Here  comes the weekend, and, if you are like most of us, you choose carefully how you’ll spend those
72 hours. Here are some suggestions:

Friday, April 22

Novelist/playwright Nancy Rawles won the American Book Award for her novel “Love Like Gumbo.” Hear her today at P.A.’s Peninsula College, where she’s writer-in-residence for 2011. See Page C-6.

 

Keep up the literary momentum with poets Nan Toby Tyrrell and Warren Steurer in Port Townsend tonight. See page C-6.

 

Like your classics done slapstick? Stay in P.T. for “The Soup Is Served,” a hilarious new take on an 18th-century tour-de-farce. See Page C-6.

 

Saturday, April 23

Don’t miss the 33rd annual KONP Easter Egg hunt at the Pumpkin Patch west of Sequim. Can’t get up for an 8 a.m. egg-fest? Come a bit later for the Family Fun Fair’s food, booths, crafts, pony rides and the Easter Bunny.

 

This evening, cross over to the east side of Sequim to the “Hope for Japan” benefit concert/dance party at Carrie Blake Park. See Page C-7.

 

Further east, it’s the Jeffco Expo and Car Show at Port Townsend today and Sunday, with food, fun, children’s rides, horse shows, mud-drags, tough truck competitions — and plenty of gorgeous cars competing for prizes, including the coveted Drool Award. See Page C-7.

 

Chimacum is chock-full of musicians today: the Washington Old Time Fiddlers jam in the afternoon and the Port Townsend Community Orchestra gives its spring concert this evening. See page C-6.




Sunday, April 24
Local churches have Easter Sunday celebrations planned from sunrise right through the day. See A+.

 

The benefit for Japan continues today with a silent auction at Sequim’s Carrie Blake Park. See Page C-1.

Joan Worley