Saturday is the day for a visit to Camano Island. There’s so much to do.
Camano Island Home Tour: First, there’s the 32nd annual Camano Island Home Tour, featuring five private homes, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, all around the picturesque island.
Homes on the tour include craftsman, cottage and beach-influenced styles.
Multiple homes showcase stunning water views. One home boasts a large indoor horse arena and grooming area. Another has fireplaces and a boulder water feature reminiscent of Stonehenge.
Yet another is home to two artistic sisters and their husbands, who designed, built and decorated a vacation home together.
Tickets are $10, available at Snow Goose Bookstore and Marcy’s Boutique in Stanwood and Camano Island Coffee Roasters and Copy This-Mail That on Camano Island.
Tickets and refreshments will be available at the Tea House at Camano Lutheran Church, 850 Heichel Road. Tickets include a map and driving directions to the homes on this self-guided tour.
Proceeds from the tour will benefit the Camano Island Women’s Republican Club scholarship fund. Call Vicki Tanner at 360-387-3964 for more about the tour.
Camano Honors Earth: On the same day as the Camano Island Home Tour, you can attend a special event by Camano Action for a Rural Environment, also known as CARE.
CARE, working in collaboration with artist Karla Matzke, will host Camano Honors Earth from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island.
Opening ceremonies start at noon, followed by presentations on climate change, watershed and shoreline preservation and rain barrels, plus short films, live music, poetry readings and guided Backyard Wildlife Habitat tours.
Visitors will have a chance to see the four sculptures that will eventually be installed on the corners of the Highway 532 Camano Gateway Bridge in October.
Sculptor Debbi Rhodes will explain the symbolism of her work.
There will be a reception and artist presentation from 5 to 8 p.m. at the gallery to close the day.
CARE is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization geared toward protecting Camano’s waters, promoting good stewardship and encouraging responsible land use.
Learn more about CARE, see a schedule of the day’s events, or join the group at www.CamanoCare.org or call 360-387-9589. Membership is $20 per person or $30 per family.
Spring garden planning: Vegetable gardening season isn’t even over yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start thinking about planning your spring garden in 2011.
Find out how at “Getting a Head Start on your Spring Veggie Garden” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Washington State University Snohomish County Extension offices at McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett. Learn to prepare your soil and garden strategically now to get a jump-start on spring.
Diane Decker-Isle, a Snohomish County master gardener, will walk you through the steps.
Cost is $25, $30 for two people, and includes handouts, door prizes and a free pack of seeds.
Find details and registration form at snohomish.wsu.edu. Call Sharon Collman at 425-357-6025 with questions.
Path of the future: The Evergreen Arboretum &Gardens will celebrate the grand opening of its new wheelchair-accessible path with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication at 5:30 Tuesday at 145 Alverson Blvd., Everett.
Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson will speak. Light refreshments will be served.
The $50,000 FilterPave-brand porous pavement system is eco-friendly because it is made of colorful, recycled crushed glass and allows water to pass through, which reduces runoff.
Made by a Wisconsin-based company, it is one of the first systems of its kind to be installed in the Northwest.
Volunteers with the Evergreen Arboretum &Gardens Foundation raised most of the money for the 500-foot-long path to replace a non-accessible path that winds through most of the arboretum’s themed gardens.
The city of Everett assisted in path’s planning and installation.
Learn more about the 3.3-acre arboretum in north Everett at www.evergreenarboretum.com or leave a message at 425-257-8597.
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