (of SuperTrees).

The second Friday Art Blast at the Port Angeles Library celebrates the talents of local performance artists.

This month’s blast also provides an opportunity to meet the visual artists showcased in the winter exhibit on display from today through March 7.

Artists featured in the show are Ed Morales, David Haight, Marilyn Santiago, Valerie Thomas and Mary Beth Beuke.

For more information, phone 360-417-8505, email AssistantDirector@nols.org, or visit www.nols.org and click on “Events-Art in the Library.”

Pet licensing

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society will host a licensing clinic at the shelter, 2105 W. U.S. Highway 101, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

All cats and dogs in Clallam County are required to be licensed.

Participants should bring proof of their pet’s rabies vaccine in order to purchase a license.

A yearly license is available for $10 for spayed/neutered animals.

Owners may also purchase a lifetime license for $50 if the pet is spayed/neutered and has its rabies vaccine and a microchip.

For more information, phone the Humane Society at 360-457-8206.

Club walk slated

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Explorers will host a club walk Saturday.

The Port Angeles Waterfront Walk will include routes of 6 kilometers and 11 kilometers and will begin at the Red Lion Hotel lobby, 221 N. Lincoln St., at 9 a.m.

A carpool will leave the Sequim QFC parking lot at 8:30 a.m.

For more information, phone Mary Allen Clark at 360-452-0593.

‘Bring Your Own Art’

PORT ANGELES — Sculptor Bob Stokes’ 10th biannual “Bring Your Own Art” show is this weekend.

Each contributor to “Bring Your Own” may deliver a maximum of three works to Studio Bob, the show’s venue upstairs at 1181/2 E. Front St.

Delivery day is today, and participants must bring their pieces in between noon and 9 p.m.

The show’s opening party is slated for 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. That event is open to the public.

The show also will be open to the public between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Stokes has held “Bring Your Own Art” twice a year, in winter and summer, since mid-2007.

For more information, phone Stokes at 415-990-0457.

Zen retreat set

PORT ANGELES — NO Sangha, a Zen meditation group in Port Angeles for more than 16 years, will hold a Zazenkai — a one-day zen retreat — on Saturday.

The retreat will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Murre Cottage, 420 W. Third St.

Alternated zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (walking meditation) and private, individual instruction are available.

Silent coffee/tea breaks and a vegetarian soup and bread lunch will be offered.

A Sutra, or chanting service, will be held at 10 a.m.

At 1 p.m., Kristen Larson, sensei, a teacher in the Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle, will give a Dharma Talk on “Koan Commentaries, Pitfalls or Wisdom?”

Visitors can come and go during the day.

For directions or more information, phone 360-452-5534 or email NOSangha@aol.com.

SEQUIM

Ulster genealogy event

SEQUIM — Virginia Majewski will present “Ulster Ancestors: Searching for the Scots-Irish in Northern Ireland” at a meeting of the Clallam County Genealogical Society on Saturday.

The meeting will be from 9:45 a.m. to noon at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.

After a brief discussion of the history of northern Ireland, Majewski will show why searching for records there is different from the rest of Ireland.

The event is free and open to the public.

Majewski holds certificates in American Records and General Methodology from the National Institute of Genealogical Studies at the University of Toronto.

She has taught in the area and for the Clallam County Genealogical Society, of which she is president.

Majewski received a Society Management award from the Washington State Genealogical Society and serves as its vice president.

For more information, phone 360-417-5000 or visit www.olypen.com/ccgs.

Benefit concert

SEQUIM — A benefit concert to help defray uncovered medical expenses for multiple sclerosis patient Laura Hudson will be held Saturday.

The benefit will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave.

LeRoy Davidson will perform music on his baby grand piano.

Davidson has been teaching music since 1968 and has been a professional musician for more than 40 years.

Admission is by donation.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, phone the Rev. Lynn Lohr at 360-683-1943.

‘Snow White’ play

SEQUIM — The Missoula Children’s Theater will present “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” at 3 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. Saturday.

The show will be in the Sequim High School auditorium, 601 N. Sequim Ave.

Local children from both Port Angeles and Sequim are performing in this musical staged by the MST, a 40-year-old theater company that crisscrosses the country to put on its shows.

Admission at the door is $10 for adults and $5 for children.

Book discussion

SEQUIM — Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf will be discussed at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Set in post-World War I England and written in Woolf’s classic stream-of-consciousness prose, the book details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for and then hosts a dinner party.

Although the novel covers only one day, Woolf covers a lifetime as she unravels and then exposes the mysteries of human personality.

Copies of the book are available at the Sequim Library and can be requested online through the library catalog at www.nols.org.

Preregistration for this program is not required, and drop-ins are always welcome.

For more information on this and other programs, visit www.nols.org and click on “Events” and “Sequim,” or contact Lauren Dahlgren at 360-683-1161 or Sequim@nols.org.

Book-signing set

SEQUIM — Local author Jessie Rhude will sign copies of her book, Homesteading at the Back of Beyond, at Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St., from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The book, which will be available for purchase and personalized signatures by the author, documents Rhude’s adventure roughing it in Fairbanks, Alaska, in the 1960s.

“It was a journey of discovery about myself and what I was capable of,” Rhude said.

“I began my adventure as a young, vain city girl, only to find along the way a deeper meaning of life, and I became a much better person because of it.”

The book is the culmination of memories of events occurring over the homesteading years that Rhude committed to print for her sons and future generations.

Family members featured in the book will be attending the event.

Write with Word

SEQUIM — A presentation on how to write, save and print a letter using Microsoft Word will be offered by the Sequim PC Users Group on Saturday.

The presentation will be at 10 a.m. in the computer lab, Room E-3, at Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave.

The hands-on presentation will include the use of fonts, type sizes, borders, margins, line spacing, indents, spell checking, saving in various formats and printing.

An open forum for questions on any computer-related topic will follow.

A suggested donation of $5 is requested from visitors to help defray expenses.

For more information, email spcug1@gmail.com.

Pet food demonstration

SEQUIM — Best Friend Nutrition, 680 W. Washington St., will host a pet food demonstration of Blue Buffalo products from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Shayla Bowman, regional manager for the company, will bring samples of Blue Buffalo and Blue Buffalo Wilderness grain-free kibble for dogs and cats along with canned food and treats.

Discount coupons as well as a drawing for a valuable Blue Buffalo product will also be available.

For more information, phone 360-681-8458.

Book sale at library

SEQUIM — The Friends of Sequim Library plans a book sale Saturday.

The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.

PORT TOWNSEND AND EAST JEFFERSON COUNTY

Trail day Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Volunteers will work on a low-lying trail at the Howard Street right of way between Hamilton Heights and Discovery Road on Saturday.

The trail day sponsored by the city of Port Townsend’s Non-Motorized Transportation Board will be from 9 a.m. to noon.

The board decided to gravel this low-lying trail, starting at each side of the corridor from 14th to 18th streets.

Any volunteers interested in helping should meet at either 14th Street (south side) or 18th Street (north side) of the trail.

Equipment needed includes wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes and work gloves.

The volunteer crew will work rain or shine.

Registration is required, and snacks will be served.

For more information about the bimonthly trail days, email walkers@olympus.net.

Volcanic lecture set

PORT TOWNSEND — Dave Tucker will discuss some of the eruptive history of the Mount Baker volcanic field at a Jefferson Land Trust Geology Group meeting Saturday.

The lecture will be from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave.

Tucker is a research associate in the Geology Department at Western Washington University and director of the Mount Baker Volcanic Research Center, the nucleus for ongoing volcanic research at the mountain.

He will discuss newly recognized hazards associated with the modern glaciated cone, briefly describe some of the recent physical volcanology studies and include video of the hundreds of vigorous fumaroles in the active Sherman Crater.

The event is free and open to the public; however, a $5 donation is appreciated to help cover costs.

For more information, visit www.mbvrc.wwu.edu.

Gardening lecture

PORT TOWNSEND — Local landscaper and member of the Olympic Fruit Club Karen Page will discuss “Growing Fruits & Nuts on the Olympic Peninsula” on Saturday.

The talk is the first lecture in the Washington State University Jefferson County Extension Master Gardeners’ annual winter lecture series.

It will be held at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., at 10 a.m.

Tickets for all seven lectures in the series will be on sale at the door for $45 per person.

Single-event tickets will be sold on a space-available basis for $10.

For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/88gzkyt or phone 360-379-1172.

Officer installation

CHIMACUM — With the traditional ritual used during the 100-year history of Daughters of Norway, Thea Foss Lodge No. 45 will install its 2012 officers Sunday.

The event will be at 1 p.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road.

New President Symbolyn Jacobsen will head the set of 18 elected and appointed officers.

The public is invited to attend.

For more information, phone 360-379-1802.

‘Grease’ singalong

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Film Institute will present two screenings of the singalong version of “Grease” at the Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor St., at 12:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday.

Attendees are encouraged to dress in character to win prizes in a costume contest.

Alcoholic beverages will be available for ages 21 and older during the 10 p.m. show.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for ages 12 and younger, and are available at the Rose or online at www.rosetheatre.com.

Proceeds will benefit the Port Townsend Film Institute’s year-round educational programs.

For more information, phone 360-379-1333 or visit www.ptfilmfest.com.

Benefit concert Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Community Orchestra will hold a benefit concert for orchestra member Linda Lou Marshall on Sunday.

Marshall is battling lung cancer.

The concert will be at 3 p.m. at the Chimacum High School auditorium, 91 West Valley Road.

Admission is $20, with additional donations accepted.

Proceeds from Sunday’s concert will go toward the medical expenses not covered by Marshall’s insurance.

Marshall has played the French horn for the orchestra for 15 years.

Orca lecture Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will present “Orcas: Ten Years of Learning and Research” in the natural history exhibit at Fort Worden State Park at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The presentation will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the discovery Jan. 2, 2002, of the stranding of orca whale CA189 on Dungeness Spit.

The skeleton of CA189, since named Hope, will be displayed in a new Ocean Science Hall once it is constructed.

The center has an ongoing Orca Project Capital Campaign to fund construction of the new exhibit hall, which also will contain video, hydrophone technology and other displays, and class instruction space.

On Saturday, Pete Schroeder, a marine mammal veterinarian with Marine Mammal Research Associates, and Brad Hanson, an ecologist and orca researcher with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will speak.

Admission is $7 for the general public, $5 for center members and youths, and $3 for center youth members.

Southern Resident Killer Whales, or the orcas known as J, K, and L pods, were listed as endangered species in 2005.

Since that time, a great deal of research has been conducted on both these fish-eating resident orcas and the mammal-eating transient orcas that use this area.

Researchers Schroeder and Hanson will host a lecture-conversation that focuses on the health and survival of orcas in the Salish Sea—what they have learned in the past decade and what questions still remain.

A Discover Pass is not needed to visit center exhibits or attend center events, though purchasing one supports Washington State Parks.

For more information, phone 360-385-5582, email info@ptmsc.org or visit www.ptmsc.org.

Occupy holds teach-in

PORT TOWNSEND — Occupy Port Townsend will present a community dialogue Sunday on nonviolence as a tactic for social change.

“Nonviolence Teach-In — Direct Action and Civil Disobedience” will be held at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Using film, interactive theater and group discussion, the teach-in will cover the history and practice of direct action and civil disobedience.

The Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble will begin the event with a performance and community dialogue led by Marc Weinblatt.

A reading of excerpts from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., will be read by Karma Tenzing Wangchuk and Gary Copeland Lilley.

The program will include movie clips from the documentary “A Force More Powerful” and a question-and-answer session on the “Legalities of Civil Disobedience,” led by attorney Paul Richmond.

The teach-in will wrap with a group exercise to examine feelings on “What is Nonviolence?,” led by Caroline Wildflower, an experienced direct action trainer.

All ages are welcome, and donations will be accepted for building rental.

For more information, phone Liz Rivera Goldstein at 360-379-9094 or email liz@teenpeace.org.

FORKS/WEST END

Make a mini-book

CLALLAM BAY — The Clallam Bay Comicon group will host a “How to Make a Mini” workshop Saturday.

The workshop will be at 1 p.m. at the Three Sisters of Clallam Art Gallery, otherwise known as “the green building at the west end of Clallam Bay.”

Attendees will learn to make and publish the little, hand-built books that those in the drawn-book industry use to launch publishing products.

Organizers ask visitors to bring scratch paper, note paper, pencils, pens and colored pencils.

Donations will be accepted.

The inaugural Clallam Bay Comicon will be held from July 13-15.

For more information, phone Donna Barr at 360-963-2935 or email DonnaBarr@hotmail.com.

Auditions Monday

FORKS — The Missoula Children’s Theatre will hold auditions for parts in the play “Snow White” on Monday.

Children interested in auditioning should arrive at Forks Elementary School by 2:45 p.m., when the doors will be opened.

The audition is scheduled to be over at 5 p.m.

About 50 children from kindergarten through high school will be cast for the comical remake of this classic fairy tale.

All area children are invited to audition, including Quileute Tribal School and home-schooled students.

School will not be in session that day, as it is the Martin Luther King holiday.

The Forks Elementary School Booster Club is sponsoring the event.

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