Apple Stock to raise funds for local family on Oct. 1

The local faith community is bringing back Apple Stock, with the goal to raise funds for a family in need and an area food bank.

The local faith community is bringing back Apple Stock, with the goal to raise funds for a family in need and an area food bank.

Apple Stock 2016 is a two-day event is set for Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Williams Manor, 4043 Sequim Dungeness Way.

All events are free with a canned food donation for the IBC Food Cupboard.

Festivities kick off at 6 p.m. Sept. 30 with “Concert Under the Stars and Round the Fire,” with Abby Mae & Dylan Witherow and the David Issac Rivers Band. Gates open at 5 p.m. Concessions and s’mores roasting are by donation. Attendees are urged to bring blankets and jackets.

From noon-8 p.m. on Oct. 1, live worship music from seven local church bands entertain during a picnic and apple cider pressing. Gates open at 11:30 a.m.

Bands scheduled to play include musicians from King’s Way Four Square Church, Eastern Hills Community Church, Sequim Bible Church and Independent Bible Church, plus Grafted In and, to close the day’s festivities, Jonathan Simonson and the Band of Dry Bones.

An upper room church service begins at 5:30 p.m.

Funds raised will benefit Shayla Nash and her five daughters after the loss of her husband last spring.

“She (Nash) is just the sweetest person,” event organizer Mark Schwartz of Williams Manor said. “It was easy to pick a beneficiary this year.”

The event also raises funds and food for the IBC food cupboard in Port Angeles, which has a ministry to the homeless in the downtown area.

“There’s a tremendous need down there,” Schwartz said.

Chili dogs, baked potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, dessert potluck and jugs of fresh-pressed cider will be sold by donation.

For more information or to volunteer, contact Schwartz via email at schwartzme@live.com or call 360-504-2512.

The 2015 Apple Stock event saw about 750 attendees, Schwartz said, and raised funds for My Choices and assisting with medical bills for two local cancer survivors.