Our Towns: Central County
Published 11:27 pm Monday, November 19, 2007
Everett: City offers free dump coupons
The city is offering residents in several neighborhoods an incentive to clean up their junk and yard waste.
People who live in most of the city’s neighborhoods can pick up vouchers good for dropping off up to 360 pounds of trash at the Airport Road Recycling and Transfer Station, 10700 Minuteman Drive.
The effort to tidy up neighborhoods is a joint project of the city and Snohomish County Solid Waste Division. Each participating neighborhood association can receive as many as 155 coupons in 2007 and 2008.
Call Wendy McClure at 425-257-8717 for more information.
Children’s reading room to get a boost
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation gave Friends of the Everett Public Library a $3,000 grant to help create a family reading area in the Children’s Room at the Everett Public Library, 2702 Hoyt Ave.
The gift will be used to renovate the Children’s Room to make it feel more like a living room, including adding new furniture, lighting and shelving.
Friends of the Everett Public Library began raising money for the Family Reading Area in October by selling signed copies of a print depicting the library by Everett artist Peter Jensen. Copies of the print are available at the Main Library. All proceeds will go toward creating the family reading area.
Research shows children who are read to from an early age have more success learning to read.
Lake Stevens: Bake sale at senior center
The Lake Stevens Senior Center is planning a holiday bake and craft sale for Dec. 1.
The sale is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the center, 1814 124th Ave. NE. Proceeds will benefit the senior center.
For more information, call 425-335-0345.
Mukilteo: Readers invited to book group
Readers are invited to join next month’s meeting of the daytime book group at the Mukilteo Library.
The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Dec. 4 at the library, 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd. Anyone can attend.
The featured book for December’s meeting is “Persuasion” by Jane Austen.
For more information, call the library at 425-493-8202.
Snohomish: Silent auction set at gallery
Arts of Snohomish Gallery and the Rotary Club of Snohomish present the third annual Reflections in Art mirror show and silent auction from 5 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 1 at 105 Cedar Ave.
This exhibition features more than 25 artistically embellished mirrors. Mirror designs range from the tame to the wildly embellished. In addition to mirrors, other art will also be silently auctioned off.
To add your name to the guest list, call 360-568-8648. Reservations are required.
