Your Community Variety Show, a monthly program of live local entertainment that launched last September, is on hiatus.

“We’ve been talking about taking a break,” organizer/host Michael Bunnell said.

“This seemed like the best time to close down for a while,” Bunnell said, noting an abundance of other summertime entertainment on the greater North Olympic Peninsula community as one reason for suspending the variety show.

Bunnell added that several pieces of equipment need to be repaired or replaced which can’t be done in the few weeks between monthly shows.

He also noted that everyone on the volunteer production crew has other things that need some extended attention: a band tour, a career change, a family relocation, and personal or family health issues.

The July 17 program, which ended the show’s 11-month run, featured Soul Posse’s country-flavored hits while writer/actor Patrick Casteneda, who recently moved to Sequim, read and acted out an original Sherlock Holmes adventure. Mike and Diane Johnson performed songs they did before they teamed up with Rodger Bigelow and Dave Keyte to become Buttercup Lane. Mike and Erma Kuenzli tapped their Hawaiian heritage to present songs of the islands, and two different aspects of 1960s folk music were offered in solo sets by Bunnell and Bob Wickwire. The closing performance was by another recent arrival in the community, as Joe Schipani offered renditions of hits from the 1940s and 1950s on the electronic accordion.