Front Porch
Published 10:55 pm Friday, January 22, 2010
Clean-air meetings: The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is conducting three meetings today on how to burn cleanly and efficiently in wood stoves for home heating.
With the economic downturn, the agency is finding that more people are using wood to heat their homes, but inefficient stoves and fires cause unnecessary smoke and the resulting damage to air quality.
The meetings are 11 a.m. at Anderson Fireplace, 14616 Smokey Point Blvd., Marysville; Rich’s for the Home, 16504 Highway 99, Lynnwood; and Monroe Fireplace &Stove, 19922 U.S. 2 in Monroe.
For more information, visit www.pscleanair.org/BurnClean.
Donate bikes: Sharing Wheels will collect bicycles today: Sharing Wheels Community Bike Shop is collecting bicycles for adults in good condition for shipment to Ghana, Africa.
Bikes are efficient transportation for people who live in areas where the roads are rough and incomes are low. Sturdy adult-size bicycles requiring little or no repair may be dropped off between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at 2525 Broadway in Everett.
Sharing Wheels requests $10 be left with each bike to help defray the costs of shipping and repairs.
For more information, call 425-252-6952 or visit www.sharingwheels.org.
Swap meet today in Silvana: A swap meet is the latest event designed to raise money for a new septic system at Silvana’s Viking Hall.
More than 20 vendors plan to sell their wares from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the hall, 1331 Pioneer Highway.
Admission is $1.
