| This Week Meaningful Movies Presents “Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, and Poison” – Mon, Aug 14th Join Meaningful Movies for their online screening of Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, and Poison. For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, and Poison explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect. Trailer and More Info, Facebook Page. Zoom Link for Event Time: 6:30 PM | Location : Zoom All County Picnic – Sun, Aug 20th *New* The ALL COUNTY PICNIC welcomes residents of East Jefferson County to learn about resilience and emergency preparedness! Preparedness planning doesn’t have to be cumbersome or intimidating, and what better way to put these philosophies into practice than with a fun, family-friendly, celebration? This event will include hands-on activities such as hands-only CPR, how to stop a bleed, how to move someone who is incapacitated/build a stretcher, and a bicycle flat repair clinic! We will also have presentations by NPREP and DEM on the *new* HUBS program and POP-UP emergency response systems. There will also be 30+ booths with local organizations and businesses, as well as a Family Resources zone with a free diaper drive and bounce house organized by the YMCA. And of course – FREE corn on the cob at Noon! Check out the website for more details and event schedule. And stop by the Local 20/20 booths while you’re there. Time: 11 AM – 4 PM | Location: H.J. Carroll Park |
| Upcoming Events Creatures of the Sea & Shore: Youth Summer Art Camp with NorthWind Art and PTMSC – Aug 21st – 25th Get immersed in the magic of sea and shore in this nature art camp! In the mornings, students experience the outdoors, museum and aquarium exhibits guided by Port Townsend Marine Science Center educators. And in the afternoon, artist Mikal Robinson leads crafts, stories and games to play as we learn more about the ocean and all it’s delightful creatures. Crafts may include sewn starfishes, woven turtles, needle felted orca whales, and crochet jellyfish Ages 7-9. Contact information: NorthWind Arts phone: (360) 379-1086; Web links. Time:10 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Location: Building 306, Fort Worden, Port Townsend River Otter Beach Walk/Talk – Wed, Sept. 6th *New* Join Friends of Fort Flagler to learn about these cute and curious creatures that live throughout the Puget Sound. FOFF will be taking a beach walk on East Beach past the Wansboro Battery and discussing the river otter’s life cycle, behavior and where you might find them. If we’re lucky, we may even see one! Bring comfortable shoes, warm clothes and a rain jacket. Presenter Jennifer Riker has a deep passion and love for the Pacific NW and all the beauty and wildlife that can be found here. Register here. Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am | Location: East Beach past Wansboro Battery at Fort Flagler State Park International Beach Clean Up, Beach Grass Removal – Sat, Sept 16th *New* Friends of Fort Flagler is organizing an invasive beach grass removal. Join them to help restore our beach to a natural state. Protecting our beaches includes removing invasive species that are choking out our natural grasses. The Park will be giving free day parking passes to any volunteer who does not have a state park pass. Please bring garden or work gloves and come ready to pull grass. If you have garden hand forks and shovel, please bring as well. Naturalist Lead: Lynn Schwarz. Registration here. Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm | Location: Fort Flagler State Park Lower Campground, upper part of spit next to playground. International Coastal Cleanup, Beach Cleanup – Sat, Sept 16th *New* In partnership with WA CoastSavers, Port Townsend Marine Science Center is sponsoring 2 beach cleanups, in Port Townsend and in the Port Hadlock area. Volunteers collect and sort debris as well as contribute data on their findings to the Ocean Conservancy’s international database. Join them at either of two cleanup check-in locations: Fort Worden State Park or Chimacum Corner Farmstand. From these locations, they will send folks out to local beaches to collect debris! Find more details on this webpage. As a way of saying thanks, the first 100 participants will receive a free pass to the PTMSC Aquarium and Museum, a $5 Gift Card for the PT Food Coop, and $1 off coupon for any item at the Keg and I. Contact: Mandi Johnson Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Locations: See above. For the full set of announcements, including Recurring Events, Community Notices, Community Resources, and Resilience Readings, see here. |
