PENINSULA DAILY NEWS for Sunday, December 7, 2014 PAGE
A12 This week’s business meetings ■ Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce — Weekly luncheon meetings are held Mondays at noon at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St. This Monday’s guest speaker will be Katie Dean, an agricultural enterprise development, consultant, on economic development and planning for climate change on the North Olympic Peninsula. ■ Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly luncheon meetings are held at 11:45 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at noon at SunLand Golf & Country Club, 109 Hilltop Drive, Sequim. This Tuesday’s guest speakers are Andy Meyer of the Association of Washington Cities and Clea Rome, WSU Clallam County Extension director, on “Growing Our Own: Opportunities for Local Investment.” The meeting sponsor is Olympic Peninsula Adventures. RSVP by noon Monday. Lunch costs $15. ■ Forks Chamber of Commerce — Luncheon meetings are Wednesdays at noon at JT’s Sweet Stuffs, 80 N. Forks Ave. This Wednesday’s meeting will feature Forks Broadcasting’s Mark Lamb, president, and Kathleen Landa, regional tourism marketing director. Lunch costs $8; a bowl of soup, $4.99; and a cup of soup, $3.99 (all prices plus tax). The entree is lasagna.
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From left, Keira Knightley, Matthew Beard, Matthew Goode, Benedict Cumberbatch, seated, and Allen Leech appear in “The Imitation Game.”
■ Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings are Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive, Port Angeles. The meeting’s speaker was not announced. There is a $3 minimum charge by Joshua’s for those who do not order breakfast.
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$ Briefly . . . Sequim seeks information on volunteering
BY JAKE COYLE
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SEQUIM — Through its “Making a Difference: Sequim Volunteers” program, the city of Sequim is collecting information about volunteer opportunities with nonprofit organizations and other groups in and around the city. These opportunities are being posted online at www.sequimwa. gov along with the city’s volunteer positions. The city wants to expand the list. “This project grew out of conversations with prospective volunteers,” said volunteer coordinator Pam Leonard-Raysaid. “Many people who are new to Sequim struggle not only to find a volunteer opportunity that ‘fits’ but also to figure out what is available for volunteers.” To include a volunteer opportunity on the list or for more information, contact City Clerk Karen Kuznek-Reese at kkuznek@sequimwa.gov or 360-681-3428; Leonard-Ray at pleonard-ray@sequimwa.gov or 360-582-2447; or special projects food lasts, according to Hardy’s. volunteer Debbie Mink at dmink@sequimwa.gov.
Brewery offers pizza
Open house slated PORT ANGELES — Menagerie, aka “The Dog Wine,” is now available at Harbinger Winery and during free tastings at a holiday open house Sunday, Dec. 14. Located at 2358 U.S. Highway 101, the winery each year produces a special wine with a goal in mind: to raise funds and awareness for the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society. All of the profits from this wine are passed on to the Humane Society’s building fund for its new shelter between Port Angeles and Sequim. This year’s Menagerie is a blend of cabernet franc, merlot and a dash of “Awesome Sauce,” according to owner/winemaker Sara Gagnon. The wine retails for $22 per bottle and is available only at the Harbinger Winery tasting room. For the open house, tasting will be complimentary for anyone older than 21. Snacks will be available. Harbinger Winery is open daily for wine and beer tasting. For more information, contact the winery at 360-452-4262 or info@harbingerwinery.com.
Benedict Cumberbatch: Brainy never looked quite so appealing
PORT ANGELES — Barhop Brewing, 124 W. Railroad Ave., has opened its artisan pizza kitchen. Barhop imported an “Italiforni” oven to Port Angeles for its pizzas. This oven, with a stone cooking deck, heats in excess of 800 degrees, a necessary requirement for the thin-crust Neapolitanstyle pizzas of southern Italy. The pizzas’ dough is handmade daily using a 100-year-old Alaskan sourdough starter, and there are three special sauces. Barhop is owned and operated by the Curry family and friends.
Climate change
DUNGENESS — Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way, will present a talk by Laura Lewis, “Agricultural Geography and Climate Change on the North Olympic Peninsula,” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Lewis is director of WSU Jefferson County Extension. She specializes in plant genetic resources and conservation. Free dinner at market Her talk, Lewis SEQUIM — Hardy’s Market, which is free and 10200 Old Olympic Highway, open to the public, will focus on invites local residents to a comfood production across Jefferson plimentary traditional Christmas and Clallam counties and how Eve dinner Wednesday, Dec. 24. they may be impacted by potenThe community dinner starts tial changes in our climate. at 11 a.m. No early birds, please. TURN TO BRIEFLY/A13 Dine in or take out while the
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TORONTO — With characters like Sherlock Holmes, Julian Assange and Stephen Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch has accumulated a filmography littered with high IQs. Characters of analytical prowess and fast-deducting intellect have made Cumberbatch something like the ultimate quicksilver mind of the digital age. No actor has made computation sexier. Cumberbatch, relaxing in a Toronto hotel room, quickly points out that he has — like his spineless plantation owner of “12 Years a Slave” or his painfully shy son in “August: Osage County” — played some “pretty dull, ordinary” people. And yet Cumberbatch is clearly drawn to highly complex, real-life characters under extraordinary circumstances — roles that demand technical preparation (an accent, a stam-
mer), considerable biographical research and a precision of approach. Puzzles to be solved. “Maybe that’s a fair one,” he says, turning over the idea. “Maybe I do. I think for the reasons people are attracted to those characters, as well. “You can never fully understand them. There’s always a certain amount of enigma or mystery to them.”
WWII code-breaker Recently, Cumberbatch voiced a secret-agent wolf in “Penguins of Madagascar”; and his latest riddle is Alan Turing, a hugely important figure to World War II code-breaking and a computer science pioneer. “The Imitation Game,” which opens in movie theaters this Christmas, is about how Turing and others at Britain’s Bletchley Park solved the seemingly unbreakable Enigma code used by the Germans throughout WWII. Winston Churchill said Tur-
n interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, who is in theaters this fall and winter with “Penguins of Madagascar” and “The Imitation Game.”
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ing made the single greatest contribution to the war, but his achievement wasn’t widely recognized until recently, when the code-breaker’s work was declassified. “Considering all of that, why the [expletive] isn’t he on the front cover of every school history textbook?” says Cumberbatch. “He’s a properly important figure in our culture.” “The Imitation Game” is only partly a traditional wartime thriller. It’s also a tragedy of social close-mindedness. Turing was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain. He was convicted of indecency in 1952 and then chemically castrated. TURN
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Fetch surprise gifts for your favorite pets For the pet that has everything: GoPro harness, legwarmers
gly sweaters, “Star Wars” gear and gourmet broth are on the list of gifts for pets who’ve been nice all year.
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LOS ANGELES — Gift suggestions for the pet in your life, most of which can be found at local pet stores (or the stores can special-order them for you):
Camera harness Pet owners looking to launch the next Internet sensation or just longing for a new view of their dog’s dashing and digging won’t have to shop for long to find the perfect holiday gift. Wrap up a dog harness that holds GoPro’s durable cameras and watch Frisbee fetch, lazy lap naps and every memory in between come alive. The Fetch dog harness fits over Fido’s chest or back and holds the small, waterproof camera known for attaching to helmets, surfboards, cars and wrists to film rugged adventures. Sony, Garmin and Kurgo also make camera mounts for dogs. The device is among a legion of gifts that retailers have rounded up for pet wish lists this year. Narrowing it down is tough, but the harness tops the more
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Thor, a French bulldog, looks cute in what is marketed as an “ugly” sweater by the Pets Rock line.
ing 15 to 120 pounds. The canine camera view has proved popular. A video went viral of an eager Labrador strapped with a camera sprinting through trees and across rocks to an Italian beach, where it leaps into the ocean. Those looking for pet gifts besides the traditional treats, new bowls and beds can give something unexpected such as:
Ugly sweaters
They are the rage this year, so PetSmart Inc. will hawk ugly unique options and creates lastsweaters for cats and dogs from ing footage. Bret Michaels’ Pets Rock line The most pet-friendly camera ($15.99), said Shelly Albrecht, in the GoPro Inc. line is the spokeswoman for the national Hero4, which allows people to retailer. decide what the dog records and Swath pets in sweaters control all the functions with a stitched with gingerbread men touch screen, company spokesand Christmas trees and they woman Kelly Baker said. could win worst-dressed at those The camera sells for $399, and seasonal ugly sweater parties the mount costs $59. popular with people. The chest harness captures PetSmart also is selling leg bone-chewing and digging, while warmers online and in stores the back mount films running from Top Paw and Luv-A-Pet. and jumping, Baker said. TURN TO PETS/A14 They adjust to fit dogs weigh-