Great Garden Awards go to seven families

The Mill Creek Arts and Beautification Board selected seven families for the 2008 Great Garden Awards.

Board members toured the City and took pictures of noteworthy properties and used those pictures to vote to determine the year’s winners of the Great Garden Award.

Signs will be posted in each winner’s yard through the end of August. The winners also will be recognized by the City Council on Sept. 9.

The winners are:

• Steve and Sherry Maxx, Stonehedge

• Harold and Eun Mi Ro, Webster’s Pond

• Larry and Dorcas Miles, The Lakes

• Gladys Smith, Cypress

• Jim and Yvonne Cupp, The Vineyards

• Robert and Gail McEwen, River Crossing

• Roy Cats, River Crossing

Rotary donates to Jackson dance team

Tthe Mill Creek Rotary Club gave a $2,000 check to the Jackson High School Dance Team in support of the team’s planned appearance at the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl football game on December 30 in San Diego.

The JHS Dance Team was invited to the game in recognition of its outstanding reputation.

In addition to the Dance Team, the Mill Creek Rotary provides support to a number of student projects and activities including high school student of the month, student of the year Scholarships, the annual Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Seminar, and supplies for elementary schools.

Register for free CPR training

The Snohomish County Chapter of the American Red Cross will offer free CPR training on Saturday, August 16, at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Sessions will begin at 8 a.m., 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Participants will be trained in three stages — instructional video, live presentations, and practicing CPR on manikins under the supervision of Red Cross instructors.

Everyone who successfully completes the three-hour course and written exam will be issued a Red Cross CPR certification card.

To register, call 425-740-2344 or email CPRSaturday@snohomishcounty.redcross.org. Minimum age to participate is 11.

Japanese students Adopt-A-Stream

Twenty-seven high school students and three chaperones from Iwakuni and Ishinomaki, Japan, are participating in a two-week cultural exchange conducted by Everett Community College’s Nippon Business Institute or NBI.

The students are staying with host families in the Everett area and are keeping busy with their English as a second language classes, site seeing and stream keeping with the folks at the Northwest Stream Center.

“Students in Japan are becoming very aware of the environment, however, they are not as aware of how volunteers in the U.S. take actions to protect local streams. NBI program coordinator Kathy Koss said. “We asked the Adopt-A-Stream Foundation to provide this group with a short course on stream ecology and provide them a volunteer opportunity.”

The students visited the stream center at McCollum Park on Tuesday, July 22, and learned about watersheds and wetland ecology.

They planted 15 cedar trees along North Creek.

Awesome August event celebrates kids

Come celebrate all things kids at the Awesome August Celebration from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 2 and 3 at Country Village in Bothell.

The event will feature train rides, pony rides, cookie making classes, an “Everything that Flies” demonstration, basket making, Art on the Spot, face painting, balloon animals, a scavenger hunt, birdhouse making, character drawings, belly dancing class, Kings Original Kettle Korn, snow cones, games, prizes and more.

Country Village is located just two miles north of Bothell or one mile south of Canyon Park at 23732 Bothell-Everett Highway, or take exit 26 off I-405 and head south one mile. For more information, please visit the Country Village website at www.countryvillagebothell.com or call 425-483-2250.

Visit farmer’s market at Country Village

Bothell’s 12th Annual Farmer’s Market at Country Village will open at noon on Friday, June 6, and run every Friday through Sept. 26 from noon to 6 p.m.

The market will be located in the center parking lot of Country Village. The market will feature many locally grown fruits and vegetables, cut flowers, nuts, breads, berries, honey, and hand-crafted items. Local musicians will provide live entertainment.

1970s style with icon Edgar Winter

1970s rock sensation Edgar Winter will play this year’s Taste of Edmonds at 6:30 p.m., August 8 at the American Family Insurance Main Stage.

In late 1972, Winter brought together Dan Hartman, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff to form The Edgar Winter Group, the legendary band that created such hits as the number one Frankenstein and the ever popular Free Ride.

Released in 1972, They Only Come Out at Night peaked at the number 3 position on the Billboard Hot 200 and stayed on the charts for 80 weeks. It was certified gold in April 1973 and double platinum in November 1986.