Grange to ‘take over’ Mariner Café
Members of the Sequim Prairie Grange invite the community to a “Grange Take Over” at the Mariner Café, 609 W. Washington St., from 5-8 p.m. Monday, July 20. Special live music is provided by Buck Ellard. Grange members will be the busing tables and serving coffee, tea or water.
The Sequim Prairie Grange will receive a portion of the cost that will go towards their utilities during the summer.
Guild sets fundraising garage, plant sale
The Sequim Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital is sponsoring its 13th-annual Garage & Plant Sale, set for 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 24-25, at 81 Timothy Lane, Sequim.
Shoppers can find plants and outdoor furniture, books, CDs, clothes, small appliances, lamps, home décor, kitchen items, tools, file cabinets and more — including rare WWII trunks and a player piano with 50-plus scrolls.
Attendees are asked to wear your mask or pick up a free one at the sale.
All proceeds go for research and uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s hospital.
PFOA selling masks, potholders for fundraiser
Peninsula Friends Of Animals is celebrating lavender and helping raise funds for the rescues with lavender-patterned face masks, as well as potholders in lavender patterns sewn by their PFOA’s potholder team as well as selling their potholders in lavender patterns.
For information on how to purchase the items, go to www.safehavenpfoa.org or call 360-452-0414, x3.
SOS sets car rally fundraiser
Save Our Sequim hosts a fundraising timed car rally at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 18, starting at the picnic area at Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.
Participants will be given a sheet of paper with clues to 25 different streets with visits to extra points of interest for extra points. Event players do not need to leave their cars to play. Prizes are awarded. Cost is a $20-$50 donation.
State fair cancelled
Held annually for the past 120 years save for the World War II years, the Washington State Fair has been cancelled for 2020, fair representatives said last week.
The Washington State Fair is one of the biggest fairs in the world and the largest in the Pacific Northwest. It started in 1900 in Puyallup, and welcomes more than a million guests to the single largest attended event in the state.
“though it was a hard decision, it was really the only decision possible based on what we currently know.
For more information, visit www.thefair.com.
