EVENTS
Peace walk in Edmonds
The Carroll Cochran Peace Walk is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Town of Index. All are invited to attend this annual New Year’s Day event, which starts in front of Town Hall at 511 Avenue A. Representatives from the Seattle Chapter of Veterans for Peace will participate and speak.
More info: 360-793-9911
Pistol class planned
The North Whidbey Sportsmen’s Association is offering monthly safety classes to the public.
The next course — NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting — will be held Jan. 18-19 at the NWSA range at 886 Gun Club Rd., off Oak Harbor Road. This course introduces students to the knowledge, skills and attitude necessary for owning and using a pistol safely. The pistol handling and shooting portion is completed at the NWSA range where students will learn about safe gun handling, pistol shooting fundamentals, and pistol shooting activities. The course also will prepare the student for participation in other NRA courses. The cost is $35. Students can register online at nrainstructors.org
More info: John Hellmann at 675-8397, NWSA.Training@gmail.com, www.northwhidbeysportsmen.org.
— Whidbey News-Times
Participate in bird count
For the 43rd year, volunteers will be part of the North County Christmas Bird Count on Saturday.
Last year 125 volunteers participated. They counted 44,000 birds of 138 species.
Participants count in a variety of ways: on foot, by car, by motor boat to Hat Island, by kayak along Steamboat Slough and by bicycle along Centennial Trail.
Organizer Scott Atkinson said people who want to report birds on their own property are needed the most.
The count area is: north to Island Crossing, west to Kayak Point, east to the west edge of Lake Stevens, south to downtown Everett and a slim strip of southernmost Camano Island.
Atkinson said you never know what you are going to see.
“One year a snowy owl from the far north showed up on Jetty Island, yet nearby on Spencer Island there were six tree and two barn swallows — as if wintering in southern Mexico,” he said. “So you just never know what will turn up.”
Report your numbers to 425-210-2716 or scottratkinson@hotmail.com.
— The Arlington Times
WAYS TO HELP
Donate sewing supplies
Snohomish County Clothing Textile Advisors seeks donations of fabric, notions, needlework, yarn, related supplies and equipment for an annual fabric sale planned next summer. Proceeds will go to local scholarships, grants and sewing classes.
More info: Arlene, 425-743-0118 or fabricsale@yahoo.com
Charitable sewing projects
Sewers gather two Saturdays a month at an Everett church to work. Help make hospital gowns and butterfly pillows for hospitals and care sites at 9 a.m. second Saturdays. Help make reusable personal sanitary kits through Days for Girls at 9 a.m. third Saturdays. Both are held at Bethel Baptist Church in Everett.
More info: 425-252-0249
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