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5th Carkeek Forest Restoration Class Starting on August 24th 2013 The Carkeek Forest Restoration Class is a program of 12 Saturday mornings between August 2013 and March 2014, focusing on what you need to know to become involved… Read More
Friends of Carkeek Park – You’re Invited! This call for help is from the Carkeek Watershed Community Action Project (CWCAP), a group of volunteers started in 1979 to return salmon to Carkeek Park and improve the water quality… Read More
Solarize Seattle, a group in Northwest Seattle, is holding information meetings about its program. The first will be at the Bitter Lake Community Center on March 16 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM. Here is a link to… Read More
The Friends of Piper’s Orchard is holding an apple wassailing party at the orchard next Saturday, from Noon to 1:30 PM. The Sound and Fury Morris dancers, who made music and danced at the orchard 3 years ago,… Read More
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is holding an open house about the Venema Natural Drainage Project on Wednesday January 9. You can find out about the Venema Natural Drainage Project – building swales along three streets to prevent flooding, protect Piper’s… Read More
Local news outlets have reported on the hearing at the Washington State Convention Center on Dec. 13. Opposition has been building to the environmental and health and traffic congestion impacts. Proponents have been presenting their case also. Mayor… Read More
Carkeek Park’s chum salmon have returned to Pipers Creek. Those chum are a gift to the people of Seattle from the Suquamish Tribe for the Piper’s Creek salmon stock supplementation program. The chum and a few coho return… Read More
Waste Management again this year is offering a contest among neighborhoods to see who can reduce and recycle the most. Last year our part of town came in second. Here is information from Waste Management: Similar to last… Read More
You have probably seen stories about the proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point, near Anacortes. You may not be aware that if this terminal is built it could have a direct impact on our neighborhood. This proposal… Read More
The Seattle ReLeaf program is again offering free trees for yards and streets. The Trees for Neighborhoods program helps Seattle residents plant trees around their homes. Participants in the program receive: Free trees (up to 4 per household)… Read More
