The Edmonds-based Multiple Sclerosis-Helping Hands Donor Closet has just won a $5,000 national grant from the Florida-based Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.
The money will help MSHH purchase new durable medical equipment and mobility equipment to be distributed to people with multiple sclerosis who reside in Washington. These new items, often requested but not always available, will be added to MSHH’s inventory of items available to donate.
The Donor Closet is located at 409 Howell Way, Edmonds and is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Most of the items in the Donor Closet are available not just for people with MS but to others who have fallen through the cracks of the social services system for minimum suggested donations that are used to cover the Donor Closet’s monthly operating expenses.
For additional information, please see www.mshelp.org.
The Housing Authority of Snohomish County (HASCO) currently has over $1 million in funding to provide loans of up to $60,000 to homeowners to make needed health and safety repairs to owner-occupied homes.
Typical work includes roof replacements, plumbing and septic system repair, dry rot removal, and accessibility improvements such as ramps to help elderly and disabled homeowners stay in their homes.
HASCO helps the homeowner determine what work needs to be done, get bids for construction, and monitor the completion of the work.
Loans are at no interest or 3 percent interest over 30 years. Deferred payment loans are also available for qualifying elderly and disabled households. To qualify for a loan, households must own and occupy a home in Snohomish County and fall below maximum income guidelines — $43,050 for a single person, $49,200 for two people, $55,350 for three people, or $61,500 for a family of four. Families, seniors and disabled households are eligible.
This program serves homeowners in Snohomish County outside of the city limits of Everett and Bothell. For more information or to apply, call Jackie at 425-290-8499, extension 555.
Want to go skiing mid-week? Don’t want to drive? How about putting on those chains?
Again this year, the Patty Wagon ski bus will head to Stevens Pass for eight weeks of Thursday skiing beginning Jan. 8 and ending Feb. 26. The price is $191 for the eight weeks or $29 for a single week. Bus starts from 185th &Aurora, to Lake Forest Park, on to Bothell and last stop in Monroe.
Coffee and snacks are served on the trip up and back.
Those who do ski touring or snowshoeing can ride the Patty Wagon and then transfer to a shuttle bus that services the Nordic Center, further down the highway to the east. Same offer applies. For full information and a brochure, call Patty Price at 206-546-6717.
Ligia Veláquez has been named to the Coordinating Board at the Statewide Poverty Action Network. A resident of Edmonds, she is employed at the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
Be captivated by the earthy music of two Grammy-winning artists as the Edmonds Center for the Arts will welcome Native American flutist Mary Youngblood with local guitarist Eric Tingstad at 8 a.m., Jan. 16.
Tickets are available online at www.ec4arts.org, or by calling 425-275-9595. Ticket prices are $27 adults, $24 senior (62 and up), and $14 youth (17 and under).
The New Year brings Carol Schillios, founder of downtown Edmonds’ Fabric of Life Foundation and local boutique, to the Friends of the Library Jan. 22 meeting.
This month the group will meet in the Brackett’s Room in Edmonds City Hall, 121 Fifth Ave. N at 1:30 p.m. Schillios will share her experiences working with entrepreneurial women in emerging countries. Her topic will be cooperative partnerships that improve access to affordable credit, education and health care in the developing countries of Mali, Cameroon, Nepal, Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Refreshments served at 1 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Myrlie Evers-Williams, the first woman to chair the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the featured guest speaker for the 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration “Living the Dream,” which will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 at the Lynnwood Convention Center, 3711 196th St. SW.
Evers-Williams is the widow of the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist in 1963.
The event is sponsored by the city of Lynnwood, Central Washington University, Edmonds Community College, the Edmonds School District, Lynnwood Journal Newspapers and Rotary Club of Lynnwood.
Evers-Williams also will appear at a brown bag luncheon at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14 at Edmonds Community College.
For more information, call 425-640-1538 or visit the Web page www.edcc.edu/lectures
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