NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 20.
Spring equinox celebrations and spring cleanups are among the activities offered on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
For information about the Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers’ Spring Show in Port Angeles, “The Cupcake Conspiracy” at the Mount Pleasant Grange and other arts and entertainment news, see Peninsula Spotlight, the weekly entertainment magazine, in today’s PDN.
More information is also on the calendar at www.peninsuladailynews.com.
SEQUIM
Bridgehenge tonight
SEQUIM — Bridgehenge, when the sun sets directly through Railroad Bridge’s 100-year-old trestle and trusses and marks the spring equinox, will be at 7 p.m. today.
A celebration is planned at Railroad Bridge Park’s amphitheater at the Dungeness River Audubon Center at 2151 W. Hendrickson Road.
The event also marks the 100th anniversary of the bridge.
All are welcome.
Wear layers and bring flashlights and cameras.
Bob Boekelheide will act as master of ceremonies.
For more information, phone 360-681-4076 or visit www.DungenessRiverCenter.org.
Crop production
SEQUIM — Carol Miles will tell about raising high-value crops for local markets at the Transit Center, 190 W. Cedar St., from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today.
The presentation is free and open to the public.
Miles will include a discussion about commercial vegetable production in the Pacific Northwest and current Washington State University research on vegetable crops.
For more information, contact Lorrie Hamilton at 360-565-2679 or lhamilton@co.clallam.wa.us.
Habitat training
SEQUIM — Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County will conduct a volunteer information meeting at Sequim Community Church, 950 N. Fifth Ave., from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday.
With construction about to start on two new homes — one in Forks and one in Port Angeles — there are many ways to get involved.
Volunteers can use their construction skills or learn new ones while working with the families who qualify for the homes as they earn their sweat equity through helping build their own homes.
Volunteers also can help select families, become a family partner, serve in faith-relations or bring organizing skills to help in the tool trailer or at a special event.
For more information, contact Trisha Davis, program manager, at 360-681-6780 or trisha@habitatclallam.org.
Pancake breakfast
SEQUIM — The Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, will serve a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 10 and younger.
In addition to pancakes, the menu includes ham, eggs and beverages.
Proceeds will be used for maintenance on the grange’s building and grounds.
PORT ANGELES
Books and libations
PORT ANGELES — Books will be paired with wine in a program co-hosted by the North Olympic Library System and Harbinger Winery.
The book sampling and wine tasting will be at 6:30 p.m. today at the winery, 2358 U.S. Highway 101.
Dances of Peace
PORT ANGELES — Dances of Universal Peace are planned at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
Everyone is welcome to this free event sponsored by the Crazy Buddha Shambhala Meditation Group.
For more information, email varahi@wavecable.com.
PA book sale
PORT ANGELES — The Friends of the Port Angeles Library will hold a bag-of-books sale from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today and Saturday.
The sale will be at the library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
New books are added each day.
Customers can fill a bag for $2.
Middle school dance
PORT ANGELES — The annual Tolo Dance, a semiformal/formal dance for middle school-age students, will be hosted by Port Angeles Assembly No. 33 International Order of the Rainbow for Girls from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
The dance will take place at the Masonic Lodge, 622 S. Lincoln St.
Admission is $12 in advance at Black Diamond Bridal, 109 E. First St., or Electric Beach Tanning, 117 N. Oak St.; or $15 at the door.
Proceeds will fund Port Angeles Rainbow activities.
In a tolo dance, young women invite men.
This annual dance features a DJ, and photos are available starting at 5 p.m.
For more information, contact KC or Paul Carmean at kcarmean89@gmail.com or 360-928-3358.
Grafting workshop
PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Orchard Society will host a free grafting workshop at Lazy J Tree Farm, 225 Gehrke Road, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Instructions and fruit tree scions will be available, plus grafting kits for a nominal price.
Rootstock will be available for purchase as well.
For more information, phone Marilyn Couture at 360-681-3036 or email couture222@msn.com.
Car wash fundraiser
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles/Sequim Mobile Dental will host a car wash fundraiser for the Captain Joseph House starting at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The fundraiser will be at Les Schwab, 2527 E. U.S. Highway 101.
A $10 donation — with 40 percent going toward the nonprofit group — will buy a car wash and vacuuming.
Spring cleanup
PORT ANGELES — The Friends of Olympic National Park will host a morning work project at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Volunteers will prune, remove exotic plants, weed, rake leaves and clean up trails.
Some tools will be available, but participants are urged to bring their favorite hand tools and gloves.
Boating safety
PORT ANGELES — The Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 42 Sequim-Port Angeles will sponsor a boating safety class at 9 a.m. Saturday.
“About Boating Safely” will be held at the Port Angeles Fire Station, 102 E. Fifth St.
The cost is $15 per person or $20 for a couple.
To register, phone 360-452-1135.
Sons of Norway dance
PORT ANGELES — The Sons of Norway group will host its weekly folk-ballroom-swing dance at 131 W. Fifth St. from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Dance instruction is planned at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is $2 for members and $3 for nonmembers.
This is an all-ages, no-smoking and no-alcohol event.
For more information, phone Sandy Maxwell at 360-457-7035.
Donations sought
PORT ANGELES — Donations will be accepted Sunday and next Tuesday for the annual Gigantic Basement Sale to benefit the Port Angeles Farmers Market.
Drop-off times are from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. both days at the basement off the alley behind Country Aire Natural Foods, 200 W. First St.
Usable items — books, clothes, toys, furniture — are encouraged, but no mattresses or appliances are accepted.
The sale itself will be held in Country Aire’s basement March 28-29.
Proceeds will benefit the farmers market, open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday at The Gateway pavilion at Front and Lincoln streets.
For more information, phone market manager Cynthia Warne at 360-460-0361.
JOYCE
Lions Club breakfast
JOYCE — Luck of the Draw will perform at the Crescent Bay Lions Club breakfast Sunday.
The club offers breakfasts from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. every Sunday except holidays until Mother’s Day on May 10.
Luck of the Draw will perform from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
The cost is $6 for adults and $3.50 for children 12 and younger.
The menu includes eggs cooked to order, hot cakes, French toast, biscuits and gravy, hash browns and ham, sausage or bacon.
The club is on state Highway 112 at Holly Hill Road.
Proceeds help Crescent Bay Lions members support Crescent School yearbooks, scholarships for Crescent High School seniors, holiday food baskets, glasses for the needy and other community projects.
PORT TOWNSEND
Kah Tai work party
PORT TOWNSEND — A work party is planned at Kah Tai Prairie Preserve from 9 a.m. to noon today.
The public is welcome.
Volunteers will meet near the Benedict Street entrance. They should look for a white Chevy pickup truck.
Workers will pull scotch broom and pick up garbage on the east side of the park.
Water, tea, treats, weed wrenches and garbage bags will be provided.
Volunteers are asked to bring gloves and small weeding tools and wear work clothes, dressing for the weather.
For more information, contact Dixie Llewellin at dixie@cablespeed.com or 360-385-6432.
Dance tonight
PORT TOWNSEND — Jim Nyby & the F Street Band will supply New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, Chicago shuffle and Latin beats for a dance at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St., tonight.
Admission is $10 including Janice Eklund’s one-step dance lesson at 7 p.m. and the live music from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m.
For more about the Olympic Peninsula Dance Club, which holds gatherings on the third Friday of the month, visit www.olympicpeninsuladance.com.
Crystal bowl ceremony
PORT TOWNSEND — Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center, 3918 San Juan Ave., will host Luna Light in a Crystal Singing Bowl Ritual, celebrating the spring equinox, at 7 tonight.
Light, a Port Townsend resident, is a reiki practitioner and a crystal bowl healer/practitioner.
Suggested donation is $10 at the door, though no one will be turned away.
Visit www.unitypt.org for more information.
Fort Worden meet
PORT TOWNSEND — The Friends of Fort Worden annual membership meeting will feature author Mavis Amundson and the presentation of awards tonight.
The meeting will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Commons at Fort Worden State Park. It is free and open to the public.
The annual meeting includes the presentation of awards to several individuals in recognition of outstanding volunteer work for the Friends.
The guest speaker, Amundson, is a former Peninsula Daily News reporter and author of historical books about the North Olympic Peninsula.
She edited Sturdy Folk, an oral history. She has written The Lady of the Lake, a true-crime story set in Port Angeles and Lake Crescent, and The Great Forks Fire, a true story about the 1951 forest fire that threatened the town of Forks.
She now lives in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.
For more information, email Patience Rogge at rogge@olympus.net.
AAUW silent auction
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women will host a silent auction and robotics demonstration Saturday.
The silent auction will be from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St.
It will follow a brief AAUW branch meeting beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The public is welcome. Only cash and checks will be accepted.
Proceeds will help fund college scholarships for women of East Jefferson County.
The auction will feature an array of new or gently used items as well as special experiences help with weeding or a cocktail boat cruise.
Students from the Port Townsend High School Varsity Robotics Team, together with their instructor, Austin Henry, will demonstrate the robot they constructed this year for competitions.
Sunday Assembly
PORT TOWNSEND — A secular group plans to meet at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Sunday Assembly Port Townsend is a secular congregational community seeking to celebrate life. It meets the fourth Sunday of each month.
Everyone is invited to sing pop songs, hear lectures and partake of coffee and cake after each meeting.
For more information, email christinejacobson@gmail.com.
Rhody Run training
PORT TOWNSEND — Training for the May 17 Rhody Run is slated at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at Fort Worden State Park.
Training is held every Sunday leading up to the run.
For more information, phone race director Jeni Little at 360-385-3163 or email rhodyruninfo@gmail.com.
Conversation Cafe
PORT TOWNSEND — Open to all, the Conversation Cafe will meet at the Highway 20 Road House, 2152 W. Sims Way, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today for conversation and an optional lunch.
The day’s topic is “Surveillance.”
Conversation Cafe is an exercise in active listening and nonconfrontational conversation.
For more information, visit www.conversationcafe.org.
Hearing loss meet
PORT TOWNSEND — A public meeting, “Implant Options for People with Hearing Loss,” will take place at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., on Monday.
All are welcome to arrive at 2:15 p.m., with the meeting starting at 2:30 p.m.
Implant surgeon and ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Seth Schwartz and implant audiologist Setsuko Murakami from the Virginia Mason Listen for Life Center will discuss cochlear implants and options for those with hearing loss.
Listening devices will be provided.
For more information, phone Emily Mandelbaum at 360-531-2247 or email mandelbaum@olympus.net.
FORKS
NOAA meeting set
FORKS — NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary will host a meeting of the Sanctuary Advisory Council at the Olympic Natural Resources Center, 1455 S. Forks Ave., today.
The meeting, which is open to the public, is from 9:50 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a public comment period at noon.
For more information, email Karlyn Langjahr at karlyn.langjahr@noaa.gov or visit www.tinyurl.com/PDN-NOAAmeet, where a draft meeting agenda will be posted.
Emblem Club dinner
FORKS — The Emblem Club will present a dinner at the Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchants Road, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
The dinner features prime rib served with tea, coffee, water and dessert.
The cost is $18, $17 for seniors 60 and older, and $9 for kids 12 and younger.
Proceeds benefit local charities.
All are welcome.