A relatively new pesky weed, Birdsfoot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus, has been cropping up all over Kitsap County lately. The common name comes from the seed heads which look like tiny bird feet (even through the feet have six to eight toes). It began its rampant spread about three years ago, but it’s promising to be as noxious as some of our official “noxious weeds.” The ironic fact about this plant is it has been used in many states for deer fodder and forage for cattle and other grazing animals. It’s a forage plant that does not cause bloating. Birdsfoot trefoil was imported from Europe. Native peoples also harvested the seeds for food. It thrives in areas where rainfall is more than 20 inches a year and when temperatures are cooler. Does that sound like our area? Yes, indeed, it does.
Why do you pay almost $10 to see a movie? For entertainment, right? To get swept into a world where reality doesn’t have to follow boundaries and a place where your problems no longer exist?
Silverdale Thunder hydroplane races are back, hitting the water Aug. 9-10 on Dyes Inlet, pre-party Aug. 8.
Olympic Koi, Goldfish and Water Garden Club puts their ponds up for show in the annual Pond and Water Garden tour, Aug. 9.
Classic cars, classic rock, classic, all part of four-day-long party on Bay Street, Aug. 7-10.
While the Broadway production, and much of the cult film’s popularity, didn’t come until the mid 1980s, “The Little Shop of Horrors” was first unveiled at the dawn of the 1960s.
Traveling tango dancers slated
When in the business of theater and feeling a budget crunch from a slumping economy that has hit both the box office and production costs, the no-brainer decision would be to stage a summertime, feel-good fan favorite in hopes of bolstering the ticket count.
The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest, along with many other small theater troupes around the county, are most undoubtedly feeling that crunch these days. But the Changing Scene is staying true to it’s ethos and readying for the premier of Summerplay 2008: A festival of new works, slated for Aug. 8-23 in the upper room of the Panda Bay Inn on Kitsap Way in Bremerton.
From the standpoint of both plot and prep, Camp Broadway’s production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” may be the perfect vehicle for young people.
Between pirates and dragns, BPA Theatre School has had one magical summer. At 3:30 and 7 p.m. July 25, the fantasy continues with “Dragonsphere Chapter 2 – Trial of Ashes. ”
Big events often have humble roots.
Take the island’s Bluegrass Festival and Family Fun Fair. The event, now in its third year, had origins in a visit to the island by New Mexico’s Foxfire Bluegrass Band in 2005.
Organizers of the new environmentally thought-provoking Great Peninsula Future Festival have devised a plan that could possibly provoke solutions to some of the world’s greatest crises.
They’re hoping festival-goers will come for a party and leave with a life-changing education. And they’re expecting them in the thousands throughout the coming weekend, Aug. 2-3, in the festival-friendly town of Port Gamble.
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