The “25th Annual National Night Out” (NNO), a crime/drug prevention event is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Every year block watch organizations, neighborhood groups, and neighbors get together to have a good time, share food and fun, and get reacquainted with friends and neighbors in Shoreline and in Lake Forest Park.
Events in both cities should be registered ahead of time. Lake Forest Park residents who are interested in hosting an event on Aug. 5 should contact Marja Murray, Lake Forest Park Community Policing Coordinator at 364-8216, ext. 550 in order to register. Murray can help arrange for police officers to stop by block parties to visit with neighbors, and to discuss Crime Prevention tips.
Shoreline residents may indicate whether or not they want visits to their block party from Shoreline Police, Fire and/or City Councilmembers when registering their event at the City Hall Annex Permit Desk, 1110 N 175th Street. Those who register will receive a free National Night Out BBQ Apron while supplies last.For more information about organizing a block party in Shoreline, contact Shoreline Police officer Leona Obstler at 206- 546-3636.
LFP Reads, cooks with authors
Lake Forest Park Reads, a community wide summer reading project, features the book “Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet” which chronicles two people who decided to eat locally for a year.
Community members are invited to meet with the book’s authors, Alisa Smith and JB MacKinnon at the Farmers Market on Sunday, July 20. Later that day, from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m., the authors will join sous chefs Dylan and Heidi Stockman in a cooking demonstration at Third Place Commons before reading from their book at 5:30 p.m.
Hopelink campaigns to outfit kids for school
Hopelink, the largest social services agency serving East and North King County, is collecting school supplies to distribute to low-income schoolchildren, as part of its annual Kids Need School Supplies drive until August 18.
Hopelink’s Kids Need School Supplies drive is collecting monetary donations as well as school supplies for local low-income kids. The school supplies will be distributed in late August through Hopelink’s six food bank locations including one in Shoreline at 15809 Westminster Way N.
Hopelink is in particular need of pencil pouches or boxes, rulers, calculators, markers, backpacks for high school students, tab dividers to go in three-ring binders, and lined binder paper, both wide-ruled and college-ruled. To make a donation of supplies or cash that Hopelink will use to purchase needed items, call 425-869-6000 or go to www.hope-link.org. Donations may be made in person at any of Hopelink’s centers in Shoreline, Northshore, Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond or Sno-Valley. Location addresses can be found on Hopelink’s website.
For more information, contact Teresa Andrade at 425-485-6521 or teresawa@hope-link.org, or visit www.hope-link.org.
Shoreline introduces new phone numbers
The City of Shoreline has all new phone numbers and a new phone system that provides enhanced features to better serve the community while saving the city money.
The city has acquired a block of telephone numbers beginning with the prefix “801” for the new phone system. Almost everyone will have a new number, including staff at offsite facilities such as the Spartan Recreation Center and Shoreline Pool. The reason for the new numbers is to allow for transfers, conference calling, four-digit dialing and other time-saving features that weren’t possible with the old numbers since they were fragmented.
Until Sept. 1, a call to an old number will automatically be forwarded to the appropriate new number. Between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31, 2008, a call to an old number will reach a message with the new number. As of Jan. 1, 2009, a call to an old number will reach a message that the number is no longer in operation.
The summer issue of Currents, due out in early August, will include a directory of new City numbers. Other communications vehicles such as the website and slides on Channel 21 will be updated by the end of July.
The new main City number that goes to the Customer Response Team is 206-801-2700.
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