This Week
Natural Landscaping Course – starts Tue, Oct 13th
This interactive three-class, two-field trip course emphasizes native plants and sustainable landscape design and maintenance practices. Conservation planner Gillian Kenagy teaches participants how to analyze the unique ecological conditions of their properties and develop site-specific landscape plans designed to meet homeowner needs while being in harmony with the environment. Review the course syllabus and register here.
Classroom Sessions: October 13, 20, and 27 (Tuesdays). Field Trips: October 15 and 22 (Thursdays)
Time: 4 – 5:30pm | Location: the Port of Port Townsend Pavilion building at Point Hudson
Film showing: Ocean with David Attenborough – Thu, Oct 15th
“Ocean with David Attenborough” is a 2025 National Geographic documentary in which Sir David Attenborough explores Earth’s oceans, their threats, and the hope for large‑scale marine recovery. The documentary highlights the beauty and ecological importance of coral reefs, kelp forests, and the open ocean while addressing industrial fishing, ocean warming, and mass coral bleaching. Attenborough emphasizes that restoring ocean health is essential for planetary stability. Register here.
Time: 6pm | Location: WWII Theater at Fort Flagler State Park
Port Townsend Community Dance – Sat, Oct 17th *New*
Caller Carol Piening began contra dancing in 1979 in Michigan, and started calling around 1996 in Olympia. She’s since called dances across the PNW. Rocking out the tunes will be local band Kokanee with Dave Thielk/fiddle, Jeanie Murphy/banjo, Chris Cooper/guitar and Lori Bernstein/bass.
The Port Townsend Community Dance is inspired by traditional kitchen and barn dances and features a mixture of traditional sets, always danced to live music along with a dance caller. All experience levels are welcome; all dances are taught! Please bring your own personal water bottle and consider arriving on foot or by bicycle if possible! Admission is $10-20.
Time: 7:30 – 10pm | Location: The Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona Street, Port Townsend
Braver Angels discussion: What Does It Mean To Be A Citizen? – Sat, Oct 17th *New*
Braver Angels of North Olympic Peninsula invites you to join in respectful dialogue across differences. There is no cost for this event. You do not need to register or be a Braver Angels member to attend. Braver Angels welcomes anyone who is curious, thoughtful, and interested in meaningful conversation across differences.
For more information, send email. Register here.
Time: 2 – 4pm | Location: Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Avenue, Port Hadlock-Irondale
Kul Kah Han Native Plant Demonstration Garden Annual Plant Sale – Sat, Oct 17th
The Kul Kah Han Native Plant Demonstration Garden is having their annual plant sale!
They will be selling local native trees, shrubs and flowering perennials.
For additional information please look at the website or send an email.
Time: 11am – 2pm | Location: HJ Carroll Park in Chimacum, WA
Critters of the Salish Sea: Underwater Photography – Sat, Oct 17th
Larry McGaughey is a retired Environmental Engineer. Larry also served 9 years as an interpretation volunteer at the Seattle Aquarium and as a docent for about 2 years at the Port Townsend Maritime Center aquarium. Larry got his scuba diving certification in 2008, doing open water dives in Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. Diving and underwater photography have taken him to Mexico, Honduras, Grenada, Iceland, St. Eustaitius, Turks & Caicos, British Columbia, the Philippines, the Maldives, Palau, and Indonesia. Register here.
Time: 4pm | Location: WWII Theater, Fort Flagler State Park
Orca Recovery Day – Sat, Oct 17th
Come join JCCD, NOSC, and JLT in celebrating Orca Recovery Day by planting native trees and shrubs! The Jefferson County Conservation District and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition are teaming up for a planting event at Snow Creek Estuary Preserve! This is important habitat for Endangered Hood Canal summer chum salmon. Recent studies have shown that when Chinook salmon, the preferred prey of Southern Resident Orcas, is in short supply, they’ll supplement their diet with other species, including chum salmon. Register here.
Time: 10am-1pm | Location: Snow Creek Estuary Preserve, 31 Fairmount Rd, Port Townsend
Brinnon Repair Event – Sat, Oct 17th
Join JeffCo Repair for this free community gathering in which people with repair skills share their time and talents to fix their neighbors’ belongings. Bring your toaster that no longer toasts, sweater with a hole in the elbow, and excitement to get these belongings repaired while also learning how they did it and ways you could do it yourself next time! Limit of 2 items per person. If you know the specific part needed to repair your item, please bring it along.
Learn more about this and other upcoming Repair Events at the JeffCo Repair website.
Time: 11am – 2pm | Location: Brinnon Community Center, 306144 US-101, Brinnon
Men’s Grief & Praise Ritual – Oct 16th-18th
A lot of men are accustomed to grieving alone, or not at all. This is not meant to exclude but an attempt for men to be seen, heard and witnessed among other men. It is an opportunity to unburden oneself and in some ways to relieve one’s families and partners of this emotional work. Learning to tend to one’s grief strengthens the capacity to be with anger, shame and deepest longings but also gratitude, joy, aliveness and blessing energy.
Facilitated by Nico Kladis and Laurence Cole. Find more information and register here.
Location: Outside Port Townsend. Nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕ (S’Klallam) and Aqokúlo (Chemakum)
Calling Local Photographers!
Local 20/20 Weekly Announcements invites local photographers to submit images that capture the character of our community and its natural setting. For the opening photo of each weekly email (which is also posted to our website), we seek local color, horizontal (“landscape”) orientation, and jpeg format. Please no children, pets, or recognizable faces. Kindly email your photos, including your name in the jpeg filename. If you’re sending multiple images, please send one per email. We are an all-volunteer non-profit, so compensation for your talent and generosity is a photo credit and our profound thanks.
Photo: Long-billed Dowitcher by Beverly McNeil
For the full set of announcements, including Upcoming Events, Recurring Events, Community Notices, Community Resources, and Resilience Readings, see here.
