Capturing the Olympic Peninsula Experience
  • Whitney Gardens & Nursery – Brinnon, Washington

    Some of worlds biggest rhododendrons can be found at Brinnon family’s gardens May is the best month to see the rhodies in full bloom at Whitney Gardens & Nursery, a beautiful Brinnon, Washington, roadside attraction. The gardens can be found on U.S. Highway 101 nestled between Hood Canal, the Olympic Mountain foothills and the Dosewallips River delta. A stop and a walk in the gardens comes highly recommended. There you will discover that the landmark’s seven [...]

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  • Sequim May 1st Friday Art Walk celebrates water for irrigation festival

    VideOly Sequim host Renne Brock-Richmondtakes a walk through downtown’s newest photo studio and gallery among other stops and talks with those who help make Sequim’s monthly art walk a success. It was an aqua-themed First Friday, celebrating the 118th Sequim Irrigation Festival, the oldest such event in Washington.

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  • Port Townsend youth adventure group builds viking ship for Sound voyages

    The viking ship project is a dream-come-true for Geoff Briggs’ partner at Port Townsend’s WILD Expeditions, Dave Knudsen, who has some 40 years of experience as a youth adventure camp entrepreneur. The ship will one day sail youths on the waters around the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound. Master shipwright Jay Smith is now building the 56-foot viking ship at his Fidalgo Island boat shop. Wilderness Intensive Leadership Development Expeditions, a nonprofit group founded by [...]

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  • Sequim Art Walk: A quick tour of the art scene downtown

    Join VideOly’s Sequim host Renne Brock-Richmond, who takes us on a First Friday Art Walk natural history tour, starting with the Museum & Arts Center of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s special fine art photography exhibit. It runs through April 26 at MAC, 175 W. Cedar St., Sequim. Renne also talks with artists and photographers with work featured at Windrose Cellars and The Blue Whole Gallery on West Washington Street, plus a show at Olympic Theatre Arts [...]

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  • International dog trainers learn with clicks, clucks at chicken camp

    From her training center west of Sequim in Carlsborg, Washington, Legacy Canine Behavior Training center’s co-owner Terry Ryan has long been teaching animal trainers skills. It’s all done at the popular Chicken Camp, where trainers from all over the world teach chickens, and chicken teach trainers. Ryan shows her students how teaching chickens to walk through tubes, around pylons and even discern colors for scratch rewards translates to dog training, teamwork and people skills.

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  • The CoLab in Port Townsend offers new approach to work environment

    A group of independent professionals shares the attractive workspace downtown, co-workng and collaborating with shared resources, a kitchen, meeting rooms and workshops. The CoLab on the second floor of the historic Elks Building, 237 Taylor St., and offers several different options to its use. On the Web at ptcolab.com.

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  • 15th Annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show

    Soroptimists spring event features garden fun, raises dollars for scholars Sequim Soroptimist International’s 15th Annual Gala Garden Show filled the Sequim Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula with thousands of gardening buffs March 16-17. The event has become a rite of spring in Clallam County, attracting many from around the region. The event put on by the 50-member club raises dollars for scholarships and charitable giving to young women.

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  • Governor supports tourism at state summit

    Gov. Jay Inslee told about 200 attending the 2013 Washington Tourism Alliance’s Tourism Summit audience that closing the state tourism agency to save money was a “boneheaded” move. Inslee made his remarks March 12 at the summit in Olympia’s Washington Center for the Performing Arts. He spoke in support of “bridge” funding from the state coffers to help the Tourism Alliance of private tourism-related interests statewide until it can study and find a permanent business [...]

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  • Captain Joseph House Story

    Mother who lost heroic son in Afghanistan bomb blast builds respite for families Betsy Reed Schultz, founder of the Port Angeles-based Captain Joseph House Foundation, tells her story. She lost her beloved son, Army Green Beret Capt. Joseph William Schultz, to a road bomb explosion in Afghanistan on May 29, 2011. Betsy turned her grief into powerful, positive action and followed her dream to build a respite/retreat house for other families who have lost sons [...]

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  • Sequim Student Art Show

    Clallam County student artists show their work at Sequim show VideOly Sequim host Renne Brock-Richmond and producer Jeff Chew talk to upcoming Olympic Peninsula  artists showing their latest work during Sequim Arts’ 19th Annual Student Art Show. This video features an interview with Best of Show artist and Port Angeles senior Ashlyn Johnson, who talks about the inspiration behind her winning watercolor. The event during Sequim’s First Friday Artwalk on March 1, 2013, drew some [...]

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  • Schoolhouse marks 120th anniversary as Dungeness Valley historic landmark

    The Museum & Arts Center of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley rang in the old schoolhouse milestone on a Feb. 27 event. This video features anecdotes from longtime Dungeness resident Bob Clark, who attended the school back in the late 1930s. Live music was performed by pianist Linda Dowdell at the schoolhouse auditorium celebration, featuring the 1926 Irving Berlin classic, “Blue Skies.”

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  • Garden bus-goers find signs of spring at Seattle flower show

    Gardening expert and Peninsula Daily News columnist Andrew May again hosts a busload of Olympic Peninsula gardening enthusiasts for a fun Garden Bus trip to Seattle for the 2013 Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Proceeds go to the PDN’s Peninsula Home Fund to help the needy. Andrew takes you on a tour of the colorful Washington State Convention Center event that draws thousands to the see the latest in gardening design for outdoor living, edible [...]

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  • Whitney Gardens & Nursery – Brinnon, Washington

    Whitney Gardens & Nursery – Brinnon, Washington

    Some of worlds biggest rhododendrons can be found at Brinnon family’s gardens May is the best month to see the rhodies in full bloom at Whitney Gardens & Nursery, a beautiful Brinnon, Washington, roadside attraction. The gardens can be found on U.S. Highway 101 nestled between Hood Canal, the Olympic Mountain foothills and the Dosewallips River delta. A stop and a walk in the gardens comes highly recommended. There you will discover that the landmark’s seven [...]

    Continue reading »

  • Port Townsend youth adventure group builds viking ship for Sound voyages

    Port Townsend youth adventure group builds viking ship for Sound voyages

    The viking ship project is a dream-come-true for Geoff Briggs’ partner at Port Townsend’s WILD Expeditions, Dave Knudsen, who has some 40 years of experience as a youth adventure camp entrepreneur. The ship will one day sail youths on the waters around the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound. Master shipwright Jay Smith is now building the 56-foot viking ship at his Fidalgo Island boat shop. Wilderness Intensive Leadership Development Expeditions, a nonprofit group founded by [...]

    Continue reading »

  • Ski club sets it up for another snow day on Hurricane Ridge

    Ski club sets it up for another snow day on Hurricane Ridge

    It’s a stellar new Saturday on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park and the crew of volunteers love the easy, affordable ski and snowboard lifestyle there that keeps them coming back every winter. So much so they put in considerable work on weekend mornings before they open the snow park to play. This video reveals why locals love the Ridge’s winter recreation, which is highly accessible this winter and open to the public year-round.

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  • International dog trainers learn with clicks, clucks at chicken camp

    International dog trainers learn with clicks, clucks at chicken camp

    From her training center west of Sequim in Carlsborg, Washington, Legacy Canine Behavior Training center’s co-owner Terry Ryan has long been teaching animal trainers skills. It’s all done at the popular Chicken Camp, where trainers from all over the world teach chickens, and chicken teach trainers. Ryan shows her students how teaching chickens to walk through tubes, around pylons and even discern colors for scratch rewards translates to dog training, teamwork and people skills.

    Continue reading »

  • The CoLab in Port Townsend offers new approach to work environment

    The CoLab in Port Townsend offers new approach to work environment

    A group of independent professionals shares the attractive workspace downtown, co-workng and collaborating with shared resources, a kitchen, meeting rooms and workshops. The CoLab on the second floor of the historic Elks Building, 237 Taylor St., and offers several different options to its use. On the Web at ptcolab.com.

    Continue reading »

  • Governor supports tourism at state summit

    Governor supports tourism at state summit

    Gov. Jay Inslee told about 200 attending the 2013 Washington Tourism Alliance’s Tourism Summit audience that closing the state tourism agency to save money was a “boneheaded” move. Inslee made his remarks March 12 at the summit in Olympia’s Washington Center for the Performing Arts. He spoke in support of “bridge” funding from the state coffers to help the Tourism Alliance of private tourism-related interests statewide until it can study and find a permanent business [...]

    Continue reading »

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  • Whitney Gardens & Nursery – Brinnon, Washington

    Whitney Gardens & Nursery – Brinnon, Washington

    Some of worlds biggest rhododendrons can be found at Brinnon family’s gardens May is the best month to see the rhodies in full bloom at Whitney Gardens & Nursery, a beautiful Brinnon, Washington, roadside attraction. The gardens can be found on U.S. Highway 101 nestled between Hood Canal, the Olympic Mountain foothills and the Dosewallips River delta. A stop and a walk in the gardens comes highly recommended. There you will discover that the landmark’s seven [...]

    Continue reading »

  • International dog trainers learn with clicks, clucks at chicken camp

    International dog trainers learn with clicks, clucks at chicken camp

    From her training center west of Sequim in Carlsborg, Washington, Legacy Canine Behavior Training center’s co-owner Terry Ryan has long been teaching animal trainers skills. It’s all done at the popular Chicken Camp, where trainers from all over the world teach chickens, and chicken teach trainers. Ryan shows her students how teaching chickens to walk through tubes, around pylons and even discern colors for scratch rewards translates to dog training, teamwork and people skills.

    Continue reading »

  • 15th Annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show

    15th Annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show

    Soroptimists spring event features garden fun, raises dollars for scholars Sequim Soroptimist International’s 15th Annual Gala Garden Show filled the Sequim Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula with thousands of gardening buffs March 16-17. The event has become a rite of spring in Clallam County, attracting many from around the region. The event put on by the 50-member club raises dollars for scholarships and charitable giving to young women.

    Continue reading »

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