Ice cream and cars

Kick off summer a little early with ice cream and classic cars at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, which hosts a dessert fundraiser from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 10.

Inside, grange members will be scooping ice cream desserts and outside on the grounds there will be classic cars. Attendees choose between a sundae, banana split or a chocolate chip cookie bar sundae for $7, with part of the proceeds going to the Sequim Dog Park.

Friends group sets sale

The Friends of Sequim Library hosts its 2nd Saturday sale from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, June 10, at its Rock Plaza location, 10131 Old Olympic Highway.

Of interest this month is a large selection of cookbooks, puzzles, automobile books, biographies/memoirs, and the 12-volume “Poldark” series by Winston Graham.

Speakers to explain ‘Land Trust 101’

The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library, in collaboration with the North Olympic History Center, offers “Land Trust 101: Conservation Easements,” a Learning Our Landscape series presentation at 3 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, on Zoom.

Tom Sanford, executive director of the North Olympic Land Trust, and Erik Kingfisher, director of stewardship of the Jefferson Land Trust, will explain how land trusts help landowners protect their lands through conservation easements and voluntary agreements , and how privately-owned properties are used to ensure important and unique natural features are protected.

They will discuss why land trusts offer a unique land protection model, how conservation easements work, and how communities can impact land conservation.

Join through Library website at library.jamestowntribe.org/home/ProgramsEvents.

For more information, call 360-681-4632 or email to library@jamestowntribe.org.

Learn what to do in event of earthquake, tsunami

The community and all Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members are invited to “Earthquakes and Tsunamis for Mariners,” a special CERT presentation set for 6:15 p.m. Thursday, June 15, at Dungeness Community Church, 45 Eberle Lane.

The event is presented by Mac Macdonald, corporate trainer and emergency preparedness strategist, and Peninsula College geology professor Dr. Dann May.

The pair will detail what would happen in a 9.0 earthquake caused by the uncorking of the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ). Predicted for sometime in the next 100 years, its shaking and accompanying tsunami effects will be felt along the entire coastline of Northern California all the way up to the north tip of Vancouver Island, Canada, and hundreds of miles inland due to power outages and refugee impacts.

They’ll provide tips for the mariner and/or boating enthusiast (kayak, paddleboard, surfboard, canoe, etc.) for what do when the earthquake/tsunami hits in various situations.

Genealogy group sets presentation

Virginia Majewski will present “Diaspora: A Romantic Name for an Ugly Truth” as a part of the Speaker’s Series hosted by the Clallam County Genealogical Society, set for 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 10.

View the free presentation at the society’s research center at 403 E. Eighth St., Port Angeles, or via Zoom.

Majewski, a professional genealogist and lecturer for the past 27 years, will explain the difference between a diaspora and migration. She will explain the type of events leading up to a diaspora, what records can be found, and the importance of telling the story.

To get the Zoom meeting number and passcode, or for more information about the society and programs, call 360-417-5000 or email to clallamresearcher@gmail.com. Participants are encouraged to sign in 15 minutes before the meeting and program begins.

Death Café set for June 12, June 28

Death Café “Tea to Die For,” sponsored by Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, is set for 4-5:30 p.m. Monday, June 12, in the KSQM-FM Community Room, 609 W. Washington St.

A similar event is set for 4-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 28, in the craft room upstairs at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St.

Tea, coffee and snacks will be served. The groups are free and open to all.

Conversations are held every second Monday in Sequim and every fourth Wednesday in Port Angeles. They are meant to foster relaxed and informal discussions surrounding death and dying and open to anyone curious or apprehensive about death.

For more information, call 360-452-1511.

Tickets on sale for Petals & Pathways

Get tickets for the 28th Petals & Pathways Home Garden Tour, as self-guided tour set for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 24.

Sponsored by the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County, this year’s event will feature six Sequim home gardens. Each of them will have seven to 10 Master Gardener volunteers to help with questions on plant identification.

A map will be printed on the tickets, which are $15 in advance at local vendors and $20 on the day of the tour.

Get tickets through June 24 at: The Co-op Farm and Garden, 216 E. Washington St.; Over the Fence, 118 E. Washington St., or Sunny Farms Country Store, 261461 U.S. Highway 101.

Or, buy tickets online through June 18 at clallammgf.org.

Proceeds from the tour help to maintain the Woodcock Demonstration Garden in Sequim and numerous Master Gardener community services, such as the Youth Enrichment Program (YEP) and educational outreach programs such as the Green Thumb and Digging Deeper presentations held at the Port Angeles Courthouse and Woodcock Demonstration Gardens.

Flag Day ceremony set in Port Angeles

Members of the Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Clallam County Veterans Association host a U.S. Flag Retirement Ceremony on National Flag Day, from 4-4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14, on the lawn area outside the Northwest Veterans Resource Center, 216 S. Francis St., Port Angeles.

The ceremony is open to the public with refreshments to follow the ceremony.

The Flag Day Ceremony will retire and respectfully burn only 100-percent cotton U.S. Flags that were turned into the veterans center throughout the year. The ceremony will be completed by the Port Angeles Jr. American Citizens children and Jr. American Eagles. General George Washington, (aka Sequim’s Vern Frykholm) will be welcomed to the ceremony with the children playing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” on tin whistles. The Port Angeles Legion Riders Post 29 will provide a flag line while the flags are retired.

In recognition of Women Veterans Appreciation Day (June 12), some local female veterans will be among those adults paired to walk with the children toward the burning barrel to teach proper retiring of the U.S. flags.