Exchange your flags
A service organization that represents current and former enlisted members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will exchange 100 new 3-by-5-foot nylon American flags for unserviceable American flags.
Fleet Reserve Association Branch 170 of Everett
will exchange the flags at 9 a.m. Saturday at its home, 6802 Beverly Blvd. in Everett. The event ends when the flags are gone or at 1 p.m.
A flag that is faded or torn is considered to be unserviceable. There is no charge.
Members will also collect all unserviceable American flags for proper disposal, too.
For more information, call 425-870-2519 or 425-870-8749.
Generations meet: Members of AmeriCorps VISTA plan to be at the Carl Gipson Senior Center of Everett from 9 a.m. to noon today for a service project and to join in an intergenerational lunch.
The members of AmeriCorps, a national service program, plan to prepare the senior center’s patio for summer by cleaning furniture and helping a volunteer landscaper.
Along with helping, the young adult VISTA members will eat lunch, socialize and take part in other activities with area seniors. The VISTA members are serving a year with Volunteers of America Western Washington.
So far this year, they have helped area organizations raise more than $100,000.
Tidy Allen Creek: A work party is planned from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Allen Creek Elementary School, 6505 60th Drive NE in Marysville.
Work to do includes prepping, scraping and painting, weeding and picking up trash.
For more information, call Kimberly DeLap at 360-651-0607.
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