Learn to manage beavers by making a fake dam
Published 6:11 pm Monday, March 9, 2009
Don’t let beavers get the upper hand.
Northwest Stream Center, Adopt-A-Stream Foundation, offers a class Thursday called Beaver Management.
Learn how to fashion a system called a Beaver Deceiver to create a fake dam.
Beaver expert Jake Jacobson will discuss the idea. As a part of the training event, Adopt-A-Stream Foundation ecologists will make a Beaver Deceiver during the program at 1 p.m. at 600 128th St. SE, Everett.
For more information, visit streamkeeper.org.
Tom Murdoch, director of Adopt-A-Stream, said if you’re living next to a beaver pond and water’s rising and getting to your back door, installing a Beaver Deceiver could lower the water level but retain habitat so the beavers can still thrive in the same environment.
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The location has changed, but the aim is the same.
Black cats need homes.
Black Cat Antiques in Snohomish used to host adoption events, but the business has closed. Instead, Purrfect Pals offers Black Cats Are Lucky from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Pet Pros, 13619 Mukilteo Speedway, Lynnwood.
“Black cats can be lucky, just ask the fishermen’s wives who kept black cats while their husbands went to sea,” says Kathleen Shaw, outreach coordinator with Purrfect Pals. “They believed that the black cats would bring their husbands home safe.”
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Quilters Anonymous Quilt Guild offers a show called “Wrapped In Washington Memories.”
It’s planned for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 20 and 21, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 22 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe.
Raffle tickets are $1 for a quilt titled “Wish You Were Here! Postcards of the Northwest.” Linda Ostroff of Mill Creek created a square featuring a Washington state ferry.
See more than 400 quilts at the show. Admission is $7 and parking is free.
For more information, visit www.quiltersanonymous.org.
“The block was a joy to make,” Ostroff says. “I’ve always been fascinated with the ferries here. They’re so romantic and evoke some of those we traveled on in Norway years ago.”
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Cascade High School graduate Dave Whatley is co-author of the play “A Postcard from L.A.,” staged by Central Washington University’s Central Theatre Ensemble through Saturday in Ellensburg.
The piece tracks the story of two best friends, Neil and Charlie, who move to Los Angeles with a dream of not just becoming successful Hollywood screenwriters, but of changing the world.
Whatley moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and met writing partner Evan Bleisweiss when they were both working at a Chinese restaurant in Encino. In 2002, they began writing “A Postcard from L.A.” Whatley grew up in Everett and lives in California.
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The Snohomish Chamber of Commerce is looking for volunteers to help with the city’s annual Easter parade on April 11.
“This is the 29th annual Snohomish Easter Parade and the only one in the state of Washington,” says Pam Osborne, chamber manager. “Fifteen years ago an Easter bonnet contest was added to the Parade Day events.”
Kids, adults and pets are judged on their creativity and originality for the best bonnets of the day. All kids who enter the 11 a.m. parade get a prize.
Many moons ago, Osborne made her daughter a pretty bonnet for the parade.
“I am not quite sure what exactly I did, except that it involved bunny ears,” Osborne says. “And I remember when we got there, she refused to wear it.”
Anyone interested in helping is asked to call Laura Huntington at 425-754-4518.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
