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Shamanic Gardening Workshop with Teresa Campbell - Thurs., April 30, 5:30-7:30 pm

4/15/2015

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Fidalgo and Friends Time Bank May Day Social, May 1, 2015

4/15/2015

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MAY DAY SOCIAL at the Skyline Cabana (6041 Sands Way).Help us celebrate our theme: Family, Friends, and Flowers. 
Bring family and friends!  Everyone is welcome.  Come for all or part.
 
Date: Friday, May 1st.  
 

3:00-6:00: play, indoors or out.
--Relax with friends by the water or inside
--Bring your frisbees, soccer balls, kayaks, etc.; we hope to have croquet and horseshoes
--We'll bring cards, board games, and jigsaw puzzles for inside (you can too)
--Help make tissue-paper May baskets, which will be given to a local assisted-care home 
 

6:00 potluck dinner. Homemade sugar cookies, ice tea, hot tea, and apple juice provided.
       Bring your favorite finger food, salad, or dessert. (You are welcome to bring snacks to share from 3:00-6:00 pm.)   

 
Don't forget your place setting and friends... especially people you'd like to introduce to the timebank!  


If you can, please donate $5.00 to pay the cabana rental.

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Vermicomposting with Callie Martin - May 26

4/15/2015

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Vermicomposting with Callie Martin
Tuesday, May 26th at 6:30 p.m.

Compost builds good soil structure. It is also a giant step toward recycling wastes, conserving precious energy reserves, and regaining control of our food supplies. Why throw food peeling s and yard clippings into the garbage when you can harvest their nutrients, turning them into soil enriching compost? Learn how easy it is to compost your food scraps by harvesting the work of worms in our upcoming vermicomposting class. Class participants will learn the basics of worm bin design, care, and feeding. Callie Martin is the Waste Reduction/Recycling Education Specialist for Skagit County. She is a lifelong practitioner of healthy soils and organic gardening. Please pre-register for these workshops by signing up with your name and phone number at registers, calling Melanie at (360) 336-5087 x 139 or emailingcommunity@skagitfoodcoop.com

Enjoy today,

Callie Martin
Skagit County Public Works-Solid Waste Division
Waste Reduction/Recycling Education Specialist
14104 Ovenell Rd. 
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-424-7817 Ex.208
www.skagitcounty.net/recycle  
www.skagitcounty.net/zwe 

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Focus on Skagit Coalitions: Enhancing Community Partnerships - April 16

4/13/2015

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“Focus on Skagit Coalitions: Enhancing Community Partnerships”

Community Action Board of Directors April 2015 Brown Bag Discussion, co-hosted by the United Way of Skagit County and the Skagit Volunteer Center.

Time: Noon-2 p.m., Thursday, April 16

RSVP required for parking pass and lunch. RVSP by 12 noon on Monday, April 13th: Click here

Location: Northwest Career and Technical Academy, 2205 West Campus Place, Mount Vernon

Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/KX1OQ

Cost: Free. Make a donation for provided light lunch. (Please do not bring outside food or drink into the complex)

Note: Luncheon seating is limited to 50 guests. Additional seating will be available to late registrants but lunch is not guaranteed. After you RSVP, we will email you a parking pass the day before the event. Click here or copy and paste the following URL to RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H8ArgGiQwsw6bREqvMGGLG76sHVIStuaPyQdiNeatms/viewform

 

Audience: Especially encouraged to attend are participants in local coalitions working on issues such as housing, community health, asset building, disaster preparedness, education and human services, and economic development. Open to the public and Community Action, United Way, and Skagit Volunteer Center partner agency staff, board and volunteers.

Workshop details:

The 2015 Community Action Strategic Plan includes an objective to help coordinate and catalyze coalitions and ad hoc groups working on goals to stabilize families, equip them to exit poverty, and engage the community in anti-poverty work. To do that, we invite our board, staff, volunteers and partners to build skills using an innovative model of enhancing community partnerships, and to discuss how we may apply the model to strengthen existing or needed collaborations in Skagit County. J. Hope Corbin, PhD, Assistant Professor at Western Washington University’s Human Services Program, will present her “Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning,” and walk participants through an informal assessment of one of their networks or coalitions. Elizabeth Jennings, Community Engagement Manager for Community Action of Skagit County and the Skagit Volunteer Center, will facilitate a simple exercise for assessing the functional mission and opportunities for growth along the continuum of Network > Coordinate > Cooperate > Collaborate.

Learning outcomes: 1) Participants will learn how to utilize the Bergen Model of Collaborative Functioning with their own networks and coalitions. 2) Participants will examine a recent partnership experience using the model. 3) Participants will learn how to guide a coalition in conversation around client/community mission, functional mission, and set shared goals for future coalition development.

Diane Smith

Regional Specialist – Food Access, Nutrition and Health Promotion

WSU Extension Skagit and Whatcom County

11768 Westar Lane, Suite A; Burlington, WA 98233

Office phone: 360-428-4270 ext 235

Mobile phone: 503-754-6732

Email: diane.smith@wsu.edu



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Designing our Future: Introduction to Sustainable Landscape Principles and Design for Landscape Professionals - May 6 at Padilla Bay Research Reserve

4/13/2015

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Hello everyone! We are pleased to offer the upcoming "Designing our Future: Introduction to Sustainable Landscape Principles and Design for the Landscape Professional" workshop, scheduled for Wednesday, May 6thfrom 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Padilla Bay Research Reserve.  Featured presenters will include Jessica Bloom, award winning landscape designer and best-selling author, and local ecoPRO Certified Landscape Professionals Everett Chu (owner/operator of Azusa Farm and Garden) and Ian Horton (owner/operator of Working Landscapes, PLLC).  The event is free, however, pre-registration requested.  Please feel free to post or share with anyone who may be interested. Happy Gardening!
Sincerely,
Kristi Carpenter
Skagit Conservation District
2021 E. College Way, Suite #203
Mount Vernon, WA  98723
(360) 428-4313
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Greenwood Tree Cooperative School Open House - Saturday, March 21st and April 11th

4/10/2015

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Bow Little Market's 4th Annual Garden Swap and Sale - May 2, 12 - 3 pm

4/8/2015

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Bow Little Market’s 4th Annual
Garden Swap and Sale

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Have fun, meet some neighbors, and get great swaps as well as purchasing unique, local items!

Volunteers are needed for the Garden Swap and Sale:  Parkers and Setup-and-Takedown Helpers, please contact Patty at bowlittlemarket@yahoo.com or 360-724-3333 


When: Saturday, May 2, 12 - 3 pm
Where: Alger Community Hall, 18735 Parkview Lane, Alger

 
SEEDS, SEEDLINGS, VEGETABLES, FLOWERS,
ANNUALS, BULBS, PERENNIALS, TOOLS,
BOOKS, COMPOST, CONTAINERS, ART AND MORE!
 

                 Vendors! Music by PK Dwyer, 1 pm!
  Classes!  Give aways!  Bring your extras!  Kids’ activities
     Native Plant class taught by Sue Mitchell, 2 pm
 

What:
•           Bring your extra plant starts, cuttings, seed, bulbs, divided perennials, etc. to swap.
•           Buy locally grown plants starts, bulbs, produce, seed, and garden art.
•           Contribute to or pick from the FREE PILE of plants, etc.
•           Pick-up free native plants from the Friday Creek Habitat Stewards and the Skagit Conservation District.
•           Free classes and great gardening information.
•           Visit the Alger Community Hall’s new native demonstration garden (a project of Friday Creek Habitat Stewards).

 
Cosponsored by  Alger Community Hall,  Chuckanut Transition,
Friday Creek Habitat Stewards, and  Skagit Conservation District

For more information: http://bowlittlemarket.wordpress.com, bowlittlemarket@yahoo.com, 360-724-3333
Bow Little Market, an all-volunteer social and economic enterprise, is supported by Chuckanut Transition

 


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