Vote for your favorite garden
The Edmonds in Bloom Association this year is inviting community members to help choose a local garden to receive the 2004 People’s Choice Award. Any garden that is in the 98020 or 98026 zipcode can be nominated for the award. Stephie Van Winkle, president of the Association, said, “The only criteria is that it be visible from the street and how appealing it is to the eye.” To submit a nomination or vote, mail ballots found in the Edmonds Enterprise Newspaper to Edmonds in BLoom, 700 Main St, Edmonds, WA., 98020. Deadline: Aug. 25. Winners will be announced at the Edmonds in Bloom awards celebration and gala Aug. 29.
March to the beat at Edmonds library
The Edmonds Library will host the Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band in concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24 in the Plaza Room of the library, 650 Main St.
The family concert, as part of the culmination of Summer Reading activities at the Library, is free and open to the public .
The 30-member ensemble has played to audiences throughout the Northwest for over 18 years, and is well known for boisterous renditions of familiar but largely forgotten marching band music, library officials said. For more information, go to http://www.geocities.com/sedentarysousa/ or call 425-771-1933.
Lodging tax funds for tourism
The Edmonds Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC) currently is looking for applications from local organizations that qualify for lodging tax funds. These funds may only be used for tourism promotion or for the acquisition or operation of tourism-related facilities in Edmonds, city officials said. Funding is limited, and disbursement is decided by members of the Edmonds City Council.
For more information or to request an application, call 425-771-0247 or pick up an application at City Hall, 121 5th Ave. N. Applications are due by Friday, Sept. 3, 2004.
Arts organizations who are looking for funds to promote arts activities should call the Edmonds Arts Commission at 425-771-0228 for separate applications, due in November of this year.
Edmonds artists
on display
The work of Edmonds photographers currently is on display at the at the Frances Anderson Center and the City of Edmonds Library. Hosted by the Edmonds Arts Festival and the City of Edmonds Arts Commission, the displays will be up through the month of August, and include color landscape photos of Yellowstone National Park by Bruce Coxley, black and white pieces from Ursula Curran’s New York Series, and black and white pieces from Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring’s Water in Motion, Two Views and Concrete and Steel Series, among others.
For more information, call 425-771-1984 or 425-771-0228.
Author to fill in
as minister
The Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church will host author Robert Fulghum at 9:30 and 11 a.m. for four consecutive Sundays, beginning Sept. 12. Fulghum will fill in for minister Ed Brock.
Fulghum served as minister for the church from 1966-1985, and since then has published seven books, including ‘All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,’ written a nationally-syndicated newspaper column and performed in two television adaptations of his work for PBS.
Services are open to the public. The church is located at 8109 224th St SW in Edmonds. For more information, call 425-778-0373 ro go to www.euuc.org.
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