Mountaineers hike Finn Hill

Posted by FHNA Board | May 1, 2017 | News & Highlights, Parks |

25 Mountaineers hiked over the top of Finn Hill from Kenmore to Kirkland on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The Wednesday hike was one of a series of Mountaineer day hikes around Lake Washington. The Kenmore to Kirkland hike was designed to avoid Juanita Drive and find a way through the neighborhood forests from Kenmore to the Kirkland Marina. The hike was more than 12 miles through Big Finn Hill and Juanita Heights Parks. The hikers passed the lagoon in Big Finn Hill Park getting up close to a Great Blue Heron. Near Kenmore they spotted an eagle’s nest with...

Join the gardeners at Thoreau Sat, April 29

Posted by FHNA Board | Apr 27, 2017 | News & Highlights, Schools |

Join the Herbicide-Free Thoreau Elementary School Committee in helping get the school ready for spring! There will be weeding and mulching around the school grounds so bring your gardening gloves and small weeding tools. This is a fun opportunity to help beautify Thoreau elementary school and the community. For more information contact Amy at Finnhillalliance.org Who: Thoreau Elementary School What: Mulching flowerbeds, general weeding around the buildings Where: Thoreau Elementary School on the corner of 138th Street and 84th Avenue When: Saturday, April 29th 10 am-2...

How the Himalayan Blackberry came to be

Posted by FHNA Board | Apr 26, 2017 | Juanita Woodlands, News & Highlights, Parks |

If Luther Burbank could see what his Himalayan Blackberry invention did to the Pacific Northwest, maybe he wouldn’t have tinkered with the berry. Because he did there is a big workparty in the Juanita Woodlands on June 3. Please volunteer and help the woods. “Down the coast in Santa Rosa, Calif., an eccentric guy named Luther Burbank was hard at work on his experimental farm. Burbank didn’t have any formal training, but he was working feverishly to breed strange and wonderful new kinds of plants”….the rest of the story…NPR Seattle...

Amendments to Finn Hill tree ordinance – Important Planning Commission meeting on Thursday, April 27

Posted by FHNA Board | Apr 26, 2017 | Community Meetings, Holmes Point Overlay, Neighborhood Plan, News & Highlights |

The Kirkland Planning Commission will hold a study session on Thursday, April 27, to consider amendments to the Holmes Point Overlay ordinance – the special tree preservation ordinance that currently applies to Finn Hill properties located west of Juanita Drive. The Planning Commission meeting will start at 7pm in the City Council chamber of City Hall, 123 Fifth Avenue in downtown Kirkland. If you live the Holmes Point area, you are urged to attend this meeting. The Holmes Point Overlay ordinance (HPO for short) has a significant impact on the future of your neighborhood and on your rights as...

Denny Creek headwater restoration project

Posted by FHNA Board | Apr 22, 2017 | News & Highlights, Stewardship Committee |

One of the headwaters for Denny Creek originates in southern Kenmore, then runs south through the Inglewood Church campus on 141st Street before continuing into Big Finn Hill Park to join Denny Creek. The church’s portion of the waterway includes mature Doug Fir and Cedar, and a variety of other native plants. Until 2016, it also included a lot of weeds. As Pastor James Kumin put it, “As a church for the neighborhood, we wanted to do better.” With well over an acre of forest and wetland on the property, in mid-2015 John Bailey, an Inglewood Church member, initiated...

Author: FHNA Board