Community Extra: Opportunities
Published 9:36 pm Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Sing: Christmas carols and more for Tots
South Snohomish County Toys for Tots holds a Christmas Winter Rhapsody, 3 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave. Entry is a new, unwrapped toy or a monetary donation for the local Toys for Tots.
There will be caroling, ceramic crafts, free Santa pictures, door prizes, and a 4 p.m. performance of “Emmanuel: The Christmas Story.” Participants include the local U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, Everett High School Color Guard, Voyager Middle School choir, Faith Heritage Church, Studio 2 U, and Pape Hema, who will sing carols with a Caribbean flair.
More info: Mary Butler, butlerm39@yahoo.com
Listen: Dickens at the Mukilteo Library
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” — Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol”
Join the Friends of the Mukilteo Library from 2 to 3 p.m. Dec. 12 for some 19th century-style entertainment. Hear readings from Charles Dickens’ first American visit in 1842, as well as selections from “Oliver Twist,” “Hard Times,” “David Copperfield,” “A Christmas Carol” and “The Old Curiosity Shop.” Refreshments will be served. The library is at 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd.
More info: 425-493-8202
Plant: Trees for salmon, Christmas
The Adopt A Stream Foundation holds its annual sale of 200 live “Holiday Trees for Salmon,” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Northwest Stream Center at McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett. Trees cost $35 to $50 and come in pots. The selection includes 3- to 5-foot Sitka spruce, Western red cedar and Douglas fir.
After the holidays, trees that are returned to the Stream Center will be planted next to local streams to help next year’s salmon runs.
Each purchase also comes with an Adopt A Stream Foundation membership (a $25 value), providing discounts on Streamkeeper Academy classes and events and purchases at the nonprofit’s Nature Store.
More info: 425-316-8592, www.streamkeeper.org
Volunteer: Help with free portraiture event
Help-Portrait Everett is part of an international effort by photographers to take portraits of needy individuals and provide them with the professional results. Help-Portrait Everett is partnering with the Everett Housing Authority to photograph 75 low-income families and individuals from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 5 at Baker Heights, 1401 Poplar St.
Volunteers are welcome to help out. The event seeks photographers, greeters, photo editors and printers, child care workers, makeup artists, hair stylists and people willing to bring refreshments.
More info: help-portrait- everett.com
Give: Red Cross seeks blood donations
The American Red Cross urges you to give a very special gift this holiday season with a blood or platelet donation.
“During the winter months and especially around the holidays, blood donations tend to decline,” said Daphne Mathew, communication manager of the Red Cross Pacific Northwest Blood Services Region. Donors with all types, especially O negative, B negative and A negative, are urged to give. Platelet donors and those with type AB blood also are continually needed.
More info: redcrossblood.org, 800-733-2767
