Guild sets fundraiser at Pumpkin Patch

The Sequim Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital will be selling homemade pies, jams and jellies at the Pumpkin Patch Flea Market — at the corner of U.S. Highway 101 and Kitchen-Dick Road — from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., or until items are sold out, on Saturday, Aug. 15.

Goodies are hand-crafted in the kitchens of the Sequim Guild Sisters. Nine-inch pies are $12, 5-inch pies are $6 and the jams and jellies are $5 per jar.

All funds received from sales will go to uncompensated care and research at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where Clallam County child visits numbered more than 2,500 last year.

Soroptimist’s Gala Garden Show online

Though the Soroptimist International of Sequim’s 22nd-annual Gala Garden Show was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization invites the community to its virtual Garden Show. Beginning Aug. 22, the show will feature Muriel Nesbitt with a Zoom presentation about saving seeds. Go to www.sequimgardenshow.com click on the Facebook link. Instructions will be available on how to register to attend the Zoom presentation.

Community members are encouraged to return on Sept. 13 and participate over the following two weeks in variety of educational forums, Master Gardener expert panel, informational interviews and an online raffle.

Vendor spots available for flea market

The Sequim Prairie Grange’s Fall Flea Market is set for 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at 290 Macleay Road. The flea market will be held outdoors; because of COVID-19, masks and social distancing will be required.

Vendors who would like to participate are asked to call Philomena Lund at 360-477-4742. Booth spaces are $20 each, and vendors must bring their own tables.

Speakers to talk food sovereignty, activism at ZOOM event

The focus of this week’s Conversations Toward a Culture of Justice series event is “Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Activism,” and takes place from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, online. To participate in the free event, go to zoom.us/j/99105600039.

Participants include Kendra Aguilar, Samantha Della-DeVoney, Charlotte Penn and Ryan Qualls. Aguilar has learned from and worked with indigenous food revivalists, local tribes and native organizations about community food projects and teaches for Evergreen’s Native Pathways Program. Della-DeVoney grew up on the Makah Reservation and was taught by her mother and other tribal members to gather and prepare traditional foods. Penn is employed by the Quileute Tribe Victims of Crime Program, and is a member of the Quileute Tribal School Board; she will share information about fishing rights. Qualls is an activist who grew up with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and is an enrolled member of the Tlingit Tribe.

The first hour includes a brief presentation from each speaker. The second hour offers extended dialogue and questions from participants.

For more information contact Dr. Helen Lovejoy at hlovejoy@pencol.edu or Dr. Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu.

Grange cancels ice cream social

The Sequim Prairie Grange cancelled its Drive By Ice Cream Social on Aug. 9. Grange member Loretta Bilow said the group hopes to host an ice cream social on Aug. 30.

OPAS sets virtual field trip

The Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society hosts a virtual field trip to Dungeness Landing and Three Crabs from 1-2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 21.

The free meeting will be led by Judi White and hosted on the Zoom video conferencing platform.

Find out why this Audubon Washington Important Bird Area received recognition, with almost 250 bird species recorded. The presentation features maps, directions and photos of birds regularly seen across the seasons and is a great planning tool for future birding, Audubon members said.

View and enjoy Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge waters, Dungeness Landing County Park and Dungeness River estuary, the Three Crabs Nearshore and Estuarine Restoration and more.

For the link to register, go to OlympicPeninsula Audubon.org and click on “events.”

Thrift shop sale in August

The Sequim Hospital Guild Thrift Shop hosts a sale beginning Thursday, Aug. 13, through the end of the month. All white tag women’s summer clothing is 50 percent off.

The shop, at 204 W. Bell St., is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and first and third Saturdays of the month.

Funds raised go to help Clallam County Fire District 3 and local medical needs.

Blood Drive comes to Sequim

Representatives from Bloodworks Northwest host “pop up” donation sessions in Sequim later this month.

Donation sessions are set for Aug. 19-20, Aug. 26 and Aug. 28, at Holiday Inn Sequim, 1441 E. Washington St.

All donations are by appointment only.

Those donating must adhere to all social distancing guidelines. No walk-ins, guests or people under age 16 are permitted on site, and all donors must wear a mask.

For an appointment or more information, visit www.bloodworksnw.org or call 800-398-7888.

PC sets Running Start information presentation

Peninsula College hosts a free virtual Running Start Information Night via Zoom, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20.

Students and parents who wish to attend the session are asked to RSVP to Cindy Lauderback, Manager of High School Programs, at clauderback@pencol.edu or 360-417-6341. Get details about the program at www.pencol.edu/running-start.

The event is designed to provide prospective Running Start students and their parents with an opportunity to learn more about the program and how high school juniors and seniors can earn college credit, tuition-free. They will also learn about strategies for success and what parents and families can do to be supportive.

For more information, contact Lauderback.

Conservation district offers native plant sale

The Clallam Conservation District hosts its 2021 Native Plant Sale online. Place orders of 100 more plants of the same species online at clallamcd.org/native-plants, or order by phone at 360-775-3747, x5.

The deadline for placing orders is Nov. 12, 2020. Plants will be available for pick-up on Feb. 27, 2021; depending on order size, direct shipment may be possible sooner than that date.

Plants will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.