SEASIDE – Need something to do this weekend? Two Seaside events are planned to give both your body and your brain a workout.

The 38th annual Seaside Beach Run and Walk will be held Sunday, July 18. Races begin at 9 a.m. All events begin and finish in Quatat Park and the majority of the 5K and 10K competitive running races will be held on the hard beach sand. The noncompetitive 5K walk will be held along Broadway and the Promenade. The event also includes a one-block dash for kids age 4 to 12 and a wheelchair walk.

Registration is from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Seaside Downtown Development Association office in the Carousel Mall and from 7 to 8:15 a.m. Sunday in Quatat Park. Cost is $25 for the races and $5 for the Prom walk. The kid’s dash is free. T-shirts will be available for $10 for adults and $8 for children.

This year, organizers hope for more than 300 participants. Proceeds from the run will benefit the Broadway Middle School athletics program and SDDA.

The Seaside Beach Run was established in 1966 by two lifeguards who wanted to bring more tourists to the beach. The event was taken over by the SDDA in 2002 and is also sponsored by Columbia Fitness, Care Medical and Rehabilitation Equipment, Pig ‘N Pancake, Seaside Aquarium, Shilo Inns, United Rentals and Gearhart Ironwerks.

For more information, call 717-1914 or go to (www.seasidedowntown.com)

Salt Makers returnStep back into history and visit with members of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery as they make salt at their beach camp this weekend.

The costumed interpreters will operate the salt works from 5 p.m. today through 5 p.m. Sunday at the foot of Avenue U and the Promenade. They will keep a fire going around the clock and invite guests to enjoy the free program and ask questions.

“This is such an interesting way for people to learn their history,” said Helen Gaston, treasurer of the Seaside Historical Society. “We ask them to step back in history, to visualize what it was like on the beach at that time of year.”

In December 1805, members of the Corps set out from Fort Clatsop looking for a suitable place to make salt to help preserve meat. The Corps discovered the perfect spot in Seaside, near what is present-day Lewis and Clark Way, off Beach Drive, where a small park indicates the original location of the salt works. From Dec. 28, 1805 to Feb. 21, 1806, Corps members kept the salt works operating continuously.

Visitors to the program will be invited to step into the role of Native Americans and are encouraged to bring something to “trade” with the interpreters. Native Americans would trade fruit, fish, meat or clams for beads, buttons, mirrors and ribbons brought by the Corps members.

“The interpreters have extensively researched their characters,” Gaston said. “And they do not come out of character. They speak as the men would have and have learned what was considered proper etiquette of the time, some of which may be objectionable today.”

The Salt Makers Return is sponsored through a partnership with Fort Clatsop National Memorial, Seaside Museum and Historical Society and Destination: The Pacific. It is funded by grants from the National Park Service, Fort Clatsop Historical Association, Oregon Community Foundation, City of Seaside Promotion Committee and The Tides Motel.

A second Salt Makers Return event is scheduled for Aug. 20-22.

For more information about the program, call 738-7065 or go to (www.seasidemuseum.org)