SATURDAY, Sept. 10 • The sixth annual Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Music & Arts Festival returns with 23 bands on eight stages and features an expanded beer garden, Art Row, crafts and food vendors, among other attractions along Newport Avenue between Cable Street and the ocean. The festival begins at 10 a.m. and runs until around 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 each. Children under 12 are admitted free. VIP tickets are also available for $250. For more information, visit www.obmusicfest.org. • Dog Beach Dog Wash and Friends of Dog Beach will host a monthly cleanup on the canine-friendly stretch of sand from 9 to 11 a.m. Gloves, bags, scoops, brooms and shovels will be provided to participants and toys, treats and refreshments will be made available to canines and humans alike. For more information, visit www.dogwash.com or call (619) 523-1700. • Work party at Famosa Slough to care for California native plants and remove invasive plants. The work party takes place form 9 a.m. to noon. Participants are asked to meet at the southeast corner of W. Point Loma and Famosa boulevards. For more information, call (619) 224-4591. SUNDAY, Sept. 11 • The Car Club Council of Greater San Diego calls its automobile attraction “the greasiest show on turf.” So, they’ll use a new venue at Liberty Station to make the point with hundreds of cars on display on Sunday, Sept. 11. This signature fundraising event for the San Diego Automotive Museum has been a tradition for a number of years at historic Balboa Park. But it has outgrown the park and selected Liberty Station as its new venue. The scheduled viewing hours for the free show are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The car registration fee is $25. For more information, visit www.carclubcouncilofsandiego.com. • On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon, All Souls’ Episcopal Church will hold a special Choral Memorial Prayer Service at 4 p.m. to remember those who died in the tragic events — and to remember the firefighters, police officers and other workers who risked or sacrificed their lives to save others. All are welcome to attend and to bring photographs and other mementos of loved ones they wish to be remembered. All Souls’ is located at the intersection of Catalina Boulevard and Chatsworth Avenue in Pt. Loma. For further information, call (619) 223-6394, or visit www.all-souls.com. WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 The Friends of the Hervey/Point Loma Branch Library will host literary agent Sandra Dijkstra, who will speak on “My Adventures in Publishing.” The event is free. Dijkstra has been the literary agent for authors whose names have graced the best seller lists of America. Her success is rooted in the first line of her mission statement: “To find and place books that make a difference.” The presentation takes place at 6:30 p.m. at the library, 3701 Voltaire St. Refreshments served. For more information, call (619) 531-1537 THURSDAY, Sept. 15 • The Point Loma Association beautification group will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Kona Kai Resort on Shelter Island. Tickets for the celebration are $75 each. Cocktails will be at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is at 7 p.m., preceding a presentation of “The PLA Story,” narrated by Iris Engstrand, professor of history at the University of San Diego. For further information, contact PLA’s 50th anniversary dinner chairwoman Linda Fox at (619) 223-0164. • The Ocean Beach Historical Society will host its annual meeting with featured speaker Richard L. Carrrico, who will speak on “Then They Turned into Stones Again: San Diego’s Neglected Naturalist Author Judy Van Der Veer of Ramona.” Carrico will detail Van Der Veer’s life (born in 1912) as an author of 500 articles and as an advocate of animal rights, habitat preservationist and an ecologist long before the term came into common usage. Often compared to John Steinbeck and Willa Cather, Van Der Veer’s minimalist, naturalistic works are largely forgotten in the 21st century. The presentation takes place at 7 p.m. at the Point Loma United Methodist Church, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd. For more information, visit www.obhistory.word-press.com. SATURDAY, Sept. 24 The Ocean Beach MainStreet Association will begin this year’s OB Christmas Craft Fairs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Veterans Plaza at the corner of Newport Avenue and Abbott Street. Stop by, shop early and see lots of fantastic crafts and gifts. The OB Christmas Craft Fair is a subcommittee of the Ocean Beach Town Council. For more information, call (619) 846-6269 SUNDAY, Sept. 25 The San Diego County Sober Living Coalition will host its fundraiser “National Recovery Month BBQ Picnic” at Ingram Plaza at Liberty Station, 2756 Dewey Road. Events include recovery games, team sports, a jumpy, a dunk tank, bands, a raffle and hot dogs and hamburgers. The event takes place from noon to 6 p.m. Entry fees are 10 tickets for $60 (presale) or $8 each at the event. Children under 5 are admitted free. For more information, call (619) 523-5006, or visit www.sdslc.org.