Community Extra: Opportunities
Published 1:30 am Friday, August 19, 2016
Donate: Blood drives address shortage
The American Red Cross seeks donors to give blood in the final weeks of summer to help overcome a critical blood shortage.
Upcoming blood drives:
1 to 6 p.m. Aug. 23 at the American Red Cross Everett Chapter, 2530 Lombard Ave., Everett
11 a.m. to4 p.m. Aug. 24 and 25 at Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd.
More info: redcrossblood.org
Explore: Go on a moonlit beach adventure
Join Edmonds Ranger naturalists and volunteer beach docents for a moonlight beach adventure, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Marina Beach Park, 470 Admiral Way.
There will be stories, songs and touch tanks with underwater creatures. Bring a flashlight! The event is for all ages and is free.
More info: 425-771-0227
Celebrate: It’s almost fair time!
It will be 12 days of “fun for the whole herd” at the Evergreen State Fair, which kicks off Aug. 25 and runs through Sept. 5 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Ave. SE, Monroe.
Make time for rides, shopping, animals, live entertainment and fried things on sticks. The fair lays claim to the largest single attraction held in Snohomish County.
Opening day offers free gate admission for everyone until 1 p.m. Regular fair admission ranges from $8 to $12, with ages 5 and younger free.
Parking is $10, or pay regular bus fare and take a Community Transit bus (Routes 270 and 271 weekdays, Route 271 weekends and Labor Day). Free parking for bus riders is at Everett Station and at the Gold Bar, Snohomish and Sultan park-and-ride lots. More information is at www.communitytransit.org/schedules.
More info: www.evergreenfair.org
Poke: Back to school means shots
The Washington State Department of Health urges parents to make sure their kids’ immunizations are up-to-date before heading back to school this fall.
“Summer is a busy time, and immunizations are often overlooked. Vaccines are critical protection for our children and help keep other kids around them safe from many diseases such as whooping cough and measles,” said State Health Officer Dr. Kathy Lofy.
Last school year, 85 percent of kindergartners had all their required immunizations.
For school year 2016-2017, there are changes to the chickenpox vaccine requirement. Kids in kindergarten through grade 12 must get two doses of the vaccine or have a health care provider document that they have already had chickenpox.
More info: www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/Immunization
