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UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
Cinema Under the Stars – Fridays in August, dusk
A ductless heat pump is a highly efficient
and easily installed primary heating and
cooling system. It’s safe, quiet and heats
rooms evenly at a fraction of the cost of
baseboard or wall heaters. It doesn’t require
duct work, which eliminates maintenance or
worry about duct leakage.
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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ – Aug. 5-27, Weekends
INSIDE:
Paradise Theatre hosts “Fiddler on the Roof”. New location at 3114 Judson St., Gig Harbor. More
info/tickets: www.paradisetheatre.org.
Galloping Gertie Half-Marathon – Aug. 13, 8am
Race For a Soldier Puts
Focus on Military
Transition
Chip-timed half-marathon begins at Galaxy Theatres, 4649 Point Fosdick Drive. Offers spectacular
Narrows Bridge views. Family 5-kilometer fun run/walk also available at 8:15am. More info:
www.overthenarrows.com.
Fox Island Fair to
Feature Crafts, Music
Olalla Bluegrass Festival – Aug. 20
Bluegrass, folk and jam bands featured with food, handmade arts and crafts and children’s
activities. Legendary berry pie contest. SE Olalla Valley Road and SE Hovgaard Road.
Our Town: Finland – Aug. 20, 2pm
The Finnish Choral Society of Seattle puts on kantele playing and a Kalevala trio. Tickets
$5/members, $7.50/non-members. Ticket Purchase: 253.858.6722.
MORE COMFORTABLE HOME – Ultra quiet
fans evenly circulate air throughout
rooms, eliminating hot and cold spots.
FREE event in downtown Gig Harbor. Walk your dog between Skansie Brothers Park and Donkey Creek
Park. Sponsors set up booths, tables and tents with products and services. Proceeds support the
Prison Pet Partnership Program and other local and international charities.
AIR CONDITIONING IS STANDARD – The
heat pumps can provide heat during the
winter months and air conditioning during
the summer months.
Gig Harbor Film Festival and the Friends of the Tacoma Narrows Airport present inaugural movie
event at the airport, 1110 26th Ave. NW, Gig Harbor. See classic airplanes and cars, purchase food
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at 253.857.1525 and receive
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Six galleries, free demonstrations, refreshments and displays. Pick up a passport at the first4%
gallery you visit, drop it off at your last stop. Stamps from each make you eligible for a $50 gift
certificate. Galleries include Ebb Tide Gallery, Gallery Row, Water’s Edge Gallery & Framery, Inc.,
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Blackwater Trading Company, Sea Hags, Morso and Maritime Jewelry.
Our Town: Germany – Sept. 3, 1pm
FREE. Create your own traditional Alpine hat at the Harbor History Museum. More
[email protected] or call 253.858.6722, ext. 6.
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Waterfront Farmers Market – Thursdays through August, 3-7PM
Downtown Waterfront Alliance weekly farmers market. Locally grown fruits, vegetables, fish and
other products. Skansie Brothers Park, 3207 Harborview Drive.
Waterfront Guided Walking Tour – Saturdays, 10am
FREE. Hosted by Gig Harbor Downtown Waterfront Alliance, Harbor WildWatch and Harbor History
Museum. One-way, 1.3-mile route, Maritime Pier to the Bogue Viewing Platform. More info:
www.gigharborwaterfront.org.
Summer Sounds at Skansie Series – Tuesdays Through aug.16, 6:30pm
FREE concert series. Skansie Brothers Park, 3207 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor. Kelly’s and Tides
Tavern on site for food. Sponsored by CHI Franciscan and Harbor Hill. Aug. 2 – The David Correa
Group; Aug. 9 – The Olson Bros Brand; Aug. 16 – Sounds Like Dolores.
Uptown Summer Concert Series – Thursdays, 6pm
Variety of musical acts play at the Uptown Gig Harbor Shopping Center pavilion. FREE.
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organization that develops and maintains a regional power plan, and
a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest’s environment
and energy needs. Based in Portland, Oregon, the Council was created
in 1980 when Congress passed the Pacific Northwest Electric Power
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First Saturday Art Walk – Sept. 3, 10am
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SAVE ENERGY AND MONEY – Ductless
systems use 25-50 percent less energy to
heat a home.
LOW-COST, EASY INSTALLATION
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inexpensive when compared with other
HVAC systems, meaning there is little to
no disruption at home.
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Richard Twice at the Museum – Aug. 18, 6pm
Legendary singer-songwriter Richard Twice performs with acoustic guitar at the Harbor History
Museum. Tickets $18/members, $25/non-members. More info: [email protected].
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If you’re looking for energy efficiency,
a ductless heat pump can save you up to
50 percent on your electric heating and
air conditions costs, and we will help you
pay for it. PenLight members can receive
a rebate up to $1,000 for single-family
homes that use heat with baseboards, wall
heaters, cable heat or a forced-air furnace.
Key Pen Parks and PenLight present FREE movie nights at Volunteer Park, 5514 Key Peninsula Highway
N., Lakebay. Family craft activities 7:30 p.m., movies start at dusk. Aug. 5, Charlotte’s Web (1973
version); Aug. 12, Minions; Aug. 19, Zootopia; Aug. 26, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. More info:
www.keypenparks.com, click “Stuff to Do.”
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Fox Island Fair to Feature Crafts, Music
More than 70 vendors will bring arts, crafts, games and food to this year’s Fox
Island Fair, an annual event put on by the Fox Island Community and Recreation
Association at Nichols Community Center. The FICRA Fair will take place from 11am
to 6pm on Saturday, Aug. 13.
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will be a beer and wine gardens for adults.
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Since 1978, the region has
saved enough energy to
supply five cities the size
of Seattle, and the latest
plan builds on that success.
Today, energy efficiency is
the region’s second largest
resource, saving consumers
about $3.75 billion per year
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The combination of the
region’s legacy hydropower
and ongoing energy
efficiency investments
have helped to make the
Northwest’s power system
the cleanest in the nation.
on electricity, and lowering
annual carbon dioxide
emissions by 22.2 million
tons. The combination
of the region’s legacy
hydropower and ongoing
energy efficiency
investments have
helped to make the
Northwest’s power
system the cleanest in
the nation.
The plan includes a program
to protect and enhance fish and wildlife affected by
hydroelectric dams, and the plan’s resource strategy,
especially the energy efficiency measures, have allowed
system operators over time to embed reliable fish and
wildlife operations into core system operations while
maintaining a power supply that is adequate, reliable
and affordable.
Demand response — voluntary reductions in customer
electricity use when the system is stressed — is used to
meet winter and summer peaks. The plan identifies more
than 4,300 megawatts of potential, more than 1,500
megawatts under $25 per kilowatt. It’s a relatively low
cost way to make sure the region has adequate resources
to meet peak demand in the event of a low-water year,
combined with extreme weather.
For more information about the
Council or the Seventh Power
Plan, visit www.nwcouncil.org.
Race For a Soldier Puts Focus
on Military Transition
The inspirational Race for a Soldier half-marathon and 5-kilometer race
will return for a sixth year at 8am Sept. 25. The surrounding events also
include a Prayer Breakfast on Sept. 23 at the Jim & Carolyn Milgard Hope
Center inside the Cheney Family branch of the Boys & Girls Club in Gig
Harbor. 0779751004340
All efforts are to raise money for the
Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation, which
aims to raise awareness for Post-Traumatic Stress
disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, and to support
organizations that provide alternative therapies for
returning soldiers as they re-adjust to the country
they served.
Since the first year of the half-marathon in 2011,
Race for a Soldier has awarded more than $122,000
in grants to programs such as Veterans Expeditions,
All-American Assistance Dogs, Heartbeat Serving
Wounded Warriors and the USO Puget Sound Area.
Peninsula Light Co. is proud to be a mile sponsor
for the event, which starts and finishes at the Tom
Taylor Family YMCA in Gig Harbor.
For more information or to register for any of the
events, visit www.raceforasoldier.org.
n “Two & Fro” – Fox Island
band. Led by Sarah Tweet
and her daughters Izzy and
Juliana, accompanied by
their dad, Ben, on the keys
and their friend, Karl Henning, on the drums.
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n “Dan Spencer” – Rock, Folk, Blues, Bluegrass and Classic Country. Fox Island’s
own Dan Spencer.
n “The Fab Three” – Beatlemania.
The popular raffle room, a flower show and a special emergency preparedness and
crime watch displays also will be available. An opening ceremony will be held at
noon. The Fox Island Honor and Color Guard will present the colors followed by the
singing of the national anthem by Sarah Tweet and the “World’s Shortest Parade” to
honor this years’ Grand Marshal(s), including a special kids parade.
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Race for a Soldier has
awarded more than
$122,000 in grants
The first day of class for Peninsula School
District students in grades one through 12
will be on Wednesday, Aug. 31. Kindergarten
students will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 6,
although parents can schedule a “get to know
you” conference with their student’s teacher
between Aug. 31 and Sept. 2.
Supply lists for elementary students can be
found on the individual school’s website, which
can be found by going to www.psd401.net.
Additional information is supplied throughout
the academic year on the PSD’s Facebook page,
www.facebook.com/psd401. “Like” the page to
receive updates in your news feed.
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Peninsula School District
starts Aug. 31
If students need
immunizations, free
offerings will be held on the
following dates and times.
Bring records for updating.
g 5:30-8pm, Thursday,
Aug. 25 and Thursday,
Sept. 1 at the Key Free Clinic, 8903 Key
Peninsula Highway N., Lakebay. Phone:
253.313.3791.
g 8:30am-12pm, Saturday, Aug. 27 and
Saturday, Oct. 1 at Harbor Pediatrics,
4700 Point Fosdick Drive NW, Suite 319,
Gig Harbor. Call 253.853.3888 for
an appointment.
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to programs such as
Veterans Expeditions,
All-American Assistance
Dogs, Heartbeat Serving
Wounded Warriors and the
USO Puget Sound Area.
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Children from Taylor Bay Estates on the Key
Peninsula sport Peninsula Light Co. hard hats
during the neighborhood’s annual Fourth of
July celebration last month.
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