Join friends and neighbors at Lake Forest Park’s Farmers Market on May 10 and welcome back farmers and producers. Bring spring home by picking up a bouquet for Mom. Browse the stalls for everything from eggs and cheese, fresh greens and fish, to just picked asparagus for Sunday dinner. The Market is open in the lower mall area of Lake Forest Park Towne Centre at 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday through October 4.
Embrace Shoreline Schools
In the spring of 2008, a group of faith-based organizations in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park led by Pastor Steve Ulmer of New Hope-Seattle wanted to find a way to serve the community.
Spearheaded by Pastor Ulmer’s efforts, each Shoreline/Lake Forest Park school was paired with a local church. Area neighborhood associations, service club members, and PTSA members joined them out in the rain and drizzle, cleaning up and weeding the school grounds.
Now it’s time to do it again.
The next Embrace Shoreline Schools (ESS) landscaping effort is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon on May 16.
Participants are welcome to join with the area’s PTAs, faith communities and neighborhoods to work on volunteer projects at the district’s schools on that day. Projects may include such tasks as gardening and maintenance, pruning, weeding, and other needs identified by the schools themselves. Please bring your own hand tools and gloves.
For a complete list of contacts, visit www.embraceshorelineschools.org.
This year, ESS will also team with the Back to School Consortium, encouraging the community to bring donations of new backpacks that will be filled with school supplies and distributed to students in need in August.
The annual Shoreline Back-To-School event provides school supplies, hair cuts, and clothing assistance to Shoreline School District families with a low income and/or circumstances that make it challenging to adequately prepare their children for school. In 2008, more than 650 backpacks filled with school supplies were distributed.
This year’s Back to School event takes place Saturday, Aug. 29, at Ridgecrest Elementary. For more information, visit www.btsconsortium.org.
Ridgecrest hosts potluck dinner
The Ridgecrest Neighborhood Association is sponsoring a neighborhood Potluck Dinner on May 12 in the Ridgecrest Elementary School cafeteria. Neighbors can arrive between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., with a main dish for their family (and a little extra to share as well as some rolls or bread, or a salad or perhaps a dessert) and children’s beverages. Plates, utensils, napkins, cups and coffee will be provided.
Shoreline police officer Greg McKinney will speak on neighborhood safety current and problem areas and answer any concerns residents may have on those subjects. He will also discuss how to set up a Block Watch program.
The annual election of officers of the association will be held and any Ridgecrest resident is eligible to be nominated if they agree to stand for election.
A donation of non-perishable foods for the Hopelink food bank will be gratefully accepted.
Arts Council has new Web site
The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. In conjunction with the anniversary, the council is launching a redesigned Web site at shorelinearts.net.
Ann Jensen Warman of BrandUnity designed the site, and Shannon Tipple-Leen keeps the site updated. In addition, the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is also unveiling a new logo, designed by Shoreline resident Jennifer Hill, in response to a call for graphic designers for the logo competition.
The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is located at Shoreline Center, 18560 First Ave. NE, Shoreline, WA 98155.
For more information, call 206-417-4645.
Plant sale at Rose House
A plant sale at the Rose House in Edmonds on May 9 will feature hundreds of tomato plants, sweet basil, zucchini, yellow squash, green beans, sweet peppers, cucumbers, sunflowers and Black-Eyed Susans.
Proceeds from the sale will support the efforts of the Center for Creative &Humanitarian Endeavors to purchase and preserve the historic house located at 555 Main St., which is for sale and at risk for demolition if purchased to make ways for condos and retail shops. The Center hopes to turn the house into a permanent nonprofit center for advancing the arts, health and community wellness, a sustainable environment, and global understanding. The community’s support is needed to help purchase the house, which sits on commercial property in the heart of town.
For more information on Saturday’s plant sale, or about volunteering or donating to the Center’s efforts, contact Susan Blalock at 425-275-1208 or visit http://EdmondsRoseHouse.org.
Champion Tree contest begins
In conjunction with Arbor Day, Shoreline’s Community Wildlife Habitat Project is once again looking for a few big trees. While last year’s contest was limited to trees within our park system, this year property owners can nominate their own trees. The contest, which takes place within the City of Shoreline, aims to increase awareness of the storm water runoff services, habitat value and beauty mature native trees provide for our urban forest canopy.
Champions are determined by an international system of measurement using height, circumference and crown spread for each species. To learn more about how a tree becomes a champion please visit: www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/measure.php
If a tree is the biggest tree when compared to other trees of the same species, then it’s a champion.
This contest will run through Sept. 5 and is funded by an Environmental Mini-Grant from the King County Natural Resource Stewardship Network. All Champion Trees will be provided with a fact sheet including its “measurements” and information about its species.
Shoreline’s Community Wildlife Habitat Project (sponsored by Sustainable Shoreline Education Assoc) has organized this contest to increase awareness of and appreciation for all the benefits mature native trees bring to us every day.
Nominate a tree at www.sustainableshoreline.org/ChampionTree.html. Anyone with questions can contact Barbara at 206-542-3242 or guthdall@msn.com or Boni at birdsbeesfishtrees@gmail.com.
Help End Summer Hunger
Hopelink, the largest social services agency serving East and North King County, has launched its annual “End Summer Hunger” fund and food drive.
Families made 23 percent more visits to Hopelink’s food banks between September and December 2008 than the same period in 2007. The proceeds from End Summer Hunger will stock Hopelink’s six food banks for the high-demand summer months when subsidized meal programs at schools are not available and parents need more food to fill their children’s stomachs. The proceeds also support Hopelink’s homelessness prevention programs for families. In 2008, the End Summer Hunger campaign raised more than $119,000 in monetary and food donations.
The End Summer Hunger campaign begins April 1 and ends Aug. 31, and seeks support from schools, individuals, businesses and organizations.
Expedia is the presenting sponsor for End Summer Hunger 2009. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, contact Eric Thom at ethom@hope-link.org or 425.558.5910. For information on how to get involved in End Summer Hunger, go to www.hope-link.org or Hopelink’s Web site for young philanthropists, http://youthlink.hope-link.org.
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