Front Porch: Learn basics of baking bread

Crave the scent of freshly baked bread in your own home? Learn some “Bread Making Basics” at a free seminar, 2 p.m. Jan. 20, at the Snohomish Library, 311 Maple Ave.

Participants will learn how to make a basic bread dough that can be used in multiple ways, from dinner rolls to cinnamon rolls. Recipes and samples provided.

Attendance is limited. Register at www.sno-isle.org or call 360-568-2898.

Angela Davis in Lynnwood: Activist, scholar and two-time communist party vice presidential candidate Angela Davis will be the featured speaker at Lynnwood’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Jan. 17.

Davis will speak twice, first at 12:30 p.m. at Edmonds Community College, and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Both events are free and open to the public.

The afternoon event will be held in the Black Box Theatre on the college campus at 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood.

The Lynnwood Convention Center is at 3711 196th St. SW.

Davis is the author of “Women, Race, and Class” (1980) and “Are Prisons Obsolete?” (2003).

For more information, call 425-670-5023 or email jmoore@ci.lynnwood.wa.us.

Find help at resource fair: WorkSource Snohomish County plans a resource fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at its Everett location inside Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave.

Find resources for and assistance with housing, job searches, transportation, child care, food assistance, senior programs, health care, mental health support, veterans’ services, utility assistance, financial survival and services for people with disabilities.

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