A community cleanup, a plowdown and a lecture on mushrooms are among the attractions on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
FORKS
Forks cleanup
FORKS — Community members, civic organizations and club members will meet for the second annual Spruce Up Forks cleanup at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Volunteers will gather at First Federal, 131 Calawah Way, for vests, assignments and doughnuts.
They will work until noon washing windows, picking up litter, weeding, making repairs and planting flowers.
Everyone is welcome to participate.
“Last year, we had 60 or more people under sunny skies,” said Lissy Andros, executive director of the Forks Chamber of Commerce.
“Even if it rains this year, everyone wants to be prepared for Rainfest and the beginning of the tourist season.”
Rainfest is next weekend.
First Federal will provide a dumpster, and a variety of other organizations will provide materials for the cleanup.
For more information, phone the chamber at 360-374-2531.
SEKIU
Books signed
SEKIU — Lonnie Archibald will sign copies of his new book, Here on the Home Front: WWII in Clallam County, at the Sekiu Community Center today.
Archibald, a freelance photographer living in Beaver, will talk briefly at 12:15 p.m. after lunch is served.
Book signing will follow.
PORT ANGELES
Art Blast tonight
PORT ANGELES — Art Blast will present artwork and music at the Port Angeles Library tonight.
Admission is free to the Art Blast opening reception at 6:30 p.m. and the concert by Pine Hearts at 7 p.m. at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St.
Artists will attend the reception for the Marine Debris Art Show, a display to stay up through July 7.
The display ties in with Earth Day activities on the Olympic Peninsula, which include the Washington Coast Cleanup on April 25.
The cleanup’s sponsor, Washington CoastSavers (www.coastsavers.org), has mounted a traveling exhibit titled “Bottles, Foam and Rope: Talking Trash on the Washington Coast,” at the library through April 23.
For more information, see www.NOLS.org or phone the library at 360-417-8500.
Ticket deadline
PORT ANGELES — The deadline for buying tickets to an upcoming fundraiser for Peninsula Friends of Animals is today.
Catnip and Sip will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at the Elks Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St.
Tickets are $35 and must be purchased by today to facilitate food ordering.
Tickets are available at the Elks Lodge; Heather Creek, 122 W. Washington St. in Sequim; or by mail or in person at PFOA, 257509 U.S. Highway 101, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
There will be T-shirts for sale featuring the nonprofit’s mascot, Tippy, during the event.
For more information, phone 360-452-0414, email pfoa@olypen.com or visit www.safehavenpfoa.org.
Cars and Coffee
PORT ANGELES — Anyone interested in sharing car stories or showing off muscle cars, custom cars or rat rods is welcome to a coffee meeting Saturday.
The meeting will be from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Priscilla’s Cruise In Cafe, 2343 E. U.S. Highway 101, next to Ancient Auto.
One-day Zen retreat
PORT ANGELES — North Olympic Sangha, a Zen community, will hold a by-donation Zazenkai (a one-day Zen retreat) from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Alternated zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (walking meditation) and private, individual instruction with the Zen master are available.
Silent coffee/tea breaks and a simple soup and bread lunch will be offered.
At 10 a.m., there will be a chanting service.
At 1 p.m., a Zen master will present a talk on the Book of Serenity No. 96, “Jiufeng Does Not Acknowledge.”
For directions and more information, phone 360-452-5534 or email NOSangha@aol.com.
Water safety
PORT ANGELES — Free instruction on water safety is planned at the William Shore Memorial Pool from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
April Pools Day will be at the public pool at 225 E. Fifth St.
Demonstrations on how to be safe in and near the water are planned by Coast Guard rescue swimmers, Olympic Peninsula Paddlers kayaks and Border Patrol.
Canoe and sale boat rides will be offered.
Free raffles for a swim session and a life jacket also are planned.
For information, see www.williamshorepool.org.
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.
JOYCE
Lions Club breakfast
JOYCE — The Crescent Bay Lions Club offers breakfasts from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. every Sunday except holidays until Mother’s Day on May 10.
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, hashbrowns 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.
SEQUIM
White Cane donations
SEQUIM — The Sequim Valley Lions Club is taking donations for the blind today and Saturday.
The annual fundraiser is for White Cane Week, established by the National Federation of the Blind as the third week in May.
Donations will be accepted both days at QFC, 990 E. Washington St. in Sequim, and at 7 Cedars Casino and Longhouse Market & Deli, both on U.S. Highway 101 in Blyn.
For more information, contact David Blakeslee at liondavid60@gmail.com or 360-674-8403.
Benefit concert
SEQUIM — A benefit for a 7-year-old cancer survivor will offer an evening of music at the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
Zap Cancer will feature the music of The Strait Shots band at the club at 400 W. Fir St.
Admission is $10 per person or $20 per family.
The evening will benefit Drew Zeppa and his family to help with medical expenses.
Drew recently returned to Sequim from Seattle’s Children Hospital, where he was successfully treated for a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Raffles, a dollar dance-off and food and beverages will be available.
The benefit is organized by the Boys & Girls Clubs, the Trey Green Guild and members of the Greywolf Parent-Teachers Association.
Plow Day
SEQUIM — Area residents will prepare The Pumpkin Patch fields for another season using their tractors, horses and plows beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday.
The Sequim High School FFA will offer hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and beverages to raise money for their organization during the volunteer work at The Pumpkin Patch at U.S. Highway 101 and Kitchen-Dick Road.
Plowing will continue until it is finished.
A swap meet and hay rides are planned.
All participants are welcome.
‘The Giver’ discussion
SEQUIM — The Giver by Lois Lowry will be discussed at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Copies of The Giver are available at the library in various formats, including regular print and audiobook on CD. They can be requested online at www.nols.org.
Pre-registration for this program is not required; drop-ins are welcome.
This program is supported by the Friends of the Sequim Library.
Photo restoration
SEQUIM — Daniel Jolly of Clear Images will speak about photo restorations and preservation of photos, paintings and documents from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Jolly will speak at the Clallam County Genealogical Society general meeting at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave.
Members and guests are invited to come early for coffee and snacks before the event. The public is welcome.
For more information, phone 360-417-5000.
Kids Market
SEQUIM — The Five Acre School Parent Service Organization will hold the fourth annual Kids Market at the school, 515 Lotzgesell Road, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday.
Parents, friends and community members can rent tables for $10 each and sell their items. Setup will begin at 8 a.m.
Children’s toys, clothing, gear and books will be for sale.
For more information or to sign up for a table, phone the school at 360-681-7255.
Deaf Coffee House
SEQUIM — The Deaf Coffee House will meet from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The meeting will be at First Baptist Church, 1323 Sequim-Dungeness Way.
Coffee will be provided. Participants are asked to bring any other drinks wanted and/or snack food.
Chicken seminar
SEQUIM — The Co-op Farm and Garden will offer a free seminar, “Chicks 101,” at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The seminar will be at the co-op at 216 E. Washington St.
Rick Boyer from Purina Feed and Angelle Hickman from Veterinary Services Inc. will talk about raising backyard chickens.
Chicks will be available for purchase through the first week in May.
For more information, call 360-683-4111.
Library book sale
SEQUIM — The Friends of Sequim Library group will hold their monthly book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will be at the Friends building behind the Sequim Library at 630 N. Sequim Ave.
The special this month is paperback fiction that is overstock normally sold from the Friends shelves inside the library. The books will be offered for 25 cents each in the outside sales area.
Fiction, gardening, history, general nonfiction and art books are available inside. Among the offerings is a large collection of art catalogs from auction houses such as Christie’s, Cowan’s and Sotheby’s.
Music and audio books, DVDs and jigsaw puzzles also will be available.
Proceeds from the sale are used to fund children’s and adult programs.
PORT TOWNSEND
Housing group meet
PORT TOWNSEND — The Affordable Housing Action Group will meet at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. today.
This new citizen action group will discuss strategies for working with the community’s homeless to provide shelter and medical care in the short and long term.
Issues discussed include maintenance and improvement of the emerging tent city and strategy to obtain and maintain at least 60 permanent, affordable housing units in the next few years.
Everybody is welcome.
For more information, contact Fred Weinmann at 360-379-0986 or fweinmann@cablespeed.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 “Charity Fundraising.”
Conversation Cafe is an exercise in active listening and nonconfrontational conversation.
For more information, visit www.conversationcafe.org.
Mushrooms, trees
PORT TOWNSEND — “Mushrooms and Trees: The Buddy System” will be presented at this year’s Friends of Fort Townsend annual meeting from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The meeting will be in the Friends Barn at Fort Townsend State Park, 1370 Old Fort Townsend Road.
Presenters Anita Thielman and Art Price have been identifying and counting mushrooms in the park for many years.
Their presentation will focus on the relationship between mushrooms and the forest where they live.
Cheryl Lowe, Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee, will talk about the upcoming nearshore beach restoration project at the park.
Following the meeting, Ann and Fred Weinmann will lead a trail walk in the park.
The meeting and the trail walk are open to anyone interested in Fort Townsend State Park.
For more information, phone 360-385-2998.
Bird walk field trip
PORT TOWNSEND — An Admiralty Audubon Society field trip bird walk on the Larry Scott Trail will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Hikers will meet at the Milo Curry Trailhead parking lot, which is a fourth of a mile west of Four Corners Road off Discovery Road, for the 3-mile round-trip walk.
Spring migratory birds are expected to be passing through the forest to nesting areas.
Walkers will visit a pond along Discovery Bay Road to view wintering water birds.
For more information, contact trip leader Paula Vanderheul at 360-379-8564 or pvanderheul@gmail.com.
‘American Meat’ film
PORT TOWNSEND — A free screening of the documentary “American Meat” will be held at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is free, though donations will be accepted to help maintain the grange hall.
“American Meat” is a documentary on meat production throughout the country.
After the documentary, viewers can talk with local meat producers who will share their experiences producing healthy meat for our community.
They also will share their ideas about expanding the range of locally grown and processed meat products available in the area.
Among the local producers will be John Bellow and interns from Spring Rain Farm, Roger Short from Short’s Family Farm and Janet Aubin from Finnriver Farm.
For more information, phone Marla Streator at 360-385-6924 or visit www.quimpergrange.com.
YMCA benefit
PORT TOWNSEND — A benefit for the Jefferson County YMCA is set at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Hats Off to the Y will be at the USO Building in Fort Worden.
Tickets are $50.
Dinner music and a live auction are planned.
Attendees also can explore an “educational gallery” to learn more about what the YMCA has to offer.
Tickets can be purchased at www.jeffymca.org/hatsoff or by calling 360-385-5811.
Donations of dishes
PORT TOWNSEND — Donations of dinnerware will accepted for Port Townsend High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Donations can be taken to the Cotton Building, 607 Water St.
The donation drive is to help the school reduce waste from the cafeteria.
Donations of plates and silverware will help the cafeteria switch from disposable trays to reusable plates and utensils.
Dishes must be made of sturdy ceramic and can be of any color or style. The school is seeking plates of 7 to 8 inches or 10 to 12 inches and 5- to 6-inch bowls.
Silverware must be stainless steel. The school seeks dinner forks, knives, spoons, salad forks and soup spoons. No steak knives will be accepted.
Quaker to Buddhism
PORT TOWNSEND — A woman who has returned to the Society of Friends, known as Quakers, after exploring Tibetan Buddhism will discuss her journey from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Joanne Kumekawa will celebrate her birthday and speak at the Port Townsend Friends’ meeting house, 1841 Sheridan St.
She also will celebrate her birthday. Cake will served.
The meeting is free, though donations to cover rent and materials are welcome.
Kumekawa returned to the Quakers after seven years of intensive Buddhist study.
According to a news release: “The Dalai Lama says it’s not necessary to give up one’s religion to practice Buddhism, so Kumekawa will talk about how Buddhist principles have helped her decrease anger, jealousy, greed, pride and ignorance and increase her equanimity and happiness.”
Her talk also will discuss principles of the Society of Friends.
Aging not for sissies
PORT TOWNSEND — “Aging Isn’t for Sissies: Daring to Live an Audacious Life” will be presented from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The presentation at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center at 3918 San Juan Ave. is expected to be the first of several by Rhonda Hull, the founder of the Center for Happiness, in a series called Gray Matters.
“Together, we will defy old thinking, dissolve fears, redefine aging, shine light on new possibilities and link arms, committing to live a life full of meaning, laughter, connection and love regardless of our circumstances,” she said in a news release.
“It’s time for us to redefine and redesign the journey of aging,” she added.
For more information, call 360-385-6519 or visit www.unitypt.org.
Free Sunday swim
PORT TOWNSEND — Mountain View Pool, 1925 Blaine St., will offer a free Second Sunday Swim from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. this Sunday.
All are welcome.
On the second Sunday of each month, there’s an adults-only time between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. for laps, water walking and exercise.
From 2:15 p.m. to 5 p.m., the pool is open to all ages and for a Family Recreation Swim.
Children younger than 8 must be accompanied in the water by an adult.
For more information, email info@jeffcoaquaticcoalition.org or phone 360-385-7665.
COYLE
Concert in Coyle
COYLE — Claude Bourbon — a French-born guitar player, singer and songwriter who now lives in Southsea, England — will perform at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center at 7:30 tonight.
Admission will be by donation to the concert, one of a series of Concerts in the Woods at the center at 923 Hazel Point Road near Quilcene.
Coffee and cookies will be served at intermission.
Bourbon mixes Spanish, Middle Eastern and Russian stylings with the blues.
For more information, see www.CoyleConcerts.com or contact manager Norm Johnson at 360-765-3449 and johnson5485@msn.com.
BRINNON
Hempapalooza set
BRINNON — Hempapalooza will be held at the Brinnon Herbal Collective, 91 Corey Lane, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Hempapalooza is a medical marijuana farmers market focusing on education, awareness and responsibility.
The public is welcome, and there are no admission fees; donations are accepted but not required.
Attendees must have valid medical authorization and ID for all medical cannabis transactions.
Children younger than 18 are not permitted without a parent or legal guardian.
Local vendors with non-marijuana products are welcome and encouraged.
For more information, visit www.potstop.net, phone Nicole Black at 360-301-0844 or email coleyblack@gmail.com.
PORT HADLOCK
Library book sale
PORT HADLOCK — Friends of the Jefferson County Library will sponsor a book sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will be at the library, 620 Cedar Ave.
PORT LUDLOW
Yacht club training
PORT LUDLOW — The annual training day for the Port Ludlow Yacht Club is Saturday.
Check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m., and the first program will start at 9 a.m. at the Beach Club, 121 Marina View Drive.
The cost is $10 for yacht club members and $15 for the general public. The registration fee includes lunch.
Registrations must be made in advance.
This year’s theme is “Competence + Enhanced Technology = Safety + Peace of Mind.”
The program covers emergency medicine, a man-overboard drill, boating APS, handling bad weather, tablets and electronics, and “The Boater’s Mind-set.”
To register, email Anne Burrell-Smith at rearcom1@plyc.us.