Aberdeen Events Calendar

This calendar is the place to find fun events happening throughout Grays Harbor County including Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Westport, Ocean Shores, Elma, Montesano and beyond.

Have an event that isn’t listed? Please email events@GraysHarborTalk.com with the following information:

  • Name of Event
  • Date, time and location (name of business if applicable and complete address)
  • Organizer(s) name
  • Cost
  • URL to purchase tickets
  • Website URL
  • SHORT description of event
  • Photo

Our editors will review and post within a few business days.

Jun
9
Wed
Aberdeen City Council Meeting @ Aberdeen City Hall
Jun 9 @ 7:15 pm
Jun
11
Fri
Find Work Friday Virtual Job Fair @ Virtual event hosted on app.brazenconnect.com
Jun 11 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Find Work Friday Virtual Job Fair @ Virtual event hosted on app.brazenconnect.com

Find Work Friday is a WorkSource virtual hiring event that connects you to employers who are hiring. Many employers need to rebuild their workforce. Now is the time to start your job search and WorkSource is here to help.

Join us for this FREE hiring event and connect directly with local employers from different industries. Find Work Friday provides an opportunity to chat with recruiters instantly to see if their company is a good fit for you.

Our upcoming Find Work Friday on June 11th, 2021 from 1:30 – 3:30 PM will have a special focus on Youth and Student job opportunities. We have asked employers to indicate whether they offer paid internship opportunities, pay for formal job skills training, hire minor workers, or have entry level positions for job seeker who are 18 years or older. Youth and Student job seekers will be able to filter the employers based on the types of opportunities they offer during the live event. This will be the first virtual Youth and Student Focused Find Work Friday, but students are always welcome to attend any WorkSource virtual event.

Here is a link to a video explaining the Brazen platform: https://youtu.be/h48DdeFg8Bo

Registration is a 2-step process.
1. Job seekers must complete the registration form at the following link: https://bit.ly/33ZV5GM
2. Click a verification link which is emailed to each registrant from “Washington State PacMountain Workforce”

WorkSource is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. Washington Relay Service: 711

If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation in order to attend this event, please email Mpong@thurstonchamber.com or call (360) 347-6054, to request an accommodation.

Jun
12
Sat
Ride the Harbor: Tour de Wellness – Cycle Event @ Beerbbower Park
Jun 12 @ 7:00 am
Ride the Harbor: Tour de Wellness - Cycle Event @ Beerbbower Park

Join us for a scenic, fun, charity ride through beautiful Grays Harbor County. You’ll ride through forests, farmlands, over rivers and hills and finish by the spectacular Pacific Ocean.

Our mission for this event is to provide Grays Harbor County an opportunity to get active in a safe and supportive way. This one-day cycling event is the perfect ride with a team or as a personal challenge and is open to ages 16 and up, with three separate lengths for beginners to pros. This is NOT a timed event, so we encourage you to challenge yourself to a distance that makes sense for you and demonstrates your commitment to helping build the healthiest community in the Nation, right here in Grays Harbor.

While fundraising is not required to participate in our ride, we welcome you to support our cause in all the ways you are comfortable. Money raised from fundraising efforts and registration fees go towards supporting Summit Pacific Medical Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit.

Register ONLINE: https://bit.ly/RideTheHarbor

If you would like to learn more, volunteer to help or join our cause, please contact us at 360-346-2250 or email Foundation@sp-mc.org.

Mill Creek Park Invasive Walk and Removal @ Mill Creek Park
Jun 12 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Mill Creek Park Invasive Walk and Removal @ Mill Creek Park

Join the Grays Harbor Stream Team, City of Cosmopolis, and Grays Harbor County Noxious Weed Board for a fun day of invasive species identification and removal. We will practice our identification and removal techniques of 8 separate invasive species.

Work gloves and tools will be provided, along with coffee, snacks, and water.

Follow 101 through Cosmopolis turn on C St. Pass the Elementary School, keep going straight and entrance to park will be on your left. If you start going up the hill you have gone too far. Look for the sign and the blue tent.

Saturday Matinee @ McCleary Timberland Library
Jun 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us each Saturday for movies at the library on the big screen. Bring a comfy pillow and bottled water. Popcorn will be provided. Call or stop in for this month’s titles. For all ages.

Jun
16
Wed
Family Storytime @ Elma Timberland Regional Library
Jun 16 @ 10:30 am – 11:00 am

This engaging program includes rich stories, rhymes, songs, and movement games for the whole family! All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Jun
19
Sat
Fry Creek Cleanup @ Dollar Tree Parking Lot
Jun 19 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Fry Creek Cleanup @ Dollar Tree Parking Lot

Come Cleanup Fry Creek with the City of Aberdeen and Grays Harbor Stream Team, together we can work toward clean streams.

Coffee, snacks, and water provided along with work gloves and trash pickers.

We will meet in the Dollar Tree Parking lot and walk Fry Creek upstream and downstream and remove any garbage that we see.

Hope to see you there!

Saturday Matinee @ McCleary Timberland Library
Jun 19 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us each Saturday for movies at the library on the big screen. Bring a comfy pillow and bottled water. Popcorn will be provided. Call or stop in for this month’s titles. For all ages.

Jun
21
Mon
Elma City Council Meeting @ Elma City Hall
Jun 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jun
23
Wed
Family Storytime @ Elma Timberland Regional Library
Jun 23 @ 10:30 am – 11:00 am

This engaging program includes rich stories, rhymes, songs, and movement games for the whole family! All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Aberdeen City Council Meeting @ Aberdeen City Hall
Jun 23 @ 6:30 pm
Jun
26
Sat
Saturday Matinee @ McCleary Timberland Library
Jun 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us each Saturday for movies at the library on the big screen. Bring a comfy pillow and bottled water. Popcorn will be provided. Call or stop in for this month’s titles. For all ages.

Jun
30
Wed
Family Storytime @ Elma Timberland Regional Library
Jun 30 @ 10:30 am – 11:00 am

This engaging program includes rich stories, rhymes, songs, and movement games for the whole family! All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Orca: Shared Water Shared Home Book Talk with author Lynda Mapes @ Zoom
Jun 30 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Orca: Shared Water Shared Home Book Talk with author Lynda Mapes @ Zoom

Talk Description: Orcas thrive in a land to the north, why are the southern residents endangered? A talk with Lynda Mapes, Seattle Times environment reporter about her newest book,  Shared Waters Shared Home. Published with the Seattle Times and Braided River, the book is based on the internal award winning series Seattle Times Hostile Waters and uses photography by Steve Ringman and maps and explanatory graphics by artist Emily Eng to explore and explain the roots of this environmental crisis endangering the southern residents orcas that frequent Puget Sound, and the Chinook salmon they depend on. Lynda’s talk will close with a short discussion of the implications and lessons to be learned for the Chehalis Basin.

Signed copies of Shared Waters Shared Home are in stock at Elliott Bay Books for pick up in store, or by mail order. Also available online anywhere books are sold.
Time and Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2021. From 3:30 to 4:30, a 45-minute presentation followed by 15 minute Q&A.

Pre-Registration Required: Go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldO6pqjwpG9Uc7dbbcG0nfymJ7EQh7xs3. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For more information on Lynda’s talk, please contact Kathy Jacobson at kmjacoson59464@gmail.com.

Sponsored by the Chehalis Basin Lead Entity. For more information about how you can be involved in projects that support salmon recovery, visit the Chehalis Basin Lead Entity website: www.chehalisleadentity.org.

Jul
3
Sat
Saturday Matinee @ McCleary Timberland Library
Jul 3 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us each Saturday for movies at the library on the big screen. Bring a comfy pillow and bottled water. Popcorn will be provided. Call or stop in for this month’s titles. For all ages.

Jul
7
Wed
Family Storytime @ Elma Timberland Regional Library
Jul 7 @ 10:30 am – 11:00 am

This engaging program includes rich stories, rhymes, songs, and movement games for the whole family! All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Jul
10
Sat
Local Authors Book Signing @ Harbor Books
Jul 10 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Local authors Jan Bono and Joseph Sykes will be signing books at Harbor Books in Hoquiam. Jan Bono is the author of the Sylvia Avery cozy mystery series, set on the Long Beach Peninsula, and many other works. Joseph Sykes has published numerous collection of poetry celebrating life in Grays Harbor, including I Am Inspired: A Collection of Poems for the People and Places of Grays Harbor Washington.

Saturday Matinee @ McCleary Timberland Library
Jul 10 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us each Saturday for movies at the library on the big screen. Bring a comfy pillow and bottled water. Popcorn will be provided. Call or stop in for this month’s titles. For all ages.

Pieces of Shakespeare @ Sam Benn Park
Jul 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Pieces of Shakespeare @ Sam Benn Park

Aberdeen Shakespearean Theater presents “Pieces of Shakespeare”. The performance will include Jeff Ryser performing a monologue from Hamlet and Wynonna Baldwin performing the Juliet monologue. In addition we will be workshopping “Merry Wives of Windsor.” Workshopping is a theater term referring to performing with scripts in hand with suggesting changes in order to better the material.

Jul
14
Wed
Family Storytime @ Elma Timberland Regional Library
Jul 14 @ 10:30 am – 11:00 am

This engaging program includes rich stories, rhymes, songs, and movement games for the whole family! All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Aberdeen City Council Meeting @ Aberdeen City Hall
Jul 14 @ 7:15 pm
Jul
17
Sat
Aberdeen Curb Marking Blitz @ Great Northwest Federal Credit Union
Jul 17 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Aberdeen Curb Marking Blitz @ Great Northwest Federal Credit Union

Please meet across the street from the Great Northwest Federal Credit Union 301 W Wishkah St, Aberdeen, WA 98520 by the blue tent.

Learn how to install storm drain markers to increase community awareness around stormwater pollution.

Together we can increase the health of our rivers, streams, and Grays Harbor.
We are training individuals and families.

Please RSVP at graysharborstreamteam@gmail.com