Clam dig + Chocolate on the Beach Festival + EMS Conference = big weekend on the beach

Several hundred Medievalists belonging to a group called Society for Creative Anachronisms are frolicking about Ocean Shores, tonight enjoying a low-key dance at the Convention Center. They’ll be wearing Middle Ages dress all weekend, and many of them will be frequenting local restaurants. This is a friendly group, and only joust if provoked.

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More than 300 kids 12 and under are enjoying a massive Christmas party at the Convention Center, hosted by Pat and Don Scott and a team of volunteers. The kids are getting all sorts of loot: they all get to pick four toys, and then some big-ticket items (bikes, telescopes, giant stuffed animals) are raffled off.

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Chance Beck, 8 years old, is clearly thrilled with his new bike. (Settle down, kid!)

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Love to get some brief movie reviews for the newspaper: what’s currently playing at our local cinema, even reviews of video/DVD’s. Pay: a byline! And, possibly, free movie tickets.

Contact: tscanlon@northcoastnews.com

Seattle’s King 5 TV was here Wednesday night, a bit of the ACE Hardware Ladies Night made their weather coverage; it’s about the last minute and a half of this clip.

The nice thing about a hardware store having an event: Blackout schmackout, they’ve got generators. ACE Hardware’s popular Ladies Night, with live music, champagne, snacks and no-men-allowed, happens tonight at 7.

It happens tonight, 10 to midnight. Wear pajamas, get $5 off purchases of $20 or more. Knock down pins by “bowling” a turkey for chance to win prizes. IGA . . . look for it, just off the Roundabout-in-progress.

From our man Gary Iversen (“The Ansel Adams of Duck Lake,” as I like to call him). Note from photographer: “yes, he can get out.”

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Scenes from the Haunted House, at the Pacific Beach Naval Resort. Free admission (and candy for kids) again tonight 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Info: 276-8377 or  276-0600.

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In Ocean Shores, the big party is the Ocean Shores Firefighters Association’s 39th Annual Halloween Party at the Ocean Shores Convention Center, starting at 6 p.m. (ending at 8). There will be a costume contest, prizes, games and, of course, candy.

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Tony Byers photo of a memorable, night-ending jam by two high-energy Irish bands: Ockham’s Razor (from Seattle) and Cullan’s Hounds (from San Francisco). Imagine the Pogues, meet Nine Inch Nails . . . And if you never thought you’d use the words “accordion” and “sexy” in the same sentence . . . The mad fun continues at Galway Bay through the weekend, and at “fourth stage” the Lions Club, which will be howling with these bands and more on Saturday afternoon and night.