Sumner's Mystery Wine Walk is this weekend, with new additions scheduled along with some returning mainstays.

For the first time a reception is planned for the night before the wine walk. The reception will be from 6 p.m to 8 p.m. at The Old Cannery, 13608 Valley Ave. E. in Sumner. Tickets must be purchased in advance, according to the Sumner Downtown Association. Contact the association at 253-720-9846 for details. The reception provides guests the opportunity to sample the wines and cheeses that will be available during the Mystery Wine Walk.

The Mystery Wine Walk will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Ascension Productions is doing the mystery performance again. Throughout the evening the cast will mingle with the crowd and reveals clues. Those clues, along with the group's performance, should lead to the mystery's solution. The mystery this year is "The Sumner Dancing Sweetheart Vanishes."

Shelly Schlumpf, executive director of the Sumner Downtown Association, said about 20 wineries from the town of Prosser will be represented at the wine walk.

Prosser and Sumner are participating in a joint effort to promote the towns' hotels, shopping opportunities and restaurants. The chamber director and city administrator from Prosser are expected to attend.

The band Sumner Notes will play at 4 p.m. and clues will be handed out about every half-hour.

A new event this year is the sampling of cheeses from Willapa Hills, a creamery producing cheese made from sheep milk. Gothberg Farms is also scheduled to be at the event with some goat cheese samples.

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