The Puget Sound Bloodmobile will be at the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre in the lower parking area on Friday, March 7, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sign up by calling Lake Forest Park City Hall at 206-368-5440.
Your donation will help in many ways. The Puget Sound Blood Center provides blood to those in need of emergency medical care, patients with blood disorders, as well as important research. Your donation truly helps save lives.
If you are new or a returning donor, call City Hall at 206-368-5440 to pre-register or walk-ins welcome.
Soccer team wins State Cup
FC Shoreline International won the State Cup tournament 2-0 in over-time on Feb. 16 at Starfire Stadium in Tukwila.This is the biggest tournament and the highest accomplishment possible at the team’s level. Fans waved the flags of 12 different countries representing the team roster to cheer them on.
The team also won the Game Sportsmanship Award as voted by the Referees.
Fill up your brisket with Blarney
On St. Patrick’s Day the Irish remember the “potato famine.” Even those who don’t really remember it go out and eat potatoes and drink green beer to commemorate it. Did they dye their beer green back then while eating those potatoes?
Regardless, the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center will serve potatoes and green beer at a St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 14. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. where they will offer a banquet of Irish green salad, Gallic bread, baked potatoes with all the trimmings. Besides sour cream and chives, bacon bits and cheese, they will offer Corned beef and cabbage and other Irish food to top your potato.
Wash it all down with green beer and stay for the entertainment. Lynne and Dave “O”Cheeney will play and Irish Dancers from Peggy O’Toole Weber’s Irish dancing class will perform. There will be a ceili (Irish line dances, reels, etc.) as well!
Don’t forget to tell your friends in case they haven’t read the newspapers. Your meal includes all the beer and potato toppings. Tickets go on sale Feb. 25, $15 for senior center members, $18 for others and $12 for children under $12. Seating is limited so buy your tickets early.
The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center is located at 18560 1st Ave NE, in Shoreline. Call 206-365-1536 for more information.
Help find Shoreline’s Champion Trees
Shoreline’s Community Wildlife Habitat Project is looking for a few big trees. In conjunction with the Shoreline Parks Department and as a part of National Wildlife Federation’s (NWF) Community Wildlife Habitat Program we want to find the champion trees in Shoreline’s parks.
A champion tree is typically defined by a calculation using height, circumference and canopy width. If it’s the biggest tree when compared to other trees of the same species, then it’s a champion. This contest is funded by Environmental Mini-Grants from both the City of Shoreline and the King County Natural Resource Stewardship Network.
The contest will take place within Shoreline parks and will increase awareness of the habitat value and beauty mature native trees provide in our urban landscape.
The goal of the contest is to discover the largest (champion) tree in each of the more than twenty native species within the parks. The contest will begin with training and run until August 31, 2008. In early September, the earliest “finder” of each champion tree will be honored with a framed award certificate.
Shoreline’s Community Wildlife Habitat Project (sponsored by Sustainable Shoreline Education Assoc) has organized this contest to encourage people to learn how to identify our local native trees. In addition, the Shoreline Parks Department is looking forward to having the Champion Trees located and identified so park visitors can appreciate them. The information may also be used in working toward building an environmentally sustainable city.
Participants in the Champion Tree Contest will be invited to attend one of the free training sessions on native tree identification given by Arthur Lee Jacobsen, author of Trees of Seattle on Saturday, March 15th or Saturday, March 22nd from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at Shoreline Community College.
To learn more about the contest, the contest rules and how to register for the training session please contact Barbara, 206-542-3242 or guthdall@msn.com or Boni at birdsbeesfishtrees@gmail.com
Local students serve as legislative pages
Students from schools across Washington arrive in Olympia every week to serve in the page programs at the Washington State Legislature.
Rep. Ruth Kagi, D-Lake Forest Park, recently sponsored two legislative pages in the Washington State House of Representatives. Blake Hartley and Madeline Lees were responsible for a wide variety of tasks throughout their one-week term. Some of those responsibilities involved important assignments on the House or Senate floor such as distributing bills and amendments to legislative members, or performing ceremonial tasks such as presenting the flags before the legislative session.
Hartley is a son of Barbara and Steve Hartley of Lake Forest Park. He is a freshman at Shorecrest High school. Lees is a daughter of Babs Glover and Judd Lees of Lake Forest Park. She is an eighth grade student at The Evergreen School.
Sen. Darlene Fairley, D-Lake Forest Park, also sponsored Tyler Hartje as a Senate page. Hartje, a 14-year-old from Lake Forest Park, is a student at Kellogg Middle School. He is a member of the National Honor Society, the Cascade Youth Symphony, and the Aqua Club Swim Team.
Senate pages carry mail between offices and relay messages to the Senate floor. Pages must attend page school while working in Olympia. In school, pages write their own bills, engage in debates, and participate in mock hearings.
Hartje served as a member of the color guard on Feb. 19 for the Senate’s opening ceremony. During his week as a page, Tyler said that he learned “a lot more” about government. Even so, he said he was surprised at how much he remembered from social studies class.
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