Children’s Fair at the LFP Farmers Market
Bring your children, grandchildren and your friends’ children to the Lake Forest Park Children’s Fair, Sunday, June 10. This fun-filled event includes, a real fire truck, free bouncing toys, pony rides, face painting and balloons and lots of other cool activities. Cascade Bike Club will be fitting and selling reduced price bike helmets.
Listen to great music broadcasted from the Arts Council Showmobile. Recess Monkeys, an engaging children’s musical group will open the market and the Children’s Fair at 11 a.m. with a children’s parade. Get ready for spirited music, and laugh out loud musical antics. Then, stay tuned for the Emerald City Jug Band at 12:30 p.m. and the Milner Family Fiddlers at 2:30 p.m. Music will fill the air.
The Children’s Fair is part of the official opening of the third annual Farmers Market taking place on stage at noon. This is a chance to thank everyone who has made the market a success.
Children will also find plenty to do at the farmers market including a scavenger hunt with prizes. The market is filled with strawberries, rainier and red local cherries, cheese, zucchini, kale, salad greens, 12 types of all-organic lettuce, flowers, spreads, fish halibut and salmon, smoked and just caught, rhubarb, trees, snap peas, pop corn and pizza, BBQ sandwiches and more.
The City of Lake Forest Park sponsors Children’s Day at the Farmers Market.
Learn more about Identity Theft
Community members can learn more about identity theft in a 45-minute presentation Wednesday, June 13, at Anderson House, 17201 15th Ave. NE. in Shoreline.
The presentation, made by Brian Doennebrink, will cover what the scope of identity theft is, what makes someone vulnerable and how to improve the odds against being victimized by this crime.
Doennebrink has done extensive research on this issue and has received training from the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit, nationally respected organization dedicated exclusively to the understanding and prevention of identity theft.
The presentation will begin at 7:15 p.m. For more information, contact Kathleen at 425-775-9609 or Randy at 206-365-8776.
Star Night at Paramount Park
The Seattle Astronomical Society will host its free monthly public star party on June 23, at Paramount Park Northeast 155th Street and Eighth Avenue Northeast in Shoreline.
Club members will set up their telescopes around 7 p.m. Members of the public are encouraged to drop by and have a look at what’s in the sky. Poor weather will cancel the star parties. For more information, visit the Seattle Astronomical Society Web site at www.seattleastro.org, e-mail information@seattleastro.org, or call the events line at 206-523-ASTR.
The next phase of the Aurora Corridor
Join City of Shoreline staff at Meridian Park Elementary, 17077 Meridian Avenue North, on June 20 at 6 p.m. to review and comment on design options for the Aurora Corridor Project from North 165th to 205th Streets. This is also a chance to learn more about results of the environmental analysis, updates to the implementation strategies and natural storm water concepts.
For more information contact Shoreline capital projects manager Kris Overleese at 206-546-0791.
‘Arts in Bloom’ for 2007 festival
The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is seeking artists for the 17th annual Shoreline Arts Festival on June 23 and 24. Juried categories include 2-D art, sculpture, photography and film.
The Shoreline Arts Festival is a community event featuring two extraordinary days of music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts and food, plus the Shoreline Philippine Festival and Lake2Sound Film Festival. The 2007 theme is “Arts in Bloom!”
The event draws approximately 10,000 individuals every year to the Shoreline Center at 18560 First Ave. NE. in Shoreline. Deadlines for entries vary and applications are available online at www.shorelinearts.net. Contact the arts council at 206-417-4645 for more information.
Calling all artists for Echo Lake Park
The City of Shoreline is seeking an artist to create a significant work to enhance Echo Lake Park and the Interurban Trail through the park site.
One percent of construction costs of the park is allocated for public art. The selected artist will be awarded a commission of up to $20,000 including tax to cover the design, fabrication and installation of the art, to include materials, labor, insurance and transportation to the site of the artwork.
Anyone interested in creating art for Echo Lake should submit a resume, up to 10 digital images of recent work on a CD, preliminary design sketches and a proposed budget and timeline to City of Shoreline, Attn.: Echo Lake Park Art Project, 17544 Midvale Ave. N. Shoreline 98133. Questions may be answered by calling Ros Bird, public art coordinator with Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services at 206-546-2831.
County hosts meeting about mental health
The King County Council will unveil the findings of Phase III to the public at a Town Hall meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., June 25 at the Shoreline Conference Center, 18560 First Ave. NE. This phase of the Action Plan on Mental Health and Chemical Dependency will combine the findings of Phase I and II and address how available services and the criminal justice system improvements can be brought together to meet the needs of the target populations. It will include a study of how many mentally ill and chemically dependent people are in the justice and emergency medical systems, a description of the service changes and improvements that would assist these people, and a forecast of what these developments will cost.
Help end hunger inWestern Washington
Help feed hungry people in our community by becoming a Product Recovery Specialist at Food Lifeline. On a mission to end hunger in Western Washington, the nonprofit announced a new volunteer program that provides wholesome, nutritious food to those who need it, and supports community partnerships with retail grocery stores.
Volunteers will handle perishable food donations from local grocers, sorting products for quality and safety, rescuing thousands of pounds of food each week from landfills for distribution to emergency shelters, meal programs, and food banks in the Puget Sound area. Qualified volunteers should be able to commit to a three-hour shift one afternoon a week, read food labels in English and follow written culling guidelines, lift a maximum of 15-20 pounds, and work cooperatively in small groups.
For more information on this and other opportunities to serve with Food Lifeline, contact Stacia Bowe, volunteer resources assistant, at staciab@fll.org, or call 206-545-6600.
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