Bathroom makeover: The AARP’s Recession Remodel Room Makeover contest is coming to Snohomish.
Mary Waggoner, who cares for her 84- and 83-year-old parents, Clarence and Louise Waggoner, won a place in the contest along with another family in North Carolina.
Nationally known designer Cynthia Leibrock, who specializes in spaces that accommodate all ages and needs, will work with local designers and contractors to transform the winners’ homes.
In Waggoner’s case, it will be a bathroom project. Her mother’s wheelchair won’t fit in her small, dated bathroom, and neither her father nor her mother can use the room’s traditional shower and tub combination safely.
Designers will be charged with updating the bathroom’s style on a $5,000 budget while adding a wider doorway, a walk-in shower, a higher, more efficient toilet and other safety features.
Both AARP projects, including a kitchen makeover in Charlotte, N.C., for a woman, her husband and her mother, will be chronicled on video for www.aarp.org, which will use the projects to produce a series of how-to videos for its home design Web page.
See photos of the featured families as well as “before” shots from both projects at www.aarp.org/remodel.
Focus on design: Figuring out a design for your garden can seem like a daunting process. Why not dedicate an entire day to it with a host of gardening professionals?
That’s the idea behind “Designing the Garden You Want: From Basics to the Final Touches” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 10 at Bastyr University, 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Kenmore.
The Northwest Perennial Alliance is offering the symposium, which includes lunch, for $85 or $65 if you’re an NPA member.
Speakers will discuss concept gardens, foundation plantings and hardscaping, dealing with shade, incorporating edibles, garden art and container gardening.
Register at www.n-p-a.org. For more information, call 425-647-6004.
Share your bounty: You may be sick of tomatoes and zucchini already, but the Marysville Community Food Bank is not.
Despite large donations from local groups and community gardens already this year, more produce is needed to meet the demands of a tough economy.
Gardeners with extra squash, tomatoes, beans, plums, apples or other fresh produce are encouraged to donate it to the food bank between 8 and 11 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and between 2 and 6 p.m. Tuesdays at 4150 88th St. NE, Marysville.
Volunteers also are needed to glean from local fruit trees when the owners are unable to pick it themselves.
To volunteer at the food bank, please call 360-658-1054 or go to marysville communityfb.com.
Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.
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