Go for the (Mari)gold
The deadline for entering the Edmonds in Bloom garden competition has been extended to Saturday, June 25.
The annual competition that recognizes the best and brightest gardening efforts is set for July 7-15. Multiple categories gives everyone — from the condo-dweller with a postage-stamp-size terrace to the neighborhood with the best group effort — a chance at five minutes of fame.
Information and entry forms are available at the Frances Anderson Center, Edmonds Library, Garden Gear and the visitor’s information center in the log cabin across from City Hall. For more detailed information contact Barbara Chase at 425- 697-3552 or the Web site at www.edmondsinbloom.com.
Up Against the Wall
Art got personal at a recent city council meeting when the sculpture selected for the exterior wall of City Hall received an enthusiastic thumbs-up from policy makers and audience alike.
Murmurs of approval rippled through the audience as sculptor Nickolus Meisel, who teaches at Washington State University, showed off the centerpiece of his winning submission: a flotilla of simple origami-like sailboats recalling the days of the “mosquito fleet” in Puget Sound.
The boats will be fashioned partially of recycled copper from the Main Street fountain that was damaged by a car and removed in 1998. Underscoring the copper fleet will be a stainless steel swoop that Meisel said was shorthand for “You are Here,” the title of his sculpture.
Meisel’s work will be combined with signage identifying the building as City Hall. It was selected by a jury of community members from 14 submissions and three finalists.
The artist will be paid $10,000 from the city’s One Percent for the Arts and an art-reserve fund.
White Sail
Edmonds bid bon voyage to Everett’s gift of a boat trailer and six small sailboats because it can’t afford the sailing program in which they were to be used.
Last summer Everett gave Edmonds the trailer and boats for a Lake Ballinger sailing program to be offered through the city’s parks and recreation department.
Lack of funding and a recreation manager for the program sunk it.
For lovers of minutiae, the gift was unit #501 in the city’s ledger.
Up, Up &Aweigh
City Council President Richard Marin will permanently doff his other hat — that of a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve – at a retirement ceremony Saturday, July 9 at the Reserve Center Station in Everett.
Retirement is obligatory due to Marin reaching his 60th birthday this summer. He has been associated with the Navy since he joined as a seaman recruit in 1965.
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