FYI

The Positive Women’s Network and Everett Community College’s nursing department present the second annual "Girls to Grandmothers: Everett’s Premier Women’s Wellness Festival" 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave.

Free health screenings, massage and demonstrations of self-defense will be offered.

The event is coordinated by Providence Everett Medical Center and the Snohomish Health District.

The Faculty Scholarship Committee at Lynnwood High School sponsors fund-raisers for senior scholarships.

They have raised plants all year for a sale that takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday in Edmonds. Watch for signs near Edmonds Street and Sunset Avenue N. in Edmonds.

Community Transit will auction off surplus buses, mini-buses, vans and service vehicles to nonprofit groups at noon today.

What’s left over, plus 75 other surplus vehicles, will go to public auction at 9 a.m. Saturday at James G. Murphy Co., 18226 68th Ave. NE, Kenmore.

The Island County Historical Society museum offers a lecture by George MacDonald, director of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, at 7 tonight at the Coupeville Recreation Hall, 4 NE Seventh St., Coupeville.

The topic is "Ancestral Dreams: Painted Housefronts of the Northwest Coast."

Admission at the door is $5, $3 for kids, $8 for families and free to museum members and kids younger than 5.

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