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Earth Day plans?

The Herald wants to hear about your community’s Earth Day activities for an upcoming issue of our A&E section.

E-mail information on your events — times, dates, locations, descriptions, and phone numbers for additional details — to Andrea McInnis in the features department at amcinnis@heraldnet.com. Information must be sent by noon April 9.

Take a walk with Friends of Camano Island Parks. Meet at 9:50 a.m. Saturday at the junction of Ivy and Dry Lake roads. You can access Dry Lake Road from Elger Bay or Monticello roads.

Walk from the Cama trailhead to the south beach of Camano Island State Park. It’s downhill and level terrain. Shuttle cars will be available to return to the trailhead. Walk back if you like. It’s 3.3 miles one way.

The Mukilteo Historical Society is working to complete a “hands-on” collection of artifacts to take to schools to help illustrate the good old days. Please call Ann Collier at 425-315-0823 if you would be willing to donate any of the following items: a butter churn, a butter mold, a butter paddle, a woman’s bonnet or lace collar, a button hook and an old shoe with buttons, a curling iron, an old fashioned pen, school books, old playing cards, stereoviews and stereos (stereopticon), a telegraph key, a molding plane, a large old key, a mustache cup, or a shaving mug and brush.

If you have something not on the list but comparable, please call.

These items will not be part of the museum collection, but would be passed around for kids to hold and examine.

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