‘Sequim Prairie Nights’ wheels into town on Saturday

Gear-heads and vintage car aficionados alike are sure to enjoy Sequim Prairie Nights, a fund-raiser for Sequim Museum &Arts set for Saturday, Aug. 19, in downtown Sequim between Sequim and Third avenues. The event, scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m, includes a car show, prizes, a 30-mile cruise and more.

Larry Perry and Judy Reandeau Stipe, executive director of Sequim Museum &Arts, have partnered to make the event a fundraiser for the museum.

Sequim Prairie Nights also remembers the lives of Louie Rychlik and Nick Schumacher, two longtime Olympic Peninsula businessmen and car lovers whose old vehicles were selected for the graphics of the car show.

A presentation of tools will be made to the Sequim High School auto shop at the bandstand on Washington Street and Second Avenue at noon.

Tickets are being sold to support the cause and the winner with the lucky ticket will win a Sequim Police metal “kiddie car.”

Other tools, gift certificates and prizes will be up for grabs during the day’s drawings.

Bobby Rose of the 1950s singing group “The Pretenders” will be live on KSQM from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. when announcements will be made throughout the day about the winners of the drawings and other activities.

The star of the show, Reandeau Stipe said, is a drawing for the Gull gas station sign that stood on Washington Street for years.

A 30-mile cruise will follow the end of the car show and maps will be available both before and during the show so onlookers can see the parade of vehicles at their best, on the road.

“Music, entertainment, drawings and lots of beautiful cars to see in one central location is our goal,” Perry said.

He plans to attract an array of vehicles both from within the Olympic Peninsula and beyond to stir the “old car” feelings in everyone.

Tickets are available at Sequim Museum &Arts, 175 Cedar St., open from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Bruce Lindquist and Rich Odem have been organizing this event for months to coordinate this effort. Others helping out with the event include Randy Perry, Michael Wright, Skip Kratzer and Steve Simons, along with Linda and Joe Hindes, Josh Flynn and Jeff Bankston of KSQM. All are tapping all their resources of time, materials and expertise to see that the show is a big success, Reandeau Stipe said.

For more information, see www.sequimprairienights.org or email info@sequimprairienights.org.

‘Sequim Prairie Nights’ wheels into town on Saturday